Favorite Quotes from non-knife people.

You must work around alot of military support personel. As an infantrymani you are out of uniform without a knife as with most combat arms personel.
As a matter of fact yes, they are support personnel. I figured as much about the contrast between infantry carrying knives and support personnel carrying knives, but then that's getting back to the realm of the stereotype of them being weapons. (Infantry doing the fighting, support doing the supporting.) However most of these forum members from what I read talk about offices and shops, not patrols and hot zones, where they are using their EDC's, such as opening boxes, cutting rope and the like. So still, around these support personnel in offices and warehouses, am baffled by how knife shy they all are.
 
Here in WV, at least in my area, knives are common place, but they're mostly traditional slippies or whatever cheap thing walmart has behind the glass. Last week in my chemistry class i needed my knife, a benchmade 940, and i heard this from behind "hey is that one of those flippy knives?!?!", Me: "yeah i guess so", Him :"hmmm.....isnt that illegal" (facepalm) Me: "no, not at all"

I can't believe how ignorant most people are about knives, and knife laws, even in an area where you are really likely to see a clip in someones pocket or a knife in someone's hand.
 
As a matter of fact yes, they are support personnel. I figured as much about the contrast between infantry carrying knives and support personnel carrying knives, but then that's getting back to the realm of the stereotype of them being weapons. (Infantry doing the fighting, support doing the supporting.) However most of these forum members from what I read talk about offices and shops, not patrols and hot zones, where they are using their EDC's, such as opening boxes, cutting rope and the like. So still, around these support personnel in offices and warehouses, am baffled by how knife shy they all are.

Most people would be surprised on how much like civilian life that really is.

If one didn't know any better they would believe they are civilians.
 
Why do you need that, or why do you need to carry that, both of which are only said because I have had to take the knife out to cut something which should be VERY OBVIOUS by this point to all within the immediate vicinity of me. Most of the time it is to cut something for them, the problem is people don't think especially for themselves anymore. Instead they just react most of the time its an emotional knee jerk reaction that goes with whatever the pop culture or internet view point is concerning the topic of the reaction. Once I point out that I carry it to cut stuff and that I'm using it to cut something for them, they kinda of have that light bulb moment of, Oh yeah. Then they kind of feel awkward you can see it by the look on their face.

After reading all 8 pages of this, ya'll should realize and also should know by now that educated professional people can be and for the most part are ignorant. Educated has nothing to do with ignorance and bigotry these days although it should. The days where education instilled some level of common sense through logic, rational though, analysis and the holy grail of critical thinking have ended and are nothing more than a rapidly fading haze in the rear view of United States history my friends. Sucks, but that is just the way it is. In fact I find that the educated among us are the ones teaching things like rely on others and not your self and knives are to be viewed as weapons not tools.

Funny thing is, do they eat with a fork and a weapon, and do they only use their knives to stab people? No they eat with a fork and a knife, and no chances are they use a knife everyday in the kitchen and around the house or at least several days a week throughout their entire life and never, not even once remotely thought about stabbing someone with it or actually doing so. Yet it is still a weapon and if someone has it outside of their home then they obviously must have intent, no make that intent with malice to use it as such, mainly against them.

Wish I could say its not so, but were in a rapid state of decline where common sense, logic and rational thought have gone by the wayside. The children are not being taught how to think, problem solve, deductive reasoning or self reliance but rather submission and how to be a good citizen of the world with focus on the community and the overall collective. You don't have to know what to do, your media personality, internet and authorities will tell you how to think, act and what your should and should not do. After all they know what is best for you. Ignorance is a VERY EXPENSIVE commodity, the price of which we really can no longer afford. Again, its people simply not thinking but merely having an emotional knee jerk reaction. This is happening to our society through conditioning by the media and government.
 
Why do you need that, or why do you need to carry that, both of which are only said because I have had to take the knife out to cut something which should be VERY OBVIOUS by this point to all within the immediate vicinity of me. Most of the time it is to cut something for them, the problem is people don't think especially for themselves anymore. Instead they just react most of the time its an emotional knee jerk reaction that goes with whatever the pop culture or internet view point is concerning the topic of the reaction. Once I point out that I carry it to cut stuff and that I'm using it to cut something for them, they kinda of have that light bulb moment of, Oh yeah. Then they kind of feel awkward you can see it by the look on their face.

After reading all 8 pages of this, ya'll should realize and also should know by now that educated professional people can be and for the most part are ignorant. Educated has nothing to do with ignorance and bigotry these days although it should. The days where education instilled some level of common sense through logic, rational though, analysis and the holy grail of critical thinking have ended and are nothing more than a rapidly fading haze in the rear view of United States history my friends. Sucks, but that is just the way it is. In fact I find that the educated among us are the ones teaching things like rely on others and not your self and knives are to be viewed as weapons not tools.

Funny thing is, do they eat with a fork and a weapon, and do they only use their knives to stab people? No they eat with a fork and a knife, and no chances are they use a knife everyday in the kitchen and around the house or at least several days a week throughout their entire life and never, not even once remotely thought about stabbing someone with it or actually doing so. Yet it is still a weapon and if someone has it outside of their home then they obviously must have intent, no make that intent with malice to use it as such, mainly against them.

Wish I could say its not so, but were in a rapid state of decline where common sense, logic and rational thought have gone by the wayside. The children are not being taught how to think, problem solve, deductive reasoning or self reliance but rather submission and how to be a good citizen of the world with focus on the community and the overall collective. You don't have to know what to do, your media personality, internet and authorities will tell you how to think, act and what your should and should not do. After all they know what is best for you. Ignorance is a VERY EXPENSIVE commodity, the price of which we really can no longer afford. Again, its people simply not thinking but merely having an emotional knee jerk reaction. This is happening to our society through conditioning by the media and government.

Interesting and I agree with a lot of it.
 
Why do you need that, or why do you need to carry that, both of which are only said because I have had to take the knife out to cut something which should be VERY OBVIOUS by this point to all within the immediate vicinity of me. Most of the time it is to cut something for them, the problem is people don't think especially for themselves anymore. Instead they just react most of the time its an emotional knee jerk reaction that goes with whatever the pop culture or internet view point is concerning the topic of the reaction. Once I point out that I carry it to cut stuff and that I'm using it to cut something for them, they kinda of have that light bulb moment of, Oh yeah. Then they kind of feel awkward you can see it by the look on their face.

After reading all 8 pages of this, ya'll should realize and also should know by now that educated professional people can be and for the most part are ignorant. Educated has nothing to do with ignorance and bigotry these days although it should. The days where education instilled some level of common sense through logic, rational though, analysis and the holy grail of critical thinking have ended and are nothing more than a rapidly fading haze in the rear view of United States history my friends. Sucks, but that is just the way it is. In fact I find that the educated among us are the ones teaching things like rely on others and not your self and knives are to be viewed as weapons not tools.

Funny thing is, do they eat with a fork and a weapon, and do they only use their knives to stab people? No they eat with a fork and a knife, and no chances are they use a knife everyday in the kitchen and around the house or at least several days a week throughout their entire life and never, not even once remotely thought about stabbing someone with it or actually doing so. Yet it is still a weapon and if someone has it outside of their home then they obviously must have intent, no make that intent with malice to use it as such, mainly against them.

Wish I could say its not so, but were in a rapid state of decline where common sense, logic and rational thought have gone by the wayside. The children are not being taught how to think, problem solve, deductive reasoning or self reliance but rather submission and how to be a good citizen of the world with focus on the community and the overall collective. You don't have to know what to do, your media personality, internet and authorities will tell you how to think, act and what your should and should not do. After all they know what is best for you. Ignorance is a VERY EXPENSIVE commodity, the price of which we really can no longer afford. Again, its people simply not thinking but merely having an emotional knee jerk reaction. This is happening to our society through conditioning by the media and government.

This is very interesting. I do agree with alot of what you say.

Many of the people at college or in work positions where they have to work with their mind, not with their body seem to have a kind of "pretty world" thing going on. In their pretty world everything is fine, everyone is polite and so on. If something is broken, you call someone to fix it. They have no need for tools, no knifes, no flashlights, whatever. Someone armed with tools must therefore be a bad guy of some sorts, because you'd never need a tool to do something in your pretty world...
meh.
 
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I as at a family gathering for a niece's wedding. The family was decorating a hall for the reception, and needed to open many boxes and trim some cedar boughs for table decoration. No one but me had a knife, a Spyderco Police.

This interplay occurred on several occasions between me and several people, with variations, throughout the day - "Wow! That's a big knife! Why do you have that? Can I borrow it a minute?"

"I heard you are the man with the knife. Can I borrow it?"

Me - "Seriously? Just show me what you need cut."

Andy
 
Not really a quote, but rather an example of 'blowing up the news' was some time ago in Belgian media. Vlaams Belang (the flemish extreme right wing party) distributed small multitools (small knife with a file etc), pretty much the same size as a Vic classic as a promotool. Media jumped on it and other politicians joined the debate on how it was so unreasonable for a political party to freely distribute weapons. A small multitool the size of a vic classic...weapons... does not compute. Funny that all over my country, big compagnies give SAKs as newyears gifts et cetera and nobody cries about that. This was simply the case because of the general reputation of that political party. I'm not a fan of that party myself, not at all, but the unobjectivity displaid by the media at that time was sickening.
 
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HAH! At this, I DAG (did audibly guffaw)!!! ;)
 
Most people would be surprised on how much like civilian life that really is.

If one didn't know any better they would believe they are civilians.

At the risk of going off topic in my own thread, I'm not sure how this statement is meant to be taken. If you would be so kind as to PM me about this I would like to get a better understanding of your opinion. Thanks.
 
My experience has been quite the opposite of most of yours.

I work at Subway and I was making this MILF's sandwich and when I go to ring up she asks for a milk for her kid. Now, the kid tries to open it but the seal is on it is insanely tight
for whatever reason so she asks

"Do you have a pen or something?"

I flip out my Spyderco Stretch and poke a hole in it and everything is good to go. She gives me a smile and says

"Nice knife!"

The kid looked like he had a heart attack though.

I just say thanks and shes on her way out. Don't think I've seen anyone freak out over it, except maybe a friend's uncle. But he's a cop lol
 
The "Butterflies Are Prettier Than Spiders" Made Me Smack Myself In The Forehead But I Actually Giggled A Little.
 
My humble opinion.

It has nearly everything to do with how you were raised.

From the time I was very young, my parents would buy me, teach me how to properly use, and allow me to carry knives.

Because of this, I learned of how dearly important they are, and how helpless one can be without one.

Funny enough, this principle can same be applied to those who do not carry lighters or matches, as fire is essential to life if in the right, or perhaps wrong situation; not just something to have on you when someone needs light outside the bar.

I carry both blade and fire everywhere.

Always have, always will. If law changes that as my right. I'll stay in my house where it's safe.
 
Heard this one today from my mother in law. " Any knife can cut paper" after I sliced hanging newspaper to demonstrate the sharpness on the blade.
 
"Why is there blood on your knife?"

"...cuz I stab people with it...?"
 
Heard this one today from my mother in law. " Any knife can cut paper" after I sliced hanging newspaper to demonstrate the sharpness on the blade.

Maybe she was raised with sharp knives and expects them to do that! :D
 
Re: the spydey delica i bought yesterday.

she: "what's that?"
me: "a knife-tool." ;)

she: "it looks like a cement trowel."
me: "it is."

she: "why does it have a big hole in it?"
me: "what kind of tool is it when you can't hang it on a nail on the wall?"
she: "oh yeah, i forgot."
 
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