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Archery, football, medieval fencing (single rapier, single dagger, rapier/dagger or dagger/dagger), modern fencing (foil), SCA heavy combat (broadsword/shield, long sword or pole arms).

I eat when I feel like it. Which is a lot of the time. When I'm hungry, I'll absolutely stuff myself until I waddle. I like salty food. I only ever put on weight from combat practice. My body has a friggin' pogrom against fat or something.

Space tourism is the new fad. Get married in space.

Like I said. FFVI is better than sex. It will teach you to fear clowns.

Real men get married wearing ARMOUR. Have it at a regular enough venue, with one caveat - the groom turns up on a shield carried by four of his most trusted warriors. He will be wearing full plate armour, and his helm will have stylised wings attached. He will be carrying his best ceremonial long-sword, as a phallic symbol of his potent virility. The shield will have spotlights aimed up, to make his armour shine with an aura of extreme manliness. In the background, someone will play Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Man, that'd be so cool. I'm telling my girlfriend about this.

Well, okay, so my thing wasn't exactly getting around the system or avoiding the notice of teachers. But it's close enough. We got our teacher to play Quake with us.

Back in high school, my software design class all had Quake (the original!) on our USB drives. When there wasn't any work that needed doing, because we usually finished all of that several weeks early, we'd fire up a 16 player LAN game or two in the room. One time, our teacher joined in, too. She got pwned.

You know, this really only happens because educational systems have become absurdly child-centric in recent times. According to all the adults I've spoken to on the matter, discipline was much better when teachers could use the cane. Hell, I can attest to this, because I went to a school back in the Philippines when they still did. Children's welfare is all well and good, but when they have no respect for authority, even out of fear, there is a problem.

No, you don't. You have "gangstas". Gangsters were Al Pacino's sort. You know, with expensive suits and undeniable style. I declare this thread to be sub-par.

Because god forbid that you should be able to use all the abilities you have a right to use just because some kid wants to whinge about it being "unfair". Why don't you pay someone to stand guard?

Oh, come on, it's just another one of those threads Defender2516 posts every now and then to sound profound or somehow tough. And yeah, you can start saying what you do when you actually see someone getting shot in front of you. You can't say you're desensitised to actual violence when all the examples you give are media-based. I know I would have compunctions against putting a bullet in someone's head, even though I do it all the time in video games.

Doesn't count as having sex in 8th grade. Well that's a stupid conclusion. Nowhere did he say that that was the sexual experience he was referring to. I mean I could say that I had sex last week, and on Thursday I watched an adult movie with my girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that that was the sex I was talking about.

Because god forbid that you should defend a woman because that would be violating her rights. Oh, no. If someone touched my girlfriend in an indecent manner, I'd just stand around and let it happen, because stepping in and intervening would be sexism. Granted, that's not a fair comparison, because my girlfriend would probably kick seven types of crap out of whoever it was before feasting on their still-beating heart.

1. How would your group acted diffrently? Depends on the day. If it was a Monday, at least two of us will be carrying wooden swords for combat practice later, and someone will be carrying an actual rapier for light combat. Nobody in their right mind threatens a group with two clubs and a sword. Any other day, and one of my friends will be carrying his combat knife around. We're not all very big people, but we know enough of how to kill someone with our bare hands. We're not very violent, actually, but I can see us getting carried away, what with adrenaline and all. If I was just with my girlfriend, no biggie. She doesn't have anything against hitting below the belt, and she does some whackjob Shaolin thing in her spare time... 2. What would you have done? I'd do my best to draw the scene somewhere with at least two security cameras, and make sure other people can see what's about to happen. I might take a couple of punches before running if I'm on my own. If I'm with my group, like I said, things might turn out differently. 3. What would you have done afterwards? Call the police and make sure that they examine the security videos.

I read about this a while ago on SpaceBattles. Have a look at the thread to see some discussion about it. There may be some coarse language in the thread, given that it's a more adult-oriented board. In my own opinion, however, there's also a serious case of child abuse here. Not necessarily by an adult, but these kids subjected that entire classroom to a scene which could potentially cause some psychological scarring. I disagree with pressing criminal charges, though. Let the school, their peers, their parents, and their peers' parents give them the hell they deserve.

Oh... noes. So if he did file charges for assault, he'll be known as the guy who spent money filing a case over a schoolyard fight where nobody was seriously injured. Assuming, of course, that nobody was seriously injured. I do not approve of this thread. It contains no awesome, nor win.

There's also a remake of FFVI, I believe. Get that. It's better than sex.

I'd give it 8/10. I have one crappy lecturer and I don't like my job. However, the rest of uni is a blast, and the market research job I have is easy, with convenient hours and good pay. I have a wonderful girlfriend and no really huge issues except that electoral enrollment form I really should get around to filling out.

Yes, because, you know, you can't just post on the other thread which is discussing the exact same thing.

Australian. Ethnicity? Filipino. Chinese grandmother on my mother's side. Some Portuguese and Spanish from my father's side. Royal blood from my paternal grandfather.

Uh huh. Tell me, how will you persuade the army to consciously fire on their family and friends, or those of people they know or may be connected to in some way? Joe Marine may be really good at killing people and blowing things up, but he knows that those poor folks he's aiming his SAW at are Americans just like him. They're not fighting to keep their slaves or huge cotton plantations. They just want a change. And when so many people want that same change and Johnny Marine himself thinks that the government's crook... Well, he has a chat with Joe Marine back at barracks, and finds out that they both think the government's in the wrong. Soon enough, the armed forces won't give a damn if they're getting their pay docked for desertion, because it's their damn families the government's going to be asking them to shoot. That's why you don't throw the armed forces at a popular revolution in a society that isn't grossly stratified.

So is watching someone eat glass, what's your point?

By definition, criminals don't necessarily follow the law.

Don't get me wrong - I don't really like the idea of letting people carry guns even for self-defence, but there is also the other extreme of not allowing people to carry anything to defend themselves with at all, like here in Australia. I believe that here, defending yourself against a robber can land you with assault charges as easily as the aggressor.

I don't know about you guys, but to me, that thing looks about as stable as Kim Jong Il on an acid trip.