Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm really sorry about your herpes. But it is at least a little bit your fault. I didn't know that goat was sick, and I wouldn't have lent it to you if I'd known what you were planning.

They say after the initial flareup it gets better. I hope you feel better soon.
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Ummmm, if you pull the tail, you get the horns...

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moparsbob said:
For quite a while, wherever I saw a post from fonedork, my brain read it as forkdone. It was only much later that I realized that my brain was trying to force it into more common words :D
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Bob, whichever way you scramble that guy, he's a diamond in the rough. Polish him up (eww?!) and then he's a keeper 🤣
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Random thought. I think one of the main reasons that more people don't carry pocket knives is because most people can't sharpen a knife. And a dull knife really isn't any more useful than a no knife. Having knives without the ability to sharpen them is like having a car and just having the tank of gas that comes with it.
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I have a bad habit of teasing friends/coworkers about their EDC butter knives.

"Ya know... I never understood the reasoning for carrying an EDC butter knife. Every single place I've ever been to that served butter, always provided a butter knife, too".

If I had to guess, I'd say at least 19 out of 20 EDC knives I've ever seen, fall into only 2 categories;
1) if they're sharp, they're still mint, and don't look like they've ever been used except to open a couple of Amazon boxes.

2) If they look older/well used, they're super dull.

The 3rd category of well used, but shaving sharp is ridiculously rare, which is mindboggling, considering the abundance of sharpening tools/kits available nowadays. It's not like folks NEED to spend the time learning how to sharpen freehand.

Even something like the Spyderco Sharpmaker will do a decent job, if used before the edge is butter knife dull (and normies AREN'T going to buy a $$$ Wicked Edge Pro etc.). Heck, even the cheap pull-through sharpeners that suck, will at least give a knife some kind of an edge.

P.S.

Can't recall if I related this one on BF before:

When I was in college, my GF was kind of a klutz. Would regularly do stuff like bang her shins into the coffee table. She also loved to cook, but apparently, had never learned to handle a sharp knife properly, and would always end up nicking/cutting herself, using my knives that I always kept shaving sharp.

She even cut one of my buddies on the shoulder, because she used my Chef's knife that was in her hand, to tap him on the shoulder to tell him something while we were all in the kitchen 😳

He went, "Ahhh!!! Whaddya DOING?!!! You just cut me!!!", and she replies, "I'm so sorry! I didn't realize it would cut you!". My buddy goes, "How long have you guys been staying together? You don't know that he keeps ALL his knives razor sharp?!!!". Fortunately, though it drew blood, it didn't need stitches.


Went home with her, to her parents place for the holidays, and discovered why she was so bad with sharp knives. There literally wasn't a single sharp knife in the kitchen/house. Don't know how her mom cooked everything with those dull knives.

For some reason, I had my DMT Diafold in my bag, and as a "Thank You" for their hospitality and the great meal, sharpened all the knives in the kitchen. It was only after we headed back, that it occurred to me that it might not have been the smartest thing. I never did ask if her mom started having to wear bandaids on her fingers 24/7 like she did, due to my lack of foresight.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Random thought. I think one of the main reasons that more people don't carry pocket knives is because most people can't sharpen a knife. And a dull knife really isn't any more useful than a no knife. Having knives without the ability to sharpen them is like having a car and just having the tank of gas that comes with it.
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why do you think I asked for a table knife?
 
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