UK knife article will boil your blood

My next-door neighbours have just got back from a family holiday at Euro-Disney, they had a great time too, the only thing that spoiled it for them was on the journey home. Some valiant defender of our freedom saw their three year old son had a plastic toy dagger. Verboten!! The toy was taken away from a very upset little boy. When is this stupidity going to end? Never, as long as the media and the politicians can profit from whipping people into a frenzy of irrational fear.
Fear and Hysteria, That's what big government in the UK wants, if you were to ask the average UK citizen if they know anyone who has ever been stabbed I'll bet that the majority would answer in the negative. Me? I personally know two people who were unlucky enough to get stabbed, both were stabbed with screwdrivers, sharpened ones. Making people hysterical about knives won't make violent crime evaporate. What are they gonna do, ban everything with a potential for misuse? :mad: .
BTW, my own son (nearly four) has had his toy tomahawk confiscated 'cause he keeps belting his dad in the shins with the damn thing, I blame the parents :D :D :D
 
It's like a little toy bomb? A little toy knife inside a little toy bomb? The bomb is OK, but the knife isn't?
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Yeah a device of this nature must have some sort of "RECOMMENDED AGE"
after all it contains A SMALL AMOUNT OF GUN POWDER!!!
normaly a three year old would not be give a device like that without supervision.
Whats the big deal with the knife!! :rolleyes: . And if this device did contain some sort of age recommendation that would go for what is inside to.
 
I agree that placing a knife in the cracker was not really wise, but I just cannot get over people's fear of a practical tool. Will we all be reduced to using our teeth before we appreciate the use of a knife?
 
Next thing you know some @#$e-hole will propose that the very word "knife" is far too Thrusting and downright aggressive, how about "edged tool/utensil
(delete as appropriate). Has a nice non-threatening ring to it. :barf: :rolleyes: :D
 
At this rate I'm NEVER going to be able to carry a Lightsaber! :grumpy:

And I'm sure their invention is just around the corner too! :(
 
Hello MercuryHayze, to "mollycoddle" someone is to pamper them or to treat them like fragile little children.
What do you mean"if" the zombies attack? A couple of the critters nearly caught me of guard t'other night as I was adjusting my tinfoil beanie, luckily my homemade raygun was close at hand. :D
 
What do you mean"if" the zombies attack? A couple of the critters nearly caught me of guard t'other night as I was adjusting my tinfoil beanie, luckily my homemade raygun was close at hand.
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Got any pics HAHAHA!!!!
 
MercuryHayze said:
What does



Mean anyways?
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mol·ly·cod·dle ** (*P*)**Pronunciation Key**(ml-kdl)
v. tr. mol·ly·cod·dled, mol·ly·cod·dling, mol·ly·cod·dles

To be overprotective and indulgent toward. See Synonyms at pamper.
n.

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
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[molly, milksop (from the name Molly, nickname for Mary) + coddle.]
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molly·coddler n.
 
Sorry Socintel, no pics, however I may one day reveal how you de-animate a zombie with a Blair's britain legal carry Christmas cracker penknife. I Vote that us devotees of this peerless instrument petition the moderators for a sub-forum dedicated to championing its use. :D
 
The "cracker" isone of those things that you often see in the US for the 4th of July. I'm not sure what they are called, but you pull a string and the gunpowder explodes forceing the other end and the contents out. In the US they are usually filled little rolled up crepe paper in various colours. This is not something you would give to a child without supervision. The outrage ofer the little kife is rediculous. :(
 
Good God! Sooner I get the hell out of this country the better! :mad:
For those of you who don't do Christmas, a cracker is a cardboard tube roughly the diameter of a kitchen roll & about half the length. (Okay, so it's about the size of a toilet roll tube! :D ) which is wrapped & has a paper cracker running through it. This part of the cracker has a tiny amount of explosive in it (about as much as a paper cap from a kid's cap gun) so when you pull the cracker apart, it goes bang, just like a cap gun. Inside there's a silly paper hat, an excruciating joke & some sort of gift.
You know, I got my first pen knife on my 7th. birthday. I can still remember how grown up I felt to be trusted with something sharp, and I can still vividly remember one of my Grandmother's friends showing me how to open & close it safely. Later that year, Dad taught me how to use an axe & a saw. Been using edged tools ever since. But I certainly wouldn't feel that I could trust most youngsters with these things. :eek: It's just been trained out of the poor sheeple. :rolleyes:
On the other hand, I'd often trust a child. Why? Because I'd teach them how to use & look after them! ;)
 
fulloflead said:
Please further explain this devise. I've never seen anything like this. Is it some sort of firework? Like those things that I used to get as a kid that had a string on each end and when I pulled them it would explode?

It's like a little toy bomb? A little toy knife inside a little toy bomb? The bomb is OK, but the knife isn't?

Help me. I'm freakin' lost. :confused: :eek:
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It's a bomb in the same sense that a 3/4" knife is a dangerous weapon unfit for children. ;) I'm always a little disappointed when I open one, because the "crack" is so unexciting- it's very muted- much, much less loud than the pull-string firecrackers or the twisted-paper poppers.

I've always assumed that crackers were opened at social gatherings, in front of a crowd, ie while sitting around the dinner table, Christmas tree, etc. Receiving an inappropriate toy in a cracker would be similar to receiving an inappropriate gift from your hard-drinking uncle: subject to immediate parental confiscation, much like in the article. Perhaps someone from the UK can shed some light on this.

Jeremy
 
So what's next for the old UK? Are they going to ban rocks? Blunt objects? Require everyone to wear big puffy mittens?

It seems like the women in the article is so far removed from reality so as not to see the shore...

Good thing they live on an Island.
 
I'm having a hard time thinking of any childhood toys that couldn't inflict serious harm if misused. A flying Matchbox car can do some pretty serious damage, to say nothing of a dirt clod. Legos have sharp edges. Superballs leave bruises. We even used to try to stuff Nerf balls down each others' throats.

Jeremy
 
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MercuryHayze said:
So what's next for the old UK? Are they going to ban rocks? Blunt objects? Require everyone to wear big puffy mittens?

It seems like the women in the article is so far removed from reality so as not to see the shore...

Good thing they live on an Island.
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The Govt. make us wear our big puffy mittens in bed so that if we get to thinking impure thoughts.................... :D :D :D .
BTW, JR42 was right about the stuff you get in crackers. ;)
 
JR42 said:
I'm having a hard time thinking of any childhood toys that couldn't inflict serious harm if misused. A flying Matchbox car can do some pretty serious damage, to say nothing of a dirt clod. Legos have sharp edges. Superballs leave bruises. We even used to try to stuff Nerf balls down each others' throats.

Jeremy
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When I was a kid we used to buy "Twin Pops" (Popsicles) from the icecream man. When we finished with them we'd turn our bigwheels (little kid transport) upside down and turn the peddels real fast and sharpen one of the two popsicle sticks to a point on the spinning tire. Then we'd take rubber bands and turn the pair into a switchblade. Those of us who were REALLY clever made the blade a little shorter than the handle and added another rubber band to the base of the handle to serve as a lock. You could keep the locked "switchblade" in your back pocket and whip it out, fire it and stick a smaller kid in the ribs with it. The game was over as soon as somebody got stuck hard enough and went home crying and we all got our Twin Pop Switchblades taken away and went back to riding our bigwheels. :D Ahhhhhhh... growing up in New York! ;)
 
rebeltf said:
"I think most parents aren't in a rush to put a knife in their child's hand and tell them how to use it."
Right Wade. Most parents are more than willing to shove thier kid in front of the 'ol TV for some indoctrination and education :rolleyes:
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Well, that's their right isn't it? Just as it's our right to give our kids knives and teach them how to use them. We expect people to respect our rights so why don't you try and respect theirs? If they don't want their kids to have knives and don't want knives showing up in their children's hands without their knowledge then they have the right to be concerned about it.

Are these anti-knife parents dumb for being this way? In our eyes maybe they are, but it's their right to think whatever they want. Our kids will just be more capable and independant than their kids and may have a better shot of landing a job. :)
 
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