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2008-05-02 Britain

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-02 10:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Knife culture?
What's next? Fork culture? Pizza cutter culture?
Is the lunacy over there really as bad as it sounds?

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-02 11:28|| 2008-05-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Is the lunacy over there really as bad as it sounds?

I've moved to: Is there any reason not to believe it's as bad over there as it sounds? I am thinking of starting a pool on when the US will first grant political asylum to a national from another Nato member.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-02 11:35|| 2008-05-02 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 "the sword which has sharpened edges" As in there's just one of them? And it's been removed from the hands of the citizenry, where surely it would have put someone's eye out?

What's next, confiscating all pointed sticks? Rasberries? How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana?

Posted by gromky 2008-05-02 11:51|| 2008-05-02 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 It would indeed be a wonderful world if everyone surrendered all of their weapons as well as anything that could be used as a weapon.
Mainly it would be a wonderful world, because I would secretly keep a butter knife, and as the only armed person on the planet, I would be able to rule the world.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-05-02 12:10|| 2008-05-02 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Truly pathetic.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-05-02 12:15|| 2008-05-02 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 I've come to believe that Monty Python is the patron saint of PC England.

Posted by RWV 2008-05-02 12:18|| 2008-05-02 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Yup, complete lunacy. I cant sleep in my bed some nights, even if I do bother to lock the door.

Congratulations on beating Palestine on the National Homicide Stats again this year, by the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_murder_rate

Problem with those type of stats is that they dont show how may of the people killed were bad people...

My Sister was burgled and had a Samurai sword stolen from her house. She wont be buying another one, having thought about what could have happened had she disturbed them. In the event she lost a few pounds worth of "stuff", a tv and a few other bits.

I was mugged just once when I was a teenager, by a gang of heroin addicts. It cost me £5 paper round money.

As I've got older, I've got bolder & probably wouldnt give in so easily now. I've had a windscreen smashed & a motorbike nicked over the years. Obviously not happy about any of these things (wasnt around when they were happening) but I can live with that level of crime (both things were insured) knowing that there are very few real no go areas in the whole of the land. I've not lived a particularly sheltered life, either.

Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2008-05-02 13:18|| 2008-05-02 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 You can exchange your knife for a rolled-up copy of the Guardian.

En garde!

Posted by Seafarious 2008-05-02 14:45|| 2008-05-02 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Typically, these Buy-Back programs are launched in conjunction with some proposed legislation. Of course, its impossible to quantify any positive results from such ridiculous programs but if there is any down-tick in knife related crimes they will claim responsibility. Look for some MP to be introducing the Dont run with Scissors law real soon.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-05-02 15:33|| 2008-05-02 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 The men who defended Rorke's Drift and the Residency at Lucknow wouldn't even spit on today's Britons. Today's lot are gutless wankers indeed.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-02 17:28|| 2008-05-02 17:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Next up: Screwdrivers. Use a coin instead!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2008-05-02 17:41|| 2008-05-02 17:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Just wait until they get their next vicious serial killer. For maximum effect it will be a home invader who ties up people and strangles them or something.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-02 19:36|| 2008-05-02 19:36|| Front Page Top

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