How do you like colored lamés?

[Nusy]

I'd really like to see, how people like these lamés.
As for me, I love the blue ones, especially PBT blue and PBT Inox Ice Blue. I also like the red one, but PBT green... Phew!!!

Nusy

[whtouche]

I like them, tho the selection is more limited than Id like to see.

Id also personally like to see colored infinity lames.

[Inquartata]

How do I like them? Charbroiled, along with their wearers, that's how!

Gaudy damnable things, only appeal to peacocks...grumble, grumble, mutter....

[downunder]

LOL

the poor kid in the pbt lame on their webpage.....

[lochinvar]

Originally posted by Inquartata
How do I like them? Charbroiled, along with their wearers, that's how!

Gaudy damnable things, only appeal to peacocks...grumble, grumble, mutter....

Oh, you're just an Old Poop "...hanging onto outdated Imperialist dogma which perpetuates the social and economic differences in our society"... or something to that effect.

At least PBT recognizes that some of us don't wish to look as bland and anonymous as milk. But then, we've both weighed in on this issue before...

[Inquartata]

Well, when I was a lad we didn't have lames! And we felt LUCKY if our jackets were white! Only the rich could afford bleached cloth! The rest of us made do with "natural" shades of tan! With big ugly sweat stains! And glad to have 'em!

[2Sirius]

Lames! Hah! We were lucky to have a shirt without holes. And we had to walk to and from the salle in the snow, uphill, both ways.

[Inquartata]

You had shirts? Luxury! We had only one skin between the lot of us, we had to share it around...

[lochinvar]

You had a skin? We had to make do with old leaves we gathered off the ground...

[Nusy]

Originally posted by downunder
LOL

the poor kid in the pbt lame on their webpage.....

Yeah, they could have used a more photogenical model....

Nusy

[Toecutter]

Wow. Thoses are a lot less subtle than I was expecting. Especially the green. So these are legal in competition? I was under the impression that everything had to be white.
For electric, I don't see any reason not to have colored stuff, but the lack of contrast against a black blade could cause problems in a dry competition. But then, it's lames we're talking about, so I guess dry isn't an issue.

[Inquartata]

Originally posted by lochinvar
You had a skin? We had to make do with old leaves we gathered off the ground...

You had leaves? You were lucky! We lived in an active volcanic caldera! Had to wade through flaming lava to get to fencing! And were glad we didn't have to swim!

[lochinvar]

Originally posted by Inquartata
You had leaves? You were lucky! We lived in an active volcanic caldera! Had to wade through flaming lava to get to fencing! And were glad we didn't have to swim!

But try tellin' that to young people today--they won't believe you!

[Nusy]

!!!PLEASE!!!
stuck at the topic... I'm interested in the popularity of colored lamés...

[Capt. Slo-mo]

Nusy:

Telling those two to stay on topic is pretty much a King Canute scenario for you.

Sorry.

But seriously, in my youth, when we need lame material, we had to sneak out of our daub and wattle hut in the dead of night, transverse the pig middens, silently swim the moat , sneak past the snoring men at arms in the guard hut next to the portcullis, make our way thru the cellars to the secret passage to the queen's room, and then VERY carefully snag just one thread from the gold lame curtains...so no one would notice the theft. We'd then make out way back out, and carefully place the golden thread into a box made from an auroch's horn, secreted in a hole underneath the dry stacked fireplace apron. It often took years just to accumulate enough thread for one working lame.

Kids today who take Mom's credit card and buy one from Amanda at Blue Gauntlet just don't have the proper appreciation for a good lame, not like we did years ago.

[Peach]

We didn't have colored lamés. Who could afford color? Ours were invisible. And we made beeping noises through our noses and struck sparks with rocks to signal a hit.

I think the colored ones look cute and spiffy an' all, especially the foil ones, which make all the foilists look like Sparkle Color-Lame Barbie. But then I'm a sabre fencer and am doomed to that mud-color of the Infinity.

[Inquartata]

Ah, but Peach, you shine through that lame from within! If you had a colored lame we'd have to avert our eyes from the combined radiance! Think of the Infinity as a filter for our poor mortal eyes!

Nusy...if you haven't gotten the idea by now, I HATE colored lames. Despise. Detest. Abhor. They revulse me. Repel me. Make me shudder in horror. I can go on at length if you like, but usually a word to the wise is sufficient...

[Peach]

Ack.

[Nusy]

Originally posted by Inquartata

...Nusy...if you haven't gotten the idea by now, I HATE colored lames. Despise. Detest. Abhor. They revulse me. Repel me. Make me shudder in horror. I can go on at length if you like, but usually a word to the wise is sufficient...

OK, I was just asking about it. If you don't like them, then you won't buy them. As I told it,
It's some kind of a survey, to see how popular they are

Nusy

[Repechage]

I suggest you concentrate on the poll (to which some people have responded) rather than worrying about the discussion thread. Thread drift is one of those facts of the on-line universe.