Calling People Sheeple

What do you think about calling people who are nervous around knives; sheeple?

  • I think they are sheeple

    Votes: 65 39.4%

  • I do not think they are sheeple

    Votes: 33 20.0%

  • I do not agree with any of the responses

    Votes: 34 20.6%

  • Bahh

    Votes: 55 33.3%
  • Total voters
    165
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Many seem to be saying they don't find it offensive to call it, but I can't imagine anyone not being offended being called it.
 
22-rimfire said:
It is how you use the knife and your body language that gets people concerned. In the case of "it's the women", I think it simply never occurs to many to use a knife outside the kitchen or as a weapon (in the case of a mugger/rapist).
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How I use a knife and my body language? I thought about that. You may be right but, I doubt it. I don't normally flick my blades or my Bic. Most of the time I open knives with two hands in public and my carry is 3 to 3 1/2 inches in pocket, with or without clip. No autos and I avoid AO designs unless I can remove the spring. Clothing for my work is dress shirts and slacks. Much the same on weekends. Very rare I am in jeans & T shirt.

No, the problem is I live in a very PC area and I'm surrounded by sheeple.

As for the women at work, they just use what's close at hand. Keys, scissors, ruler, etc. We have a couple of knives at work they could use. They just normally don't. To them there is little need for a knife in the workplace, if any.
 
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zzyzzogeton said:
....Part of the problem nowadays is that too many people are LOOKING for a reason to be insulted and taking slight when none was intended, implied or stated.
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Agreed. It's like they look for a reason to be butthurt. Why is it that they always seem to lean left?
 
palonej said:
Yup!! I was in school in the '70's in Brooklyn and it was the same then. Everyone had a knife in school.......and I went to Catholic school!!
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Me too, Catholic school from 2nd grade till 11th when I got kicked out. Always carried a knife in school and no one said boo, I even had teachers and nuns ask to borrow mine because even then I carried a decent knife.

Emre said:
Just over the GWB in Bergen County, NJ
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Exit 11 :)

sabre cat said:
Agreed. It's like they look for a reason to be butthurt. Why is it that they always seem to lean left?
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Because they always think there's another ahole on the far right. ;)
 
Yeah I hate labels and would never call myself a "hero" but I don't mind if others do
 
;) Weapons in the hands of hostiles or fools makes ME "nervous" , so baaahaa ! By OP's definition , I guess I'm a sheeple ? The only weapons per se that scare me are mantraps / explosives and chemical/ biological / radiologic WMD . And poorly made or maintained weapons that are inherently dangerous to operate .

People's irrational fears do not concern me unless it leads to further abridgment of my rights and freedoms in the name of enhanced "security and safety" . :rolleyes:
 
People's irrational fears do not concern me unless it leads to further abridgment of my rights and freedoms in the name of enhanced "security and safety" . :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
When enough people with irrational fears get together with mass media while congress is in session, this is almost always what happens. Or, even worse, the President or chief executive uses hysteria as an excuse to limit our freedoms by expanding his own powers
 
I was actually introduced to Buck Knives by a male teacher in the 9th grade in early 1978; he was sharpening a pencil or something in class with a Buck Cadet, and I asked to see it. He showed me, and I showed him my Schrade medium stockman. Even though I live in San Diego, and Buck was a local company at the time, I had never heard of Buck Knives before then, as Schrade was the most common brand in many of the hardware and sporting goods stores. I liked his knife a lot and asked where he got it. He told me where he bought it, and I got one for myself.

Nowadays, an exchange about pocketknives like that in school between a teacher and a student would be unthinkable and quite impossible.

Jim
 
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Yonose said:
People's irrational fears do not concern me unless it leads to further abridgment of my rights and freedoms in the name of enhanced "security and safety" . :rolleyes:
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When enough people with irrational fears get together with mass media while congress is in session, this is almost always what happens. Or, even worse, the President or chief executive uses hysteria as an excuse to limit our freedoms by expanding his own powers[/QUOTE]
I honestly wonder if there's something particularly difficult about reading and respecting the rules as they pertain to politics outside of the political arena.
 
Yonose said:
Isn't exit 11 Middlesex county?
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Fords, Woodbridge and Edison I grew up in Fords and worked all over Newark, Orange South Mountain, Irvington, Harrison, Jersey City, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Used to be this little hole in the wall joint in Harrison sold the best Italian Hot Dogs.

Now those were areas where you didn't call people sheeple. Go ahead, take a Stoll down Broad St. in Newark and call the people sheeple. In fact, you can go and stand right in front of the police station in Newark right there on Broad St. And I bet you your knife will be out numbered by the guns and knives on the street you'll realize what a minority you really are.

Are we too PC? Hell yea, my Old Man used to tell Polish, Irish, Italian and Hispanic jokes. His friends told Hungarian and gypsy jokes. Everyone told religious jokes and there were many farmer's daughter jokes. No on was insulted, there were no sheeple , just crazy mofos who could take a joke and tell one. The phrase , ... If you can't take it than don't dish it out or something like that.

We take things too seriously sometimes, a little levity and making fun of ourselves as well as each other goes a long way in just gettin' people to chill out. If you can make someone smile you've changed their attitude, even if for a second or two. The issue comes when the intent is to purposely hurt someone with those same words. If you're intent is to hurt someone with that phrase, than it's wrong, if it's said in jest or just to make fun of someones alliance or allegiance to some one or some idea than there's nothing wrong. You have to take your audience into consideration and remember words are as powerful a weapon as a knife or gun, they can help or hurt, that choice and responsibility is all yours, all mine.

So your duty, obligation if you will is to be mindful of what you say, (choose your words wisely),where you say it and who you say it to. That's a mighty big obligation and responsibility. Me personally, you can say what ever you want to me, you can call me any name you want and I could couldn't care less, bring a family member or friend into it or someone who's not there to defend themselves we're gonna have issues.
 
"What do you get for pretending the danger's not real. Meek and obedient you follow the leader"

-Pink Floyd-

 
22-rimfire said:
When I use the term Sheeple, it is not usually intended to be particularly derogatory. It is more of a personal observation (judgement if you will) and calling a "spade a spade" or "the kettle black". Interesting that I chose those two.... one can see some racial overtones in those which I never really thought about. Again just an observation and the western world is just too damn PC. And why can't we make negative observations about people?
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If "calling spade a spade" or "the pot calling the kettle black" have racial overtones, then I'll suggest the one seeing racial overtones is actively looking for offense and to be offended.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/call_a_spade_a_spade

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search="a+spade+a+spade"

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/the_pot_calling_the_kettle_black

https://english.stackexchange.com/q...can-idiom-pot-calling-the-kettle-black/164004
 
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SCWillson said:
It's still neither diplomatic nor wise. Why use derogatory terms if you're trying to get along with non-knife people, or attracting newcomers to our hobby?
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The truth is often not diplomatic. and can often be quite harsh.
 
sabre cat said:
How I use a knife and my body language? I thought about that. You may be right but, I doubt it. I don't normally flick my blades or my Bic. Most of the time I open knives with two hands in public and my carry is 3 to 3 1/2 inches in pocket, with or without clip. No autos and I avoid AO designs unless I can remove the spring. Clothing for my work is dress shirts and slacks. Much the same on weekends. Very rare I am in jeans & T shirt.

No, the problem is I live in a very PC area and I'm surrounded by sheeple.

As for the women at work, they just use what's close at hand. Keys, scissors, ruler, etc. We have a couple of knives at work they could use. They just normally don't. To them there is little need for a knife in the workplace, if any.
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So the women are just practical. We all should be practical.

Knives with two hands..... hell, most of the time I have to open my knife with two hands as all I have with me is a SAK or a traditional. But I can close them one-handed. ;)
 
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