Nerbly, I'm surprised the frills on your cravat allow you even to see your knife, never mind the lacy trailers on your cuffs allowing a smooth draw. Maybe you can convince your assailant to take a whiff of your delicious nosegay while you make a hasty retreat!

What happened to that dog?

Ty, if you were a Viz fan you'd know that being a gentleman is no barrier to being a thug.

Raffles, Gentleman thug

Raffles, whilst assaulting the ambassador to Moldavia wrote:Have you had enough? Have you had enough you fucking Moldavian bastard, your Excellency?

I fuckin' love VIZ, me.

Ty Webb wrote:Nerbly, I'm surprised the frills on your cravat allow you even to see your knife, never mind the lacy trailers on your cuffs allowing a smooth draw. Maybe you can convince your assailant to take a whiff of your delicious nosegay while you make a hasty retreat!

That young lad's apparel looks nothing like mine. I'd never be as gauche as to wear white stockings for a bout of romping in the dirt and mud.

greg wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

Earwicker wrote:Get a rape alarm Bear - it sounds like it'd be more useful to you.

hahaha yeah just get a rape whistle, someone will think you are a chick and come to help

Man those things are annoying! There is no way you can concentrate with that shit going off.

Greg Norman, you are an incredibly funny man.

simmo wrote:
Coincidentally, here in sunny England, where we all hold hands and dance in the fields

Especially during soccer matches

NerblyBear wrote:If the consensus seems to be that it's a bad idea to carry a knife, then I'll submit to it. I've heard good arguments. Honestly, I've just started thinking about this issue, because it is a serious one, and I'm open to refutation.

But answer me this:

Why does anyone carry either a gun or a knife for self-protection if it's supposedly so self-evidently a bad idea? I mean, if that were the case, then why do so many people choose that route? It's obvious why criminals carry weapons, but what about the rest of us?

If it's so obviously a ludicrous idea, then why do so many people buy it? Are they all just fools?

Simple: You can carry a knife if you know how to use a knife and are willing to use a knife.

You cannot think of carrying a knife as a defensive measure. The knife is a weapon, an extension of tooth and claw, and has no utility for you apart from its ability to injure and kill. If, in your hands, it has no ability to injure or kill, it has no utility.

If you draw a knife in response to a mugging you have intentionally escalated the situation, and you are now in a fight - a lethal fight, because you have drawn blade. To enter a fight is failure in and of itself, because you have failed to avoid violence; to intentionally escalate a fight to levels at which you are incapable of participating is idiocy.

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Defense comes from bearing. I had two roommates; one was small and bookworm-looking, and carried himself as though he was in constant fear; he was mugged. My other roommate (and bassist) walked with a certain air of confidence, chest held high; nobody tried to mug him. I've wandered through some seedy-ass parts of Chicago alone at inappropriate hours and had no problems, because I walk like I know where I'm going and what I'm doing, and interference would be both unnecessary and more trouble than it's worth. Nobody fucks with my sensei even though he's about 65, simply because he does not look like anyone you should cross for any reason.

If you're mugged, hand over your cash. Money is not worth getting killed over, and money is not worth killing someone over.

The only precaution I take is, if I'm going to be on foot late at night, I put my cards-of-significance in another pocket, so that if I am mugged I can just hand over my wallet with no worries.

NerblyBear wrote:

Ty Webb wrote:Nerbly, I'm surprised the frills on your cravat allow you even to see your knife, never mind the lacy trailers on your cuffs allowing a smooth draw. Maybe you can convince your assailant to take a whiff of your delicious nosegay while you make a hasty retreat!

That young lad's apparel looks nothing like mine. I'd never be as gauche as to wear white stockings for a bout of romping in the dirt and mud.

Dude, you sound like Malvolio.

What the fuck is going on around here. I go away for a few months then all I hear is people trying to out macho each other. Loads of Clocker Bob 9/11 bullshit and arguing. This place is no fun anymore.

For what it's worth, I've had a gun pressed behind my left ear and robbed in South East London. I wasn't Macho. I nearly shat myself. Gave him my phone, wallet and keys. Afterwards I was saying "yeah, I should have done this and this". I just like my life and not being shot in the head. Too many things still left to do. ( and yes it was a real gun and loaded)
All this "who's got the biggest dick bullshit" is just plain silly. When you are in a situation like that, you either do or you don't. I've had major kickings in the past and i've also turned them round so i'm giving them the kicking. I grew up fighting my whole life in Bradford at school and afterwards. I've seen a guy get his head nearly blown off with a sawn off in front of me in a pub and that was just fucking stupid. The same story. a few dollars or quid owing to a dealer or fucking someone's girlfriend.

The world's a bad place. Or should I say people are making it a bad place. Too many guns, knives, religion and other bullshit.

There's also too much mouth at the moment. Everyone is a tough guy. As soon as you front them, they back off.

Bring back national service as my Grandad always says. Sorts the wheat from the chaff as we used to say in Yorkshire!