09-19-2021, 08:21 PM
(09-19-2021, 09:29 AM)BIAD Wrote: Anyone remember these days...?
Today, the National Health Service in London and elsewhere has changed and not for the best.
Quote:Knife gangs are breaking into hospital wards to finish off their stab victims:Archived Daily Mail Article:
A chilling dispatch by a London junior doctor on a barely believable horror hidden from the world until now
I'm not certain why pikes have not made a comeback in the UK since restrictions of firearms have gotten chokingly tight, and gangs have had to resort to knives to exercise their penchants for mayhem. A pike is really just a big knife on a long pole, long enough that knife gangs cannot conceal it, and would be the perfect accessory for a night about town in Londonistan I would think.
You see, with a pike, you could keep the miscreants a few feet away while you turned them into meat sieves, and they could not in turn reach YOU with their bitty little concealable knives. It seems the only winning move in the current climate...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’