People, please lock up your pans. Think of the kids.
Since, for one, I doubt you’re being serious and, for two, parody threads should be made in the Pit, I’m going to shut this down.
Feel free to remake in the Pit, however.
Re-opened after some mod discussion.
If only someone had posted a “Pressure Cooker Free Zone” poster at the finish line of the race then obviously the bomber would had said, “Oh, shucks. I really wanted to blow some people up today but I guess I can’t becuase it’s a pressure cooker free zone. Oh well. I guess I’ll go get some McDonalds.”
It’s only common sense that pressure cookers be brought under the purview of the BATFE making them the BATFEPC.
Is the OP contention that if one leaves a pressure cooker with two boys aged 4 and 6 that one will “accidentally” murder the other one, even if it takes several repeated hits to the head?
Perhaps people need to try and find other uses for pressure cookers, like, preparing a tasty meal. Just because pressure cooker manufacturers did not originally intended for that perhaps it’s time to change popular culture perception of pressure cookers as weapons and over time learn to accept that pressure cookers can be used for other things as well.
It’s a real pressure cooker in here.
I’m tired of all you PC (pressure cooker) types ruining everything. Around here, a guy can’t even say “I want to squeeze and steam my meat until it’s hot and ready to explode” anymore without getting odd stares from the cow-orkers.
It’s worth noting that I’ve seen this trope passed around by Second Amendment types as pointed satire. Apparently they are glossing over any difference in scale between the three deaths in Boston and the annual death toll by firearms.
Yeah, there’s the scale thing and there also the glee that someone somewhere was killed with something that wasn’t a gun so I get to make this shitty lilttle post while many of the victims are still in the hospital thing.
Then there is the fact that gun fetishists are compensating for their small penises thing and the fact that the NRA is pretty much a hate group funded by the arms industry thing, then there is the fact that a black guy is president thing and some people here will never get over that thing.
I have quite a few pressure cookers - for competition cooking only. I keep all of them in my pressure cooker safe, separate from their lids.
OK, I’ll admit that I do keep one pressure cooker in the kitchen, for ready access in case of unexpected visitors but I told the kids not to play with it.
You forgot to mention “pressure cooker” in your cry for help. A pressure cooker is just a fancy pipe bomb. People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some people respond with a nervous laugh, others need a little humor to keep from crying, still others talk about penises and black presidents. To each their own. Get well soon.
What I think is funny is every time a dumb ass red-stater’s kid blows his head off with his dad’s gun. It would clean up the gene pool except for red state America’s bug-like rate of procreation: the only thing they know how to use less than a gun safety is birth control.
Pretty much this.
I felt the spirit of this thread was a release for the craziness of what was going on around us. I don’t believe it was meant to offend, though some posts may have done that because different people have different views of where to draw the line.
Cooking with pressure cookers does scare me, my post pretty much does reflect how I feel about them and not some other thing that could have been substituted as the subject of my post. The difference is I might actually buy a pressure cooker some day if I decide to get into canning foods, can’t do that with that other thing which is not useful for preserving foods.
Okay, gallows humor like this, so soon while people are still suffering, is gross and crude. But like it says, it helps the rest of us decompress, and is a common thing after disasters.
After the Challenger went kablooie on January 28, 1986 the same thing happened. The sick death jokes began going viral on Usenet within hours.
Can I pay for them with bitcoin?
THE ONLY DEFENSE AGAINST BAD GUYS WITH PRESSURE COOKERS IS GOOD GUYS WITH PRESSURE COOKERS! We need to have trained guards (or teachers) with pressure cookers in every classroom in every school!
Actually, gold coin is the only means of payment I accept now. The whole reason the government is trying to confiscate our pressure cookers is to cover up the impending economic collapse. Now, I’ve only got two left, and that’s because there’s no room for them in the survival shelter. I’ll hold them until Saturday, but after that the first guy with some gold is getting them.
The only reason that they’re legal at all is due to the KFC lobbyists.
Well I own a pressure cooker, for recreation use only. Now I have no problem with restriction on high capacity pressure cookers being left to the military. There is simply no need for a civilian to pressure cook that much, despite all of the contrived arguments like “A serious concern for me is the likelihood of charged by an Elephant and needing to cook it whole, quickly.”
Should have left it shut mate, all the good jokes were already done.
And there’s also the fact that, when cooking implements get regulated, nobody bats an eye, because there’s no insane lobby preventing sensible regulation of cooking implements.