Had my first "non knife" guy moment.

Moosez45 said:
I guess I'm the oddball then, when I hear or see a knife, I am instantly drawn to it. I attribute it to my disease.


Other than that, if a person has thier knife under control when it comes out, here I come........"Hey, what's there.....?!?!?"

Moose
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That's funny- Just last night I was in the pizza joint waiting for my order when I noticed a shiny silver pocket clip. Long story short...... I got too hold my first Emerson. Now I want one.
 
I keep my distance from anyone that has a knife, regardless of how they are using it. This comes from years of martial arts training and also working in kitchens. Like some of the more "civic" minded knife nuts, I am very careful when and how I deploy my knives in public. If I need to use a knife in a store to open something, I will ask the clerk if they are okay with it. 10 times out of 10, they are cool with it, and 9 times out of those 10, the clerk wants to know more about the knife.

I am of the same mind of Moose though. When a knife comes out, I wanna see it.
 
I've had people recoil in horror as I cut up an apple with an Opinel. I've also had people not even bat an eye while open carrying a cold steel SRK. I don't know.

I carry a sheeple knife and I carry a main knife. I use both as the situation requires.
 
This thread is strange. No one seems to care when I take out my folding thrower and throw it at packages that need opening..... no one except the packages. They can get pretty ticked off.
 
I snap my knives out, cut with them, and replace them just as quickly, because that is simply how I want to do it. I blatantly ignore other people; I wouldn't know if they were paying attention to what I'm doing or not. I wouldn't be concerned about them if I were using a hammer or wrench, so why would it be any different with a knife?

The failure to understand the context of use is, in most of these cases, the fault of the observer. Don't be an enabler, be an educator. :]
 
As was said many times, if I were the store clerk, I would have stepped back to provide space as well. Then I would have asked, "what's that you are carrying?" The genocide comment had to be the most disturbing and ridiculous post of the thread. A larger percentage of our populace today is urbanized/suburbanized than ever before in American history. It probably describes a majority of the people on this forum. Using tools is only one of many things that a majority of the population are ignorant. At the turn of the 20th century, about 70% of the American population was involved in some sort of agriculture, and the suburbanites that existed then raised chickens and grew gardens in their yards, and might even have a milk cow or a horse in the shed/garage. Game from hunting was an important source of protein in their diets as well. There is validity to the generational changes that were pointed out in this thread, but there are technological changes that have occurred that have resulted in a lot of them. However, there is one thing that has not changed since history has been recorded by man. Human nature. There have always been those that would: take from others, exploit others, be serial killers, be good family people, be generous and kind hearted. And there have always been those that would flee from danger, and a very small percentage of them who would run towards it to see if they could help. Case in point, at the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing videos, a majority of the movement of people was running away from the blast site, but there was a small percentage of people who in turn ran towards the blast site to see if they could provide any assistance to those injured. When I think of the term sheeple, I think of the majority of the people running away from the blast. I do not want to bring Nutnfancy into the discussion, but he would describe the small percentage of those people running towards the blast as sheep dogs, and the rest as sheep. And using this definition, a majority of the sheep do not understand why anyone needs a knife, because they have experienced all of life without ever having to carry one. They also have no idea where their food comes from, nor do they have a clue what it takes to get it to the grocery store. which is the only thing that they know. If SHTF, the store shelves will be bare within 5 days. What will people eat then? The amendments to our constitution are to protect us from two basic things, human nature and our government. And I hope that I do not live long enough to see these protections vanish. They have been eroding and vanishing for my entire lifetime as well as my father's lifetime, I hope that they are still around for all of my children and grandchildren. The founding fathers and the framers of our nation were a small group of sheep dogs on a continent populated primarily by sheep. I think that we would all do well to ask ourselves the question, "if a bomb blast goes off while walking down the street, which way will I run?"
 
I often I use a large folder in public, just don't open it up all the way. Like open to expose an inch or 2 of the blade and conceal the rest in your hand.
 
A couple weeks ago I was sitting in my truck while I was parked in a parking lot because I had to give a friend a ride some place and wait for him and I had just bought my new Buck 110 a few days earlier, so I'm sitting there admiring my Buck 110 and a young lady walks by and notices the shiny blade in my hand and I noticed the look on her face, she looked very shocked like she seen a ghost or something, she probably thought knives are illegal to carry or I don't know, it just proves how domesticated most people are in today's society.
 
A lot of people driving vehicles don't know basic things like how to change a flat tire or check the fluids in their car, they just pay somebody to do that stuff because they don't own tools or what not, so when they see somebody carrying a knife they automatically label it as a "weapon".

I was doing some home repair for a guy who is from China and he had to hire somebody just to screw in a pad lock on his back fence, I was surprised that a grown man had to hire somebody to do a simple task that only needed a drill or a screw driver.
 
larson1122 said:
His reaction doesn't sound all that unusal to me. I could see how a stranger flipping open a fairly good sized knife next to him in a public store may cause him to think twice about your intentions.
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That would require a good sized knife.
 
An awful lot of young guys today have never owned a knife (or any other kind of tools). If you approach one of these guys and "whip out" almost any kind of knife - you're probably going to scare them at least a little. They can't help it, it's how they were raised. I worry about our future.
 
I was in the office with a 10 year older female co-worker who was training me back in the day. She needed to open a box with old files for us to go through, so I opened my Spyderco Ladybug Serrated Hawkbill and started cutting. Her response?

"That is so cute!!"

She's still not into knives though.:)
 
Is that thing loaded?

Stupidity cannot be defeated...but it can be ignored... and laughed at.
 
Just carry your old Boy Scout knife with the escutcheon on it.
Who doesn't understand Boy Scout knives? "I've had this since I
was a kid in scouts." Automatically defuses an argument or fearful
reaction among folks who aren't "knife people".;)
 
Forums like this are for "knife people"
In the real world we are not normal. I don't know why so many "sheeple " threads come up here. Not everyone is the same,nor should they be.
Do car enthusiasts mock people when they jump back when they walk in front of their cars and hear the motor rev?
Do watch guys mock people when asked what time it is?
Do boot guys mock anyone wearing K-mart boots instead of 200.00 red Wings?
We love knives-that's a given, but to expect everyone to feel like we do is a bit irrational.




It's not 1960 and everyone doesn't carry a knife and that's OK.
The more non-knife people out there the more knives for us knuts.
 
jeffwithaj said:
Forums like this are for "knife people"
In the real world we are not normal. I don't know why so many "sheeple " threads come up here. Not everyone is the same,nor should they be.
Do car enthusiasts mock people when they jump back when they walk in front of their cars and hear the motor rev?
Do watch guys mock people when asked what time it is?
Do boot guys mock anyone wearing K-mart boots instead of 200.00 red Wings?
We love knives-that's a given, but to expect everyone to feel like we do is a bit irrational.




It's not 1960 and everyone doesn't carry a knife and that's OK.
The more non-knife people out there the more knives for us knuts.
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Sadly, the answer to these questions, in my direct experience is yes.
 
Our knives aren't pure function as they were during our parent's (grandparent's) generation. We obsess over minutia and need duplicates and triplicates of every knife in every iteration. In the huntin' fishin' trapin' generation of yesterday, they needed knives in a much more primal sense. I don't think it's a fair comparison to say that just because we like knives we are in touch with that lifestyle. Maybe our knives are a nostalgic way of holding on to a generation that some people romanticize.
 
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