Tactical Over Used?

Tactical is a description that should be reserved items, meant for police/military use in a combat-oriented setting. Instead, its been slapped on evertyhing from sporks to watches.
 
PropThePolecat said:
Tactical is a description that should be reserved items, meant for police/military use in a combat-oriented setting. Instead, its been slapped on evertyhing from sporks to watches.
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See that is what I thought as well but it seems to pop up everywhere. I wasn't sure if I just didn't get its proper use.
 
I think the term is being way over used.

Tactical = Mall Ninja to me, but that's my opinion.

Personally I like to see Satin Blades on my hard use folding knives.

If I was going into combat (Not going to happen at this point in my life) then maybe I would want a coated blade, but then maybe not depending on what I was doing.

Some knives that I like are only available with coated blades at this point.
 
Heck yes "tactical" is overused.

Just like the word "amazing" was way overused on Project Runway (Season 8, episode 1) this week. Yeah, I watch it and I like it. I'd hang with Tim Gunn and Heidi. Deal with it. :D

I know that "tactical" has morphed from what it once meant to now mean "defensive" or "looks like something Klingon would use", but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
 
I am waiting on tactical camp latrines. The blaring white portable toilets are screwing up my covert operations, I really need one in matte black with an auto assisted opening lid. So I can relieve myself with the greatest of stealth and tactility.
 
Currently way over-used, it much the same way as the term "professional" has been used to oversell other products.
 
FTO_dude said:
the tactical spork is just an expensive, titanium version of the crkt eat'n'tool

im not sure which one came first.
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The name Spork was trademarked registered by the Van Brode Milling Co., Inc., of Clinton, Massuchests in 1969 for a piece of cutlery combining the features of a spoon, a fork and sometimes a knife. A New York Times article mentions that Hyde Ballard of Westtown, Pennsylvania filed an application to register "Spork" as a trademark around 1952. In the United Kingdom, "Spork" has been trademark registered by Plastico Limited (TM 1052291) since 1975.
The name spork has been in common use since at least 1900 and appeared in the 1909 Century Dictionary supplement. There are many patents for sporks with or without the use of the name itself dating back over one hundred years.
 
John Smith V said:
Tactical use can also involve opening stuff like cans and boxes and crates. Prying and digging earth and sand. Cutting ropes, using the knife as anchor, tent pole. All that stuff.
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How is that tactical? How does it differ from normal use? In fact, how does tactical use differ from normal use?

It doesn't.

Tactical is just a buzzword aimed at selling overbuilt, digital camo, too thick to slice knives to younger males who are obsessed with anything remotely military.

Don't worry too much about it, this military obsession will pass and we'll soon be annoyed by another group of buzzwords designed for selling knives.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the time when fluffy and squishy are used to describe hard use, overbuilt knives.

But for now, I'll just use my knives to cut things and I'll just call them pocket knives.
 
it's a little tragic that it has been over (and improperly) used to the point of causing a stigma because there are certain aspects of particular tools that do actually make them more useful in offensive/defensive situations involving violence or force. some characteristics DO raise the tactical value of a piece of equipment, but i totally agree that it has gotten ridiculous.

on a more negative note - even though most of us consider it silly, catch phrases or skeery words can cause alot of problems. look at "semi automatic ASSAULT rifles". there is NO SUCH THING, yet a spooky word was all it took to get them banned for 10 years :( this whole "tactical" thing might bite us in the glutes.
 
zignal_zero said:
it's a little tragic that it has been over (and improperly) used to the point of causing a stigma because there are certain aspects of particular tools that do actually make them more useful in offensive/defensive situations involving violence or force. some characteristics DO raise the tactical value of a piece of equipment, but i totally agree that it has gotten ridiculous.

on a more negative note - even though most of us consider it silly, catch phrases or skeery words can cause alot of problems. look at "semi automatic ASSAULT rifles". there is NO SUCH THING, yet a spooky word was all it took to get them banned for 10 years :( this whole "tactical" thing might bite us in the glutes.
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+1

It already bit your arse if you live in NY.
 
SShepherd said:
The name Spork was trademarked registered by the Van Brode Milling Co., Inc., of Clinton, Massuchests in 1969 for a piece of cutlery combining the features of a spoon, a fork and sometimes a knife. A New York Times article mentions that Hyde Ballard of Westtown, Pennsylvania filed an application to register "Spork" as a trademark around 1952. In the United Kingdom, "Spork" has been trademark registered by Plastico Limited (TM 1052291) since 1975.
The name spork has been in common use since at least 1900 and appeared in the 1909 Century Dictionary supplement. There are many patents for sporks with or without the use of the name itself dating back over one hundred years.
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Just go to Taco Belle at your local mall and you can get a black-ops "tactical" spork. Free. All the mall-ninjas carry them. Of course it's made of plastic, which is not too tacticool. :eek::D
 
A lot of people buy in to the tactical dreams a lot of companies are selling. It's a gimmick to sell stuff.
 
Psychopomp said:
How is that tactical? How does it differ from normal use? In fact, how does tactical use differ from normal use?

It doesn't.
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You're are probably right. It probably doesn't.

I'm just trying to point out that that a knife used tactically doesn't mean a knife used for fighting in defensive/offensive situations the way a lot of people seem to think .

And of course you can use a kitchen knife as a fighting knife, if you choose.
 
I think originally it just meant knives issued for use in tactical operations. And that just became the manufacturers' selling point and they started calling them tactical knives. Just caught on.
 
canook said:
It sure is. Just like a few years ago the word "extreme" was over used. First was the X Games and extreme sports which was fine but the word go watered down to meaninglessness with things like "four cheese extreme quesadilla".
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Lest we forget Extreme Jello!
 
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