The skull thing

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Skulls are cool. Sometimes.

It's sort of akin to a jean jacket. Or maybe leather boots. In certain settings, these can be desirable things.

In other settings....

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SeppukuSamurai said:
Says the mod with Joker as his avatar ;)
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lol- Fair, but to point out the obvious, the avatar is just an online persona- chosen for a few reasons and includes the previous avatar; Mr Hyde
They fit my personality to a degree as coworkers, friends and especially my wife would attest to.

Skulls- meh..Was just never something I have ever been interested in. Especially after seeing them on knives..gigantic skull clips on flashlights. Knife beads..
Wait- I do have 2 skull knife beads- both were on lanyards that came with knives I purchased that are tucked away in a safe.

By the way..Did I catch a whiff of patchouli? :p
 
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I'm usually not a fan of skulls on anything knife related, since it portrays the wrong message, but I do like the Chaves skull pocket clip.
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Why? Do you hate Ducks and want them dead? Really that thing looks like a dead duck with a long frigging beak to me. I wish he'd just milled out three lines to make it long like a more elongated punisher-esque skull.
 
All of us should try to improve our knife skills. :thumbsup: Oh, you said skulls! :oops: Never mind. :p By the way, one would have been hard pressed to find any of us in mac-sog wearing those gaudy, bright colored death skull patches you see being sold as the "real deal", especially on an op. :rolleyes:
 
It’s more than a cool or tacticool thing. It’s also a historical thing and in different iterations, it goes back many generations. The 1950’s self-styled “tough guy look” frequently included a large, multicolor tattoo of a flaming skull with a dagger rammed into the roof of the skull--along with the obligatory pack of Lucky Strikes rolled up into one T-shirt sleeve and the old “D.A.” tough guy hairdo. If you go back a couple/few centuries before that, there was the original Jolly Roger pirate flag. The real pirates who flew the JR were true tough guys, but that’s not so much the case with people and skull stuff in recent times. These days skull logos are a common as ripped jeans, nose rings, eyebrow studs and other such silliness.
 
I've personally never understood the whole skull/crusader cross thing. I cringe every time I see thousand dollar customs plastered with edgy imagery... Clearly I'm not the targeted audience here... :rolleyes:
 
SeppukuSamurai said:
Skulls are cool. Sometimes.

It's sort of akin to a jean jacket. Or maybe leather boots. In certain settings, these can be desirable things.

In other settings....

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How did you find my 7th grade photo?

It was 1984, Motley Crue, Metallica, and Iron Maiden rotated on my boom box non-stop. Me and my friends would ride our dirt bikes for hours after school on the local trails till it was dark or we ran out of gas. Kept a small Buck in my back pocket, and tried my first beer. Yeah, skulls were pretty cool back then.

34 years later, my iPod is still dominated by heavy metal. Still ride my motorcycle till I gets dark or I run out of gas. There's a Manix 2 in my front pocket, and a couple of 6-ers of Southern Teir in the fridge. Things haven't changed much, and if done right, skulls are still pretty cool. :D
 
It is a relatively modern distinction to separate the knife as tool from the knife as weapon. For thousands of years, a knife obviously could be both, all at once.

I think the skulls emphasize the weapon aspect. And those of us trying to stay on the good side of our country’s weapons restrictions may not appreciate a weapony logo on something we’re attempting to describe as a tool.
 
I don't mind the imagery, per se but the association with it is something I'd rather avoid.
 
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