The 'You Know You Fence Too Much When..' Thread

[I_luv_saber]

When all your dreams are set at fencing tournaments or the gym

When all your fantasies are set at fencing tournaments or the gym

[MessiahFencing]

Originally Posted by chiiluver

You know you fence too much when you get road rage because of somebody took your right of way.

You know you fence too much when, to get your right of way back, you 'beat' their car, disengage it, and than ram it.

It will turn a light on, just not red, white or green. But blue, white, and red (cops)

You know you fence to much when being blockaded and forced to stop for doing the above, the cop says he told you to stop and you reply with, I didn't hear a halt.

[chiiluver]

Originally Posted by MessiahFencing

You know you fence too much when, to get your right of way back, you 'beat' their car, disengage it, and than ram it.

And then you consider police sirens to be the buzzer, and you wonder why it keeps following you everywhere and ask the officer to reset the en guarde.

[MessiahFencing]

you know you fence too much when you gauge $80 parking tickets as yellow cards, $350 speeding tickets as red cards, and four months behind bars as a black card.

[restlesscheese]

YKYFTMW:

Anything that's longer than it is wide becomes a weapon.

You realize that if you replace "dance" with "fence" in most songs, the song still makes sense.

You go to a restaurant with friends and they specifically request that the waitress not give you a knife.

You catch a glimpse of a chef in one of those chef jackets and think "Fencer!"

You see someone wearing all white out of the corner of your eye and are disappointed when you take a closer look and find out they're just normal.

You try to assign non-fencers a weapon. (Oh, hey look at random person in the grocery line over there. I bet he'd make a great epeeist, being all tall and skinny.)

[MessiahFencing]

Originally Posted by restlesscheese

YKYFTMW:

You try to assign non-fencers a weapon. (Oh, hey look at random person in the grocery line over there. I bet he'd make a great epeeist, being all tall and skinny.)

Do that WAY TOO Much...LOL

[fences_like_a_lemur]

You know you fence too much when most, if not all, of the papers that you have to write in school are about fencing.

You know you fence too much when you notice that the sidewalk would an excellent fencing strip -especially if it's one of those with the lines that go across to divide it up-.

You know you fence too much when you start thinking of things that help you identify whether you fence too much.

You know you fence too much when you start going into fencing withdrawl the moment you take off your lame.

[Asprin]

When you decide to make electric boxes in uni.

When you make sure your haircut will not get in the way of your mask.

[chiiluver]

When you think about how something would feel if you put a pistol grip on it.

[Go? Fencing?]

When you're watching an illusionist and he pulls out a straitjacket... and it takes you a minute to figure out that it's a straitjacket and not a fencing jacket.

(Then you realise that there's actually not that much of a difference.)

[MessiahFencing]

just depends on who wears it....

[SSMSabreMN]

Originally Posted by Asprin

When you make sure your haircut will not get in the way of your mask.

How about...

When you get mad at the hairdresser for cutting your hair too short to fully pull back but still long enough that it gets in your eyes when you fence, despite you specifically asking her to keep it so that you can still pull it back.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

When you are absently doodling and you end up drawing a fencer. Even more so when other people -non fencers- can tell what it is that you just doodled.

When you stair at a fractal in your math book and start thinking about fencing and how cool it would be to cut that into a paper with your sabre.

When you see someone with a bruise and automatically wonder if they might be a fencer, then you realize that they don't look anything like a fencer and probably got it some other way.

[Asprin]

Originally Posted by SSMSabreMN

How about...

When you get mad at the hairdresser for cutting your hair too short to fully pull back but still long enough that it gets in your eyes when you fence, despite you specifically asking her to keep it so that you can still pull it back.

Same I went for a cut and was told that chin-length feathers at the front would be able to be tied back. They come out everytime I put my mask on or off or catch on my glasses.

[SSMSabreMN]

Originally Posted by Asprin

Same I went for a cut and was told that chin-length feathers at the front would be able to be tied back. They come out everytime I put my mask on or off or catch on my glasses.

I know! I told her I needed to be able to pull it back and when my hair's all wet, it's straight and looks longer, but my hair curls like none other so it's like an inch shorter than she said it would.

[sneakylilfencer]

when you find your self being able to lift 400+ pounds with your legs and maybe 20punds with your arms

[ParryRiposte]

Originally Posted by SSMSabreMN

When you get mad at the hairdresser for cutting your hair too short to fully pull back but still long enough that it gets in your eyes when you fence, despite you specifically asking her to keep it so that you can still pull it back.

Also been there. My hairdresser and I are good friends, so she know what I'm about... but then she went on holiday and I had to see someone else, who cut it too short. I think I almost cried.

When you see advertisements for "fencing" companies and laugh.
When your friends start an impromptu "sword-fight" and you start critiquing them and showing them how it's really done.
When you and other fencing friends are in public and start doing bladeless fencing.
When you hear a new song on the radio and immediately think "this would make a great fencing song!"
When you find that most of your wardrobe is white and/or is comprised mainly of tournament t-shirts.
When you meet someone new, you make sure one of the first things you mention is that you fence.

[Asprin]

Originally Posted by ParryRiposte

When you find that most of your wardrobe is white and/or is comprised mainly of tournament t-shirts.

White..nah most my wardrobe is black.

You know you fence to much when people are scared if they see you with white clothes.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Originally Posted by sneakylilfencer

when you find your self being able to lift 400+ pounds with your legs and maybe 20punds with your arms

The sad truth, though it should be quite a bit more than 20 pounds, and also more than 400, but the ratio is about right...


When your friends can't but help making fence jokes just to annoy you.

When you see a picket fence and wonder how great it would look if they used swords instead of pickets.

When you wonder why swards aren't just called swords to make them that much cooler.

When you try to find ways to make swords using different fonts and symbols while your typing an essay.

When looking at clouds, you constantly see swords and fencers where everyone else just sees a cloud...

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by restlesscheese

You try to assign non-fencers a weapon. (Oh, hey look at random person in the grocery line over there. I bet he'd make a great epeeist, being all tall and skinny.)

Guilty as charged! It's really hard not to approach them and try and convince them to take up fencing.