Non knife people's AWESOME knives. Lol

TheBladeMerchant said:
This happened last night... I am a Deputy with our County and had a new guy fresh out of the Academy on his first shift last night. I look at this purple real tree camo looking thing sticking out of his pocket and ask him "what is that"? He proudly pulls out a brand new...fresh from Amazon....Tac force assisted opening rescue knife. I look it over and promptly throw it in the garbage. The look on his face was priceless. I then tell him that all this stuff he is wearing is there to potentially save his life and ask him if he want's to risk his life on a 9.00 knife? He stood there dumbfounded with no answer.....he is so afraid that any answer he gives will be wrong. Cracked me up. I reached into my Tac Vest and pulled out my one month old Benchmade Serum and handed it to him and told him it was my gift to him for making it through the academy. He opened it and his eyes lit up like a little kid.
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Then Sarge walked up... brow furrowed from too many long and cold nights on the job. His boots shining like a black stallion fresh in from a run through a dew-drenched, elven forest. Sarge pulls out two identical extra large cold steel espada G-10's with gold plating and valarian steel. Coming in at 16 3/4 inches and almost a pound a piece we instantly knew that Sarge meant business. While holding one XL espada G-10 in his teeth, Copenhagen long cut bulging from his lower lip (and not that wintergreen Sh!t either, sarge ain't no homo) ... Sarge quickly snatched that Benchmade Serum from the rookie and instantly snapped it in half using the tried and true method of spine whack, right across the kid's knuckles. I grinned from ear to ear as the kid's eyes welled up with tears from the pain. Sarge gave him a quick smack upside the head and handed him the pair of XL espadas. As sarge grumbled out his trademark speech about the cold steel xl espada being the most powerful pocket knife in the world, and would chop your head clean off... You've got to ask yourself one question PUNK...

In walks crocodile dundee, rambo and conan... those three always show up on new recruit night. I was glad I had my back up ZT 03123666BWSFCFTRU#YOLO cause it was about to get real...

Then the fellas brought out the firehoses...
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All the people complaining on the first page ruined this thread, which otherwise would have been fun to read. They really need to stop telling people to grow up and maybe try their best to grow up themselves.

Anyway, I do have a story.

My cousin came back from a vacation with a custom handmade dagger. He took it over to my house after talking it up for a few days and it turned out to be just a no-name flea market knife. It looked kind of cool but the quality was terrible.

I've always wondered why it is that some people can't see the difference between a quality tool and a throw-away-after-one-use kind of tool.
 
Sikael said:
First ......... Secondly, on your first day on the forum, for your first post -- welcome, by the way -- you decide to jump into a settled argument to... what? Start things up again? Use that as an opportunity to introduce yourself? Make a 'pal'? ....... :)
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I'm feeling much better now. sorry i stumbled outside the Old Knives section I just couldn't help myself, what do you expect from someone who polishes turds for fun. -out
 
Leftytwogunz said:
Then Sarge walked up... brow furrowed from too many long and cold nights on the job. His boots shining like a black stallion fresh in from a run through a dew-drenched, elven forest. Sarge pulls out two identical extra large cold steel espada G-10's with gold plating and valarian steel. Coming in at 16 3/4 inches and almost a pound a piece we instantly knew that Sarge meant business. While holding one XL espada G-10 in his teeth, Copenhagen long cut bulging from his lower lip (and not that wintergreen Sh!t either, sarge ain't no homo) ... Sarge quickly snatched that Benchmade Serum from the rookie and instantly snapped it in half using the tried and true method of spine whack, right across the kid's knuckles. I grinned from ear to ear as the kid's eyes welled up with tears from the pain. Sarge gave him a quick smack upside the head and handed him the pair of XL espadas. As sarge grumbled out his trademark speech about the cold steel xl espada being the most powerful pocket knife in the world, and would chop your head clean off... You've got to ask yourself one question PUNK...

In walks crocodile dundee, rambo and conan... those three always show up on new recruit night. I was glad I had my back up ZT 03123666BWSFCFTRU#YOLO cause it was about to get real...

Then the fellas brought out the firehoses...
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Seriously losing my shit laughing!!!!!!! Hilarious!!
 
warning- back on topic:

I hope people with POS knives WON'T show them to me because I would have a hard time being tactful and giving a friendly response. Fortunately I don't see many people with POS knives, most people just don't carry knives at all.

Several years ago my wife was having a new countertop installed. The workman had a cheap and very beat up utility knife. It wouldn't hold the blades in position and was generally just unsafe to use. I knew that I had a good utility knife in the garage so without saying anything I went out and got it. I asked the worker to see his knife and after he handed it to me I told him it was unsafe for him to use, he was going to hurt himself with it. Then I handed him the new Stanley utility knife I had and told him to take it with him. The new Stanley was probably around $9 and I bought a new one the next time I went to the store.
 
I don't even know how I stumbled upon this older thread, but I have to give a shout-out (that's what the kids say now, right?) to "Surfingringo". As I was reading the first few posts in response to the OP, I found my blood boiling a bit, and was about to write a post....oh, wait, I don't need to write that post now because Surfingringo already did...and just about verbatim with what I was thinking. I absolutely love this forum and reading what a lot of great men have to say about my favorite subject...knives. The one thing I don't like is a very particular attitude that a small % of posters have....and that attitude is perfectly described/called-out by Surfingringo in his post on page-1 of this thread. It's so souring for me when I read grown men instantly going for the jugular when they think they're in a good position to paint another poster as anything from disrespectful to ignorant to just plain dumb. Ironically of course, it is they who then appear to most of us to be those things. It's that bully mentality, and the need to feel superior by publically crushing others. So - thank you Surfingringo for standing up for what is right - good-on-ya (that's what the kids say now, right?).
 
Oh, I forgot to actually comment about the OP's subject! I too experience this very funny phenomenon on the regular. Most of the people I work with, and my extended family, know of my knife addiction, and so in attempts to converse with me, they'll naturally talk about knives that they have or have seen. And because these are normal people and don't dedicate a ridiculous % of their lives to the pursuit of knife knowledge, most of the time the knives they tell me about are knives that I would never ever give a second glance, let alone choose to purchase. It's the same old story, they'll mention cheapo knock-offs or fantasy type stuff that just isn't my taste. And like most people would, I nod and agree, and throw in a story about my latest knife, and that's that. I don't hurt anyone's feelings, but among us knife enthusiasts, such conversations are funny, as it just illustrates how dorky we all are really....again, we're the abnormal ones who know enough metallurgy to write a PHD thesis, but we're - in my case, a construction manager - I manage the construction of buildings, and yet I spend my free time reading about the construction of knives. But hey, everyone needs a hobby right, and this is ours!
 
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