First Negative Sheeple Reaction

msiley said:
I handed it to him.. he looked at it, opened it, closed it and gave it back.
Then he said "You must live in a bad neighborhood."
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Kill him.

Use the leek to divide his body into small enough sections that can be carried out into the trunk of your car in garbage bags without arousing suspicion. Then act dumb and innocent when concerned co-workers begin asking about his dissapearance.

All non knife people must die.........bwahahahaha:mad: :D
 
I take a black maxpedition jumbo versipack to work and under the main flap I have clipped a uzi folder (the good one with the g10 and camo 154cm blade). A bloke saw that the other day at work and he was surprised that I had a knife. The blade on that thing is also about 3 inchs or slightly more. He only saw the clip and a bit of the g10 poking out. Lucky I didnt show him. I said it was a small pocketknife for peeling apples :) .... People are very scared of knives for some reason, even a bloke in the office who shoots handguns tells me he is scared of me all the time...wtf? So now I insist on calling him shooter because I know he is trying to put attention on me to get other people to forget he shoots handguns...lol. I wonder what would happen if I took out my emerson persian which I also like to keep in my versipack :) ...
 
Back in the dark ages when I worked for a Federal agency (yes, I was a FED! :D ), I minimized the negative reaction to my cutlery by the sheeple in the office by offering to sharpen they Swiss Army Knives for them. I'm sure a lot of them still thought I was mental, but they didn't give me grief because I was the guy that made their "good knife" more useful to them.
 
Actually there are a few people that I talk to and show my knives to but I have stopped because they misunderstand.
I am a supermarket butcher so I only really need a subcom for work but I like tacticool blades (CQC-10 ATM) but of the few people that I have shown and talked to about it think I'm a serial killer, and the bakery manager pretends to draw a knife and stab me every time I walk past. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS

My Dad asked why I needed a weapon when I cut open something at his place, and I said this is a hell of a lot easier than walking inside and finding a knife Mum will let you use in the garage.Then I gave him a benchmade I got off ebay and he has seen the light.

People think I'm going to jail because they misinterpret the laws regarding knife carriage in WA.

you need a LAWFUL reason, and cutting stuff pretty much sums it up.
why do I have two-three?
Food prep, beater and a mini for sheeple. sounds lawful.

Only person I still show them to is my apprentice and thats because I've become a 'dealer' to him, taking a small cut because I have to go to the trouble of buying them for him.
And he thinks I'm a killer.

And then they find out I'm a bowhunter (almost) and they go kicking and screaming into the street!!!

at least my wife understands, she can even close a liner lock these days :p
 
I had just gotten my Umfaan, a CRK knife that looks like a mini Sebenza: 2.25" blade, 5.5" overall. I showed it to a neighbor of mine, a conservative old lady, sister of a police officer, a good old broad you could talk to, not some hysteric.

She asked in all seriousness if they let me carry a knife.
 
My grandfather always carried a knife and so does my dad.
I was in the scouts and always had a Vic Explorer and a BuckLite.
Although my mom still doesn't understand why I have so many.
Of course she also asks me "why do you have so many books?"
I guess my grandmother used to just throw them out because
they were taking up space! :-)

I guess it's how you were raised. I'm not going to be blaming
the sheeple for being sheeple... we need to educate them.
They've been fed propoganda by the media for way too long.
 
Let me surmise it all for you. Reading the local county almost freebie paper police report. Someone called the cops because a dog was walking towards their house. Now, it didn't say if the dog was snarling or looked rabid, but why can't you take care of that yourself?

It all boils down to, let someone else do it.
 
Most rural people don't give a second look at knives carried on the belt, but it amazes me how some of the sheeple have such negative reactions when they see someone carrying a knife. Yet often those same sheeple have long knives in the kitchen they never even think of as weapons, yet it is the kitchen knife that has been involved in many killings.

The sheeple train of thought is a limited primative thinking pattern based on emotions and fight/flight paranoia, instead of level minded thoughts.
 
The fact that somone said that a guy jumped when the knife was drawn shows them exactly for what they are: SHEEP! I'm not gonna rant and rave as to why that is because we'd be here all day :D.
 
I get comments from people who try to educate me on knife laws without knowing any first. I remember my friends father saying something along the lines of:

"I notice you have a knife there, and anything over one inch is illegal..."

This was coming from a guy who lives in a small town with a large military air base, and it seems anyone who is not in the airforce is either a fisher or a hunter or both...
 
I think it is more the way the media and the press present content , either in print or on air... media-eeple ? press-eeple ?

I carry one of the blades I made and try to educate ( not convince ) people I dont know who ask questions about " is that legal ? " , " why you need that ? "... I find it peeks their interest more when I explain rather than lecture.
 
I do get some strang looks here at work and once in a while someone will ask if my knife is allowed on company property, to which I respond that the company rules allow up to a 3" blade and that mine are within that rule. At that point they are just glad to have someone around to open things for them. Steven
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
yeah I had a coworker try to bag on me for what I spend on knives... till I pointed out his $1500 watch , Blackberry , iPod Video , PDA , bluetooth headset that he had on his person
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Okay, I admit it. I spend too much time and money on knives. There said it. It's still a lot less than I've seen others spend on electronic doodads.

Was looking at cell phone calling plans today. The wife and I are thinking we might cave in and get cell phones soon. The elcheapo family plan was $70 a month! The prepaid, if no calls are ever made, was barely less. $840+ a year so people can be even more distracted when they drive. Start getting into the mobile PDA/Blackberry stuff and add a wireless laptop internet connection and the cost is insane.

OTOH, maybe it can help justify further purchases... ..."I don't need a KMG, but for the price of a 2-year service agreement for a cellular PDA, I can afford to buy one and fly Rob down and back to set it up for me"
 
I never worry if I see someone carrying a knife , now someone on the freeway with a cell phone in their hand while driving ( especially going 10 under the posted limit in the fast lane ) frightens me.

Thom , you gave me an idea , when someone carrying a cell phone questions my knife , I will ask them " oh are you one of those people who cause accidents from talking on your cell while driving ? you know its dangerous using those while driving right ? "....

rock on bud ! :)
 
Very sad and funny. IDK what he'd say to something much larger. Luckily most of my friends and I all like knifes/guns/thingsthatgoboom, so it isn't bad.
 
It is no surprise people are concerned about knives:
* We live in a society where children kill each other, and adults kill children.
* People kill their fellow workers on a regular basis.
* There are violent gangs.
* There is a lot of crime - the prisons are filled.
* The media makes sure we know about all of it. They do it because, we, the public are fascinated by it.
* We also seem to have a fascination with watching people terrorizing and harming each other so it is always in the media conditioning us.
* We live in a society where knives are not commonly needed in daily lives by most people - except to cut their food (most people have scissors, box cutters around, etc.).
* Getting cut by a blade seems scarier than getting shot by a gun. Kind of like getting attacked by a shark is more frightening than falling off a cliff.
* People are not used to seeing other people with knives.
* The knives have become associated more as weapons than tools.
* Some of the knives are designed to look especially dangerous, Rambo-like, etc.

The "sheepie" term is often used in a negative way but the bottom line is most people have good cause not to know how to deal with someone carrying a knife, not to feel trust and not to have warm feelings.
 
Sounds like we should be scared of people. And man-eating sharks. And gangs of people running around holding onto aggitated sharks to cause driveby nibblings.

JTW,

I wonder if Allen would have any stories working a lab assistant and carrying his SLCCs.
 
thombrogan said:
Sounds like we should be scared of people. And man-eating sharks. And gangs of people running around holding onto aggitated sharks to cause driveby nibblings.
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Hey - do not forget the rogue meteors & comets, the sun fizzling out, rampant viruses, terrorists, nuclear warfare, and any nation with more than 500 people. And of course, knives!
 
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