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

Now that's both being generally "unpleasant" as well as utterly ignorant.

If he was a "real" knife user he'd certainly have heard of BM, and if he knew anything about butterfly knives at all, he'd certainly know better than to laugh at them. My friends don't insult my EDC, a Spyderco, even though they don't see the need for one themselves.
 
Well, it just goes to show you that knife nuts don't hold the patent on unpleasantness.

Parker
 
pogo123 said:
When I was showing my new Benchmade to a coworker, another coworker, who is also a knife user came over to look. When he saw the butterfly logo he started laughing and loudly proclaimed to everyone within hearing distance that I have a girly man butterfly knife. I told him that is the company logo when I realized that he didn't know what a Benchmade knife was.
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I think someone is insecure :P.
 
There is a time and a place to be polite and informative to knife-hostile self appointed fearful busybodies who project their irresponsible and violent secret fantasies on to the rest of us. [I'm just not sure when it is.]:eek:

Sometimes, I just wearily reply, "would you know a quality knife if you saw one?" Pausing and waiting in the uncomfortable silence that follows. LET them feel dumb. This is important.

At other times, to outright hostile people, I have ceased to bother with rational, intellectual, left brain arguments; I just ridicule their absurd fears, instead.

If you take these unfounded fears seriously, you are lending unearned credibility to their silly assertions. Don't even dignify their dumb and crazed fears by responding seriously and respectfully.

Your denigrating response needs to be funny and dismissive, all in a short little soundbite type format. Imagine yourself repelling a presumptious and bossy kindergartener:cool:
 
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:

(snip)
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IMO, there's a time and place to pull out a full sized "tactical" AO and let 'er rip in plain sight, and smack in the middle of a quiet social gathering definitely doesn't qualify, unless you're trying to garner attention or stampede the herd.

In situations like that, why not use a bit of discretion and consideration? The majority of people in our culture have been programed by movies and TV to see a thug brandishing a deadly weapon every time a knife appears. Try palming the blade open slowly and quietly with as little flourish as possible next time and you'll be far less likely to illicit unwanted attention and irrational fear.
 
Rick said:
IMO, there's a time and place to pull out a full sized "tactical" AO and let 'er rip in plain sight, and smack in the middle of a quiet social gathering definitely doesn't qualify, unless you're trying to garner attention or stampede the herd.

In situations like that, why not use a bit of discretion and consideration? The majority of people in our culture have been programed by movies and TV to see a thug brandishing a deadly weapon every time a knife appears. Try palming the blade open slowly and quietly with as little flourish as possible next time and you'll be far less likely to illicit unwanted attention and irrational fear.
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I'm glad to see more and more people chiming in as voices of reason in this thread. Act like a mall ninja, and you will be treated like a mall ninja.


I remember when I was 17 or 18 and first got into Spydercos, I bought an Endura, and there was nothing I loved more than whipping that thing out in public for mundane tasks. I found I could, with a little wrist flick, open it without even using the thumb notch, and I just thought I was the coolest thing out there.


The truth is, I was an immature douche, acting like an attention whore, and I deserved it when people looked at me as a tool holding a knife, instead a guy using a knife AS a tool.
 
In crowded areas if you have to do some cutting, nothing beats victorinox or other traditional slipjoint with small blade. Its quiet, unoffense and small. Of course there are people who cannot tell difference between small peanut / sak from A/O opened knife and they all look like hand-and-a-half bastard sword or claymore. Such people are very rare though. Trat knife as tool and nothing fance and people around see it as tool. Flicking knife open and close for sake of "coolness" is not way to appeal regular people.
 
thejamppa said:
In crowded areas if you have to do some cutting, nothing beats victorinox or other traditional slipjoint with small blade. Its quiet, unoffense and small. Of course there are people who cannot tell difference between small peanut / sak from A/O opened knife and they all look like hand-and-a-half bastard sword or claymore. Such people are very rare though. Trat knife as tool and nothing fance and people around see it as tool. Flicking knife open and close for sake of "coolness" is not way to appeal regular people.
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That (among other reasons) is why I carry a Case swayback jack in addition to my usual EDC's. ;)
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
That (among other reasons) is why I carry a Case swayback jack in addition to my usual EDC's. ;)
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thats why i carry a SAK or old schrade slip joint in australia...besides the company there, the cops would be up my ass if i went out with one of my "offensive looking" folders or fixed.
 
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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Funny stuff.

Something similar happened to me. Years ago, acoworker asked to borrow my knife to cut a box. i handed to him and went on doing whatever. He was behind me, but I expected to hear the cut. After 5 minutes, I realized it was quiet and I hadn't heard anything. I tunred to see him trying to cut the box with the dull edge . . . of a SAK. I went over, held his wrist, took away the blade and returned it to his hand with the cutting edge down. I told him 'Try it now.' He went 'Oh' as he cut. I didn't tease at all.
 
Hateman said:
Years ago, acoworker asked to borrow my knife to cut a box. i handed to him and went on doing whatever. He was behind me, but I expected to hear the cut. After 5 minutes, I realized it was quiet and I hadn't heard anything. I tunred to see him trying to cut the box with the dull edge . . . of a SAK. I went over, held his wrist, took away the blade and returned it to his hand with the cutting edge down. I told him 'Try it now.' He went 'Oh' as he cut.
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you should see the man
trying to butter his bread
failed to execute his plan
and spread it all over his head
 
While showing her one of Dr. Darom's books, my aunt turned to me and said, "Why knives? They cut things!". So I asked her if she'd used a pair of scissors that day. Or a kitchen knife. Or had to open any letters or packages.
 
jay2pointoh said:
I hate when people try to tell me that I'm only carrying a knife because it "makes me feel safe" and that, in fact, it "makes everyone else feel uncomfortable". totally ignoring the fact that it is for safety and convenience. Mind you I am 6'5" 300lbs and can carry myself better than the majority of people.
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I can see how the majority of people would have a hard time carrying you.
 
Around 6 or 7 years ago, I picked up a (halfway decent) Taiwan-made stockman for a dollar at a yard sale, for the express purpose of keeping at work for duty as a loaner should someone ask to "borrow my knife"....it serves that purpose quite well.
 
I EDC a slip-joint so if I'm around a group of people, it "shouldn't" set anyone off. However, for work I bother carrying the slippy, just a FB & a folder (At the time, an Emerson CQC-7).

Anyways, I was at a High School & needed to use my knife for something & when I took it out, an Assistant Principle said, "Wow, why do you carry such a scary knife?" Nevermind the Glock 21 (A fullsize .45 on my hip). I just looked at her & asked if it bothered her & she said, "Yes." I then asked her if it bothered her more than the .45 on my hip & she didn't say anything & walked away.
 
"What is the dumbest comment someone has made about your knife?"
- eventer289


gotta be - "is that a knife?".
not that it mattered how much we both need a knife right there and then to get us out of a tight spot we had found ourselves in.
 
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