I got bit by a dog the other day, got my left arm. Hope it knocks me out of work for a few days, haha. I told the nurse at the hospital who was cleaning the wounds, "At least I don't have to deliver the mail".

People and their weapon animals. I'm a childfree person and I have many of the same attitudes towards pets. I don't understand the attachment to dogs, especially large dangerous ones.

There are no 'dangerous dogs'

just 'unresponsible owners'. dogs are great animals and by their nature social and 'pack animals'.

However a lot of the 'hard' reputation dogs are bought by idiots to look tough and brutalised to make them violent.

You can have agressive viscous chihuahuas and soft as muck rottweilers. it depends on how you socialise them and interact with them.

My dogs let me know if someone they dont know has come to the house by barking but quieten if i tell them to 'settle'. If they misbehave or are being over excited a low 'growl' shuts the up (cos when they were pups i nipped thebacks of their necks with my teeth as their mother would have so they know that after a growl comes a sharp nip)

Unfortunatley peopel with 'status dogs' shout at their dogs, the dog just thinks you're excited and barking too and it makes them worse or they hit them (the dog either fears you or thinks you've just bumped into it)

My dogs always go to 'puppy school' when they are old enough where they learn to be around loud noises, people dressed strangely (kids in haloween mask etc) , other dogs, they learn when its ok to play and when to be quiet and lie down etc. Its critical to socialise a dog early as it wants to fit in , it just doesnt know the rules of it's 'new pack'.

I try and meet my dogs half way, i expect them to do what i need them to do but i train them with verbal commands linked to hand signals, hand signals are easier for dogs to understand. Likewise i use noises they understand, i growl if im unhappy with them and if they accidentally hurt me (rupe once lept on my chair and kicked me in the groin pretty hard) i 'yelp' to let them know they have gone too far, most often this is when they are play fighting.

'bite inhibition' has to be taught to dogs, most learn it as a puppy from their litter mates, if they play bite too hard , the other puppy squeals and they know what is ok pressure to exert when playing, if a dog is removed from its litter too soon (usually by people keen to 'puppy farm' and sell on dogs to anyone) they dont learn this.

when my dogs had pups, we knew who three of the owners were going to be and had vetted them (no pun intended) before hand. The other pups went to people we had met before hand and were sure understood the responsibilities of owning a dog

bad owners not bad dogs.

I actually don't like the term 'owner', i think of my two as my friends who choose to live with me. Given they have got out of the yard twice and came back both times, im pretty sure this is the case.

Bulldogs are super cute

To be fair, a large, poorly trained and socialized dog is dangerous, even if is no fault of the dog or breed.

No you miss my point. Im saying no dog is dangerous because of its breed.

It becomes dangerous because of the way it is socialised. You can't blame the dog for that. Its the owner at fault

I'm a dispute and fraud case processor at a major national bank. I spend 8-9 hours a day helping people fix their mistakes. In the 5 months I've worked here, I've learned one major lesson: ALWAYS read the Terms and Conditions whenever you give a credit/debit card number out. You never know who will be signing you up for monthly billing.

I'm a dispute and fraud case processor at a major national bank. I spend 8-9 hours a day helping people fix their mistakes. In the 5 months I've worked here, I've learned one major lesson: ALWAYS read the Terms and Conditions whenever you give a credit/debit card number out. You never know who will be signing you up for monthly billing.

Im always amazed at the people who dont read things before signing them.. When possible i like to have 24 hours to read something through before agreeing to it. Then again i read the manuals to things before switching them on

What worries me with bank cards these days is 'contactless payment', in the Uk you can just swipe your card, no pin needed, just needs to be near the reader and it automatically debits your account. Im just waiting for the first 'hand held readers' where someone walks down the road automatically debiting £20 a time from peoples wallets as they walk past them....

I got bit by a dog the other day, got my left arm. Hope it knocks me out of work for a few days, haha. I told the nurse at the hospital who was cleaning the wounds, "At least I don't have to deliver the mail".

People and their weapon animals. I'm a childfree person and I have many of the same attitudes towards pets. I don't understand the attachment to dogs, especially large dangerous ones.

There are no 'dangerous dogs'

just 'unresponsible owners'. dogs are great animals and by their nature social and 'pack animals'.

However a lot of the 'hard' reputation dogs are bought by idiots to look tough and brutalised to make them violent.

You can have agressive viscous chihuahuas and soft as muck rottweilers. it depends on how you socialise them and interact with them.

My dogs let me know if someone they dont know has come to the house by barking but quieten if i tell them to 'settle'. If they misbehave or are being over excited a low 'growl' shuts the up (cos when they were pups i nipped thebacks of their necks with my teeth as their mother would have so they know that after a growl comes a sharp nip)

Unfortunatley peopel with 'status dogs' shout at their dogs, the dog just thinks you're excited and barking too and it makes them worse or they hit them (the dog either fears you or thinks you've just bumped into it)

My dogs always go to 'puppy school' when they are old enough where they learn to be around loud noises, people dressed strangely (kids in haloween mask etc) , other dogs, they learn when its ok to play and when to be quiet and lie down etc. Its critical to socialise a dog early as it wants to fit in , it just doesnt know the rules of it's 'new pack'.

I try and meet my dogs half way, i expect them to do what i need them to do but i train them with verbal commands linked to hand signals, hand signals are easier for dogs to understand. Likewise i use noises they understand, i growl if im unhappy with them and if they accidentally hurt me (rupe once lept on my chair and kicked me in the groin pretty hard) i 'yelp' to let them know they have gone too far, most often this is when they are play fighting.

'bite inhibition' has to be taught to dogs, most learn it as a puppy from their litter mates, if they play bite too hard , the other puppy squeals and they know what is ok pressure to exert when playing, if a dog is removed from its litter too soon (usually by people keen to 'puppy farm' and sell on dogs to anyone) they dont learn this.

when my dogs had pups, we knew who three of the owners were going to be and had vetted them (no pun intended) before hand. The other pups went to people we had met before hand and were sure understood the responsibilities of owning a dog

bad owners not bad dogs.

I actually don't like the term 'owner', i think of my two as my friends who choose to live with me. Given they have got out of the yard twice and came back both times, im pretty sure this is the case.

I agree that it's mostly bad owners, but a poorly trained large dog is significantly more dangerous than a poorly trained small one.

Store clerk at the moment after things going a bit out of control. Probably going to be doing a pharmacy assistant course in the near future.

I'm a dispute and fraud case processor at a major national bank. I spend 8-9 hours a day helping people fix their mistakes. In the 5 months I've worked here, I've learned one major lesson: ALWAYS read the Terms and Conditions whenever you give a credit/debit card number out. You never know who will be signing you up for monthly billing.

Im always amazed at the people who dont read things before signing them.. When possible i like to have 24 hours to read something through before agreeing to it. Then again i read the manuals to things before switching them on

What worries me with bank cards these days is 'contactless payment', in the Uk you can just swipe your card, no pin needed, just needs to be near the reader and it automatically debits your account. Im just waiting for the first 'hand held readers' where someone walks down the road automatically debiting £20 a time from peoples wallets as they walk past them....

I dint know how it works in the UK, but in the US this could be totally possible. They would just have to sign with VISA/MC/etc with a legit sounding business name. We'll have to see how far a card could be read from. I don't imagine card issuers would make the RFID tags powerful enough to be read from within a wallet or purse, but a sufficiently powerful reader...

I design fold-up paper models for use with hobby games such as D&D and Warhammer.

RE the dangers of 'contactless' cards

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/11758990/Contactless-cards-at-risk-of-fraud-warns-Which.html

Grocery and wellness buyer for a food co-op.

When I'm not flying around with little plastic spaceships I'm flying around in a big hulking metal airplane.

Also, because of my profession I've had the great fortune to have played against fellow X-Wingers in Denver, Chicago, Vancouver and Tokyo! All communities have been a blast to play in, very welcoming and very friendly!

Watch out, I may be partycrashing your community next .

I'm a university librarian for a science and technology university. I also get to teach a course on tabletop games to our interactive media students, so I get to shop for, buy, and play games at work. :-)

I'm a copywriter.

Stand-up Philosopher by day, wallet inspector by night.

I'm an associate in a paint store. So during the winter I have a lot of time for theory listing.

I'm a video game developer.

I get this as a WWII living history chap and someone who writes articles for magazines about 20th century warfare I lose count of the times when wargamers get hung up on 'wonder weapons of the 3rd reich'

If they were that good they would have won.

Wargamers get obsessed with main weapon calibre, velocity, armour thickness of things like Tigers and Panthers but don't understand

1. how rare they were in WWII (85 per cent of the german army was horse drawn at its best point)

2. that they broke down *constantly*

3. that most bridges in eastern europe couldnt take their weight to cross rivers

4. the 3rd reich rarely had the fuel reserves to use them properly (or late on copper for electric turrer wiring etc)

Wargamers just see 'big gun, thick armour.. its the best tank in the world' as few wargames reflect 'boring' stuff like bridging weights, fuel consumption, mechanical reliability and cost of production... they just 'math' some hard numbers that ae true to a degree but the best gun in the world is useless if you've crashed into a river in russia as the bridge can't take 28 tons of weight and no ones got the fuel for two other tiger I's to pull you out of there

Gadge your third point on why Tigers were not so great is bull. I saw USA movie news bulletin about the Tiger tank. They said it can fly and dive down deep into the ocean like a submarine. Bridges mean nothing to Tiger tanks. Also I am pretty sure they tested out the prototype Nazi flying Saucer propulsion systems on said Tigers, they can hover safely back to the ground if they run out of fuel for their turbo fans.

I'm retired Navy. But I am a gold prospector also. It gives me something to do instead of just sitting around the house.

I test munitions, weapons, and explosives for the DoD.

note* not one of my tests

Uh...

I own a real estate firm...

No. I'm a cook. Not a chef, a cook. If you want a whole roasted pig cooked in an underground BBQ I'm your man. If you want fooey grass, then I'm gonna throw a roast beef at your head.

What about my 'night job?'

I make booze

I'm a driller. I put holes in the ground for various reasons.