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Hotel owner: “If you want to join this union that you used to be in I will let you go, just so that is very clear.” (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what's a .22? I don't speak American

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm Norwegian. I spent about a year shooting .22s at paper. Everyone calls it a .22 as far as I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I call it a weapon. They're all the same to me. Not that there's anything wrong with shooting as a hobby, but they're all dangerous no matter which type of gun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish you'd just stop it after the "I don't speak American" nonsense. You sound like the type who'd think a scope makes the bullet go farther.

Besides, you're repeating a point that was obvious from my retelling of the. 22 through the leg story.

Do you need me to remind you that cars go fast and cats say meow?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because you said "it was way worse than you'd expect" as if one would expect a bullet in their leg to not be a big deal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it didn't zip right through and leave a small wound that healed easily. It messed shit up and got complicated.

.22 has a weird reputation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well obviously it didn't leave a small wound. You're not shooting with grapes, you're firing heavy pointy metal cylinders at 3000 km/h. No surprise that it will mess shit up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's actually 1,332 km/h.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ok whatever, it's a lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also they're not very heavy.

Hence their reputation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bullets with a reputation of not being dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

More or less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s small ammunition for small guns.

example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

thanks! but, you call that small??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

We do, yes.

.50 on the left, .22 LR on the right.

They flank cartridges that are in the "big game hunting/ standard soldier's rifle" range.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you'd consider it large either, it fits trivially in the palm of your hand.

Are you maybe imagining that the whole cartridge would be fired? because it's only the very end bit that actually gets shot, the rest of it is just to hold gunpowder and the bullet in place inside the gun.
The actual bullet itself is about the size of a pea, i think.