“Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries.”
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why are they giving the babies knifes???
Them kids gotta learn how to whittle ASAP so that there’s at least something for them to do at the summer cabin (no wifi, no cell phone connection)
There’s a joke here in Sweden that goes like: (With finish accent) “Boys! Stop fighting with knives! We gave you chainsaws for Christmas!”
It’s a Finnish baby, knives are mandatory.
Jokes aside, I’m a Swedish speaking Finn who happened to move to Sweden for the last year of school and my teacher made a point of reminding me it’s not okay to wear a knife to school.
She made quite the face when my mother told her we stopped that particular tradition about a century ago.
But still, it’s something of a national joke, lol.
Even if it’s a dress knife!?
That’s pretty cool :0
That funny as fuck!
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Self defense obviously
I was also wondering about the knives. They are too small to prepare food and that is the wrong kind of knife for stabbing
Well, a traditional Puukko really isn’t made for stabbing, they got a seax for that. But they can pull kitchen duty just fine if you choose to grab one.
I own a couple of them and have used them for everything from filleting fish I’ve caught to dressing and butchering deer, dicing onions and peppers, cleaning a fouled spark plug, and a myriad of small wood working tasks. They are fine tools for those of us that don’t live in a city.
Now if you want something that can go from the kitchen to the battlefield and back again, then get a Kukri.
I became a knife guy. It started when I was visiting a government surplus store and I realized that I could buy knives that had been confiscated at security checkpoints at a steep discount. Then I started developing opinions about grips and blade geometries.
Now I’m wearing a neck knife every day, and I tell people that once you start carrying a knife, you’re amazed to find all the convenient uses you can find for the thing in a given day.
It has become sad that when a lot of people see someone else take a pocket knife out and open it, the first thing that goes through their small heads is “That’s a weapon! I’m going to die now!” And that it’s just a simple tool that humans have been using for millennia for daily tasks.