Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Featured Replies

1 hour ago, XOXO said:

The innate purpose of assault weapons, as I stated above, is their truth.  

You spelled inanimate wrong 

On 4/21/2019 at 3:21 AM, workswithseed said:

I like how getting rid of guns didnt get rid of the killings

Knife homicides in UK: 287

Gun homicides in US: 14,611

So while it didn't "get rid of the killings", I'd say it did a pretty fucking good job of keeping them below our embarrassing gun murder rates. 

 

2 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

There were more knife homicides in the states too weren’t there?

We're #1......... We're #1 !!!!

The common citizens of the U.K. were basically disarmed starting early in the 20th Century because the aristocrats were genuinely afraid of a socialist revolution.

The common citizens of the U.K. were basically disarmed starting early in the 20th Century because the aristocrats were genuinely afraid of a socialist revolution.

Did you learn that through a letter?
On 4/21/2019 at 4:21 AM, workswithseed said:

I like how getting rid of guns didnt get rid of the killings

You don't get it.  There would be MORE killings if there were guns.  Less killings without them.  And less still without knives.  

Comprende?

12 hours ago, workswithseed said:

Damn, I guess I'll just have to club people to death then. 

If it's good enough for Thag it's good enough for me. Me and my baby seal.

2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

The common citizens of the U.K. were basically disarmed starting early in the 20th Century because the aristocrats were genuinely afraid of a socialist revolution.

2 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


Did you learn that through a letter?

He was actually there! 

On 4/22/2019 at 9:45 PM, Bullneck said:

You don't get it.  There would be MORE killings if there were guns.  Less killings without them.  And less still without knives.  

Comprende?

Wouldn't be any killings if they just banned people

21 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Wouldn't be any killings if they just banned people

Maybe we should try banning killing before banning people. Baby steps here 

16 minutes ago, Archer said:

Maybe we should try banning killing before banning people. Baby steps here 

Oh, damn. I thought it was band since forever. Maybe we should all be put in prison. No guns and people don't ever get killed in prison.

Edited by workswithseed

10 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

Oh, damn. I thought it was band since forever. Maybe we should all be put in prison. No guns and people don't ever get killed in prison.

Banned on the Run 

  • 1 month later...
  • Author

A police force has defended a "ludicrous" decision to give domestic abuse victims blunt knives to replace sharp implements in their kitchens.

Nottinghamshire Police hopes the scheme will reduce the number of people being seriously injured by their partners.

The force stressed it was a "tiny trial" in one part of the county and part of wider protective measures.

The idea has attracted criticism and one psychologist said it could put victims in greater danger.

Dr Jessica Eaton, a specialist in interpersonal abuse, said she initially thought the trial was a joke.

"If you are going to take knives, why not forks? Because I work with women who have been stabbed with forks," she said.

"You could be attacked with anything. You could be attacked with a book. What about scissors? Everybody has got scissors.

"What do they think will happen when the perpetrator finds the knives and asks what happened to the normal ones? It undermines the perpetrator from a psychological point of view.

"It's a huge red flag to them: 'Who did you tell?' It's going to cause an argument. [The police have] not thought that through."

Samantha Billingham, from the Survivors of Domestic Abuse support group, said perpetrators will still be able to seriously hurt victims using the knife.

She said abusers could use other household objects and she had been attacked with a kettle cord.

"I think it's quite ludicrous. The blade of the knife is still there so that can cause significant harm to the victim. Abusers will use anything at all to inflict pain on their victim.

"I don't think they've actually spoken to people who have been in that situation, because survivors can see dangers that maybe others don't."

 

Supt Matt McFarlane, the force's new knife crime strategy manager, said some of the critics had "got the whole idea wrong".

"It's a very small trial, and it will always be part of a much wider range of measures that we are doing to safeguard and protect that victim," he said.

"We will simply have these as an offer to somebody in appropriate circumstances and they can have them if they think they want them.

"We can debate something theoretically or from a psychological perspective all day long. Sometimes you need to try something and see if it works or not."

Latest news and stories from the East Midlands

The force has bought 100 knives and these have already been offered to victims, but the force has not yet "assessed how many have taken them up".

"We will assess the number that have been given at the end of the year and assess if we continue," said Supt McFarlane.

Retired judge Nic Madge said the trial "could save lives".

"Most violent offences are committed on the spur of the moment," he said. "People pick up the closest thing they can find, and in the kitchen, the closest thing they find is often a pointed kitchen knife."

One domestic abuse survivor told the Nottingham Post the idea was "100% positive".

Fiona McCulloch told the newspaper: "To have a blunt knife in my situation, it would have taken that risk away. It is like you are taking away their options and the more you can take away, the better."

Nottinghamshire Police works with Women's Aid to help domestic abuse victims but the charity did not wish to comment when contacted by the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48609164

Attacked by a kettle cord?

Ban kettles and switch to coffee (decaf)!

  • 1 month later...
Quote

Knife crime offences hit a record high in 2018-19, up by 8% on the previous year in England and Wales, new figures show.

The figures for police-recorded crime revealed there were 43,516 police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, which is the highest since comparable records began in 2011.

The figures released on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) excludes Greater Manchester Police, which records data differently.
...
The new knife crime statistics come after London mayor Sadiq Khan branded the rise in fatal stabbings a "human cost of austerity".
...
Sarah Jones MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime, said: "To see knife crime increase by 8% after already being at record levels is truly shocking.

"Today's figures show the government has been far too slow to tackle county lines activity which sees vulnerable, armed young people trafficked into towns across our country."

She added that the new prime minister is "inheriting an epidemic of serious violence" and needs to be clear after entering Downing Street that it is a national priority.

Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said it is "unacceptable that the knife crime crisis continues unabated with offences at record levels."

He added: "Children are not born with knives in their hands, knife crime is a symptom of a much bigger problem.

"Our frontline support services say vulnerable children and young people are being recruited and exploited by criminal gangs and forced to traffic drugs and carry knives.

"Urgent action must be taken so that future generations are not condemned to live in an endless spiral of violence."
...

https://news.sky.com/story/knife-crime-hits-record-high-as-offences-up-by-8-11765533

2 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

Wait a second is Javid Khan trying to say that knife violence is only a symptom of much larger social issues? That addressing the illness itself, rather than ownership of knives is the correct course of action?

Fucking insanity.

But it's okay since there is less people dying to guns. We should really get rid of knives next since people could do more damage than a baseball bat, or cricket bat.

We’re making fun of the brits as if our homicide rate isn’t almost 4x what theirs is.

Just now, BurntEyes said:

Oh man, you are fucking wrong about a baseball bat vs a knife. Sure, they are way less convenient to keep around the kitchen, and England does play much baseball, but damage per hit, the bat is a far more productive and efficient weapon. Also, it tend to leave less of mess to clean up and even works on cars.

I should rethink my thinking here it seems.

We’re making fun of the brits as if our homicide rate isn’t almost 4x what theirs is.

What’s the population difference?
6 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:


What’s the population difference?

Do you know what a “rate” is? 

Do you know what a “rate” is? 

Yeah. And surly you know that more people gives you a chance to have more evil fuckers
Do you know what a “rate” is? 

Yeah. And surly you know that more people gives you a chance to have more evil fuckers
5 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:


Yeah. And surly you know that more people gives you a chance to have more evil fuckers

so, no, you don't.

1 hour ago, Helobious said:

Do you know what a “rate” is? 

I know what your mom's rate is

Fear not, Hackney's best are clearing the streets of said violent weapons

hackney-police-re-ag-mpshackney-weapons-

 

I wonder if the BBC calls that knife an assault knife, that had a scary attachment called a pocket, but it really was in a sheath.

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

We’re making fun of the brits as if our homicide rate isn’t almost 4x what theirs is.

The Brit homicide rate used to be Juarez-ish, back when they were sinking the Armada and generally being bad-ass.

Not our fault they went soft.

19 hours ago, Kavinsky said:

Fear not, Hackney's best are clearing the streets of said violent weapons

hackney-police-re-ag-mpshackney-weapons-

 

Great, now I’m hungry for a bagel w/ cream cheese.

 

 

 

 

 

...and fisting

Edited by JohnnyRage

41 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

If it's not boiled it's not a bagel.

Also, am I wrong for liking flavored cream cheese? 

On fisting, you do you. No judgements.

Never read this thread before.  Read the quoted post above before anything else in the thread.  A lot to understand behind those.  Quite the  WTF moment.

If it's not boiled it's not a bagel.
Also, am I wrong for liking flavored cream cheese? 
On fisting, you do you. No judgements.

I thought they steamed them.
1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

Nope, boiled. Sounds odd, but true.

boiled then baked.  my cousin opened a montreal-style bagel shop.  uses a wood oven. 

On 7/19/2019 at 1:35 PM, workswithseed said:

I wonder if the BBC calls that knife an assault knife, that had a scary attachment called a pocket, but it really was in a sheath.

Well, it's serrated, so yeah.

Just now, BurntEyes said:

Yeah, they really need to pass the serrations cap bill. 

The steak house lobby may give some push back on that one.

32 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Yep that's a real bagel.

Nobody has answered my flavored cream cheese question though.

Is it wrong to like chive cream cheese?

Is that "unauthentic"?

Is culturally inconsiderate? Or cultural appropriation?

it's one less step.  i like salmon cream cheese from einsteins. 

cousin makes everything in house (bagels, salmon, and pastrami, in particular) except the cream cheese.  everyone buys in cream cheese. 

2 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

Yeah, they really need to pass the serrations cap bill. 

What they need to do is limit knives to a max of 12 serrations.  The high capacity serrations need to be banned.

Wow 285 deaths in a year,  that's like an afternoon in America. The UK should really unban guns if they want to keep up with us. 

On 4/10/2019 at 10:59 AM, Armybrat said:

A London friend is in fear that his twin 17 year old sons could be victimized by the gang violence (they do not belong to any gangs). He says knifings are rampant in the metro area.

A couple of years ago I gave the boys nice Leatherman combo tools that had 2.5” blades. They were thrilled to receive them, as those things are pretty cool gadgets - neater than Swiss Army knives, IMO. However, their bitch mom (divorced from my friend) confiscated the tools when the boys went back to her place in Wales. 

You could have saved her the trouble and just killed them yourself

5 hours ago, elfenix said:

it's one less step.  i like salmon cream cheese from einsteins. 

cousin makes everything in house (bagels, salmon, and pastrami, in particular) except the cream cheese.  everyone buys in cream cheese. 

How can I learn to make salmon, too? Sounds time consuming. 

1 hour ago, Agent 13 said:

How can I learn to make salmon, too? Sounds time consuming. 

you must first create the universe

What they need to do is limit knives to a max of 12 serrations.  The high capacity serrations need to be banned.
normal capacity sir.
So like six days?

Yeah but you get to take one off after that.
Wow 285 deaths in a year,  that's like a slow week in Chicago. The UK should really unban guns if they want to keep up with us. 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.