Anyone into knives?

Lopéz · 20 Feb 2024 at 10:25

Similar to @Megahurtz400 , the concept of "EDC" is pretty lost on me to be honest. My "EDC", if you can call it that, consists of my house key, my wallet and my mobile phone.

I honestly cannot think of a single situation in the last.... 10 or 15 years maybe, where I have thought "Damn, I wish I had a knife with me".

I work and live in a capital city. It would be unusual that whilst on my 30 minute commute to the office and back I would need to rescue a moorhen, split branches, gut a trout, make a fire, open an Amazon box, make a knot, prepare a meal, skin a rabbit, cut an accident victim out of a mangled car wreck or anything even vaguely approaching any of these activities.

Cromulent · 20 Feb 2024 at 10:39

Lopéz said:
I work and live in a capital city. It would be unusual that whilst on my 30 minute commute to the office and back I would need to rescue a moorhen, split branches, gut a trout, make a fire, open an Amazon box, make a knot, prepare a meal, skin a rabbit, cut an accident victim out of a mangled car wreck or anything even vaguely approaching any of these activities.

You sound fun

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Lopéz · 20 Feb 2024 at 10:46

Cromulent said:
You sound fun .

Don't get me wrong, I would love to be out there in the wild, doing the Bear Grylls thing!

But I live in a city, I work in an office 5 days a week, I commute to work on public transport like..... I would imagine the vast majority of the population.

Mr Badger · 20 Feb 2024 at 13:19

Lopéz said:
Similar to @Megahurtz400 , the concept of "EDC" is pretty lost on me to be honest. My "EDC", if you can call it that, consists of my house key, my wallet and my mobile phone.

I honestly cannot think of a single situation in the last.... 10 or 15 years maybe, where I have thought "Damn, I wish I had a knife with me".

I work and live in a capital city. It would be unusual that whilst on my 30 minute commute to the office and back I would need to rescue a moorhen, split branches, gut a trout, make a fire, open an Amazon box, make a knot, prepare a meal, skin a rabbit, cut an accident victim out of a mangled car wreck or anything even vaguely approaching any of these activities.

But in the city you could encounter a random Amazon box at any time! Although I'm bemused that some people seem to need a knife to deal with them. I find they usually tear open quite easily and the worst case is that you might want to use a key or other small hard object (such as a teaspoon) to break through a bit of tape to get things moving.