Asda to remove kitchen knives from sale

mouse muldoon
09 Mar 19 16:38
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Asda's owned by Walmart, but I didn't have much luck when I tried to buy an assault rifle off them last week.


If everybody follows Asda's example we should be safe...erm how are we going to cut our food up for eating?????


The poster who suggested round instead of pointed knives seems a reasonable idea...although they can always be sharpened


I do hope our young criminals do not switch to forks or spoons  because if we have to ban those as well it will make eating very hard

I'm buying shares in the firm what manufactures the sporks.

You get six months in the nick in Scotland if you are found carrying a knife.

We didn't even have knives or any form of cutlery til the bronze age .
Won't be long before the human race is back in the bronze age . We are already importing a culture whos preference is to live as neanderthal man did .

That said , a total ban on knives or any form of cutting implement would hopefully see a reduction in FGM so maybe it's a win-win

Denisovan imo.

TBF some probably had never seen cutlery before.

Was they razed by wolfs?

I am of course referring to weegies.

Reynard, razors are used with FGM not knives so we could end up with beards like Mouse M

Ibrahima - I bow to your superior knowledge

I'm sure Asda's next quartely report will show that they're doing just fine with the kitchen knives Dr

Like the man said Darren; ''don't call us we'll call you.''

Although, the use of a silly face at the end of your last post shows how your mind works and undermines everything you've posted.

Maybe they will appoint official knife personnel who will come round and cut your food for you.

It's not really about opinion it's about common sense, 1 item being removed from a store when they sell such a wide variety of products these days is not likely to take away custom, I don't even think it's worthwhile unless there was a concerted effort amongst all retailers to do the same, but no business will turn down the opportunity to be given publcity for their buisness for free especially on a national level.

Airlines went plastic years ago following 9/11. I think it's time we all handed in our knives and had plastic (sorry Mr Attenborough..)

emirates have metal knives

as do KLM, I suspect that the majority of airlines have returned to metal

On certain occasions I refuse a metal spoon.



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Alternatively, you could use your fingers …..

Just another example of our culural enrichment

Serve  pre chewed regurgitated steak ,ban tomatoes and all  hard skinned  fruit and veg

Morrisons won't let you buy more than two packs of Paracetamol, in case you want to self harm!

Must have saved countless lives!

But yet they don't close down the very popular pie counter

Mar 10, 2019 -- 1:19PM, Lady Faye Verrit wrote:

Morrisons won't let you buy more than two packs of Paracetamol, in case you want to self harm!Must have saved countless lives!

This applies to all stores. Not just Morissons. It's a silly rule and easily circumvented. The thing is, one pack of paracetemol, 16 tablets, taken at once would probably be fatal anyway (Liver failure, not quick, not pleasant).

This Asda thing made the news loads yesterday, their marketing department must be overjoyed at the publicity. It's cynical and wrong of them to try capitalising on this.

Didn't get as much publicity as when that bus driver plowed into Sainsbury's in Cov.

This applies to all stores. Not just Morissons.

Well Tesco don't support it, as I am regularly buying three packs, and three Ibuprofen, because of my fractured Femur!

This, let me say, to comply with doctors advice!

That definitely shouldn't be allowed to happen by the guidelines but clearly there should be some sort of leeway allowed if you are able to provide proof.

There used to be all that outrage about how people would be getting Paracetamol on prescription, partly due to these limits I'd imagine. I think sometimes these people thought that it was being prescribed for a headache rather than people with chronic pain issues

Asda soon to announce that they have banned the sale of cigarettes and alcohol.

Not tahat I'm trying to argue.... but

Tesco Paracetamol Tablets 500Mg 16 Pack. By law, we're only permitted to sell you 2 of this item .
Tesco Paracetamol Tablets 500Mg 16 Pack - Tesco Groceries
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/257107498

Apparently these measures have been very successful in villages with only one supermarket and only one idiot.

Better to remove the problem than change what millions of people do in their own kitchens, knives are not the problem.

Saddo, that's like saying that guns aren't the problem in America.

We know that guns ARE part of the problem because people argue, confront, disagree and fight the world over...but in America, people die.

As cynical as you lot are, until you change attitudes, making changes little by little is the only way. So whether that's access to buying, stop and search, heavier penalties for being caught, it all counts.

Aye, let's keep giving ground to our new savage cultures, as long as it's only little by little, mind.

This Asda thing made the news loads yesterday,

Asda's tiny Ratner moment.

Saddo, that's like saying that guns aren't the problem in America.

No it's not, because guns are bought specifically for one purpose. Guns are not used as an item of cutlery.

All them fecking "savages" probably coming over here to escape from the misery and poverty in their own countries:

Crime is rife as police almost non-existent now
Schools - overcrowded and massively under resourced
Rubbish rotting in the streets as only collected every 2 weeks if they are lucky - every 4 weeks if unlucky
Medical Care - unless rich/going private  - essentially advised  - "we're really busy - can you come back when you are better?"
Streetlights that go off when it is dark
Roads like the 3rd world - looks like IED's have been deployed in the countryside.
No job prospects for the young, etc, etc

Leaving all this behind and coming to the UK - they're in for a nasty surprise when they get to Swindon imo.

We've seen the best of this country, it's all getting worse especially for those at the sharp end.

It's gone too far to bring it back now, some things can't be reversed.

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All them fecking "savages" probably coming over here to escape from the misery and poverty in their own countries:





I would rather they stayed put and continue to ruin their own countries. Now they are here ruining mine I think I and millions of others should have a say in whether to let any more in.

Yeah - Thanks saddo - I think we all have the gist of your views on that topic.

But can you not see that you have been taken for a complete mug - while you are wasting all of your time and energy on your complete obsession with that topic and the convenient smokescreen/distraction/blame that it provides - successive governments have delivered all of the following (and much worse):

Crime is rife as police almost non-existent now
Schools - overcrowded and massively under resourced
Rubbish rotting in the streets as only collected every 2 weeks if they are lucky - every 4 weeks if unlucky
Medical Care - unless rich/going private  - essentially advised  - "we're really busy - can you come back when you are better?"
Streetlights that go off when it is dark
Roads like the 3rd world - looks like IED's have been deployed in the countryside.
No job prospects for the young, etc, etc

Govt laughing their socks off at you. People seem prepared to argue endlessly (and even march) over trivia but hardly a murmur as their local special needs school, police station, hospital, library, recycling centre get closed. You really have been blind sided.

Think of it another way, take away the extra ten million arrivals since blair got in and most of those problems above would not be an issue. Too many passengers, the ship is sinking, how surprising.

Throwing people overboard is just a distraction saddo - while you are arguing over which religion/race should walk the plank first - the captain has made the crew redundant, sold the hull, privatised the keel and outsourced the lifeboats to bodgit & scarper.

This thread is about savages running round with knives, not the economy. And I do blame our governments for making all our lives more precarious.

I'm with saddo

Jesus, mgt taking saddo to school here. Don't think he's in the mood to learn sadly

I do like the implication that anyone whos views differ to ones own requires 'educating'

You can't educate a savage.

Why accept them so readily then ?

saddo    11 Mar 19 15:45 
This thread is about savages running round with knives, not the economy. And I do blame our governments for making all our lives more precarious.

The topic (thread title) was about Asda withdrawing knives from sale - but you have kinda proved my point - as you have translated this into savages running round with knives. i.e. You want to talk exclusively about race and religion to the exclusion of anything else. Meanwhile schools, police, roads, NHS, etc all getting fecked over while you are looking the wrong way.

Maybe thread should have read "ASDA TO REMOVE KITCHEN KNIVES FROM SALE BUT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH KNIFE CRIME"

And knife crime has no relationship with slashing police numbers, privatising the probation service, forcing people to live in litter infested slums, failing young people, etc, etc. Its just down to all them horrible foreign people according to you and saddo.

No other issues to solve - send em back, all sorted -  well done you!

If you think everyone that comes here is a terrorist, murderer, stab crazy criminal - are you not in the least interested in the fact that we have no police any more?

The Management • March 11, 2019 4:32 PM GMT
And knife crime has no relationship with slashing police numbers, privatising the probation service, forcing people to live in litter infested slums, failing young people, etc, etc. Its just down to all them horrible foreign people according to you and saddo.

Where did I say that ?

It's odd, the more that social standards drop, the more Police we will likely need. No one said that all entrants are criminals, but far too many are, look at the prison statistics.

Reynard    11 Mar 19 16:39 
Where did I say that ?

saddo    11 Mar 19 14:35 
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I would rather they stayed put and continue to ruin their own countries. Now they are here ruining mine I think I and millions of others should have a say in whether to let any more in.

Reynard    11 Mar 19 15:46 
I'm with saddo

saddo    11 Mar 19 14:35

Reynard    11 Mar 19 15:46 
I'm with saddo

saddo • March 11, 2019 15:45 PM GMT
And I do blame our governments for making all our lives more precarious.

My 15.46 reply was to saddo's 15.45 post . Note the one minute time lapse .
How convenient of you to scour the thread for a post @ 14.35 (over one hour earlier) and attribute my comment to that post because it suited your purpose .

The management - Are you a BBC News editor ?

Reynard - sorry for not realising that you were only "with Saddo" on the one line of sense that he has typed all day.

When you said "I'm with Saddo" I thought you were agreeing with all of the other bigoted nonsense he has spouted - my mistake.

No problem , just don't like people being ultra-selective in order to pigeon-hole me

I bought some apples from Asda today, they kindly sliced them in the store for me.

That said , I wonder if this country would be a better place to live if we hadn't accepted all and sundry without discretion

Very diplomatic, I am certain it would be.

Yeah - I wonder that too - but not obsessively to the point where it prevents me having a view on anything else. Not to the point where is strangles any news, discussion, debate about the real current issues of the day.

I despair - when I talk with older people, everyone is obsessed/distracted with immigration/Brexit. Supposedly mature people with life experience and some knowledge of history, theoretically educated people, yet so easily blind sided/distracted from talking about the real issues. They just keep coming back to immigration which suits a govt that is quietly shafting them while they are looking the wrong way.

So try talking to some young adults instead, it's even scarier. They are either completely socially/politically inactive/ignorant (fair enough - they are busy enjoying their youth) - but the ones that have any active interest in current affairs are too busy debating which toilets the gender neutral should be using. Is that really more important than the £40,000.00+ (and 6% annual interest) that they will already be in debt before they even get their first job? Or that they will work till they drop and never get a pension? or that they will never get on the housing ladder?. I find it baffling.

Funny you mention the BBC - same as every other "news" outlet - they do a 1 hour show - it's 58 minutes on Brexit/Immigration!

Politicians must be laughing - seems can get away with anything while this is the only item on the agenda for discussion. Looking forward to the next two years of it I expect.

I despair - when I talk with older people

Why how old are you?

You sound about 18, by the cut of your leftie just left school jib.

Yes doc, he's 18 and he opened a betfair account in December 2000.

It could be his dad's account Muldoon.

If he's 50 he still sounds about 18. Hope that helps.

TM, is that your dad's account?

Take yourself for instance Muldoon. You've been on here since 2003 and I still regard you as a child.

Yes but anyone who was ever young would seem young to yourself.

PorcupineorPineapple is another grown up child posting on here.

When I grow up I intend to spend much of my time ranting about immigrants, leftees etc on a betting site's forum.

Good for you Muldoon, that'll make a change from stalking me all day.

Dr Crippen    11 Mar 19 19:00 

Why how old are you?

You sound about 18, by the cut of your leftie just left school jib.

Typically tribalistic response. Brainwashed into thinking there are only two (extreme) ways of going about anything. If i am not in agreement with all the single-issue nutters on here - does that make me a Leftie?

I worked as a trade union negotiator for best part of 30 years Crippen (hence my forum name) - I owned the business relationship with some trade unionists for 20+ years and they still could not bring themselves to use my name at Formal meetings.

I have no time for the left or the right - both are completely impractical fixed ideologies. Better to deliver what is required for the situation than have a predetermined, predictable, fixed view on everything.

You question my age? - the people that have a left or right view on EVERY issue are the ones that have never grown up. Have a good look at whichever side you like in current issues - say Jacob Rees Mogg or Owen Jones - small minded children the pair of them. Imagine listening to that kind of meaningless, predictable, intransigent drone for 30 years - you would realise anyone with a fixed left/right view on every topic is full of sh!t.

I worked as a trade union negotiator for best part of 30 years

Thought as much.

Yep - I have shafted more "lefties" than you have had hot dinners - but you think I'm a "leftie"

Business is no different to (party) politics - short term thinking from the folk in control (be it CEO or PM) - they both know they won't be around to suffer the consequences - leave the next guy to clear up the mess. And so on.....ad infinitum.

Left is the same - you barely need to brief them to know how they will respond to a proposal.

Dr Crippen    11 Mar 19 20:19 
I worked as a trade union negotiator for best part of 30 years

Thought as much.

This implies you have either not read or do not understood my post. I spent 30 years negotiating with "lefties" (your terminology) in order to achieve the aims/objectives of a business.

Take your blinkers off for 60 seconds - read my 20:03 post again, maybe read past the part you have copied and pasted.

Then come back with your preconceived take on my political stance - that you can read anything I have written on this thread and call me a "leftie" - kind of illustrates my point.

I want a police force, properly funded schools, roads I can drive on, street-lighting at night and my bins collected more than once a month. You therefore think I'm a leftie!? -

TM
I worked as a trade union negotiator for best part of 30 years Crippen (hence my forum name) - I owned the business relationship with some trade unionists for 20+ years and they still could not bring themselves to use my name at Formal meetings.

Not surprising if you insisted on being called The Management.

I am a little concerned that Crippen is trying to take lfc's job!

but


THIS IS ENGLAND!

Plenty of villages to go around!

I bought some apples from Asda today, they kindly sliced them in the store for me.


angoose


We could try plastic knifes, with a reinforced serated edge, that should cut things

I think the advantage is, it is easier to stab someone to death than to saw them to dseath

PorcupineorPineapple
Jesus, mgt taking saddo to school here. Don't think he's in the mood to learn sadly

Porkie easily fooled.

[i]The Management
If you think everyone that comes here is a terrorist, murderer, stab crazy criminal - are you not in the least interested in the fact that we have no police any more?[/i]

Absolute nonsense. Double the number of police officers and it wouldn't make any difference to what's going on in London.
But that aside to just dismiss the mass immigration we've suffered is, at best, naïve. That and that alone is the reason for the increased violence.

Not sure where I have dismissed "the mass immigration we have suffered" - I just keep saying that while you obsess totally, solely and only on that to the absolute exclusion of everything else - (You have actually written "That and that alone is the reason for the increased violence.") that is how obsessed you are! - you are being thoroughly and repeatedly shafted by people that are very happy for you to be focused solely on that while they shaft you again and again.

But fair play to you - obviously it's not as complex as I thought - all the issues with education, health, police, transport, etc, etc, etc. can all be solved with a three word slogan printed on the front of an EDL t-shirt.

It's all clear to me now. No need for any further discussion. Sleep well.

So many words and yet apart from insulting people you actually say nothing substantial.
Quite an achievement fella, you are to be congratulated.

Sorry it was too many words for you. I will come up with a three word chant so you can understand.

The management - I'm not sure I see a connection between transport and knife crime . Please elaborate .

It would appear to me as usual there is some confusion about knife crime. So Asda is to stop selling kitchen knives.


“We know single knives are the most common knife products to be stolen and that is why we have chosen to remove these items from our stores.


Captains of Industry!

I hear in the USA the NRA have finally made a concession on Gun Control. They have backed a ban on selling spud guns to under 11's!

Reynard    12 Mar 19 07:48 
The management - I'm not sure I see a connection between transport and knife crime . Please elaborate .

If you can't understand what i have said already I am afraid I probably can't help you further!
For akabula and co. - Fiddle Rome Burns is my 3 word slogan.

If you can't see that for every hour of "air time" immigration ("savages with knives") gets 58 minutes - I give up!
The government is laughing at you - because only 2 minutes remain to hold them to account for:

Our roads resembling those of a 3rd world country
Classrooms with 30+ pupils (6 of whom have special needs) because all the special needs schools are being closed (pretend your policy is diversity and inclusion rather than austerity).
Bins collected once per month
Health service that's so under resourced it needs you to "come back when you are felling better"
Street-lighting that goes off when it gets dark
Police numbers decimated
No parents at home as both now need to work to afford just the basics (claim this is about feminism/equality).
Also allows you to boast that there are more people in work than ever before. It's true, because nobody can afford to be a parent anymore.
No real jobs for our young people
etc, etc, etc.

Sorry if that's too many words for the slogan chanters. It's probably better if we all get back to "discussing" immigration and Brexit ad infinitum and allow the govt of the day to get on (unchallenged) with decimating all of the above. Fiddle Rome Burns.

Trumpet London Floods

strong and stable

Hands up those of us prepared to pay a lot more tax to pay for your list.

Plenty of people around who do not pay their fair share injera. Lets start with them.

Google, Amazon, Cafe Nero and Starbucks just to start with! Off shore trust funds, education and maintenance trust funds, Off shore Companies. Maybe we can reduce the burden of taxation on Companies who pay fair and square if the Double Dutchers play fair!

Tax is the price you pay for living in a civilised society.

Got a situation currently (under a party supposedly believing in low tax & small government) where the average voter is paying more in direct/indirect taxation than ever before - but unfortunately corporation tax is now optional.

Mar 11, 2019 -- 3:39PM, The Management wrote:

Take your blinkers off for 60 seconds - read my 20:03 post again, maybe read past the part you have copied and pasted. Then come back with your preconceived take on my political stance - that you can read anything I have written on this thread and call me a "leftie" - kind of illustrates my point.I want a police force, properly funded schools, roads I can drive on, street-lighting at night and my bins collected more than once a month. You therefore think I'm a leftie!? -

wanting good public services and not hating immigrants and muslims = far left on this forum

WD - Some captain of industry will be along in a minute to explain that it's ok for Google, Amazon, Starbucks, etc to "avoid" all of their obligations to society - because of all the "new" jobs they have created and that all of those employees pay tax.

But you have to work a lot of hours at £7.38 per hour to reach the tax threshold.

Agreed too many big boys avoid tax. I'd also like to see Govt do better at not wasting zillions on everything they touch!

The Garden Bridge for example!! Forking out millions on a project that never happened

The Garden Bridge Trust, which managed the project since November 2015, was accused of “squandering public money” on the ill-fated venture, after Transport for London admitted that the project racked up costs of £53m. Taxpayers will foot a £43m bill after the bulk of the money was underwritten by TfL and the Department for Transport.

Documents released today revealed that the Trust spent £400,000 on a gala dinner and £160,000 on its website.

http://www.cityam.com/273188/revealed-final-cost-boris-botched-garden-bridge-project

iirc - that all be traced backed to Boris hoping to get it on with Joanna Lumley?

Absolutely again!

Stop wasting public money before spending more of it!

Absolutely again!

Stop wasting public money before spending more of it!

Breaking!, Asda to withdraw Advocados, a spokesman said those stones could "take an eye out, we fear they might be used in 'drive by friutings'. .