How Benchmade is sailing away on a boat that KAI somehow missed.

[Comeuppance]

I care.

Care a great deal for this community, and what really sets me off are the people that post crap who have no skin in the game, and that is a fault that I own.

Do appreciate your post, and will try to lighten up.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

it is the people with "no skin" who feel the need to respond aggressively, condescendingly, and insultingly. It is the people with "no skin" that feel the need to defend companies they aren't affiliated with, even when the worst thing that has been said about the company is "they should have done this first" which actually demonstrates a healthy respect for a company as you need to respect a company to be disappointed by it in that fashion.

It is people with no skin who think they need to puff themselves up publicly and act all big and brassy when they feel even slightly challenged.

You're so cute! I just want to pat you on your head. It's truly adorable that you think you can assert any kind of authority, superiority, or justification for your laughably childish reaction and words. Edit: the funniest part is where you state that you just care so much about the community, and here you are actively berating a new member of the community for discussing knives in a knife discussion forum. What an upstanding member you are! A shining white knight for us poor folk! You just care so much you insult large portions of the community in broad sweeping statements!

You're clearly much too focused on status, but you don't seem to realize that the OP had gained more respect in this thread than you have lost - and that's no small amount either way. You have presented yourself as a childish, insulting, status-obsessed fanboy with more insults than insight, where the OP has just stated a non-insulting opinion and documented the repeated failure of a product. I wonder who has contributed more to this thread, the discussion, and the community at large here? Hmm.

I'm feeding the troll here, so, can we get back to talking about knives? I work retail and already spend too much time dealing with deluded entitled people.

 

[Comeuppance]

Good post, this.

To the poster who started this thread - I agree with your original post; I didn't find it was an insult to KAI/ZT, of whom I am a big fan (I own 4 ZTs and at least as many Kershaws).

Also, I love the crooked river, and just received mine in the mail today

That looks so good it's making me question having purchased the wood-handled version! Man. Any observations? Critiques? Issues? Super great aspects that haven't been commented on?

 

[shinyedges]

Relax man, sometimes we all get a little high strung. He said he would lighten up. Is there really a need to continue the arguing?

it is the people with "no skin" who feel the need to respond aggressively, condescendingly, and insultingly. It is the people with "no skin" that feel the need to defend companies they aren't affiliated with, even when the worst thing that has been said about the company is "they should have done this first" which actually demonstrates a healthy respect for a company as you need to respect a company to be disappointed by it in that fashion.

It is people with no skin who think they need to puff themselves up publicly and act all big and brassy when they feel even slightly challenged.

You're so cute! I just want to pat you on your head. It's truly adorable that you think you can assert any kind of authority, superiority, or justification for your laughably childish reaction and words.

You're clearly much too focused on status, but you don't seem to realize that the OP had gained more respect in this thread than you have lost - and that's no small amount either way. You have presented yourself as a childish, insulting, status-obsessed fanboy with more insults than insight, where the OP has just stated a non-insulting opinion and documented the repeated failure of a product. I wonder who has contributed more to this thread, the discussion, and the community at large here? Hmm.

I'm feeding the troll here, so, can we get back to talking about knives? I work retail and already spend too much time dealing with deluded entitled people.

 

[silverds]

To eon blue apocalypse, how do you feel about the grey G10? I wanted to pick up one of the FPR knives but I wasn't as piqued by the G10 version as the dymondwood one. Also, would you able and willing to line yours up next to a ZT045X (large Sinkevich) or ZT0560 in a pic. I have no problems carrying a large folder everyday but I am curious as to its visual presence compared to a competitive model of comparable size. Thank you for your positive contribution either way.

 

[Kohai999]

The point I've raised a already is that your criticism was reasonable and by most measures downright complimentary and that the OP's response was like melt down straight out of Whine and Cheese.

It's off side to call someone "the most profoundly irritating tool" and you can't chalk that up to any sort of misunderstanding of what he's saying.

Brusque if you want to use that term but I prefer Laconic. That's my preferred form of speech for a reply as I"m not a fan of the wall of text.

Appreciate it!

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[Comeuppance]

Relax man, sometimes we all get a little high strung. He said he would lighten up. Is there really a need to continue the arguing?

Nah, not really, but it's an easy target and I love laying into d-bags. I run into them all the time at work and it's just plain cathartic to capitalize on a chance to choose my words at my leisure and really spell out how much of a pile someone is being.

This will probably all get swept under the rug by a mod anyway.

 

[RevDevil]

This is not the place for this conversation...we've gone too far off track.