LOL - very nice, FP.

Of course, I guess we could just skip the phallic symbols and post pictures of phalli directly... Hmm, mebbe not.

I'm sure I recall a line in Pattern Recognition, or possibly All Tomorrow's Parties, that seems to echo Gromit's sentiments... My copy of the former is at work, so I can't find it right now.

GAAAAH! I broke a blender! *cries*

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Originally posted by si~:
You have altogether too much access to this kinda stuff Blueshift...

Yes.

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you obviously work in the Technological Warfare Unit at Aardman Industries.

Unfortunately, no.

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Originally posted by Gromit:
I'm probably the one in need of re-programming, but there's an interesting divergence of world views happening here.

I don't think anyone is particularly in need of re-programming. I don't think we need one approved set of world views for everyone on the board or in the world, and I'm sure you'd agree. If not, then commence re-programming.

I assure you that while a knife is potentially a nasty thing, all the most harmful, nasty things I've done in my life had nothing at all to do with weapons of any kind. I posted a picture with five knives and a sharpener in it.

Three of the knives are household tools or mementos, one of them is designed equally as a weapon and a non-weapon tool, and the other is designed primarily as a weapon. But none of them have ever been used as a weapon. I don't rush out to get into fights anymore; I'm not that kind of idiot. And in case of a fight, the knife is at the bottom of the list of tools or tactics I would employ. They don't get brandished, they don't get pointed at anyone, they don't provide me with sexual pleasure. Well, except for that one time-- no, wait, never mind.

You're quite right that it's a world view difference, but I don't think it's the one you imagine. I don't carry a knife because I expect to get into a fight or believe someone is after me. It's a cultural tradition, and no, not an American one. Very few Americans carry knives, as far as I know. At any rate, very few who live in even smallish to moderate-sized cities on up. They're not guns, after all.

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I think any further discussion should go on a new thread, though.

Wha, so we can talk past each other and make wild assumptions about each other with very little information to go on? I thought that's what the News board was for these days.

As for the kablooey-kerpow-kaboom guys, they're on their own.

Edit: and re the push dagger, may I say "ewww?" Push daggers are ugly things. Any knife can accidentally go to lethal very quickly, but a push dagger's design essentially rules out nearly all of the less-lethal uses of a knife right from the get-go. It also doesn't provide you with much range, since it's more difficult to use against the opponent's extremities than a regular knife. Meh.

Good grief, the stories in here are far too entertaining! So I'll bring it down a notch...

I installed 10.4.3 30 minutes ago and it hasn't even eaten my system yet! BTW, just Say No if it's not the Combo! Er, or some catchy phrase of your choice such that you don't try to use the Delta updaters of Woe...

Down enough for everyone yet?

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The knife is a push dagger (similar to the one applied to Charlie Sheen's face in Full Metal Jacket.)

I don't recall the stabbing but Sheen wasn't in FMJ. Platoon, perhaps? Or someone other than Sheen?

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Show me the way, wise Gromit, as you obviously know how I should be living.

Aaack! Sarcasm! *claws at eyes*

Hey, just because the thread's moved on doesn't mean I have to.

On the weapons topic, today I bought some
furniture for this:


Don't get too excited. It's just a gunto.

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Some furniture? That thing needs a freakin' sofa.

Menuki

Tsuba

Fuchi-Kashira set

I have no sofa. Now that I have a girlfriend, I
should get one.

Also today:

Too. Much. Candy.

Ugh.

Apparently there's some kind of horse race happening today.

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:
On the weapons topic, today I bought some
furniture for this:

Ooh, that is a pretty thing.
---
If it's any consolation, my kendo teacher used to lecture me on the humanity of slicing clean through the brain and heart with a single stroke of the katana - as opposed to being crudely hacked by those barbaric, European broadswords, to be left maimed and bleeding on the battlefield where it might take you all day to die.

Mmm, when's that race on?

For Gromit, no, Steve ain't a weapon, unless you're a piece of garlic or a tomato. This isn't Steve, but one of his brothers:



Yes, I carried knives as a kid, but only when out in the bush or camping. I never thought of them as weapons. (Actually wrecked Dad's butcher's knife hacking turf to build a bunker, which our cows promptly slept on and crushed, because said turf that covered it was so soft and comfy.) Actually, did a lot of things as a kid that would probably get my parents reported to DOCS.

Spent last night at a Halloween party. Didn't dress up, cause I'm a scary motherfucker as is, even without a concealed edged weapon. Used my camera to get a phone number and an invite to another shindig in a fortnight. Life is good, and she was pretty cute for a South African...mmm, white Jackie Howe...

Today - film script. Ugh. At least I don't have to walk to Uni to hand it in.

And then, uni's over for the year! Time to kick back, find employment, preferably non-hospitality employment, get my licence, maybe hit Dubai, or at the very least, find a nice cafe and write.

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Originally posted by theEtruscan:
Ooh, that is a pretty thing.

From afar. Up close, you can tell it's a machine
made sword from the war. The hamon that you can
sort of see is fake. It's a product of the
polish job. Still, it's a decent enough blade
for what I'll be using it for.

Still, shopping for the furniture was almost
enough to turn me into a collector. If I only
had the money...

My brother sent me this pic after he had a tournament in Slovenia.

Oooh! lithos has a DATE!!!

No, just a number. I don't do dates.

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:
Still, it's a decent enough blade
for what I'll be using it for.

? (link)

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Originally posted by lithos:
No, just a number. I don't do dates.

DATE! DATE! DATE! DATE!

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Originally posted by theEtruscan:

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:
Still, it's a decent enough blade
for what I'll be using it for.

?

Iaijutsu.

And as an extension of that, trying not to cut
myself.