Island Of Misfits

[ROSTERMAN]

I always wonder why more don't use those tactics. Being choked? Cross arms grab two fingers and rip...

I've had a couple PCP clients that 3 shots with tasers didn't stop. I mean the full on big ones with wire leads that stick in you like a harpoon. Well, a little one.

Bubba

PCP be ready for full on maniac fight (Pile on the Monkey so to say.) Not said to be racist .

 

[WeedHopper]

You old fuckers smoke a bowl and settle down. Yall aint cutten nobody.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

They use to call me MAD DOG Miggy

 

[Unca Walt]

Was your attacking opponent on horseback above you, they always use longer swords most times .

Sun Tzu The Art Of War
subjected reading

Nah. Both afoot.

 

[Unca Walt]

The saber/sabre is specially curved for optimum slicing action when swung in an arc from horseback. Perfect for amputating body parts, like heads and limbs on the fly.

Long swords are hacking weapons used against short swords, but they soon become two handed swords and lose their advantage up close. Up close I would prefer a boarding cutlass. Given room move I would choose the Japanese katana. They were rated by how many bodies they could slice through in a single blow.

I've got a whizzer of an antique katana over my fireplace.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I've got a whizzer of an antique katana over my fireplace.

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Have you ever seen the sword makers signature under the handle area
Don't take apart unless you know how. But its should be there if a real old one

 

[Unca Walt]

Oh, it has been taken apart. I photographed the wonky characters chiseled into the blade, and now I cannot find the photo to show you.

It is scary-easy to take a katana apart. Just pop out two little pieces of tapered bamboo, hold the sword upright by the handle in your right hand, bump your right forearm with you left fist, and --click-- you've got it. The handle will unclick from the sword and you can remove it.

Somebody said it was from the Koto-Senguko period.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Oh, it has been taken apart. I photographed the wonky characters chiseled into the blade, and now I cannot find the photo to show you.

It is scary-easy to take a katana apart. Just pop out two little pieces of tapered bamboo, hold the sword upright by the handle in your right hand, bump your right forearm with you left fist, and --click-- you've got it. The handle will unclick from the sword and you can remove it.

Somebody said it was from the Koto-Senguko period.

Very Cool Indeed
The Sengoku was a century-long period of political upheaval and warlordism in Japan, lasting from the Onin War of 1467–77 through the reunification of the country around 1598. It was a lawless era of civil war, in which the feudal lords of Japan fought one another in endless plays for land and power. Although the political entities that were fighting were actually just domains, the Sengoku is sometimes referred to as Japan's "Warring States" Period.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I wanna be a cage fighter when I grow up.

 

[Hippie420]

I can pull a gun pretty fast so my old ass will just STICK to pulling a trigger. The only way you will pull a knife faster then i can pull my 9mm is already have it in your hand.

If you shoot like you fock, they'll just die laughing.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I can pull a gun pretty fast so my old ass will just STICK to pulling a trigger. The only way you will pull a knife faster then i can pull my 9mm is already have it in your hand.

But we can fly

 

[WeedHopper]

If you shoot like you fock, they'll just die laughing.

Its not my fault you forgot to shave your ass. I had to pass my pecker said no.

 

[Bubba]

PCP be ready for full on maniac fight (Pile on the Monkey so to say.) Not said to be racist .

You old fuckers smoke a bowl and settle down. Yall aint cutten nobody.

Ouch! I cut my finger. Where's the Bactine...do they still make that stuff?

Bubba

 

[ROSTERMAN]

One for Unqa

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

I have 2 cheaper ones, wish I had an old school one by a real sword master

I passed my collection and fencing gear on to my son and grandsons once I had knee replacement. I had a pristine 1860 sabre, a 1901 All officers sabre, a French clamshell rapier from the 1700's, a perfect Japanese gunto, and an 1816 naval cutlass.

I've got a whizzer of an antique katana over my fireplace.

I had a perfect gunto selected for me by my rokodan kendo sensei, but that was all I could afford. Some of the older katanas were made my folding the layers of steel multiple times and are worth millions.

For example one was three layers folded 15 times. 3 X y15 is about 14,348,907 laminations of steel and sand iron. In the guntos, the sand iron was just forged into the cutting edge in a Seigaiha wave pattern.

52F @ 72% RH, overcast, and predicted to reach 57F during the stifling part of the day.

More George Floyd protest marches. TriMet bus driver shot through windshield while behind the wheel with passengers and in critical condition.

Breakfast with friends to celebrate ones birthday, took an down turn when he was called upon to tell the doctors to pull the plug on a close friend on life support as we sat there eating. No living relatives with my friend as executor.

Progress on the vacuum cooking article, but the remote cooler didn't arrive for the test sled, soooo I'm predicting/guessing tomorrow...........

 

[Unca Walt]

Long as we're talking swords. I offered $10K to a cousin for this one on the air (I wuz on Good Morning Amerka). Comes with the epaulette. He declined.

It was presented to our 9-times grandfather by LaFayette when he returned. Our grampa was in the Honor Guard, and had been a bodyguard for Washington. The handle is ivory.

 

[Unca Walt]

It is risky to brake-check an 18-wheeler at 70MPH...

 

[user 60570]

Ouch! I cut my finger. Where's the Bactine...do they still make that stuff?

Bubba

i can lend you my mercurochrome or merthiolate

 

[ROSTERMAN]

i can lend you my mercurochrome or merthiolate

I have an old 1st aid kit with full boxes of the squeeze applicators'

 

[pute]

Morning Misfits. The older I get the faster I remember I was. Our HS track team won state and I got 5 gold medals! Was voted the MVP by all the coaches.

Now if you believe that I will believe that you are all kung fu fighters. Ha ha!!!

Rained most of the night. I can't remember a spring when so much water has fallen from the sky.