Is it just me who thinks the world has gone stark raving mad today?

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The state of this with the accompanying story.

www.itv.com/news/central/2019-06-12/blunt-utensils-replace-kitchen-knives-to-help-save-lives/
Blunt utensils replace kitchen knives to save lives

Nottinghamshire Police is piloting a scheme where victims of domestic violence will have their kitchen knives replaced with blunt utensils, to help stop partners attacking them in their own home.

Around a hundred "no-point" knives will be given to victims who have either been threatened or attacked with a knife.

It comes as police say they're concerned about the high numbers of knife-related incidents in the home. They say the new scheme could help save lives.

In what fuck witted brainstorming session does some come up with the bright idea that if you only keep plastic sporks in the drawer it will protect you from domestic violence?

Obviously it'll stop em beating the shit out of you or stop them nipping to Tesco to buy a knife you can do more than cut soft tomatoes with.

Just words.

It's the weather. It has to be the weather.

The fuck?! How about, if you think a bloke (let's be honest, it's almost always a bloke) is at risk of stabbing his partner, maybe intervene? Remove him from the home? Help the woman leave?

Fucking hell. Even if we're ignoring the facts that they can just buy a proper knife or that there are so many other ways to abuse someone... They're giving this to people who they know have violent partners. You know, instead of doing anything about the partners.

I'm really concerned about this, if a woman doesn't swap her knives for 'blunt' ones is she going to get blamed when she is stabbed? What makes people think a blunted end isn't suitable as a stabbing weapon?
What about the scissors?

I think they already suggest that victims keep knives in a drawer in the kitchen, not out, because there is less chance of them being used then.

However if a victim has been threatened or attacked by a man wielding a knife, why isn't that man in prison, if the police are apparently aware of him?

this can't be for real.

I think I'm lost for words for the first time in my whole life. Wtaff is the only credible response I
I can think of.

It should be followed by about 50 more Fucks, but I'll restrain myself.

I just saw this and had to check the date of the article to make sure it wasnt an incredibly poorly considered April fools. Absolutely absurd.

This is like the DV victims you hear about whose homes are basically fortresses/prisons with alarms and bars on the windows and a secure panic room because we can't possibly lock up violent men who attack women. Women have to make the adjustments to our lives, men even the most violent, can just carry on.

Are they totally of their heads

At what point don’t they just take the violent men away from the home where they are seen as violent men who will stab a women
a blunter knife
So they are arming violent men with blunter knives. Head explodes at that reasoning
Cos the sharper knives might be a bit more fatal

Here’res your blunter knife you known stabber of women

Now crack on with that
Might take you longer but hey we the police tried our best

Wtaf?

This really pissed me off today.

There was a great twitter message about 'how about we sort out violent men instead' followed up with a bunch of 'men are victims of DV too'.

FUCK. OFF.

It's men. Men on women. And men on men.

I've heard A&E doctors calling for knives with points to be banned or reduced in number to help reduce knife crime deaths. Apparently it's much harder to kill somebody with a rounded end knife, like a bread knife, than a pointed knife. Anything that helps imo.

I dunno ken
They know a guy is violent with a knife so,instead of getting th3 guy out they say here’s a blunter knife.

Nope not just you. Between this and the NSPCC stuff I just want to wake up from this nightmare.

This is fucking awful. I feel I ought to have something constructive to contribute to this thread, but no. It's just too awful. I'm speechless.

The police where called out 83 times to my ex
He was arrested once-got an £80 fine refused to pay it and the police told me ‘maybe you should pay it to just get it done with’!
I lived (at the time) a 5/10 minute walk from the train station and they would just take him away drive him there and leave without checking he was on it
Of course he’d just wait an hour or so and come back round and I’d be forced ‘to waste police time’ and call em back out
They once sent police out with guns which made it even worse as the kids and I where already frightened
They where bloody useless

Yes today has been totally fucking insane.

MAKE IT STOP

Seriously?
If someone us is enough trouble to need their knives replacing with ones that wont kill them straight away which will be great for those who plan to torture instead then surely they wouldnt send them.home to the abuser in the first place

Let’s teach men not to stab women. Not teach women to use blunt knives.

Ffs.

Mind you, I imagine police are frustrated by people in dv relationships who don’t leave.

Every single day the insanity grows.

So far this week it's been Munroe Bergdorf and the pity party that followed, some freak show at the NSPCC wanking at work in rubber and posting it online and his employer defending his 'kink', men sticking frozen tomato ketchup up their bums to simulate periods, more women silenced (that's daily so hardly shock horror) oh and a reply from a weird group hoping to prevent hate crime saying they follow ECHR guidelines so don't include sex as a protected characteristic for hate crime.

It's only Wednesday.

This is making the Tory leadershit debacle look positively sane.

Oh, and on the silenced women thing... I went to the meeting in Sheffield by Michele Moore. The venue was changed because of protests that the Sheffield Feminist Network was hosting a hate event.
The venue was only announced at 4:30pm to avoid more hassle. A transgender person (who attended) then complained on Facebook that the organisers had done this to prevent peaceful protest and increase the sense of victimhood.

If TRAs hadn't closed down the first venue they could have peacefully protested as much as they wanted. It's all just surreal.

Wow, amazing!

This got me thinking that there must be a significant market for incredible new products that help victims to endure domestic violence whilst retaining a positive state of mind.

I can envisage a market for inflatable pillows that burst at the first hint of suffocation, carrier bags with breathing holes included and hosiery that disintegrates when pulled tightly preventing use as a ligature.

I think that this is the beginning of something beautiful!

Just imagine the wondrous array of exciting products that DV victims need but do not even know that they want yet!

I feel so very inspired.

There could be a product range for each different level of intensity!

The "Just Getting By" range, for this facing only occasional moderate abuses, the “One Day at a Time” range for those struggling with frequent violations and the “Live Every Day Like its Your Last” range for those who are so depleted and terrified that eating pureed food with plastic spoons from paper plates is the only way forward.