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View Poll Results: What are fencers at your club like? | |
Friendly
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Snooty
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Funny
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They make you feel uncomfortable (it's surprisingly possible)
|    | 15 | 18.99% | 
05-03-2006, 12:18 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| What are fencers at your club like?
Just wondering. It could be the fencers you don't know or the ones you've already befriended. If none of the choices suit your opinion, state what it is  . | 
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05-03-2006, 03:33 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| Non-exsistant, mostly
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05-03-2006, 05:59 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Seattle
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| you need more options, including an "other - please explain" and a "this poll is flawed"
Because, without them... this poll is flawed.
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05-03-2006, 08:19 PM
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#4 | | Question Game Queen
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Southern Canadia
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| Even with such options, the poll would be flawed. | |
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05-03-2006, 11:27 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
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| We have all types at my club... well we did. Our snooty guy just left. *shrugs* Nature abhors a vacuum though so sure someone will step up. Of course I doubt they'll be O.K.P (our kind of people). *turns nose up* 
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05-04-2006, 12:14 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: my fencing club
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| we mostly have my psycho violent friends. and other funny types. see the sig for example of things we say. and our main theme : bother me, and you'll find my foil down your throat and my foot up your ***. etc.
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05-04-2006, 02:13 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| I voted.... all four. Because we have some of each 
We have people who won't fence unless they think the opponent is 'worth their time,' and at least a few of those people have no idea who is worth their time or understand how far from accomplished they themselves are.
We have a lot of funny people, and probably a couple who are fun-ny in the awkward hand wavy sense of the word.
We have plenty of friendly people (probably the biggest category, though funny is big too).
And there are a few people who, in one way or another, make me feel uncomfortable. Of course, since I'm one of the coaches, I tend to ignore them until it's toe stepping time | |
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05-04-2006, 02:42 AM
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| Sarcastic mostly, you gotta be able to take a joke....although when it comes down to it they're all great people. | ![KShan5[PrFC] is online now](images/fencing_net/statusicon/user_online.gif)
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05-04-2006, 11:30 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
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| Ours are among the most socially accepting people I've ever seen... as long as you don't whine or talk down to them, they love you. It's wonderful.
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05-06-2006, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by KShan5[PrFC] Sarcastic mostly, you gotta be able to take a joke....although when it comes down to it they're all great people. | This happens a lot at the place I fence at . | |
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05-07-2006, 12:13 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Santa Ana ,CA
Posts: 262
| The people in my club are friendly, kind and supportive. They will do anything for food or candy from me. Good to know.
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05-07-2006, 01:40 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: RPI (Troy, NY)
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| We had this one guy show up a few times who people complained made them feel uncomfortable. Didn't fence much. The friend that brought him was kind of creepy too. For the most part we're very friendly and funny, except for a few foilists and the two mentioned.
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05-08-2006, 12:18 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
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Originally Posted by FenceToTheT Just wondering. It could be the fencers you don't know or the ones you've already befriended. If none of the choices suit your opinion, state what it is . | all the people i had my clubs were cool apart from this one guy that was a frickin' idiot, i really hated him; he hit hard, knew it, did it on purpose and liked it. he didn't last long thank goodness..  most people i've met at tournaments were equally cool..never really met a prick or snooty fencer.. | |
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05-08-2006, 12:27 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
Posts: 6,133
| It's been my experience that there's always one jackass in every division. One guy that shows up to every tournament, treats people like crap, and complains about everything that goes wrong. When that person leaves or quits fencing it seems like someone else always steps up to fill that position. Fortunately, I'm confident my club would tell me if I ever stepped into that position.
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05-09-2006, 12:24 AM
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| They are very helpful and give insightful advice. They dont look down at you even if they are better then you. | |
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05-09-2006, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Jing2487 They are very helpful and give insightful advice. They dont look down at you even if they are better then you. | Dude, you're going to ruin my 'bad boy' image.
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05-09-2006, 10:18 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: A land where magical things can happen.
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| People at my club are funny and friendly. The club that I fence at would drive snooty fencers nuts. 
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05-09-2006, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by RITFencing Dude, you're going to ruin my 'bad boy' image. |
ok how about I tell them about the time you made Dave do those push ups just cause he said he couldnt do something.
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05-10-2006, 01:39 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Jing2487 ok how about I tell them about the time you made Dave do those push ups just cause he said he couldnt do something. | No, I made him do pushups because he wasn't listening when I told him time and again not to proanate his wrist when he attacked and yet he still did so. Sometimes words alone don't get through to people.
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05-10-2006, 08:37 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Zealand
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| Friendly, funny but exceedingly weird. Plus a couple of uber scarcastic people. Oh and then there are the morons who don't listen. We don't really have any snooty people, they belong to the other club.
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