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Post by chukissaki on Oct 4, 2010 0:30:06 GMT
I agree with the tac-folder suggestions
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 4, 2010 0:35:36 GMT
Not a problem. The LFK, as soon as I can get it, is actually going to be my EDC blade of choice... Though I may carry the rather gorgeous HD Nagara by Benchmade for dress occasions. But that's getting off topic. Anyways, keeping the laws in mind, a fixed blade could easily be construed as a 'dirk' and thereby illegal, so a folder is smarter. Plus, there's one thing a folder has over a fixed blade in many situations: intimidation. If you're skilled at opening it quickly, the blade on a folder can open so quick it's like magic, particularly with Benchmades which are known for their almost telekinetic opening and super tight lock-ups, and the sight and audible snap of a blade locking into place is extremely intimidating (one of the reasons switchblades are illegal). The LFK also gives you that large, fixed-blade size blade while retaining a comfortably sized handle.
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Post by SlayerofDarkness on Oct 4, 2010 0:41:08 GMT
^Well said! I love the 'SNAAAAP!' of a good folder.... and in an ideal situation, the perp makes a sound very similar to the knife. I think I'm going to get one of those for myself, actually. I love long blades and hate long handles, so it just makes since. -Slayer
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 4, 2010 0:47:32 GMT
Exactly; it's the same reasoning behind cocking a gun's hammer or pumping a pump-action shotgun. They are so iconic and intimidating that the next sound you expect to hear is the crook shitting his pants.
Most definitely. It, along with the Nagara I mentioned, and a couple assorted Cold Steel fixed blades (the Kobun and OSS and maybe one of their Spikes) are the highest priority on my list of knives, but that kinda amounts to bull nookie when you're unemployed. But I can still dream, can't I? :lol:
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Post by SlayerofDarkness on Oct 4, 2010 0:50:34 GMT
Haha! We have similar tastes, my friend. I actually have the old Carbon V Kobun, and the OSS is my favorite CS knife under $100. The spikes... IDK, I like them, a lot, but can never chose which is my favorite, so I try to forget that they exist to prevent giving myself a concussion from banging my head against the wall. -Slayer
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 0:50:43 GMT
#1 Bluff: "I have AIDS",
no offense to those with the disease, just no one would try to spill your blood or even try to sexually assault you. It also is quite believable with millions in the U.S. infected. btw several drug cures are out, just too expensive or not through the final testing.
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Post by SlayerofDarkness on Oct 4, 2010 0:51:33 GMT
You mean ADD, right? :lol: -Slayer
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 0:57:16 GMT
I always touch down my movie theater seat...some HIV positive person hating the world put needles with their blood onto theater seats...ugh slayer i think that would cause the opposite reaction
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Post by SlayerofDarkness on Oct 4, 2010 1:01:25 GMT
Okay, I KNOW I missed something here. :?: What'd I do wrong again? -Slayer
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 1:07:44 GMT
AIDs is the advanced/progressed disease for HIV positive; ADD is attention deficit disorder or what i like to call "easily distracted" syndrome you should ask your sister for folder; sebastian could help you pick out one, he seems to have circulated though over a hundred
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Post by SlayerofDarkness on Oct 4, 2010 1:18:54 GMT
WOW. :shock: I'm a moron, you know that? Complete misunderstanding- I thought you meant something else, and you, know, misunderstood you. Right, yeah... right. :roll: Just, um, forget I said anything... -Slayer
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 4, 2010 1:50:49 GMT
I wish that Cold Steel hadn't gotten rid of the Oyabun, which is the bigger brother to the Kobun, 'cause I would have bought it in a heartbeat. I somewhat considered buying the new San Mai OSS, but then I kinda thought 'why?' The original version is just as good and the only reason a more resilient steel would be necessary is if I was using it to kill zombies left and right and punching through armor.
That's where I've got you beat on the Spikes; my favorites are the Tokyo and the Scimitar. They'd make good last resorts or letter openers.
@rice: I never thought to call ADD 'easily distracted syndrome'. My teachers just called it the usual things like 'stupid' or 'lazy'. I can't argue with the lazy bit, but a genius IQ and a mind that flits through fifty different topics in the span of a couple minutes do not an ideal combination make. It's like having bees buzzing around in your head every waking moment, constantly driving you to distraction, interfering with your sleeping habits, hell, even interfering with having a conversation. One minute you're talking about a new video game coming out with a friend, a few seconds later you're dreaming up a revised type of jetpack that would solve both a fuel problem and the whole burning off your legs bit, and then change the subject to discussing the finer arts of torture and why it's completely useless. It's no wonder people think I'm insane.
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Post by ineffableone on Oct 4, 2010 1:59:05 GMT
These may be too tactical but are both extremely good knives the Kershaw is an assisted opener, which means ultra fast opening. The Seber is multi functional with multi opening positions. If you go for a folder you might consider the Kershaw Zero Tolerance 0350ST Another cool folder is the ratcheting Seber Ratcheting Knife comes in a variety of different looks. Though I would say my favorite folder is a balisong. As mentioned earlier in this thread the sound is distinctive like a cambering of a round in a pump shotgun. Though a balisong takes practice and patience to become comfortable and useful. Also laws may not allow the carry of a balisong in your area. They are a sadly persecuted knife. Though the movie Kick Ass did give them a nice public image remake recently.
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Post by ineffableone on Oct 4, 2010 2:08:35 GMT
I have ADHD and learned something quite interesting about it. It is not a problem with you but a problem with society. ADD and ADHD people are hardwired adaptations for hunting. The "normal" people they are hardwired adaptions to farming. The problem for ADD and ADHD people is adjusting to the ritualistic predictable lives of farmers where everything runs upon a schedule. The best cure for ADD and ADHD is to not fight it but to embrace it. Find ways to keep an exciting life with out the monotony that farmers love so much. Don't let yourself be boxed into the farmers way of seeing the world, remember hunters were here before the farmers. They are the aberrant ones not us.
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 4, 2010 2:16:45 GMT
Ineff, you just made my day and deserve a karma or two for it. What's even weirder is that the whole thing makes sense. I've always found myself bored to death by routine and the 9-5 routine people do day in and day out for decades at a time seem like they'd be the literal death of me. I can't even begin to imagine why I didn't think of it as a problem with society considering I'm of the opinion that most things society does is fubar.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2010 2:21:29 GMT
ineffableone, the sabers you posted are awesome. I just had to go look it up; A seatbelt cutter on the end!?!? that is major epic;
do you have one of these? mind pointing me towards are cheaper vendor? (the main site is expensive)
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Post by ineffableone on Oct 4, 2010 2:32:00 GMT
Oh btw Slayer you might want to check out the youtube user katabunga www.youtube.com/katabungaShe is a girl who likes knives and reviews plenty of them. Sometimes it does help to get a woman's POV in things when buying for a woman. The other vids I have posted from RoscoeBa www.youtube.com/RoscoeBa is also a woman who likes knives. Which was part of why I used her vids showing you those knives. Oh btw your welcome Vincent. I personally think it is much needed info for those of use with ADD and ADHD. It is important to know we are not broken and insane but just round pegs being forced into a square hole. The most effective remedy is to make our lives to fit us better and stop trying to pretend we are square pegs. Finding different professions that aren't necessarily the norm, but stimulate our multi tasking highly active minds. ADD and ADHD people are great in crisis, making great fire fighters, surgeons, police, military, etc. The one problem with most of those those is they tend to be overseen by the farmer people who make us try and do testing and conformity training to get the jobs. There are of course many other professions where we fit in well too. They may not be standard concepts but then ADD and ADHD people do best thinking outside the box.
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Post by ineffableone on Oct 4, 2010 2:40:44 GMT
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Oct 4, 2010 2:54:43 GMT
To Slayer, there's also youtube user nutnfancy: www.youtube.com/user/nutnfancy He may not have a woman's perspective, but I believe he's reviewed literally hundreds of knives (including the LFK and Nagara I want, as well as several others) and even has a playlist along the lines of 'best EDC blades for under 40$'. In my case, what always got me was the menial schoolwork as I always excelled at testing... Probably because of the associated stress. The entire concept of learning from a book that requires no more than eye movement and maybe writing a note here or there seems to me to have been conceived by a man who believed education was supposed to be the most mind numbingly, soul rottingly droll thing in existence, one step below watching paint dry or grass growing, and one step above watching a political debate. As for thinking outside the box, I think my problem is I think too far outside the box... I once compiled the pros and cons of being a professional assassin in my head, alongside the various poisons, torture methodology, and just general ways a person can be killed. This also supports the 'I am insane' argument, at least in my case. But then again, we define anyone who goes against society's norms as insane, so how do we truly know what sanity and insanity truly are? Besides, sanity is a one trick pony; when you're good and loony, the sky's the limit! However, as you say, the farmer mentality of life seems intent on dragging everyone down into a menial lifestyle defined by a person's possessions and their measured success in life (i.e., their yearly income) aside from their actual deeds. Police exist to keep the streets safe, fire fighters exist to help prevent massive property loss such as when Rome or Britain burned down, teachers exist to mold the minds of our future generation, soldiers exist to protect our nation against invasion (which is why I feel no war America has gone to in the last hundred years is justified, with the possible exception of our involvement of World War II because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor), hell, even construction workers exist to build homes for people to live in and facilities for them to work in, and yet the one thing they all have in common is they're some of the lowest paying jobs in America. Plus, teachers these days are so jaded, they further the farming mindset by not actually teaching a damn thing.
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Post by ineffableone on Oct 4, 2010 3:03:25 GMT
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