What is the dumbest comment someone has made about your knife?

why is your knife so sharp?
why is it so expensive?
are you gonna gut fish?
is this a chris reeve? (it was a paramilitary)
can i borrow your knife?
why do you have so many?
is this all you are gonna get? (after i buy one)
is this B42 or S3V? (my uncle asked what steel was on his sebenza, i assume he meant BG42 and S30V, for a guy who like knives and guns it seemed like a dumb question. it made me laugh inside. :D)
are you gonna stab me?
is that legal?
is that a switchblade?
i could go on but i think i got the point across.
 
Brad Greulich said:
But I cant help but to point out that lots of guys here can't figure out why non-knife people think knives are weapons. When there's such a large number of people in this thread, making or implying threats and/or mentioning future violent acts that they may perform with there knife.
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Bingo. It's like the word "sheeple" folks like to throw around - because insulting people is definitely a way to help them understand your point of view :rolleyes:


Bunch of people who blindly follow a crowd, calling others sheep for blindly following a different crowd. It's ridiculous :rolleyes:




I've heard some amusing comments on knives, but I generally try to respond to them in as non-dickish a fashion as possible, and chuckle at them rather than ranting and raving about what a complete idiot this person is for not having the same upbringing as me, which would have taught them the value of a knife as a tool.
 
Me and my dad where in a Fry's at the service dept and we where getting some work done on his PC and he needed a new video card and we bought it and they let us install the card there so my dad pulled out his SS Endura and the girl stands back and says "Whoa I am going to stand back here". Funny thing was she was just going on about how the SAK with a thumb drive was so awesome cause it had a knife and a thumb drive.
 
A friend of mine said that cutting paper will make your edge really dull.

Also a Physiotherapist thought my flashlight was a knife lol.
 
I'm not into the whole snarky-comment-joke-responces. I'm a firm beliver in the tools not weapons speech and will recite it to anybody with a stupid question. Plus I don't whip out my knife for every task that I can fit a knife into.
 
Jaroslev,

Pretty much like that, only more angle on the blade. Not un like shaving your arm, just use whatever angle it takes.

Gene
 
After I just sharpened a knife and handed it to a co-worker, he tried to cut through a card board box and could not do it. He smirked and mocked me in front of another worker, and showed him I could not sharpen a knife to save my life. The other worker then pointed out he was trying to cut the box with the spine.
 
Bumppo said:
After I just sharpened a knife and handed it to a co-worker, he tried to cut through a card board box and could not do it. He smirked and mocked me in front of another worker, and showed him I could not sharpen a knife to save my life. The other worker then pointed out he was trying to cut the box with the spine.
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Now THAT is funny :D
 
Bumppo said:
After I just sharpened a knife and handed it to a co-worker, he tried to cut through a card board box and could not do it. He smirked and mocked me in front of another worker, and showed him I could not sharpen a knife to save my life. The other worker then pointed out he was trying to cut the box with the spine.
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One of the best so far!
 
A coworker brought me a box and I was going to open it. Pulled out my tiny Spyderco black colored Ladybug and she jumped back asking why I had such a scary little knife. Few days later she came by with another box for me that I had to open and this time I had my *orange* colored Ladybug. She saw it and said, "Oh, how cute that little knife is! I want one!"

Another time I pulled out my carbon fiber Delica to open a box with four guys in the room and they all backed up and looked scared for a moment when I opened it one handed. Now that was priceless. They know I'm a knife guy.
 
Bumppo, that is hilarious. I admire your restraint for letting him get to the mocking stage.

MustardMan, about the word "sheeple". I used to raise sheep (and put up with plenty of sheep farmer jokes). The sheep that I raised were less panic-prone then some, but still they would sometimes freak out over a piece of paper blown by the wind, or a rag hanging on the fence. IOW, they were unable to identify a real danger from an imaginary one, and so they lived in fear of many things that were no threat to them.

A fellow farmer once had three sheep suffocated when a herd crowded into a fence corner, running from a stray dog that was just sniffing around the edge of the pasture, not being aggressive at all.

When knife nuts use the word, it's been while talking to other knife nuts, in my experience, not to a sheeple's face. Your non-dickish approach is useful in many situations, but some words are so descriptive that no other word would convey one's meaning as well. Perhaps we could agree to use it only where appropriate, unless your position is that it is never appropriate.

Parker
 
catspa said:
Perhaps we could agree to use it only where appropriate, unless your position is that it is never appropriate.

Parker
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I don't really care about appropriateness - I just think we have way too much "us against them" mentality and it doesn't do anyone any good.

People are afraid of things they don't understand, and unless they grew up around people who use knives as tools, they won't understand it. I've tried to do my part to convince folks otherwise, but I've also accepted that some folks won't understand why I'm carrying an 8" knife strapped to my backpack, yet those same folks will use a hatchet to split wood when they build a campfire. It's not because they are stupid or sheeple, it's just a lack of perspective.
 
MustardMan, I don't agree that it's an "us against them" mentality. It IS us here among understanding friends and fellow knife knuts, so we relax and say things for fun. This whole thread is supposed to be for fun and if a little exaggeration is tossed in, that's not so bad.

Sure we should understand they haven't the experience to see knives as we do. Guess what, I grew up in a very liberal household where knives were not a big thing. We always had traditional pocketknives but I never heard about hunting knives or collecting.

As my daughter says about stupid young people, you can blame your upbringing and environment up to a point, but by the time you're twenty years old, you're old enough to figure the world out for yourself.
 
Long long ago humans looked upon big, powerful creatures with gigantic strength, great teeth and wicked claws with fear and admiration. Humans (the inventive little devils ;)) eventually invented tools to even the playing field. This worked out so well and went on for so long that many modern humans forgot we use tools every day and that EVERY human EDC's. Regardless of the facts, many humans have never thought this through. Of course it's obvious to those on forums like this that any weapon must first be a tool. For many of us a knife is not a weapon at all. Just a convenient and handy tool. To others, they bring back that atavistic and misunderstood fear of the powerful and fearsome creature going back to the deepest of ancestral memories. Forgive them for they know not what they fear.
 
Good theory, Lord Bear.

IMNSHO, right about the time that use of repeating cartridge arms became common, there was a big decrease in the necessity for knives to be weapons. They started getting smaller and lighter then and now we can use them as tools again.

Most people (in America anyway) need more tool function than weapon function. Which is good, because the unarmed probly panic less over a knife nut opening a box with a knife than perforating an attempted murderer. Less cleanup in aisle 10.

Parker
 
New member here. Hit with the affliction this year at the tender age of 25 :D. I was given a Benchmade 580 Barrage. The collection has grown.

Anyway. In these last 6 months I've heard some pretty silly comments. I can only imagine how you all cope with some of the ignorance posted over many years! And I thought I was irritated.

I really love some of your replies, too!

About 3 months into owning my first proper knife, I was carrying it because I actually need to cut stuff often to make life easier and didn't even realize it!

So my best friend's wife is a trauma surgeon...I'm at a party they're hosting with my wife who is a veterinarian. I pull out my Benchmade for cutting the cellophane off a box of water crackers. As you all probably know, the Barrage is spring assisted and opens fast, hard, and a little loudly. I hope that sets the premise.

One person, who I don't know, shouts, "look at that wicked switchblade, that thing will do some damage you won't walk away from". :rolleyes:

My friend's wife glares at me, and says, "The knife wounds I see on a weekly basis are worse than most gunshot wounds" Which is probably true. BUT... now, I'm labeled the knife toting maniac. I could hear my wife talking to her later trying to convince her that I only use it for chores. Meanwhile, I'm educating my best friend about the finer points of owning a knife, he looks like he might come down with the sickness, too.

I just really can't stand the ignorance-based stigma sometimes.

I wanted to say to that guy, "I'm glad you don't own a knife, because I can only think of constructive ways of using mine"

Blah, sorry for the long winded story, I got into it because it really bothered me.
 
Greenmachine said:
New member here. Hit with the affliction this year at the tender age of 25 :D. I was given a Benchmade 580 Barrage. The collection has grown.

Anyway. In these last 6 months I've heard some pretty silly comments. I can only imagine how you all cope with some of the ignorance posted over many years! And I thought I was irritated.

I really love some of your replies, too!

About 3 months into owning my first proper knife, I was carrying it because I actually need to cut stuff often to make life easier and didn't even realize it!

So my best friend's wife is a trauma surgeon...I'm at a party they're hosting with my wife who is a veterinarian. I pull out my Benchmade for cutting the cellophane off a box of water crackers. As you all probably know, the Barrage is spring assisted and opens fast, hard, and a little loudly. I hope that sets the premise.

One person, who I don't know, shouts, "look at that wicked switchblade, that thing will do some damage you won't walk away from". :rolleyes:

My friend's wife glares at me, and says, "The knife wounds I see on a weekly basis are worse than most gunshot wounds" Which is probably true. BUT... now, I'm labeled the knife toting maniac. I could hear my wife talking to her later trying to convince her that I only use it for chores. Meanwhile, I'm educating my best friend about the finer points of owning a knife, he looks like he might come down with the sickness, too.

I just really can't stand the ignorance-based stigma sometimes.

I wanted to say to that guy, "I'm glad you don't own a knife, because I can only think of constructive ways of using mine"

Blah, sorry for the long winded story, I got into it because it really bothered me.
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You should have asked if he is scared of all inanimate objects. Then told them it is just a tool and that you are offended that they would imply that you are some kind of homicidal murderer. If they have a brain they should feel a little stupid at this point.
 
I once had a guy stop by my table at a gunshow. He was feeling the edge of one of my blades and exclaimed that he did not think the knife felt very sharp. About a split second later, he dropped the knife on my table(luckily no knives were injured) as he split his thumb open :D He took off like a rocket and I never saw him again.
 
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