Evidence That We Are Genetically Inclined Toward Knives

No body said boys and girls aren't equal. Show me where I said otherwise. You are trying to make something out of nothing. Good luck.
 
22-rimfire said:
No body said boys and girls aren't equal. Show me where I said otherwise. You are trying to make something out of nothing. Good luck.
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You said “So you want to turn little boys into girls.” I asked what you meant. You didn’t answer. I will ask again: what did you mean?
 
You claimed I was a sexist before I even wrote that. Explain. You didn't answer me either? There is nothing wrong with having boys and girls. You just want to provoke. You bored?
 
22-rimfire said:
You claimed I was a sexist before I even wrote that. Explain. You didn't answer me either? There is nothing wrong with having boys and girls. You just want to provoke. You bored?
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I didn’t respond because I didn’t understand your question. I asked you for clarification. Makes me think you are purposely being obtuse in order to evade the issue you started. If I’m wrong I’m sorry. I am more than willing to have an open discussion about this.
 
Believe it or not, I thought your initial post was a joke and I struggled to understand relative to my statements. This is not the place for an open discussion on that subject and frankly I'm not interested anyway. I purposely didn't respond because it could fan the flames.
 
MSchott said:
I'm offended by this kind of language. This is 2018, we don't talk like that any more. The less distinction between sexes the better when it comes to capabilities.
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:rolleyes: Oh boy ! This is what happens when political correctness overwhelms our scientific and practical knowledge base . Ideology trying to alter reality always fails and just leads to disaster . :eek:
 
I have a wooden knife my mother whittled when she was 7 or 8... about 1925. She told me she made it to get revenge on her (6) older sisters. They all survived, but I keep that knife anyway -- figure it's where I got my knife genes.
 
DocJD said:
:rolleyes: Oh boy ! This is what happens when political correctness overwhelms our scientific and practical knowledge base . Ideology trying to alter reality always fails and just leads to disaster . :eek:
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MSchott said:
You said “So you want to turn little boys into girls.” I asked what you meant. You didn’t answer. I will ask again: what did you mean?
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I believe he ment sissy boys.
The type of boy who is easily offended, over sensitive and politically correct
You get the picture right ?
:D
 
shurimano said:
My sister found her 7 year old daughter, my beloved niece, with this. My sister said that my niece apparently has had it for awhile now and has been hiding it on her person:
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I told my sister that rather than punishing her for it, teach her how to be responsible with it. She's been responsible enough on her own with it this far. BTW, just in case anyone is about to give me the environmental factors that probably played a role in my niece having this, the title was just a joke.:p

Mods, if this is in the wrong forum, please move it and I apologize for any inconvenience.
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Interesting little knife-looks perfect for a young lady. Add a little knowledge on care, use and where it is inappropriate to carry, and she should be on her way to a happy life as part of the knife carrying community.
and IMO 7 is certainly not too young. I started at 5. I certainly made some mistakes, but most were due to lack of proper instruction, so some things I found out the hard way-still have all my fingers
 
I became interested in "blades" from around 2 to 4 years old. Anything bladed...kitchen knives, swords, lawn mower blades, arrowheads, etc. I don't really know why. I'd try to draw them, even moving lawn mower blades, but at that age I wasn't able to capture what I wanted on paper. I was told early on to never point a knife at someone, and never run with a knife. And that's about it.

Then at 13 I appropriated a rusty, sharpened-down old scout-type folder from my dad's toolbox. From there, I bought myself some Schrade pocketknives (this was in 1977), a Buck Cadet, some Ka-Bars, etc. Lucky for me, there were some stores that would sell pocketknives to someone under 18 years old.

Yes, I've cut myself. My worst as a kid was when I was throwing my Schrade mini-stockman at a dart board in the backyard. One time it bounced off, and I stupidly tried to catch it, even though it would have only landed on the grass anyway. That razor-sharp little clip point jabbed point-first into my palm near my left ring finger. First it bled like crazy. After that, I could see some "muscles" or whatever in the hole; my ring finger was tingly-numb for a while. I just bandaged it up and never told my parents about it. Luckily, it fully healed without any lasting damage, and pretty quickly, too.

So I don't know if it's genetic or not. In my family, only my dad was a regular pocketknife carrier/user, but he wasn't a "knife aficionado". He just bought one, used the hell out of it, and when it was all sharpened down and worn out, he'd toss what's left in the old tool box and went out and bought another (not always the same model, though).

Jim
 
shurimano said:
BTW, just in case anyone is about to give me the environmental factors that probably played a role in my niece having this, the title was just a joke.:p
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From the original post.

Since the thread was not about genetics (let alone gender) having anything to do with liking knives, perhaps the back and forth snideness regarding that can go away?
 
Sorry for the derailment OP, that's hilarious that the youngster was packing around a concealed shank like that, and it's great to hear of all these examples of teaching young'uns how to use knives safely.
 
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