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> I’m not so sure about my future five-year-old returning home to tell me he’d been working on his stick whittling and knife skills at his London nursery I've
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> I’m not so sure about my future five-year-old returning home to tell me he’d been working on his stick whittling and knife skills at his London nursery
I've heard that kids in sweden are required to have a knife on school trips. How else are you going to get your sausage onto the stick to cook it over the fire?
- defrost 2y agoStory from my state (2013) An 11-year-old boy has died and his sister has been injured after a car he was driving crashed in Western Australia's Great Southern. The boy was driving the car on a farming property near Frankland River, 400 kilometres south-east of Perth yesterday morning. He and his nine-year-old sister were travelling down their driveway to meet a school bus when the car overturned and hit a tree. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-24/young-boy-killed-while-driving-car-after-it-overturned/4839854 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-24/young-boy-killed-whil... In junior high school if we missed the school bus or didn't feel like taking it we'd often ride a 150 cc dirt bike off road for ~40 km (25 mile) instead (late 1970s). Oh, and marine butterfly knives were a prized carry - with plastic handles and trapped air tubes for one handed use and buoyancy when fishing.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> marine butterfly knives You all do share a time zone with the balisong capital of the world, after all. I imagine a butterfly knife would also be incredibly low-maintenance compared to a keris; I always kind of imagined that one day you might forget to treat the latter in the manner to which it has become accustomed, and find yourself running amuk...