London Mayor Sadiq Khan targets knives as murder rate spikes: 'There's never a reason

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"Let's ban knives?" -- ... and methinks they should ban Mayor Khan. ))


London Mayor Sadiq Khan targets knives as murder rate spikes: 'There is never a reason to carry a knife


Social Democrat Bigot Now Hates Knives


“No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.”


Sound familiar?


LMAO. If the democrats from 1800's had their way, people would be paying taxes to those idiots.
 
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"What drives the gangs and the turf wars is an 11 billion pound cocaine drugs market...and it's driving the culture of violence"

London Confronts a Spate of Murders, With Most Victims Killed by Knives - The New York Times

Hmm...ban knives...or...legalize cocaine.

If your war against drugs is creating a culture of violence, maybe you should rethink that war against drugs.

Things that don't get into violent turf wars:

Budweiser and Miller
Marlboro and Camel
Jim Bean and Jack Daniels

Crazy...
 
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It's stupid, but he's talking about walking around London with a large knife for no apparent reason. Pocket knives are fine.
 
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I do kind of find this interesting in a historical sense. When you look at the development of modern manners, we can root this in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. At this time, murder rates were astronomically high, and most of these murders were committed with knives while individuals were drinking at the table.

Individuals would belch, pass gas, say something profane, and violent and deadly fights would break out. Over the course of a century, society adopted some rules around the table, which eventually just became manners:

No profanity
No belching
No passing gas
Chew with your mouth closed
Your cup is on your right side, the cup on your left does not belong to you. Don't drink out of that one.

And, one of the biggest developments:

The blunt table knife. Leave your hunting knife and knives by the door.
 
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The Brits are really on to something.
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I propose all wear gloves that make it impossible to make a fist.

All violence will be confined to sissy fights.
 
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I do kind of find this interesting in a historical sense. When you look at the development of modern manners, we can root this in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. At this time, murder rates were astronomically high, and most of these murders were committed with knives while individuals were drinking at the table.

Individuals would belch, pass gas, say something profane, and violent and deadly fights would break out. Over the course of a century, society adopted some rules around the table, which eventually just became manners:

No profanity
No belching
No passing gas
Chew with your mouth closed
Your cup is on your right side, the cup on your left does not belong to you. Don't drink out of that one.

And, one of the biggest developments:

The blunt table knife. Leave your hunting knife and knives by the door.

The implementation of manners existed because of the elite. not because of murder rates.

forks weren't common until the 1700s
 
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I do kind of find this interesting in a historical sense. When you look at the development of modern manners, we can root this in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. At this time, murder rates were astronomically high, and most of these murders were committed with knives while individuals were drinking at the table.

Individuals would belch, pass gas, say something profane, and violent and deadly fights would break out. Over the course of a century, society adopted some rules around the table, which eventually just became manners:

No profanity
No belching
No passing gas
Chew with your mouth closed
Your cup is on your right side, the cup on your left does not belong to you. Don't drink out of that one.

And, one of the biggest developments:

The blunt table knife. Leave your hunting knife and knives by the door.

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The implementation of manners existed because of the elite. not because of murder rates.

forks weren't common until the 1700s

Stephen Pinker "The Better Angels of our Nature". Feel free to purchase it on Amazon.
 
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Stephen Pinker "The Better Angels of our Nature". Feel free to purchase it on Amazon.

Thomas Artus "Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites"

A French writer who mocked it in the time period you are referring to. He was actually there.

excerpt: When dining, they never touch the meat with their fingers but instead with forks, which they put in their mouths by stretching their necks.

it was not for the commoners. it was for the elite. trends didn't start in pubs. they started in court.
 
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Thomas Artus "Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites"

A French writer who mocked it in the time period you are referring to. He was actually there.

Mocked it in France in the 18th century? Cool, so Pinkers sources from Britain in the 13th and 14th centuries are to be cast aside. Good to know.
 
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Thomas Artus "Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites"

A French writer who mocked it in the time period you are referring to. He was actually there.

excerpt: When dining, they never touch the meat with their fingers but instead with forks, which they put in their mouths by stretching their necks.

it was not for the commoners. it was for the elite. trends didn't start in pubs. they started in court.

Did I say anything about forks?
 
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Thomas Artus "Description of the Island of Hermaphrodites"

A French writer who mocked it in the time period you are referring to. He was actually there.

excerpt: When dining, they never touch the meat with their fingers but instead with forks, which they put in their mouths by stretching their necks.

it was not for the commoners. it was for the elite. trends didn't start in pubs. they started in court.

Stupid forkers....
 
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Mocked it in France in the 18th century? Cool, so Pinkers sources from Britain in the 13th and 14th centuries are to be cast aside. Good to know.

normal people in England cared more about the plaque than their damn table manners in the 14th century.
 
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