The Fun Police Strike Again

[Armoured Gideon]

S.D. I've still got my 'Rambo' knife as well. I used to think the black blade was well cool!

I think this highlights one of the many reasons why I would like to see the collapse of society. It points out one of the fundamental flaws in society's understanding of what is right and what is wrong, it is a step too far to deny someone the use of a perfectly good tool because they 'may' use it in the wrong way and harm someone.

I work on building sites and this week I have been on a site where I am now expected to wear a hard had and a yellow vis' jacket as well as gloves and goggles inside the house I am plastering! I'm not allowed to wear shorts and must wear a long sleeved top as well. I work alone in a house that has walls and a ceiling with no obstacles or dangerous hole for me to fall in! Where will it end?
The company's reason for my ridiculous outfit inside the property? 'Just in case'. When I tried to reason with the boss and say that the 'uniform' was unecessary and was actualy hindering me from doing my job safely (sweat running in eyes, steaming up goggles) he politely told me 'Those are the rules, if you don't like them then leave'
The funny thing is the people in the office enforcing those rules are all sitting around in short sleeved shirts with no hats or vis' jackets and no gloves or goggles because there is no need for them in an office enviroment!

Makes my blood boil!! GGrrrrr!

[NorthernRaider]

I still keep an AK 47 Bayonet Survival knife combo as camp knife for doing chores around the camp.

[Ukprepper88]

I almost fell foul of this yesterday evening... I was at the shop and when I went to get my money out to pay I pulled my knife out of my pocket with my wallet (had been up on the moors) and there was two PCSOs (Pretend Coppers) right behind me!... Que me quickly shoving it back in my pocket but I got a "what was that you just put in your pocket sir" so I pulled out my my small silver torch "what this?... Its a torch officer" thankfully they didn't see it properly so didn't argue... But as it was under 3" and non-locking there's nothing they could do anyway... I was just a little worried as it also has a 3" saw blade and wasn't sure if that would be illegal?

[David075]

(2 August 2012, 18:05)Tibbs735 Wrote: So, I got a Black Oxide Leatherman Wave for my birthday. To be fair, I probably should have got a model with a non locking knife. It was in my pocket when I went to Army Cadets. I had to teach some new guys how to put up a basha, so I used the knife to sharpen some sticks for tent pegs. My knife was taken off me, and very nearly sent to knife prison with all the wobbly handled Tesco kitchen knives confiscated by police. The CO at my cadet detachment is a police officer. I was simply told if he ever saw it again in a cadet setting, he would take it off me.

I feel quite angry that knife laws were allowed to expand to the point where a pair of pliers with a knife in the handle is now illegal without specific reason to carry. At one time any English Freeman could carry a sword on his belt. Talk about social progression.

Sometimes, I almost wish our society would collapse, so we could start again, with an airtight constitution that supported personal liberty, similar to Americas but with no room for interpretation by socialists who would reduce us to a 1984-esque police state.
Thankfully I was allowed to keep my leatherman, and so did not have to tell the nice policeman how I felt.
Rant Over

hi you said " i almost wish our society would collapse " there must be a few people on here that wish that cmon people fess up you know you want to make use of those preps

[NorthernRaider]

I just want to see a population that is sustainable, in full employment, not recieving any welfare payments and living in a way that does not damage the beautiful island nation we live on. So a ten to twelve million drop would be nice.

[Hrusai]

hell i know i'd like a collapse of society, its the only feasible way i can see our civilisation becoming sustainable clean and to actually work together as a race, sod all these petty wars and crap, we should focus on nothing but the betterment and progression of humanity as a species, create clean energy, start up space travel properly, have colonies on other planets and moons, dissect the fabric of reality to smaller and smaller parts, understand how different forces truly interact and work together, achieve immortality through nano technology, virtual reality, teleportation, all of these incredible things that would be possible with the right vision and input and dedication...call me an idealist but this is what we were meant for, but right now it just wont happen, not without a radical change....the sort of change that involves society and civilisation crashing and burning before it can rise up once again, its a natural process, look at ancient civilisations (no joke i was reading a new scientist article about how civilisations collapse is inevitable...even scientists believe it!)

its inevitable and i for one want to go on to forge a new society and to preserve the vast knowledge we've accumulated upto now.

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k rant over xD

[bigpaul]

i'm probably one of the ones that WANT an apocalype to happen with a large die off....got slandered on another site cos of my views on this. too many people on the planet and deffo too many on this tiny little island with an underclass that have NEVER worked and never intend to, politicians who are too busy lining their own pockets to care about the nation they are supposed to be representing. something has to give, resourses are like a rubber band-stretched to breaking point. i believe "something" will happen sometime because present society is not sustainable, and we are working so that when this event happens we can be as prepared as possible, i dont think anyone can be 100% prepared but you can be as prepared as possible. anyway bring it on! got to be better than what we got now.

[Prepaday]

My family and I have been on benefits for almost 2 years now My 7 year old has spesh needs, I can't get a job which allows me to take a day off a week so I can take her to her appointments. My fella broke his leg, was in cast for 6 months, 3 in half cast, had op for a rod, now on physio....Without benefits, we would be screwed.
Please don't label us "Scroungers " with the same pricing gun
I use my benefits to live on and to buy things for prepping, yes the money is good but I never asked for the amount the govt give me, I would be grateful with just half the amount, The govt throw money away like it's confetti and it's wrong but without it, I can't survive... not now and certainly not in the future x

[bigpaul]

(4 August 2012, 10:40)Prepaday Wrote: My family and I have been on benefits for almost 2 years now My 7 year old has spesh needs, I can't get a job which allows me to take a day off a week so I can take her to her appointments. My fella broke his leg, was in cast for 6 months, 3 in half cast, had op for a rod, now on physio....Without benefits, we would be screwed.
Please don't label us "Scroungers " with the same pricing gun
I use my benefits to live on and to buy things for prepping, yes the money is good but I never asked for the amount the govt give me, I would be grateful with just half the amount, The govt throw money away like it's confetti and it's wrong but without it, I can't survive... not now and certainly not in the future x

i believe you misinterpreted my post, i was referring to people who have NEVER worked, there are plenty of people(myself included) who have had no choice but to be on benefits for one reason or another but we have all worked for a living for some part of our lives, what i meant was people who dont work and never will work but call others "suckers" for working whilst they live off the state. anyway that was not the point of my post but rather that this current "society" is not self sufficient, at any point the imports (of food principally) could stop..for any reason, and then what would happen? we certainly cant feed over 60 million people from what is grown on this very small island. we can feed about 16 million from what we grow as a nation, that means over 44 million would go without? we need a large "event" to rebalance the scales.

[Prepaday]

All over this site and others, I can almost hear them chanting "Burn her, burn her" lol. To be honest, I don't know of anyone around here who doesn't get a benefit of some kind, whether it be child benefit, child tax, help towards their rent, ETC
Since I started prepping my eyes have been opened to a lot of things, I recycle now, make do and mend and even started to grow some veg
I will still be on benefits in the near future so will use surplus money to educate and prep myself more, No offence was taken at your post, it just seems to me, if you get any help from the govt, you are a waster, a nothing, a nobody
I'm just off to the post office to cash my giro, buy a pasty, a scratch card and some fags, J.K