Using Fencing in Everyday Life

[Black Jeebus]

Yes there is. The distance parry. Beating a hasty retreat is one's only chance.

As long as they don't have a car...

[JasminaJ]

This woman is a born saberist. But she has a lousy defense. OOOps! I slipped and stabbed him! We are definitely the more quietly deadly of the species.
Domestic violence is wrong no matter who does it. But it is widespread worldwide. I'm a happy single saberist.

[Go? Fencing?]

i just realized my foil hand stays as if it was around a pistol grip when its relaxed. my left hand just sits normally...thats not good...

Yeah! You need to start fencing with your left hand too, so it'll stay like it's around a grip!

[mrbiggs]

Philistine, that's interesting statistics. Although it seems to be for the US only, I was referring to the entire world. (I had the so-called "kitchen accidents" and the like in mind.)

Still, I may have exaggerated when I wrote 99%.

I can't back this up, but I've heard that women and men have similar amounts of violence committed against the other, but men are often ashamed to talk about it.

I'd make a joke about this article, but I'm guessing that comitting manslaughter in China is not going to be fun for this woman...

[Capt. Slo-mo]

and yet, the alleged state-sponored "woman slaughter" doesn't seem to be that much of a problem for China.

[AndrastVitesse]

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male".

I have a shirt that says that

[Aqua_volans]

I have a shirt that says that

black widow

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

I wonder how much of a cowardly yellowbellied jellyfish the husband was too put up with this, too. (wait, i looked, its 3 **** years! what a wimp!) why didn't he fight back, or something? he could have taken her out real easy with a frying pan! geez...some people are such spineless lumps of goo. its pathetic.

Sooo... if it would have been a case of a man killing his wife and I would have craked jokes about "cowardly yellowbellied jellyfish the wife was" + "some women are such spineless lumps of goo. its pathetic"
- then that would have been OK with you?

To quote Inq from memory:
There is a double standard in double standards. If they favor women they are fine, if they favor men they are bad.


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[RITFencing]

I'm a bit surprised no one has said this one yet:

"The attack is no. Remise of the attack arrives."

[ThatReallyHurt]

I guess it's the same in fencing as it is in driving... having right-of-way doesn't mean beans if you're dead.

[fencingfrog]

Quote:
Originally Posted by fencingfrog

I wonder how much of a cowardly yellowbellied jellyfish the husband was too put up with this, too. (wait, i looked, its 3 **** years! what a wimp!) why didn't he fight back, or something? he could have taken her out real easy with a frying pan! geez...some people are such spineless lumps of goo. its pathetic.


Sooo... if it would have been a case of a man killing his wife and I would have craked jokes about "cowardly yellowbellied jellyfish the wife was" + "some women are such spineless lumps of goo. its pathetic"
- then that would have been OK with you?

i said people. not women. i was talking about the husband.

and about him,l i meant more of self - defense, but admit it, she was really asking for it.
i mean, come on! usually a little bit of retaliation is expected (i hope) so he would be a little bit justified.

oh yeah. and yeah, i think it would have been ok with me

[jBirch]

You and I both know there's no such thing as a parry that's effective against an angry woman...

That's because you're not married...

You can certainly parry angry wife with dinner and a riposte of massage often concedes the point. Sometimes you can parry with housework and riposte with kiss on the cheek. Other times you can parry with indifference and riposte with guilt trip. A nice counter-attack of "you spend too much money" can work if you can establish right-of-way (ie// you hold the high ground). You have to beat her attack first though and you have to watch out for any counter-parry ripostes.

You can also often counter angry woman with angry man. Sometimes though, this results in broken dishes and time called for medical evaluation. Has to be the right woman and kept within the rules of engagement or this will result in a red card for jostling or a black card for excessive brutality.

Distance parries often result in a remise of nagging, so they're not that advisable. Doubling out just ends in divorce, so that's not good either.

Of course, black card for cheating and ejection from the venue. No parries for those, but they're not so much parrying angry woman as breaking the ground rules. Red card for flirting with hot neighbour. Again, no parry for that angry woman - just give her the point and come en garde.

James.

[counter riposte]

After three years of being forced to do things by swordpoint (Male or Female), the relationship was dead to begin with.

Either way, the relationship's a dead issue.