NY Times does a Positive Pocket Knife Article!

Sikael, the Villiage Voice article should be mandatory reading for knife enthusiasts.

That makes it dangerous for New Yorkers to carry almost any pocket-knife....
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By "dangerous", it's legally dangerous or dangerous to your freedom or wallet. People wonder about law enforcement priorities and then you read the Village Voice article.
 
Best bet is to completely ignore that publication, and not allow them to define knife trends or any other trends for that matter. We at Bladeforums are the trendsetters, and everyone else can follow us. :thumbup:
 
22-rimfire said:
Sikael, the Villiage Voice article should be mandatory reading for knife enthusiasts.



By "dangerous", it's legally dangerous or dangerous to your freedom or wallet. People wonder about law enforcement priorities and then you read the Village Voice article.
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Yeah, it's pretty messed-up. It's not just an inconvenience; people are having their lives derailed by this persecution. The 59-year-old ex-con getting 6 years for doing nothing more than using a knife at work and walking home with it in his pocket, that's completely wrong, IMO. And it doesn't just target people with a criminal record, either.

There was also a related article, equal parts positive and insulting, but whatever. It seems like the author's head is about to explode after learning there was such a thing as 'the knife community'. He sums up the New York group he met as 'knife nerds': 'mostly middle aged and white, mostly portly and exclusively male'.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/meet-new-york-citys-resident-knife-nerds-6719027
 
Sikael said:
Yeah, it's pretty messed-up. It's not just an inconvenience; people are having their lives derailed by this persecution. The 59-year-old ex-con getting 6 years for doing nothing more than using a knife at work and walking home with it in his pocket, that's completely wrong, IMO. And it doesn't just target people with a criminal record, either.

There was also a related article, equal parts positive and insulting, but whatever. It seems like the author's head is about to explode after learning there was such a thing as 'the knife community'. He sums up the New York group he met as 'knife nerds': 'mostly middle aged and white, mostly portly and exclusively male'.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/meet-new-york-citys-resident-knife-nerds-6719027
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The article was dripping in condescension
 
GermanyChris said:
The article was dripping in condescension
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It was, and I don't find it surprising. As someone kind of alluded to with the NY Times article, it's probably better they see the knife community as 'hipsters', or a bunch of harmless, eccentric, law-abiding hobbyist-nerds, than psychotic survivalists who kill squirrels for fun.
 
The second Village Voice article is okay. There is no political statement or inference by the author other than calling these people in the "knife community" knife nerds. I sort of take that as a compliment personally.

From the article:
All in all, the vibe wasn't much different than a coin collecting convention.
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And I say, What's wrong with that? It's a hobby.
 
I wonder if that knife shown in the article is Ivory. That would be quite a contradiction for most newspapers.
 
There are ivory Sebenza's around and it fits with the yuppie New York approach. Got to be a $400+ knife or it ain't cool.
 
The Times is a big paper in a big city. While the headlines tend to political and social issues, they have their human interest sections, too, and young reporters to learn their craft investigating what the people of the city actually care about.

It can be hard to find young reporters out of college with an interest in all of it, but that's their job, to learn and write about their city.
 
22-rimfire said:
The second Village Voice article is okay. There is no political statement or inference by the author other than calling these people in the "knife community" knife nerds. I sort of take that as a compliment personally.

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And I say, What's wrong with that? It's a hobby.
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I find it insulting. I prefer knife knuts.
 
I subscribe the NY Times but missed this yesterday. Cool to see a publication of their caliber painting knife carry as a neutral/harmless act, when so many eyes will see those words. :thumbup:
 
ebidis said:
I prefer knife knuts.
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Me too, but the nerd term never really bothered me. The majority of us were nerds in high school. Revenge of the nerds..... your boss was probably a nerd in high school. I remember that NCIS episode about the kid being a possible accessory to murder and talking about beating on nerds. McGee quickly threatens him and said HE was one of those nerds that he was making fun of and abusing in one form or another. Hope you find prison really cool.
 
nick21 said:
I carry a knife because it's useful, not to seem manly...
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Yeah, it seems we have really progressed to a point where the Barlow knives used by Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to cut string and sharpen pencils have become fashion statements and expressions of political philosophy. :D The next step is to read an article about "Philosophical Parameters of the Three Blade Stockman" in the Journal of Existential Cutlery. :confused:
 
Faiaoga said:
Yeah, it seems we have really progressed to a point where the Barlow knives used by Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to cut string and sharpen pencils have become fashion statements and expressions of political philosophy. :D The next step is to read an article about "Philosophical Parameters of the Three Blade Stockman" in the Journal of Existential Cutlery. :confused:
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My knife sucks at expressing both politics and philosophy. Maybe I should get a refund...
 
Sikael said:
My knife sucks at expressing both politics and philosophy. Maybe I should get a refund...
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My next DDR will be full of expression... with "EAT ME!" ball milled into the flat of the blade.

:p
 
I have gotten past the stage where I worry about being manly. I just cut stuff with it and it is not gender related one bit.
 
As my hobbies have been knives and guns for many years, I try to avoid New York.
Successfully.
 
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