Blade hypocricy

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Faiaoga said:
Sadly, many students today try to attract attention and to disrupt class by shouting "he has a knife" - they seem to expect a SWAT team to come and evacuate the building when a pencil needs to be sharpened or a piece of rubber tubing needs to be cut.
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I'm Language Arts so almost no reason to pull any knife during one of my classes. However, if I did and I got that response--especially as a jest trying to cause a disruption rather than actual alarm--I'd get pretty annoyed... Hat's off to you.
 
Screwdriver said:
Not a school, but my last job. I carried an Endura and was told that people complained....but being the IT guy, I was exempt. When I started carrying my orange Military....no one complained as I think they saw orange as safety/tool.
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I too am an IT guy and there is only one guy that made a stupid comment, the phone tech. I pulled a ZT 0770 and he said something like "Whoa, who thought about bringing in friggin a bayonet". I politely asked him to be quiet and mind his own affairs as he had his own work that needed completing.
 
My boss has a son in culinary arts and was recently reprimanded for used a box cutter to open BOXES of food in the kitchen because they are unsafe. He was like, SO would you rather me use a 7 inch santoku that is right over there? And they said YES!

Idiots.
 
NaturalMystic said:
I know man, all I can do is shake my head in disbelief at how stupid people are getting.
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Pretty soon we could have a real Harrison Bergeron situation on our hands.... soccer players will need to wear heavy weights when off the field so that they are less likely to kick someone to death.... Although I guess heavy weights might aid them in that process. We'd better amputate them and regulate artificial legs for use on the field instead.
 
Well I've never worked at a school or anything but when I was a kid in school we of course weren't allowed to carry knives there but occasionally I'd bring my Swiss Army knife anyway, just because I always carried it when out of school. I got into trouble once when I used the bottle opener on it to open a drink I had at lunch and a teacher saw that I had a "weapon". I didn't get suspended or anything (things were a little less crazy then) but I was told to never bring it again or I might be. Later on one of my classmates who had a mental illness grabbed a pair of scissors that were always laying around and held a teacher hostage in a chair for a few hours with the scissors pressed against their throat.

Funny how a responsible kid using a tool to open a drink looks more dangerous to people than a pair of pointy scissors laying around where anyone can just grab them. They never did ban scissors but a SAK, oh look out...
 
These situations are nothing more than an attempt to try to make a good reasonable person look aggressive, then they will turn to you knowing you carry a knife and ask to use it. Just like politicians , it's only ok when they say it is other than that its a not right. Gotta love hypocrites!
Update- carpenters must were hand restraints when off work , swinging a hammer all day can make it easy to pummel someone.
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
Well I work in a school, and have previously got major flack for my dragonfly. today, I go to wash my coffee cup near the sink in a room where there are constantly students and I see a huge butcher knife out in the open! WTF?

Maybe it is because I am a male, maybe it is because I'm a bit more rough around the edges than some of the teachers, but I really feel that it is unfair and hypocritical that butcher knives can be left out in the open but I look like a murderer because I have a dragonfly .

Do any others around here have such experiences with blade hypocrisy?
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Are you really surprised about this in today's society?

As time goes on Society is getting dumber and more ignorant.... Not smarter.....
 
Yes, I am in a huge customer support office setting. THere are several 8" serrated knives in the kitchen for all of the requisite birthday and other celebratory cakes. We all have 6" scissors in our desk drawers. By golly though, when you open a OHO, you raise the alert levels around you! However, in using my SAK, Opinel, or Buck trads, I've only gotten the occasional comment of "that's neat, ...cute...or handy", LOL.

Go figure.
 
My wife works in a school. Last weekend she needed to cut some plastic sheeting at a local club that we both belong to and asked if she could borrow a knife. I gave her a large folder and she stuck it in her hand bag. By Monday I forgot about it and she went off to work. By midday , I remembered giving her the knife and I panicked, thinking she was at work with a pocket knife in her bag. She didn't take it with her, but that's how bad it's gotten in the school system here. I actually panicked that she'd get caught with a knife and lose her job.

On the other hand , I work for a small company and everyone knows me pretty well, if I didn't have a knife my coworkers would think I was sick.
 
RedLynx said:
I'm Language Arts so almost no reason to pull any knife during one of my classes. However, if I did and I got that response--especially as a jest trying to cause a disruption rather than actual alarm--I'd get pretty annoyed... Hat's off to you.
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We were doing an egg drop project and some of the cardboard was too strong for scissors. And it really bugged me. The exact words from one kid were something like "Mr. Spydermade has a knife! Who you gunna shank w that!?". Luckily he's so out of it that the other kids kinda know he's crazy and one even told him shut up. I actually like little crazy eyes when he's not driving me nuts.
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
We were doing an egg drop project and some of the cardboard was too strong for scissors. And it really bugged me. The exact words from one kid were something like "Mr. Spydermade has a knife! Who you gunna shank w that!?". Luckily he's so out of it that the other kids kinda know he's crazy and one even told him shut up. I actually like little crazy eyes when he's not driving me nuts.
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That's what they are taught to think, in school and at home.
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
We were doing an egg drop project and some of the cardboard was too strong for scissors. And it really bugged me. The exact words from one kid were something like "Mr. Spydermade has a knife! Who you gunna shank w that!?". Luckily he's so out of it that the other kids kinda know he's crazy and one even told him shut up. I actually like little crazy eyes when he's not driving me nuts.
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We live in a crazy world. I teach mostly upper level classes, so it's a safe bet that most of the kids are goal-oriented kids who want to actually be there, and pay attention, and are not too bored by me. I would guess a lot of them would find the kind of knives I carry at school to be pretty interesting (I try to choose non-threatening ones but since most knives aren't automatically threatening to me, that can be tricky.)

Oddly enough, I bet most of my colleagues would be far more "terrified" and judgmental.

It's weird, I figure most people 40ish and up probably had a dad and a granddad that carried and used pocket knives. But perhaps it's much less common than I thought.
 
Yup. Caught some flack for using a Buck 55 folder (2.5" blade) to open a bag of potato chips when there is an 8" kitchen knife sitting around that gets used for cutting cake.
 
RedLynx said:
We live in a crazy world. I teach mostly upper level classes, so it's a safe bet that most of the kids are goal-oriented kids who want to actually be there, and pay attention, and are not too bored by me. I would guess a lot of them would find the kind of knives I carry at school to be pretty interesting (I try to choose non-threatening ones but since most knives aren't automatically threatening to me, that can be tricky.)

Oddly enough, I bet most of my colleagues would be far more "terrified" and judgmental.
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Well they are what they are, the teachers that is and most of them are so anti gun, knife etc as a group... Now yes there are a few who aren't, but they are the exception....

And yeah that's even at College Level from what I have seen...

RedLynx said:
It's weird, I figure most people 40ish and up probably had a dad and a granddad that carried and used pocket knives. But perhaps it's much less common than I thought.
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Depends on how and were they are raised....

Now being the age that I am I carried a knife with me almost all the way through school from around 4th grade all the way through HS....

And in HS it was a Buck 110 on my belt......

Try that one these days.... In today's society...... ;)
 
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