If I were to get my 16-year-old cousin a swiss army knife for Christmas, is it weird or just practical to get one with a corkscrew?
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 2:55:03 pm PST #12764 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Strix - Nov 23, 2013 3:07:53 pm PST #12765 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Practical. Hopefully she'll have it for years, and anyway, if she's underage drinking wine with corks, better that than a case of shitty beer.
dcp - Nov 23, 2013 3:09:57 pm PST #12766 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Get the one with the Philip's screwdriver instead.
-t - Nov 23, 2013 3:10:20 pm PST #12767 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not weird if you get the tiny precision screwdriver bit that fits into the corkscrew, too.
ETA: actually, not weird at all, but that could cover any potential weirdness
Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 3:13:48 pm PST #12768 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, the Phillips head is a good idea. There are way too many choices, and it is too hard to sort through them! Oy vey.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2013 3:16:43 pm PST #12769 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's maybe different because we were drinking too, but I swear I've seen it in the US too--parents using their kids as bartenders? Maybe not mixing fancy drinks, but opening wine, pouring beer and champagne properly, mixing liquor+chaser--we'd be asked to do that just like we'd be asked to get guests water or anything else to drink, and sometimes when my parents were feeling lazy we'd do it for them when there's no company.
So she could use it for that! If they're stuck in the wilderness, but her mother still wants a Pinot Grigio--she'll be Girl Guide prepared.
-t - Nov 23, 2013 3:17:04 pm PST #12770 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have you already decided between Victorinox and Wenger?
Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 3:25:05 pm PST #12771 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(a) It's a boy cousin, (b) Wegner?
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2013 3:27:17 pm PST #12772 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, yes. Boy cousins. I forget people have those.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 3:27:40 pm PST #12773 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the real world, I think I'm going to walk to the fancy smoke/gift shop around the corner and see if they sell any, and then pick from those.