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OK. I follow. I'd be deeply concerned. I don't want to live in a violent shithole. The problem is that it's already a violent shithole. Anyone who wants to use violence for whatever, can. Most people here are so milquetoast that the concept of foreceful resistance is alien. There's a poem called, "AMERICA IS A GUN." There might as well also be one called, "ENGLAND IS A CRIME REFERENCE NUMBER AND A DISAPPOINTING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE HOME AND CONTENTS INSURERS." Now as it happens, I do have an amount of faith in the English condition, that some freedom wouldn't boil over all brashly like it does in other countries. I like to think we're capable of restraint and tolerance etc. Or at least that the weather is bad enough to keep tempers broadly cool. But that is still a secondary consideration. My primary interest remains the rights of the individual. I don't see why anybody should be owned more than they can own themselves.

Sorry. I've missed your point. Spell it out please.

Joe wrote it.

I get the news from arbtalk and memes. An Eritrean grooming gang is coming to eat my dog and blight my potatoes. Nicki Minaj has had her shoulder tapped to sit on the bench at the Hague. Sir David Beckham retains the title at the Mercian Jousting Tournament.

And every potential crime becomes potentially opposed by an armed goodie. Evenly distributed, quiet law enforcers who don't care what you write on twitter but don't want offences against people and property happening where they live. But I don't want to argue that it's better for everybody. I want anyone who says people shouldn't carry to look into the eyes of an unarmed rape victim, mugging victim, violence victim etc and tell them their suffering was for the greater good. My view is built on respect for individuals to conduct their lives how they see fit. Bigger pictures then work themselves out. Unless of course you trust the people who make the rules about this sort of thing currently to decide what's best for everyone everywhere? And trust them to defend you since they've forbidden you from defending yourself. UK shootings. No idea. London, probably one happening now. What does it matter anyway?

To be good, you can't just have good. You also have to have an absence of bad. So my rabbi says anyway.

But it's not nothing. It's a tin of chemical grimness.

I eat food.

Pek is the weapon on choice around here. Once was more than enough.

Leave it on the shelf?

I see your point. I am being a bit communist about it aren't I. Edited my earlier post with an example btw.

Yes. Broadly agree. But. Loads of stuff has been put on the market, the creators knowing full well that it doesn't really push the envelope. They don't want to top the market. They just want a slice of it, within existing paradigms. Which is fine. Sell what you want. It's just annoying as a consumer to have so many options. Example: Rope wrenches. The OG was fine. Puts the kink in, adjustable kink, midline attachable. What does a Chicane, Freexion or Apex do beyond that?

She sat on the monetary policy committee at the Bank of England btw.

My favourite checkout girl at one shop reckons a hammer.

In fairness I found myself wanting a bigger dog on mine the other day. For one cut. For about the second time in six years. But honestly, if you're happy, great. That stuff isn't important to me though. I don't cut that much.

So wear parts and DAWGS AND A MUFFLER then. Have you ever seen instagram.com? Loads of people on there have also made their saws heavier and louder and with more sharp bits that reduce effective bar length. But if it makes you happy, great. Well done on bringing it back to life. They're excellent saws. 20" and 25" both lovely.

Define 'up to spec.'

New Senser album, @Oldfeller.

Excess number of biner holes and detachable swivels. No. Too much fannying shite. No. Midline attachable and simply just works for SRT and DRT without compromise. Yes. We don't need loads of competing whizzbang bling. We need one thing that just works.

Nobody's ever said that exact sentence before.

The nipping arsehole style kitchen towel holder that the nice young man with the majestic hair on instagram uses?

That's a beautiful turn of phrase! Sorry about your stabbing. I was about to start typing about how it doesn't alter my view and why but Mike's rather ruined any notion I had today of improving the world through dialogue.

On technology cheapening the human experience generally: Plus they're a good band.