Love the new thread title!
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'Not Fade Away'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Jun 16, 2014 11:27:19 am PDT #20 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Calli - Jun 16, 2014 11:27:34 am PDT #21 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
if you open the door to your house and it sounds like maybe someone's in there, or something's up, what's the time/distance to your first effective weapon, and what weapon in it.
I have a fire extinguisher right next to the door. I could spray someone in the face or hit them with the can. Everything else is on the other side of the apartment.
sj - Jun 16, 2014 11:28:05 am PDT #22 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Turning around and going the other direction, quickly. Calling for backup. Wimps R Us.
What Laura said.
SuziQ - Jun 16, 2014 11:28:23 am PDT #23 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Turning around and going the other direction, quickly. Calling for backup. Wimps R Us.
True, true. The car is a great weapon.
Also, if I'm coming in from the garage, I have all kinds of implements I could grab. Again, no classic weapons beyond kitchen knives.
Polgara - Jun 16, 2014 11:30:07 am PDT #24 of 30000
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Cell phone can also be considered a good weapon, in which case, it's always in my pocket.
meara - Jun 16, 2014 11:30:19 am PDT #25 of 30000
We enjoy you too, Kat!
ita, I generally wouldn't answer the door to someone sketchy looking/who I wasn't expecting. I mean, is this person posing as a UPS guy? Because generally if I open the door and they straight up attack me, chances of me getting to a sharp kitchen knife (closest thing I could reach from the door, there's not even anything heavy I could throw at them that's closer) are pretty minimal.
I am reminded of one of the other reasons I don't book evening flights TO somewhere for work--first I have to work a whole day! I mean, technically I don't, just enough hours to cover, but it's sorta hard to just stop at 1pm and be like "well, but I'll be on a plane from 6-9" or something. Also, I realized it'll be rush hour when I'm trying to get to the airport, so I'll have to leave extra time. Grump.
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2014 11:36:22 am PDT #26 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
I generally wouldn't answer the door to someone sketchy looking/who I wasn't expecting. I mean, is this person posing as a UPS guy? Because generally if I open the door and they straight up attack me
I thought the logistics were that your POV is coming home, coming IN to your place from outside, and someone is already in there. Did I read that wrong? I am so spatially challenged, I swear.
meara - Jun 16, 2014 11:38:08 am PDT #27 of 30000
Oh, no, you're right Teppy, I'm the one who misread!
In that case, yeah, kitchen knife, but honestly if it sounds like someone's in there I'd probably poke my head in and yell and hope they'd scamper away while I called 911 and backed out of the house--I'm not going to go in and confront them in my bedroom or something! I do not have mad krav skills.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2014 11:49:57 am PDT #28 of 30000
brillig
what's the time/distance to your first effective weapon, and what weapon in it.
A couple of knives on the sideboard by the front door. A heavy steel shafted cane leaning against the bookcase two steps in. At least two swords in the closet by the front door. More swords further into the living room. There's a bearded axe and some daggers in the bedroom, but I'd have to get down the hall.
If I were at my desk in back, there's the hilt of a sheathed dagger acting as a place to hang cables three inches off my right shoulder.
meara - Jun 16, 2014 11:51:34 am PDT #29 of 30000
Also, UGH. I have now unfollowed my brother on FB. I just can't take his spewing of hate anymore. He believes "the dysfunction, poverty and misery of the broken homes of the welfare class was reaped by feminists and we're now seeing the results." and that somehow feminism will lead to the downfall of the country and/or Nazis.