I am MAD as hell at the moment. Seriously. I was watching this talkshow that is on every evening on some current topics in the news. There was an American to talk about the Boston bombings, but I'm not really sure what his function was (ambassador, nato?). Anyway, the host was talking about differences between Europeans and Americans (however, he pretty much showed there are no differences between countries or regions, you only have dumbasses and smarter people. He's one of the dumbasses). He found it necessary to begin on some clichés such as 'Americans and weapons, blablabla'. He then proceeded by confronting the American guy by asking: 'You also have a weapon with you at all times, right? Even now!". I was already thinking that would be odd since in Belgium, no one except for police or army personnel is allowed to carry guns -and I always associate guns with the term 'weapon', not knives-. So to my surprise, the American was digging in his pocket. Again I was thinking: surely he won't have a gun in there...that would be illegal (eventhough the laws are stupid). So... any guesses for what he took out of his pocket?
Well... I'll tell you...
A VICTORINOX CLASSIC!
The talkshow host had these big eyes and was mumbling something like: I will never understand that you absolutely have to have something like that on you!
I'll rephrase myself: A VICTORINOX CLASSIC!
The American was visibly amused (rightly so) and stated that there wasn't a single day that passed without him using it for all sorts of tasks.
The rest of the show, even with other guests, the hosts kept joking about 'weapons' and 'well, you can ask him for his knife hahahahihihi'.
I wanted to kick that guy in the nuts SO. DAMN. HARD.
/rant
The laws on weapons are already strict enough in this country. No need for the media to plant some crazy ideas in simple people's heads. As if a Victorinox Classic would ever be used as a weapon. You could hurt someone more badly with a spoon.
HHNNGGG. Yes, I'm mad.
