People without pocket knives when they want to get into a box:
My mom opens chip bags like she’s a wrestler ripping their shirt off for the crowd.
The floor demands her chips!
If I ain’t got a pocket knife on me, you need to tell me to go back in the house and put my pants on…
But I’m old and I grew up on a farm and everyone carried a pocket knife. It’s a tool just like any other tool. In fact, it’s human’s second oldest tool, right after the basic rock. I highly recommend getting one for yourself. A Victorinox Classic is a great EDC. You might not use the little 1"/25mm blade very often, but that nail file and scissors are fantastic to have. And the Classic comes in many handle colors and can hang on your keychain until needed. In fact I highly recommend any Victorinox tool. It might be the greatest urban survival tool ever invented. And Vic’s are always acceptable carry in nearly every social situation. People never seem threatened by them.
These days I don’t use my pocket knife as much as I used to. But I still carry one every day and it some how feels wrong if I don’t. And it’s there waiting and ready for when I do need it.
I used to have a knife with me most of the time as a kid. It was cool and useful.
But when I had to store it in security when in festival I more often had to remember to not forget about it than I used it.
There are a few places that knives are not allowed because a few morons can’t be trusted and ruin everything for the rest of us. Just have to be smarter and leave you knife at home when you know you are going to those places.
What is truly sad is knowing the general population often thinks a pocket knife is a horrible scary dangerous thing to see in public.
I made this for opening boxes.
Throw a qullion (i think thats the term anyway. Reading them fantasy books sometimes i forget that may have made up basic shit too) on that mofo and you could also use it to staby stab… boxes.
Does it work?
I have this thing for a reason!
You can clean them. You can technically disassemble them but it involves preening over pins and whatnot. It’s a hassle. A good soak in warm soapy water and a scrub with an old toothbrush can do wonders. If it’s seized by rust WD-40 is your friend.
The Cybertool really is the best of the Victorinox knives. Unfortunately, I lost mine 😢.
My condolences
Mine has been rusted shut for ages. I wish you could disassemble and clean them
I think threeme was supposed to respond to you but replied to the parent comment
Thanks, wouldn’t have seen it without your message
When all you have is a knife, every problem looks like a wine bottle cork that you should have tried removing using a proper corkscrew first instead of playing mac gyver to impress the room
Well, shit
I suppose you could sabre the neck off with the 25mm blade on your Victorinox Classic to look cool. But if you had a Victorinox Tinker you could just use the cork screw that is on the knife…
It’s part of the experience.
Lol, it’s literally why they’re carried in a lot of cases.
“everyday carry” people fantasy: the lights went out but we have to open that box and sign this form. We’re doomed!! Who can save us!?!
reality: I guess I will just do it later.
Real reality: I’ve got a torch on my phone, that light is never getting fixed
Reality is the box can be opened by hand, everyone in the room has a flashlight on their phone and the form can now be esigned on a phone.
I miss doing iaido. I still have my practice sword though, that shit was expensive
I’ve cleaned a moose with my pocket knife.
Are you Jordan Jonas?
This is like when you go round someone’s house for dinner and they ostentatiously get out the “Japanese steel” to chop the vegetables with, which you have to ceremonially bloody on your palm every time it comes out of the block. Later you see the shitty little serrated knife they normally use while helping load the dishwasher.
probably, they used the “shitty little serrated knife” for something that needed serrations.
Just because you have a nice Santoku, doesn’t mean that you won’t be using other knives for specific purposes. Our Nakiri cuts nothing but vegetables, fruits, nuts and herbs. I won’t use it for anything else.
I have knives that only cut apples for decades now.
Not everyone’s climbed to the top of the forbidden peak to learn the correct Zendatsu technique from Kendo Nagasaki to use those holy tools though.
but mine has tritium on the handle!!
maslow’s mall ninja
I have a tiny Leatherman and use it all the time
I’m usually like, ooh, I have a Swiss army knife in my pocket. And another on the keychain.
…Except when I’m home, the keys go to the tray and I switch to indoors pants, so when I actually need the damn things I usually need to take extra effort to go grab them anyway.
people without pocket knives when they need to cut something ☞
My family always gives me shit for always having my Gerber on my belt, until it’s Christmas morning or any of the other times someone needs a knife or pliers.
I keep a tiny 1" knife on my keychain. It’s incredibly handy, unless I forget to take it off when going through airport security…
Can you not fly with it? In Europe, you can, the limit is 5 or 6 cm of blade. I regularly fly with mine.
If it’s sharp or pointy at all you have to check it in the US. I almost got my nice multibit screwdriver confiscated because it was almost too long.
Nope, but they recently loosened the rules so you can bring nail trimmers again.
I’ve done the same with my Gerber quite a few times
Your family Christmas morning sounds vicious. You should try getting everyone to sit down and have the youngest child hand the presents out one at a time.
See, in america every holiday and social event is an opportunity to express your individualism and lack of empathy. Usually there’s a competitive game people assault each other over, like Uno, Spades, or cornhole. A common phrase here is “I just don’t like other people”.
Christmas morning! Every single time I’m the person that pulls out the knife.
