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Knives are less dangerous than a wallpaper scraper

Ok, can someone please clear something up for me?
Today, I was sent to B&Q to get a screwdriver set and a heavy duty wallpaper scraper for work (I'm helping with another Currys branch's refit)
Everything's all fine and dandy and while I was there I thought I'd get some replacement blades for my stanley knife, until I got to the checkout, at which point the jobsworth bint behind the counter asked if I was 21. I said no, assuming it was something to do with Challenge 21 so I got my ID out showing that I'm over 18. At this point she then said that I had to be 21 to buy the wallpaper scraper ^o)
I raised the proverbial eyebrow at her and was about to demand to speak to the duty manager for an explanation, when she scanned the screwdrivers which were fine, and my stanley knife blades, which I didn't get challenged for! :mad:

WTF!
So, lets get this straight - my stanley knife and my screwdrivers aren't dangerous, but the wallpaper scraper is LETHAL :eek3:

So what I'm getting at is, what's the legal stance on buying wallpaper scrapers? How old do you have to be to decorate your walls? :rolleyes:

At 18, you can get stoned in Amsterdam, pickle your liver legally, watch dodgy... dodgy... hardcore pr0n, but you can't buy a wallpaper scraper :mad:

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Reply 1
you can do some damage witha wallpaper scraper, but to let you but blades! and screwdrivers? lesson lernt never go to B&Q again!

you can buy paracetamol at 16 for christ sake!!!!!!
Mad Vlad
Ok, can someone please clear something up for me?
Today, I was sent to B&Q to get a screwdriver set and a heavy duty wallpaper scraper for work (I'm helping with another Currys branch's refit)
Everything's all fine and dandy and while I was there I thought I'd get some replacement blades for my stanley knife, until I got to the checkout, at which point the jobsworth bint behind the counter asked if I was 21. I said no, assuming it was something to do with Challenge 21 so I got my ID out showing that I'm over 18. At this point she then said that I had to be 21 to buy the wallpaper scraper ^o)
I raised the proverbial eyebrow at her and was about to demand to speak to the duty manager for an explanation, when she scanned the screwdrivers which were fine, and my stanley knife blades, which I didn't get challenged for! :mad:

WTF!
So, lets get this straight - my stanley knife and my screwdrivers aren't dangerous, but the wallpaper scraper is LETHAL :eek3:

So what I'm getting at is, what's the legal stance on buying wallpaper scrapers? How old do you have to be to decorate your walls? :rolleyes:

At 18, you can get stoned in Amsterdam, pickle your liver legally, watch dodgy... dodgy... hardcore pr0n, but you can't buy a wallpaper scraper :mad:
Write a complaint to them about the absurdity of their policies.
Reply 3
How many B&Q-bashing threads is this now? If the B&Q marketing manager signs up to TSR this week he just may commit suicide.
Reply 4
I thought 16 was the legal age for knife purchase. She was just being a bitch.
Reply 5
Watch out! I will slash you with my wallpaper scraper *slash slash slash* and then cut you with my paint roller!! YAHHHH!
Reply 6
Segat1
Watch out! I will slash you with my wallpaper scraper *slash slash slash* and then cut you with my paint roller!! YAHHHH!


:eek: Not the paint roller! Anything but the paint roller! Before this gets out of hand I think we must start a campaign to have these banned!
Reply 7
you coudl behead someone with a wall paper scraper!

pwnd..

oh well.
Reply 8
mipmapped
I thought 16 was the legal age for knife purchase. She was just being a bitch.

The computer said 21. :confused:
Reply 9
Mad Vlad
The computer said 21. :confused:

bastards :mad:
Reply 10
Mad Vlad


WTF!
So, lets get this straight - my stanley knife and my screwdrivers aren't dangerous, but the wallpaper scraper is LETHAL :eek3:


think about it from the wall's perspective... :wink:
Mad Vlad
The computer said 21. :confused:
"Computer says no..." :biggrin:

Wow. That's the first time I've quoted a Little Britain joke. And hopefully the last.
Reply 12
Stick Man
"Computer says no..." :biggrin:

Wow. That's the first time I've quoted a Little Britain joke. And hopefully the last.

Bah! You beat me to it.

In the shop I work in, you have to be 18 to buy shoe polish! Ive never seen anybody going about sniffing shoe polish before.. is it actually possible to get high off the stuff? Is that even the issue?
"Things to Do with Shoe Polish" - sounds like a subject line of a viral email.
Reply 15
It may not be law just store policy. I know there is a shop near me which you have to be over 21 to buy alcohol because of problems with underage drinking and anti social activity. IE drinking on the streets...including people who are old enough to go to the pubs.
Though why they would let you have the stanley blades and not the wallpaper scraper is beyond me.
Reply 16
Welcome to 21st century Britain. We can't solve any real problems, so let's invent some to find solutions too...
Reply 17
the amount of paracetemol you can buy kinda bugs me... they limit you to i think 2 packets, and no more because you could possibly OD of them...and you can't do that on just the two?
Reply 18
wikiwikiwildwildwest
Write a complaint to them about the absurdity of their policies.

Mind you, be careful what you write, the next time you go, they might not allow you to buy the screwdrivers and knives... Imagine, the only thing you could get would be... wallpaper and flower pots. Mind you, you could break the pot and use the bits as weapons...:y:
Galipote
Mind you, be careful what you write, the next time you go, they might not allow you to buy the screwdrivers and knives... Imagine, the only thing you could get would be... wallpaper and flower pots. Mind you, you could break the pot and use the bits as weapons...:y:


and imagine what kind of mischeif you could get up to with wallpaper!