Know how to spot these clowns when their shit goes viral and is widely approved of. Never trust a Greek statue, never trust the Nordic runes
Link: https://twitter.com/trad_west_art/status/1594990274937516033?s=46&t=D8z3jrXsplD9fwnbPB50aA
100% in support of chuds shooting each other over stupid bullshit like who was at fault in a fender-bender
The point of dueling wasn't even to actually kill eachother, it was to make a symbolic point.
Actually murdering your opponent was considered a dick move, and you could still totally be prosecuted for it.
Yup.
Fiction obviously (but excellent); "A polite exchange of bullets"
Taboo duel pt2 potato quality sorry
Watch Taboo, it's great and mostly about fucking over the East India Company.
Please don't tell me these are two adults talking like this on a public forum. It has to be dweeby debate bro teens, it has to be.
Dude looks like he's in his 30s https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Brendan-M-P-Heard/e/B07T412DT5/
wew the web of Customers Also Bought and related products there is something else
took like two clicks to get to a novel with a review that starts with like "I'm a new convert to ecofascism..."
:yea:
Using the Bernie meme when Bernie would tell these two to stfu
The many biographical accounts of her life, from the eighteenth century onwards, include stories of her winning several duels with the sword — on one occasion with three noblemen in the same evening, after she kissed a young woman at a ball — and beating the singer Louis Gaulard Dumesny after he insulted the other women at the Opera.[1] She continued to wear men's clothes in public and had relationships with both men and women.[5] [7]
Only if I can choose Julie d'Aubigny as my champion.
Wasn't she the one who rescued her lover who had taken refuge in a nunnery, committing some light arson in the process?
Swords have and always will be lesbian culture. Move aside silly men, swordfighting is for girls!
Did they just assume both could fence?
Everyone I'm sure learned back when it was required that you might have to defend our honor
The duel they're talking about took place the same year The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Everyone
You mean rich aristocrat dipshits, which you wouldn't be
Tfw when you've been working 80 hour weeks turning a crank in a factory since you were 6 and you come home to practice fencing every night until you're finally skilled enough to challenge your boss to a duel and he laughs in your face and tells you to get back to turning the crank.
Not even the rich aristocrat dipshits all learned it. There's plenty of stories of someone getting in over their head and suddenly needing to cram in fencing lessons. And by the late 1700's, it was more common to duel with pistols, because nobody had time to learn that shit.
K let's Duel. You get handcuffs, a blindfold,and a lit cigarette.
I get a blunderbuss that I get to stuff with whatever random shit seems fun to shoot with.
I think these odds are favorable.
Lol dueling covers a lot of different things than these chumps seem to imagine. I'm by no means an expert but yeah first off, a lot of the time it actually wasn't legal at all and you could if you weren't connected or rich enough get into serious trouble for it. Also whether it was legal or not, you really were not supposed to kill your opponent. Usually it would be the first blood that decided it. Dueling with guns for instance back then might even be just both duelists firing off a shot, wildly missing cos frankly early pistols were not known for their accuracy and calling it a day.
There were also a tonne of formal and informal rules around it. If we applied it to nowdays you wouldn't for instance usually be able to challenge someone to a duel if they cut in before you in a queue. Looking back, a lot of those reasons for duels happening historically seem frivalous to us but they tended to be real and significant insults or slights in the society at the time.
Apparently in some European countries they'd wear special helmets that protected pretty much everywhere but the cheeks cos that way you could get a dashing dueling scar on your cheek rather than an eye gouged out.
Not to mention it was usually, whether legal or technically illegal but kinda somewhat tolerated, limited by social class. The closest these chumps would come to dueling would be a punch up outside a pub which yeah, you can totally still do if that's what floats your boat. Sorry mate but being the son of a moderately well off dentist or car dealership owner wouldn't translate to the level of social clout you think it would.
Apparently in some European countries they’d wear special helmets that protected pretty much everywhere but the cheeks cos that way you could get a dashing dueling scar on your cheek rather than an eye gouged out.
That was Prussia/Germany, and IIRC it pretty much turned into a hazing/rite of passage thing for aristocrats at universities, where the scars shifted from being a consequence of dueling to a sign that someone stood still and explicitly allowed someone to hit them in the face with a sword because the scars were a prestige mark signaling an aristocratic military education.
This is correct. It is known as the Mensur and is practiced by Burschenschaften (far right frats) in Germany and Austria until this day. They get up in historical uniforms , bring out the rapiers and cut up each others' faces as a rite of initiation. In return for conforming to the incredibly chuddy environment, the students get cheap or even free boarding in dorms that are palatial mansions in prohibitively expensive student towns and become part of vast good ole boy networks while developing a serious alcohol problem and singing nazi marching tunes.
You're forgetting all the sexual assault that is common at the Burschenschaften
There were also a tonne of formal and informal rules around it.
angry Libertarian noises
The French had to ban dueling because their military officers kept killing each other. I say we bring back dueling but only for and among the bourgeoisie and DoD officers.
Any officer in the US military should be allowed to challenge a superior officer to a duel in order to seize their rank. The Joint Chiefs should all be the fastest guns in their respective branches of government.
Also, the Secretary of Defense should be challenged to a duel by the Senate President as part of confirmation.
My wife's great^3-grandfather apparently avoided being drafted into the Franco-Prussian war by challenging the recruiting officer to a duel, winning, and then fleeing overseas.
Wonder what these assholes would say about some drill rappers shooting at each other over a grave insult?
