21 November 2006

An end to fresh cut lemons

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Bill Stefaniak’s ongoing war on freedom is in full swing and today he’s announced that in his efforts to sacrifice every tenet of liberalism on the altar of embarrassing the Government (his party does continue to describe itself as “Liberal”) he’s going to try and introduce more draconian knife laws.

“The legislation will create a new offence of possessing a knife either in licensed premises or in the vicinity of licensed premises (that is, within 200 metres of licensed premises)… Perhaps the most significant change is a new section to enable police to conduct random searches for knives in relation to persons either in or in the vicinity of licensed premises.”

Random searches? Wars have been fought and heads removed from the executives that have proposed less. Good luck to the chefs of Civic’s restaurants figuring out when they’re within 200 metres of licensed premises. Good luck to all of us in fact.

One comes to wonder if Mr Stanhope hasn’t offered Bill a cushy job if he does his best to make the Liberals totally unelectable. Certainly bollocks like this makes me positively pleased to be languishing under the neglect of the current elected dictatorship.

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Go for it. The Union’s gonna bust Bill’s ass for this outrage.

JB, just joined the thread. Can I nominate terubo’s “I suspect the Union of Australian Sword-Swallowers, Buskers and Street Entertainers (UASSBUSTERS) will be furious about this” for the rolling banner?

Wide known fact that 90% of chefs are Gay alcoholic or drug (ab)users. The other 10% are just passionate and crazy.

I used valium and red wine to wind down after a busy shift – so I fit into 2 of those 5 criteria

Im reasonably sure that the constabulary would recognise being in the trade as a legitimate reason to have a set of chef knives, and, if not, that the magistrate would recognise their failure to recognise it as a legitamate reason for carving their arses off

Where did the gay bit come in Dman? Methinks he doth protest too much 😉

And no, not all of them. Just more than cohort.

I know you are, said you are, so what am I bonfire?

KandyA will no longer be posting on this or any other forum – As i dutifully stabbed him in the neck with my 18 inch carving knfe.

Note – not all chefs are gay or alcoholics or take drugs.

the tories ?

you are a softhead.

PS I love how the Tories always trot out these draconian Laura Norder policies to appeal to the proles and obscure the fact that they actually have NOTHING of any real substance to offer the community they’re supposed to represent.

Absent Diane3:27 pm 22 Nov 06

why do junkies wear athletic attire ?

You see it with chav’s in britain as well.. I think it is just that dirty crime wannabe culture.

KandyA – take that back, ‘fore I stab you.

they can pass as many laws as they like.

i’ll keep carrying a useful folding pocket knife, for the purposes of paring fruit, opening parcels, emergency tracheotomies etc.

the chances of me being randomly stopped and searched are low.

men in suitrs are generally invisible to police.

they prefer sports logoed bogans.

why do junkies wear athletic attire ?

Thumper: har!

s4anta, clowns once belonged to UASSBUSTERS (when it was UCLASSBUSTERS) but voted to join the MWU in 1996 as some kind of a joke. As for journalists…hmmm, I’d better cut up my AJA (MEAA) membership card and take up gravedigging instead…

most chef’s are deranged anti-social loons, addicted to horrible substances that noone has heard of, none of them should be allowed to carry their knives, and should have to cut things up with a blunted spoon at work, too.
They only take their knives home so their collegues cant nick em, Im suprised everyone hasnt been stabbed.

most chef’s are deranged anti-social loons, addicted to horrible substances that noone has heard of, none of them should be allowed to carry their knives, and should have to cut things up with a blunted spoon at work, too.
They only take their knives home so their collegues cant nick em, Im suprised everyone hasnt been stabbed.

terubo,
street performers are actually looked after by the MWU. The same union that looks after journalists, grave diggers and clowns

I see this running just like dangerous weapons on planes – having to go through the metal detector before being allowed to sit down to dine,giving up my Leatherman micra [which means I can no longer do running repairs on my office furiture], arguing with the security people as to whether I could meaningfully stab someone with the nail file on my nail clippers and ultimately having that bit broken off.

“You call that a knife?”

Spare a thought for our street entertainers. It’s bad enought that fire-eaters have been put out of business (total fire bans), now sword-swallowers look to be at risk too.
I suspect the Union of Australian Sword-Swallowers, Buskers and Street Entertainers (UASSBUSTERS) will be furious about this.

Besides the utter lunacy of a deranged night club owner. How many knife attacks are we seeing to warrant the further erosion of our individual freedoms? Must be shear pandemonium out there.

Bloody glad I’m safe and secure in Arche province Indonesia. Ive only got raving lunatic religious crack pots to worry about here. lol

Funny Bill talking knife laws when he just stuck one in the back of his deputy.

I have a Swiss army knife on one of my sets of keys. Useful to clean under my nails, open beers etc. Could I get away with carrying that into a civic?

Are they going to bust into the kitchens of licenced restaurants, cuff all the cooks, confiscate their knife-rolls and display them on the news as a “massive haul of dangerous weapons”?

Does the foil-cutter on a waiter’s friend count? If so, the wait staff are buggered too.

Good luck not being within 200m of a licensed premises when you’re in any town centre, doesn’t this equate to giving the Police unfettered powers to stop and search people as they see fit?

The idea that under laws like this a law abiding citizen such as myself wouldn’t be able to go peacefully about my business without having their person invaded really gives me the shits.

Late one night at Circular Quay a friend of mine (who was visiting Sydney from Canada) was jumped upon (from behind) by one of those drug sniffer dogs and subsequently manhandled by a Police Officer. He absolutely shit himself because he’d never heard of such a thing as drug sniffer dogs before and thought he was being mugged. Of course he had no drugs on him (like the VAST majority of people those dogs detect).

“Bill a cushy job if he does his best to make the Liberals totally unelectable”

You have hit the nail on the head. It is correct to say these guys can not possibly be elected.

My $5000 bet still stands. Bring it on

VG is his name

Where’s our Riotact resident Plod? – Sorry can’t remember his name – does he see any merit in this?

one wonders what the benefits are of al fresco dining with a router and chainsaw…

Well suppose we will all be provided with those slade thingos to eat a meal or chop sticks.

Maybe the Japanese really did win the second world war.

Are Sikhs exempt on cultural grounds? They are required to carry a dagger as part of their
religion. Are there any Sikh restaurants that will require an exemption?

I wonder if this includes those plastic lettuce knives the designer stores are selling nowdays.

Seems big Bill is the only one who needs a knife – I wont mention where though.

A lot of chefs at licensed premises are going to get sore fingers julienning carrots

The other thing is there is a culture built up in Australia now based around a hugely bloated govnt. So we have all these politicians’ in there coming up with more rules and regulations.

Take one of the latest examples posted on /.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/19/2214254

Or Sydney councils slapping a 1% tax on your garden shed.

And to think 10’s of thousands of our grand parents lost their lives fighting for this shit.

I spend quit a bit of my time in Europe and I see it like this. Australia is a young country still very immature so were not trusted to think for ourselves. Europe has grown out of this a long time ago so you havnt got any where near the rules and regulations as here. It really is a joke and actually very sad to see our country turning out like this.

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