Before college if you can. I enjoyed my early jobs more than I have enjoyed many of my grown up jobs. I had a paper round at 12, worked for a butcher before and after school and on saturdays from 14, worked in a mill on saturdays and full-time through the holidays from 15 and worked as a glass collector then a barman…

My parents would give me whatever money they could if I sincerely needed it, but something would have to have gone seriously wrong for me to ask. Perhaps it’s immature, but the loss of self-respect would make it hard for me to do so.

I will defer my judgement to the county attorney who has access to more information than me or you. For all we know that’s a sodding keychain.

Brandishing? It was folded into the hilt. Try again

The UK (though I should probably amend that statement to ‘last month’. Seeing as we are one day into this one - still not impossible, mind)

He turns because he is shot. How would the officer know he is high on PCP? (is PCP even a thing anymore?) Has it been confirmed officially he was?

Not to be too ‘family values’ but that, to me is how it should be (parental separation notwithstanding). A downside to the greater freedom of mobility we have these days is the impact it can have on the extended family.

Well, the fact he’s dead isn’t up to anyone. That’s irreversible.

The linked article is annoying.

Yeah, the whole cheating on her fiance thing isn’t great, but I imagine it’s the last of her fiance’s concerns.

Or an accurate assessment of actual risk. If a guy, high on PCP or not, is strutting away then he’s not much of a threat is he? Even the most committed SJW isn’t going to bat an eyelid at a policeman caught on camera shooting a guy running at him, frothing at the mouth with a knife held on high. Shooting a guy walking…

Yeah, we certainly couldn’t have afforded to move up to a 3 bedroom house if we would’ve had to pay the $25k/year or have my wife drop out of work (the cheaper option, she’s on the equivalent of $22k ish per year). So the kids would have been sharing rooms (which isn’t the end of the world, but it’s nice not to have…

The whole Nanny thing is not a big thing here in the UK (Mary Poppins notwithstanding). A quick check of Ofsted registered nannies indicates there are 6763 of them. That’s a pretty small number for a population of over 60 million.

Your ability to accurately determine how long something is in inches is between you and your partner. But back on topic:

Are you suggesting it wouldn’t be more accurately called a pocket knife? A combat knife wouldn’t have a folding blade.

I think this topic could do with more investigation because I think they’ve missed out on even more valuable support provided by many parents, support which is not so class or race-divided.

I’m not the one who rebranded the 3 inch pocket knife as a ‘Combat knife’.

2nd Amendment does not specify the type of arms. I don’t believe you need a license anywhere in the US to carry a 3 inch knife. If he was a white guy with a hunting rifle over his shoulder we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Don’t they have a range of non-lethal alternatives starting with, I don’t know, talking? Then, if necessary, move up to tasers (Not ok with the use of tasers in general, but against someone armed with a knife that would be acceptable).

I thought you were allowed to bear arms in America?