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The Paddies love our beautiful island..

https://gazettelife.com/news/lanzarote- ... ion-title/
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Yorick wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:12 am The Paddies love our beautiful island..

https://gazettelife.com/news/lanzarote- ... ion-title/
But not for much longer if the locals have their way.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-n ... e-31985761
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Pirahna wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:52 pm
Yorick wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:12 am The Paddies love our beautiful island..

https://gazettelife.com/news/lanzarote- ... ion-title/
But not for much longer if the locals have their way.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-n ... e-31985761
Gran Canaria and Tenerife have populations 6 times the size of us and not nice places really.

Our island is much more calm and serene.
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Felix wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:13 am
Bigjawa wrote: Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:16 pm
Mussels wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:41 am That's my pruning machete done for, of course that will solve the problem and no criminal will think of an alternative. How long before nobody is allowed sharp scissors?
That's the really stupid thing, you can't buy a machete in B&Q but you can happy buy any amount of screwdrivers, stanley knives, corrosive liquids.

FFS, you can walk into any tackle shop and buy a razor sharp filleting knife, no questions asked.
When i was a chef we would often take our knifes home. Not before stopping off for a beer or two before getting the bus home. I think if the police were to stop anyone having a legit reason to be carrying knifes they will not be to bothered unless you are acting like a cunt. Learned years ago, Dont act like a cunt to the police and they wont act like a cunt to you.
Unless the Chief Constable has promised more knife related arrests and dangerous knives removed from the streets, then anyone is fair game.
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The only reason to carry a Machete (assuming you're not on your way down a jungle trail) or Zombie knife is to try and look 'ard innit. Yoofs with their Mum's bread knife look a bit daft in comparison.

I suspect that line of reasoning is why they're getting banned?
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Don't know about a bread knife, or looking 'and, but I have a cooks knife that would make a handy weapon.
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Bread knives are a bit rubbish for chopping and/or stabbing. They're serrated, you'd have to saw someone's arm off.

What you want is your mums best cleaver!
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:46 pm The only reason to carry a Machete (assuming you're not on your way down a jungle trail) or Zombie knife is to try and look 'ard innit. Yoofs with their Mum's bread knife look a bit daft in comparison.

I suspect that line of reasoning is why they're getting banned?
I use mine for tidying up around the edges when's the overgrowth is too thick for a strimmer
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MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:12 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:46 pm The only reason to carry a Machete (assuming you're not on your way down a jungle trail) or Zombie knife is to try and look 'ard innit. Yoofs with their Mum's bread knife look a bit daft in comparison.

I suspect that line of reasoning is why they're getting banned?
I use mine for tidying up around the edges when's the overgrowth is too thick for a strimmer
In your own garden, or just anywhere? :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:00 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:12 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:46 pm The only reason to carry a Machete (assuming you're not on your way down a jungle trail) or Zombie knife is to try and look 'ard innit. Yoofs with their Mum's bread knife look a bit daft in comparison.

I suspect that line of reasoning is why they're getting banned?
I use mine for tidying up around the edges when's the overgrowth is too thick for a strimmer
In your own garden, or just anywhere? :D
I've not had to use in my garden as the wife keeps it fairly tame, but relatives, the local scout hut etc etc where it's more bushes and saplings that need attention.
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I brought a Kukri back from Nepal. That was a nasty fucker. Also great for ripping into weeds , bushes and small trees.
So sharp and couldn't blunt it.
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2 killed along a street in Bristol on sunday eve, stabbed to death.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-68122275

I go to the school on Illminster avenue weekly. Knowle West is a massive council estate shithole but that road has been getting worse and worse over the past few years. As soon as i heard it was in Knowle West on the news i said to myself "any money that was on Illminster Avenue" and it was!

Not sure if i shall be able to get to the school, maybe they will have some sort of access setup as i think the road is still closed.
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Good. Disposable vapes get on my tits as they can't be recycled, the users seem to think they make great adornments for pavements and verges, plus they fucking stink.

Probably shout the only thing Rishi has not make a complete fuck up of.
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The devil's trumpet is what they are. Ban the lot and be done with it!
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MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:12 am Cock-wombles

https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news ... aping.html
Does you day become significantly worse if you don't have a candy coloured Pez holder ?
Can't you just get a grown ups one?
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gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:58 pm Good. Disposable vapes get on my tits as they can't be recycled, the users seem to think they make great adornments for pavements and verges, plus they fucking stink.
I agree 1000% disposable vapes should have been banned before they go tout of hand. The industry has well and truly shot itself in the bollock
gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:58 pm Probably shout the only thing Rishi has not make a complete fuck up of.
Except he is, I mean the points he's addressing already have laws associated with them, from underage sales, advertising and environmental aspects of battery collection, all with nice hefty penalties. But hey making something more illegal than it already is will be a big deterrent I'm sure.
And he can feck right off he he thinks he's going to stop me vaping nice fruity flavours.

And I'll be buggered if I'm paying an extra 25% on my stuff too
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Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:06 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:12 am Cock-wombles

https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news ... aping.html
Does you day become significantly worse if you don't have a candy coloured Pez holder ?
Can't you just get a grown ups one?
You can, and only an idiot would use disposables long term, they just make no sense financially, bloody kids
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Real gentlemen take snuff.

Whilst holding a dandy kerchief in the other hand.
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