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View Poll Results: How do you acquire your body cords? | |
Always buy new, assembled. When one fails, I replace with new.
|     | 28 | 32.56% | |
Occasionally buy new, assembled. When one fails, someone else provides parts and repairs it for me.
|    | 10 | 11.63% | |
Occasionally buy new, assembled. When one fails, I buy parts and repair it myself.
|    | 45 | 52.33% | |
Never buy assembled. Always buy parts and assemble and repair them myself.
|    | 3 | 3.49% | 
12-11-2007, 10:50 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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| No option for body cords from lost-and-found at NACs? | 
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12-11-2007, 11:30 PM
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#22 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by JMcC  To your point, if you were given the cord, then the person who gave you the cord would have either:
- purchased it fully assembled (choice 1)
- repaired an existing cord (choice 3)
- built it from scratch (choice 4) | Or gotten it from a third person by gift, trade or scrounging.
See what I mean? How far do you go back? Eventually all cords will have been purchased, so by specifying "go back one level" you really don't solve anything poll-wise...
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12-12-2007, 09:34 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Or gotten it from a third person by gift, trade or scrounging.
See what I mean? How far do you go back? Eventually all cords will have been purchased, so by specifying "go back one level" you really don't solve anything poll-wise... | I think you're being purposely obtuse. It's just a simple survey, not an ontological debate.
If you do need it spelled out, for the purposes of this survey, along with previously mentioned stealing, also ignore cords acquired by trades, scrounging, happening upon, spontaneous generation or any other means of acquisition not delineated in the four options in the survey.
And why the quotes around "go back one level"? I never said that.
I did say "- Intermediaries are not germane - "A gave it to B who gave it to me.", then B is not relevant to the poll." | |
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12-12-2007, 10:48 AM
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#24 | | Fencing Expert
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| What if the poll is merely flawed? :P
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12-12-2007, 12:15 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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| Can you please explain the spontaneous generation thing? It would save me a lot of trouble and money. 
Can other equipment be spontaneously generated? What about bred? If I put my jacket and knickers in a bag together overnight, will they give birth to a plastron? | |
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12-12-2007, 01:21 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by JMcC It's just a simple survey, not an ontological debate. | Let us assume that there is a method for acquiring body cords s/t there is no greater method conceivable.
And lo, let us assume that this method exists in the realm of fencer understanding,
And if this method did not actually exist, then... Quote: |
I think you're being purposely obtuse.
| *bleep*. You caught me.
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12-13-2007, 07:01 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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| Non conforming equipment 
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12-15-2007, 02:33 PM
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#28 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by JMcC If you do need it spelled out, for the purposes of this survey, along with previously mentioned stealing, also ignore cords acquired by trades, scrounging, happening upon, spontaneous generation or any other means of acquisition not delineated in the four options in the survey. | Which is why I said that the poll is you-know-what. Quote: |
Intermediaries are not germane - "A gave it to B who gave it to me.", then B is not relevant to the poll."
| Sigh.
Let me try this by example.
Say I get some parts and repair a cord. You make that a separate option, but really it also boils down to "bought it" if you ignore "intermediaries". Because either you, or someone else from whom you got them, bought those parts or a cord from which they were salvaged. At some point, if you go back far enough, everything comes down to the same option: It was purchased. All of the other poll options are thus meaningless. There is only one option, and the others are all subsidiaries of it...
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12-17-2007, 01:49 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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| where's the option for them magically appearing in your bag weeks after you last used any of your kit?
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12-17-2007, 01:57 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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| People left them at my repair booth
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12-17-2007, 07:50 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| I had one of those magic bodycords that just appeared out of nowhere. No one would claim it, so it's mine now. I count it as a gift from the fencing gods.  | |
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