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皆さん、お久しぶりです。すみません、私は忙しかったです。
For a change I’ve got an anime that I can actually recommend and that if you are interested in you can watch as well. It’s available on NHK World Japan’s international service.
Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san – Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House
This particular anime is based on a manga (comic) I’ve been reading for a while. It’s a so called “slice of life” genre which in this case is basically split 50/50 between Japanese comfort food and home cooking and how day to day life is for a maiko-san. Most here probably have a passing knowledge of what a geisha is. In Kyoto and western Japan a geisha is know as a geiko. An apprentice geiko is known as a maiko or in more respectful language a maiko-san.
I’m not a big fan of the animation, but it matches the rather simple art in the manga. Also, in something incredibly rare for most anime this particular anime actually uses appropriate dialects for the characters. The voice actors are almost all native speakers for the dialect.
The story is set in Kyoto’s hanamachi geisha quarter. Here, after geisha finish their work late at night, they rest at the lodge to prepare for the next day. The story centers on Kiyo, a teenager Aomori native who works as a cook in the geisha lodge. She also has a friend named Sumire, who is a maiko (apprentice geisha).
Source: Wikipedia
In this case the the Japanese and English titles are quite different.
舞妓さんちのまかないさん
舞妓さん – maiko-san – as discussed above.
ち – chi – this is a casual conversation term for house and it comes from 家 (うち) in romaji “uchi”.
の – no – possession – grammar particle similar to apostrophe S in English.
まかないさん – makanaisan – cook. More specifically a cook at a boarding house. A makanai would be a board meal.
So literally “The maikos’ house’s cook”.
Omake: Here is Sensei in Kyoto with a maiko. The arm in the the picture is mine. I’m not especially tall, but in Japan I get to be above average height.
I find anime a bit weird but I am only familiar with the big tit’ed short skirted sort found on porn hub so I am pretty much ignorant on this. This all seems a bit sexist and non woke so I think I must report Sensei to the Kamala.
Wait… a first post that actually references the content of the post. What’s the world coming to?
He’s drunk.
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It’s Sloper, he has no idea what he’s saying, it’s mere coincidence that he seemed to actually address your post.
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LOL……..And no offense meant. I grew up on the Road Runner and Coyote and it has done nothing other than made me a fan of anything Acme. But I see what you mean as I watched part of an episode. I think you could pick up Japanese with repetition watching.
Honestly, doesn’t sound particularly interesting, although I am interested by the various references in different shows to regional dialects (ie. always making fun of folks from Osaka, etc).
Two shows I’ve enjoyed a LOT recently via Crunchyroll are:
Lovely-Complex – hysterical teen comedy from a few years back – the characters play off each other insanely well – and as pointed out by the guy who introduced this to me on twitter – the artists aren’t afraid to make the lead character look pretty hideous from time to time when she makes faces or tries to make fun of folks.
Pretty Derby – a show about horse-girls going to school and racing…named after and representing actual race horses in Japan….really weird conceptually but it works well and is pretty cute too. IMO.
I liked both!
What’s funny is Love Complex is also one of the few shows that has lots of Kansai dialect in actual use. Not as authentic as this one but much more than usual.
I understand that the grammatical markers are written in hiragana, but a word like “makanai” doesn’t have a kanji?
Most of the time it would, but not always.
This particular word is commonly written in hiragana. I’m sure there are kanji, but not in common use. When I see a word all in hiragana I usually ask the same question with my friends.
Thot Thursday is turning Japanese.
https://archive.li/oDRDt
I just fetishized the heck out of them, bless their hearts.
#MeToo
Well, OK. I’ll take a look at this tomorrow, during chained-to-my-desk segment of my day.
It wasn’t bad. A little cutesy, but also kind of educational. Plus it made me hungry. I like calamari, so I’d be willing to try some squid mince.
Been meaning to reply to Tres all day but I still don’t log in at work…
Between the army and the navy I’ve got about 10 1/2 years of active duty time. Between Army Reserve and Navy Reserve, I’ve got about 6 1/2 years of time – so about 3 years left before I hit 20. The difference between hitting 20 years at 100% active duty vs 20 years as a reservist or mix…. is that if I had enlisted at 18 and retired at 38 without entering the reserves, I could collect my retirement at 38…..but as a reservist/combo I can’t collect till I turn 60. Still…it’s worth it for 50/50 as an O-4 assuming I’m still alive.
Drilling remotely basically just means a lot of MS Teams and teleconferencing for a 3 day weekend (we only drill once a quarter). At least I made it to Norfolk in Aug, Nov and Feb – half the guys in the unit haven’t been allowed to come to Norfolk all year. Hopefully by the August drill.
I was also a mix of active duty time and reserve time.
To retire you need to complete a minimum of 20 years “participation”. So let’s say you do 5 years active duty, then 15 years reserve duty. An active duty year is pretty easy to understand. “Reserve years” are a bit more complicated. Basically, every day you spend on reserve duty you earn points and for every year during which you earn over a fixed number of points you get credit for another “participating” year (credit towards retirement).
The amount you get paid upon retirement is calculated based on your rank at retirement and number of years served, proportional to the number of days you spent on duty.
A Master Sergeant who served 24 years on active duty gets more than a Master Sergeant who only served 20 years on active duty. And since they served more than the minimum of 20 years all on active duty they start getting their retirement check the month after leaving the service.
But a person who retires from the reserves with some active duty service mixed in gets paid on a prorated scale. A Master Sergeant who retires after 5 years active duty and 15 years reserve duty gets paid a Master Sergeant’s pay reduced proportional to the amount of days he actually served. It is possible that he completed those 15 years of reserve duty with only 35 days a year in uniform (the minimum for participation) though this would be almost impossible since just showing up for monthly drills, the two-week drill each year, and other schools and training not to mention deployments usually racks up an average of 100 to 150 points a year over time. And even after completing the minimum 20 years the reservist will not see his first retirement check until he turns 60.
I had a buddy who did 12 years active duty, got out, eventually got back into the reserves, didn’t participate enough to earn the minimum points some years but after about 18 years finally finished the minimum 20 years when he was about 54. So he had his retirement set up – but then died of brain cancer at 58 and never saw his first check.
Good Lord on the last bit.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard similar tales on retirement plans.
I was told there would be no math.
Also I feel bad about that joke because of the last sentence, but yolo.
I got to understand the system better than most who have gone through and retired because I was my unit’s admin POC (Point Of Contact) . Counting points and years is a really complicated deal – even more than what I have outlined above
Aaaaaaaaand, you’re cancelled…
Yes.
Back in the day there was a lower limit on the number of earnable points per year but you earn via correspondence courses. As a young whippersnapper, I was determined to max out my points each year. Knocked out some interesting courses along the way.
An addition to the above math problem. For every month a Reservist was deployed to an operation (OIF/OEF) they can reduce their age of retirement by a similar number of months.
So, someone who did two 12 month tours in Afghanistan would receive 365 retirement points for each of those years, get two ‘good years’ and be able to begin collecting retirement at the age of 58.
Additionally, you can get a good year while technically not serving in the Reserves. In the Army, you get 15 participation points for serving in the IRR. That just means staying active on the call up list. While doing that you can sign up for correspondence courses and Army schools and receive more than enough retirement points for a good year. (Which I thought was 40, but not sure).
Know a COL who did this a number of years, because He had no place to drill.
A buddy of mine did that too. He hit his 20 years with the Reserves then the unit he was drilling with disappeared so he had no place to drill but added three more years via correspondence courses.
Now they have a thing called VTU (Voluntary…..) – (a lot of old O-6s and similar types stay in it to try and get to 30 plus years). They receive no pay, but still show up once a month and sit in the NOSC and their skillset remains available – often they’re in a post-command status and there’s no other billet for them (anywhere) unless there’s a massive activation, etc.
I watched the one with the talking suit of armor, and the one with the chicks with eyes as big as saucers…wait that’s just about all of them. OK, I watched *some* of the animes.
I felt the same way in Korea, with my extremely average (in American terms) height, walking around the Seoul subway made me feel like Andre the Giant.
Man, I had no idea idea people were interested in low level crime-o-logues. I’ve been pulled over literally at least a hundred times. Maybe I’ll throw together of best of compilation. Referencing BLC’s piece earlier today. Spoiler alert: I will win any contest of who’s been hassled more by the man. I fear no challenger on this.
*throws blackjack the trophy*
“We don’t know him. He’s not with us!”
I always win the wrong prizes.
Between being an NCO and a dad I have been the man far longer than I haven’t
Caitlyn Jenner nods sagely.
“I never thought this would happen to me…”
You have no idea….
I’d love to hear more of your tales.. I’ve got several more on the way. Not all of them are negative encounters, but the vast majority are.
“It’s not that I hate the cops, I just always seem to feel better when they’re not around!”
Ain’t no bad situation a cop can’t make worse.
Which one of you is this?
http://www.zeusthaber.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/V66JHx3Qhqg8komnsvuCvQIlo1_500.jpg
Not me. I would have shaved my legs. Plus my beard and ‘stache would suck.
That’s the Ohio Libertarian Party leader.
I have no idea if you are serious but I 100% believe it.
I’m thinking Tres.
My Sailor Moon outfit does not look nearly as good on me.
My beard would be gray. Then again it could be a fake beard.
Sailor Ganymede?
AHHA I remember. San Diego Comic Con in I think, 2001 ?, one of the acts to enter the evening costume show was a group of dudes who performed the Sailor Moon Intro, theme song and all. It was hilarious. I think they won Best Group.
The photo says 2003, so it’s probably not the same guy, but still, good times.
I’m bored so I thought I’d start a zoom for anyone who is interested:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88130288363?pwd=RlpzczNWRncrL3NvdE5VZ0hJalBOQT09
It’s already past my bedtime, or I would join you.
I have another zoom to join.
Shutting down for the night. It was a nice chat.
Stupid, cutesy trend goes horribly
wrongbadassUnclear, was tannerite blown up for the gender reveal or used to blow up the gender reveal?
Last time I went to Oregon, we went shooting up in the mountains. They let me shoot a 3″ jar of tannerite with their Remington 700 at about 100 yds. It took me two shots and I had to settle my shaking for about 30 seconds on the second shot. It was really fun and I still am considering getting into distance shooting. I know 100 yds is not very far, but it was my first time with a scoped rifle. Oh, the tannerite made about a 4 foot ball of fire and a decent boom.
Someone in that conversation had no idea what 80 lbs of tannerite could do.
Me neither, I had to enlighten myself.
Makes a good boom and decent shrapnel :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6_sExYh_Q
Fun starts around 2m30.
That’s pretty good. As a young Private stationed at FT Bragg, we did a demo range with 30 lbs of C-4, 30 lbs of dynamite, a few 15 lb cratering charges, and a 300 lb length of bangalore torpedo.
After setting it all to rig, and moving to the berm 300 meters back, it went off and half the Post went airborne, with debris raining down on us for 5 minutes.
At about that point, the Range Safety decided to read the post regulation, which set the total limit of all ordnance to something like 120 lbs.
Big BOOM. The earth did move.
So I am in Lebanon TN at a hole in the wall mom’n’pop restaurant. There are no signs on the doors about masks and almost everyone here is sans mask, including the staff.
This makes me happy.
Excellent.
I’m on a facebook group dedicated to businesses defying Wolf’s orders.
Every day the group gets flooded with pictures of people ignoring Wolf’s mask order and businesses operating as normal. Most of the businesses mentioned are the businesses themselves advertising that they are operating as normal.
That’s nice but you need The Law to kind of look the other way.
The Law does not look the other way where I am.
True. There are lots of law enforcement personnel in PA willing to look the other way.
The state police, liquor control board enforcers (whatever the fuck they are called), state Department of Health, and state Department of Agriculture (they have their fingers in regulating anything and everything food related) are quite willing to enforce the governor’s orders. The problem is, they’re overwhelmed.
I remember reading about a court case being heard in Commonwealth Court, starting around December 2020 or January 2021. Either the state Department of Health or state Department of Agriculture, in its filing, admitted to being overwhelmed and unable to get many county or municipal officials to help enforce the governor’s orders. The state agency wanted the Commonwealth Court to issue an order stating that county and municipal officials have to help the state officials. The state agency also wanted the court to issue an emergency ruling. The judge said there will be no emergency ruling, and he’ll issue a ruling in June 2021.
Hmm…what a precedent that could set…can crime victims (such as the victims of violent mobs), sue to force the government to prosecute violent criminals (like rioting mob members)?
Yay!
About a third of people at my grocery store are no longer wearing masks. The more people that ignore the bullshit, the more courage it gives the others to start ignoring it.
Yay!
How’s the driving going? You need AAA?
Drive going well if you discount how much utter bullshit construction is going on. We had to stop 150 miles short of our destination because of it. So the new motel room is … suboptimal. If my husband (who is pissed his wife is putting up with the room) works his magic, we’ll probably get this night free.
Dinner was fabulous, though.
Overall, thus far, thumbs up.
Is he shining a blacklight over everything?
It’s just me and mom. I’m telling him and sending pix.
Put her in charge of taking pictures while you drive.
Ahh yes, it is getting near road cone migration season.
Ridonkulous sitting on an interstate going 0 mph for a good portion of the day.
Here in Northern Louisiana, most of the residents have taken a “The bayou is deep and Baton Rouge is far” approach to the royal edicts. All except for the gaming stores where my youngest goes to play Pokeman. Which is very annoying, the mini-tournaments they run are 2-3 hours long.
President Puddin’ Cup’s handlers decide to try to give it to buy-and-hold investors, STEVE SMITH-style.
The White House is considering raising the capital gains tax rate to 39.6% on people earning $1 million and over, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Monday. Including the tax on investment income, wealthy individuals could see their federal rates reach as high as 43.4%, the publication noted.
I am sure that this will have no adverse effect on the market whatsoever.
I haven’t flown since 2000, pre 9/11, and never this far, and have know idea how to approach it, 2 hour layover at O’Hare, then non stop to San Diego, Trying not to have a Nicotine fit the entire trip, I do have the Nicorette thing, what do I do?
Snus… easy to use on an airplane and no one cares because it is spitless. Camel mellow was my favorite when i still used it
Yes! thanks! great idea,
I like General snus. Mint, by preference.
Copenhagen would work. Plus it will make you a sexual Tryanasaurs.
Dang spell check failed me! I trusted you Grammarly and you failed me!
Aw, I dunno about Nicorette, but welcome back, however briefly.
I’m always here, Yusef is is A Universal Time Traveler, when I forgwt, I just go back and remember, so I don’t forget,
/Timeloop
And don’t use spellcheck, oops,
Just go back in time and correct it!
Own your typoes!
Can I just rent them? I’m not sure I’m ready to make a long-term commitment.
All sales final.
Also, by federal law there is still an ashtray in the lavatory. so you can smoke on the plane, you just go to jail when you land.
And no vaping in the lavatory. the smoke detectors are VERY sensitive and will go off. I work for an airline and can’t tell you how many incident reports I’ve read of people being caught.
I was wondering about that.
The last time I flew was just before I gave up cigs for vaping. So… almost three years ago.
Speaking of….
Boss-boss made what I hope was a joke today that I have to go to Europe in June for a conference. I am expecting it to be remote. It is after all an internal thing just I think one of our UK offices hosting it.
I am not prepared in several ways to get on an airplane for any length of time.
If no one’s looking, you can vape at your seat and just hold it in long enough to not have a cloud. But only if you have a chance to be very discreet.
Go into the airport bathroom like Larry Craig?
Only you Ted S. only you,
I’m glad you are a friend, in a weird Ted S. way,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30XZ4hMA88M
Ugh I remember 12 hours Shanghai to LA. That was brutal.
Strangely, 11 days in the hospital was a piece of cake in comparison.
Many of the larger airports have (had?) indoor smoking areas. If an airport was going to have one, O’Hare would be it.
OMG. The smoking room and its denizens at CLE was one of the most depressing spaces I’ve ever had the displeasure of spending a couple hours in.
Now that I think about it, there’s a good chance it was one of the reasons I switched to vaping.
I got stuck in Dallas once. There was a smoking lounge one way and a bar equidistant the other way. We chose the bar. After the flight and the massive hike, I was parched. I was sober for maybe 25 years at the time. In the bar, I ordered a coke, plain, plain-assed coke, please, in those exact words. They brought me jack and coke. I was thirsty so I took a huge gulp. Not expecting it, it was like guzzoline straight down the gullet. Fucking brutal.
And then anything of note?
Nope, just another day.
Ohare really sucks for layovers. The layout between terminals/gates is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. (had to stop there flying to San Diego in 2018 as well).
Find a restaurant and just camp out (no idea what it’s like with COVID drama).
I haven’t been in O’Hare since the 20C but I concur about its being enormous and having to rush between gates.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UO1G2AC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
In no particular order: why don’t you go fuck yourself, Tommy?
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/california-news/california-public-schools-enrollment-plummets/
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/california-news/uc-csu-systems-to-require-vaccinations-pending-fda-approval/
Really hard to figure out why people are not too happy with the school’s performance.
Maybe they should commission a blue ribbon committee to study this and issue a report.
They’ll be sued certainly but it’s Cali so I can already guess how that’ll turn out.
I guess you have to be that dense, disingenuous, or both to have Tommy’s job.
Im off to work, kids. No insurrection while Im gone.
I dont care if the cops hold the door open.
Stay Tall, CanMan!
No insurrection while Im gone
Do we look like BLM? Even a bunch of libertarians aren’t that pasty white.
I’m not much of a weeb, but the wife and I did start watching one that Netflix did (via my friend’s Plex) called Gokushufudō or Way of the House Husband. it’s these little shorts that feature a former yakuza killer who is putting the same level of intensity into being a househusband as he did into being the underworld’s greatest killer. It’s hilarious. Would recommend.
Me too!
The Japanese is a hoot too. Not that the translation is bad.
We are watching it in Japanese with English subtitles, as god intended.
I imagine it is even funnier in the original.
Yes, to be specific I meant the subtitle translation.
I also try to watch most films with subs over dubs too.
I may be dumb, but I’m not a dweeb!
bookmarked!
The foreign characters in the URL screws up the anchor links worse than before. 🙁
You should see what it does to Wikipedia links.
Depends on the default OS language too. When I send a link it ends up all various character strings, but when my friend in Japan does so it comes through in actual readable Japanese.
Both resolve in a web browser just fine, but it’s always struck me as odd.
You can save a bunch of money on your escorts by switching to geiko.
Is Flo included as an NPC with a romance option?
You want to bundle her?
Crafty. for the sake of the joke I will say yes. Embrace the power of and. Improv 101…or was it 102…
State farm will actually replace them if they can’t be repaired.
Discount Double-Check!
Finally submitted the final part to A Path For Wellness, finishing a story no one asked for. And no, Gustave, I didn’t end it with Fred Bear, I think I used that one already.
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*covid cough*
Nice picture of classic pseudostrabismus.
https://archive.li/p9hYZ/6b3e2d4efa80db38c466bf66a36885ed47ca92d6.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/TXgq7/c8b8f4237b9d0ea29f8c4d84a6db25d96d66fd68.jpg
https://archive.li/1fTvY/9dc212f5949c08c7c0b504f73de905cfd2c1646d.jpg
NSFW.
Winner winner chicken choking dinner
That is…..racist?
I had a lab partner that was…. very smart. I should have persued her knowledge more. She had a lot of knowledge
NSFW.
https://archive.li/bZeHg/1de81851c50280fcc264723dd316005cc0e74826.jpg
NSFW.
How ever did you come to be a father to a newborn? I wonder.
I’m picking up on a theme.
I’m pretty much the anti-weeb – at least as far from a weeb as one can be for somebody who has lived in Japan for most of his adult life. I have always been interested in classical Japanese culture but not much interested in the pop culture. Maybe this has something to do with viewing it as an insider?
I suppose this idea would drive many weebs to distraction – the idea that somebody who lives in Tokyo and is comfortable in the language never even bothers to go to any of the J-pop Meccas or even watch the occasional Manga.
I guess part of this is that I don’t recognize the Japan I know in any of these stories. Of the hundreds of Japanese people I’ve known, met, dated, worked with, drank with, been related to via marriage – the characters I have seen in the few snippets I’ve caught of the occasional Manga just don’t seem to be, I dunno, credible?
So you’re saying Manga porn isn’t realistic?
Next you’ll tell me there’s gambling in the brothel.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/22/china-under-reports-pollution-new-study/
Isn’t it failure obvious they outright lied and continue to do so regarding Covid-19?
Omg.
https://youtu.be/2XLZ4Z8LpEE
https://youtu.be/b2QPy-igBLA
I think puddin’ cup’s handlers might be rethinking their latest zig to the left…
“Capital gains tax fears send US stocks tumbling”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/capital-gains-tax-fears-send-us-stocks-tumbling/ar-BB1fWwfC?ocid=entnewsntp
It’s ok as long as a few giant corporations survive and then become indistinguishable from the state that bails them out.
But in seriousness they’ve got to be concerned about the Goose that lays the Golden eggs.
I’ve set a minor goal:
Comb through all of my automatic subscription renewals, add them up, and cull the herd.
Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, BritBox, MLB, NHL, NFL, ancestry.com’s pay features, patreons, etc. I’m sure there are some I’m forgetting.
Should be enlightening and result in more money in the ol’ budget.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9501565/How-Bidens-climate-plan-affect-everyday-Americans.html
Are these people actively trying to destroy America, or are they just so ignorant that they think this is progress?
Yes.
The “force you to spend” thing being accurate, but in reality more nuanced, there being increased redistribution to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles, so someone on below median income in Buttscratch, Pennsylvania will be finally able to reap the “rewards” of the same redistributive scam/bad incentive structure that led to so many rich folks getting a significant discount on their Teslas?
I just can’t see it working for some reason.
According to their calculations, Biden’s climate plan will triple the average standard of living of all Americans and give BIPOC 200 million good new jobs.
So only kulaks and wreckers could be against that.
Mornin’ Glibs,
/I have nothing pithy to say
Pithed off?
Not at all, erm,
I am outta here, the airport is a mile from my house,
Have fun Kids!
Bon voyage!
Is that a trip to have half a confection?
If it’s chocolate, even half is worth the trip!
Also, repentant dieter: “…It has been one day since my last confection.”
I’m a passive anti-dieter, carried on the confection currents to the vast desserts.
Someone was late. This required the tithing of donuts. Since we have sinned, I’m up for some light spanking as a form of repentance.
Morning.
I overslept.
*grumbles*
Good morning, Sean! I was beginning to wonder (not yet to the point of worry, but…)
I made it to work on time, but was very rushed to do so.
So, it all worked out ok.
Glad to hear you weren’t late.
I’m wondering if I should start waking up earlier in case of commute.
Is there starting to be some talk of bringing work-from-homers back onsite?
There is here. June 1.
The people are not pleased. If they think I’m rolling out of bed an hour and half earlier so I could arrive at the office the same time as I do now, well… we’ll see if that happens.
It would be a sign of restrictions being lifted, so I’m going to stay hopeful
Live & direct from the Department of Stupid Local Tie-Ins.
Question: how many of those with an EDC pocket knife of some description would pull it out as a deterrent either for self-defense or to aid in breaking up a violent altercation in your immediate vicinity?
Personally I wouldn’t, even if someone was coming at me with a knife, because your immediate action is to disarm them, which to me, is done by going for the arm and knocking it out of their hand. Anyway, I also happen to think knives as weapons make things get ugly and stupid a lot faster. I don’t like it. I’m very anti-knife scaring by the lying, scumbag, virtue signalling politicians and activists we have here in the UK. And I’m an advocate for more relaxed laws on what you can carry, knives being the most basic, oldest, and versatile tool, and tool use being the very quality that has allowed humans to excel and achieve so much. Kids here are going to stab each other with something. The system of perverse incentives which leads to their moronic gang culture will still be firmly in place and defended aggressively by the same people who scream the loudest about knife crime. Having said that, I just think pulling out a knife is very rarely ever going to improve a situation, especially one in which a fight has already broken out.
Girl did stupid thing. Cop acted in split second with good situational awareness. Ideally girl could have survived, but she reaped the whirlwind of rushing a fight with a knife in the presence of armed cops.
Am I about straight and level with that analysis?
Good morning, good people of Glibshire.
**Peeks at phone screen with one eye open**
Mornin’ GT. Mornin, alles.
**Rolls over and resumes sleeping**
*hits snooze on Glibs*
Mornin’
Good morning, hay, and…well… pleasant dreams!
C’mon man, she was just “holding” the knife.
Mornin’, Glibs. Happy Friday!
She mistook the girl in pink’s gut for her knife holder apparently.
Good morning, TARDy!
Unless the aggressor coming at me with a knife was significantly smaller than I am – and I’m not that big – I would not trust my ability to disarm them without a weapon of my own, so I believe I’d seek to even the playing field.
If the aggressor is attacking someone else not personally connected to me, I don’t believe I would have legal backing to use potentially deadly force.
Fair enough. I suppose it also comes down to confidence in your ability to do it one way or the other. I think I would feel more secure having both hands free for a disarming.
…and oh, yes – Good…noon(?) limey.
For self-defense? In some cases, yeah. If I’m in a fight or a wrestling match and I’m losing to the point that I’m about to get crippled or killed, I might try to deploy my knife in order to cut my way loose.
If someone attacks me with a knife? Almost certainly not. Against a knife, I’m going to try to create enough space that I can get my pistol or another ranged weapon into play.
Intervening in a fight between others? Not only no, but FUCK NO. I would never intervene in a fight between people I don’t know, not with a knife, gun, bare hands, harsh language, feather duster, nothing. Not my fuckin’ problem. If I remember, I might call the police as I’m leaving the scene.
^This.
This is also why I’m not too put out by the inherent dealy in pocket-carrying, I’ll be using that time to reposition anyway.
It’s important to have a reasonably fast and extremely consistent draw, but blinding speed rarely seems to matter in self-defense shootings. The nice thing about pocket carry is if you set it up right, you can discreetly put a hand on your gun without anyone noticing. That can be a significant advantage.
Still, I like my sub-1.0s headshot from appendix carry. It’s kind of an affectation, but I only have a few affectations.
Yes I agree with you absolutely on not getting involved. I would not, personally, but wanted to pose the question to other Glibs.
“At the time, she appeared to have a knife in one of her hands.”
“appeared”…um, yeah
It’s a po-mo interpretation thing. The police officer’s truth in the moment is that she was carrying a knife and was about the stab a girl. His truth is based on racist patriarchal unconscious bias and so as scholars of social justice we know that our truth is the Truth that the officer’s truth was a lie. Am I doing that right?
A little too right.
One of the downsides of not living in a major media market.
whaddup doh
what’s goody, fam ?
Good morning, homey!
how YOU doin’ ?
Very well, thanks! Going to have to shoo a cat off my lap momentarily to go get ready for the ol’ day job. And you?
Its 6 pm in my head…..TALL CANS!
Mornin’ Glibbies! The bleed didn’t end me (Pace, Miss OGrady). It stopped shortly after and I ate something and went to bed. Judi bought me four bottles of Otrivin, God bless her. I was a little weak yesterday but “Festus Strong!” Thanks for the well-wishes and concern from my new found Family!
I take a couple bayer aspirin before I go into work. Since I wield a box-cutter, nearly any nick become an unstoppable hemorrhage.
Related: My Mike Lindell branded hemostatic agents arrived yesterday.
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My first aid kits were lacking these.
Plan on getting into a knife fight, are you?
I am not a teenage girl.
You don’t even identify as one?
Good to hear you didn’t bleed out.
It only “felt” like it but that was close enough for Science and Medicine, lately.
Relieved that you’re OK.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-accelerated-math-courses-equity
Good. Let the people get a taste of what “equity” actually means.
All students must be equally uneducated and indoctrinated. Equity!
Doing HR training videos and trying to sync up my devices again is why our Grandpas stormed the beach at Normandy. That is all…