Like many rattly old puffins, I’ve been stunned to discover that a retailer called Amazon - plying their trade on the World Wide Web - sells knives ‘online’, to any Tom, Dick or Ahmed.
It's a sorry state of affairs as well when a perfectly respectable Rwandan couple flee their country after indulging in a spot of mass slaughter and discover that the good burghers of Wales don't use kitchen knives. Obviously, this is why this choirboy had to resort to online shopping and clearly, looking at his angelic little face, he would have desisted if such a shopping experience required him to prove his age. Because I doubt his father left any forms of acceptable ID lying around in the knife-bereft home. Still, Mrs Balls is on the job, making sure we bookbinders (for such am I) will have to prove our dotage before buying specialist paring knives from specialist suppliers. Or is she just going after Amazon? That would be fine because, as a person who doesn't use it, I can tell you there is always an alternative supplier.
Couldn’t make it up- old Two tier is up to his neck in terroris oops, I mean asylum seekers, rape gangs, mass genocide- his human rights’ has kept these ‘vulnerable’ scroates nicely tucked up🤬🤬
I applaud the government's recent announcement, but feel obliged to raise a warning that we might have embarked upon a slippery slope here.
We chemistry hobbyists already have enough difficulty in sourcing the raw materials for making ricin. We don't want a popular back-bedroom challenge made any more difficult by the imposition of further rules.
Having grown up in a culture where most kids carried pocket knives, and I and the vast majority of my childhood friends owned rifles and shotguns, I am led to believe perhaps it is the mystery that gives the weapons their mystique. I can assure we got into plenty of arguments and fistfights, but no one ever resorted to using a weapon. Why not? Because we were intimately familiar with them and had a high regard for their danger and their utility. It was a line that simply wasn't crossed unless the situation was life or death, and you and I both know that almost no teenage or even young adult altercations are life and death. By restricting the access to the weapons you also remove the familiarity and the very high respect that should be afforded them. I realize this may be a bit of a tangent since the thrust of your essay here is your government seeks to disarm one side knowing full well the other side won't respect any restrictions and will arm themselves anyway. A messy problem for sure. It's a tough thing to come to grips with, that your government is actually taking what you consider to be the wrong side of a disagreement.
Me too - my satirical piece is aimed at the double-standard but also the faux-horror expressed by our Home Secretary, over where the Southport killer got his knife. It's utterly irrelevant - he could have opened the kitchen drawer!
Yep/ what a crock of 💩- blaming Amazon 😩talk about missing the point- never mind the scroat’s age and where he bought it- it wasn’t for whittling bamboo!!! - if he was 18 - he still would have done it . He could have bought the knife anywhere including his mother’s kitchen drawer. Government deflection all the way🤬projection of the first order-they will try and blame the delivery man next- much easier that admitting they FAILED yet again to protect the public🤬🤬
It's a sorry state of affairs as well when a perfectly respectable Rwandan couple flee their country after indulging in a spot of mass slaughter and discover that the good burghers of Wales don't use kitchen knives. Obviously, this is why this choirboy had to resort to online shopping and clearly, looking at his angelic little face, he would have desisted if such a shopping experience required him to prove his age. Because I doubt his father left any forms of acceptable ID lying around in the knife-bereft home. Still, Mrs Balls is on the job, making sure we bookbinders (for such am I) will have to prove our dotage before buying specialist paring knives from specialist suppliers. Or is she just going after Amazon? That would be fine because, as a person who doesn't use it, I can tell you there is always an alternative supplier.
All true - but we're in safe hands with Mrs Balls! As Ed says - as long as she's not been Amazon shopping?
Couldn’t make it up- old Two tier is up to his neck in terroris oops, I mean asylum seekers, rape gangs, mass genocide- his human rights’ has kept these ‘vulnerable’ scroates nicely tucked up🤬🤬
I applaud the government's recent announcement, but feel obliged to raise a warning that we might have embarked upon a slippery slope here.
We chemistry hobbyists already have enough difficulty in sourcing the raw materials for making ricin. We don't want a popular back-bedroom challenge made any more difficult by the imposition of further rules.
I feel your pain. Have you considered Lily of the Valley (see Breaking Bad)?
Having grown up in a culture where most kids carried pocket knives, and I and the vast majority of my childhood friends owned rifles and shotguns, I am led to believe perhaps it is the mystery that gives the weapons their mystique. I can assure we got into plenty of arguments and fistfights, but no one ever resorted to using a weapon. Why not? Because we were intimately familiar with them and had a high regard for their danger and their utility. It was a line that simply wasn't crossed unless the situation was life or death, and you and I both know that almost no teenage or even young adult altercations are life and death. By restricting the access to the weapons you also remove the familiarity and the very high respect that should be afforded them. I realize this may be a bit of a tangent since the thrust of your essay here is your government seeks to disarm one side knowing full well the other side won't respect any restrictions and will arm themselves anyway. A messy problem for sure. It's a tough thing to come to grips with, that your government is actually taking what you consider to be the wrong side of a disagreement.
Me too - my satirical piece is aimed at the double-standard but also the faux-horror expressed by our Home Secretary, over where the Southport killer got his knife. It's utterly irrelevant - he could have opened the kitchen drawer!
That’s a very interesting point.
The spork suggests itself as the best cutlery based solution. Although the embedded word pork might be problematic.
Yep/ what a crock of 💩- blaming Amazon 😩talk about missing the point- never mind the scroat’s age and where he bought it- it wasn’t for whittling bamboo!!! - if he was 18 - he still would have done it . He could have bought the knife anywhere including his mother’s kitchen drawer. Government deflection all the way🤬projection of the first order-they will try and blame the delivery man next- much easier that admitting they FAILED yet again to protect the public🤬🤬
This law is a nightmare. Yes my mum can still take delivery of my knifes in principle but that bitch can barely find one ID let alone two!
I'm sure youths can buy whatever drugs they want on certain high streets. They can, I'm told, in my town.
Just read this again and almost crying with laughter- young shavers indeed
I really really want to set fire to that young shavers hair😎
That’s great. Excellent use of “young shaver” too! I don’t think I’ve seen that word used since I read ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’ a lot of years ago.