- Joined
- Feb 28, 2011
- Messages
- 27,444
Aren't they?Are they?
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Aren't they?Are they?
Excepting when you see them chewing through packaging and other such silliness.TBH, the vast majority of people do not carry a knife and it doesn't negatively impact their day-to-day life. We're the odd ones out here with how much importance and value we mentally attribute to the ownership and carrying of pocket knives.
But most men in their 50s don't carry a knife these days.I’m 54 and have carried a knife since I was a Cub Scout in 1972. It boggles my mind how anyone can leave their house without one. Most people do it though, even some that know better.
People don't carry flashlights either, yet most are scared of the dark. I use a flashlight exponentially more than I use a knife. I can find a ton of things at work and around the house to cut things. Only one way to produce light. You'll never catch me without a knife and a flashlight of some kind, ever.. Silly people.
Most cell phones have adequate lights for most people's need to always have a flashlight.I always have a pocket knife and a small flashlight. Always. People just carry their phone and keys. Being prepared? Prepare for what? Thats their mind set. That nothing is going to happen.
Thats just dumb to me.
I do the jumper cable thing as well. Used to rotate the cables between the vehicle I was driving. Got to be a pain in the butt and something I forget to do. That changed the first time I needed them to help someone out way out in the boonies and couldn't. Same thing with a tow strap, rope, or chain.Jumper cables are another issue. I bought my first set of jumper cables when I bought my first car in college, forty years ago. As incredible as it may seem, I still have those cables. I am amazed at how few people actually carry jumper cables.
What is your point? You don't have to edc to be a man, and most men I know don't carry a knife and they seem to be just fine. Who cares?
Are they?
People are being trained to believe that anyone who carries a knife is looking to cause harm.
I am aware of the negatives of carrying a knife. It gets even more precarious when considering using a knife for self defense.
I did not mention it earlier in the conversation, and I should have. For my Christmas present, I joined ....
Roger's point is that on this planet we often come upon materials that need to be split apart, and sometimes that need is both time-sensitive and severe, therefore even minimal forethought and consideration would lead the reasonable man or woman to at the very least secure a $12 blade to his keychain or clip one inside her purse.
A tool so simple, but that has saved life, limb, and property everyday during crises and emergencies around the globe over the past several thousand years -- one might even think of carrying a knife as a civic duty. Roger is finding that his society doesn't embrace tools for their utility, rather it villifies the knife, even making it taboo to carry one outside the home.
I blame Bambi. Sure, the published version left out the gut-and-drag and the butchering scenes, but kids know that venison steak doesn't slice itself!
By who? The vast "sheeple" conspiracy?
Or by knife makes and customers falling all over themselves to buy knives with names like Brous Blades uses? Threat. Triple Threat. The Coroner. Or TOPS? Grim Ripper. Or Cold Steel?
For a bunch of "free thinking sheepdogs" sure do seem to resort to clamorous whining in our "safe space" a lot due to those sheeple.
People don't carry flashlights either, yet most are scared of the dark. I use a flashlight exponentially more than I use a knife. I can find a ton of things at work and around the house to cut things. Only one way to produce light. You'll never catch me without a knife and a flashlight of some kind, ever.. Silly people.
...
Want to make a neutral person feel a bit anxious about knives? Just go flip that big tacticool out like a character in a James Dean movie. I've seen it happen myself in public in broad daylight. Over impressionable young guys with no judgment does more damage to all of us than any liberal. It's no wonder that society at large is getting anti knife. Just look at this forum and how some people act.
To quote the political satire comic strip; "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
We've come a very long way from the days that a pocket knife was in every mans pocket. And it hasn't been in a good direction.