dealing with friends who are not knife persons....

Keith_H said:
He replied that you could do everything a knife can with a pair of blunt scissors
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If that's true, then he's in favor of banning blunt scissors, as well?

Logically, everything would have to include the bad things he apparently thinks everyone around him is one frayed nerve away from doing.
 
gonna have a wee sit down with my friends over some beers later this weekend, i'll let ya'll know how it goes.
 
Now tell em about your collection of Louisville Sluggers..."No, none of any value, I just like having bats around. Ya never know when you might need a bat".
 
Bastid said:
Let's keep the language here on a level in which you would not mind your child reading this forum.

Fair warning. There are other forums here for some of the off color remarks being made. Use them instead of the General Forum some of you have been here for a while and it is disappointing to see that you think it is OK to use those terms here.
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I'm sorry Bastid, I didn't know you were referring to my post using the d-word. I hadn't realised that children could be reading here.

Keith_H said:
I had an arugument with a friend from the UK, He claimed, and was supported by the person beside him, that people should not be allowed to carry a knife, because "there is a lot of nutters out there"

I claim that I use one everyday (I did not have one on me then) and it is a very old and useful tool. He replied that you could do everything a knife can with a pair of blunt scissors, I disagreed but i never got through to him.
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Tell him you've never seen a proper gentleman use a pair of scissors to eat steak. Besides, if scissors=knife, scissors must be banned because there's a lot of nutters out there.
 
To the OP:

Ask them if they have more than one kitchen knife for each person in their house hold. It;s a safe bet they have a set of 8 steak knives. I bet they are planning to do something horrible.

[/sarcasm]
 
I was at a big family gathering a couple weeks ago. My father collects knifes and a brought one for a gift for him. So, there's a whole bunch of folk talking knives all of a sudden, and it turns to the idea of self defense. My sister says "I would be afraid to take out a knife because the bad guy might take it away from me and use it on me." Her 21 year old daughter immediately seconds the idea.

My wife and I burst out laughing. We couldn't help it, we both had exactly the same mental image: bad guy grabs blade and pulls. Not too effective.

Non-knife people really have no idea. They use knives to cook and eat steak and otherwise knives are as mysterious as the weirdo guns in Men In Black.
 
Long knives, small knives and bone cleavers in kitchen = nothing unusual.
The same knives outside the kitchen = Serial mass murderer planning something.
 
Blame the media for the perceptions
Everytime you flip on the news, "so and so was stabbed with a knife today on the street." You never hear, "so and so was being dragged by his bootlaces and he quickly used his pocket knife to free himself."

Most of the time, knife attacks are done with flea market/martial arts store specials; no one buys a Sebenza to go rob someone.

This is why when you hear the word "knife" you think stabby, killing things, especially when you have kids buying some "tactical" knife and going around showing it off how cool it is because what it can stab through, etc. (Some kid in my university with his BM 557)
 
GarageBoy said:
Most of the time, knife attacks are done with flea market/martial arts store specials; no one buys a Sebenza to go rob someone.
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Over here it's kitchen knives. Theres been a few stabbings over here of young kids by other kids, mainly in London, but also in other large cities. A couple of weeks ago one the countries top police officers holds a press conference about the carrying of illegal knives. In front of him was a table full of knives confiscated by the police from little thugs and pretty much every single one was either a carving knife or some sort of meat cleaver.
I think most people recognize this but its still a struggle persuading people when, like Garageboy says, you've got a socialist media forming the opinions of the majority of non-knife people. And boy is our media left-wing.
D.
 
If the neighbors get past my wall of skulls collection, then I might let them see my knives.

jk. Funny, though. I think. Not too far from the truth.
 
DRider said:
I was at a big family gathering a couple weeks ago. My father collects knifes and a brought one for a gift for him. So, there's a whole bunch of folk talking knives all of a sudden, and it turns to the idea of self defense. My sister says "I would be afraid to take out a knife because the bad guy might take it away from me and use it on me." Her 21 year old daughter immediately seconds the idea.
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So all those hours of practicing knife disarms and defenses, doing the 21' drill to practice drawing a gun, and thats all I needed? If its that easy, why doesnt she just take it back? (I'm being sarcastic. Its very difficult to take a knife from a determined assailant, but not from a scared person who doesnt really want to use it)
 
Just like fire or the wheel the knife has been a part of man's history from the early times. So tell your non- knife fiends to wake up and smell the coffee.
Take Care
Gary
 
Yep, even nature carries knives: lion's claws, eagles beak,etc.
God forgot to give us one..so we made 'em ourselves!
 
DRider said:
My sister says "I would be afraid to take out a knife because the bad guy might take it away from me and use it on me." Her 21 year old daughter immediately seconds the idea.
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That's become the mantra of those who think the individual bears no responsibility for their own safety.
I LOVE to see some who parrot that sentiment try it, just to see how easy it is.:cool:
 
I've learned to be very selective with who I show my sharp things and things that go bang. Word can spread like wildfire, and easily transportable items like good blades can be a target for theives. When you stop to think about it, the sheeple steeped worry over someone with alot of knives or guns doesn't make alot of sense; after all, it doesn't matter how many of the above you own, you can only use one (or two) at a time anyway. This thread reminds me of my Dad, an avid hunter, who had the best way of dealing with the anti's. When confronted with "how can you kill Bambi?", he'd simply say "I like to kill things!". That would pretty much take the wind out of thier sails.
 
you may wish to spend some time thinking about the definition of 'friend'.

I'm going to suspect that you've no faintest hint of what it means, cause using it to describe people who are unwilling to stipulate your adulthood isn't correct.

Unless, of course, you're not an adult. However, I am assuming you are, and merely misguided.

Stop showing your toys to oversensitive types, and don't mix them up with the category of people called 'Friends'.

If you have 6 friends in your life you're rich. They ain't common.
 
Sometimes I talk to my friends and co-workers about my knives. Few of them see anything more than the knives that I carry on my belt or in my pocket. If I find that a friend has dull knives in their kitchen, I'll bring my Sharpmaker over and do up their knives for them. That usually paints my interest in a positive light.

I try not to freak out people by showing off things like my 18" custom bowie, or the big khuks from Himalayan Imports.

TC

TC
 
If your buddies or your girlfriend are too scared of your knives then they are not true friends and you should pursue other friends besides most guys would think you were cool to have a bunch of knives you didnt shove one in their faces did you?
 
That's just ridiculous! I've had people make comments about my collection but I dont think it scared anyone off?

Leia
 
I'm not really sure whether it's my knives that freak em out, or the fact that I have blood constantly dripping from my eyes!!! :D


 
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