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Darth Walrus posted:The amusing thing about 'ninja swords' is that, like most pieces of ninja lore, they started out as theatre props. Real ninjas did exist, but they either used simple peasant weapons or the standard military weapons of the samurai clans (because the most prominent ninja organisations literally were just samurai clans who specialised in asymmetrical warfare and sold their services to any interested warlords). Easily-identifiable specialist equipment like their own special swords would go against the whole point of having anonymous spies and saboteurs. Ninjato, the straight shortswords associated with ninjas in more modern works, appear to have been completely fictional, and based on misdrawings of samurai wakizashi (the shortswords the samurai caste used as sidearms, which were both practical and readily-available for real ninjas). I love stuff like this.
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Jan 24, 2024 13:29
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Japan culture knowledge being dropped ITT, you can almost feel the cheeto dust in the air and the anime posters on the wall (fr tho I enjoyed it)
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Jan 24, 2024 13:38
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fuctifino posted:I bit the bullet last night in a rare window of lucidity and finally got around to writing my will. MoneySavingExpert recommended freewills.co.uk for a free service. It's a really easy menu driven system, and it only took me a few minutes to complete. My will is currently being checked over by their inhouse solicitors, and although they will happily send you a PDF for free, I paid £30 for an official looking bound copy printed on parchment paper. £30 compared to the hundreds that I'd have paid a local solicitor seemed like a bargain. Thanks for the link! I do have a will but it is in need of updating. One of my brothers (tory boy - the rich one) is one of the executors but as he has prostate cancer - albeit very slow & controlled - he's likely to pop his clogs before me even though he's 4 years younger, so I've asked one of my adult nephews also if he would be an executor (and hopefully as he is 40 years younger than me he might outlive me). I did have a local firm of solicitors down as executors but as one of the flats here, that particular firm lost the owner's will meaning it was 3 years before probate could be granted, has caused no end of problems for the estate. Another thing that is possible to do is to find one of the charities that pay for you to do a will via a firm of solicitors (various charities link up with various solicitors) - no compulsion on your part to actually leave anything to that charity in your will but I guess most people feel they ought to.
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Jan 24, 2024 13:39
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Darth Walrus posted:
They should do that still in movies. During a very tense scene suddenly the boom mic guy and the 1st AD run into frame and stab the actors
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Jan 24, 2024 13:47
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Darth Walrus posted:Labour now cracking down on ninja zombies. TBF, I heard that Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z wasn't very good. Essentially the old 'No you can't add "Because they're rich / nice / I like those ones" as an exemption' problem liberalism just seems to keep running up against (and then trying to do anyway). Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/what-is-zombie-knife-weapons-ban-illegal-idris-elba-b1074822.html  Darth Walrus posted:This is also, for the record, the origin of those 'black pyjama' ninja outfits.
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Jan 24, 2024 13:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Thanks for the link! I do have a will but it is in need of updating. Oops, I forgot to leave the link to the MoneySavingsExpert page https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/free-cheap-wills/ Yeah, there are a load of options for free will writing. A lot of the charities only offer the free service at certain times of the year, and I just kept scrolling down until the freewills site info came up.
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Jan 24, 2024 13:47
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Darth Walrus posted:https://x.com/yvettecoopermp/status/1749946156979814752?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q I like that this implies the existence of non dangerous knives
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Jan 24, 2024 13:57
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Yeah wouldn't a real ninja have dressed like a peasant and used a repurposed farm tool to kill? (Or a weaponised version of said tools) I knew ninja jammies came from theater but I had no idea of the specifics, that's hilarious and absolutely owns. E: ^ Well it's only the undead ones that are dangerous. Personally I'm more worried about vampire knives, and mummy knives are no joke either.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:01
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forkboy84 posted:I mean to be fair, I've seen photos of what people are calling zombie knives & they basically look like machetes but part of the blade is serrated. It seems like something that you probably don't need in London. They're basically just whatever horrible tat you could find in American malls or nowadays online. Like a Klingon batleth but covered in skulls and more blades. They're more a danger to the user than anything I think.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:02
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OwlFancier posted:I like that this implies the existence of non dangerous knives You'd struggle to do much with a butter knife.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:03
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You wouldn't butter a zombie.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:06
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feedmegin posted:You'd struggle to do much with a butter knife. A butter knife is constructive possession of a shiv.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:06
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Every single time they try to crack down on swords, any definition they come up with falls foul of having to deal with Lord Ponsenby-Fuckhampton with his mansion that has two ancestral cavalry sabres hanging in every room, or the Lord High oval office of Bastard-upon-Thames who wears a sword and wanders up and down the high street shouting as part of his traditional attire. I'm pretty sure they just used peasant outfits in drab earth tones. Much more explicable if someone noticed you than an entire 'hello, I'm a spy, please shoot me' costume.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:07
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You wouldn't butter a zombie. Jail for a salt and buttery
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Jan 24, 2024 14:07
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fuctifino posted:Oops, I forgot to leave the link to the MoneySavingsExpert page Who are you leaving the TechnoBong to ?
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Jan 24, 2024 14:11
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I see Sunak’s brilliant media team have come up with a cracking idea that couldn’t possibly be exploited https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1749866835380515230?s=46
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Jan 24, 2024 14:14
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Entombed with him that he might blow clouds in the afterlife, and that no other mortal might gain its power.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:14
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Another funny thing about ninjas - ninja guns would be much more historically accurate than 'ninja swords'. The samurai warlords of the late Sengoku period (the chaotic century-long civil war that's what most people think of when they think of medieval Japanese warfare) loving loved Portuguese firearms, and the most successful ones, like Oda Nobunaga, pioneered domestic mass-production of rifles with which to annihilate their enemies. Mercenary bands like the Saika were well-known for their expert marksmen, and there was no need to get right up close to an enemy warlord and spray them with shuriken when you could just hide in a tree on the side of the road and put a bullet between his eyes. When are you cracking down on Tanegashima matchlocks, Yvette?
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Jan 24, 2024 14:21
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OwlFancier posted:Jail for a salt and buttery Very good. I like what you did there 
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Jan 24, 2024 14:28
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Not me. I'm angry about that post
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Jan 24, 2024 14:30
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Microplastics posted:Not me. I'm angry about that post Guess one could say you're... salty???
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Jan 24, 2024 14:32
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smellmycheese posted:I see Sunak’s brilliant media team have come up with a cracking idea that couldn’t possibly be exploited Didn't they see that Dave Gorman episode on celebrity message videos? (Can't find a link to a clip of that now). Wonder how much Rishi will be charging on https://www.celebvm.com/
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Jan 24, 2024 14:32
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I have a collection of 'decorative' weapons of varying levels of ridiculous from my university days and no idea what their legal status is - I forgot about them until my dad died and they had to come back to live with me in London.  Seeing as my wife works in theatre maybe I can argue they are props.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:33
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Darth Walrus posted:When are you cracking down on Tanegashima matchlocks, Yvette?  title alone and it's some guy pretending to be a pig farmer painstakingly loading a haakbus before hiding behind a tree for two hours.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:39
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Anything can be a weapon if you intend it to be. Therefore what you should do is have an AI decide the purpose of the objects you own, and handle them accordingly. If they happen to be trained on old samurai movies that's irrelevant.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:43
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I do hope they don't ban illegal Idris Elba. That just decreases the value of legal Idris Elba!
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Jan 24, 2024 14:44
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Runcible Cat posted:That just decreases the value of legal Idris Elba! Idris Elba would be a good name for a strain of weed that makes you talk with a different accent
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Jan 24, 2024 14:46
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Maugrim posted:I have a collection of 'decorative' weapons of varying levels of ridiculous from my university days and no idea what their legal status is - I forgot about them until my dad died and they had to come back to live with me in London. I think my swords are legal because they're straight. My knife might not be but it were my dad's so they aren't getting it
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Jan 24, 2024 14:49
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Farage has done a reply on youtube to that Sunak video. Won't do a full link, but if you want to watch it you can find it here: watch?v=yDItTxQvJJU According to Fromage the tory party have stopped advertising the app LOL
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Jan 24, 2024 14:53
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Puny Zombie Knives & Ninja Swords, behold the ultimate weapon: the []cheesegrater[/s] kitchen knife!!!  edit fuckit, forgotten how to strike through text... again. 
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Jan 24, 2024 14:55
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Free wills are an illusion.
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Jan 24, 2024 15:07
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From reading up it appears only two of my swords are illegal due to curved blades over 50cm, though that still leaves the question of how I'm supposed to get rid of them
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Jan 24, 2024 15:10
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That Rishi video was AI, right? He didn't actually record a video to Farage did he? I'm so confused about all of this... lol
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Jan 24, 2024 15:11
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Maugrim posted:From reading up it appears only two of my swords are illegal due to curved blades over 50cm, though that still leaves the question of how I'm supposed to get rid of them Unless you're a business. Every time I check if blades uk is still going I'm amazed they are, and are able to deliver by post apparently.
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Jan 24, 2024 15:17
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Maugrim posted:From reading up it appears only two of my swords are illegal due to curved blades over 50cm, though that still leaves the question of how I'm supposed to get rid of them just straighten the blades. Turn the sword 90 degrees even.
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Jan 24, 2024 15:18
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You can contact 101 and get your local police them to pick up any weapons, especially if you feel uncomfortable walking around in a built up area wielding illegal swords.
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Jan 24, 2024 15:20
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Maugrim posted:From reading up it appears only two of my swords are illegal due to curved blades over 50cm, though that still leaves the question of how I'm supposed to get rid of them It's a bit like countries with drug decrim, where you can't manufacture, import, transport, sell, or give them away, outside of very narrow prescription medical grounds, but nobody's going to care if they're just in your house. Pretty sure this is even the case for switchblades and stilettos caught up in the first knife panic, they didn't find a way (or case) to ban having them in a drawer at home, but you shouldn't be carrying one about.
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Jan 24, 2024 15:20
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I've still got my dad's old swordstick I had arranged with Camrath (PBOH) to take as he was a licensed swordsperson  Could be useful for filleting ducks out of the river come the zombie apocalypse. Or indeed fighting off zombies.
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Jan 24, 2024 16:07
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Maugrim posted:From reading up it appears only two of my swords are illegal due to curved blades over 50cm, though that still leaves the question of how I'm supposed to get rid of them I'd check to see of the Legislation penalises "possession in a public place." If that's the case then it's illegal to take them out of your home (unless you are bringing it to a police station as part of a surrender.) Or to bring them into your home. But not, while they are inside your home.
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Jan 24, 2024 16:08
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fuctifino posted:You can contact 111 and get your local police them to pick up any weapons, especially if you feel uncomfortable walking around in a built up area wielding illegal swords.
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Jan 24, 2024 16:21
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