De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) has become the first UK university to switch to rounded-tip knives in a bid to drive public safety.
The organisation is exchanging all its pointed blades for safer alternatives to inspire more widespread adoption and reduce knife crime nationwide.
At first, I thought this was another AI 'joke', but a quick trip to the university website sadly disabused me of that hope.
H/T: Prison Planet via Twitter
Apparently the concept of a grindstone is unknown to them
ReplyDeleteWell, they've never had their noses to it, that's for certain!
DeleteYes but Julia the powers that be are now "seen to be doing something" without addressing the elephant in the room.
ReplyDeleteI predict that knife manufacturers will now be forced to produce these under threat of prosecution. Forgetting the fact that every kitchen in the country has numerous sharp implements that the "stabbing community" can use.
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Mine alone would probably count as weapons of mass destruction...
DeleteIt would still be possible to slit someone's throat with the blade of one of these knives. Or haven't the loons who endorse these round-tipped knives thought of that?
ReplyDeleteThey tack the word 'stabbing' literally, even if the usual suspects don't...
DeleteI've said this before, and I'll say it again; knife control is the new gun control. The same hand-wringing, the same language, the same attitude. All pushing towards the end goal of banning yet another inanimate object because certain individuals choose the misuse them for nefarious deads. Ironically, a pointy kitchen knife is currently about the only effective weapon an Englishman may have to protect his castle, and the bed-wetters want to take that away too.
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A small update, it transpires that the latest academic research conducted on proving that pointy tipped knives are dangerous was conducted at (drum roll) De Montford Uni. So what I take away from that is that the academics behind this research have then insisted that their own kitchen staff be "disarmed", just to prove that the grant funds spent on said research was not a complete waste of money.
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There's always a screwdriver - no matter what type, enough force will drive one into a throat...
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