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Toy knuckledusters

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  • #62
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    It causes awful problems when the righteous indignation catches in your throat when giving out about them.
    The wooden swords are the best. I remember a big heavy one that would have cracked a skull with enough force. :D


  • #63
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    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.

    Wow you are a big boy/girl arent you:D
    And if you think its heroic being in your 30s and 40s you should try being 6 instead.;)


  • #64
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    long range shooter wrote: »
    And if you think its heroic being in your 30s and 40s you should try being 6 instead.;)

    Amazingly, you seem to have got what I was saying totally wrong.


  • #65
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Amazingly, you seem to have got what I was saying totally wrong.

    So did you,that makes us even;)


  • #66
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Knuckle dusters could be obtained easier in life than guns/grenades etc.
    I take it your "etc" does not include knives which were mentioned a lot.

    Did people bother to look at the link, I agree with the other poster saying its like something out of lord or the rings, nothing like a knuckleduster, more comparable to a giant foam hulk hand

    Loads of kids are already playing with non-imitation "weapons" which are probably used far more than knuckledusters in real life adult assaults, e.g. real wooden hurleys & baseball bats.


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  • #67
    whiterob81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭whiterob81


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    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.

    Ironically enough for all that long winded posts talk about achievements and the like etc. most of the mouth breathing gob****es I see posting it up in my newsfeed don't have a job, friends or much in the way of activity away from a laptop screen


  • #68
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    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.

    But hes not giving about the generation that follow. Hes giving about the generation who were kids then and are parents now?


  • #69
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    My brothers were well able to knock lumps out of each other without the use of any props. TBH if they'd been wearing plush knuckle dusters there would probably have been fewer injuries.


  • #70
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    While nuckle dusters are weapons such as guns and knives, guns and knives also have legit uses, nuckle dudsters have none.


  • #71
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    beauf wrote: »
    But hes not giving about the generation that follow. Hes giving about the generation who were kids then and are parents now?

    His post was one of those cack-handed nostalgia cut and pastes about how we were great running around shooting bb guns and drinking water from a hose like a boss while the youth of today are sitting on their arses playing their consoles while their bones dissolve into fat. Don't know they're born…


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  • #72
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    wendell borton wrote: »
    guns and knives also have legit uses, nuckle dudsters have none.
    Knives yeah, but guns? I would have classed them as similar to knuckle dusters. What are the "legit" uses for guns? is it just the sport of shooting?

    It wouldn't strike me as too odd if I heard some police force used knuckle dusters, I think some use sap gloves which are sort of similar.


  • #73
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Just so I am on top of today's daily outrage; it is the fact that they mimic a less-common weapon?


  • #74
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Just so I am on top of today's daily outrage; it is the fact that they mimic a less-common weapon?

    It's because the holes are spread quite far apart which causes chaffing.


  • #75
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    His post was one of those cack-handed nostalgia cut and pastes about how we were great running around shooting bb guns and drinking water from a hose like a boss while the youth of today are sitting on their arses playing their consoles while their bones dissolve into fat. Don't know they're born…

    For me it was there were all these toy weapons back then to no ill effect. But now those kids have grown up into parents that look at horror at similar toys now. Those kids of a few decades ago are the parents of today. Its the parents (or kids of a few decades ago) that are dictating this behaviour. Not the kids.

    Besides what kid is going to pick a hurley over a chain feed gun nerf gun.


  • #76
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    His post was one of those cack-handed nostalgia cut and pastes about how we were great running around shooting bb guns and drinking water from a hose like a boss while the youth of today are sitting on their arses playing their consoles while their bones dissolve into fat. Don't know they're born…




    :D


  • #77
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Actually, I've reconsidered.

    If some relative got my (hypothetical) 8yo foam swords it'd be fine, we've all be Arthur's knights or Zorro growing up.
    A foam knife or foam knuckledusters would be a different kind of fantasy, which I don't agree with.
    I know it might be stupid but it would be a line for me.

    *used to be cool*


  • #78
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    His post was one of those cack-handed nostalgia cut and pastes about how we were great running around shooting bb guns and drinking water from a hose like a boss while the youth of today are sitting on their arses playing their consoles while their bones dissolve into fat. Don't know they're born…

    No,today's kids are spoiled rotten,they get what ever they point their finger at.:)
    And if you read this article from Sweden,I think you will understand the difference from growing up in the 70s vs growing up today.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10421246/Swedish-parenting-has-created-nation-of-brats.html


  • #79
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    biko wrote: »
    If some relative got my (hypothetical) 8yo foam swords it'd be fine, we've all be Arthur's knights or Zorro growing up.
    A foam knife or foam knuckledusters would be a different kind of fantasy, which I don't agree with.
    You can get fake knives that look real, the ones that disappear into the handle when you stab something. But the "knuckle dusters" in question is more comparable to the foam king arthurs sword, its a fantastical looking item, certainly not mimicking what a football hooligan might have.

    There is a better picture of it here, the shop in sweden was said to be controversial, this shows its on sale in toys r' us.
    http://www.toysrus.is/f%C3%A6tter%20br-butik/party-%20und%20saisonartikel/halloween-zubeh%C3%B6r/schlagring.aspx?id=631329&vid=432934


  • #80
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    long range shooter wrote: »
    No,today's kids are spoiled rotten,...by their parents, who were the kids of the 70's

    Fixed that for you.


  • #81
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    long range shooter wrote: »
    No,today's kids are spoiled rotten,they get what ever they point their finger at.:)
    And if you read this article from Sweden,I think you will understand the difference from growing up in the 70s vs growing up today.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10421246/Swedish-parenting-has-created-nation-of-brats.html

    Crazy Swedes> They should take a leaf out of this book.

    Fact of the matter is that every generation gives out about the following one being spoilt - Always have, always will…
    If you have a dinner party, they never sit quietly. They interrupt. They're always in the centre, and the problem is that when they become young adults, they take with them the expectation that everything is centred around them, which makes them very disappointed. They don't say thank you. They don't open doors. If you see them on the subway, they don't stand up for elderly people or pregnant women.
    David Eberhard
    Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates


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  • #82
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Crazy Swedes> They should take a leaf out of this book.

    Fact of the matter is that every generation gives out about the following one being spoilt - Always have, always will…


    David Eberhard


    Socrates

    So your saying today's kids are no different from when you grew up?


  • #83
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    long range shooter wrote: »
    So your saying today's kids are no different from when you grew up?

    They have access to different technologies that didn't exist and their parents are more afraid of tabloid created bogeymen then when I was younger but essentially they are the same as the little sh¡ts that I hung around with when I was younger.

    Don't believe the hype that the Daily Mail and the Telegraph feed you…


  • #84
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    They have access to different technologies that didn't exist and their parents are more afraid of tabloid created bogeymen then when I was younger but essentially they are the same as the little sh¡ts that I hung around with when I was younger.

    Don't believe the hype that the Daily Mail and the Telegraph feed you…

    so I guess the oracle have spoken then:D
    You don't think that this have got something to do with it?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12667107

    Ps this is BBC,hope that better;)


  • #85
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    long range shooter wrote: »
    so I guess the oracle have spoken then:D
    You don't think that this have got something to do with it?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12667107

    Ps this is BBC,hope that better;)
    Nearly half of mothers think the 1970s and 1980s were an easier age for raising children, a report suggests.

    A survey conducted by Procter and Gamble asking mothers when they thought was the best decade for raising kids is your counter-argument? Seriously?

    That's a bunch of mothers, who would most likely would have all been born in the 70s and 80s, looking back on their own childhoods nostalgically and declaring them to be the best decades ever. Much like that cut and paste nonsense that you put up earlier.


  • #86
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    It causes awful problems when the righteous indignation catches in your throat when giving out about them.

    Was I being righteously indignant? I don't actually have a strong opinion on foam or foam weapons. :D

    Imaginary guns are bang out of order. *clicks safety on thumb*


  • #87
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    A survey conducted by Procter and Gamble asking mothers when they thought was the best decade for raising kids is your counter-argument? Seriously?

    That's a bunch of mothers, who would most likely would have all been born in the 70s and 80s, looking back on their own childhoods nostalgically and declaring them to be the best decades ever. Much like that cut and paste nonsense that you put up earlier.

    There is obviously a difference in growing up in Ireland then vs other countries like Sweden.both today and in the 70s.


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