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"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")
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Hi,
I keep threating the Wife that we're going to sell out and move to Alaska.I do really want to take an Alaskan cruise going from Seattle up. So I'm a bit jealous of you!
Dale
Haven't been in a while but enjoyed several weeks climbing and backpacking in the Wrangell's and Denali area in years past.
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I was emailing back and forth with one of my close internet friends and he started talking about how great cold steel knives were. I told him I didn't like them and there lock strenght DVD's was dumb. His response" whatever you like old fart knives like case" so give me a couple good "old fart" come backs.
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Better an old fart than a new one...
...so give me a couple good "old fart" come backs.
"Get off my lawn you damn kids!!!"
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Is it normal to like traditional knives, modern knives, automatic knives, and butterfly knives? Am I weird of just crazy about knives. It seems I go through stages of traditional to something else then back and forth. Am I normal?
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Of course, you're normal. It's everyone else who's weird!
silenthunterstudios
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Don't go through stages, nothing wrong with liking them all. I've found, however, that I've been keeping most of my traditional pieces, but have no problem selling/trading my modern blades.
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I want to ask your guys thoughts on something that bothered me this past weekend. Growing up I was fortunate to a large family nearby. As a boy, playtime meant running around, wrestling, fighting with each other. Basically my cousins and I did what you would call roughhousing.
My wife, daughter, and I went to Lake Tahoe this weekend and rented a cabin with her extended family. My wife’s cousin was there, along with her boy, my wife’s godson. As a bit of background info, this cousin is a divorced mother. The son Alex is five years old, and he doesn’t see his father often as the father lives in another state. Alex is an only child and he is being raised by his mother (also an only child) and to a lesser extent by his maternal grandparents. Predictably, the boy lacks a father figure in his everyday life. The mother has mentioned this to my wife and I and as a result we try to play a larger role in Alex’s life.
Alex and I were playing one evening, shooting Nerf guns at one another. We were having a good time, and play progressed as it often does to play wrestling. During the course of play I gave him a wedgie, something I’m sure most everyone here has had at one time or another. I was surprised by what happened next. Alex immediately started crying and ran to his mother. When informed of what happened, she gave me a look of horror and told me not to do it again. I was shocked to say the least. This woman laments that her son does not have a man in his life to spend time with, and when I do play with the boy in an absolutely normal way she tells that does not like what I’m doing.
I was absolutely disgusted by this whole interaction. On the one hand I know it’s not the boy’s fault, but I can’t abide crybabies. On top of that, his mom insists that I treat him with kid gloves and play with him like a woman would. Sorry, but I’m a man and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’m young and vigorous and I am not doing anything wrong. I throw my baby girl up in the air, I give her piggy back rides, and even wrestle with her. I think children should be raised so that they grow up tough and strong.
Am I overreacting here? Maybe I am, but I can’t help but think that parents like her are the reason so many kids these days are so soft and wimpy.
- Christian
My wife, daughter, and I went to Lake Tahoe this weekend and rented a cabin with her extended family. My wife’s cousin was there, along with her boy, my wife’s godson. As a bit of background info, this cousin is a divorced mother. The son Alex is five years old, and he doesn’t see his father often as the father lives in another state. Alex is an only child and he is being raised by his mother (also an only child) and to a lesser extent by his maternal grandparents. Predictably, the boy lacks a father figure in his everyday life. The mother has mentioned this to my wife and I and as a result we try to play a larger role in Alex’s life.
Alex and I were playing one evening, shooting Nerf guns at one another. We were having a good time, and play progressed as it often does to play wrestling. During the course of play I gave him a wedgie, something I’m sure most everyone here has had at one time or another. I was surprised by what happened next. Alex immediately started crying and ran to his mother. When informed of what happened, she gave me a look of horror and told me not to do it again. I was shocked to say the least. This woman laments that her son does not have a man in his life to spend time with, and when I do play with the boy in an absolutely normal way she tells that does not like what I’m doing.
I was absolutely disgusted by this whole interaction. On the one hand I know it’s not the boy’s fault, but I can’t abide crybabies. On top of that, his mom insists that I treat him with kid gloves and play with him like a woman would. Sorry, but I’m a man and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’m young and vigorous and I am not doing anything wrong. I throw my baby girl up in the air, I give her piggy back rides, and even wrestle with her. I think children should be raised so that they grow up tough and strong.
Am I overreacting here? Maybe I am, but I can’t help but think that parents like her are the reason so many kids these days are so soft and wimpy.
- Christian
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My opinion,on this,is that it was a shock to this sheltered boy,what U did.
It probably would've been better for everyone,if his first wedgy came from a boy his age.
Looking back for him,though,it may be the best thing,he no doubt will remember it & it probably will toughen him up,for say the next,un sheltered incident he may encounter.
I never gave my own Son a wedgy & I think if I did it now,he may kick my ass
-Vince
PS,Also,W/ his mom tells everyone of this,it may act as a door,for those around her,to open up & inform her that sheltering him too much is no good,especially w/ no father figure around
It probably would've been better for everyone,if his first wedgy came from a boy his age.
Looking back for him,though,it may be the best thing,he no doubt will remember it & it probably will toughen him up,for say the next,un sheltered incident he may encounter.
I never gave my own Son a wedgy & I think if I did it now,he may kick my ass
-Vince
PS,Also,W/ his mom tells everyone of this,it may act as a door,for those around her,to open up & inform her that sheltering him too much is no good,especially w/ no father figure around
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BTW,Kamagong,when my Son was five,if any adult man around here gave my son a wedgy,I would see to it,that something would be shoved up thier a$$,not underwear & not by me,either
That's just me though.
-Vince
It was 13 years ago & things were different for me,maybe that's my way of sheltering. These days,five is different,than five years old from another generation,if you follow
Hopefully his sheltered deal will slowly progress to unsheltered,but I think,it was too shocking for him,obviously.
Sometimes these things have a way of working out for the best.
-Vince
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BTW,Kamagong,when my Son was five,if any adult man around here gave my son a wedgy,I would see to it,that something would be shoved up thier a$$,not underwear & not by me,either
That's just me though.
-Vince
I understand Vince, and I'd probably do the same if a stranger did that with my son. The boy and I are kin though, and nothing untoward was meant. These sorts of things happen with cousins and uncles and dads. I received my first wedgie from an older cousin ten years my senior. I didn't cry though, I got angry and tried ineffectively to tackle him afterwards. That's what gets me, I expected the boy to get mad and maybe take a swing at me. I never expected him to start bawling like a girl. If I ran to my dad after an incident like this I would have received a pretty good spanking for being a crybaby.
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I have two nephews that are like that. We had the kids over, two nephews and a niece, this summer to play with our daughter. We had the kiddie pool out in the back yard. Now my nephews are 9 and 6 and my niece is 7 and my daughter is 2. The girls started dumping water on the boys' heads and they didn't like it. Instead of splashing water back they started whining to me. I told them to either fight back or shut-up and get out of the pool. They got out, so I turned the hose on them. I'm with ya', I can't stand pansy boys!
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Christian,I totally understand,as well & have been there,crying w/ my cousins did real mean stuff to me w/ I was left there on the farm,for a visit.
But obviously,this boy is more a babe,not as mature as you thought & it blew up on you. This is obviously clear to you,now. But like I said,you shocked him. Hopefully the outcome will toughen him rather his mom softening it,still,if you follow what I'm trying to say.
I gotta ask ? Did U feel like crap ? Or think it funny ?
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Chuck,
These days I run into grown men,that whine like little girls,now that,is pretty freakin' sickening .
This is kids we are talking here,some slack needs to be cut
-Vince
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Neither actually. Maybe I'm a bit callous, but I still don't think I did anything wrong. I didn't feel like crap because I wasn't bullying the boy, it was just a spontaneous act that happened. When I experienced these things as a child I would be angry for about 15 minutes and then go right back out and play with my cousins again. My wife didn't even say anything to me and she would've had if she thought I was wrong. Even my mother-in-law shook her head and told her sister (the boy's grandmother) that Alex is being raised to be a very wimpy child.
I didn't think it was funny either. The event was obviously upsetting to Alex and his mother. I don't delight in hurting people and watching them afterwards did not bring me any enjoyment.
I would describe what I felt afterwards as coming closest to shock. Shock at seeing firsthand the effects what a sheltered upbringing does to a young boy.
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If it had been the reverse I would expect the girls to get upset. The boys on the other hand are notorious for starting trouble and then getting upset when it goes south on them. I believe without a shadow of a doubt that they probably started the whole thing and didn't like where it was going when the girls pushed back.
I agree, kids are kids and should be treated as such. I also agree with Christian in saying that kids these days are not as "tough" as we were when I was growing up. I'm all for being sensitive and considerate to others, but if someone is going to give you a little grief then by all means dish some back. I think the lesson is that they need to learn that if you won't stand up for yourself, you can't depend on anyone else to stand up for you.
Chuck
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I agree, kids are kids and should be treated as such. I also agree with Christian in saying that kids these days are not as "tough" as we were when I was growing up. I'm all for being sensitive and considerate to others, but if someone is going to give you a little grief then by all means dish some back. I think the lesson is that they need to learn that if you won't stand up for yourself, you can't depend on anyone else to stand up for you.
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Well,all kids are different,too.I'm sitting here reading this & just pondering Looking back,I was babied,somewhat,then I got picked on for a period of time.Then,I guess maybe,because of that,I became a bully,sort of ,for a period of time.
It sounds,though,reading about what you said of the boy's grandma,the matter is,his mom is over doing it,she may need to realize she has to become a father,for him,too
It's tuff,trials make you stronger,though.
-Vince
It sounds,though,reading about what you said of the boy's grandma,the matter is,his mom is over doing it,she may need to realize she has to become a father,for him,too
It's tuff,trials make you stronger,though.
-Vince
