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

"why do you ever need a knife?"

"to cut stuff, dumbass"

this is the third time the same person has asked, ive already been through "a knife is a tool" speech
 
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I never get a questions like these. Only ones I get are, can I borrow your knife? most everyone knows i have one. And if not if they ask, "does anyone have a pocket knife", my family sayds, "my dad does".
 
"Why do you keep your knife so sharp?", right after they had cut themselves with it....

TR Graham
The Glocksmith
 
"I bet my .94 cent wal-mart knife can do anything your knife can"

"Why do you carry a knife?"

"Is spyderco as good as gerber?"
 
Going in the opposite direction: A young newly-hired girl at work observed me cutting something with my Calypso and remarked "Spyderco, huh ? That`s a REAL knife !" I asked how she was familiar with them, and she replied "My boyfriend is a big Spyderco fan"....smart girl....
 
After handing someone my Large Classic Sebenza (w/ Carbon Fiber scale) when they asked to take a look at it.

Guy: "This is like that SOG knife I was checking out at Home Depot."
Me: "No, it's not."
Guy: "It definitely is. It's the same one. How much did you pay?"
Me: "No, it's not the same one. Trust me. I got that one for a pretty good price. It was $280 used and I paid another $35 for the carbon fiber scale."
Guy: "$280!? You're a dumbass. The one I saw was like $60 and it was just like that."
Me: "No it wasn't."
Guy: "You really are a dumbass. You don't know what you're talking about."
Me: (Walking away shaking my head) "You're absolutely right. You're definitely not the dumbass here."

"Can I borrow you're knife? Why the hell do you carry a knife?" These sentences were uttered one right after the other by my fiance's cousin. I had to smack myself in the side of the head to push all the stupid out from what I just heard.
 
I had an incident when I worked at a restaurant for one whole month. I was actually the dishwasher who prepared the salads and appetizers while the main cook did the frying and such (it was a seafood restaurant). During this time I had a SOG Trident folder (TF-1) clipped to my shorts. He saw the clip and asked if I could show it to him. I said, "sure," and proceeded to pull it out. As soon as I opened it and the S.A.T. kicked in, he actually threw himself back a step (he was 5 feet away and holding a huge chef knife of all things)and pointed and said,"that's illegal!!! You are carrying a switchblade and if you can open a knife with one hand its a switchblade!!! Plus my brother is a cop and he told me so."

I've never been more dumbfounded in my life. First off, he is "the cook" and holding a 10" chef knife, he asked to see it, he was at least 5 feet away, his logic of what is illegal was completely off with the whole one hand thing, and furthermore he made himself a dumba$$ in my eyes. I attempted to reason with him but he had the odacity to wave his hand and shake his head in disagreement. This was my worst sheeple encounter in one of the most unlikely of places - south texas, a kitchen, seafood restaurant, the chef himself holding a chef knife....
 
Comments made due to a lack of knowledge are totally fine. They might be genuinely curious about your knife. What really, really annoys me is when they are the "Expert" and tell me why their $5 gas station special is better than my knife.
 
A_Blade_Afficionado said:
While I was carrying my JYD IWB at work...
Him "You're gonna cut your tallywhacker off if that switchblade opens in your pants like that."
Me "Nope, I'll make for sure if anyone loses their balls it'll be you, I'd hate to see people like you polluting the gene pool."
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:D I laughed out loud at that :D
 
I just found the following Ironic. I was talking to an international student from South Africa, and she asked if I had had any previous experience with her country, and of course the closest thing I've got to that is the Sebenza I'm carrying, which I showed to her. her reaction was "Wow, is this legal to carry? I guess it is America after all." after we had just talked about the (violent) Xenophobia and etc of South Africans against immigrants.
 
The question I get tired of answering is, "Why do you like knives so much?" If someone can help me come up with a smartass answer, I would appreciate it.

I also get the "my $5 knife is just as good as yours." But I save myself time and the ignorant person the embarrassment of losing an arguement.
 
A.P.F. said:
"I have a good $5 knife that is good as that one." Says idiot postal worker as he saw my BG-42 Military.
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Hahahahaha that's the exact same thing I was told when someone saw my s30v military...he even showed me his, it was a POS $10 smith and wesson.
 
When visiting one of my buddies to deliver a knife I engraved for him, his "high maintenance" new wife made a comment "I can't imagine why ANYONE would need to carry a knife". The knife was a nice small lockback that would fit in a watch pocket.

I replied "how many lipsticks do you have in your purse"? She thought about it and said something like "seven, I think". To which I replied "I can't imagine why ANYONE would need to carry SEVEN lipsticks in their purse"!
 
Idaho Jarhead said:
I also get the "my $5 knife is just as good as yours." But I save myself time and the ignorant person the embarrassment of losing an arguement.
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I always carry a small superstrong fixed blade and ask them to show their knife.
Then you grasp the end of the grip and the end of the blade and wiggle it, If you do this a few second you get a lot of blade play :D
I can produce blade play with every folder, even my SNG with a perfect lockup.

The cheap knives almost fall apart if you do this.
 
Back before pocket-clipped knives were so commonplace, a guy saw my old molded-clip Delica (circa 1994/95) clipped to my pants and asked me (jokingly) if i was dealing drugs. When I asked him what he meant by it he replied, "why do you have a beeper in your pocket". There, I dated myself.
 
"Why do you have so many knives?"

"Is that legal?"

"Why do you carry such a big knife?"

"Why do you spend so much money on a knife?"

"Whats that for? Why do you carry a knife?"

"Thats just like any other knife?"

"This $3.00 flea market, made in China knife will do everything that Spyderco will do"
 
I was sharpening a pencil with my Mini DeJavoo over a garbage can. My friend asked me "Why do you carry such a big knife?" I responded "because I don't carry a pencil sharpener in my pocket. Do you?"

ric
 
*Friend sees me sharpening my Salt 1*
Him: WWaht are you doing?
Me: Sharpening my knife
Him: Why?
Me: ...Because it's not as sharp as I want it to be?
Him: So why don't you just buy a new one?

(he's used to hardware store cheepies and will just throw them out when they dull)
 
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