[Closed] Re 127 hours (knife content)

I've never carried a knife on rides. Am I missing out?

You're doomed

So do you carry a knife in case your arm gets trapped by a boulder when riding?

I've never carried a knife on rides. Am I missing out?

I carry a knife thing when riding just I case I come across a horse that needs a stone removing from its hoof

Alson was climbing though when he got trapped.

just use a gear cable as a cheese wire 😀

I carry a samurai sword in case I meet any Zombies.

To be honest I think the story is a bit far fetched, if he'd been carrying a bottle jack......

I always have a pocket full of ninja stars

I always have a pocket full of ninja stars

I just bin my old jockey wheels, don't see the need to carry them.

To throw, man, to throw. Particularly at slow MXers.

i carry a knife on rides in case we get lost, then i can eat my mate

Lol

lol @ roundwheels...... will he taste of chicken then... 😉

roundwheels, the knife is supposed to be for self mutilation only. Eating your mate is definately frowned on, even in a survival situation

pork 😛

pork

I can't imagine he would appreciate that either

Thats commitment to your profession though, isn't it.

I mean, method acting is one thing, but asking an actor to cut his arm off as part of the filming, well, its a bit extreme isn't it - I mean, what if they'd had to do a second take or something? 😯

he's got a spare, what's the problem?

No arm done.

OK, so my take on it. Even if he'd been rescued he'd have lost his arm. Therefore the hacking should have been done on the first day*

*in theory

You're missing the point idave, if he didn't have a knife no form of hacking could be carried out

why couldnt it have pissed it down in reality ans flooded that area and that boulder would have dislodged his arm (like he had dreamt it previously.... 😉 life's neva that easy tho is it 😉

Usually a bahco laplander in my camelbak... Way faster than your feeble pen-knives, though I reckon bone is probably more like hardwood than soft so it'll probably make a pretty unprofessional cut.

When the knife goes in.. i started to feel ill. The thought of him cutting it off makes me awful.

To the point where i had to turn it off and lay down before i passed out.

Anyone else get hit hard when they watch anything with gore?

no penkife could cut through bone...he had to break his no?

or saw it?

To be honest, I found that part of the film difficult to masturbate to.

😀

Anyway what's the best knife for forcing girls into the back of your van?

Something with a big blade to catch the light as you display it.....nice polished up Kukri would get you admiring looks....

Are you a violent fantasist too now Cynic-al? 😀

...Anyway I find a hand axe works better! 😈

(But not a Gransfors, wood absorbs too much blood DNA, you want the Fiskars one with the plastic handle, easier to wipe clean)

Hand axe for recreational van abduction??!!! Are you [i]mad???[/i] 😡

Hatchets and such like have their place, but [i]only[/i] in combination with a dustbin lid in cases of zombie outbreak.
*walks off shaking head in exasperation*

Anyone else get hit hard when they watch anything with gore?

I was fine until he had to cut the nerve. That was a proper full body cringe.

I like to carry a dremel with a selection blades. If you didn't use up all the battery one trying to grind away at the boulder, it would cut though your arm in a jiffy.

no penkife could cut through bone...he had to break his no?

Yup he had to break the radius and ulna. Good luck cutting bone with a blunt knife.

Good film though. Had to watch the end on +1 after work..

Can I mention if he'd been a real man and carried a DE razor, he'd have had that sorted cleanly in a jiffy.

I used to carry a Leatherman Juice until I snapped it trying to adjust my eccentric BB last ride 🙁

Cheers, Rich

If you had an eccentric BB and a leatherman, why didn't you rig the expander wedge bolts into a crude lifting device instead of sawing your arm off. Are you stupid or am i confused.

😆 @ lsd! oh hang on thats something ive done before 😉

From what I saw of the film last night, its as mind numbingly boring as the book. Took me over a year of picking it up and putting it down 5 minutes later to stagger through that...

DBW, I'm with you on that - the book turns what should have been a totally compelling tale into one long self-justification for not letting anyone know where he was going, by endlessly telling us in flashback what a fantastically accomplished outdoorsman he is.

I've still not bothered to get past 2/3 of the way through even though I know the "juicy" bit is yet to come.

Ho hum. I gather the film is very good though - I guess Danny Boyle will have worked his magic on the screenplay and made it hang together well.

I actually really liked the book but found the film a bit dull.

Didn't get the impression his past adventures were in anyway trying to justify not informing anyone.

Fair dos, ebg - I really wanted to like the book, I usually speed through the outdoor epics, Into Thin Air and the like, but just really couldn't get on with the writing style on this one. May have to adopt DBW's tactics and give it another go!

Watched Birdsong instead - probably an error as I enjoyed the book.