Alan Arkin! LOL. Was "Marly & Me" that scary?
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le nubian - Nov 08, 2010 6:49:45 pm PST #14703 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 08, 2010 7:07:29 pm PST #14704 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Well, I was thinking Wait Until Dark.
I am the guy who, after seeing some thriller about an endangered housewife with with my mom, advised her that instead of pummeling a hypothetical attacker's chest helplessly she would do well to pop his eyes with her thumbnails and then grab a fire extinguisher and hit him in the head until things stop crunching and start making squishy noises.
le nubian - Nov 09, 2010 1:52:19 am PST #14705 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm telling you, I'm running toward the buffistas houses at sign 2 that the apocalypse has started. I'm a gatherer and organizer, but not the best tactician.
Theodosia - Nov 09, 2010 2:14:23 am PST #14706 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I still think my moat strategy for self protection has a lot of virtue.
le nubian - Nov 09, 2010 2:23:16 am PST #14707 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
trust me. I will be knocking on your door yelling complete sentences!
Theodosia - Nov 09, 2010 2:37:57 am PST #14708 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oh, and let me put in a good word for Mira Grant's Feed novel, which does a good job of working out a consistent SFnal zombie-plagued world. (Working in a hospital becomes very interesting where the dead rise rather quickly....)
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 4:46:05 am PST #14709 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
beekaytee - Nov 09, 2010 8:05:10 am PST #14710 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
she would do well to pop his eyes with her thumbnails and then grab a fire extinguisher and hit him in the head until things stop crunching and start making squishy noises.
My girlfriends are always appalled when I remind them of this strategy...one just had a robber in her house while she and her family slept...along with a good hardy rap to the trachea.
My psychotic criminal father wasn't good for much, but this advice stood me in good stead. Not the eye-popping, but the neck punch.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 8:07:22 am PST #14711 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You need a fair amount of windup (and ergo room) for an effective larynx strike. And it's easy to clip the chin by mistake and render the whole thing ineffective. I forget what it's called, but the v between your clavicles is pretty sensitive and you can often push someone a few inches back by angling your finger correctly there, and you don't need to have room behind you to carry it off.
That having been said, eyes will pretty much always work, and you need little to no leverage for it.
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2010 8:09:03 am PST #14712 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
pop his eyes with her thumbnails
I've discovered that this is a far more effective strategy to defend against heifer attack than punching the heifer in the skull. (Heifers have thick skulls.)