I’m not British. :)

They were busy hiding in their bunkers while real countries actually fought and died.

The US refused to enter the war for years because it was afraid.

You can’t help but project, can you?

Also, didn’t you guys lose to a bunch of ricefarmers with sticks and muskets?

also “found him annoying” is a weird euphemism for “stalking while committing multiple hate crimes and threatening” but that’s why L

No, it isn’t. Even if the guy was being a racist asshole, of which there’s no evidence, despite him having filmed the interaction, that doesn’t justify murder. Jesus, this is like talking to a toddler. No, you can’t stab a person to death because you didn’t like him when he was walking home from a bar.

What fkin stalking? Why are you making up shit?

And even if he did, that’s still not an immediate threat to his life that wouldn’t even non-lethal force, let alone lethal force, let alone stabbing him all over five fucking times.

You’re just a shitstirrer though. I don’t believe you’re actually that illiterate. Or American, tbh. No wörries, I like writing. Keep stirring.

Lol, that doesn’t even apply in the US. You’re always going on about this thing called “freedom of speech”.

Perhaps try educating yourself on what that means?

Please describe in the detail which one of the victims actions necessitated him being stabbed five times various locations?

The guy didn’t even use expressions that could be construed as “fighting words” and even if he did, that wouldn’t necessitate being stabbed over it. Wouldn’t hold up even in US court.

In the U.S., the general rule is that “[a] person is privileged to use such force as reasonably appears necessary to defend him or herself against an apparent threat of unlawful and immediate violence from another.”[1] In cases involving non-deadly force, this means that the person must reasonably believe that their use of force was necessary to prevent imminent, unlawful physical harm.[2] When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other’s infliction of great bodily harm or death.[3] Most states no longer require a person to retreat before using deadly force. In the minority of jurisdictions which do require retreat, there is no obligation to retreat when it is unsafe to do so or when one is inside one’s own home.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defense_(United_States)#General_rule

So what was it, specifically?

Haha, American education strikes again.

Britain’s record since the 1700’s is at 63 victories, 11 defeats, and 10 inconclusive outcomes or stalemates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom

(Also they guy stabbed the victim five times in the torso and legs because he found him annoying, not because he was defending himself.)

Fellas, is stabbing someone five times to kill them after they filmed you and you didn’t like what they were saying, “self-defense”?

On the evening of 3 December 2025, some time before 11:30 pm, Nowak (victim) was walking in the area of Belmont Road in the Portswood suburb of Southampton.He had been drinking at the Hobbit Pub but he was under the drink-drive limit.

Nowak then began filming Vickrum Digwa. Video recovered from Nowak’s phone captured him saying “Hello car” and singing to himself before yawning, while Digwa walked away from him. Nowak continued: “Innit bad man, what bad man. You’re a bad man, say you’re a bad man, go on.” Digwa, still walking away in the Snapchat video, replied: “I am a bad man” Digwa inflicted five “stab wounds or cuts” on Nowak, with the 21-centimetre (8.3 in) Kirpan, a Sikh ceremonial knife he was carrying, including a fatal wound to the chest and additional wounds to his legs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Henry_Nowak#Murder

In a backpack, yeah, I wouldn’t worry as someone from Northern Europe.

On my belt though? Again, I wouldn’t worry… if I’m not on public transport and instead hiking in the woods or on my way there with boots and whatnot.

Wearing Friday bests in public transport with a large knife on my belt? Yeah I expect it wouldn’t be too long for someone to contact the authorities. Especially if you were just hanging out in public, displaying it.

And by knife I mean something like this

No-one would be bothered about a Swiss Army tool in your pocket, though.

In the EU or at least Finland, smoking in bars was still a thing in the 2010’s almost. 2007 definitely I was dancing and smoking a cigarette on the dancer floor of a club. Then 2007 they had go get non-smoking sides as well. And then the smoking rooms came in for some years, but you weren’t allowed in with a drink. (And you couldn’t get special dispensation, even for a bar which sold cigars as their thing, nope, can’t have your drink with you in the smoking room.) Idk how long ago the last tobacco rooms got banned as well.

But yeah in the 90’s it was fkin everywhere, not just in nightclubs and bars.

All cars were pretty much smoking as well. Any car from the 90’s definitely has a cigarette lighter and an ashtray. My -06 Huyndai still has an ashtray.

High times top strains 1977.

Led lights have done amazing shit for weed growers. Granted the 90’s already had good buds despite people having to use HPS lamps ans whatnot but LED has still been awesome for homegrowing, especially in countries where you can’t grow outside. Also autoflowers just came in like early 00’s. Well they technically existed in the 90’s but first successful commercial strain was Lowryder in 2002. (That shit was good smoke too, very creative high.)

“one of”

The law where I live pretty much says you have to accept all the most common forms of payment. Or used to, but after covid they’ve used hygiene as a reason to save on the costs of cash.

Yeah electronic is usually much easier, but unfortunately I have quite a few things which I need and/or get cash from. Which isn’t ideal, but since not doing it would mean worse things, I do do it, while waiting for my society to improve.

But Visa Electron doesn’t do all those things perfectly, btw. Better today, but I remember having overdrawn my account a bunch of times as a youth, because when I was broke I’d shop at small stores I knew that their machine didn’t properly verify funds before placing a pending purchase, even when it was supposed to not be able to do that.

Also I don’t have to pay fees to my banks or ATM’s here, not yet at least. Forex is pushing ATMs here though, with lots of ATM’s for foreign currency. Who is enough of a dipshit to use an ATM for foreign currency in their home country before going on a trip? Scams, the lot of them.

Here’s more from Janek on Honest Guides

I never mentioned anything about a spice road, so either that’s shitty sarcasm or shitty lying.

Edit sorry just bad reading by me I read “I’ve never heard of…” instead of “I have heard of”. Apologies.

Yeah cash is different, but dirty money isn’t always cash. If you believe that then you’re probably not aware how larger scale crimes work.

I am kinda annoyed with stores being allowed to not accept cash nowadays. When I was younger and drove a taxi I always had to have my own change on me, and sometimes I was broke when going to work and couldn’t break a 50 or a hundred and I’d just have to lower the fare to a sum I was able to break. Luckily hundreds were pretty rare and not being able to break one wasn’t a big deal. But breaking a 50 was assumed and once you were somewhere 20km from the nearest atm, the only choice for me was to just lower the price. Sometimes they’d tip the difference, but more often than not I had to round down like 5-10€.

Now it’s so digital, and there is no concept of dirty money.

Dude’s never heard of crypto.

Like 80% of what drove the rise of Bitcoins value was the drugmarket, ie dirty money. I myself had more than 120 Bitcoins for a few hours. I never invested in any crypto, just to make it clear. I just went to an anonymous automat in a mall, inserted cash, wrote in a crypto wallet address, went home and purchased drugs online.

Had I been a bit smarter I prolly would’ve invested a few euros into bitcoin, but to be fair I’ve not been in a financial situation where I’ve would’ve justified waited for it to grow for 10 years. I would’ve def cashed out at a few k.

Other than that yeah I feel your comment. I remember when all the adults had proper credit cards and kids had Visa Electrons, meaning it needed verification of funds before allowing a purchase, unlike a credit card you could just charge without verification. With one of these.. Dad had one, as he had a taxi. They don’t call it a “click-clack” for nothing. Using it felt like being an actionhero and loading a shotgun.

Are coin pockets even still a thing on jeans btw?

Yea I don’t get it either. I don’t use two arms to put on a seatbelt…

I saw the bodycam footage of this. The cop says “I saw you holding a phone in your right hand.” She holds the arm up, showing the stump, smiles and says, “you wanna just call it?” And he just digs deeper; “no I don’t want to call it, I saw you doing uhm…” blablabla excuses excuses citation.

Fucking ego on cops. Could’ve just said, “hah, clearly my mistake” I stead of power tripping and ending up all over the internet. Although bet it won’t affect his police career any.

I don’t see how one wouldn’t naturally get that, no offense. I mean, if one didn’t paticularly really ever use a keyboard and typed like gen-x or olders, with index fingers, sure.

But surely if you’re 30 and used a keyboard all your life you don’t need to look at the keyboard while typing…?

No offense. I may just be way overusing one since I was a teenager idk.

I wasn’t even being judgmental. Just curious. I basically have a personality disorder because I have a loud voice and am kinda extroverted. But I think if I were to live in like L.A. I’d be considered introverted. Maybe average for like rural Minnesota.

We 6 American college students were louder than all the 1000 Swiss in the square, by volume.

You noticed this and just kept going?

Try DMT, that should answer some questions.

My grandparents on my mom’s side became Jehovas at a later age.

Grandma used to send longwinded letters about Satan and whatnot. When I grew up a bit I started to take enjoyment in just talking to her about Christianity, but just in a way that pointed out the irrationality, as she would always hang up, mad, because she didn’t have the answers. Like just the problem of Evil, but framing it so that Satan might be evil, but God made him, so what does that make God? Things like that, can’t recall, she passed away like 10 years ago.