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pogo

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The guys I work with..not the brightest guys around :barf: Swear by anything marked surgical stainless :confused: Their reasoning is that any small cut from this Wonder Steel will induce blood poisoning! :rolleyes: I think that carrying the knife in their dirty unwashed jeans causes this instead! :D
 
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pogo said:
The guys I work with..not the brightest guys around :barf: Swear by anything marked surgical stainless :confused: Their reasoning is that any small cut from this Wonder Steel will induce blood poisoning! :rolleyes: I think that carrying the knife in their dirty unwashed jeans causes this instead! :D
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I dont get it, you are saying that they like it because they think it gives them blood poisoning, or because they want a weapon to cut people and give them blood poisoning? Or are you trying to say the opposite, and they fear these blades because of the percieved threat? :confused:
 
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Lighten up a little Gollnick, don't take everything so seriously my boy. ;)
 
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pogo said:
Their reasoning is that any small cut from this Wonder Steel will induce blood poisoning!
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They must have an interesting relationship with their doctor/dentist.

-Cliff
 
Yeah, I was wondering how they came to the assumption that "surgical" equals blood poisoning as well. Maybe this was a post from the 'past' when people went to their Barbers to be bled out of their sickness' and be trepanned for their migraines? Maybe the people he works with dip their knives in an Ebola and Mercury solution. Maybe he works with the countless throngs of ignorant people who hear a ridiculous rumor, treat it as gospel, and then spread it as such? Maybe Surgical Steel really can poison the blood like a blade from a role-playing game? What if the government has been keeping this a secret? Maybe surgery is all a scam to make us sicker and the government is implanting RFID into all pocket knives to keep track of potential 'threats'?!?!?!? Oh man, I'm throwing all my knives away!
 
pogo said:
The guys I work with..not the brightest guys around :barf: Swear by anything marked surgical stainless :confused: Their reasoning is that any small cut from this Wonder Steel will induce blood poisoning! :rolleyes:
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Dude, these buds of yours really need to be euthanized.

That just qualifies them as too-stupid-to-live. They're well past the threshold.

-Jeffrey
 
I think he means they think any other steel than surgical stainless
will give you blood poisoning.
 
While certain untrue, it does kind of make sense, I mean if it good enough for hospitals, right?
While I'm at it, ask yourself this: How many people do I know that still think stainless doesn't rust?
 
I think surgeons use surgical stainless so it doesn't rust as much when they forget and leave it in you. :eek:
 
When I was in school we were taught that the term 'surgical stainless' came from once thinking that stainless was suited for making surgical implants and equipment, but the human body had so many immune responses to the nickel content of the 'surgical' steels used that implants and many instruments in some cases were switched to the inert titanium alloys still used today. The other factor is that a 'surgical' steel had to be very corrosion resistant because of repeated sterilizations in a steam or chemical sterilzer, otherwise you were needing to buy new instruments every couple of months..

Maybe your friends are thinking of tetanus. In fact there are still over 50 cases of tetanus each year in the US and about the same for other countries with vaccine programs. There are still staggering numbers world wide though, especially in third world or developing countries.

Your friends concerns are not completely bogus regarding the risk of tetanus getting into their bodies if they cut themselves. The tetanus bacteria is all around us everyday.

One of the ways tetanus develops is from a cut or puncture wound from dirty rusty nails, knives or from dirty needles using heroin, or doing your own homemade tatoos, but there are cases of seamstresses getting it from poking themselves with stainless needles and the puncture wound getting infected. If you have had a tetanus shot in the last ten years you are probably fine. If not get one.

All knife knuts should be up to date on their tetanus shot. We cut ourselves more than the rest of the general public, and while the knife we cut ourselves with is unlikely to be responsible for a case of tetanus it usually gets the blame along with the rusty nail. The more likely cause of a case of tetanus would be a series of events after the cut took place, like shoveling manure, cleaning dirty cat litter, or working with your bare hands in the garden without protecting the cut finger first. No one associates those things with the tetanus bacteria though because all they remember is the cut so the knife gets the blame. You can get tetanus from a cat scratch so it really isn't just a knife to worry about.

Anyway, maybe that is what they are thinking about when they say 'blood poisoning'.
 
I work in salmon blood all night and i use knives at work you'd think i'd be the one with blood poisioning :barf: .By the way my knife is 1095. :)
 
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