PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoRe-enactors with reconstructions of plumbata, lead-weighted darts which replaced javelins in the Late Roman Armylemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1imageRe-enactors with reconstructions of plumbata, lead-weighted darts which replaced javelins in the Late Roman Armylemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agohttps://www.scoutshop.org/cub-scout-pocket-knife-2-blade-615780.html Cob Scout knives are still a thing. Back when lawn darts came out getting a young boy his first knife was a common rite of passage. Mumblety-peg was a common game of throwing the knife into the dirt.
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days ago2 inches is all you need. I remember those would close so easily on my fingers. that’s the day I became a fixed blade man.
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoBecause you didn’t have enough fingers left to open and close the other ones?
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoStolen from Red Foxx. The police think [all ghetto residents] carry knives. [Expletive deleted] my uncle carried an ice pick for years.
minus-squareTastehWaffleZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThe reviews really sell it
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoCouldn’t close it because they lack thumbs?
https://www.scoutshop.org/cub-scout-pocket-knife-2-blade-615780.html
Cob Scout knives are still a thing. Back when lawn darts came out getting a young boy his first knife was a common rite of passage. Mumblety-peg was a common game of throwing the knife into the dirt.
2 inches is all you need. I remember those would close so easily on my fingers.
that’s the day I became a fixed blade man.
Because you didn’t have enough fingers left to open and close the other ones?
Stolen from Red Foxx.
The police think [all ghetto residents] carry knives. [Expletive deleted] my uncle carried an ice pick for years.
The reviews really sell it
Couldn’t close it because they lack thumbs?