[TheForge] banning samurai swords (in england)

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Smith wrote:
> Trafalgar Square or the local bar that still allows
> smoking.

	Those are becoming scarce here.  I think NJ has now banned smoking in 
bars... what crap.  Philly was passing law to do the same.  Don't recall 
if it was Philly or NJ... the laws as proposed would basically make the 
geometric middle of the roadways the only places your were allowed to 
smoke.  It's beginning to have the same taste as general aviation.  Had 
a friend go on a cross country a couple years ago - he said there was 
one area in NM where as far as he could tell from the sectional map, he 
had about 10' of clearance on either wing tip in the corridor he was 
flying down.  Airspace has become VERY restricted since 2001.  I'm not 
sure it is even worth doing the general aviation thing anymore... so 
many things can land you in trouble anymore... much less some of the 
spectacularly stupid things I have done in the left seat, like fly 
between the Twin Towers and under the George Washington bridge.  You'd 
be shot out of the sky anymore.  Sad shape the world is in, I have to say.

	=Andy