@awk That depends upon the nature of what’s growing in your yard. If you can see the street from the front of your house, then you’re not in the outdoors. If you can see the back lot line from the back of your house, you are not in the outdoors. If you can’t see either of those due to the presence of underbrush and scrub trees, then you are in the outdoors.
Opening boxes, scraping stickers off of things, breaking down boxes, opening beers, dangerous fidget spinner, opening recalcitrant packages of sausages, threatening home appliances that are not working correctly, etc
Usually using it to open things when I’m not home. Like if I buy a phone holder for the car that I want to use now and it’s in the sealed hard plastic that does not want to open easily. I keep it in my purse, if I’m at home I usually use scissors or a box knife.
My EDC is a Kershaw Leek. It has been with me for a long time. I wish I used it more than I do, but it pretty much just opens stuff. Lots of memories with it though.
I keep one on me with my Gerber multi tool. I use the two for repairs and cable management, lots of packages, removing stickers with passwords on them from secure equipment, destroying faulty cables so people stop taking them out of the e-waste bin and redeploying them instead of asking me for a new one for free and costing me two hours of troubleshooting connectivity.
The Thero also makes a decent outdoors knife. Serrations are overrated, this has a great shape to the blade and it’s well suited to one handed operation. Put two drops of a good quality firearm or pneumatic tool lubricant in the hinge and it will feel good as new forever.
Does working in the yard count as “cool outdoorsy stuff” or “stuff around the house”?
@awk Yes.
@awk That depends upon the nature of what’s growing in your yard. If you can see the street from the front of your house, then you’re not in the outdoors. If you can see the back lot line from the back of your house, you are not in the outdoors. If you can’t see either of those due to the presence of underbrush and scrub trees, then you are in the outdoors.
@awk @werehatrack
This is what I could see from the back of my house a couple mornings ago. I’m going to call it outdoors, I think…
Unfolding and folding mostly.
Opening boxes, scraping stickers off of things, breaking down boxes, opening beers, dangerous fidget spinner, opening recalcitrant packages of sausages, threatening home appliances that are not working correctly, etc
Usually using it to open things when I’m not home. Like if I buy a phone holder for the car that I want to use now and it’s in the sealed hard plastic that does not want to open easily. I keep it in my purse, if I’m at home I usually use scissors or a box knife.
@remo28 Ditto.
I like to use my knife to open the clamshell that new knives come in.
Opening boxes
@Raptor_007 same
what @Raptor_007 said
Where’s the tick box for neither of the above? Those are far from the only two things that people would mostly use their folding knife for.
@werehatrack Meh is very stingy with that particular kind of tick box…
@werehatrack True. Home & work mostly. But also a fidget toy.
cutting
@rtjhnstn That’s a cutting remark.
Use it mostly for removing the excess tissue between my fingers and the palms of my hands.
Keeping the other junk in the drawer inline. You never know when your junk will want to do its own thing.
@hchavers You must be fun at parties.
I don’t stab and tell.
/giphy feeling stabby
My EDC is a Kershaw Leek. It has been with me for a long time. I wish I used it more than I do, but it pretty much just opens stuff. Lots of memories with it though.
@KNmeh7 I love the Kershaw assisted opening knives.
Keeping in a drawer and forgetting about, mostly…
I would tell you but “doctor” “patient” confidentiality…
Opening boxes
Opening mail
Opening plastic bags
Opening cadavers
Wait…
@shawn_mitch Yeah, you missed a step.
Opening carjackers
KuoH
@kuoh @shawn_mitch Carjackers go in the wood chipper.
@yakkoTDI
Do you freeze them first? (It makes the chipper easier to clean.)
@werehatrack That chipper doesn’t get cleaned. I want them to smell their doom before becoming compost.
I keep one on me with my Gerber multi tool. I use the two for repairs and cable management, lots of packages, removing stickers with passwords on them from secure equipment, destroying faulty cables so people stop taking them out of the e-waste bin and redeploying them instead of asking me for a new one for free and costing me two hours of troubleshooting connectivity.
The Thero also makes a decent outdoors knife. Serrations are overrated, this has a great shape to the blade and it’s well suited to one handed operation. Put two drops of a good quality firearm or pneumatic tool lubricant in the hinge and it will feel good as new forever.
shanking rats
Primarily at work, tbh. Opening boxes, opening packaging, popping out batteries, cutting wire, exposing wire, opening watches and all kinds of stuff
Really 1& 2 p, but mostly opening Boxes & Packages.
I remember the days when I could use my thumbnail to cut tape or unscrew screws.