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Blade Magazine - It Just Isn''t Cricket
Blade Magazine - It Just Isn''t Cricket
...So, you might say, who cares about the “bloody British,” as Johnny Horton calls them in the 1950s song The Battle of New Orleans, especially when the United Kingdom is conducting an English Inquisition of knives that makes U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Switch Hunt” of assisted openers look like a wee spot of bother by comparison?
What reminded me of the UK’s unabashed “knife-o-cide” was when I visited a website pertaining to the aforementioned English knife manufacturer. There, all in red including a big circle with a white number “18” in it, was the garish warning: “IMPORTANT You must be over 18 to buy a knife. Your age will be verified by an Age Verification Service.” (An “Age Verification Service”? No wonder England has lost its mojo!)...