First Negative Sheeple Reaction

We live in a culture of excess with a love of luxury and appetites that delight in constant temptation. It is remarkable that people only recognize this excess when they look on someone else's accumulation.

At least my excessively expensive knives are still most effective tools. :cool:
 
My experiences with "sheeple" have been rather fortunate so far. There are lots of Rambo-wannabes out there who make all knife lovers look bad.

I work for an American non-profit in Argentina, all the other workers are foreigners (Americans, Europeans) and most of them are left wing college students, not rabbid revolutionaries mind you. Lots of vegetarians and vegans who are against hunting and stuff like that.

At first I thought I would have problems everyday with my knives, but I didn't. A couple of people asked me why I carried knives, but as time went on my knives and tools fixed so many things around the office that nobody gave me a second look when I pulled something out. I've carried all sorts of things at work, and whenever some new guy freaks out nobody pays attention to him, so he calms down.

Most people can be "educated", constant responsible use of our knives and tools is enough most of the time. Of course, there's always that one idiot who just can't learn.
 
Monocrom:
Unfortunately, I didn't shout anything back at her; but I said something like, "This is a deadly weapon?" (slightly holding up the little scissors) "You are an idiot."
She scowled and looked like she wanted to reply to my reply, seemed tongue-tied, then walked away.
Jim
 
James Y said:
People are really weird about knives, and you really can't tell who feels freaked out by simply seeing a tool in use by the person's appearance. And the knife in question doesn't have to be an assisted-opener or even a big knife. Once when using the tiny scissors on a Victorinox Classic SAK, a woman saw my cutting the paper and said loudly, "I'll have you know that is a deadly weapon! What are you doing carrying something like that?!"
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thats funny. and sad. i guess the Swiss Army Knife/multi-tool isnt as well known as i thought......:rolleyes:
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Huh?

Even so, where does the opportunity for this outrage arise? I can't remember the last time I saw anyone but a police officer with a holstered handgun.
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Dude, you live in New Jersey. In America, many of us can and do carry guns without the state interfering with silly and dangerous laws that make exercising a fundamental right carry significan legal penalties.
 
So, many of you can IN AMERICA but many others express outrage anyway? In New Jersey it seems we're in more danger from drivers changing lanes than from outrage over supposedly legal and openly expressed rights ...

Dude, I live in New Jersey. I moved here from New York. City. I'm glad the great State of Indiana doesn't interfere with the Constitution, or otherwise restrict the Good Guys from doing anything they please, but if you think any of that defines either of us as a person ... we better take it to W&C.
 
the best / worst reaction I had to me carrying a knife was when were were disassembling a radio transmission tower , at 350 ft up the tower , the boss realised he had nothing to cut the cable ties holding the cables on with . I pulled out my knife and began slicing them through

there was silence for a while , then " HOLY SH*TE where the hell did THAT come from ??"

I began looking around to see what the boss was going on about , but he was just staring at my knife ....

I just apologised for only having bought a rough knife to work with not the nice ones ..... and got on with the job .
 
James Y said:
Monocrom:
Unfortunately, I didn't shout anything back at her; but I said something like, "This is a deadly weapon?" (slightly holding up the little scissors) "You are an idiot."
She scowled and looked like she wanted to reply to my reply, seemed tongue-tied, then walked away.
Jim
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Well, that's definitely better than standing by; not knowing what to say. :thumbup:
 
I never thought anything like this could happen but this morning sitting in the library doing some last minute studying for my math exam. I pulled the tooth pick out of my sak on my key ring i got an extremely dirty look from the girl sitting across from me, I just shook it off and went back to studying.
Thinking back on it i should have just responded by asking if she wanted to help get something out of my teeth. but i guess i wasn't thinking quick enough after a late night of cramming.
The only other negative reaction ive had was when my roommate walked in the first day i had got my spyderfly and i was flipping it around. But i can understand where it came from, hes cool with it now.
 
I carry Benchmade, Spyderco, and SAK knives (not all at once) to work at a large university every day, and use them with reasonable discretion; no real problems. Interestingly, it's administrative staff, NOT students or faculty, who have had the only negative reactions (in both cases I was using a knife to open mail; in one of those case it was a tiny blue SAK Manager!). I pointed to the 6" Fiskars on the desk and said I didn't want to risk hurting myself with big blades like those. Situation defused.
 
powernoodle said:
The more we adapt ourselves to the spineless, the metrosexuals, the sheeple, the more they become the norm. They need to adapt to us, not the other way around.

cheers
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There's nothing non-Metrosexual about knife carrying or usage.

If you think about it, and look back in time, "Metrosexual" is the term that replaced "Gentleman" after Chivalry died. And, everyone knows a Gentleman should always carry a pocketknife. :D
 
enderwiggin said:
There's nothing non-Metrosexual about knife carrying or usage.

If you think about it, and look back in time, "Metrosexual" is the term that replaced "Gentleman" after Chivalry died. And, everyone knows a Gentleman should always carry a pocketknife. :D
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Actually, a Gentleman is a man who is wealthy and sophisticated (many times of noble birth). a Metrosexual is a straight man who dresses and acts like a homosexual.

Chivalry is not dead, the world is simply overrun with callous boors.
 
That's a surprisingly literal interpretation of what I said there! Don't you think the word "Gentleman" carries other meanings, implicit and explicit, in the modern day? What about the word "Metrosexual"?

I haven't had any particularly bad Sheeple reactions yet. I've overheard some ignorant comments, but have had nothing outright said to me. Yet.
 
My wife didn't carry a knife or gun when she first met me. Upon the first time she walked into my office, she almost screamed at the AR carbine I kept leaning near the desk, declaring it a machine gun.

That was three years ago. Now she carries a blade all the time, and her CCW pistol. If I don't have my guns on, she wonders why. When the VA shooting happened, at her work she was telling people that he didn't have a bunch of clips, but a bunch of magazines. She has a fondness for Sibert blades and tactical flashlights.

She is a sheeple no longer.:D
 
James Y said:
Once when using the tiny scissors on a Victorinox Classic SAK, a woman saw my cutting the paper and said loudly, "I'll have you know that is a deadly weapon! What are you doing carrying something like that?!"
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Anytime someone begins a sentence with "I'll have you know...", stupidity is bound to follow.
 
I didn't think of this at first, then wasn't sure if I wanted to post this.... but the very first negative response I got was when I just started becoming interested in collecting knives; and had no clue about quality.

It was the first day of High School in what I believe was the start of my Junior year. I called my then best friend and asked him to meet me before school started. I had a cheap imitation SAK Huntsman that I wanted to give him as a gift. I had one and liked it.

His response was pretty bad.... He called it a weapon, and said he couldn't possibly bring it into school with him. (This was back before schools went insane with those zero-tolerance policies. This was in the early '90s. Back when non-locking pocket knives were still seen as tools). He then said he'd have to ask his parents for permission before he accepted it from me. (He's Asian, so I understood). I was confident his folks would easily realize this was just a gift. Nope! He came up to me the next day, and said they refused to let him accept a "weapon" as a gift. :rolleyes:

I was left with a feeling that the whole incident was just retarded. But since he was a friend, I bit my tongue. The friendship only lasted a couple of years, and ended soon after Graduation.
 
A blade isn't uncommon where I work, but elsewhere I'd rather watch someone struggle opening a box with a ball point pen than hand them a knife/open it for them...it's not worth the "where did you get THAT?" comment, even regarding a SAK...

I did make a razor blade/duct tape box cutter for a nice looking Girl at Subway to help Her open/break down boxes since She was using the age old key vs cardboard technique.
 
you know, seriously, it's always funny to hear someone ask "what do you carry that around for?" when i've just cut something for them
it's exactly the same feeling i get at the arcade counter where they change notes into 1 dollar coins or 50 cents coins and when i give them 2 one dollar coins they ask me what denomination i want
 
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