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d0ugal | 5 years ago

That’s the Sgian-dubh. If you wondered what it was called

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh

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arethuza|5 years ago

Traditionally used for handling the heaters in Scottish army ration packs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU

082349872349872|5 years ago

Wenger and Victorinox have a sweet racket on army knives. The one the army buys for each recruit doesn't have a corkscrew, so they know they'll always sell a second one (bought with private funds) which does.

The corkscrew is important because, being the army, Kirsch is of course streng verboten: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/archivperlen/video/fondue-in-der-...

Edit: Caucasians had been doing "ballet for little boys" years before John Woo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54

082349872349872|5 years ago

In the days before silverware was part of a table place setting, "alternation" of males and females at a meal wasn't just polite, but ensured no one was too far away from a knife.