The dissensus personal defence armoury

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DannyL

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Re. big/small bits of wood, you'd be less likely to get nicked for a small bit of wood as well even if you did FUCK A MUTHAFUKA UP with it. It's illegal to carry a weapon in the UK and that sort of thing, you could slip under the radar. PS I do think this whole concept is daft as fuck in case it wasn't clear.

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not sure if it's true but I once read a surprising number of Americans who own a gun to defend their home actually end up being on the receiving end: they aren't trained in fighting use, panic when confronting an intruder, often get the gun taken from them and either stolen or used on them!
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There's lots of stuff about the ease of deployment in weapons use in martial arts. Not only what is it, and can you use it, but also can you access it? How quickly? etc etc Quite interesting questions if you end up taking this stuff seriously.
 
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I think they used to sharpen the ends of those combs so they could stab each other with 'em? I'm glad it's not the early 80s anymore.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Well, are you gonna tell us what happened, or just leave us hanging?
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He was living in some place in Philadelphia that had been unused for a while and some people broke in once he was living there and he jumped out of bed, put his pants on backwards and charged out of the room with this sword someone had given him raised above his head, shouting "You get the HELL out of here!" and they all legged it.

He talks about it in Lynch on Lynch.
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DannyL

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I did do some sword and stick training when I used to do martial arts. I was never any good at it though. I still have the (wooden) sword and I mostly use it for fishing plastic Peppa Pig toys out from under the sofa. That's middle age for you.
 
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DannyL said:
I think they used to sharpen the ends of those combs so they could stab each other with 'em? I'm glad it's not the early 80s anymore.
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The police confiscated these at a Roma-Lazio game in 2013.

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DannyL

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There will be some weird logic as to why they all on poles I bet. So they chop each other up over a fence or something.
 
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The straight razor was a big one for old East End villains apparently, in the days prior to capital punishment being abolished. It was small, portable and you could say you were "just going away for a few days" if caught with it, but most importantly, you could do some proper damage and be unlikely to kill someone so wouldn't get hung.
 
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DannyL said:
There will be some weird logic as to why they all on poles I bet. So they chop each other up over a fence or something.
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Italian hooligans are mad. Some Inter supporters once tried to throw a burning moped at another set of fans inside a stadium.
 
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Is it true there's a bit in that Bill Buford book where someone bites out a policeman's eyeball?
 
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Italian hooligans are mad. Some Inter supporters once tried to throw a burning moped at another set of fans inside a stadium.
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I hope a particular psycho casual was in the seat and he dropped onto the opposing fans as it went over the barricades.
 
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Is it true there's a bit in that Bill Buford book where someone bites out a policeman's eyeball?
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I don't remember that, but I don't think I read it all the way through. Some quite mad first person accounts of being in the thick of it though.
 
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DannyL said:
The straight razor was a big one for old East End villains apparently, in the days prior to capital punishment being abolished. It was small, portable and you could say you were "just going away for a few days" if caught with it, but most importantly, you could do some proper damage and be unlikely to kill someone so wouldn't get hung.
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boxcutters. a couple of those suckers took down the World Trade Center, so to speak.
 
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