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220 sats \ 14 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun \ on: What’s your hidden talent? meta

I sharpen knives. Not sure if it's hidden, because I talk about it, and ask friends and family for their dull knives to sharpen all the time. But it's something I really enjoy doing as a pastime.

115 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Jun

That would be a handy skill to have when my daughter's old enough to be attracting gentlemen callers who need to be subtly intimidated.

88 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

Great idea. My daughter is turning 13 this year and I can probably begin using this tactic soon.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Jun

In America, the normal move is to be cleaning your shotgun on the front-porch swing, when the young man arrives.

Casually sharpening a whole table full of knives, should work just as well, though.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 27 Jun

In Canada, our supreme leader makes life difficult to own guns. So I guess sharpening a table of knives at the front porch would do.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Jun

Knives don’t kill people unlike guns. People never kill anyone.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Jun

I really need to proof read before I post. It drives me crazy catching typos after the 10 minute window expires.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 27 Jun

Good idea.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 27 Jun

My wife went to culinary school many moons ago. She has super knife skills. I just try to not cut my fingers off.

Do you also have super knife skills to compliment your sharpening skills?

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

No, I don't have any knife skills. My wife does all the cooking at home and I just make sure her knives are always sharp.

I actually started with sharpening my carpentry tools (namely chisels and hand planer blades), but eventually moved onto kitchen knives too.

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 27 Jun

Interesting. They're hardly seen here in Portugal anymore, but there used to be a lot of street knife sharpeners.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

I don't think we have people like that here in western Canada. I think we could use talents like them though, because I've ran into so many dull and chipped knives in terrible shape. Very sad and disrespectful to the knives.

37 sats \ 2 replies \ @Carresan 27 Jun

Same sort of image in Spain too. Years ago, you could hear the noise of their music when getting closer to your house, so that you could come out and sharpen your knives and scissors.

There was a popular saying that you would be lucky if you put a handkerchief over your head when you heard the knife sharpener getting close to you. 🤣🤣

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 27 Jun

I think the only vendors here that play loud music while driving around are ice cream trucks.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan 27 Jun

Hahaha, not getting the ice cream trucks in this part of the world. These days, very occasionally, you can hear them in small villages/towns. Most of the times they drive a car instead of a motorbike as in the old times. Also using speakers instead of the instrument.