If your blade folds

well Doug, you might not, but I DO. I use my knife hundreds of times a day. BOTH at work and in public. All perfectly legit and legal uses too. I dont flick my knives like an idiot teenager would, i just use them as they were designed. To cut. Its the media, hollywood and the idiots that flicky flicky that ruin it for us.
 
Bushman5 said:
well Doug, you might not, but I DO. I use my knife hundreds of times a day. BOTH at work and in public. All perfectly legit and legal uses too. I dont flick my knives like an idiot teenager would, i just use them as they were designed. To cut. Its the media, hollywood and the idiots that flicky flicky that ruin it for us.
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1. Read this 3 or 4 times, still don't see what point you are trying to make in reference to my post.

2. Does anyone realize just how ignorant the "idiot teenager" comment is? There are plenty of idiot adults as well. Conversely, there are a number of very responsible and intelligent teens.
 
midnight flyer said:
Sigh... I guess not. You move so fast and your wording is sometimes so complicated; not to mention all the big words. Cleverly written, too!
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I know. I think maybe you oughtta stick to what you know best, Bob. Palm reading, astral projection, out of body experiences, etc. A man with your talent, it seems such a waste to see you go round and round with someone of such an inferior intellect.

Your comment of "I will sit across a room and watch someone struggle with a box, like a monkey trying to get its' penis into a football" was a real winner! I have never seen that, and I'm not sure it's something I would watch, but you sure did paint a picture! :thumbup:
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Didn't want to drop the F-BOMB!

Sorry to say though, I reread both of my posts and never saw anything about me or my amigos writing any letters to anyone. Not a trace.
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Guess ya just didn't get it. That happens sometimes. I remember when my son was three, sometimes he just didn't understand simple concepts either.

Guess I need to read them again to find what I said to confuse you enough to make an assumption that they might write anything. I assure you though, small loss, if any. I am sure the way some of them write (PAUL....ahem... maybe not at all!) not much would be gained by letters to anyone.
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You are quite proud of the whole you and the boys working construction angle...you use them construction crayon things? You might want to fire off some letters with them on some colorful construction paper.

Not sure I follow. Are you trying to say that someone wearing clean clothes to the job would make them frisky? Compared to our normal sweaty, dirty, work clothes we see each other in all the time, I guess that's possible! If it made them work harder.... it would be more than lucky - it would be a frickin' miracle!! I'll take it!
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No, not at all Bob. I was thinking that you have such a hard-on over the word "sheeple" that you might also become aroused, or one of your friends, at the mere whiff of Woolite. :D

I knew this was gonna be a goodun! I seent you writin' an all. Ya type a bit slow, Bob. :)
 
dougo83 said:
1. Read this 3 or 4 times, still don't see what point you are trying to make in reference to my post.

2. Does anyone realize just how ignorant the "idiot teenager" comment is? There are plenty of idiot adults as well. Conversely, there are a number of very responsible and intelligent teens.
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2) commenting about the NUMEROUS youth in my area that think "knives are cool, gonna ^^^^ someone up with mine if they diss me" type crowd thats VERY prevalent in the area.
 
Bushman5 said:
I dont flick my knives like an idiot teenager would, i just use them as they were designed. To cut. Its the media, hollywood and the idiots that flicky flicky that ruin it for us.
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I think a person should know how to open their folder as fast and securely as possible for those situations where they might need it open that fast.

However, it's really amazing. Hollywood in general, and James Dean in particular, gave us the Switchblade and Gravity Knife legislation in 1957-58. Again, regardless of what MF thinks, bedwetter douchebags, terrified of people with pocketknives with a spring and a button, gave congress the impetus to "control" these types of knives. Fact not opinion, fact not fiction.

Now, if you want to take a look at real rocket science...watch "Big Trouble in Little China" which features Jeff Imada with a Balisong and a Telescoping Baton...in not such a great light...yet, Imada laments the fact that Balisongs get controlled but he accepted the check! He signed the check! He cashed the check! Daniel Inosanto, a national treasure, watch "Sharky's Machine." Same-same, using Jeff Imada's Telescoping Baton...which ASP kinda-sorta ripped off...and a Balisong...cuttin' old Burt Reynold's fangers off during the Beni Hana audition in the movie...

These two movies put the Balisong, Butterfly Knife, out in the spotlight.

And, yeah, a lot of kids were doing stupid stuff with them.

A lot of kids do stupid stuff with a lot of things. iPods, iPhones, regular cellphones, automobiles...we start banning things because people do stupid stuff with them and we'll have toilet paper left and possibly plastic straws and I'm not too sure of the former.
 
Don Rearic said:
I know. I think maybe you oughtta stick to what you know best, Bob. Palm reading, astral projection, out of body experiences, etc. A man with your talent, it seems such a waste to see you go round and round with someone of such an inferior intellect.
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By Gawd, you're right.

I should stick with what I know! But I never thought of you as an inferior.... hmmmm.... usually folks with such strong opinions and active imagination have a healthy self image.

But based on your excellent observation, I will now take my superior intellect (it isn't really, but thanks for noticing Dan, I actually never thought of it that way - seriously - but if you say so.... thanks!! :thumbup: :thumbup:) to another thread where it isn't wasted. BTW, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Honestly, I don't think of you as an inferior at all.

Great call, Dean.

Robert
 
S'okay Bobbie! I do too much thinkin' and my head starts to hurt. Hell, you worked constriction all them years, you know what I mean! :D
 
dougo83 said:
I would have to agree. I have carried knives for most of my life. I have carried them at the bank where I worked, in high school, in college, at church, and pretty much everywhere else. I have never had anyone gasp, scream, cower, or run in terror when I use my knife. As MF says, it's all in presentation. I don't act like an ass with my knife, I use it to cut something and then put i tback. I don't have any reason to play with the damn thing at work or when otherwise in public...that's just stupid.
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For the most part I try to do whatever odd cutting I do in public with my folder, hell that's the primary reason I carry one. But there was one time about a dozen or so years ago that I had left my edc folding knife locked up in my tool box at work on Friday...was really ready to get out of there and didn't sweat it because I had a Gerber Ridge knife in the console of my truck and a fixed blade in the pack behind the seat. That Saturday my wife and kids and I met some friends at a local KFC for dinner. We ordered three of their rotisserie chickens and all of the fixin's. When the were set on the counter I asked the guy if they had anything I could cut the chicken up with and he said sure and hands me two more sporks. I looked at the chickens and looked at the sporks and then asked if he minded if I went out to my truck and got my...um...hunting knife to carve them with. He said "sure go for it". So I went out to the truck and brought in my small pack and broke out my old Ka-Bar and carved the chickens. There was a couple in their sixties with a couple of small children sitting beside us and I noticed the man was staring at me... so I just shrugged and grinned. He spoke up and said "man that brings back memories...wish I had mine here now" so I loaned him mine and he cut his up. We all ate at talked for some time watching the snow shower that had started and I got to here some interesting stories about life in camp during the Korean conflict. We did get a few funny looks from some of the younger people there but nothing was said. In hind sight I suppose we could have just torn the chickens apart with the sporks but...it sure was nice for the twelve of us to be able to enjoy our meal like civilised human beings rather than ripping it apart like like prehistoric barbarians in a modern cave.... I get enough of that in the bush :D


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Try it in suburban/urban Maryland and watch what happens. Different world and the different world is where most of the voters tend to congregate. I think that was the point of a lot of this.
 
^ and that was my point about getting more people to wear and use their uses proudly. The more people get used to it, the more accepted it becomes.
 
Least scariest to most scariest:

-folding SAK
-small fixed blade
-larger folder
-larger fixed blade
 
Wow. When I started this thread a couple of days ago, I had no idea of the turns it would take. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because sometimes interesting things come of odd turns.

Still, the original question was more along the lines of "do you think people are more freaked by your pulling out a fixed blade to use than a folder?" There have been some interesting points and observations here along the way, and some interesting attitudes presented, too.

I'm still not sure what the answer (if there is one) to the original question would be, but it's been entertaining, to say the least.

I'm still interested, though, so keep 'em coming.

Oh, and I'm the other Bob: not the one Don is going on with: that's been entertaining, too.
 
Can we keep this thread within the scope of the original question? Do we need to include politics? Should this be shut down?
 
k_estela said:
Can we keep this thread within the scope of the original question? Do we need to include politics? Should this be shut down?
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Hey, Kev, I started this thread, but I think it's run its course. I don't have the juice to close it, but you can.

Thanks,

Bob
 
Bob,
The original question was good and I think there was some good discourse. Rather than shut it down, we'll let it go to the bottom on its own. If anyone else needs to get in their last words, fine.
 
What gets me about people that recoil in horror from knives, is that they are FIXATING ON THE OBJECT (inanimate) RATHER than the ACTIONS of the PERSON with the knife.

A man or woman has a knife on their belt, and people freak out. WHY????????? the knife is incapable of doing anything, its dead, no soul, no brain, no way of physically doing harm. It takes a HUMAN with intent to use a knife for harm, to actually do harm with that knife. The knife is not the issue. its peoples intent with knives thats the issue, and THAT is what the people should be worried about. Thats why i zero patience with these types of people. They cannot see or think logically
 
k_estela said:
Bob,
The original question was good and I think there was some good discourse. Rather than shut it down, we'll let it go to the bottom on its own. If anyone else needs to get in their last words, fine.
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Thanks, Kev. It was getting a little personal there for awhile between a couple of posters. I try to keep a lid on some threads as much as I can, but not being a mod, there's only so much I can do. In this case, I was away for awhile and, holy crud, how it had changed.

If it straightens out, that's fine. If it doesn't, I won't feel bad if you close it.

Thanks,

Bob
 
k_estela said:
Can we keep this thread within the scope of the original question? Do we need to include politics? Should this be shut down?
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I think if you are going to have a zero tolerance policy towards politics creeping into any particular forum, it should be a true zero tolerance policy and it should be enforced as such. I also think that would be stupid. Politics are a part of everything we do. I find that to be incredibly crappy but that's just life in this country right now. The government has a law on new homes that controls the amount of water that comes out of your showerhead and how much your toilet uses per flush so it comes as no surprise that politics will rear its ugly head throughout forums dedicated to knives, guns, self-defense and even land usage in the wilds! That's just the way it is.

"dawsonbob," the OP, was talking about people's reactions to folders versus fixed blades in public. Those reactions of people are what leads to laws being passed because those people vote and if those people are nuts then you are going to get nutty laws because those people vote for nutty or sly politicians!

It's not that these threads "go political," they ARE political by their very nature unless you want to talk about these things without any context because the context is political. So, if we are going to have that zero tolerance policy, every thread that deals with laws, rules, regulations, fine regimes due to rescues and all of these things, they should immediately be locked or moved or whatever.

I think that would be a shame to have that policy. The political forum here is another animal entirely, that is about POLITICS, what is being discussed in here so strongly from time to time is the loss of freedom associated with politics, but that's not really in a context similar to discussing Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, etc.
 
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