Bladeforums age demographic?

[marchone]

Days away from clocking in at 70. I have learned a great deal about knives and steel on BF. My only regret was getting sidetracked by the Politics forum. That was not productive.

 

[000Robert]

My only regret was getting sidetracked by the Politics forum. That was not productive.

Yeah, after awhile it becomes kinda monotonous.

 

[marchone]

Likely due to my participation in that forum I also lost out on a second custom knife I was having made for me. Apparently Hengelo_77 saw the front page crawl and decided he wasn’t going to make a knife for a conservative. It was sad that he couldn’t be up front about it. He simply stopped communicating with me.

 

[Blues]

Likely due to my participation in that forum I also lost out on a second custom knife I was having made for me. Apparently Hengelo_77 saw the front page crawl and decided he wasn’t going to make a knife for a conservative. It was sad that he couldn’t be up front about it. He simply stopped communicating with me.

Without us getting off into the weeds on politics, (which will get the thread shut down), would you really want something from someone who didn't respect you in the first place?

I'm sure there are many others who will be happy to build a knife for you, without needing to know the particulars of your politics or beliefs.

Either way...there's a place for political discussion...and this ain't it.

And... Hengelo_77 does not have the proper membership level to sell knives on this site...if that is what he was doing. But that's another story.

 

[RedFury]

Us 70 + guys must be dying off. Not me though

 

[000Robert]

Likely due to my participation in that forum I also lost out on a second custom knife I was having made for me. Apparently Hengelo_77 saw the front page crawl and decided he wasn’t going to make a knife for a conservative. It was sad that he couldn’t be up front about it. He simply stopped communicating with me.

I agree with Blues . CPK knives are my favorite anyway.

 

[sabre cat]

honestly, I never was in as good a shape as I used to be... as in used cars, mileage is more important than age all day long... and I am sadly very high mileage....

I don’t know... I have a Jeep Cherokee that was made in 1989.
It will be 32 years old this September and it has less than 68K original miles on it.

Yet, I have more time under the hood than behind the steering wheel.

Just letting your body or your car set is a horrible thing to do.

 

[Pomsbz]

I had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Information was hard to get back then.

We thought ignorance was caused by inaccessibility to information. We were wrong.

Now everyone walks around with the cumulative knowledge of an entire race on their smart phone. Ignorance is worse than ever.

Probably because critical thinking is a prerequisite to being able to process knowledge and for all the information out there, critical thinking is just as lacking and discouraged as it has ever been. It's fascinating how little humans have changed the way they think over the millennia. The 'what' changes but not the 'how' or 'why'.

 

[Wolverine666]

I like this thread idea. I’m 47.

 

[sevilla]

Arriving at my sixties this month. And still able to use my knives while hunting and trekking.

 

[Ajack60]

I don’t know... I have a Jeep Cherokee that was made in 1989.
It will be 32 years old this September and it has less than 68K original miles on it.

Yet, I have more time under the hood than behind the steering wheel.

Just letting your body or your car set is a horrible thing to do.

Here’s the problem with that, growing up, I was told that hard work never killed anyone. What they failed to tell me was that you’ll wear out your ass out if you work hard for too long. Being young and dumb, I didn’t know any better and worked like mule. Had I known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have driven the car that hard and maybe some of the aches, stiffness and worn out parts would be in better shape.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Chiun says it best

and of course Indy's view is valid too

oh and I'll be 68 this coming Jan, doesn't seem possible,
a quote I remember says 'if I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself'
G2

 

[sabre cat]

Here’s the problem with that, growing up, I was told that hard work never killed anyone. What they failed to tell me was that you’ll wear out your ass out if you work hard for too long. Being young and dumb, I didn’t know any better and worked like mule. Had I known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have driven the car that hard and maybe some of the aches, stiffness and worn out parts would be in better shape.

You can put miles on a car gently or you can put the same amount of miles on with lots of abuse. Everything else being equal, in theory, the abused vehicle will fall first.

My Cherokee had the best of care before I got it with 64113 miles on the odometer. It averaged about 2000 miles a year.

 

[HJK]

Mostly a bunch of young whippersnappers around here now.
Why, I remember when we used to have to make knives out of mud and you had to power the internet with mastadon droppings.

Oregon Archaeologists Discover 15,000-Year-Old Knife

In the high desert west of Burns, Oregon, a team of archaeologists have discovered an unusual artifact they suspect is new evidence of one of the oldest human settlements in North America.

www.opb.org