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I'm quite astounded. At first, I thought I thought that was seriosuly a joke. It looks like someone mirrored a gun control piece, but dang.

I am quite interested to know. What happens when everything is banned, and crimes are still comitted. Will people then be forced to realize that people are the problem, not the tool?
 
Y'know? I just had a great idea.

There are too many rapes committed. In the vast majority of rapes a certain male organ is required equipment. Here's the idea: All males will be made impotent. If a male wants to engage in a sexual act, he must apply for permission and go through a yet to be determined waiting period. Once that is done, he is administered a single Viagra. In the event of heterosexual contact, he will be given a Planned Parenthood pamphlet, too.

In the interests of public health, and to relieve taxpayer funded healthcare costs, part of the application process would include a STD test.

Think about it. A rape is reported, all you have to do is check the DNA sample retained for records from the application exam, and figure out who did it.

An anciliary benefit would be the ease of verifying genetic compatibility in the rare event of sex for procreation.
 
I am quite interested to know. What happens when everything is banned, and crimes are still comitted. Will people then be forced to realize that people are the problem, not the tool?
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Same thought crossed my mind. I think this is the part when the State offically starts the Indoctrinations

Say hello the new boss - same as the old boss...

Well if anyone has invented a pill folks take instead of food - they are gonna get rich quick - for a short time anyway.

I mean no utensils, teeth will be banned eventually...Citizen - here is your kidney pie pill - now stand up straight while you wait your turn to drink from the State water fountain...

Them water glasses are just w-a-y to dangerous ya know?
 
update from IngSoc

I think all Brits should be declawed and defanged. Only way to reduce biting and scratching crimes.

I expect the National British Dental Board to insist that all Britons have their teeth yanked and stored at the local constabulary until mealtimes.

Fingernails have to go too.

Michael Savage had it right: "Only the soccer hooligan can save Britain."
 
Absurd, yes. But there is really something infinitely sad about all this...

Feels like PTSD from WW II.

What else could motivate such imponderable fear of What's Inside?

Good folks the Brits, but what the hell are they doing to themselves?
 
I can do everything I need to do in the kitchen without a pointy point.

If I need a point, I will use a small-- that is, shortened-- knife with a pointy point to complete the job.

A knife that is both pointy and long is unnecessary. In fact, it is dangerous.

The definition of long is anything that can reach the vital organs in the event of a pointy point knife assault.

Therefore, all our knives should be less than this length.

Oh dear, what will happen when the ministry finds out that a slash can be as lethal as a stab?
 
This is the mindset of British Parliament...

From a discussion in the House of Commons on the merits of the Amendment to the Householder Protection Bill. (Feb 2005)

Mr. Pound: My hon. Friend makes a good point. The person who would have benefited most from this Bill is Kenneth Noye. He was a convicted gangster who killed a police officer who happened to be on Mr. Noye's property without Mr. Noye's permission. Mr. Noye said in court that he had a reasonable suspicion that this figure coming through the shrubbery in his garden was going to do him harm, so he killed him. Kenneth Noye could be prayed in aid in support of this Bill just as much as Brendan Fearon could. Brendan Fearon was mentioned earlier, as was Fred Barras, the 16-year-old boy killed by Tony Martin.

Every politician says that hard cases make bad law, and I understand that the case of Tony Martin is the most extreme case in many ways. However, we cannot avoid the fact that many people out there will see this

Bill not as the Kenneth Noye law but as the Tony Martin law. We have a responsibility to place on record that Tony Martin killed a 16-year-old boy with an illegally held pump-action shotgun. I said earlier that we were talking not about legal niceties and trivialities but about life and death. Fred Barras will never have the opportunity to mend his ways or to become a worthwhile contributing citizen of this country. He will never have the opportunity of redemption, because he died at the age of 16. I hold no brief for those who break into other people's homes, but I cannot, with anything other than great sadness, look at a situation in which a 16-year-old boy in bad company is shot once and then again, in the back, as he flees the home of Tony Martin.

I think that we have to look in our hearts and ask, "Was that 16-year-old boy so incapable of redemption that he deserved death?" I suggest that he did not deserve death, and that any implication in the Bill that anybody who breaks into someone's home deserves death would be a step too far—one that leads us into very dangerous waters. (emphasis mine). -- Steven Pound, MP Earling North
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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050204/debtext/50204-15.htm

The bill in question was intended to allow home owners more latitude in tackling burglars, by providing that they will not be guilty of any offence unless they have used grossly disproportionate force. It would apply to England and Wales. As far as I know, the Bill is still in Standing Committee and has not been voted on.

Details on the Tony Martin case: http://www.guardian.co.uk/martin/0,2759,214318,00.html

Cliff notes: in 1999 a rural farmer shot and killed a 16 year old boy by the name of Fred Barras in the process of breaking into his house, and injured his 29 year old accomplice.

Police charged Martin with the murder of Barras and attempted murder of the accomplice, Brendan Fearon. Martin was convicted of murder in April of 2000 and sentenced to life in prison. After a long drama with accusations of jury tampering and a lengthy appeals process and replaced council, Martin got his sentence reduced to manslaughter and 3 years imprisonment. He was released in July 2003 from Prison. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3087003.stm

That my friends, is the attitude that holds sway in Merry old England. The belief that human life is paramount, and that there is almost no justification what-so-ever for it to be taken, by ANYONE, under almost any circumstance.

That belief gives no credence to the right of the homeowner to be secure from intruders, and by action and implementation of the law holds that time and time and time again in England NO property or violation of ones home is justification for a deadly assault on an individual.

And, for the most part, they think our views on such things are backwards, hopelessly outdated and unsophisticated, and make our society one that borders on barbarity.

I knew there was a reason people left when they had a chance.
 
This is some of our doctor's.

It is far from being govt policy.

We have enough 'celebrity chefs' knocking around to raise a small army to march on Westminster should this ban ever turn serious.

davec- Tony has had his case dragged through THR's courts many times. Suffice to say that your 'cliff notes' wouldn't get the student a grade C at GCSE. Things like shooting the 16 year old in the back, lying to the police about what happened etc were missed out.
 
And now, for something completely different....

News from Briton, August 2014... Responding to an overwhelming outcry from the populace to DO SOMETHING about the rising rate of machine gun attacks, firebombings and random immoliation of school boys, Parliament today passed the proposal presented by Lord Foxhill to ban pointy sticks. In order to remove the means of manufacturing such weapons of mass destruction, all trees and woody shrubs in the Kingdom will be cut down and burned.
 
A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase-and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.
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Okay, a team a doctors from a University proposes a law and it's Britain to ban kitchen knives .Where in this article does it mention majority public support or Parliament calling for a ban on long,pointed kitchen knives?

The Home Office is looking for ways to reduce knife crime.
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So then these doctors suggest a law banning the sale of long,pointed kitchen knives,but the Home Office says they already have laws restricting carrying and possession of most knives.
This does not strike me as support for a ban.

Home Office spokesperson said there were already extensive restrictions in place to control the sale and possession of knives.
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This is what many gun owners in some countries say about their gun laws,but the British Home Office is saying it about their current knife laws.
Because of this I will hold off on condemnations of the British in general.
We need to remember that we have some goofy doctors too.
 
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And they laugh at us when we talk about the establishment of Nerf World...

The Brits are a funny people, even my Irish grandparents thought so. I think they laughed all the way to the boat.
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I doubt that was laughing :(

Y'know? I just had a great idea.

There are too many rapes committed. In the vast majority of rapes a certain male organ is required equipment. Here's the idea: All males will be made impotent. If a male wants to engage in a sexual act, he must apply for permission and go through a yet to be determined waiting period. Once that is done, he is administered a single Viagra. In the event of heterosexual contact, he will be given a Planned Parenthood pamphlet, too.

In the interests of public health, and to relieve taxpayer funded healthcare costs, part of the application process would include a STD test.

Think about it. A rape is reported, all you have to do is check the DNA sample retained for records from the application exam, and figure out who did it.

An anciliary benefit would be the ease of verifying genetic compatibility in the rare event of sex for procreation.
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Oh, so you've been to Washington state!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here is an example. A man may NOT get a vasectomy if he is married without permission from his wife, but a wife may get an abortion without even informing her husband. And, by the way, you don't have to officially get married to be considered "married." Google search for "meretricious relationship" and be afraid.
 
You have no knowledge of history!!!.Why is it that the table knives have no point ? That's because one of the kings [french I think] wanted to stop the knife fights at the table [probably with drunks] so he banned pointed knives -so todays table knives have rounded tips !! A far as the chef stating that the point on a chef's knive isn't necessary , I'll keep the point on mine.
 
Pointy knife control,, Tell me it's a joke

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/science/27knife.html?th&emc=th

British Medical Experts Campaign for Long, Pointy Knife Control



By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: May 27, 2005
Warning: Long, pointy knives may be hazardous to your health.

The authors of an editorial in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal have called for knife reform. The editorial, "Reducing knife crime: We need to ban the sale of long, pointed kitchen knives," notes that the knives are being used to stab people as well as roasts and the odd tin of Spam.

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David Corio for The New York Times
Manufacturers are urged to redesign kitchen knives with rounded tips.


Full Text of the Editorial (BMJ.com) The authors of the essay - Drs. Emma Hern, Will Glazebrook and Mike Beckett of the West Middlesex University Hospital in London - called for laws requiring knife manufacturers to redesign their wares with rounded, blunt tips.

The researchers noted that the rate of violent crime in Britain rose nearly 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, and that in the first two weeks of 2005, 15 killings and 16 nonfatal attacks involved stabbings. In an unusual move for a scholarly work, the researchers cited a January headline from The Daily Express, a London tabloid: "Britain is in the grip of knives terror - third of murder victims are now stabbed to death."
 
Oops

I posted the same thing in General.
No, it's not a joke. I'm sorry to say that my profession has lost all sense of proportion, and has forgotten that life entails risk. We all take a chance with every breath. The logical extension of welfare-state thought is that there must be no risks in life.

'course, the only way to keep your kids from ever falling down and getting hurt is to NEVER LET THEM STAND ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET.
 
It should be a joke. I can do as much damage with a ballpoint pen. Why don't we ban them? Oh wait...they're run by corporations. America has turned into a country of whores, selling ourselves out. I hate the free market economy sometimes. IE: The FDA is owned by drug companies. The FDA is suposed to keep bad drugs away from us, yet they're owned by drug companies. *sighs*
 
With every passing week, I think news reports on new laws in Britain must be written more and more by The Onion.

The article from Khornet's post
A spokesperson for the Association of Chief Police Officers said: "ACPO supports any move to reduce the number of knife related incidents, however, it is important to consider the practicalities of enforcing such changes."
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Well, at least that guy seems semi-sane...

Kharn
 
just saw this on DRUDGE, and came here and GT to check comments.

as a practical matter in the kitchen, yes there are few if any jobs which require both a sharp point and length at the same time. BUT -
- chopping (onions, carrots, celery) is presently done by pivoting a long knife on a sharp point. alternatives would be using a broader, cleaver-like, knife (heavier) or a round ended knife (pivoting along a line rather than on a point). either solution would entail re-learning of a physical skill, like learning to drive on the other side of the road.
- a sequence of jobs (cutting open, trimming, and de-seeding a watermalon) now done with a single long pointy knife would require alternating between two knives, long blunt and short pointy, increasing the time required for the sequence.

thus the government response to criminal activity is to legislate a penalty upon all law abiding citizens.

..but anyone who has gone through an airline departure gate recently knows that already..
 
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