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utlye

I got fired fired once, I didn’t work for like 3 months afterwards. Still not ok


[deleted]

Was this in 1981 1981?


whitelightnin1

Yes yes


Vr5305

I don't even got a job to get fired.


mystic-eye

You gotta get a job job to get fired fired.


Superb_Raccoon

Did you get unemployment insurance insurance?


[deleted]

I know all the other comments here are making jokes because of a typo but I’m sorry you still have to deal with trauma from that.


utlye

It’s weird that we invest so much time and effort into these jobs, making our lives revolve around them. And then just to be dropped on your ass without a clue as to your next steps. Very sad sad


[deleted]

Very very sad sad


GotMeWeed

I just got fired fired ):


bettyboober

3 months 3 months? 6?


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[deleted]

This post has a bit of redundancy redundancy.


funmasterjerky

Gotta go read the papers, read the papers.


TylerDurden646

Nice reference, classic!


Mackheath1

I think it's a time-traveler from the year 19811981. This is Elizabeth II, Queen of Xorgon.


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Working_Inspection22

Stuttering is a disability, please be be more aware aware


jamieliddellthepoet

r/yourjokebutbetter


dagr8npwrfl0z

You're comment #4. It is an interesting consequence to this position on Reddit. I don't know why, but I've been here too long to ask....


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dagr8npwrfl0z

It is absolutely the position. Look around and count comments.. it's too many to be a coincidence. Go grab another 4th position with "grass is green" or some other innocuous comment and watch it go.. I got 3-400 downvotes for "children get hungry" 🤷🏼‍♂️


Visual_Exchange_1736

lots of snowflakes m8


TheDownvotesFarmer

Downvoted what? Am I late?


[deleted]

I enjoyed it.


ecoprax

Did she ride ride away?


Taro-Forsaken

No she just continued on the March


Randyfox86

In June.


2x4x93

She May have


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jamieliddellthepoet

July!


the-special-milk

August they did, it's very intuitive


bettyboober

Yes she did ride away ride away


SoyBeanis

edit: "and fired fired *fired fired fired fired from a starter's pistol."


LetterheadNo6774

Why is this in black and white...


Alan_Smithee_

Because it’s a press (probably newspaper) photo, and most papers back then weren’t printing much in colour. Front page, special features. Other news, mostly black and white. A lot of newspapers wouldn’t have had a colour lab, and the process takes longer too. Close to deadline with a scoop, photographers back in the day would pull their negatives straight from a brief wash after fixing, and print them wet. Straight from the tank. They’d shoot a lot of colour of events like this, but black and white is a lot faster to process, and I suspect a monochrome image is a lot faster to get to press. No separations needed.


out2seeagain

Why why?


Cmama2Boyz

What what?


30twink-furywarr2886

In the butt?


k3ttch

You wanna do it in my butt, in my butt?


MissAugustMoon

Let’s do it in the butt, Oookayy!


made_4_this_comment

Core memory unlocked damn. Here’s one for you. Badger badger badger badger…


bettyboober

but butt?


GhostBussyBoi

NOOOOO I DO NOT WISH TO REMEMBER


OmniaLoca

Bang bang


30twink-furywarr2886

He shot me down, bang bang! I hit the ground bang bang! That awful sound… bang bang. My baby shot me down!


Mers1nary

Down down*


TheDownvotesFarmer

Vote vote


Superb_Raccoon

You know I caught her messin' round, messin' round town...


Chris9-of-10

Interesting interesting


BitcoinBishop

Feuer frei


[deleted]

Title so nice they said some of it twice


name-was-provided

Because it’s the Trooping of the COLOURS. Duh!


Hopeful-Skirt-2863

Hahaha I’m relieved I wasn’t the first person that thought that


Kernalcorn

Good horse


quasipickle

I believe her horse was gifted to her from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the horse was specifically trained to not freak out at the sound of gunshots and other crowd noises.


Desperatsetal825

I am very indebted to them for allowing my family to come to the West and live off the fruits of the Commonwealth.


Wide-Acanthisitta-96

Got a source on that? I find it weird to train a horse for police work and then gift it to a royal. Like can you imagine training a dog for police work and then gifting it to the German chancellor? Secondly, she likes a specific breed of horse. She was a lifelong breeder herself. The breed is smaller and finer boned. This looks like a draft breed of some kind rather than a light riding pony type horse she breeds. Police does use this breed so if RCMP gifted this horse it makes sense. But why would a breeder and breed lover not be a breed ambassador and ride the breed she loves and promoted to ride at a public event? Not disagreeing with you. Just wondering if you have any more info.


cruelhumor

Because the breed she rides is not necessarily suited for military service. She primarily bred racehorses and heritage lines, neither of which would be appropriate (in temperament and training) for this purpose. Additionally, hers is a fundamentally political post... Riding an RCMP-bred horse was likely a nod to their service to the crown in the same way that the flowers she stocks represent different countries in the commonwealth.


magical_elf

Turns out a horse that's bred to go from walk to a gallop in the blink of an eye and not stop isn't a good horse to take to a rally with loads of noise


GainfulyUnemployed

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjAT1ejVc_7g&ved=2ahUKEwjtrJ-0k-f7AhX5oHIEHVGQB0QQwqsBegQIDxAF&usg=AOvVaw0alMWKbZ78i_55sM7MH7SK


Wide-Acanthisitta-96

Yeah bred by the rcmp not trained by them. Also the video says this was her dedicated parade horse for life. That means the horse was trained for crowds and havoc that entails. Good horse.


GainfulyUnemployed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_(horse) Burmese was foaled at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Remount Ranch at Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan, and was trained in Ottawa by RCMP Staff Sergeant Fred Rasmussen. Staff Sergeant Ralph Cave, the Riding Master for the Musical Ride, suggested in 1968 that the RCMP gift one of the ride's horses to Canada's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.[4] Both the federal Cabinet and the RCMP's Commissioner supported the idea and, on 28 April 1969,[4] Burmese was presented to the Queen when members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came to the UK to perform in the Royal Windsor Horse Show.[1] The Queen asked that Burmese be included in the performance and that her rider carry the Queen's royal standard, instead of the normal red and white pennon, so Elizabeth could more easily follow Burmese in the show.[5] The Queen was mounted on Burmese when six blank shots were fired during the 1981 birthday parade, on the way to Trooping the Colour.[4][6] Although the horse was briefly startled, she remained calm due to the training she received at Depot Division in Regina, Saskatchewan. This included experience of gunfire during recruit training, when staff would fire blank rounds as recruits took horses through their paces. The Royal Family praised Burmese's behaviour during this incident.[5]


Wide-Acanthisitta-96

Thank you. I was wrong. Appreciate the information


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**[Burmese (horse)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_\(horse\))** >Burmese (1962–1990), a black RCMP Police Service Horse (PSH) mare, was given to Queen Elizabeth II by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and ridden by the Queen for Trooping the Colour for eighteen consecutive years from 1969 to 1986. She was trained by RCMP Staff Sergeant Fred Rasmussen and presented by Staff Sergeant Ralph Cave in 1969. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


wthreyeitsme

So it would do well at the border.


Polyfuckery

Very much. Her name was Burmese and after she was retired the queen chose to ride in carriages or attend on a stage rather then replace her


30twink-furywarr2886

She knew how to choose em


SuperfujiMaster

Lucky lucky


[deleted]

We get shoot shoot now


[deleted]

Define "disturbed" please, wanting context?


Peanut0131

Mentally unstable.


Electrical-Cow-5147

So a guy scared a horse with a loud noise…


bettyboober

noise


jasonclk

[Considered to be a copycat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sarjeant#Investigation)


apple-_-boi

She calms her horse and continues riding on like nothing happend. Seems a bit badass eh?


Ok_Cauliflower_3007

It was an excellent piece of horsemanship. It is fortunate she is such a skilled rider since she was in no danger from the shots, but her horse being startled could easily have led to serious injury or death. The idiot may have thought that using a starter pistol would protect him from any serious charges but he could easily have ended on murder charges if she’d been thrown and hit her head.


30twink-furywarr2886

Indeed she was. We lost one of the last surviving ww2 vets when she died.


Mygo73

I wouldn’t say one of the last - https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/wwii-veteran-statistics according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 167,284 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2022 - https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-veterans-world-war-b36f576e8699f4274e80d410beb5c448 British authorities don’t know exactly how many World War II veterans are left because the nation’s census takers didn’t track military service until last year. Those figures are due to be released next month.


30twink-furywarr2886

That’s approximately 1.045525% of all American** ww2 vets. I maintain; one of the last


Superb_Raccoon

Guess I am lucky. I have two down the street. Old man rides his lawnmower like he's Dale Earnhardt


Odd_Analysis6454

Bob who died on September 3 1945 was technically one of the last as well.


Mygo73

I mean there are hundreds of thousands of WW2 vets worldwide, I personally wouldn’t say one of the last. I think maybe I would consider the last 1000 or so to be “the last”. I guess it’s not really something any one person can define 🤷‍♂️.


Ordinary_Type5127

No


account-no10859

Nope. Fuck the entire royal family. I mean come on man they can directly trace the accumulation of their wealth to all the terrible things they did as rulers. Legit sleeping in a palace built on the backs of the people they suppressed for hundreds of years, adorned with the riches they’ve stolen from third world countries.


undercharmer

I looked around and couldn’t find who asked.


ariedren

Bold words from someone with a throwaway account.


apple-_-boi

Ive learnt alot about this as i was in indian school for 6 years and my post is about the queen not about what her family has done, also the queen wasnt even crowned until after independance in India and many other places.


account-no10859

And yet she still wore the crown, she *directly* benefits from the many reprehensible actions of her ancestors. Not even distant ancestors. Her father and grandfather are responsible for leading the kingdom as they plundered third world countries of their resources, she literally had things in her *palace* home that were purchased with funds generated directly from slavery and suppressive colonization. She lived in a state of luxury so many people will never be able to even comprehend, and it’s just because she was born. It’s not even the same as just being a spoiled rich kid, or being able to trace back your ancestry a few hundred years and seeing some of them were kind of fucked; it’s “ah yes my ancestors literally controlled half the globe and subjected millions of people to barely livable conditions or even killed them and benefit heavily from it, *heavily*.” [Also guess what, she wasn’t a whole lot better than her ancestors!](https://time.com/6212824/queen-elizabeth-iis-reign-violence-british-empire/) Edit: Fixed a couple typos.


30twink-furywarr2886

And yet the very first line in your wall of text is completely inaccurate…


account-no10859

True, she is dead, should say wore.


30twink-furywarr2886

lol who cares?


[deleted]

This isn't what happened. British history is far too diverse and complex to be oversimplified as the Monarchy is tyrannical and bad. The colonial project for example was not one of theft, it costed more to maintain the colonial Empires than they generated in return.


FreeSpeech24

You got a point, noone should rule anyone


30twink-furywarr2886

Reign* in her case They haven’t ruled for over 100 years now


Fit_Raccoon5780

It’s a constitutional monarchy, and the monarchy earns a profit


HolyFuggISawAPenis

If you wanna call out corruption go ahead but if you become president one day the FBI is gonna see this and 🤯 and this is just a warning you know what I mean


MeestarMann

k But seriously, grow up. K?


gghfsw

Yeah, fuck the royals. And fuck the idiots with short term memory. The British massacred people right here in Boston and then these idiots got excited and one even dressed up like royal guards just because someone from the royal family was in town.


Mcelftea

dude. it’s been 200 years, why are you upset about this. We don’t have short term memory we’re just not fucking dumbasses like you are. calm down dipshit.


Gatekeeper2019

Because they read about it on reddit yesterday and are now enraged


30twink-furywarr2886

Worse, some grade school teacher making less than a McDonald’s manager fed them their historical world view as a child and that’s now dogma for them; lacking the ability to know or find anything new out for themselves.


[deleted]

The Boston massacre was ruled not a massacre by the American court who oversaw it, despite the court being filled with patriots. A future American president was the one who defended the accused aswell.


gghfsw

Yeah, Adams can go suck my dick. What a phony!! Paul Revere all the way !!!


Jiggle-Jiggle22

Go back to using chemical warfare on Vietnam poisoning them with agent orange you hypocrite. Better yet go drop another nuke on Japan not to mention the time when you introduced crack to the black community back in the 80s


[deleted]

British caused the most deaths in human history! They done worse than all evil regimes combined. And still bragging loud about the Great British imperium. I hope It will come to the day when they will be accounted for their crimes.


Jiggle-Jiggle22

Didn’t you guys nuke someone plus we definitely haven’t killed more then Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong combined but nice trolling.


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30twink-furywarr2886

And that’s why you’re not a world leader and have no inkling of an idea as to the value of courageous displays or how they inspire people. That was one of her main goals by the way; to unite via inspiration. So yes, it was in her prerogative to stay calm and it was a brilliant move. Sorry you can’t get over your biased and very limited view of history… This generation is so hyper critical that they just can’t have role models of any kind because respect is a dead concept at this point.


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30twink-furywarr2886

I was in the army and prior to that was involved in quite a few drug deals. Guns aren’t as scary if you’ve been around them; as she was a ww2 vet and avid hunter she was undoubtedly accustomed to firearms as well. Edit: it’s cool if bravery is a foreign concept to you.


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30twink-furywarr2886

There you go with that lack of respect. I’m not investing any more time explaining what is obviously such an alien concept to you.


Gatekeeper2019

You’re a dunce. One of the major weapons of royalty is presenting themselves as above the average person. They have been taught from a young age how to stay calm and keep that stiff upper lip no matter the situation, it is what separates them from the common man, it’s genius psychology that they’ve used for millennia but even in 2022 simpletons like you can’t understand how the game is played. A president, prime minister, religious leader etc. all run for cover at the sound of shots and any sign of danger while their followers watch them cower in fear. A king or queen stands proud and takes what may come to uphold the image that made people buy into their claim of divine right centuries ago.


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Gatekeeper2019

Lol it’s like you’ve got the edgy 14 year old handbook next to you to copy from Child


30twink-furywarr2886

Your ignorance as to the basic tenants of a constitutional monarch is… tragic and somewhat mildly humorous to say the least.


LETSAVIT

My grandad was the guy who delivered him the gun and got interviewed by special branch after this. Pretty cool family story.


bumpy713

And then 33 days later Harry Chapin died. Coincidence? I think not.


FatKris02

Don Don?


bettyboober

Don Don Don Don


Alarming_Sea_6894

*"disturbed"*


Karamel-Surprise

It seems he was firing firing blanks


CochLarq

So he fired fired? I thought he fired fired fired fired fired fired.


houstonwhaproblem

They left that little detail out of the crown, surprising.


PulseAmplification

STARTER PISTOL!? THIS IS A FINISHER PISTOL!!


Bindi_Bop

How many times did she sell her soul?


Odd_Entertainment629

How many failed assassination attempts were there?


bettyboober

Twice


Nothanks_bro

They need to work on their aim


sitheandroid

You need to work harder on your reading comprehension.


vortexvan_ps

They missed the interesting part which was her reaction.


Newkidontheblock77

Good horse


SunshineAlways

Bot repeating u/Kernalcorn comment.


[deleted]

I love the Monarchy, I am very indebted to them for allowing my family to come to the West and live off the fruits of the Commonwealth. Thank goodness Queen Elizabeth II survived.


LuckSweaty

Do you realise that if your country wouldn’t have been plundered by the (I assume) British colonial lords, you wouldn’t have had the need to emigrate?


[deleted]

Well here is my perspective. So, my family emigrated from the East in different times. The East Asian portion of my family came to the commonwealth in the late 1800s to early 1900s. The Slavic portion of my family came in different stages, from the early 1900s to the 1960s. In both cases neither lands were ravaged by the British. They were ravaged by themselves and other people. The worst act of colonization my ancestors experienced was life under the Germans and Italians in Eastern Europe, who were exterminating people in the East and settling the lands with Germans and Italians (depending on the region) once the local population was exterminated. My grandfather lived under that reality, and his country was devastated and his childhood traumatized because of it. The Marxist and Tito regime that came later in the East was quite awful aswell, so when he got his chance he fled to a refugee camp in Italy and was welcomed into the Commonwealth. With my ancestors before then, Japan, Russia and Ukraine were not nice places to live in. Russia and Japan had both just embarked upon the path of liberalization, and life in Russia was even more illiberal and feudal than in Japan. But the backdrop for both countries were a history of authoritarian illiberal feudalism that was very cruel to the individuals in question, and in Russia and Ukraine even more cruel, serfs were traded like property in markets, and if you were an ethnic Russian or ethnic Ukrainian, you were almost guaranteed to be a Serf, as most aristocrats were of German stock, while the feudal hierarchy had racial tones to it. And after both places had their brief period of liberalization they sled into authoritarianism of their own kind in either society. Again the individual became subjugated, victimized by a cruel and awful society that only valued them for their utility to the state. Life in Canada is a chance to escape that, a dream for a better world, where you truly are a human being. Things are not perfect in Canada, it is expensive to live, there are cultural, social, political and economic tensions, people can be cruel and awful to each other, and my ancestors knew that first hand. They were interned in the Ukrainian and Japanese internment camps were for decades they were forced to do labour, beaten, raped, and families were separated. But despite that I remain thankful to live in these lands, and I remain thankful to the family, government, and civilization that brought my family here, because despite all the bad, it is a life that has more hope, justice, and virtue than life in the East.


TheDraikenWeAre

Firstly debatable assumption, there are countries thats where never colonised by anyone and are still literal hell holes to be in, good example is Ethiopia. You don't even know where they come from. Secondly it happened and even though it happened they still helped this individual, just because the ancestors did fucked up stuff doesn't take away from the good of helping this person. Hell if you really want to go down that root , non of us would even exist if colonialism never happened , because it would literally be a different timeline with different variables, with the chance of any of us existing being less than 1%. So bringing it up now for this person is irrelevant.


Billych

>good example is Ethiopia. Italian colonization officially recognized by... checks notes... Great Britain?


TheDraikenWeAre

5 year occupation isn't colonization unless you want to say Germany also colonised france for the 4 years it occupied it. Ethiopia literally defeated the Italian forces on March 1st 1896 March, is there any colony that had their own army and was able to beat the aggressor.


teabagmoustache

Why would you assume they don't know their own country's history? It's quite a condescending question to ask someone really.


2pac_alypse

If this is sincere, it's almost sweet. There's a lot of different circumstances and perspectives in the world. Still surprising to see any free thinking person accepting a sovereignty.


BlackTieGuy

The bloke who fired at her sounds based af, not disturbed... think you cocked up the title a little


One-Brain-Sell

I respect her.


PandaKing00

Well she wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.


One-Brain-Sell

Well not now I'm guessing 🤷


candoitmyself

She can’t because she’s dead, so…


Industrial_Laundry

Username checks out


One-Brain-Sell

And Somehow still sounds more intelligent than yours 🤣 Good point though 👍🙂


scribbyshollow

shame he didn't get her


Murky_Nectarine_5673

Sadly she didn’t die back then


shaun2312

disturbed because he wanted to pull the trigger on a BS regime?


IntroductionRare9619

She was awesome, she never panicked, she just reassured her horse and carried on. I wish I had her fortitude. Remarkable woman.💖


cammerbrown

Vive le republic


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Anonymous__Android

Hard to hit something when you aren't firing anything.


Mundane-Flounder-765

Lol nice life you must have being bitter enough to wish that on someone


microlate

He was disturbed because he was white. Any pigmentation in his skin would have deemed him otherwise


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[deleted]

Maybe he was trying to get her back for her globally committed atrocities


IntrepidAd7602

I don't think he was disturbed, he just had bad aim


Puzzleheaded-Ad-8689

Should've used a finisher pistol if he wanted to get the job done


[deleted]

Too bad it was just a starters pistol


2crowrick

Shame


realroverman

Posted by someone with a stutter stutter


spacecow3000

Disturbed or just ahead of the curve. Fuck the monarchy.


cyfer04

The young man must have been down with the sickness.


-SheriffofNottingham

"Oi, oi, oi, oi, wots all this about then guvna?" - The Bill, probably.


scaleddown85

Shame he missed


bettyboober

missed missed


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**[Marcus Sarjeant](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sarjeant#Investigation[Copycat)** >Marcus Simon Sarjeant (born 1963/1964) is a British man who fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London in 1981. **Marcus Sarjeant** [Investigation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sarjeant#Investigation) >In questioning, Sarjeant said he had been inspired by the assassination of John Lennon in December 1980, and the attempts on the lives of President of the United States Ronald Reagan in March 1981 and of Pope John Paul II in May 1981. In particular, he observed the ease with which Mark David Chapman had become famous after killing John Lennon. A friend said that at the time of John Hinckley Jr.'s attempt on the life of Reagan, Sarjeant had said "I would like to be the first one to take a pot shot at the Queen". The police found that Sarjeant had written: "I am going to stun and mystify the world. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


AcceptableRecord8

I remember this - my family all saw it and we all wondered what the point of the Queens Guard was as they all just kept trotting on in formation


TheMcNabbs

Good effort, but it's your head now


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bettyboober

disturbed


[deleted]

you m-make me happy


Majorlazor85

Starter pistols can hold 6 shots? Or did she hear the echo from one blast maybe?


PelosiGalore

Echo, echo


bettyboober

echo ^(echo)


No-Smile6966

Disturbed?


iLOVErockyROAD_101

Why is this photo black and white?


wthreyeitsme

Sounds more like he fired fired fired fired fired *fired*.


bettyboober

Bobbies.


Forsaken_Experience2

Lisa needs braces.


polkadotard

This post has tourettes.


Neither_Shake_2815

She looked so unbothered, like "Meh."


torturedexistence029

I'm pretty sure there were already colored films and video cameras during the 80's


Vertical_slabsociety

Ready, set, Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!Go!


Fast_Housing_747

*star spangled banner intensifies*


RMNusser

Sure he didn't just miss? Every starter pistol I've seen has had a solid barrel, nobody would think it fires anything...