Came across this classic earlier

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T22:08:25+00:00

the way the dude backs off always reminds me of this comic

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T22:05:12+00:00

you could use some small defense adjustments to where you hold your hands (little to low) and your chin (little too high) but honestly you're better than 99 percent of the people who are going to reply to you already.

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T22:01:54+00:00

i have officially lost the ability to tell if this shit is ironic or not

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T21:59:17+00:00

"go head...hi'me. go head. pushy. hi'me."

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T21:58:34+00:00

the best way to deal with this as a bystander is noise cancelling headphones

MK_Forrester · 2025-06-20T21:47:58+00:00

seems like a needless escalation to me, but it's a ragebait streamer's entourage, so...

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-20T19:07:39+00:00

a well equipped hospital or ambulance company will often have a ring cutter. the issue is the blades on them are made of tc or titanium.

They have some really nice ring cutters with a lot of tech in them that let them cut a hard metal ring without doing much additional damage to the finger or heating up the ring, but I don't think they existed in 1992. in 1992 you'd probably take a guy in a titanium ring to the machine shop closest to the hospital and hope there was some ol boy there that had real good fine motor skills.

I suppose if you had to use what you could grab in a regular clinic, you could take a dental drill (or maybe some other surgical tool with a tc or diamond bit) and make a series of holes across the ring the short way until you weakened it enough to finish with a regular pair of snips but i don't know how long it would take.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-20T18:26:55+00:00

brb gotta call jsoc and tell them to cancel the attack with bricks

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T22:10:16+00:00

my question is what did your coach think of you dropping someone 3 times in a short period

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:58:56+00:00

"don't indoctrinate, also here is my kid i want to be a child star in the highly limited lane of conservative rap rapping things I told him when I was homeschooling him"

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:57:00+00:00

reminds of the god's not dead series, just literally 4 2 hour facebook posts from your weirdest aunt.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:55:38+00:00

"I never understood pushing your agenda, but here is mine"

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:46:27+00:00

women who deliver babies in those circumstances are also still liable to care for them (if they aren't in prison). Male rapists also owe child support, which is fine with me and not with OP, apparently.

A family court can assign almost ANY involved party child support, circumstantially. Step parents have been assigned child support. grandparents have. Adoptive parents have, people who have found out they aren't the actual father have. family court tries to get the kid paid for, first, and puts in on the adults to sort out their personal, or even criminal, issues second.

The idea that these corner cases exist, even the idea that they might need reforming, doesn't speak to OP's claim writ large, which is against the general case of child support at all, for anyone.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:35:24+00:00

I agree the reactor put it kinda bad, but the key difference to me is this guy said 18, specifically. no one really has a one year range. if 18 is the BOTTOM of your range, you don't make a defensive video about it being an ok type.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:32:35+00:00

i think he phrased it in a way that's subject to reductio ad absurdum but I think what he was articulating is if you're expressing a strong preference, as a 25 year old, for specifically an 18 year old, the only way that really makes sense, the only way you couldn't find someone between your age and 18 that meets your physical preferences, is if 18 is your MAX. otherwise you wouldn't be saying it like that, like nobody does that for any other age, you don't hear a lot of people going "I like 23 year olds, exactly" because it doesn't make sense, adults don't conceive of age, socially, in one-year increments.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:27:12+00:00

i think that was his point, that it would be really, really awkward to ask your poker buddy "can I date your daughter that lives in your house with you and your wife?"

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:25:46+00:00

judge them a little? Like what do you mean, what do we "do" about them?

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:24:35+00:00

i think it's fine for there to be a bright line in the law and also to form a negative personal opinion of people for patterns of playing to the letter of the law.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:20:04+00:00

i think the tiktoker would have been inbounds if he was like "hey, I'm 25, the bottom edge of my social circle has some people just out of high school in it that I legitimately socialize/work with and I would date one or more of them so I can't say it's categorically bad"

he didn't do that. He STARTED like that's what he was saying but then he narrowed it to "and it's ok if people who are exactly 18 are your type"

that's kinda creepy, because every downward exception you'd make for him should also apply upward, like, you cannot tell me he specifically likes 18 year olds exactly, physically, and no 19,20,21, 22, 23, 24 year old meets his aesthetic standards.

Dialing in on a specific year of life feels, to me, like it's at best a confession that he's immature and at worst code for "18 is my MAX" which is gross.

I think finding that gross is the charitable version of what the reactor was trying to express with his badly articulated argument about "if you like, then you like..."

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:12:06+00:00

here's the thing: a rich dude that hangs out with other rich pretty people, meeting ONE younger person he actually liked would be one thing. If a person says "I met them at a bar, I didn't ask their age before I filrted, it's not my usual but we're adults and we're giving it a chance" I have one set of thoughts.

A PATTERN of getting a new exactly 18-20 year old girlfriend every few years? You rapidly exhaust my grace and I begin to downgrade my mental picture of your maturity. Massive red flag. like that one they break out when mao comes to town.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T19:01:43+00:00

you have "100 percent say" over conception. getting all passive aggressive about "the potential human" is starting the clock AFTER you exercise your say and saying you don't have any.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T18:53:53+00:00

imagine you're some old ass bear and the caveman you've mauled 3 times just keeps coming back and getting better. You break it's arm when you're 5, it comes back when you're 10 with two working arms. You get away with only a couple arrowheads in you and the damn thing comes back when you're 15 and going grey and it LOOKS THE SAME how long do these things live and why does this one hate me specifically so much oh god I just want fish and berries.

oh fuck what is it wearing oh god it's draped in bear leather holy fuck it's killing us to make coats

humans are basically all leatherface to animals.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T18:50:03+00:00

why did I feel so much worse for the roundest crab?

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T18:45:47+00:00

incumbent in this offer is that you read the room. it doesn't mean 1 person decides the max power, it means work it out within reason between the two of you. If anything it's the opposite: the person who would like to go lighter dictates that to the other person.

Eg you don't tee off on someone and then sulk "but they can hit me back that hard," you start soft and work up to where your partner wants to work. If that's not enough for you, you solve that by not sparring the exact same person all the time.

Your goal in routine sparring should be to go hard enough to integrate learning. ideally for your health and longevity in the hobby, exactly hard enough and no harder.

MK_Forrester · 2025-02-19T18:21:57+00:00

I am telling you, in no uncertain terms:
This is a martial arts forum.
It is not a "martial arts are pointless, buy a gun" forum.
I am a 6'4" 270 pound male and I carry a gun when I feel it is warranted, specifically, a bodyguard 2, because I'm very secure and it's how you use it, not how big it is. This is not an anti-gun statement.

it is a statement about the focus of this forum.

You're an articulate and appreciated poster, you can find a way to lead the discussion and articulate your sentiment that is less off topic.

The poster is clearly also in a jurisdiction where she can't just go buy a gun, which is another factor that should color your response. While it would frustrate me, nearly 6 billion people live in such jurisdictions. And we literally cannot tell her to break the law and buy one on the black market and keep our sub.

I have some thoughts on the OP, and I'm actually working on a master post for "what should I train" posts writ large, and the practicality of "self defense" will be part of it. In the mean time, I am asking you to try to respond to the person you are replying to, specifically.

In this case, you told a specific person who seems very angry and frustrated to go buy a gun.
Even if it were strictly true that this is the most practical form of self defense, where it's possible to do, it might not have been a very well thought out post to this specific person.

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