Two men were seriously injured during a Samurai sword attack just minutes into the new year.Yes, Knaresborough. Near Harrogate.
A 31-year-old victim suffered severe lacerations to an arm and a 21-year-old sustained a serious cut to the face.
Police arrested a local man aged 31 at the scene of the attack in Knaresborough, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, at around 12.30am.
Harrogate, of all places! Quaint, charming little town of so many family holidays when I was younger...
And the news that a local man has been arrested doesn't even offer us the faint hope that this is down to a temporal rift allowing bands of ronin to roam the Yorkshire countryside.
If we are going to import Japanese culture, there are far more harmless and amusing things to import, surely?
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Crap! That's where I'm moving *to*...
Ban 'em etc etc....
Yeah about par for the course for us; Noted for ready availability of heroin and on-line porn capital of the country, I seem to recall,and I moved back here from watford...
'Imported Culture'
You mean, like, yoghurt?
I say it's that McLeod fellow.
Well, your last sentence certainly makes a kind of sense, as Ronon always was good with a sword, or any other weapon for that matter...
(Actually, penultimate sentence: the scrolling here doesn't always work as expected!)
We love them for their vending machines with soiled teenage girls knickers and big-eyed-spikey-haied-androgenous-emos-who-pilot-giant-biomechanical-robots-and-fall-in-love-with-girls-with-cats-ears, but when it comes to swinging swords around, it's time to get out the ban hammer.
I thought the last misgovernment of "Snotty McDoom" banned these in one of their last bansturbatory acts...
Worked out well then didn't it?
TTFN :)
Ta for the link.
Pedants bit : I really wish they would not refer to them as Samurai swords, as I seriously doubt anyone in Harrogate would have an original once owned by a Samurai. It's a Katana a style of sword once carried by Samurai, There
"...there are far more harmless and amusing things to import, surely?"
How about Seppuku? Perhaps we can introduce it to those bell-ends in the political class - finally they'll have a mindless fad to adopt that has a constructive outcome and entertains the reat of us...
@Mac Seppuku involves those commiting it to have a sense of 'honour' As those you are recommending it for have none. I'm afraid we'll just have to use the piano wire and lamp posts method.
Maybe this is really the end and New Years sparked the Quickening and everyone is going to go apesh*t and start dueling with swords like Highlander and brawling in the streets. I should find a box of fresh popcorn and a good balcony to watch the show from.
"Crap! That's where I'm moving *to*..."
Oh dear! Have you got your sword handy, or are you going to acquire one when you get there..? ;)
"Yeah about par for the course for us; Noted for ready availability of heroin and on-line porn capital of the country, I seem to recall..."
*boggle*
"I say it's that McLeod fellow."
I did wonder! But John M Ward has another suspect...
"We love them for their vending machines with soiled teenage girls knickers and big-eyed-spikey-haied-androgenous-emos-who-pilot-giant-biomechanical-robots-and-fall-in-love-with-girls-with-cats-ears..."
Yes, they really are the closest we'll get to a truly alien culture, aren't they? At least, until someone invents warp-drive...
"How about Seppuku? Perhaps we can introduce it to those bell-ends in the political class..."
A great idea! But I think Pavlov's Cat has spotted the flaw with that...
" I should find a box of fresh popcorn and a good balcony to watch the show from."
Hang in there! I've a feeling 2011 will be quite the wild ride...
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