Thread:Lilliana:3/@comment-397235-20140912011340/@comment-397235-20141003185657

This, dear, is why we have guns in America. I can't imagine anyone messing with our soldiers when they're on leave (a few of our lovely anti-war folks tried that during Vietnam; it didn't go very well).

We run into a lot of that around here. Fortunately, there aren't as many vocal Islamists in my part of the country as there are in some (we're fairly strongly Christian or militantly atheist here, with not much room in between). I know England has a lot of those same issues, and there are probably things like that going on in California and New York (though, to be honest, the rest of the country would be perfectly happy if Southern California seceded). Of course, there was that nut job who beheaded one of his female coworkers in Oklahoma; the guy was a radical Muslim but the media absolutely refuses to call him that because it'd be "racist" or something equally stupid. It's like the guy who shot up Fort Hood in Texas a few years ago. Nobody made an issue of the fact that this guy was an extremely vocal and obviously violent Muslim; they complained about the FN FiveseveN he used instead, like the gun somehow corrupted him into a mass murderer. I'm not a big fan of the American media.

I've not been on an official vacation because, A, you've got to hold a full-time job for at least a year (and thanks to Obamacare I lost my last full-time job and have only just now earned vacation at my current one) and B, that costs money. But to be honest, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I did go on vacation. I mean, I'm single and I don't have kids or anyone else to take anywhere, and honestly I'm just not into touristy things. I mean, I'll go to amusement parks and things of that nature, but I'm just as content to go look at a bookstore for a few hours (preferably a used one; I love those) or a museum. Or just mess around on the internet. I'm probably the most boring outgoing person on the planet, but there it is.