Not allowed to buy a box of matches !
April 6th, 2018 at 9:30:12 AM permalink | |
OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1504 | OK. I don't like having to criticise my country's laws, but this is too funny to pass up on. It all started yesterday when I gave thought to buying a box of matches for the kitchen. Nothing special, just those regular 2 inch slivers of wood for making fire and lighting candles on birthday cakes. Seems innocent enough. My first instinct was to buy online, but soon I discovered something remarkable: 'Strike anywhere' matches are being phased out and only safety matches are now being manufactured... Strike Anywhere Manufacture Phased out Wow! you learn something new everyday! So I looked on ebay and found..... A black market in the old style matches, which were changing hands at £6.00 for 3 boxes of 200 matches. UK and US mail prohibit them, so these sellers were probably flouting the law. Well, if something is going to be unobtainable, I had to get me some :o) And I did. But this is where it got stupid! I drove to town and looked in the regular supermarkets, ASDA and Tesco and Morrisons and they only had Note the words 'Safety Matches' on the box. I wanted 'Strike Anywhere' matches like these. and I wasn't going home without them! After scouring the whole town (OK, 5 stores) I found a shop with 3 boxes in stock at the regular price of 93 p a box. Hurrah. Grabbed the lot. So, I take my 3 boxes of matches to the checkout and handed over my £3 like a naughty schoolboy. And she said
Silliest thing since I was stopped from buying 3 egg-plants. Or when I was age checked buying a beer making kit (Malt syrup and satchet of yeast) The world's gone mad. If I could buy a gun, I'd..... Let's not go there. :o) Note to GCHQ, FBI and NSA. No. I'm neither an arsonist, nor an aubergine terrorist, nor a black market fire trader. I've scoured google and can find no such law. I suspect the sales assistant was talking through her arse. |
April 6th, 2018 at 9:50:22 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | Aren't you going to sell them on eBay? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
April 6th, 2018 at 9:55:38 AM permalink | |
OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1504 | If I could have found enough stock, yes, of course.... not. I'd have no way of mailing them |
April 6th, 2018 at 10:12:59 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | I don't think I've ever seen a strike-anywhere match, much less handled one. This guy in high school would glue match strips to the sole of his shoe and strike matches there. But eventually the dirt layer that accumulated would keep them from lighting. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
April 6th, 2018 at 11:24:00 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | We haven't had strike anywhere matches in MI since the 80's. We lived thru the crisis.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
April 6th, 2018 at 12:07:22 PM permalink | |
OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1504 | Really??? Reading about the original white phosphorous matches, they were highly toxic:- in the 1840s
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April 6th, 2018 at 2:05:15 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I used to keep the strike anywhere matches in my survival kits. Kept some on my boats soaked in wax to waterproof, just peel the wax off and light anywhere. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
April 6th, 2018 at 2:53:22 PM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 | The last strike anywhere matches I bought wouldn't strike anywhere including the side of the box. (Ohio Blue Tip several years ago). Just keep a few Bic lighters around. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
April 7th, 2018 at 5:37:29 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 |
She should go to work for a casino , she'd rise to the top in a flash!! I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
April 7th, 2018 at 5:58:09 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | https://www.kroger.com/p/diamond-strike-anywhere-matches/0004878904551 http://www.chainsawjournal.com/top-4-strike-anywhere-matches/ The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |