Comments on: Focus just on birds and airplanes

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:46:22 +0000

People like to make the bangity-bangity, and that’s all it comes down to. The Chinese are smart enough to use firecrackers, rather than guns, but… Arabs. They don’t do causality, or agency–It’s all “Inshallah”, all the time…

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:20:01 +0000

I never quite got the point of celebratory gunfire, especially with AKs, for that very reason. At the very least, I would refrain from it at weddings. So many groomsmen and in-laws needlessly fallen…

Celebratory AA fire is next level thinking. Using it on storks seems just cruel and stupid, unless pre-shredded stork makes a good meal.

By: Adar

Adar — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:20:04 +0000

More Israeli warplanes downed by bird-strikes than by enemy weapons fire.

Lebanese militia firing on migrating storks with 23 mm AAA quite common from the 1970′s. And remember, what goes up must come down.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:51:10 +0000

Sometimes these little things can be confidence building measures that lead on to bigger things, broader treaties, and eventually to harmony and love and a new and better world, which is usually the subtext when somebody like Diamond brings them up.

Sometimes I’m OK with that. Canada and the US first really improved relations by agreeing about things like migratory birds and tussling non-militarily about water and fish. Of course, we had a fair bit in common already and our quarrels were not bred too deep in the bone, so there’s that.

Sometimes it can just be about the birds, and that’s OK too. Birds are cool. Except when they crash my plane. Not cool.