5852a
1yr ago
It is tiny, but if you need something bigger then you have a lawful justification for using something bigger. That said, opening paper envelopes probably won't cut it.
5852a
1yr ago
I thought about addressing that but felt I should stay on-topic. The loicense meme has nothing to do with knives and is entirely about the funding structure for the public broadcaster, it just gets used as fuel for shitposting because that's what the internet does. "Do you have a loicense to post UK memes? Do you have a loicense to ask if I have a loicense?" etc.
I'm not sure what the full extent of alternatives to TV licensing might be. I assume the discretionary licensing format was chosen as a preference to either advertising or imposing a universal tax and was introduced at a time when the BBC was the only broadcaster offering broadcasts. Again, trade-offs. Some countries choose advertising, some subscription, some a license, some a tax, and none of them are perfect solutions. The fact that attacks on TV licensing aren't advocating for a tax offers some suggestion of whose agenda is being advanced.
5852a
1yr ago
In Britain is there a real serious attitude that people should just not have knives...or could be denied them? Like not memes, and shitposts, but for real?
British Mottizens is this a real attitude?
No.
Contrary to @BurdensomeCount there is no knife license. The law is that you can carry a <3" non-locking pocket knife anywhere any time for any reason (probably some caveats around airports and the like, or other non-public spaces) and at any age, but under 18s can't purchase "most" of them (effectively all). For all other knives you just need a good reason to carry a bigger knife (self defence/community defence isn't a good enough reason).
See https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
>It’s illegal to use any knife or weapon in a threatening way
Nobody is worried about cub scouts in the woods having a dangerous blade while they're making a camp fire. Those kids are within the law to carry a 2' long fixed blade if they're only using it to clear brush. And if you're over 18 you can, like a Canadian at a truck stop, also go into an military surplus catering and garden supply shop and pick out a sweet 24" rainbow punisher medieval zombie joint cleaver to prune your hedges with and the old bill can't stop you.
For some contrast, consider that the people in the land of the free who like to meme about oi yer loicense often aren't allowed to drink a beer in the park, or cross the road away from a crosswalk, or provide hairdressing services without a permit, or open up a shop in their house, or own the kind of guns and explosives that the state would rather have a monopoly on. Different societies arrange themselves in different ways and make different trade-offs.
Adults running around city streets with knives drawn is an undeniable problem and if them being arrested for it means I'm also not allowed to run around with the streets with a knife drawn or routinely carry an 8" chef's knife stashed down my trousers then I guess I'm okay with that.
Tell us about these panty-dropping elephant musth secretions.
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