I almost got pedantic about this but then figured out that it’s a matter of handwriting, not fencing. (My 6s start from the top, so I’d have to be a lefty to draw a 6 while circle-sixing. I could also kind of draw a 6 if I did parry-two-circle-two, which is one of my favorite parry combos.)
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Ah. My 6s start from the top when I write them, too, also, and I had to really think about it…as one often must when analyzing something that’s become almost automatic.
Mom and I took a six- or eight-week fencing class at a neighborhood center when I was in 7th or 8th grade. There were many of us at the first class, far fewer at the second (which was lots and lots of lunging), and by the 3rd or 4th, only mom and I remained.
The teacher was great, and managed to make pretty good fencers of us - esp mom. Hell, mom once got a touche on our instructor! She was proud of her. I was no slouch, and got touches on a schoolmate who’d come for the post-class free fencing. He’d been fencing for years.
Had the class not been so short, and/or happened more than once a week, we would have learned much more, and become even better. The circle six was the only circle parry we learned.
The instructor had been a Wayne State University fencer. WSU’s coach was world renowned, a mad Hungarian who’d been a champ in his day, and was an olympic coach, if Memory serveth. No wonder she was such a great teacher, eh?
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Great story!
But, scar pics or it didn’t happen. 
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We was well-protected by the gear, we was. 
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My FIL once suggested cayenne for IBD. I didn’t try it.
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I’d watch out for that: reverse heart attacks are actually really dangerous.
Stick to long pepper, Szechuan pepper, and Aleppo pepper instead.
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And then there’s sekorts, those on statistics good any seen never I’ve…
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Wasabi’s good for all sorts of things.
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Capsascin helps with pain, so I could see it possibly working. But yeah, not something to play around with unless there’s studies that support it.
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I don’t know if this belongs here or in the assholes thread, but I’m putting it here. I understand why, from their perspective, this makes sense, but this is just a really dumb proposal.
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I saw that news story as well and I didn’t know what to make of it
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To clarify, they’re asking people, if they’re having get rid of a pet like a guinea pig, hamster, or rat for whatever reason, to consider donating it to them, where they will humanely euthanize it before feeding it to one of their animals, rather than just having your pet euthanized at a vet and them having the carcass destroyed. I get it, but it’s an unbelievably insensitive thing to be asking people.
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It’s complicated because as you say, the intent behind it makes sense but it does seem quite callous. These unwanted pets still deserve to live, and while not all of them will get homes it does seem shitty handing them over to a zoo to kill.
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This was the quote that made me respond the way I did.
“if you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us.”
I get that they can’t use unhealthy animals, but NO, no way would I euthanize a healthy animal rather than finding a home for it.
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Yeah, like I said, I wasn’t sure if it was just dumb, or dumb and evil, but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and go with dumb. Either way, it’s bad.
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It does seem to quite innocently imply that anything that isn’t a dog or cat is not a pet worth keeping alive if they are unwanted.
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Good god, your in-laws are psychopaths?
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