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As an America it is very important to keep your drugs OUTSIDE of your gun. A pound of crack really messes with the loading chamber.

@Theomniadept You're telling me, man! You get so much as a gram of cocaine in the receiver of an AR-15, you're probably gonna have to at LEAST field strip it, if not completely disassemble it and clean the whole damn thing. Otherwise, there's no way it'll chamber a round properly.

It's less of a problem if you're strapped with an AK, of course, but still. And God help you if you get hashish in your gun, that's a nightmare.

@Theomniadept And boom goes the dynamite! Fav comment of the month, sir.

@Theomniadept "Keep your powder dry."

In defence of our fair nation, we are completely isolated geographically from most of the rest of the world, and our fruit and veg reflect this. We can't afford for some foreign contagion/pest to come in and wipe out our entire fresh produce industry. I feel our response to people trying to smuggle in potentially infected food is valid and justified.

@SweetJessieRose yeh here too (in NZ)! Can't have our fruit exports fucked up by crappy imports now can we?
Though I am sad that we can't get your Aussie bananas. So much closer to us then the Philippines as far as reducing the carbon footprint would be...

And as a swede it usually takes like 10 minutes or so before you realize you ended up in Norway by mistake...

@BubbleBiggan As a swede, I can relate

Wondering if you want to move in Finland as a refugee?
Here the answer:
IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING AWAY FROM WAR AND DANGER, DO NOT COME IN FINLAND AS A REFUGEE! YOU STEAL THE SHELTER PLACES AND HELP FROM REAL REFUGEES, WHO REALLY ARE IN DANGER! WE DON'T HAVE MONEY TO FEED ALL OF YOU. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO PUT YOU IN POOR TENTS. WE ONLY HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE IN DANGER! IF YOU WANT TO STUDY OR WORK IN FINLAND, YOU COME HERE AS AN IMMIGRANT OR AS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT. NOT AS A REFUGEE. DO NOT COME HERE IF YOU ARE NOT IN DANGER, BECAUSE OF YOU WILL NOT GET ANYTHING. AND YOU ONLY STEAL HELP FROM THOSE WHO NEED IT. THANK YOU!

@Vedenneito http://www.killerchemtrails.com/uploads/8/9/4/8/8948721/1209280_orig.jpg

@Vedenneito "WE DON'T HAVE MONEY" would suffice. In fact, it is a sad truth.

@Vedenneito It makes sense. No country has the money to give everyone in the world food and shelter, nor do they have the space to build that shelter. And people falsely claiming to be in danger in their home country are taking away space and resources from real refugees. It's all so true.

@Zeust Yea. But I don't think it's only because of people are selfish, but also uneducated; they think we have EVERYTHING up here in the north, they think "it doesn't cost much for us to feed few more people". Somebody should talk about the situation. Hundreds of centers of refugees built all the time, it's just irrational and won't succeed in long run.

@Vedenneito That's exactly the problem. They don't know any better and that's where the traffickers draw their advantages. They convince the refugees to spend their lifetime savings, promising a better life, but concealing the huge risks that await them. Even if they aren't stopped midway or even drown/end up dead, they will have very little chance to get into the country anyways. They take the money and just don't care anymore. It's too much of a risk if you're not in immediate danger.

It's sad how people downvote your comment, like it is okay to betray the refugees and burden the helping countries with even more bureaucracy, making it only harder to help those in actual desperate need.

@Nethyae Exactly. The "business" around illegal immigrant transporting should be talked about. Talked about loudly enough so that the message of dangers around illegal transporting as well as the disadvantages of immigrating to "wealth" countries would be heard over where the people have been cheated into this. As I've seen many interviews of illegal immigrants where they say "we came all the way and they don't give us money and education to our children". First I thought they're just completely selfish and talking in a degrading manner. But I'm getting more and more suspicious that the illegal immigrant transporters just lie to them that our governments have a deal to give all that to every immigrant.

@Vedenneito, wow enough Finland here.

Depressing

Why apples ? Here is the scientific reason why.

A apple is a fruit. Since it's a fruit, it's related to other fruits. So that means it's related to the common lemon. And lemons are super gross.

@Pewdiepug they are foreign organisms that can carry further foreign organisms. There is a chance there's an insect or eggs or such burrowed inside the apple. Australia, being a geographically isolated country (therefore with a very vulnerable ecosystem) is terrified of foreign biological instrusions. The apple in itself is not the danger, but the apple may pose as a *host* to dangers.

@Zegh this guy gets it.

@Pewdiepug excuse u lemons are Good and Pure Fruit. downvote

See, kids? This is why you don't settle on an isolated landmass where everything wants to kill you.

Fun fact, in America you can't bring nail clippers on a plane, cause you could, um, clip someone to death... I guess...

@Acellan But of course you can bring a glass plate onboard and break it inside your bag (out of sight) into giant shards just by "accidentally" setting the bag down too hard. It's all pointless "security theatre".

I once had a dull aluminum garden spade confiscated from me at an airport in the US - the security guy looked like he was about to drag me off to the police when he saw it, calling it a "6 inch blade". Apparently I was going to scrounge up a whetstone in a gift shop or something and sit there in the lobby for half an hour trying to turn it into a knife. Meanwhile, the inside of my laptop has a number of sharp surfaces that I've accidentally cut myself on while taking it apart in the past, but it was apparently no problem....

People have been making blades since the beginning of time. It literally takes nothing more than two rocks - one glassy (obsidian, chert, etc... or glass for that matter) and one hard, to knapp off chunks. "Making sharp things" is something you're never going to be able to prevent. So yeah, sure, stop people from carrying conveniently-already-made, already-dangerous bladed weapons - fine. But this whole game of trying to stop things that could be made into weapons... it's just absurd. You can't win it.

@Karen my friend taught me how to make a razor-sharp blade out of a cigarette filter (yeah, I probably need new friends...)

@Karen Sounds about right. I've had blunt-nosed pliers confiscated before, yet accidentally carried a straight razor into and out of Los Angeles in a pouch with some coins.
My father had cough lozenges taken once (potential chemical agent), yet another friend wandered through with an actual stiletto in her purse.
A different friend, from Iran, had officers take her away because of a wooden case that was apparently a stielhandgranate?

@Acellan Or tweezers.

Frankly, if someone can successfully hijack a plane using just nail clippers or tweezers, then maybe they deserve the plane.

@star3catcher how about a cigarette filter, a lighter and a ball-point pen? I can use those to make what's effectively a straight razor (though with a very small blade)

@Acellan That isn't a rule anymore. I commented on it to my dad on a recent flight when he took out some nail clippers, to commit acts of ter- I mean clip his nails. As they say, if you can hijack a plane with only nail clippers, you can do it without nail clippers.

@Acellan And yet, my aunt (A tour manager for a band) was able to bring a metal ammo case full of guitar strings on the plane with her.

@Acellan In my experience you can bring nail clippers on an American flight. But only if they're accompanied by two long, pointed metal sticks (aka knitting needles) or other crafting device, plus at least one ball of yarn.

Brother America is just like Trump (pray to god he doesn't get elected or else the entire world is fucked)

@silverbackgorilla7 Well...fuck. I think we jinxed it.

To clarify. The reason Australia is so against plant matter is because our country has a terrible history with introduced species.

Cane toads, cane beetles, cats, dogs, mice/rats, foxes, rabbits not to mention many types of fungus and the dreaded fruit fly tearing apart the fruit orchards in the north.
These aren't fears- these are the ones that got INTO the country already!

Nowadays fruit and plant matter needs to be subject to several laid out testing methods to make it 'safe' but many more traditional countries like india and asia not only prefer to bring hard to find fruits and spices with them, but also have a habit of gift giving and therefore bring these in large amounts to give to relatives, potentially devastating the wildlife further.

@Taeanna the immigration also seems a bit harsh; "so, you have four parking tickets? sry, our law says maximum of three; I'm going to cancel your visa & deny you entry, also don't try to come back for 10 years, next!"

@Taeanna also, the formula for undeclared food seems to be: "you didn't declare this, why? here, you said you didn't have food, is this not food? why did you claim you did not have food? don't lie to me, you checked the box that you understood everything on this card, now why did you say you didn't have any food?" rinse and repeat until the poor Chinese person loses his/her s**t and gives the customs an excuse to cancel his/her visa and ban him/her from entering Australia for a few years...

@Taeanna
Us Queenslanders counteract canetoads with cricket bats.

@Australian-Person Damn Right

@Doss DAMN STRAIGHT

Entering Canada from the US I saw a whole list of things you could not bring including firewood and "offensive weapons". I always wondered what an "inoffensive weapon" would be.

@Sunwyn A really, really polite gun?

Somewhat more seriously, I have heard of shields being described as defensive weapons, as well as (theoretically) nonlethal "personal security devices" such as tasers, pepper spray, and so on. So it's possible that 'offensive weapon' is something that would normally be potentially fatal if used as a weapon, as opposed to things that can hurt someone but usually won't kill them unless they have some condition that makes them especially susceptible or you take it to an extreme.

@Sunwyn OH my goodness that is so polite Canadian stereotyping in action ... LOL but I agree, I think they might be meaning the difference between offensive and defensive weapons ..

@Sunwyn Firewood is kinda logical. Lots of locations may have unchecked Asian Longhorn Beetle infestations which can lead to lots of bad wood. Many states within the US even try to push buying wood locally because it may not have been infested. Once in a GREAT while a cord gets through but usually its people who just say "its just wood" and don't care.