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Gina

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I've been carrying my first knife, the Benchmade Mini-griptilian, for about two weeks now without drawing much attention until today. I'm a college student and one of my classmates, a softspoken girl-next-door type noticed it in my pocket. At first I didn't know what she was referring to but I soon found out that my quiet friend is into knives too:D ! She just bought her boyfriend a Benchmade, but wasn't sure if she should start carrying one. Once I told her how much I use my Mini-grip she got excited about the idea (and the fact that she can get it with a purple handle). I'm excited that now I have someone (a girl) to talk about knives with other than my boyfriend. :p
 
They actually discontinued the purple mini-Grip. The only reason I know is because that's what I bought my girlfriend for her last birthday, and I think I got one of the last ones. They still make it in blue and yellow, though. :)

She does like her knife.
 
If your college campus is anything like the university I take night classes at I would be careful. While I carry a knife on campus too, I do so knowing that it goes against campus policy.
 
Girls and minigrips....I mean, I love minigrips too, but they're almost standard equipment for knife girls. My ex girlfriend and current girlfriend BOTH baught tanto minigrips, although their small knife selection differs pretty greatly (the ex had a Scallion and the current has a Benchmite).

TCU students almost universally love knives, but so far, none of them have been educated about them. But they usually have heard of either Benchmade or Spyderco and realize they represent a high quality knife. They have good taste too. The lowest end knife I've seen here was a "nice" Gerber that I'm not familiar with.
 
I weep for my sheeple liberal university. I know a grand total of six people who carry knives, three of whom I gave small Gerber multitools to with the caveat that they be carried, one of which shouldn't have knives, one of which doesn't have any good knives, and me.

Somebody send ME a girl who I can talk knives with!

Oh wait, I do know one in Texas. But she doesn't count.
 
Artfully Martial said:
TCU students almost universally love knives, but so far, none of them have been educated about them. But they usually have heard of either Benchmade or Spyderco and realize they represent a high quality knife. They have good taste too. The lowest end knife I've seen here was a "nice" Gerber that I'm not familiar with.
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Must be a Texas thing:D I go to UTA (same county that TCU is in for non-Texans) and see classmates with knives clipped in their pockets all the time. Since I started carrying everyday I tend to look at peoples pockets where I go and am comforted to see that many of my peers carry pocketknives, making it more comfortable for me to whip mine out if necessary. I couldn't imagine living in a liberal, Draconian, left wing state. I have a law professor with a PhD in economics that always talks about why he moved to Texas, and how we have more freedoms than most states in the country. Hell, it only takes the afternoon to get your CHL:D
 
Gina, tell your friend that, if she hurries and gets on a waiting list at one of the internet dealers, she could get one of the ZDP-189 Spyderco Delicas with blue scales. The steel is a wonder to use and the blue handle should fit right in.
 
Really? I had the most horrible liberal experiences at UTA. When I was there, they had these posters of Bush on them. They had a photo of him in front of a backdrop of fire holding a hand full of cash and they colored his eyes red. They were all over UH last fall/spring. And the feminists were everywhere.

One time at UTA, I was talking to my friend (in UH, weirdly enough) and called some girl hot. A passerby feminist that was in our class got really offended about how men are trying to impose our visual standards on them and can't a girl just not dress up without being judged, going on...
So I changed my laptop wallpaper to an Asian Schoolgirl and sat in front of her for like a week, but if she noticed, she never mentioned it to me.

The worst part were the atheists. These are the stereotypes--the ones that are on a mission from God to convince all Christians (or religious people) that there is no God and convert you to their religion of atheism. The most evangelical group I know. UTA still has the big Sunday atheist discussion group, as far as I know. One of my best friends at UTA was an atheist, but of the non stereotypical variety.
 
Welcome aboard, Gina.
It IS a shame that more people dont realise what an invaluable tool a knife is. I EDC a SAK Explorer or A Buck/Stider 889 AND Gerber Shortcut & people ask to borrow my knife or ask me to cut stuff for them ALL day long. I even use the SAK to "unlock" our Secure cupboard at work when the push-button combination lock keeps jamming.
EVERYONE in the UK is SOOOOO anti-knife at the moment, do make sure that you treasure the freedom you have to carry such an essential tool.
Pretty soon all we'll be able to have here are kids plastic safety scissors.
 
Artfully Martial said:
Really? I had the most horrible liberal experiences at UTA. When I was there, they had these posters of Bush on them. They had a photo of him in front of a backdrop of fire holding a hand full of cash and they colored his eyes red. They were all over UH last fall/spring. And the feminists were everywhere.

One time at UTA, I was talking to my friend (in UH, weirdly enough) and called some girl hot. A passerby feminist that was in our class got really offended about how men are trying to impose our visual standards on them and can't a girl just not dress up without being judged, going on...
So I changed my laptop wallpaper to an Asian Schoolgirl and sat in front of her for like a week, but if she noticed, she never mentioned it to me.

The worst part were the atheists. These are the stereotypes--the ones that are on a mission from God to convince all Christians (or religious people) that there is no God and convert you to their religion of atheism. The most evangelical group I know. UTA still has the big Sunday atheist discussion group, as far as I know. One of my best friends at UTA was an atheist, but of the non stereotypical variety.
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Hahah, you must have met the more interesting side of UTA. Im always in the Buisiness building, and never leave the East side of campus. Most of the feminist and other liberal fools are in the Arts building (suriprise there?), I am on the Buisiness side of the university, and when someone is a Buisiness major they tend to have faith in the whole free capitalist system and also tend to be more conservative. So from my vantage point I am surrounded by peers studying accounting, finance and managment, which many of the hippies on the other side of campus probally see has devils work:D
Its Really hard to be studying senior level finance where you diversify a portfolio to lessen the tax impact as much has possible, and focus on municipal bonds and the such to avoid double taxation, and still be a damn liberal.
 
Gina said:
I've been carrying my first knife, the Benchmade Mini-griptilian, for about two weeks now without drawing much attention until today. I'm a college student and one of my classmates, a softspoken girl-next-door type noticed it in my pocket. At first I didn't know what she was referring to but I soon found out that my quiet friend is into knives too:D ! She just bought her boyfriend a Benchmade, but wasn't sure if she should start carrying one. Once I told her how much I use my Mini-grip she got excited about the idea (and the fact that she can get it with a purple handle). I'm excited that now I have someone (a girl) to talk about knives with other than my boyfriend. :p
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That's great. It's nice to hear about those kinds of experiences instead of bad ones.

Knives are cool, and they're useful tools. :)
 
Gina said:
I've been carrying my first knife, the Benchmade Mini-griptilian, for about two weeks now without drawing much attention until today. I'm a college student and one of my classmates, a softspoken girl-next-door type noticed it in my pocket. At first I didn't know what she was referring to but I soon found out that my quiet friend is into knives too:D ! She just bought her boyfriend a Benchmade, but wasn't sure if she should start carrying one. Once I told her how much I use my Mini-grip she got excited about the idea (and the fact that she can get it with a purple handle). I'm excited that now I have someone (a girl) to talk about knives with other than my boyfriend. :p
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welcome to the forums Gina!

enjoy the madness


Ron
 
rusty edge said:
Its Really hard to be studying senior level finance where you diversify a portfolio to lessen the tax impact as much has possible, and focus on municipal bonds and the such to avoid double taxation, and still be a damn liberal.
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Actually, I go to business school also and there are a good number of extremely intelligent, very nice, very finance-minded people who are very liberal and none of them have ever given me crap about my knives. Funnily enough, the only people who have mentioned that it's "weird" or "scary" have been from the Midwest.

Hi, Gina .... and people say girls don't like knives :cool:
 
I attend George Washington University, a pretty liberal school in a pretty liberal town. A few weeks ago my criminology professor invited a representative of the Brady center and a representative of the NRA into class to discuss gun-rights issues. Well, when the woman from the NRA asked students questions and got right answers she rewarded students with knives! Right there in class. I didn't see them, personally, but she said they were small Buck knives with the NRA logo on them. She also said that, so as not to make the professor jealous, she had given one to him, too. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

Well, the following class while we were discussing the speakers, a few students actually started complaining about the NRA representative giving out knives. Now, the blades on these Bucks couldn't have been longer than 2.5 inches, but several students were saying that the distribution of these "weapons" was incitement to "go out and kill people."

What can you say? Some people are just irrational.
 
People are irrational. One time when I was a lot younger, maybe 14, I brought a wooden training sword to summer camp. It was a cheap, EXTREMELY blunt (like maybe a chopstick would be equally blunt, or the handle of a butter knife) object and they tried to confiscate it from me because it was "a weapon". I was like, it's not a weapon, it's a martial arts training prop, look how blunt it is, etc. etc. The response was "Well, just the concept of a sword is a bad influence." WTF. Well, I got my trainer back and they let me keep it, but they subsequently changed the policy to "no martial arts training materials."

You can't just assume though that the people who hate knives/guns are always liberals and the people who like them are always conservatives. It goes both ways, and there are many people who like knives, but don't like guns, or like guns, and dislike knives.
 
Good for you, Gina! It's nice to make a friendly connection like that. Knives ARE a normal, useful tool and, sometimes, other people recognize that :)
 
Artfully Martial said:
Really? I had the most horrible liberal experiences at UTA. When I was there, they had these posters of Bush on them. They had a photo of him in front of a backdrop of fire holding a hand full of cash and they colored his eyes red. They were all over UH last fall/spring. And the feminists were everywhere.

One time at UTA, I was talking to my friend (in UH, weirdly enough) and called some girl hot. A passerby feminist that was in our class got really offended about how men are trying to impose our visual standards on them and can't a girl just not dress up without being judged, going on...
So I changed my laptop wallpaper to an Asian Schoolgirl and sat in front of her for like a week, but if she noticed, she never mentioned it to me.

The worst part were the atheists. These are the stereotypes--the ones that are on a mission from God to convince all Christians (or religious people) that there is no God and convert you to their religion of atheism. The most evangelical group I know. UTA still has the big Sunday atheist discussion group, as far as I know. One of my best friends at UTA was an atheist, but of the non stereotypical variety.
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Have you ever heard the saying "Assuming makes an ass out of u and me? Because you made quite a leap there assuming that I'm not liberal, a feminist, or god-forbid (pun intended) an atheist. I'm not saying that I am or am not any or all of the above. Religious and political views have their own section in this forum.
 
I often find myself going on a rant about some new knife while talking with my girlfriend. I usually catch myself about the time her eyes start rolling back into her head and I hear snoring.

Shao
 
Gina said:
Have you ever heard the saying "Assuming makes an ass out of u and me? Because you made quite a leap there assuming that I'm not liberal, a feminist, or god-forbid (pun intended) an atheist. I'm not saying that I am or am not any or all of the above. Religious and political views have their own section in this forum.
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yOU GO gIRL~! No Assumptions from me! I really enjoyed your first post in this thread and the mental image it provided. Could you post a picture of your new knife? Maybe you could be kissing your new friend in it as well. :D

Most of us are real open minded around here.
 
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