the work place sheeple of the future

What KFC is doing IMO is making fun of other fast food restaurants that sell food you don't need to cut up.
 
Hmmm. Pulled out my Buck Vanguard-R to cut a steak at Morton's a week or so ago (fancy-schmancy steakhouse) and nobody batted an eyelash. Of course, that might have had something to so with the Colt Commander on my hip in open carry.
 
i go to school with sheeple. a couple weeks ago i won a Kershaw Leek here on the forums. i procede to tell a new friend about it, and he was like "what are you going to do with that knife?" i reply with, something about "it'll go with the rest of my collection. dont worry im not psyco". he proceeds to say something about "collects knives and not psyco, yeah right". of course i find it quite entertaining. whats funnier is that his "girlfriend" isnt phased by knives at all. kinda funny
 
"Sheeple" is actually quite appropriate. Anybody who knows sheep will tell you that they only really do one thing well: follow. All the way to the slaughterhouse, if that's the case.

If I'm a jerk for asking where someone is going and why before I follow, or for not doing a very good job of following at all, then so be it.
 
I saw it on the boob tube when it aired ... a simple disposable plastic knife ... good, good grief! There was also an mp3 comedy skit, released shortly after 9/11, about outlawing swarthy men with box cutters.

For me, the strangest irony is that where concealed carry laws have gone into effect, violent crime has gone down. In Australia, where private gun ownership is all but outlawed, home invasions have gone up.

There's also a hairy old joke about bringing a knife to a gunfight.
 
LedSled said:
There's also a hairy old joke about bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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My brother-in-law is a police officer. We were at a family dinner and I was showing him my new knife, a Benchmade Emerson 975. He was properly admiring, but said, "never.bring.a.knife.to.a.gun.fight". OK, I said, holding the knife, blade out -- where's your gun?
 
Not long after 9-11 I was eating in a local café and I too was cutting my food with a little Stanley pocket box cutter. The waitress ask what I intended to do with that knife. She said everyone was looking at the it. I told her that as soon as I finished eating, I was going to hijack the café. Then she told me that she would get me a steak knife if I put the wicked, evil little box cutter away. Go figure. And this happened in North Dakota not new Jersey or the peoples republic of California.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
OK, I said, holding the knife, blade out -- where's your gun?
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21 feet:
I recall reading one article that said a man with a knife could overcome a man with a sidearm, before he could draw and fire, if he was inside that distance.

The point of the thread, though, seems to lament that us common folk can't be trusted with weapons. Well ... I'll just leave it there.
 
LedSled said:
21 feet:
I recall reading one article that said a man with a knife could overcome a man with a sidearm, before he could draw and fire, if he was inside that distance.
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the 21 foot "rule" was first demonstrated by dennis tueller, former police officer in utah and currently a firearms instructor and glock armorer instructor.

a student asked him what was a "safe" distance from which an attacker could be defeated in an unknown threat environment (paraphrased).

at that time, either no one had done such an experiment, or he was unaware of any experiment.

he tried many distances, terrain, and various other variables. he and some friends determined 21 feet to be the minimum distance one could draw and fire or otherwise engage an incoming deadly threat. i took dennis' class in provo and his armorers course in los angeles, and asked him about it (both times, since i had forgotten some details).

that was at least ten years ago. most, including dennis, have come to accept the distance is actually further for a realistic engagement.

fludunlimited said:
I think the term sheeple more refers to people who want the goverment to protect them like a sheppard protects his sheep.
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"sheeple" comes loosely from an article entitled "sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves."

sheep are most people, going about their lives.

sheepdogs are the guardians of those people, ie law enforcement and military (in the context of the article).

wolves are the those who would prey on the sheep.
 
True story, in fact it just happened an hour ago.

I was in one of the storage rooms at work with a co-worker looking for something on a rack of dimly lit shelves. I took out my Fenix flashlight to help us read some labels and he said to me, word for word "You carry a flashlight with you everywhere? That's a little scary."

I didn't bother telling him that's the least scary thing I carry with me on a daily basis.

Seriously, it was a flashlight. And we needed light. And this guy found it odd.

Cheers,

S.
 
sgi said:
True story, in fact it just happened an hour ago.

I was in one of the storage room with a co-worker looking for something on a rack of dimly lit shelves. I took out my Fenix flashlight to help us read some labels and he said to me, word for word "You carry a flashlight with you everywhere? That's a little scary."

I didn't bother telling him that's the least scary thing I carry with me on a daily basis.

Seriously, it was a flashlight. And we needed light. And this guy found it odd.

Cheers,

S.
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i have had similar experiences about flashlights.


goofy, huh? its funny, one of the first gifts i always give a girlfriend is a good reliable flashlight.
 
MORIMOTOM said:
"sheeple" comes loosely from an article entitled "sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves."
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You know, I'm always bothered when I see this word, and I say this as a staunch advocate of our right to arm ourselves. I put on our country's uniform in 1972, when so many of my young peers wanted to spit on it. I decided that our freedoms were worth my life, and I've never regretted the decision.
 
Why use another term? Is there one that better describes them? I think sheeple is a great term because it doesnt sugar coat anything. I think you have to read the article "On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" by Dave Grossman before you can really appreciate the word.
 
Samael said:
Hmmm. Pulled out my Buck Vanguard-R to cut a steak at Morton's a week or so ago (fancy-schmancy steakhouse) and nobody batted an eyelash. Of course, that might have had something to so with the Colt Commander on my hip in open carry.
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Did they not have steak knives at this steakhouse? Must not have been that fancy. Heck, even KFC gives you a knife.
 
I think the reason why people are taken back at those who use their pocket knife to cut their food is, why are they using a pocket knife on their food? They may think "Where has that thing been? Did this guy gut a deer, and now he's using it to cut his steak? Did he slice open dirty boxes, now he's using it to eat with?" etc. :)

I don't keep my knives sanitary, and being a bit of a germaphobe I don't use my EDC to eat with because it's usually not clean enough for my standards. So even though I'm a knife guy, I'd also be a bit taken back by someone using their pocket knife to eat with, since I'd wonder how clean it is, etc. :)
 
I also would be taken aback Wade, but for different reasons. My thinking would be "Why is this guy using a Buck Vanguard hunting knife to cut up his steak at a fine dining establishment? Is he a psycho?"

Sure, youre at a picnic, a barbeque place, even MacDonalds, you pull out a SAK and cut something in half....fine. But a Buck Vangaurd at Mortons?!?!? Why not cut pizza a toddlers birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese with a kukhri?!?

Yes, people do freak out unnecessarily at the sight of any knives. Its a fact.

But as knife fans and users I think we have some responsibility to use our tools in a reasonable manner.

Don't get me wrong...I'm not saying you don't.
 
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