No blade at Disney World

jbmonkey said:
hopefully your parents taught ya how to tie your shoes, so no knife needed.:)


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HAHAHA!:D It did teach me that lesson too, and it was actually a bit of a funny story in hindsight. Especially when I remember my aunt yelling to my uncle "GET HIM! IT'S EATING HIM!" :D
 
jbmonkey said:
see that big smiley face i put on my post. couldnt make it anymore obvious if i tried other than typing its a joke...gonna go and do that now to calm down all you wound too tight folks.

btw i used to carry firearms in disney and large folders. never shot or stabbed anyone, go figure. liked disney better back then.
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That smiley face is used in a variety of ways not just for joking, I've seen it done many times for people being rude :)

That said, I'm over it and got no issues with you. I grew up in broward, so hello from another Floridian.
 
This has been a thought provoking thread. Thanks everyone and have a pleasant day!
 
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Some threads (like this one IMO) seem to take really strange turns. :confused: As strange as Scooters' post 46 and avatar. :eek: ;)
 
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singularity35 said:
What, like you expect some ninja to jump out anytime and hand you a package to open? :p

I like knives as much as the next person here but it's just ridiculous and borders on neurotic to be unable to go without a knife for a few hours. It's disneyland for crying out loud. Not like it's a construction site or the woods.
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Um, no, I'd just rather have a knife with me. Similarly I'd rather have a pen and a gun with me. When I can't have one or more of them, I don't, but if I can, I do. No one is 'unable to go without a knife for a few hours,' we just prefer to have them wherever we go. I think you're the neurotic one for caring so much about everyone else's preferences. I most assuredly don't care who likes to carry what or where.
 
Just to add my 2 cents, at least at Disneyland in California they are pretty strict on no-knives. You go through metal detectors before getting into the disney themed area before the park, and on a two-day trip, one day they did not notice my SAK cadet, and one day they did and would not allow it in. My wife had a full size swiss army knife in her purse the whole time too, but the "search" they do of purses and bags is cursory at best, and we had that with us all day too.
 
For those defending the need, or want to carry a knife, just stop it.
You've already been diagnosed as borderline neurotic, and any argument is clearly delusional. Just follow the good doctors order to go knifeless when he says, and you'll get better.
Thanks doc.
 
I think I hit a sensitive nerve here.

Anyway, no anti knife or anti carry sentiment here. If you can legally carry, by all means do so. But if as one poster said it, it is an ordeal(!?) to not be carrying even if prohibited, then that seems to be a problem. Assuredly, not my problem too.

Having carried a bali since I was high school and college, I used to regularly go to movies in our small town. Even during the late 1980's there was a strictly no weapon policy inside the theaters. I would regularly beat this rule by carrying two balis. At the entrance, which is where the guy with the magntic detector was, I would surrender one of my balis where it was placed in a locker, to be returned upon exiting. The guys are the various movie houses knew I was a regular and when I took out my bali, just gave me a receipt and would not be searched probably because they didn't think I was carrying another one. I also started doing this with guns once I got my PTC(permit to carry, your CCW) but mostly when I had transactions at the bank, not in moviehouses.

I don't know how long I kept doing that. I felt good that I beat the system and I felt good about the knife in my pocket. Turns out after all those years that I never needed that knife in my pocket.

So here's the thing. If it's an ordeal to you to not have a knife in your pocket, even when it's absolutely prohibited or when you should be indulging in some otherwise enjoyable activity, I still say something's amiss. So by all means, try and beat the system like I did before or just do without. I really don't care whether you carry or not, but I do care about your state of mind when you do carry.

And here's the winky smiley. ;)
 
jeffsenpai said:
Just to add my 2 cents, at least at Disneyland in California they are pretty strict on no-knives.
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Correct. DisneyLAND, California-no knives.
DisneyWORLD, Florida-under 3" blade is allowed.
singularity35 singularity35 , I was the one that used "ordeal". For comedic effect, which I will at times do without a smiley. :eek: The mouse house itself is the ordeal. The sub 3" bladed knife you are permitted to carry is merely a small comfort, a slight bit of normalcy,while your subjecting yourself to the theme park experience.
That's BladeForums "normalcy", not what passes for normal in society at large, "why would you even need a knife?". o_O
 
BigKurtHaze said:
Correct. DisneyLAND, California-no knives.
DisneyWORLD, Florida-under 3" blade is allowed.
singularity35 singularity35 , I was the one that used "ordeal". For comedic effect, which I will at times do without a smiley. :eek: The mouse house itself is the ordeal. The sub 3" bladed knife you are permitted to carry is merely a small comfort, a slight bit of normalcy,while your subjecting yourself to the theme park experience.
That's BladeForums "normalcy", not what passes for normal in society at large, "why would you even need a knife?". o_O
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I'm sure that there are still degrees of "normal" in BF. Probably a big range between casual user and paranoid mall ninja. :D

Although a societal average is probably the most common measure of normalcy, not the extreme behavior of a minority. For instance, wearing kilts would probably be normal in Scotland but I doubt we'd be thought of very well if you or I suddenly started wearing them. :p

I too don't like not having a knife or two. Why else would I be here several times a day? However when the situation dictates, I can be comfortable without having a knife. Take a boat ride I used to take regularly. Lasts around 4 hours but the thing is when I got to my destination, I still would not have a knife and I'd be staying for a week or so. Eventually, I smuggled a knife through by clipping it behind my belt buckle and left it at my other house. During the 4 hours I was on the boat however, I wasn't being uncomfortable, fearing that a package needing to be opened, and only by gnawing it like a caveman. I did regularly eat during the boat ride and had to open packages without a knife(horrors!). I did survive that ordeal with no untoward effects. :D
 
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I like having tools on myself, from pens to pliers. So I bought a couple of bladeless ones to carry in very restrictive environments.

The Leatherman Style Ps is a good example. It's small, but it has several useful features
 
Just carry a small cheap knife so you are comfortable :) If you dont have one it could give you a reason to go get a small SAK
 
I am actually surprised at how many times I have hear "child's shoelace caught in escallator" as a reason people started carrying a knife. It is such a good reason because it forces people who try to say "you only carry a knife because it is a weapon, no one needs a knife" to shut up and reconsider.

Time is pressing as the child's foot will be crushed by the tightening shoe laces. You can't pull the child's foot out because the tightening of the laces makes that all but impossible. The only viable solution is to cut the shoelace, and NOW!

The story is so good I have been trying to figure out a way to work it into my story when a nosy Canadian police officer tries to give me a hard time for the knife I am legally carrying. (Don't worry no need for a written report, that way he can keep my knife) I was thinking, "as a child a got my shoelace stuck in the escalator and my father cut the lace" he told me to always carry a knife.
 
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