[ziggy]

Axeman wrote:

ziggy wrote:

I thought they were worried I might rush the cockpit and give the pilot a pedicure.

That's a compulsion you might want to discuss with a professional.

I mentioned that in security one day,they didnt find it funny but It was a tube of toothpaste and not clippers.I asked if they were worried I would rush the pilots and perform some oral hygiene on them.

[Pseudonym]

Oral "hygiene" eh?

[ziggy]

Pseudonym wrote:

Oral "hygiene" eh?

Not that she needed it.

[romanP]

hurley_108 wrote:

romanP wrote:

Kitchen knives are knives too, from what I recall. If you read the article, it seems that they weren't just talking about hunting knives. The police chief as well seems to believe the mayor was talking about all knives. Many people use steak knives as a weapon. Any kind of kitchen knife can be used as a weapon. Even a sharpened butter knife can be a weapon.

I refuse to believe that anyone, even an elected politician, would be so out of it as to actually contemplate a ban on steak knives, kitchen knives, etc. They have to have been talking about certain kinds of knives, a desciption of which was never fully given.

Nope. The article says a "complete ban on the sale of knives." That's a pretty all-inclusive ban.

[ridenrain]

hurley_108 wrote:

ridenrain wrote:

What a bufoon.

Why? Because he, unlike certain other politicians, can actually personally admit he made a mistake?

Knives of the sort you mention are already covered under existing laws so this would be pointless. Even if it were just these specific knives, it would be un-workable and un-enforceable. Any seasoned politician or rational person should have thought that through befor he even opened his mouth.

[hurley_108]

romanP wrote:

hurley_108 wrote:

romanP wrote:

Kitchen knives are knives too, from what I recall. If you read the article, it seems that they weren't just talking about hunting knives. The police chief as well seems to believe the mayor was talking about all knives. Many people use steak knives as a weapon. Any kind of kitchen knife can be used as a weapon. Even a sharpened butter knife can be a weapon.

I refuse to believe that anyone, even an elected politician, would be so out of it as to actually contemplate a ban on steak knives, kitchen knives, etc. They have to have been talking about certain kinds of knives, a desciption of which was never fully given.

Nope. The article says a "complete ban on the sale of knives." That's a pretty all-inclusive ban.

Then I've got some oceanfront property here in Alberta you might be interested in.

[hurley_108]

ridenrain wrote:

hurley_108 wrote:

ridenrain wrote:

What a bufoon.

Why? Because he, unlike certain other politicians, can actually personally admit he made a mistake?

Knives of the sort you mention are already covered under existing laws so this would be pointless. Even if it were just these specific knives, it would be un-workable and un-enforceable. Any seasoned politician or rational person should have thought that through befor he even opened his mouth.

I guess you're neither, then, otherwise you wouldn't have made an ambiguous three-word statement intended to be about the initial proposition of a ban in a thread about the retraction of that proposition.

[Tricks]

Take away my pocket knives, and I stab you.

[djakeydd]

I'm all for a knife ban, and as the mayor says - they need to get tougher on knife offences, I would add forks and possibly all cutlery to the ban as well and make them all use chopsticks

[ShepherdsDog]

Hey, didn't Chretien use a soapstone sculpture as a weapon against the nutball who made it into 24 Sussex. Should we ban those too?

[Axeman]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

Hey, didn't Chretien use a soapstone sculpture as a weapon against the nutball who made it into 24 Sussex. Should we ban those too?

No, no, no. What we should do is piss away another $4B creating a National Soapstone Sculpture Registry. We could also sell Possession and Aquisition Licenses for soapstone sculptures to help pay for it.

[uwish]

chopsticks? NO WAY they can be sharpened to a point and used as a make shift shank style knife.

Remember we live in the nanny state, they know whats best for us.