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That’s the Sgian-dubh. If you wondered what it was called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh
by d0ugal 6y ago
That’s the Sgian-dubh. If you wondered what it was called
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh
- arethuza 6y agoTraditionally used for handling the heaters in Scottish army ration packs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU
- 082349872349872 6y agoWenger 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-schweizer-armee-1960?id=554bd582-3daa-48ed-992f-c1c658aa44b1 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54
- 082349872349872 6y agoIn 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.