Sorry everybody! No neckbeard. Just a backwards baseball cap.
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If you are going to wear a backwards baseball cap while carrying a katana, you might save the world some trouble just get the “Poor Impulse Control” tattoo on your own time.
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Kind of sounds like you’re actively condoning domestic violence as a means of conflict resolution.
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Alternative ending to Game of Thrones.
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I read the title. I’m still in shock.
Whey didn’t they go with that one?
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Oops, you’re right! Thanks, changing it now.
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If it were me, I’d distract him somehow, go around him, and choke him out with the sap.
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Yeah, it’s tough. I think it might be easy for the man (assuming they are physically larger than the woman) to take advantage of that to drag the woman into the hole by basically just pulling forward with their body weight.
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Do we need a “how to kill a man in a hole with a sap” thread?
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It would be counterintuitive to pull forward into the sap. I guess the hard part would be getting behind the guy in the hole. But, I’d imagine, if it could be done, that’s how it’s done.
Yes. Yes we do.
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You have to wonder to what extent the rules were largely there to dissuade people from resorting to trial by combat, and maybe help them realize their dispute should be resolved more calmly.
“The trial will be held in a muddy field. Sir, you’re going to be wielding a mace while standing in a hole in the ground, with your elbow tied to your waist. Ma’am, you’ll be wielding a rock in a stocking. You both have to wear these mouse ear hats. The trial will be preceded by Linda and Bill performing some of their famous comic songs (you know, the ones with the gestures and sound effects), then an intermission during which beer and pretzels will be available.”
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Choosing the optimum length for the sap would be important. Too long, and it would be unwieldy, slow, and easily grabbed. Too short, and the woman would have to get within range of the club.
One strategy would be to stay just out of range and concentrate on hitting the man’s hand and forearm, careful not to overreach, until he dropped the club. Then circle behind him and make him sorry for all the times he called you “the old ball and chain”.
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According to some reports, the man was given three clubs. If necessary, clubs are throwing weapons.
OTOH, I suspect QI is wrong about the woman having a sling; much too easy to stay at long range, dodge a thrown club or two and then pound the target at will.
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I guess they figured there was too much dancing in GoT as it was…
Which works in both directions, and the woman has much more mobility.
Agreed. The illustrations don’t show a sling.
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It was in that moment, as their eyes met, that the bloodthirsty shouts of the crowd seemed to fade into the distance, and they remembered why they had fallen in love in the first place.
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As I pointed out above, there is only that one book that mentions this, so I don’t think it was ever used at all.
And it’s pretty hard to apply 21st century reasoning to medieval practices. Just consider ordeal by water: if she‘s a witch, she‘ll float.
Obligs:
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She should turn up in platemail, because then a katana is the wrong tool for the job and he’ll be fucked.
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The answer to “what would you find in a medieval manhole” is a medieval man, duh. It’s in the name.
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I’d go with, “An absence where the middle of a medieval man should be.”
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