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I love my UKPK dearly but it has bitten me too many times for comfort when I’ve forgotten it’s only a slippie, not a lock knife. Funniest was at a pal’s 60th birthday party bash when the drink was flowing and I thought it would be amusing to inhale the helium from some of the balloons hanging over the tables. To get to the gas, I needed to cut the necks off the balloons. You can guess the rest. UKPK folds back on my little finger (pinkie to you in the States) and just about cuts the top joint clean off. Luckily, two of the women at the party were trained nurses and one of them had some butterfly sutures in her bag. After I’d lost about half a pint of blood, they finally managed to get the finger bandaged up, and you can tell from the enclosed that the strong drink was having a good anaesthetic effect – the picture is my best-ever Ollie Reed impression. Good news is, after three weeks I took the bandages off and the finger had knit together fine, just a thin white scar to remind me that the UKPK has its limitations and so do I... :D

Remember kids, dont drink and cut






Haha, glad your ok. Gotta love the UKPK!

cosmo7809 wrote:Remember kids, dont drink and cut

How about don't drink and divide?

chipped wrote:How about don't drink and divide?

Well whatever it is that you're not supposed to do while drinking...
Don't do it. :D

When I was a kid I always had SAKs close on my fingers (no major damage because they were always a bit blunt!) but the UKPK has been very good, so far because of the choil. But I have managed to slice myself with it by not thinking and casually wiping the blade dry or when my thumb slipped trying to open a really tough one. :D

Call your MP at once, and No. 10. They need to lift the ban on non-locking blades, forthwith, so no other injuries happen! :mad:

Also, just exactly did these "Nurses" at the party look like? :D

In order to save the edge of my blades I often turn the knives over and use the back of the blade as a scraper. This is not an approved task for slip joints, that I kept repeating until I removed the knife from my pocket...Take care...Ed

Those nurses were, erm, hot! And I think they really were hot, not what we know in the UK as ‘nine-pinters’ (ie you’d need to drink that amount to find them fanciable). They were also, oddly enough, real nurses. Had they been strippagrams I’d have probably lost the finger, but hey, if they’ve gotta go...

Sorry to hear about your thirsty UKPK, perhaps you should order it a drink next time before it takes action.

Don't drink and knife!

Well, my cousin managed something similar with a box cutter and he is a teetotaller. Nevrtheless, I presume his blood flow could be halted earlier, since alcohol has an adverse effect on haemostasis.


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more like dont drink and slipit.

at the same time that wont help you from getting cut while drinking. havent been cut in ages (knock on VG-10).

i try to always cut away from my limbs and most of all just be safe!

i gave my drunk buddy a frn SE Ladybug and he almost literally cut his finger off one night when the knife was in his pocket open and yes the blood would not stop, even while running it under water it was pure red.