Thread: The Nanny State

What do you think about the new regulations the Mayor of New York is handing down? Do you think the people that voted him in knew what he was going to do?

Limit salt in public restaurant's food?

Limit the size of soft drinks?

Crack down on smoking?

Now he is keeping the hospitals from handing out baby formula until the mother is given a lecture on breast feeding. They have to do this each time she asks for some.

Where will it stop?

Originally Posted by Crotalus

What do you think about the new regulations the Mayor of New York is handing down? Do you think the people that voted him in knew what he was going to do?

Limit salt in public restaurant's food?

Limit the size of soft drinks?

Crack down on smoking?

Now he is keeping the hospitals from handing out baby formula until the mother is given a lecture on breast feeding. They have to do this each time she asks for some.

Where will it stop?

Unfortunately never.

I've heard he is going to regulate straight razor shaving ...... dangerous ..... don't know if it is true though .....

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've heard he is going to regulate straight razor shaving ...... dangerous ..... don't know if it is true though .....

If that's true, off With his head!!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

If that's true, off With his head!!

It must be true, you just read it on the internet .....

"Straight Razors don't kill people, people kill people" I have 11 straights, but does anyone really need a straight razor, especially more than one? Won't we all be safer when there are no more staright razors in the world and we all must use electric razors or grow beards? One never knows when anyone may go postal and become Sweeney Todd. A person's unblemished record as an upstanding citizen is no guarantee of their future sanity or continued good behavior. I understand that prisons have high murder rates despite very high security being present, the victims there are usually puctured by illegally obtained sharp objects, and that security in communities will never be as high as that found in prisons. However, if it may save even one life, any responsible person with a social conscience should willing give up their straight razors.

Originally Posted by sheajohnw

However, if it may save even one life, any responsible person with a social conscience should willing give up their straight razors.

+1 .... PM for my address and I will safely dispose of the nefarious instruments .... the life you save may be your own.....

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

+1 .... PM for my address and I will safely dispose of the nefarious instruments .... the life you save may be your own.....

Jimmy, you're an evil, evil man for fostering such thoughts.
On another note,what are your credentials for said disposal? Will the razors be treated humanely? Which gov't. agency serves as the watchdog for your activities? Are you yourself a gov't. contractor? Will any tax dollars be spent on your services?

What might save us from the Nanny state is the fact that Straight Shavers are helping save the planet...

We reuse (the first line of the Green world) by "salvaging" old razors from the landfill and putting them back in service...
We don't buy razors made of plastic that can't be honed and are clogging up the dumps sites and leading to global warming...
We don't use nasty cans of foam propelled by deadly gases, but instead take the time and care to craft our lather by hand from renewable products...Those cans of foam are also the leading cause of the drought don't you know...

Stand Tall, Stand Together and help save the planet by shaving with a pre 1904 Straight Razor today! (or tomorrow if you have already shaved)

In a more practical vain, I think the gent needs voted out of office, any one in N.Y. Listening??

From a N.Y. ex-patriot, tinkersd.