I have a barrel chest and broad shoulders (size 54 suit jacket), but I have long arms and am about 6' tall.
A couple of differences with me, though. I was teaching college students and it was duello and not strip (which I'm assuming is the style you did/do as it tends to be more common)
I grew up training in martial arts, have been an apprentice blacksmith, and spent a fair portion of my childhood on my family's farm (~350 acres) running fence, putting up hay, and the like, so I'm not exactly tiny. Thankfully I'm also pretty fast.
One of the common things for some of my students to say in order to describe me was "he looks like a bear and moves like a cat" =]
I'm still partial to idea 1, but that might be because I'm a swordsman:P
As long as the bedspread stays on top of the covers it could be neat. However, in situations where the covers get mussed, I foresee unpleasant pinching of sensitive body parts lol
Good luck with getting it to work. It would be interesting to see happen.
If it doesn't contain useful knowledge, then it's not worth reading in the first place.
You must lead a sad and depressing life. Facts and figures are such a small part of what is important in the greater sense of things.
The truth is that things which don't contain "useful knowledge" are a heck of a lot more important than you seem to think. Art, philosophy, flights of fancy... it is these things which cause society to dream up the "useful knowledge" and methods to obtain them that you deem all-important.
"Useful knowledge" is rigid and static. Creativity is found in the fluid, the pliable and it is that which leads to new knowledge.
I think my omnipresent female would hurt me if I tried that.:P
Mine would probably offer to help with the threatening as she tends to be a bit OCD about placement of things like books. Besides, she doesn't get enough time playing with blades in her opinion.
He is right about needing to replenish electrolytes after activity like that. Among other things, severely low electrolyte levels can cause you to die because the electrical impulses that make your organs work can't be transmitted. It's the reason people can die in those stupid water drinking contests that some places love to do as promotional gimmicks.
I actually carry electrolyte tabs in the med kit I pack with me for training and hiking. It's not generally a life-threatening issue unless you let it get to insanely low concentrations, but it does help you recover a heck of a lot faster.
I seem to have the same problem in that store. They will make a bee-line for me, completely ignoring other people around me.
I think part of it is the way I tend to dress, though. Nice polo shirt and khakis or slacks in the summer and in the winter it's a nice sweater or button up shirt, khakis or slacks, and my leather coat.
The funny thing is that the only reason I really go in there anymore is to get blank media when it's a loss leader for them because they've tried to weasel out of the only two things I've ever gotten a warranty for.
I figure it's better than boycotting them, and I can almost always find a use for 100 CDs when I only pay $5 for them. =]
Considering the fact that the Confederacy also attacked Union territories instead of simply trying to eject the enemy from their newly formed confederacy, it is not hard to argue that each was trying to take over the other. Thus, by your logic, it's still a civil war.
What you say would only be true if the Confederacy didn't start raiding Union states. It ended up being a war where each side was trying to take over the other which is your definition of a civil war.
The plate mail figure was for all of the pieces necessary for a full suit minus the helm (rerebrace, vambrace, couter, mitten gauntlets, curiass, pauldrons, and leg armor). If you just want the curiass (breastplate and backplate) with tassets, it's only $525. Or you could go the roman route with a suit of lorica segmentata for about $350.
The chain mail was just for a mid thigh length chain mail shirt with half to 3/4 length sleeves. You can use standard leather gauntlets with it (which run $30 or so) or leather gauntlets with chain backing and light steel lame cuffs (which is $70-80) [or any other style of gauntlets, really] and if you wanted, you could add on a well-made pair of steel vambraces (forearm armor) for $70. Additionally, if you wanted, you could actually wear a suit of leather brigandine over the chain as it is basically just a leather vest with rows of steel plates riveted into it.
As for helm choices (which can go with any of the armors), you can get a chain coif (hood) for about $90-100 (for butted mail) all the way up to almost $250 for riveted mail from some suppliers. Helms, from the one armory I'm looking at right now (there are quite a few others) run anywhere from about $150 for an English style war hat (whose basic shape was actually still in use during the first World War) to about $450 for a Great Helm with Bascinet.
You also have the issue that chain can be made in sheets and later linked together in the right shape whereas plate has to be shaped for each piece.
I dont know if I should be impressed that you know all that or feel sorry for you
I figured that response was coming. Don't worry, I didn't know all of the prices off the top of my head (just the ones for the average cost of some of the weapons for reasons stated in a moment). Most of them I looked up from suppliers I've dealt with in the past.
I grew up training in martial arts (kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts) and have also done a fair amount of purchasing both for myself and others, so it's not hard to get my hands on average prices for decent equipment.
It's nothing to feel sorry for me over. I actually have a life. It's just that the training is a part of it =]
Slashdot Mirror
How do you actually pronounce the name?
chill-uh-coth-ee
I've been there a few times over the years.
I'm in Chillicothe at the moment.
Look at it this way - The year's almost over :P
On a more serious note, what part of Ohio are you in? I'm currently about an hour south of Columbus.
Real Genius, but the voice is Jesus, not God
You're both right.
Weirdly, on the DVD it's Jesus and the version you see on tv generally says it's god.
I have a barrel chest and broad shoulders (size 54 suit jacket), but I have long arms and am about 6' tall.
A couple of differences with me, though. I was teaching college students and it was duello and not strip (which I'm assuming is the style you did/do as it tends to be more common)
I grew up training in martial arts, have been an apprentice blacksmith, and spent a fair portion of my childhood on my family's farm (~350 acres) running fence, putting up hay, and the like, so I'm not exactly tiny. Thankfully I'm also pretty fast.
One of the common things for some of my students to say in order to describe me was "he looks like a bear and moves like a cat" =]
There's a better solution to that problem.
:P
Learn to defend better
*snickers*
I think I like the woman and I've never met her.
I don't sleep with one under my pillow, but in this place, weapons are always close (after almost 20 years, you get a few).
I'm still partial to idea 1, but that might be because I'm a swordsman :P
As long as the bedspread stays on top of the covers it could be neat. However, in situations where the covers get mussed, I foresee unpleasant pinching of sensitive body parts lol
Good luck with getting it to work. It would be interesting to see happen.
In her case, it's my fault. I'm the one who started teaching her how to use weapons after all. =]
I'm curious as to why you were wrestling over a cleaver.
and the question keeps coming up, "yeah, well, what're you going to DO with an infinite supply of chainmail?"
Find a swordsman who has use for it?
Shark proof diving suits?
Chain mail curtains?
Chain mail jewelry?
etc
That only works in Utah :P
If it doesn't contain useful knowledge, then it's not worth reading in the first place.
You must lead a sad and depressing life. Facts and figures are such a small part of what is important in the greater sense of things.
The truth is that things which don't contain "useful knowledge" are a heck of a lot more important than you seem to think. Art, philosophy, flights of fancy... it is these things which cause society to dream up the "useful knowledge" and methods to obtain them that you deem all-important.
"Useful knowledge" is rigid and static. Creativity is found in the fluid, the pliable and it is that which leads to new knowledge.
I think my omnipresent female would hurt me if I tried that. :P
Mine would probably offer to help with the threatening as she tends to be a bit OCD about placement of things like books. Besides, she doesn't get enough time playing with blades in her opinion.
And, if every software outfit canned its employees after a single mistake of whatever scale, there'd be a heck of a lot more turnover in IT.
They frequently do. It's just that it usually isn't the person that's actually responsible because they found a scapegoat.
Unless it's taught by Anthony Michael Hall, you can forget about it.
The problem with that is that he'll know your grade before you even take the class.
And don't forget cutting slices of liquid nitrogen to use as quarters for the coffee machine.
(You'd be amazed how long it takes some people to catch that one)
And don't forget to hook up the doll!
We are sick and tired of having to replace the floor every time one of you little fools creates an ICBM instead of a woman!
Don't forget the cute girl down the hall who never sleeps and rushes into the bathroom to show you the sweater that she made you =]
That only happens if you forget to hook the doll up.
He is right about needing to replenish electrolytes after activity like that. Among other things, severely low electrolyte levels can cause you to die because the electrical impulses that make your organs work can't be transmitted. It's the reason people can die in those stupid water drinking contests that some places love to do as promotional gimmicks.
I actually carry electrolyte tabs in the med kit I pack with me for training and hiking. It's not generally a life-threatening issue unless you let it get to insanely low concentrations, but it does help you recover a heck of a lot faster.
I seem to have the same problem in that store. They will make a bee-line for me, completely ignoring other people around me.
I think part of it is the way I tend to dress, though. Nice polo shirt and khakis or slacks in the summer and in the winter it's a nice sweater or button up shirt, khakis or slacks, and my leather coat.
The funny thing is that the only reason I really go in there anymore is to get blank media when it's a loss leader for them because they've tried to weasel out of the only two things I've ever gotten a warranty for.
I figure it's better than boycotting them, and I can almost always find a use for 100 CDs when I only pay $5 for them. =]
Considering the fact that the Confederacy also attacked Union territories instead of simply trying to eject the enemy from their newly formed confederacy, it is not hard to argue that each was trying to take over the other. Thus, by your logic, it's still a civil war.
What you say would only be true if the Confederacy didn't start raiding Union states. It ended up being a war where each side was trying to take over the other which is your definition of a civil war.
The plate mail figure was for all of the pieces necessary for a full suit minus the helm (rerebrace, vambrace, couter, mitten gauntlets, curiass, pauldrons, and leg armor). If you just want the curiass (breastplate and backplate) with tassets, it's only $525. Or you could go the roman route with a suit of lorica segmentata for about $350.
The chain mail was just for a mid thigh length chain mail shirt with half to 3/4 length sleeves. You can use standard leather gauntlets with it (which run $30 or so) or leather gauntlets with chain backing and light steel lame cuffs (which is $70-80) [or any other style of gauntlets, really] and if you wanted, you could add on a well-made pair of steel vambraces (forearm armor) for $70. Additionally, if you wanted, you could actually wear a suit of leather brigandine over the chain as it is basically just a leather vest with rows of steel plates riveted into it.
As for helm choices (which can go with any of the armors), you can get a chain coif (hood) for about $90-100 (for butted mail) all the way up to almost $250 for riveted mail from some suppliers. Helms, from the one armory I'm looking at right now (there are quite a few others) run anywhere from about $150 for an English style war hat (whose basic shape was actually still in use during the first World War) to about $450 for a Great Helm with Bascinet.
You also have the issue that chain can be made in sheets and later linked together in the right shape whereas plate has to be shaped for each piece.
I dont know if I should be impressed that you know all that or feel sorry for you
I figured that response was coming. Don't worry, I didn't know all of the prices off the top of my head (just the ones for the average cost of some of the weapons for reasons stated in a moment). Most of them I looked up from suppliers I've dealt with in the past.
I grew up training in martial arts (kung fu with cross training in Japanese and European sword arts) and have also done a fair amount of purchasing both for myself and others, so it's not hard to get my hands on average prices for decent equipment.
It's nothing to feel sorry for me over. I actually have a life. It's just that the training is a part of it =]