Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
It's really hard to write the letter Z on a guy's chest with a broad sword, Inquisitor.
What sport fencers fence with is super light and bendy compared to rapiers Sarks, not even other swords. :P
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I lucked out in that working 2nd shift in the server room means I get to wear jeans and any shirt that isn't like an Iron Maiden shirt or something.
But most of the rest of the office does the polo thing.
Maybe the loan officers and whatnot dress nicer since they deal more directly with customers and their money.
We wear jeans on friday, but honestly after working fast food for 3 and half years and wearing jeans I like the idea of having "dress down" clothes.
When I worked for Waldenbooks, the dress code for booksellers was business casual. When I transferred to Borders, the dress code was "No political messages and no holes". I was constantly mistaken for a manager then. When I went to Half-Price Books, the dress code was "No pro-drug t-shirts". I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
It's really hard to write the letter Z on a guy's chest with a broad sword, Inquisitor.
maybe for a bitch
You end up hacking the guy's head and legs off and cutting his chest in half like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
FWW why do you know so much about persian stuff anyway
You live in SoCal don't you
Naw, Bay Area. A few of my homies are persian though. I lived with a persian girl for two years in college too. She's hells of (as you'd say) sefeed but her dad was oh my god scary traditional persian man who more or less promised to fucked my shit up if I touched his daughter.
But anyway, lots of persians in SF. They're fun to party with.
I lucked out in that working 2nd shift in the server room means I get to wear jeans and any shirt that isn't like an Iron Maiden shirt or something.
But most of the rest of the office does the polo thing.
Maybe the loan officers and whatnot dress nicer since they deal more directly with customers and their money.
We wear jeans on friday, but honestly after working fast food for 3 and half years and wearing jeans I like the idea of having "dress down" clothes.
When I worked for Waldenbooks, the dress code for booksellers was business casual. When I transferred to Borders, the dress code was "No political messages and no holes". I was constantly mistaken for a manager then. When I went to Half-Price Books, the dress code was "No pro-drug t-shirts". I stood out like a sore thumb.
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
It's really hard to write the letter Z on a guy's chest with a broad sword, Inquisitor.
maybe for a bitch
You end up hacking the guy's head and legs off and cutting his chest in half like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Especially if you like your sandwiches with the crust off.
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But like the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
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I lucked out in that working 2nd shift in the server room means I get to wear jeans and any shirt that isn't like an Iron Maiden shirt or something.
But most of the rest of the office does the polo thing.
Maybe the loan officers and whatnot dress nicer since they deal more directly with customers and their money.
We wear jeans on friday, but honestly after working fast food for 3 and half years and wearing jeans I like the idea of having "dress down" clothes.
When I worked for Waldenbooks, the dress code for booksellers was business casual. When I transferred to Borders, the dress code was "No political messages and no holes". I was constantly mistaken for a manager then. When I went to Half-Price Books, the dress code was "No pro-drug t-shirts". I stood out like a sore thumb.
Man. Walden Books is where I discovered D&D.
♪ Meeeeemoriiiiieees ♪
Waldenbooks was an interesting place to work. Had some fun co-workers there.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But liek the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
I dunno I prefer fights where one guy takes on lots of dudes. Like Tony Jaa and his bukkake of violence.
Those are always fun to watch. Especially if it's Jackie Chan as a drunken master.
Chan's all right, but he doesn't deliver hits like Jaa, or Li. I prefer to see something that makes me wince, and Jaa is the fucking master of making you wince. Especially the bone breaking scene from the protector.
Oh and I took a few classes in farsi at UCSC to try to impress a girl once, but that was short lived.
man I hope it wasn't a persian girl
especially not a california persian girl
You will never live up to her standards, my friend, no matter what you do
She'll make you drive her daddy's BMW because your car is a piece of crap and text her friends while you're on a date and fast food isn't even good enough for her!
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But liek the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
Who is Other Mike?
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But liek the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
Ok but if you're talking about the kind of fencing in the vid you posted why are we talking about olympic fencing?
Stop trying to confuse me, Inq!
Yeah rapiers are totes stabbity stab stab weaons although if you do it right you can sever some realy importat things like tendons.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
Oh and I took a few classes in farsi at UCSC to try to impress a girl once, but that was short lived.
man I hope it wasn't a persian girl
especially not a california persian girl
You will never live up to her standards, my friend, no matter what you do
She'll make you drive her daddy's BMW because your car is a piece of crap and text her friends while you're on a date and fast food isn't even good enough for her!
"What do you mean you don't consider In-n-Out a delicacy? I even sprung for the animal style fries! Ahhhh, why you busting my chops here?"
He became Italian at the very end for some reason.
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Oooh... waiting for backup to finish to I can leave work... giant fuck thunderstorms rolling in... it's a race against tiiiiime!
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But liek the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
Who is Other Mike?
Dude who works at PA. Was featured in one of the episodes doing his fencing stuff and then posted in the thread about the episode with more info when it becamse apparent there was much interest.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
Watching that fencing clip Winky posted. Man, sport fencing is weird. Like, it's kind of interesting from one perspective, but how utterly divorced it is from actual sword fighting makes it hard for me to be that interested in it.
It's like, some strange contest to see who can touch the guy with the whippy piece of metal first.
Uh, that's kind of what sword fighting is? The first person to seriously wound the other person generally wins and putting 6 inches of steel into someone's chest usually qualifies.
The weapon they use in sport fencing is way too light and flexible to actually be a sword that you would cut and stab with, and they way they whip it at each other is something you can't do with an actual sword. They aren't striking what would really be blows in an actual fight, so much as just touching each other, if that makes sense.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But liek the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
Ok but if you're talking about the kind of fencing in the vid you posted why are we talking about olympic fencing?
Stop trying to confuse me, Inq!
Yeah rapiers are totes stabbity stab stab weaons although if you do it right you can sever some realy importat things like tendons.
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What sport fencers fence with is super light and bendy compared to rapiers Sarks, not even other swords. :P
When I worked for Waldenbooks, the dress code for booksellers was business casual. When I transferred to Borders, the dress code was "No political messages and no holes". I was constantly mistaken for a manager then. When I went to Half-Price Books, the dress code was "No pro-drug t-shirts". I stood out like a sore thumb.
You end up hacking the guy's head and legs off and cutting his chest in half like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Naw, Bay Area. A few of my homies are persian though. I lived with a persian girl for two years in college too. She's hells of (as you'd say) sefeed but her dad was oh my god scary traditional persian man who more or less promised to fucked my shit up if I touched his daughter.
But anyway, lots of persians in SF. They're fun to party with.
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Ah, no worries. You had been asking about interest in a MM game and I was gonna express interest.
Man. Walden Books is where I discovered D&D.
♪ Meeeeemoriiiiieees ♪
Especially if you like your sandwiches with the crust off.
Those are always fun to watch. Especially if it's Jackie Chan as a drunken master.
If you're talking like olympic fencing with foils then yeah. But like the stuff Other Mike posted they're using actual rapiers and if they weren't dulled and whatnot they'd damn sure be able to cut you up baaadly.
hehehehehe
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Waldenbooks was an interesting place to work. Had some fun co-workers there.
What you laughin' at!
So hello, [chat].
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night [chat].
Of course I'm talking olympic fencing ya silly git, that's the video Winky linked. The video from Other Mike is the one I linked, because that's the kind of fencing I am doing. And eh, rapiers still ain't great at cutting, though they could, but the cuts are more to distract/harass than kill, rapiers are fer stabbing.
Them: "What is this!" Pointing at my tack-board.
Me: "Umm, southern bot, western blot, embryo stages..."
Them: "You are abnormal! Your desk looks like the desk of a jerk! Put up some personal pictures!"
I have toys on my windowsill. Thats personal. Kinda.
Chan's all right, but he doesn't deliver hits like Jaa, or Li. I prefer to see something that makes me wince, and Jaa is the fucking master of making you wince. Especially the bone breaking scene from the protector.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D0E8AP3uqs
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man I hope it wasn't a persian girl
especially not a california persian girl
You will never live up to her standards, my friend, no matter what you do
NNID: Hakkekage
Stop being such a jerk and take pictures of some random kids.
What if I be Persian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06wDn3XsZE&feature=related
Not some elephant crap :P
That is just two hours of people doing stuff for about 10-40 seconds
then suddenly interrupted
as Tony Jaa runs in from off-camera
and does a flying knee to their head.
Like: "Guy gets off a bus, checks his watch, sighs, FLYING KNEE TO THE HEAD!"
She'll make you drive her daddy's BMW because your car is a piece of crap and text her friends while you're on a date and fast food isn't even good enough for her!
your mustache will never be silky enough
Fuck em. It's your personal work space.
look she knows how to tell a man from an upstate new yorker don't hate
Who is Other Mike?
Can Winks grow a mustache?
Ok but if you're talking about the kind of fencing in the vid you posted why are we talking about olympic fencing?
Stop trying to confuse me, Inq!
Yeah rapiers are totes stabbity stab stab weaons although if you do it right you can sever some realy importat things like tendons.
God tell me about it. That shit was insurmountable.
It did make my following relationship seem like ez-mode though!
"What do you mean you don't consider In-n-Out a delicacy? I even sprung for the animal style fries! Ahhhh, why you busting my chops here?"
He became Italian at the very end for some reason.
Dude who works at PA. Was featured in one of the episodes doing his fencing stuff and then posted in the thread about the episode with more info when it becamse apparent there was much interest.
I'm going to invite you into my home and then set the animal hide door on fire.
Elf: I was talking about olympic fencing originally! :P
That would be pretty amusing actually.
I could just steal some of the placeholder pictures out from the inside of some picture frames and tack those up.
Make up elaborate family histories for all of them.