I try to discourage hate for anybody.
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It’s not hate. It’s a reckoning.
They should have been more careful what they wished for. Because they got it.
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Well I reckon it’s hate.
Well, I reckon I’ll have a 1919 with my steak tonight.
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I hope it unlocks your true potential.
Never looked at eating a steak and drinking a fine root beer quite that way before. But, yeah, I hope so, too, now that you mention it.
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Coming from the country that gave the world the Magna Carta Libertatum… Oh how far the unUnited Kingdom has fallen.
How long do you think they’ll take before they figure it out? That it’s not the ‘knives’ that are the problem? Maybe they’re too far gone. Hitler coudn’t have taken over the uUK any better…
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In 1972, at Haneda Airport, Tokyo Japan, the security guard was fumbling with the baggage tag from LAX to Haneda as we were catching a flight to Fukuoka. He asked me if I had a knife. Being the helpful sort, I got out a little miniature Japanese version of the Swiss Army knife. The blade on it was one and one quarter inches long. He opened the blade and held it against a ruler with a red mark on the ruler. Yep, you guessed it. The blade extended beyond the red mark. He hollered and a couple of cops dashed over, one with his hand on the .38sp. S&W he wore. Big discussion faster than I could follow. The knife had been a gift to me from my wife when we were dating. It had carved sterling silver scales and was a pretty thing although not terribly useful. It certainly wasn’t something I would use to hijack a plane. After much discussion, the officer in charge ruled I could keep it but I had to put it in my carry-on baggage. I couldn’t have it in my pocket. His theory was the law said “carry such a dangerous weapon.” If the knife was in my carry-on luggage I wasn’t “carrying it.” I hastily adopted his decision with a sigh of relief. I also vowed never to 'fess up to having a knife in Japan again. Foreigners in Japan are forbidden to carry a knife with a blade longer than 2 cm. That is slightly shorter than one inch. I don’t know how foreigners who live permanently in Japan get kitchen knives home from the store for prepping food. I also know of a U.S. tourist who, with a Buck knife in a holster on his belt, stopped a Japanese cop on a street in Tokyo to ask directions and instead of getting directions found himself surrounded by Japanese cops who didn’t give him the same interpretation my cop did. He wound up in Sugamo Prison for a short stay until the U.S. Consulate in Tokyo got him sprung to be police escorted back to the airport where they hung around until he boarded on a homeward bound flight. He was lucky he was just kicked out of the country. He would not have enjoyed his stay in Sugamo Prison. When I was in Japan in the Marine Corps we had a Marine who had raped a Japanese lady who was incarcerated in Sugamo and he did not enjoy his vacation from the USMC at all.
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Not “maybe” too far gone.
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