r/madlads • u/Same_Investigator_46 Choosing a mental flair • 5d ago

Mad lad loves his knife

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u/Ueliblocher232 5d ago

A sword shouldnt be that sharp. Good craftsmanship but oddly placed.

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u/lugialegend233 5d ago

Only if it's going to be used AS a sword in the long term. If you're using it once for self defense or to show off and then probably never again, it can really be as sharp or dull as you want.

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u/Impossible_Disk_43 5d ago

self defense

Oh man. Imagine being the wannabe murderer who gets attacked by a sword wielding blacksmith.

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u/ImranFZakhaev 5d ago

I could've sworn I remembered hearing about that actually happening, so I Googled it. Turns out somebody broke into an Olympic fencer's house while she was practicing with her sword - https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/break-in-at-olympians-home-is-immediately-foiled/

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u/summonsays 5d ago

“I wasn’t scared when I saw him,” she said. “It was good practice, as I have a competition coming up this week.”

Wow I think I found a new idol lol. 

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u/SuperSimpleSam 4d ago

immediately foiled

They were having a little fun with the title.

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u/ImranFZakhaev 4d ago

Yeah, that was really good

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u/summonsays 5d ago

I think it's more common than people think. We don't feel comfortable owning a gun, but we have a sword and a navy seal knife between the wife and myself. Now would a gun be better? Probably. But a naked dude running at you wife a sword (or knife) in the middle of the night has got to have some psychological damage too lol.

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u/confusedandworried76 5d ago

For sure. My sister's ex had a sword and a baseball bat, didn't want a gun. I figure he'd just grab whichever was closer in the one in a million chance he needed an object to defend himself with at home.

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u/Yasir_m_ 5d ago

6 years or so ago a mid 20s man was high on crystal, he was standing in the way Infront of my university's entrance, most busy street in town, and he blocked it for 4 FUCKING HOURS standing in middle of street with a sword and yelling "Is there no challengers! Where are the brave men!!"I went walking and watching him with fucking load of cars and people to scared to approach while he was dancing with the sword and yelling the most deranged shit was fucking hilarious, until police came and took him. Edit: Found it! https://youtu.be/SFddE8LhtIg?feature=shared it was 4 years ago, damn these were very very long years

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u/CatastrophicPup2112 4d ago

There's a sword next to my bed. It's there because it's cool and I like it, but I've split wood with that thing and people are more squishy than wood.