NY Times does a Positive Pocket Knife Article!

This quote had me rolling!!!:D Pure gold!

"Still, the modern man tends to wield his blade differently than his forefathers did. Ben Brooks, 32, who works at a software company and lives near Seattle, recalled that his grandfather used a pocketknife to cut fishing line. Mr. Brooks finds that his comes in handy for felling Amazon orders"

I guess my use of knives on a construction site is old school:rolleyes: Now, it's "in" to use your knife for Internet related tasks!
 
"For his part, Mr. Capulong carries a Chaparral by Spyderco, which has a “stealth titanium look,” he said, and (equally important) fits easily into skinny jeans."

*eyeroll
 
WK ONE said:
"For his part, Mr. Capulong carries a Chaparral by Spyderco, which has a “stealth titanium look,” he said, and (equally important) fits easily into skinny jeans."

*eyeroll
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I mean, at least it's a good knife.
 
I wonder if any of the urban hipsters carry a Medford "as part of their uniform".
 
At least they're being positive about knives
But don't call us hipsters. :highly_amused:
 
Man, I'd be so mad if Sebenza's became the new "fixie bike"...

I can see it now! Some dude in a coffee shop stirring his frappu-mocha-latte-chino with a vintage P Sebenza...
 
IMO, this sentence ruined the whole thing:

"For his part, Mr. Capulong carries a Chaparral by Spyderco, which has a “stealth titanium look,” he said, and (equally important) fits easily into skinny jeans."

:(
 
I can just see it now. Flame wars on Blade Forums about the fit and finish of skinny jeans.
 
Gosh, I didn't know that New York allowed anything sharp except politicians.
 
That whole article essentially emasculated knife carrying. What a bunch of quoted sissies—save perhaps for the car rescue guy at the end.
 
Boats said:
That whole article essentially emasculated knife carrying. What a bunch of quoted sissies—save perhaps for the car rescue guy at the end.
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I guess there is a plus side...

If I'm now considered a flamboyant hipster for carrying a knife, that's better than people thinking I'm "some guy with a weapon"...
 
Boats said:
That whole article essentially emasculated knife carrying. What a bunch of quoted sissies—save perhaps for the car rescue guy at the end.
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Let's face it not that manny mechanics , truck drivers , construction , printers That read the NYT . So the article is appropriate for the NYT readers .
 
If this article is right, then I guess the hipsters have already infiltrated these forums . . . they walk among us.
 
Interesting such a zionistic and left wing rag did a fairly positive article on cutlery; that knife of Mr. Barker's is beautiful.
One does wonder the intention of the author... It almost seems like the writer wanted to make it seem cool while at the same time making those mentioned in the piece look like grown children.
It's almost as if they are trying to present those in the piece as thos trying to hold onto manliness by virtue of having an inanimate object, but manhood is not tied to stuff. Perhaps this is something greater than a NY Times writer can understand.
 
I think the purpose of the article is that carrying a pocket folder is pretty mainstream and perhaps becoming more so.
 
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