Knives, Sheeple and Trouble

I use my knife at work every day. I carry a speedsafe 2 1/4" Scallion or a 3" Kershaw RAM. I usually hold my knife down and flip it open away from people, but I don't try to hide it. I just cut the package open and put the knife away, no big deal.
No one has ever said anything except maybe it is a sharp knife and be careful. I am. Although I'm not supposed to have anything but a worthless safety box cutter my boss never says anything about the knives I carry and use.
 
skimmerhorn said:
we live in a constitutinal republic, not a democracy! i can and do carry a gun "in public". the problem is that enough people in the state of IL will not stand up and say enough is enough!! soverighn individuals will understand that their rights are being violated. i am off grid by choose. my grandfather would have smiled and said f$%# off to anyone who tried to tell him what to do!! again, stop being sheep!!! stand up for what you believe. if they don't like it in your office, so what! man or mouse!!!
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Hahaha, you think that most people don't like to have a job.
 
stand up for your believes. personal integrity has no substitute. i made a pot of beans tonight, with potato leek soup. tomarrow i will have venison and soup! killed the deer-bought the beans for a few bucks. i will not back down!!! my integrity is more important than any job. laws are only laws if you believe them. i can carry any damn thing i choose. don't be a sheep!!!
 
Yup, you can do things like that when you live "Off the Grid" I however live in a country with 16 million people on it on a piece of land about 1/6th the size of Utah. There is no "Off the Grid" here.

And a lot of people like living "On the grid" that doesn't make them sheep that makes them people that enjoy being around other people.

You my good man are just being rude. Because that's what it's called when you go around namecalling to people that you've barely met. And yes, I'm sure you have your reasons. But I'm sure a lot of people here are thinking about a couple of names for you right now as well but at least they have the decency not to say them out loud.
 
could care less!!! not my problem where you live. i live in a state the size of many countries with around five people per sguare mile. my closest neighbor is 9 miles away-to close if you ask me. political correctness is a weakness!! say what you want. opinions are irrelevent.
 
skimmerhorn, I am determined to leave this thread in the General Knife Discussion, despite your attempts to politicize it and to insult other members for their opinions.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
skimmerhorn, I am determined to leave this thread in the General Knife Discussion, despite your attempts to politicize it and to insult other members for their opinions.
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How is that guy not banned yet? His conduct in this thread is appalling. There also seems to be some sort of problem with his ! key.
 
Dekz said:
How is that guy not banned yet? His conduct in this thread is appalling. There also seems to be some sort of problem with his ! key.
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He's a troll with obviously strong opinions, but it's best to wait till they do something truly atrocious.... Like dare the mod(s) to ban them. ;)
 
skimmerhorn said:
could care less!!! not my problem where you live. i live in a state the size of many countries with around five people per sguare mile. my closest neighbor is 9 miles away-to close if you ask me. political correctness is a weakness!! say what you want. opinions are irrelevent.
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You said it. The remote style of the life that you lead permits you to practice your believes. It's easy to do what you want when nobody is around you. But this kind of an attitude would not be helpful if you lived among other people in a suburb enviroment. And it's kinda foolish of you to argue with that. Go ahead, walk in a shopping mall in California, openly carryng a hand gun and tell everyone about their constitutional rights. You will quickly learn that your personal opinion, no matter how right you think it is, is far less important than the public and local laws.
 
riffraff said:
I always carry my Kershaw 1993-2 when going out to eat.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6509691&postcount=236

Never had a problem, but it's not an AO, either. Even then, I don't open it over the table, and I discretely place it next to my plate. Still, I've had waitresses come up and ask if my steak was properly cooked -- before I've even sliced into it. Can't tell unless I cut it, so I used my 1993-2 and they never batted an eye, even though it was obviously not the steak-house's knife (of course, most steak houses don't offer steak knives to their customers...they're more like cheap little steak saws, and not particularly good saws at that :rolleyes: ).
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He said when he opened it he opened it under the table, and opened it slow so it didn't "click" when the lock moved over. I am going to be heading there in a few days, I will see if I get the same response being older than he is. Hopefully I do, as I want to explain how it is a tool and not a weapon.
 
Psychopomp said:
I think it's all in how you present yourself and your knife....
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You think?

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I had a coworker report me to my boss for carrying knives. I asked her why she didn't report other coworkers who carry bigger knives, and she said because they use theirs.

And after reporting me, she had the nerve to ask me to open any boxes that she received. I chose to watch her struggle to open them with her keys.
 
When I worked in a medical device R&D group a lady in another department at work cut herself with an hobby knife pretty badly. So what happens?! My manager won't let us have any single edged razor blades to cut stuff with. They happen to be one of the premier cutting tools because they are cheap and sharp. So I asked my boss if I could buy a bunch of scissors and tether them to the lab benches so that they would be available when we needed them. I got the OK. The scissors got attached to the lab benches with 1/4" SS nylon coated aircraft cable (and I used the crimps). It wasn't the best system, but at least I could always find some scissors.



The place I work at now don't have problems with knives. I have two of them that are stuck to my cubicle book shelf with magnets in plain view. I've have people borrow them to open boxes and stuff. One of the other started to regularly carry his Gerber (his beater knife) at work.

I got a funny look from a co worker when we were setting up some liquid handling equipment. We had to cut some tubing to length. My co worker turns to find something to cut the tubing with, he happened to look back in my direction about 2-3 seconds later and I already had my knife out ready to cut the tubing.

The funniest incident wasn't involving a knife. It was my cell phone. I had mounted a pocket clip (the same kind we use on our knives) on the back of my phone so it would ride at the top of my pocket instead on sinking to the bottom. A consultant saw it and said "Can't live without your Spyderco can you?" I responded "This is my cell phone." as I pulled it out "Knife's in the other pocket. See." Then I showed him my edc. It turns out that he was some what of a gun nut. We got along just fine.

Ric
 
sodak said:
invariably, one of my older aunts will come up to me and say, "Let me borrow your knife". They do NOT know that I am a knut, they simply assume that every man carries a knife.
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My grandmother is the same, and has never blinked an eye at whatever I pulled out of my pocket- I think older women who have worked in more rural areas and jobs are used to seeing knives as a useful tool. Then again, her father used knives as weapons more often than tools, so I dunno...
 
I agree with skimmerhorn that nobody should have to compromise their carry to please the sheeple.

What he misses and we have to live with are the large number of mentally stressed, under respected, and overly abused workers who seemingly are managed toward violence. So, HR has adopted Pre-incident indicators (without understanding the real psychology behind them) and apply them with brute force rules: NO WEAPONS IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT, INCLUDING KNIVES.

Sure, most of us ignore the signs - it's a insurance liability ploy with no real teeth. However, some of us do work with women of both sexes who think the use of any folding knife in a office or public setting is the act of a potentially violent murderer. It doesn't help that a real understanding of the offender would reveal someone a lot more like them is the perpetrator.

Since the rest of us live in close proximity to offensive anti knife people, most of the responsible adults don't whip out our deadly ninja knives to cut a doughnut to share in the cafeteria. If anything, we just smile as the anti's chew on a package to open it.

After all, we know who would survive if our area became as off the grid as rural Montana - if you ever get out this way, look one of us up, you might find a quietly kindred spirit living in the concrete jungles . . .
 
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