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[–] bull@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Don't mind me, everyone.. just popping down to 7-11 to grab some.. knives?

[–] Pilk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well... that is highly illegal. I'll take a rainbow one please.

Edit: Oh yeah you're in the US

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That fluoro one is very curious to me

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

that looks nasty, a palm knife you put on your pinky and slash with.

I hate knives, psychos love them cos they are "intimate", they can feel their victim thru the blade

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for that visual. I'll gut you like a pig

[–] RosaliePreistley@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, i had the unfortunate luck of meeting a nazi through an old school mate who's new friendship group just happened to contain one. This was almost 30 years ago. He sold drugs, I wanted some drugs. When I went to score, he had a collection of ornamental knives he was showing me. Then there was one he liked, "cos it was one you can use". He gave me a lift back to the train station like the nice guy he was and he and his girlfriend yelled racist slurs out the car window at his pacific islander neighbours. I was terrified and glad I'd moved away from the area in which those fucking bogan scum lords lived. Oh my, people are shit and drug dealers are some of the lowest piles of shit I've ever known.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They're very colourful. Like the old plastic safety knives/scissors you had as a child, which cut about as well as a cricket bat.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that legal over there?

And are they intended for self defence or are they like camping/hunting pocket knives?

[–] bull@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Land of the free, baby! Yeeehawww! I can get a case of beer and some knives to play with! Meanwhile all I got was a cherry Slurpee and the dude said "is that all you're getting? You're alright then" and gave it to me for free! Currently slurping in the car on a hill at the edge of Moab watching the sunset over the red mountains.

[–] RosaliePreistley@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

They have very different self defence laws than we do in some states.

Came for the diner food, stayed for the cheap blade.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooo please get the patriotic one.

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

probably can't take it on a plane.

[–] bull@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Can't even bring it into our country!

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US is a godamm crazy place sometimes, there was a knife shop at Denver airport!!!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

That actually makes sense, though. Those poor people couldn't take their knives on the plane, so they can buy one at the terminal as soon as they land.

Why they have to carry a knife everywhere in the first place, I can't answer. It's a cultural thing.