Got some sheeple gasps this weekend

rs422 said:
WOW I though it meant (Retarded A??hole), from reading the story.
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That's the second definition.

Why does "having a switchblade" warrant calling the cops while having a knife doesnt?

IT OPENS FAST OH CRAP!!

Well they're illegal all over, I just can't grasp the reasoning behind the law
 
I'm in Michigan and having a "switchblade" is illegal here. Of course the law doesn't really clearly define what a switchblade is tho....

I always used to think it had to have A SWITCH, LOL.
 
When our family moved into a new neighbourhood 30 years ago, my dad brought out a katana that had been in his collection to clear some brush.

As katanas go, it was nothing special - mass produced WWII era japanese officer's blade with no fancy tsubas, ray-skin wrap, or sacbbard- but the hamon was nice and the blade was well sharpened.

So my dad is going at it with the hedges when two squad cars approach, and the officers tell my father to "drop the sword".

Seems like one of our new neighbours didn't have much of a sense of humor.

All my dad could say to me after he had explained himself to the cops was, "Gee, I guess I'm lucky that I didn't use the Kris sword your grandfather gave me to cut these hedges..."
 
Ha! Very nice.

Seems like the looks of a Blade have way more impact than the true function. Same is true with guns, though. Right?

My little Benchmade mini-Stryker with the sub 3-inch 1/2 serrated black-T tanto blade gets looks all the time...

...on the other hand, my stonewashed non-serrated MT Terzuola (RAZOR sharp and darn near 4-inches), barely raises any eyebrows in public. One of the girls working in records even asked about it when I was slicing up my apple tonight. She noticed the CF scales and asked if she could take a closer look. She fondled it briefly (the knife) and commented how beautiful it was before giving it back.

Silly sheeple.
 
crucible said:
When our family moved into a new neighbourhood 30 years ago, my dad brought out a katana that had been in his collection to clear some brush.

As katanas go, it was nothing special - mass produced WWII era japanese officer's blade with no fancy tsubas, ray-skin wrap, or sacbbard- but the hamon was nice and the blade was well sharpened.

So my dad is going at it with the hedges when two squad cars approach, and the officers tell my father to "drop the sword".

Seems like one of our new neighbours didn't have much of a sense of humor.

All my dad could say to me after he had explained himself to the cops was, "Gee, I guess I'm lucky that I didn't use the Kris sword your grandfather gave me to cut these hedges..."
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It was kinda stupid to be using something like that to clear hedges, it is not designed for that, and he was ruining what could have been a very valuable sword. Other than his poor choice of garden tools, I see no problem, as long as he wasn't running around chopping heads off of people.

Though when I think about it, there is a big difference between sheeple going nuts over a folder and going nuts over a sword. He shoulda used better judgement.
 
Surely, there's nothing more dangerous to the public than a man doing his thing on his own property. Not like a hedge trimmer or chainsaw is any less dangerous.... :rolleyes:
 
Well, there was that one time when I whipped out a Vaquero Grande to cut steak with in a resteraunt, and I used a 9100sbt to cut a philly sandwhich in miami subs.....
 
but see, you're doing that, whether subconciously or conciously, to f with people. That guys father was f'ing with people. It is fun though :D.
 
Will said:
I used my Endura at the supermarket last night to cut an egg carten in half. (I only wanted to buy a half dozen.)
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I didn't know one could do that. I'll have to try it down here in the U.S.

I like eggs. They're an Atkins food.
 
Rush290 said:
No, I live in rural north Carolina so most people don’t pay much attention to guns and knifes. This past hunting season I was out walking / stalking a old logging path with a 30-30 and started to get hungry. In the other side of the woods (a safe direction and distance for my hunting) was a country dinner. I walked to the dinner unloaded the rifle wand walked inside. I set the gun down in a corner near the hat rack and took a seat. No one said a word other than the waitress. “have any luck?”
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THat's what I like about living int he mountains. Very few people react at all to me pulling out a knife for a useful task. I was in Asheville a few weeks ago with a friend who bought a CD and she wanted to listen to it on the way home. So I opened up my Kershaw in the mall parking garage and got a few stares.

But here in Sylva, no one pays too much attention.
 
kamagong said:
RA = Resident Assistant

They're basically babysitters for dorms.
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I used to drink with the RA on my hall all the time when I was in the dorms as an undergrad.
 
Before I managed to get off campus, my old RA used to make an "unwilling donation" to poker night :) (he wasn't very good). That guy wasn't too bad, we could do pretty much anything we wanted as long as: a) nobody ended up needing stitches, and b) we didnt break anything.

Now it seems that people are way, way too paranoid about stupid little things. :barf:
 
What bugs me so much about people in general any more is that they seem so willing to see evil in the most rediculous places, like in a simple little pocket knife. "Gasp! What are you doing with that huge knife!? You could kill someone with that thing!" (That in reference once to an EK boot knife I used to have, about 6 or 7" total length) Sure, I could kill someone with my car in a parking lot too, but no-one gets all upset when I pull out my car keys, do they? Then, they refuse to see evil that really exists. "Leave those poor NAMBLA guys alone, they have rights, too," which is basically the position of the ACLU. Or, "Those poor ALQuaida guys are just fighting for freedom, like our founding fathers, why do we have to go over there and murder them?" Which seems to be the position of Michael Moore, who sees more evil in our current president than in the people who organized and carried out the assassination of about 3,000 or so otherwise innocent Americans on 9/11/01. I guess if Adolph Hitler were alive today and the Nazis were trying to take over the world, people today would ask what right we had to go over there and mess up thier fun. After all, Europe is thier playground. Some people just seem to have thier heads up thier Arses, IMO.
 
A Dogs Best Friend said:
What bugs me so much about people in general any more is that they seem so willing to see evil in the most rediculous places, like in a simple little pocket knife.
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That's because our government and our mass media have taught them from birth to be AFRAID.

Listen to what's on the news these days:

"Next up, something you have in your house that could HURT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY!!!"
"Gruesome pictures of VIOLENT CRIME!!"
"New health risks from THINGS YOU DO EVERY DAY!!"
"Sickos on the loose!! Are your CHILDREN safe??"

Our government isn't much better. They prefer the populace afraid, so they can use that fear to justify whatever they feel like doing.

"TERRORISTS want to hurt our CHILDREN!! So that pesky Bill of Rights has to go!!"
"Guns and knives can HURT people, so we have to BAN them. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!"

Live your life with a steady diet of that kind of crap, yeah, you start to see threats in pretty much anything.

I suspect most of us here on BF grew up spending hours unsupervised in the neighborhood and in the woods, experiencing life on our own, learning to evaluate risks and make rational choices (although not always smart ones), making mistakes and learning from them, making us more confident and self-sufficient adults.

Many of these "sheeple", at least the young ones, were raised differently: they had an adult watching them every waking moment, had to wear helmets and pads to ride a bike, couldn't go out in public unless in a stroller or on a leash (figurative or literal!), and even play time was in the form of scheduled and monitored "play dates". They were constantly told that EVERY stranger is a potential threat, that EVERY risk is to be avoided, to avoid ANYTHING that could possibly harm them.

The message is clear: anything that *could* hurt you, is BAD, and to be avoided.

And this is the message they're now passing along to THEIR children, too. :rolleyes:

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It's the same here in 'Nanny State' UK.
We have a long history of knee-jerk legislating against the majority for the misdemeanors of the minority.
No sooner is an incident reported in the Daily Babble and the battle cry goes up from the sheeple "there ought to be a law against it". What they fail to realise is that it is their own civil liberties that are being eroded not those of the miscreants who couldn't give a f*** for the law anyway.
 
A Dogs Best Friend said:
What bugs me so much about people in general any more is that they seem so willing to see evil in the most rediculous places, like in a simple little pocket knife. "Gasp! What are you doing with that huge knife!? You could kill someone with that thing!" (That in reference once to an EK boot knife I used to have, about 6 or 7" total length) Sure, I could kill someone with my car in a parking lot too, but no-one gets all upset when I pull out my car keys, do they? Then, they refuse to see evil that really exists. "Leave those poor NAMBLA guys alone, they have rights, too," which is basically the position of the ACLU. Or, "Those poor ALQuaida guys are just fighting for freedom, like our founding fathers, why do we have to go over there and murder them?" Which seems to be the position of Michael Moore, who sees more evil in our current president than in the people who organized and carried out the assassination of about 3,000 or so otherwise innocent Americans on 9/11/01. I guess if Adolph Hitler were alive today and the Nazis were trying to take over the world, people today would ask what right we had to go over there and mess up thier fun. After all, Europe is thier playground. Some people just seem to have thier heads up thier Arses, IMO.
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Well said!
 
tickertrouble said:
It's the same here in 'Nanny State' UK.
We have a long history of knee-jerk legislating against the majority for the misdemeanors of the minority.
No sooner is an incident reported in the Daily Babble and the battle cry goes up from the sheeple "there ought to be a law against it". What they fail to realise is that it is their own civil liberties that are being eroded not those of the miscreants who couldn't give a f*** for the law anyway.
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My hope is that there will always be enough of the "rebel" left in Americans that we won't let the Wussy Ultra Liberals legislate away all of our freedoms for the sake of a percieved safety. I think we ought to adopt the Confederate Rebel Flag to fly just below the Stars and Stripes. No offence to African Americans, of course is intended. I would just take that part of the Rebel Flag's meaning that says "We the people won't be ground under your heel." I live up North, here in Ohio, by the way.
 
Gryffin said:
That's because our government and our mass media have taught them from birth to be AFRAID....
I suspect most of us here on BF grew up spending hours unsupervised in the neighborhood and in the woods, experiencing life on our own, learning to evaluate risks and make rational choices (although not always smart ones), making mistakes and learning from them, making us more confident and self-sufficient adults.... [/RANT]
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;)

Oooh! Oooh! Lets Nerf the world and paint pretty butterflies and bunny wabbits all around to make everyone feel cuddewy!
Thanks Soccermoms..... :barf:
 
Gryffin said:
That's because our government and our mass media have taught them from birth to be AFRAID.

Listen to what's on the news these days:

"Next up, something you have in your house that could HURT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY!!!"
"Gruesome pictures of VIOLENT CRIME!!"
"New health risks from THINGS YOU DO EVERY DAY!!"
"Sickos on the loose!! Are your CHILDREN safe??"
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Very-very true.

That was actually the whole theme of "Bowling for Comumbine". OK, I admit, I've seen a few Michael Moore films. Granted, I can't say I agree with everything the guy has done, but tsome of it has been entertaining and ALL of it has been thought provoking (even if the thought is that the guy's a one sided liberal a*%hole).

This movie in particular teed you up thinking it was going to be a big anti-gun-far-left-liberal-ban-everything-scary slant. When it came down to it, he pointed the finger directly at the media and government creating the fear that breeds much of the crazy-ass s#&t you see out there. Does seem to make some sense.
 
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