Why every grown ass man should carry a knife

[borednva]

I was talking with my friend earlier today and we were discussing things we had in our pockets over dinner. I ordered a pretty nice steak and shrimp delivered. Over dinner he brought up why would anyone wanna carry a knife. He said most of the things he needed to open he could do with his keys and that unless you were opening or breaking down boxes all day he really saw no reason to carry a pocket knife or half the other things i tend to carry. Our steaks were delivered and he spent half of dinner trying to cut his with a plastic knife and i had no problem with mine. I know we spend most of our time talking about the martial uses of our edc knives but i think i may have converted one today guys.
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[Pict]

A knife is basic equipment for planet earth. I have had one on my person since my pre-teens. I use it every day and have no idea how knifeless people can possibly survive.

[MesserMan]

I would have responded that while a key works, a knife is a tool purpose designed to cut, and I was taught to always use the right tool for the job. Besides, you look stupid trying to cut open a package with a key. Like someone trying to eat soup with a fork, or trying to take a Corvette rock crawling. Civilized men cut. Savages tear.

I've carried a knife of some kind, usually a fixed blade, practically every day of my life since I was 13, and that included all through high school, surreptitiously of course. Not having a knife on me is like not having pants: I can't imagine going out in public like that.

[EDELWEISS]

Geeee I thought it was obvious--EARS. I guess you can rip off an ear with a key, but why go to that much effort when thats what a sharp knife was meant for, besides wouldnt a key make the edges rough and snag when you wore it with silks???

[H60DoorGunner]

A knife is basic equipment for planet earth. I have had one on my person since my pre-teens. I use it every day and have no idea how knifeless people can possibly survive.

Yeah, I've carried a pocket knife since I was probably 7 or 8 years old. It still surprises me when men don't have at least a small knife.

[Gabriel Suarez]

I am astounded at the weak, useless attitude of so many adults...not just men. Recently in CA over the holidays there was a need to cut open a package at a family gathering. My daughter pulled out a mere Spyderco...one of the little ones designed for kids. That was greeted with, "Oh my God is that a knife"?

Of course, I responded with , "Yep...its a damn knife, but not as big as this one or the one my son is carrying - if that shocked you, you should see the Glock I have under the sweater?"

My tolerance of the stupid has come to an end a while ago now.

[apamburn]

A man that doesn't carry a knife isn't much of a man at all. :/

However, if you can convince someone to carry a knife for a week or so they will quickly see the utility and hopefully convert.

[Ragsbo]

One of the problems with carrying a knife is that school forces kids NOT to carry one or get thrown in jail! Back when I was in high school (even junior high or grade school) every boy had a knife in his pocket. Heck I knew a few farm girls who packed. It was no big deal. We never had a knifing. Plenty of fist fights but no knife fight. And the teachers often asked to borrow our knives to cut stuff- mostly the women since the men had their own. I am fighting this with my kids. They could not carry at school but can out of school and I am on to them about it. At least carry the multi tool I got them.

Good story! I bought the Ole Heifer a small swish army knife for Christmas. She wanted to know why????? I told her to put it on her key ring in her purse and use it when needed. A couple months go by and she tells me she doesn't want it any more. Strange since I knew she used it a lot. When I asked her why, she said it was to small and she wanted something bigger and easier to open. SO we got her a Gerber. Yelp, I am a lucky man!

[Vigilante]

This is a good start for any woman. But without a locking mechanism, they should know not to try any wild moves. Super sharp, super pointy. Great to open anything, pick fingernails, pick splinters, craft projects for small cuts and tears, etc. Cheap, doesn't scare people, and she's likely to always have it around if it's on the keys.

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[WOLF220]

I've been carrying a knife everyday since I bought my first 2 bladed pen knife in the 2nd grade. I thought I was Rambo! Then in the 5th grade I got one of those cheap ass survival knives with the compass in the end of the handle, I even carried that with me in school in a makeshift shoulder rig. What chaps my ass is when retards say, "why do you need a knife" then they are the first nitwit to ask hey can I borrow your knife? Uhhhh NO!

[Greg Nichols]

I've heard that not carrying a knife is a sure sign of latent homosexuality

[IANative]

I bought the step-daughter a Dragonfly for her 18th b-day recently. So now all three of my kids carry Spydercos... and the older two carry Glocks, too.

[tweek]

Funny.

I usually carry two knives. One is your open boxes and cut shit up knife. The other is just for fileting long pork.
The fun part is that out of the blue my wife asked me for a knife like the lady had in "Blindspot" which was a Benchmade of some sort. So while shopping at Cabela's I found her a nice Benchmade and accidently got myself one too. Awesome knife. I also accidently got an FNS-9c. It just sort of fell in my basket. What was I to do?

[emtdaddy1980]

A man that doesn't carry a knife isn't much of a man at all. :/

However, if you can convince someone to carry a knife for a week or so they will quickly see the utility and hopefully convert.
I have no interest in converting anyone (insert Jehovah's witness joke here)

Any technical male not responsible enough to carry any kind of blade has already been assesed and placed in the useless category. They are no longer worth my time.

[macho mouse]

Greg

Their homosexuality is not latent.

[SheepDog68]

Yesterday it took me two tries to get all the cutlery out of my pockets/belt line before going through the TSA party line!

Even then I found a locking Swiss Army knife in my pocket I'd forgotten about when I went to take a tool off of my keychain.

Yea God designed me to be a tool user so who am I to mess with his plan!

SD

[TheGrayMan214]

Maybe it's because I've carried a pocket knife since I was little, as in before I started kindergarten little, but I just don't know how people go through their lives (especially "adult," which I say half jokingly, "males," because sometimes I wonder....) without a knife in their pocket.

As far back as I remember my Grandpa taught me a man always has four things (which turned into five as I got older): His wallet, a belt, a handkerchief, and a knife in his pocket. As I got older he added "And he ought to have a pistol in his other pocket."

But these days being a man among men seems to be going by the wayside.... Society can go where they want, I reckon I'll stick to standing up when I take a leak.

[Greg Nichols]

Maybe it's because I've carried a pocket knife since I was little, as in before I started kindergarten little, but I just don't know how people go through their lives (especially "adult," which I say half jokingly, "males," because sometimes I wonder....) without a knife in their pocket.

As far back as I remember my Grandpa taught me a man always has four things (which turned into five as I got older): His wallet, a belt, a handkerchief, and a knife in his pocket. As I got older he added "And he ought to have a pistol in his other pocket."

But these days being a man among men seems to be going by the wayside.... Society can go where they want, I reckon I'll stick to standing up when I take a leak.

Mine was the same but he said a Lighter even if you don't smoke

[TheGrayMan214]

Mine was the same but he said a Lighter even if you don't smoke
No one in my family wanted me anywhere near fire.... and for good reason. [emoji91] [emoji48] I would say I "was" a total pyro but that "was" part would be a bold faced lie.... ain't nothing changed.

But I gravitated to pocketing a Zippo everyday even after I quit smoking.

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[steve_k]

Can't live without one. Used daily, almost. This one is going on 13 years.

gets used for boxes, stirring coffee, cutting food, and anything else that calls its attention.

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[BobM]

I've had a knife in my pocket and/or on my belt since I was about 8 or so (I'm over 50 now). I gave my daughter a pink Delica when she turned 16. She started working in a sporting goods store last year and has developed her own interest in knives.

[BigEd63]

My average daily blade carry is 3. Type can vary as to where and what I'm doing.

[GHERKIN05]

I don't understand anyone that doesn't carry a knife. I buy the cheap Spyderco Byrd knives and hand them out to people at work when they say "hey can I borrow your knife for a second?" I go to my bag, grab a Byrd and hand it to them, "no but you can have this one, and if you carry it you won't have to embarrass yourself by asking me for mine".

F'n betas.....

[Jarhead90]

Mine was the same but he said a Lighter even if you don't smoke

In addition to my Spyderco & Voyager I have a small Bic lighter in my wallet, you never know when you might need it.

[toothie]

Have carried a pocket knife since was six years old or maybe earlier. For years now, at least two on me at all times and learned long ago not to lend one out to anybody. Ever.

[borednva]

wow leave this thread for a day and it takes off. And mostly i agree but my friends from liberalville usa not a lot of exposure to knifes, guns, trees, well anything actually fun really. We're slowly breaking him of the bad habits. And I usually carry two knives minimum, one good one and one for general box opening etc. Last time i forgot my disposable knife my favorite cold steel walked off. Got the spyderco to replace it. Really miss that knife.

[H60DoorGunner]

...F'n betas.....

Somebody has to fill the billet.

[BigEd63]

F'n betas.....

I call them Eloi myself but what the heck about the same.

[GHERKIN05]

I call them Eloi myself but what the heck about the same.

Ha! That would make a great t-shirt. "Eloi, taste like chicken"....

[Pict]

I EDC a Spyderco Endura and a Victorinox Farmer for utility cutting jobs. When I lived in Brazil I often wore a Newt Livesay prototype necker in a kydex sheath with a ball chain. Everyone knew I had a folder or two but nobody knew about the fixed neck knife. One evening I got into a discussion with a lady at church. She was sort of animated and tapped me on the chest with her finger to make her point. Tap-tap-tap, right on the kydex... The look on her face was priceless, this brief flicker of total confusion. She walked away thinking, "Pastor Mac is made of stone."

[valian]

I got my first knife when I was a wee little cub scout. Never been without one since. We played all the boy games with them on the playground at school. Like most others here I am always the go to guy wherever I am when someone needs a knife and, unbelievably, like Gabe mentioned, I still often get gasps of fear even around my family if I open a waved knife coming out of my pocket or pop open an assisted opening knife, even around my family and even though they just asked for a knife. Usually I just use my swiss army knife just to avoid that but sometimes the SA knife is not the appropriate tool and because of habit I just forget to open it slowly so as not to alarm anyone.
Why the H anyone living in the modern world would think that 0ne of the most basic of tools known to mankind for thousands of years is not something to have with them 24/7 is simply beyond my comprehension. Besides my guns I even always have a large CS Leatherneck Tanto within reach when sleeping.

One thing I have noticed about men? who don't (or is it won't) carry a knife is that many seem to think it also shows that they are not mean/violent/aggressive etc. and that to carry one means that you are not only those but also paranoid and/or looking to fight or kill someone and not really a nice guy... just the typical lib crap I guess... can't even risk the chance of being construed in that way even when they acknowledge the utility of having a knife.

[TrojanSkyCop1]

My pocket knife just went missing the other day and I am not a happy camper. :no:

[dondy66]

My Emerson's CQC-7 on left and the slightly larger Super CQC-7 on right . The smaller is for dress clothes and the larger for jeans and casual days.46990

[TomB7777]

I used to carry a folding knife to school every day in high school. Now kids would get expelled for that. I was always really careful when my oldest kid was in high school to make
sure she didn't borrow my car without removing all the guns, ammo and knives first.

[Sharkbite]

Granny said "What good is a man without a knife?? Like the rest of you, I carry multiple knives daily. I carried a 4" bladed Case Sod Buster in my right hip pocket all through high school. It was so much a part of my daily kit that I forgot to remove it the morning we were going to tour the White House on a school trip to D.C. I stashed it in a planter on the sidewalk outside the main gate. When I went back to retrieve it, the secret service guys saw me and smiled. I'm certain that wasn't the first time that has happened there.

[Madmike36]

A man that doesn't carry a knife might as well carry a purse!

[Greg Nichols]

A man that doesn't carry a knife might as well carry a purse!

Nah, he should buy a safety razor and shave his p*$$y with it.