Author Topic: Those English have some pretty sharp instruments! (Read 918 times)

Kieran · « **Reply #45 on:** November 25, 2002, 10:07:47 AM »

Bravo, Toad, on a most excellent troll!

I can't believe you caught so many, especially so many Brits, in such an obvious net. I would have thought more of them would have been aware of the "Great Beetle Crusade", and known you were turning Beetle's high-pitched wails back on him. All that is needed is to post some anectdotal information of how you use a knife for work but you leave it at work and keep a dog at home, and you will have included our friend from Australia.

As always Lazs, good show. "Let's make a law making murder illegal." Priceless.

Thrawn · « **Reply #46 on:** November 25, 2002, 10:59:50 AM »

Okay, what the heck is a "golf clap"?

Cobra · « **Reply #47 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:04:25 AM »

Kind of like a Curling Clap, I think???...maybe

Cobra

Nash · « **Reply #48 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:05:35 AM »

It's a hushed, quiet and polite appplause.

Falls somewhere between silence and WOOT!

mauser · « **Reply #49 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:48:18 AM »

Thanks Toad, lazs, others for another set of points which some of these folks can't really address.

I'm sure instances where guns have been used to save lives have been posted. Including news clippings. I know I've read of many already, not only here. Why are they so easy to forget? Not sensationalistic enough I guess.

If someone is in the correct mood, ANY weapon will suffice. Not having a firearm WON'T make them think twice about killing you. Stupid car theives over here have tried to run down policemen. They have no problems trying to kill someone to get away. My younger brother and his friend caught a bunch of car thieves in their high school parking lot breaking into a friend's car in broad daylight. My brother and his friend are both weightlifters but they were outnumbered/unarmed and the theives were threatening them with screwdrivers. The theives got away by punching holes into my brother's tires.

How about banning "assault knives?" Aren't switchblades and daggers already illegal? That isn't making it any harder for knifings to occur.

I think the elders are wise...

mauser

funkedup · « **Reply #50 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:03:06 PM »

If you outlaw letter openers, only outlaws will have letter openers.

swoopy · « **Reply #51 on:** November 25, 2002, 03:55:26 PM »

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Bravo, Toad, on a most excellent troll!

I can't believe you caught so many, especially so many Brits, in such an obvious net.

la-de-bloody-da, Kieran. Didn't he do well? Most Brits couldn't give a flying tosspiece about guns, gun control and the American Way or Beetle's obsession with guns, gun control and the American Way.

For god's sake, moderator, bannish anyone who posts anything about America or Britain or guns or both for evermore. Am I the only one who absolutely sick-to-death of the same old toejame in the O-club?

For Christ's sake, HTC, release another version!

- Dowding

Thrawn · « **Reply #52 on:** November 25, 2002, 04:02:02 PM »

Thanks for contributing to an anti-english, american, gun thread Dowding
No one is making you read this thread and I pay my $14.95 to read this toejam on the BBS.

swoopy · « **Reply #53 on:** November 25, 2002, 04:31:50 PM »

Funny, I thought $14.95 went toward paying for an online game called 'Aces High'.

Golf clap? Is that some kind of venereal disease?

Anyway - every other thread is about gun control or how America isn't quite as good as somewhere else or is slightly better than another place. Finding something else to read is easier said than done.

Kieran · « **Reply #54 on:** November 25, 2002, 04:39:04 PM »

Now, now... don't get testy. All I really meant was Toad is obviously trolling, many of the Brits on the board obviously didn't realize it, nor that he was specifically aiming it at Beetle. Actually I find it interesting not many realized what it was all about, meaning Beetle is in the minority (at least on the board).

swoopy · « **Reply #55 on:** November 25, 2002, 04:47:32 PM »

I'm not testy, you SOB.

I'm being sardonic.

Thrawn · « **Reply #56 on:** November 25, 2002, 04:58:02 PM »

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Originally posted by swoopy
Funny, I thought $14.95 went toward paying for an online game called 'Aces High'.

This BBS comes with a game as well??

"Golf clap? Is that some kind of venereal disease?"

LOL!

'I'm being sardonic."

First you were Dowding, then Dowding (work), then swoopy, now you're sardonic?? Make up your mind.

What a stupid, stupid joke.

lazs2 · « **Reply #57 on:** November 25, 2002, 05:25:05 PM »

oh come on kieran... I think he's kinda cute when he gets huffy and uses words like "bloody' and "shite".

still.... I don't see anything wrong with a little more stringent knife control in the U.K. people could still use their knives when they went out to eat... Knife clubs would allow you perves to "fondle" them under supervised conditions. I'm sure "the home office" (still cracks me up to write that) will agree that some sensible restrictions are needed.
lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #58 on:** November 25, 2002, 06:19:07 PM »

Kieran - Doh! Was Mr. Toad's troll aimed at me? Damn. And all I could say was about Tomato's scissors and that I was going to bed. I must have missed something.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #59 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:23:55 PM »

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Originally posted by gatso

On any given day you are 1.6 times more likely to be stabbed and killed in the US than the UK.

Gatso

Any body seen Carrie? Knives give me the willies...

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Originally posted by gatso

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On any given day you are lots (can't be arsed to work it out) more likely to be shot in the US than the UK.

Gatso

But it is much easier to return fire in the USA