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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1760185" data-attributes="member: 5171">I agree.  Cooked pasta, bean bag chairs, fuzzy dice... none of these are going to take down a thoroughly enraged attacker, no matter how well you've trained.  Well, not faster than your bare hand, anyway.  Which you'd be using to, you know, make the fuzzy dice do any kind of damage.I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that kung fu movies killed your father.  That must explain your deep-seated need to turn them into the bad guy in this discussion.  I mourn your father's loss, and I hope you are able to avenge yourself on the genre that killed him.You are totally correct!  You don't know what kind of training I do.  Good argument.Sorry, WMA?  Are these the folks who whack each other with rattan?  I know that having to answer this is going to cause you to huff mightily and declare that you can't have an intelligent conversation with somebody who doesn't know what WMA stands for.  I tried random URL testing, but I'm guessing that you haven't gotten all huffy about your spathology (note the spelling) from the William Morris Agency.And then, your insights.  A long weapon is, generally speaking, better to have than a short weapon.  Great Hera!  My school never taught me this!  We just prance around doing katas all day and meditating on tulips!  I've run into Real Ultimate Power!  My whole life is a lie!Unless they're at dinner, and the sword and shield guy left his stuff in the other room.  Or an airport.  I just know that I could get a soup tureen through security, but you and your katana are gonna be taken into the room with the bright lights.  Or unless the surprise factor weighs in more than you think.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Or possibly you've turned a hypothetical double-sword (not the one that started this thread), which is probably closer in design to a double-spear with longer spear points and a slightly shorter haft, into a soup tureen by some sort of "I am really big in the WMA and therefore I can state this as objective fact" process, and then spelled "tureen" wrong, in order to make your point.I know.  You can't really talk to me at all.   My refusal to acknowledge your obvious superiority of knowledge in this area just makes any kind of meaningful conversation impossible.  Man, if you'd been just a bit less abrasive, I'd have been in complete agreement with you on about 90% of this.   Heck, if you actually read my posts, I am in complete agreement with about 90% of you on this.  But you're making grand sweeping statements, and you've overextended yourself, and you've lost me.  And also, you catch more flies with honey than by telling the flies that they're all stupid and candidates for the Darwin award. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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