"I'm a sovereign human being, I stand under common law only" - Thread of Freemen

There is obviously some pathology involved here.

"troy ounce" is an excellent new wrinkle

pretty extreme response to junk mail, i just recycle it

Troy Ounce = Notting Hill drug dealer

alright martin amis

i think previous metals are always weighed in Troy ounces, but I'm not really sure about the difference (basing this on a trick question i heard once about what is heavier, an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?)

internet says it's about 10% more

chances are troy weight's equivalences were different for different metals in different regions, measurements pre-standardisation are wildly chaotic (even worse in pre-revolutionary france mind you)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_(unit)

"Already in 1863, the hobbit was used as an example of the "customary confusion in our British weights and measures". An anonymous contributor to Charles Dickens's journal All the Year Round, arguing in favour of the decimal metric system, noted that[5]

"If (I buy wheat) at Wrexham, (I must order) by the hobbet of one hundred and sixty eight (pounds) (76 kg). But, even if I do happen to know what a hobbet of wheat means at Wrexham, that knowledge good for Flint is not good for Caernarvonshire. A hobbet of wheat at Pwlheli contains eighty-four pounds (38 kg) more than a hobbet at Wrexham; and a hobbet of oats is something altogether different; and a hobbet of barley is something altogether different again."

many of the 'pints' of beer I buy here in California are anything but

tbf no pints of beer in California or anywhere else in the US are actual pints

I hope that dipshit's house is egged constantly, pausing only for people knocking at his door and running away at random times.

don't forget dogshit through the letterbox

Well. today i learned

The pint is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one eighth of a gallon. The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently.

slightly less than 20% because US fluid ounces are bigger than UK fluid ounces

the british gallon is measured by the bladder capacity of the current monarch

hence to get royally bladdered

oh no wait, it's more than 20% because I'm bad at maths

UK fuiud ounces

lolololol

well if a US Gallon is 128 oz, and a quart is 32 oz, then a pint should be 16 oz

But there's a ton of U.S. 'pint' glasses that will easily be filled by a 12 oz bottle

xp tbf that is my position

it gets worse when a pint of whiskey is 375ml, gtfo with that shit, that's not much more than a half!

yeah, I like to buy Austrian gruner vetliner because they bottles are actual liters rather than 750mm

The sign is a master class in crank legal thinking.

jimbeaux as of now I decree that replying in this thread requires that you deliver me 1 troy ounce of gold

I will accept payment by registered carrier pigeon

spent a torturous new years eve attempting to disprove a fellas sincerely held view that a pint glass of cider is 500ml plus 68ml worth of ice

now youd have said that was easily disproven but id spent all day proving it and was getting worse at carrying out the practical demos as the year waned

sometimes in the US now they give you 16 oz & 20 oz options which I think takes this discrepancy into account?

and darragh I expect those two ounces by next Tuesday tyvm

xp I generally choose my battles, but I would derive great joy from hovering a small drone around this kook's yard

haha "I don't see anything about drones in the fine print"

you cauld call it the magna darta

*ahem*

"Vehicles manned or remotely operated"

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get one past the Attorney in Fact.

wherein I reply that, in fact, my drone is not a 'vehicle' but a protected tool of self-expression (akin to a laser pointer), and therefore falls outside of this localized statute

he may own the land, but not the airspace a few feet above the garden

According to precedent, the property is his from the center of the earth to the upper limits of the atmosphere. All rights reserved.

If I remember correctly, there are actually some seminal court cases about planes trespassing over a property owner’s airspace (upshot: planes can fly over your suburban two-up two-down).

Sure, as long as they pay a fine of 100 ounces of iridium, avoirdupois.

Thought this revive was around the anniversary of what happened in my home state a year ago:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/wieambilla-police-shootings-one-year-mccrow-arnold-dare-train/103086748

A school principle, and his brother who was now married to his divorced wife (also a public school employee) executing two police and a neighbour, injuring two other police, for stepping onto their property. The police were following up a missing persons report on the principle.

I went down the rabbithole of this when it happened, finding their online posting and seeing conspiracy sites scrub their forum and news posts in real time the same day the events happened. Depressing. A man was just arrested in Arizona for inciting the shooting, close contact, celebrating them right after their deaths for taking down the demons of the new world order

Sure, as long as they pay a fine of 100 ounces of iridium, avoirdupois.

Airspace, like territorial waters, is purely a sovereignty issue, so you can see why it would attract sovcit types to try to assert it as their sovereign domain.

what about tunneling and burrowing around under their houses?

Property rights extend subsurface.

How far down though?

To the start of the Devonian.

This judge isn’t messing about. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/ni-judge-hits-out-at-pseudo-legal-nonsense-after-defendant-insists-he-is-a-supreme-being/a90840192.html

“The word ‘understand’ also appears to cause him confusion as he repeatedly utters with theatrical flourish ‘I stand under no one.’ "

lol the weakest of weak sauce

Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah

I’m very sleepy so I initially misread the quote from the professor as Bundy describing his family and followers as wicked and was like “oh shit, stopped clock”

Good, now that they know exactly where this asshole has been hiding, we can rest assured that nothing will be done.