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DaTT

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You needed extra help for that question?

Do you have more experience for someone trying to kill you with a car or with a pit bull?





Ah! So this is a truthiness thing that has no relation to the real world then?

Also the bit about the second part is pretty much where you stepped in, do try to keep up.





Seriously, I'd like to know why your so confident that you'd win.





People with self confidence and an absolute belief in an outcome without any experience of the situation are idiots, yes.

Why are you so confident I would lose?

ps, you answered another question with a question
 

smackababy

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When the criteria to be labeled pittbull is as follows:
The term "Pit Bull" may refer to a dog which is purebred American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, or another breed of the same general type.[15] It may also refer to a dog which is a mix of Pit Bull breeds, a mix of Pit Bull and other dogs, or—erroneously—a mix of similar breeds (e.g. American bulldog, Boxer), especially if pit-bull morphology predominates.

Yeah, of course it is on there a lot.
 

WelshBloke

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Why are you so confident I would lose?

I'm not. Your point was that you couldn't understand how anyone else could lose to one.

Now I can understand you not understanding that as you're an idiot, or as youre a troll but I'm struggling to see any other reason.

Post a video of you fighting one, that will decide it. :)

ps, you answered another question with a question


No, I'm still waiting for you to answer the first one.
 
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If you don't buy a lottery ticket which one is more likely?
That's neither here nor there. I'm just pointing out the odds.

Some people act like getting a pit is a death sentence. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fatalities from pit attacks are actually fairly rare. If you look at the facts behind the attacks it generally involves either old people or young kids/children, and it often involves a pack of two or more pits. Additionally, it also seems to happen in primarily low-income areas. My guess would be that happens because those pits are not properly trained/socialized. There are rare exceptions to that but there are other dogs besides pits involved in human casualties as well. Animals, even allegedly domesticated ones, can kill you.

I've had many dogs, pits included, and pits have always been the most awesome of them all. My last one, an American Bulldog, was with us for 16 years. She died the day before last Thanksgiving. Best dog evar.

Now I've rescued a poxer (pug/boxer mix). She's a different challenge but I would never hesitate to own a pit. Raised responsibly, there is no better dog.
 

DaTT

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I'm not. Your point was that you couldn't understand how anyone else could lose to one.

Now I can understand you not understanding that as you're an idiot, or as youre a troll but I'm struggling to see any other reason.

Post a video of you fighting one, that will decide it. :)




No, I'm still waiting for you to answer the first one.

I apologize. I did not mean to upset you...I mean, that's the only reason you would result to direct insults, right?

I guess we agree to disagree?
 
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What fear mongering?

Its a shit analogy. Losing a lottery involves losing a buck, getting a shitty pit bull involves getting your kid eaten.
I'm pointing out that it's an extremely rare event. Ever win the lottery?

Even getting a shitty pit doesn't mean your kid will get eaten. So stop spreading the fud.
 

DaTT

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What fear mongering?

Its a shit analogy. Losing a lottery involves losing a buck, getting a shitty pit bull involves getting your kid eaten.

I lol'd. But I'm pretty sure the kid would be able to hold his own against the Pitbull....if he had any self confidence.
 

WelshBloke

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I apologize. I did not mean to upset you...I mean, that's the only reason you would result to direct insults, right?

I'm not insulting you, I'm trying to understand your argument without you being either of the other options.

I guess we agree to disagree?

OK. I think that pit bulls can kill people, you apparently think they either can not or that people are letting them kill them.
 

WelshBloke

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I'm pointing out that it's an extremely rare event. Ever win the lottery?

The point is that losing the lottery involves very little risk and that risk is defined up front.

How about if you bought a ticket there was a chance that the organizer came around and shot you in the head if you got a certain combination of numbers? That would be closer.

Even getting a shitty pit doesn't mean your kid will get eaten. So stop spreading the fud.

It means that your kid might get eaten, in the same way that you might win the lottery.

Or are you saying that a pit has never attacked a child?
 
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I lol'd. But I'm pretty sure the kid would be able to hold his own against the Pitbull....if he had any self confidence.
:rolleyes:

Fine. Don't like the lottery analogy? Then compare it to lightning strikes instead. You're more likely to get killed by lightning.

Do you actually know anyone killed by lightning or winning the lottery? Probably not.

But hype up those damn pit bulls because a snarky comment takes no brains at all.
 

DaTT

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:rolleyes:

Fine. Don't like the lottery analogy? Then compare it to lightning strikes instead. You're more likely to get killed by lightning.

Do you actually know anyone killed by lightning or winning the lottery? Probably not.

But hype up those damn pit bulls because a snarky comment takes no brains at all.

Funny you bring up lightning strikes, as I have been struck by lightning. No lie. On a golf course.
 

WelshBloke

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:rolleyes:

Fine. Don't like the lottery analogy? Then compare it to lightning strikes instead. You're more likely to get killed by lightning.

Do you actually know anyone killed by lightning or winning the lottery? Probably not.

But hype up those damn pit bulls because a snarky comment takes no brains at all.

Again a stupid analogy.

You chose to get a pit, you chose to put it in your house with your kids.

I don't send my kids up a hill in a thunderstorm wearing armor.

Really you need to stop making analogies and start making arguments, you're really, really bad at analogies.
 
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The point is that losing the lottery involves very little risk and that risk is defined up front.

How about if you bought a ticket there was a chance that the organizer came around and shot you in the head if you got a certain combination of numbers? That would be closer.



It means that your kid might get eaten, in the same way that you might win the lottery.

Or are you saying that a pit has never attacked a child?
Oh, wait. I get it. You want to minimize any chance of anything bad ever happening to you in life to absolute zero.

Dude...never go outside. Don't drive. Don't walk. In fact, don't live anywhere not protected against nuclear blasts, meteorites, or gamma radiation blasts either.

Good fucking luck. But be afraid if you don't live that life.
 

WelshBloke

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Oh, wait. I get it. You want to minimize any chance of anything bad ever happening to you in life to absolute zero.

No. I want people to stop going "I don't like reality, I'm going to pretend its something else!".

Seriously, do what ever the hell you want to do just don't get anyone elses kids eaten because you have a problem with reality.
 

MongGrel

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I consider WelshBloke a friend, I'm gonna come back as the Chicken has shown up, as he's getting double teamed in the stupidity department.
 
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Again a stupid analogy.

You chose to get a pit, you chose to put it in your house with your kids.

I don't send my kids up a hill in a thunderstorm wearing armor.

Really you need to stop making analogies and start making arguments, you're really, really bad at analogies.
Again, how often do pits kill kids? Please show us all the numbers.

The analogy is valid because it is a rare event when it happens. Stop acting like getting a pit is a death sentence for children. You look like a complete ass when doing so.
 
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