Replacement EDC Pocketknife

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I get it, but why is the Blur scary and the Chill isn't?
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skb12172 wrote:I get it, but why is the Blur scary and the Chill isn't?
The Blur is assisted opening. The Chill is manual.
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randy wrote: (*I did have a little talk with him about circumventing security locks and keeping his badge with him at all times)
Screw the knife part, but circumventing security on doors is bad. Retraining for first offense, buh-bye for second.

Even in NJ knife acceptance varies. Suburbs and rural areas, no problem. Go to say a Somerset Patriots game and half the adult men will have visible knife pocket clips.

Urban areas you might as well be in NYC.
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Which makes me wonder where this Wussmania came from? How many mass stabbings have there been with pocket knives? :roll:
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skb12172 wrote:Which makes me wonder where this Wussmania came from? How many mass stabbings have there been with pocket knives? :roll:
Only needed the one - West Side Story, to freak them out for multiple generations!!
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skb12172 wrote:Which makes me wonder where this Wussmania came from? How many mass stabbings have there been with pocket knives? :roll:
When you have enough people with overactive imaginations, an acquired sense of helplessness (it's what they were taught) and generally neurotic dispositions.... we get this kind of panic. Other places, when you have neurotic people with overactive imaginations who feel they are not in control of their world, you get other kinds of panic.

When people are sane, confident, generally self-reliant and feeling secure with their position in the world... you don't get panics.
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Greg wrote:Other places, when you have neurotic people with overactive imaginations who feel they are not in control of their world, you get other kinds of panic. When people are sane, confident, generally self-reliant and feeling secure with their position in the world... you don't get panics.
So what you are saying is that the 10 most populated U.S. urban areas need to be "pocket nuked". Incidentally, they are also Dem-Cong strong holds.

Gee, a "two-for-one, blue-plate-special".......... :lol:
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Termite wrote:
Greg wrote:Other places, when you have neurotic people with overactive imaginations who feel they are not in control of their world, you get other kinds of panic. When people are sane, confident, generally self-reliant and feeling secure with their position in the world... you don't get panics.
So what you are saying is that the 10 most populated U.S. urban areas need to be "pocket nuked". Incidentally, they are also Dem-Cong strong holds.

Gee, a "two-for-one, blue-plate-special".......... :lol:
A large part of the world, actually. Mass hysteria seems to be a normal part of the human condition, that we had mostly left behind.
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Greg wrote:
skb12172 wrote:Which makes me wonder where this Wussmania came from? How many mass stabbings have there been with pocket knives? :roll:
When you have enough people with overactive imaginations, an acquired sense of helplessness (it's what they were taught) and generally neurotic dispositions.... we get this kind of panic. Other places, when you have neurotic people with overactive imaginations who feel they are not in control of their world, you get other kinds of panic.

When people are sane, confident, generally self-reliant and feeling secure with their position in the world... you don't get panics.
I nearly made my former manager befoul herself one day. I was replacing the water bottle on the cooler and the part on the cap that's supposed to tear when you pull the tab, didn't. So I pulled out my mini-multi-tool from the change-pocket of my jeans, opened the blade, and cut it. This tool has a blade that's 1.5" long. She told me to leave it at home, we have a "no weapons" policy.

Yeah, right. I was just careful never to use it around her again, and to certainly NEVER let her know about the Storm.

That's what some people don't get. The properly ordered, educated, and imaginative MIND is a weapon. Someone bent on mayhem in my office would find plenty of available tools to use without violating the "no weapons policy".
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MarkD wrote: I nearly made my former manager befoul herself one day. I was replacing the water bottle on the cooler and the part on the cap that's supposed to tear when you pull the tab, didn't. So I pulled out my mini-multi-tool from the change-pocket of my jeans, opened the blade, and cut it. This tool has a blade that's 1.5" long. She told me to leave it at home, we have a "no weapons" policy.
I wonder how she opens her mail. Or cooks.

Every office I've ever worked in, plastic razor blade-based utility knives were standard issue, stocked with the office supplies just like pens.
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