You mean: "You call that knife....Thats not a knife, this is a KNIFE..."
(looks faked)
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Originally Posted by spaghetti
The arm-mounted Omer Mini laser, handy and sharp, is great. But only IF you carry two knives, as i do for more safety.
A diveknife is not only for dispatching fish, but also to get you out of trouble in case on entanglement. Moments of panic: you get tangled, grab your knife to cut, but it drops from your hand: you're DEAD. No, wait, you're not dead: you have a second knife!
That's why I carry the Cressi Killer on the belt and the Mini Laser on the left arm.
Of course I can draw the Mini Laser only with my right hand. That's why I carry two. (What if my leg is tangled and my right hand is stuck or wounded, so that I can't grab the mini-laser?).
PARANOIAAAAAA!!!!!  |
Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't watching you.
Of course, having two lumpy knives strapped to your otherwise stream-line seal-like neoprened exterior actually makes it more likely that you will snag something
.
The French & Italian alpinists are famous for their lightweight, uncluttered, stream-lined approach to climbing. Carrying small, simple tube sacks with exterior straps & extras cut off to reduce weight. Belaying from a single anchor point - often a piton with just an HMS carabiner for belaying (with an Italian Hitch or waist belay) . They reduce danger by moving fast & reduce the need for equipment by getting off the mountain the same day. Unlike Americans, who can usually afford lots of fancy gear & gizmos and like to carry them round in RV sized sacks with lots of bits and pieces hanging off the outside. (Pioneering but financially challenged Brits like
Joe Brown &
Don Whillans travelled light - 2-up by motorbike to the alps!) Think: "what would
Walter Bonatti have done?"
hyeparis, can you tell us something about that elaborate knife? Looks like it might have been the Tzar's dress sword!
Spoke to a Metropolitan police detective recently and he reckons serious knife crime is rife in UK cities now. They are looking to clamp down hard on it. Anybody know details of the current laws? Age restrictions on purchase, a carry limit on blade length of 3" and, perhaps, then only if you have a good reason (fishing?). There are always some sh!theads that have to spoil it for the rest of us (youth gangs, as well as the govt.
).
