20 Replies to “I Miss Water Cannons”

  1. Watching that reminds me of a story I heard about H. L. Mencken. He pilloried American culture, society, and politics and someone once asked him that if he hated his country so much, why did he still stay there. His response was brilliant: “Why do people go to zoos?”

  2. Looks like a wonderful place to take a date, see a movie, catch a late dinner, maybe do some dancing.

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    Didn’t the Sheriff tell people to stay out of Portland after 4:30 pm?

    1. What you describe, used to be. I went to Portland with my wife and another couple for a week-end and we had a lovely time. It was a beautiful city and most people were friendly. There was a hippie element present, but no one was commandeering the traffic and beating up white people for being white people.

      Pretty soon Portland will be lynching white people … ya …. Nooses for white people.

  3. Such a lovely city (last century).

    Does anyone know, whatever happened to the bikers?

    1. Yeah, most bikers are the remnants of the boomer generation. They are in their 60s and 70s, they have big white beards and they are mostly all obese. Their bikes are more jewelry than motorcycles. They don’t like to get their leathers scuffed.

      The one’s who know how to shut down a snowflake storm are mostly in jail, or dead.

      1. Not really. I don’t know where you live, but if you’re in the market for coke, strippers, extortion or hot bike parts, you’ll likely be talking to some serious people on bikes and few are old or gray.
        Although the colours stay in the closet a lot these days.
        BTW, I’m sure you’re not interested in any of that stuff.

    2. The “Oath Keepers” are the new bikers, and they are the bike riders in the States.

      Most are former military, serious guys who know how to lay a woopin’ when needed.

      They were the guys who stood down the Feds in Arizona at the Bundy Ranch. Even the guys with lots of guns and hardware were not going to mess with them …at all.

      Friend of mine trains special forces self defence, he’s one. He’s a war machine, built to annihilate anyone or anything that stands in his way. He is not anyone to be trifled with.

      If the Oath Keepers show up, Depends would be the most sought after item in the stores the looters would be running for.

      1. Glacier, oat keepers are not the type of week end wanna be’s you see around here. As to Christopher’s post, I had “bikers” for clients when I had my own business, they are also different to the week end wanna be’s

          1. Sure you are a man… having those … “clients” was just exploring, ok then.

  4. Oath keepers Now that’s a good name.Just a matter of time until there are more people taking matters into their own hands

  5. Water cannons work great. When I was doing training years ago they told us to be protesters outside the main gate of the Base, we were told to yell whatever and just have fun.

    That worked until the water cannons, they set up behind the base defence force, couldn’t really tell what they were doing, and then the force parted and we got blasted.

    It knocks you off your feet and it’s cold. Outside temperature might have been ten degrees, you don’t want to stick around after that. All in all quite fun when you’re young.

  6. When i click the link it takes me to a grown man streaming video play from his mother’s basement. He’s taking a game and himself way too seriously displaying bizarre emotional responses to game situations which are all monotonously similar. There are episodes of extreme and unnecessary bad language. However, if a textbook example of the phrase “waste of spęrm” is ever required then this is the correct link.

    1. Video game streaming is basically camwhoring for people too ugly to take their clothes off.

  7. I love water cannons. Nothing says “you should be home in mommies basement” like ice cold water hitting you at about 200 miles per hour. The first time I saw them at work in person was when there was still a West Germany. The Green Party/Commies in Bonn tried to rush a bank. The cannons sent them rolling down the strasse. Plus, it cleaned the street of their stench.

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