What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard about blades?

[TheDr]

I never had a conversation about knives with stupid people.
I just don't engage them.
And most people don't even know I carry

 

[C0untZer0]

What I heard about the blood groove was that it dramatically increased blood loss, that without the blood grove the knife itself sealed the wound. With the blood groove blood loss starts immediately.

The woman who gave me the COVID-19 vaccination at Walmart stabbed me so bad she struck bone, then she fumbled the syringe or something and changed the angle of the needle while it was still stuck in my arm. I bled like a pig stuck with a bayonet with a blood groove !

 

[hso]

dramatically increased blood loss

Any old myth everyone hears at some point.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

came upon a guy practicing knife throwing on his break at work one time.

I don't have a problem with it, personally, and I asked if he was getting any better.

"yeah. maybe it will come in handy for self defense someday."
"oh?"
"yeah maybe like get the guy in the leg when he's running away, you know?"
"um... that doesn't too much like self defense to me... I don't think that's a good idea."
"yeah well you know what I mean."

I bid him good day.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

No myth there! We had an employee cut into his palm with a serrated knife while cutting a bagel...in a safety training.

you can't make this stuff up LOL

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

What’s the one you just can’t forget?

My mother-in-law...I once offered to sharpen her kitchen knives many years ago, because they honestly weren't much better than butter knives. No exaggeration.

Nope. Nothing doing.

Why?

Because dull knives were safer.

*sigh*

Fortunately, my wife does not fall in her mother's footsteps with this particular belief.

 

[hso]

Because dull knives were safer.

Possibly the most common myth.

 

[hso]

Let's stick with the OP's myths topic.

 

[SwampWolf]

That cutting paper with a knife will dull the edge of the blade faster than most anything else. Or maybe it's true; I've never actually tested the claim.

 

[md7]

Generally speaking, I don’t really engage with folks about knives. Water off a ducks back and all that.

But seeing someone use or advise using a knife blade as a screwdriver. Well that’s just plain wrong. And it makes me cringe.

 

[sparkyv]

Similarly heard in a West Houston hospital ER waiting room...plus it's a felony. Spoken by an ignorant, overzealous rent-a-cop.

"Take your pocketknife back out and leave it in your car." Overheard at the Social Security Office.

I ruined a Buck 110 when I was a stupid kid. Felt so bad as my Dad had gifted it to me, I never did this again.

But seeing someone use or advise using a knife blade as a screwdriver.