# Skrooh you, Nike! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396 "2016-02-18T00:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/121 "2016-02-22T22:45:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s like this. The odds of someone carrying a knife in a given area are very low. By carrying a knife, he ensures no one else will be carrying a knife. > > 😃 If I follow that logic correctly, if everyone carries a knife, then no one will be carrying a knife. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/122 "2016-02-22T22:48:05Z")
I think it creates a knife singularity. If enough people carry a knife in a small enough area, they collapse upon one another and create a black hole from which no knives can escape. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/123 "2016-02-22T23:45:48Z")
All good. Come to Manila. Beautiful women, good food, low cost of living, enlightened knife culture. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/124 "2016-02-23T00:03:36Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > So lets be clear here, when you pulled a knife and slashed these seats which city were you in? I’ve walked around Phonmh Penh, Cambodia at 3AM in pretty dodgy areas and I didn’t carry a knife with me. In fact in my entire adult life including living in Brixton in London for four years of that time I never needed to carry a knife. So exactly where where you where you “needed to be carrying” ? You have to understand… despite all those really dangerous places you’ve been, have you ever encountered a girl on her cell who would just. Not. Shut. Up?!! Duh. The two things just aren’t comparable and you should thank your lucky stars every day that you’ve never faced anything quite that scary. You’d have to pull out your knife then too and do some pretty significant damage to upholstery to feel safe. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/125 "2016-02-23T00:09:59Z")
I’m not talking with people who are “into” knives is why. The fabric upholstery wasn’t damaged. Maybe just the acetate cover, and that is really meant to tear off in time. Suffice to say I know how to use a blade, whether to cut, to just scratch, to cause light injury, to kill. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/126 "2016-02-23T00:12:48Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You killed them all off with your karate stare. > [@running\_coach](#): > > You could strangle someone with those things. > > Unless you fix them with a Karate stare. > Though I have found that a Judo glance or Aikido leer is far more effective. > [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > The Capoeira lip curl? > The Taekowndo taunt? > The Krav Maga cutting remark? > > Oh wait, that last one is one of them there _Jew styles_. If **the\_diego** was brought to trial, can you imagine trying to get a jury of his peers? ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/127 "2016-02-23T00:18:53Z")
We think it sufficing to say the steroid rage and the feelings of the male inadequacy explain very much… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/128 "2016-02-23T02:08:21Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > I’m not talking with people who are “into” knives is why. The fabric upholstery wasn’t damaged. Maybe just the acetate cover, and that is really meant to tear off in time. Suffice to say I know how to use a blade, whether to cut, to just scratch, to cause light injury, to kill. You’re still a fucking psycho. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/129 "2016-02-23T02:09:06Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > All good. Come to Manila. Beautiful women, good food, low cost of living, enlightened knife culture. Ah ok, so you’re not just a semi-autistic freak with temper control problems and a bigoted asshole. You’re also a loser sexpat who lives in Manila because you can’t get laid in your home country. You must be such a “handsum” man. I bet the $5 hookers love you. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/130 "2016-02-23T02:12:01Z")
Since there are no traces of that in both trees, the socio is more likely. You should also know that a lot of Americans do carry knives with them. Some do it legally by limiting blade length and manner of employment, others carry specified illegal weapons without having a care for laws. They’re hobbyists for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/131 "2016-02-23T02:14:33Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Ah ok, so you’re not just a semi-autistic freak with temper control problems and a bigoted asshole. You’re also a loser sexpat who lives in Manila because you can’t get laid in your home country. You must be such a “handsum” man. I bet the $5 hookers love you. I’m really not one to call someone an idiot in his face but I was born, educated, and settled permanently in the Philippines. It’s probably more of your kind who are [what you wrote] and come to the Philippines for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/132 "2016-02-23T02:33:24Z")
Point taken, you’re still a semi autistic loser with temper problems and a bigoted asshole. And whats with [what you wrote] ? Mommy doesn’t let you swear? Does she know you carry a knife? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/133 "2016-02-23T02:37:51Z")
I see even less restraint (and intelligence) in the posts here. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/134 "2016-02-23T02:49:31Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > I see even less restraint (and intelligence) in the posts here. Stop reading your own. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/135 "2016-02-23T03:04:38Z")
Can someone please link to the seat slashing incident? I’ve got to see that trainwreck for my own morbid curiosity. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/136 "2016-02-23T03:08:10Z")
Post #70. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/137 "2016-02-23T03:16:45Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Post #70. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/138 "2016-02-23T03:58:32Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > I’m not talking with people who are “into” knives is why. The fabric upholstery wasn’t damaged. Maybe just the acetate cover, and that is really meant to tear off in time. Suffice to say I know how to use a blade, whether to cut, to just scratch, to cause light injury, to kill. Okay then… You confused me by starting out your other thread by stating > [@the\_diego](#): > > This will take me out of the running for the most admired doper, but I pulled a knife on a girl inside a passenger bus. I didn’t cut her or even invade her space. We were sitting beside each other and I took out my knife, **slashed the back of the seats in front of us** , and then put the knife away as quickly as I took it out. Bolding mine. You went slashy-slash on the seat. Irrelevant whether it was the clear vinyl layer or all the way through to the colored vinyl. You slashed it to get a girl to stop talking on her phone. Suffice it to say you know absolutely nothing about how to carry and use a knife responsibly. > [@the\_diego](#): > > I’m really not one to call someone an idiot in his face but I was born, educated, and settled permanently in the Philippines. It’s probably more of your kind who are [what you wrote] and come to the Philippines for that reason. Just to be crystal clear - you’re now permanently located in the Philippines, right? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/139 "2016-02-23T04:03:07Z")
If I’m dead and buried there, yes. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/140 "2016-02-23T05:23:27Z")
Well if you’ve lived there your entire life you should be aware that carrying a knife is illegal in the philipines. [http://www.fmaforum.org/index.php?showtopic=4945](http://www.fmaforum.org/index.php?showtopic=4945) And its not only the police, if you flash that in front of a local street gang you’re going to get your pretty white skin all carved up. I am NOT wishing harm on you, I am saying you really should know better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396.md?page=8)