Do Big Knives Make Little Guys Look Stupid?

Freud has long been dismissed in psychoanalysis...most of his major concepts are simply WRONG. Unfortunately, what little has filtered into the popular culture is tiresomely repeated as if it were still true. All I can say, and I'm only speaking for myself, is that using my member to cut ANYTHING has never worked (and don't ask how I know that). In fact using it to try to slice paper can result in a very nasty paper cut!:barf:

What makes someone look stupid is posturing. A person with lifelong experience handling firearms, for example, simply looks competent (when handling a gun) to an observer who himself has no experience with firearms. But some geek who has never used a Bowie to chop anything more substantive than the hot air around his head simply looks buffoonish to anyone around him.
 
i go with thor's hammer

if you're small but competent, nobody's going to think you look stupid

we're talking knives here, not body parts, incidentally :D
 
Not always, but my impression is that it helps.

Someone's already mentioned the Gurkha's - 5foot tall and carrying a knife with a 14inch blade, 2-1/2inches across the widest part, curved like a complete bad-$%# whacker blade, and somewhere around 3/8inch thick at the spine. You only have to watch one of these guys chop potatoes for the pot with one of those kukri and then demonstrate how they kill sentries by cleaving them through the top of the head down to the bottom of the jawline with the same kukri. Skill with one's tools is what counts.

Big ? well fine, but does your reasonaing match reality ? If you said that you carried a Helle's Belle Bagwell 10" Bowie for skinning deer, I'd laugh quietly, but if you explained that it was a survival and combat tool, consistent with your belief in maximum reach and good balance, hmm, then sounds about right ...

Likewise, if you pulled out your Spyderco cricket or Mouse and told me it was your primary edged combat tool, I'd ask you to go get a Bowie. Don't care if you're 5foot or 7foot.

But to be serious, if you WERE 7foot, you should stick something like an 18inch wakazashi in your belt.

I have a self-confessed Bagwell philosophy, so there's my bias. Cheers. Jason.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top