Toy knuckledusters

Banjo String wrote: »

Until your kid turns up to a protest with a knuckle duster.

He did what?!! Next thing he'll be a socialist! :eek:

kunst nugget wrote: »

Does a pretend fist fight actually involve hitting someone in the head?

More so than hitting someone in the eye accidentally with a nerf gun yeah.

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I don;t know about you but I wouldn't want to bring foam knuckledusters to a fight. :rolleyes:

You'd want to be careful you don't keep making that face while the wind changes, otherwise it'd be stuck like that.

Dravokivich wrote: »

More so than hitting someone in the eye accidentally with a nerf gun yeah.

Well, if you have that much trouble distinguishing between pretend play and reality, maybe these knuckledusters aren't for you, Dravokivich. Maybe Santa will bring them for you next year.

kunst nugget wrote: »

Well, if you have that much trouble distinguishing between pretend play and reality, maybe these knuckledusters aren't for you, Dravokivich. Maybe Santa will bring them for you next year.

I can distinguish. It's just with general pushing and shoving, kids are more likely to slip up around each other. They're going to get knocks in the head from one another.

Or were the big boys too rough for you to play with Kunst Nugget?

jimgoose

Dravokivich wrote: »

I can distinguish. It's just with general pushing and shoving, kids are more likely to slip up around each other. They're going to get knocks in the head from one another...

Exactly. The whole thing is very hap-hazard - rifles are much better.

Dravokivich wrote: »

I can distinguish. It's just with general pushing and shoving, kids are more likely to slip up around each other. They're going to get knocks in the head from one another.

Or were the big boys too rough for you to play with Kunst Nugget?

We stripped to our speedos and oiled ourselves up before playing so we generally just slid off each other while wrestling.

seb65

I wouldn't approve of my child playing with toy guns or knuckledusters. Water guns, and plastic swords are different. Play is more about fantasy/skill than violence with those.

Knuckledusters require actual physical contact with each other, even toy guns don't require that.

BTW, as a female, I quite enjoyed playing with toy guns, swords, water pistols, cap guns etc - why do most posters seem to think only boys like to play with these things?

It's like on the Toy Show, one of the children was delighted that they've started to make pink water guns (or something to the like) so now girls can play with them too! FFS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMqrBUzZCk

Beavishead wrote: »

Would you buy toy knuckledusters for your children to play with?
http://www.thelocal.se/20131203/swedish-parents-fuming-over-toy-knuckledusters

What is your opinion on this, if kids are allowed to play with toy swords and toy guns, why should we not allow them to use toy knuckledusters?

Whats the difference from playing with that as a child vs playing with this as a teenager?

long range shooter wrote: »

Whats the difference from playing with that as a child vs playing with this as a teenager?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMqrBUzZCk

Another child is the target with the toy knuckleduster, while a defenseless piece of board is the target with the gun?

Dravokivich wrote: »

Another child is the target with the toy knuckleduster, while a defenseless piece of board is the target with the gun?

And the toy is plastic

And what if the target isnt a piece of board,the irony??:rolleyes:

long range shooter wrote: »

Whats the difference from playing with that as a child vs playing with this as a teenager?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMqrBUzZCk

A real gun is not a toy.
There's nothing wrong with regulated recreational gun use.

Fighting Irish

I wouldn't but each to their own

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

A real gun is not a toy.

There's nothing wrong with regulated recreational gun use.

1 This is from the army,where you learn to kill:rolleyes:
2 So what harm does a piece of plastic do to a child,knowing when hes a teenager,hes going to learn to kill anyway:rolleyes:
A bit of irony,isnt it;)

long range shooter wrote: »

And the toy is plasticAnd what if the target isnt a piece of board,the irony??:rolleyes:

There's no irony.

The difference, was they weren't aiming to hit each other in the video.

Dravokivich wrote: »

There's no irony.

The difference, was they weren't aiming to hit each other in the video.

No,but they train to hit a human sized target:rolleyes:

long range shooter wrote: »

1 This is from the army,where you learn to kill:rolleyes:
2 So what harm does a piece of plastic do to a child,knowing when hes a teenager,hes going to learn to kill anyway:rolleyes:
A bit of irony,isnt it;)

I know what the army is. So what?
What are you even talking about?

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I know what the army is. So what?

What are you even talking about?

this

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

AnonoBoy

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I had plastic nunchucks/ninja stars when I was eight and I still haven't murdered anyone in the 23 years since.

Yes there was that string of ninja star murders in 1990 that they haven't been able to pin on anybody..........

long range shooter wrote: »

this

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's

I still don't know what you're talking about.

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I still don't know what you're talking about.

Then i cant help you anymore

long range shooter wrote: »

this

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's…

Why the fúck do people seem to want a pat on the back for their parents’ egg and sperm coming together several decades ago? It's not like they had any say in it…

Every generation is going to end up giving out about the generations that follow them. It's utter nonsense because they are responsible for producing and parenting the generations they are giving out about. Sit down and reminisce about playing Simon or Monopoly and smile whimsically about the part you played in the financial disaster that's going to fúck everything up for the generations that you're moaning about for decades to come and just leave the kids alone to dismember zombies on their PS4s.

long range shooter wrote: »

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Not really. You are lumping onto this way more than there is.

kunst nugget wrote: »

Why the fúck do people seem to want a pat on the back for their parents’ egg and sperm coming together several decades ago? It's not like they had any say in it…

Every generation is going to end up giving out about the generations that follow them. It's utter nonsense because they are responsible for producing and parenting the generations they are giving out about. Sit down and reminisce about playing Simon or Monopoly and smile whimsically about the part you played in the financial disaster that's going to fúck everything up for the generations that you're moaning about for decades to come and just leave the kids alone to dismember zombies on their PS4s.

Hit a soft spot,did i:D

AnonoBoy

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I still don't know what you're talking about.

The benefits of cut and paste clearly.

MarkR

They sell foam swords in smyths with no issue.

http://www.toys.ie/Foam-Sword-!100987-prd.aspx?qwSessionID=c8c7990e-2291-45bf-a9c6-3257cd05481b

I don't see the problem. Are they a choking hazard?

AnonoBoy

Foam Allergies are on the rise.

Why is nobody talking about the Foam Allergies?

long range shooter wrote: »

Then i cant help you anymore

Do you think children should have the right to play with toy guns or not? I don't know why people seem to think modern kids are lazy. When I was a child I was barely in the house, I had the childhood you described in your post and so did everyone I knew and I'm a late 90s early 00s kid. The only difference is we has consoles and computers when it was dark or raining as well but they didn't supplement going outside.

long range shooter wrote: »

Hit a soft spot,did i:D

Not a bit of it. I'm 35 and get shít like that in my newsfeed constantly from people who seem to think it's some heroic accomplishment be in their thirties or forties.

ElvisChrist6

The problem, I'd say, is that guns and swords (and lightsabres) are often held by 'Heroes' in films and history, so they have someone to want to be like, whereas brass knuckles are only used by thugs really. Not something to aspire to.

I wouldn't buy them for my own kids, but I also wouldn't really mind if they got them from someone for Christmas.