“what’s a pen license???? stupid australians lolololol”
well americans if you knew anything about other countries you’d know that in 1997 after the government outright banned anyone having guns ever in australia they widened the ban to cover other weapons
so like knives and rolling pins and shovels and things so you need a cookery license (you have to be 18 to buy a knife regardless) to buy one and for like hardware and tools – i mean, a hammer is a weapon and a half – you have to pay ten percent of your salary to a bunnings warehouse and then they’ll let you have a hammer. only if you have your tradesman’s license of course. and of course, your large animals license, if you want anything like a horse or a dog or a working emu.
so pens are pretty necessary to like everyday life, so the government hasn’t outlawed them (yet) but people need to take their pen license in primary school to demonstrate they won’t harm anyone with a pen and shall use it responsibly – that is, writing and self defence from cassowaries and drop bears and so on.
Subversive children in Australian primary schools who refuse or cannot
pass their pen license have been known to switch over to mechanical
pencils.Little known fact, mechanical pencils are not considered weaponry largely based on the fact their mechanism differs from pens and despite their utility as a stabbing tool and their secondary projectile capabilities.
It’s a loop hole that the gun lobby has, oddly, been trying to close as they feel the ridiculous nature of requiring licenses to use pencils will force the Australian public to rescind the gun laws.
Personally I’m just waiting for somebody to notice the artists and their metal rulers.
Isn’t that a state/federal thing though? Because I know in Victoria they’ve barred rulers made from anything but flexible plastic or round-edged paper.
Oh shit. I use a metal ruler all the time. Is it too late to hand it in without being charged with an offence? I don’t need a buyback just amnesty. Fuck, my criminal record is pristine. Oh nooo.
I’m going to assume that some if not all of these laws are things you made up for a funny joke, because every Australian I’ve ever met is a gleeful vector of chaos.
pretty typical response for an ignorant yank
how about you don’t make fun of other country’s sensible laws?
I don’t know why mechanical pencils are still legal. I know of at least two of my friends, and I have myself at least once, stabbed a classmate with these senseless weapons. The carnage must stop.
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