Hi everybody ,
First , I must admit that I tend to spend too much time surfing lots of forums of different subjects , mostly regarding my hobbies and such , and some regarding my way of making a living (sound engineer) . Some are Israeli forums and most are international/US in origin .
This is the first time I encountered a thread that would flame any other forum that I know to ashes , but instead , was handled by everybody here with respect and civilized conversation . Not only that , the OP came out and apologized ! Where I come from , doing this is way worse then flaming a forum ... it will send the apologizer straight to wuss hell - forever !
Not only that , all the other communities I'm spending my sleep time on , will be considered by the common person as more "intellectual" then knife discussion , dealing with aviation , photography , sound engineering etc. All those "intellectual places" would have burst into flames with foul language and everything if a thread like Arkanian originally posted was posted there .(Some of them regularly do that without any regulation) .
My friends and family will regard my knife interest as weird or scary , to the point that I hold it as my "secret hobby" . I will confess that sometimes even I feel uncomfortable with my knife interest , because of my surroundings and the fact that I grew up where knives are for the kitchen and for criminals... Well , now you people made me way more comfortable with myself !
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