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In what ways were the one-handed spear and large shield using troops better than the smaller shield (or no shield) and two-handed pike using ones?
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Tomn posted:I'm sorry, I haven't a clue what you're saying. Here check out this helpful diagram (of course, don't forget to reverse everything for a left handed batsman, but *not* a left handed bowler!)  Cricket field positions are the holyromanempire.jpg of sports
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May 16, 2018 16:33
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V. Illych L. posted:do yanks not use scythes for rough gardening or allotment work? even my massively middle-class parents own a hand-scythe for dealing with large clumps of weeds or what have you In my experience Americans prefer to use gas or electrical weed wackers for analogous tasks. I often use machetes and hedge clippers around the garden for tidying but have never seen anyone use a scythe.
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May 16, 2018 16:49
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ChubbyChecker posted:In what ways were the one-handed spear and large shield using troops better than the smaller shield (or no shield) and two-handed pike using ones? Vulnerability to missile fire.
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May 16, 2018 16:52
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MikeCrotch posted:Here check out this helpful diagram (of course, don't forget to reverse everything for a left handed batsman, but *not* a left handed bowler!) That was actually an apparently too-subtle reference to Mornington Crescent, which is exactly what that cricket talk sounded like.
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May 16, 2018 17:10
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Squalid posted:In my experience Americans prefer to use gas or electrical weed wackers for analogous tasks. I often use machetes and hedge clippers around the garden for tidying but have never seen anyone use a scythe. Confirmed as an American, and we use either hoes or neighbor kids for removing weeds.
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May 16, 2018 17:13
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V. Illych L. posted:do yanks not use scythes for rough gardening or allotment work? even my massively middle-class parents own a hand-scythe for dealing with large clumps of weeds or what have you Can't say I see what use I'd have for a scythe in a small allotment or in a backyard garden, over power weed whackers or hand-pulling/clippers.
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May 16, 2018 17:16
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Scythes were a victim of the 1950s quest for the modern age here in the us.
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May 16, 2018 17:22
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MikeCrotch posted:Here check out this helpful diagram (of course, don't forget to reverse everything for a left handed batsman, but *not* a left handed bowler!) Where's the Sensible Point?
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May 16, 2018 18:13
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V. Illych L. posted:do yanks not use scythes for rough gardening or allotment work? even my massively middle-class parents own a hand-scythe for dealing with large clumps of weeds or what have you we use weedwackers because gasoline is/has been comparatively cheap as hell and nobody really raised the question of whether it was worth it to fire up the weedwacker for a few feet of garden bordering.
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May 16, 2018 18:16
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Scythes were a victim of the 1950s quest for the modern age here in the us. They still exist - along with related variants and of course the machete - and you can buy them from Home Depot or similar.      https://www.homedepot.com/b/Outdoors-Garden-Center-Garden-Tools-Gardening-Tools-Specialty/N-5yc1vZc5r6
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May 16, 2018 18:19
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Imagine a gaggle of suburban dads refashioning their Home Depot scythes into makeshift pikes
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May 16, 2018 18:24
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FAUXTON posted:we use weedwackers because gasoline is/has been comparatively cheap as hell and nobody really raised the question of whether it was worth it to fire up the weedwacker for a few feet of garden bordering. I don't know how it compares right now to Europe, but my last fill up near DC was like... $.65 a liter, so the cost to run yard things is truly negligible to me. Maybe it's a very American mindset but it probably wouldn't have occurred to me to use hand scythes. My house is on about a 1/4 lot and I wouldn't really want to do it by hand, but even with a smaller spot I think I'd just go with electric stuff.
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May 16, 2018 18:30
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Tevery Best posted:Where's the Sensible Point? That would be point. It entirely goes without saying that it is sensible.
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May 16, 2018 19:06
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I've always thought that they were destroyed by the Goths or integrated by the Persians. I really like the works of their goldsmiths.
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May 16, 2018 19:07
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I used a full sized scythe with like a 2 meter handle, those tiny ones look terrible to use on a yard of any decent size.
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May 16, 2018 19:10
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ulmont posted:They still exist - along with related variants and of course the machete - and you can buy them from Home Depot or similar. yeah, i have one from my grandpa. They are just far less used here and fell by the wayside when we went full on Space Age
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May 16, 2018 19:19
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Epicurius posted:Slavery played a major role in causing the Texan Revolution, but it wasn't the only cause. Remember, Texas wasn't the only state that revolted when Santa Anna suspended the Constitution and abolished state governments...it was just the only place where the rebellion succeeded. Zacatecas also declared independence at the same time, and, just after Texas got independence, Yucatan also declared independence, and so did the states that made up the Republic of the Rio Grande. I honestly was not taught that. Just that it was Texas, which proves what horrible people they were. And that they tried to invade us and lost.
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May 16, 2018 19:55
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ChubbyChecker posted:In what ways were the one-handed spear and large shield using troops better than the smaller shield (or no shield) and two-handed pike using ones? it is very VERY easy to block a pike with a shield. But in my opinion the optimal shield is medium and round, not big.
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May 16, 2018 20:01
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ulmont posted:They still exist - along with related variants and of course the machete - and you can buy them from Home Depot or similar.
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May 16, 2018 20:03
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ulmont posted:They still exist - along with related variants and of course the machete - and you can buy them from Home Depot or similar. Yeah, I can see waving a bunch of these things at the gates of the local manor house.
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May 16, 2018 20:35
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Looks like a Kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade, but I call it a Kaiser blade...
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May 16, 2018 21:21
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Hope this hasn't been asked. During medieval warfare what would happen to soldiers that were badly injured but on the winning side and survived? A soldier that had a broken ankle for example.
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May 16, 2018 21:40
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SimonCat posted:Looks like a Kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade, but I call it a Kaiser blade... We just called it a sling. Always seemed to me the "blade" part was pretty obvious...
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May 16, 2018 21:52
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bessantj posted:Hope this hasn't been asked. Turned into glue
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May 16, 2018 21:55
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bessantj posted:Hope this hasn't been asked. I assume the camp followers cared for such a person.
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May 16, 2018 22:03
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Fangz posted:I assume the camp followers cared for such a person. Who would have made up the camp followers?
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May 16, 2018 22:21
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bessantj posted:Who would have made up the camp followers? The obvious choice in this case would be the soldier's wife.
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May 16, 2018 22:41
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bessantj posted:Hope this hasn't been asked. For your average soldier, camp followers take care of them or his buddies carted him over to a monastery. Monks/clergy generally had a bit more learning. If you're a knight, your squire (and you) would probably have had some basic medical knowledge. Enough to dress a wound anyway. People weren't totally ignorant about medical care and battlefield medicine, but there were very few professionals.
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May 16, 2018 23:17
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bessantj posted:During medieval warfare what would happen to soldiers that were badly injured but on the winning side and survived? A soldier that had a broken ankle for example. Medieval barber-surgeons were able to set bones and do other basic stuff. And medical knowlegde increased greatly during the medieval period. bessantj posted:Hope this hasn't been asked. As it said in the op: 
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May 17, 2018 00:08
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ulmont posted:We just called it a sling. Always seemed to me the "blade" part was pretty obvious... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fo3JAxajng
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May 17, 2018 00:51
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May 17, 2018 01:26
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Ensign Expendable posted:I used a full sized scythe with like a 2 meter handle, those tiny ones look terrible to use on a yard of any decent size. Yeah, it’s got to have that organic curve to it.  Not the greatest example but the first that comes up on GIS.
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May 17, 2018 01:37
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V. Illych L. posted:do yanks not use scythes for rough gardening or allotment work? even my massively middle-class parents own a hand-scythe for dealing with large clumps of weeds or what have you I live on the ranch my family has operated for 100+ years, I've never seen an actual scythe. We did have a weird manually-driven rotary-blade lawn mower without a motor very early on. My grandparents grew up in sod-built houses that burned dried cow poo poo for heating and cooking due to the lack of trees/timber. US agriculture has very much grown itself on motorization and cheap oil. The US Great Plains were mostly "settled" (expulsion and genocide of native peoples) in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was a small gap between European settlement and introduction of more modern agricultural techniques. one of my students (I teach science at a tribal college) gives me Lakota words of the day, he's an awesome old Vietnam vet the word for this week is omaste meaning "the warm feeling of sunlight" (rhymes with oh-WASH-day) Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 04:21 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 03:38
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Platystemon posted:Yeah, it’s got to have that organic curve to it. I find that the perpendicular handle is key. I've never seen one with two like this example though.
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May 17, 2018 04:02
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Fangz posted:https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1129426.html However will i thresh my rice e:someone already beat me to my stupid point lol Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 04:29 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 04:22
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Amazing loving scanning job, thanks guys
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May 17, 2018 05:09
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Ensign Expendable posted:Amazing loving scanning job, thanks guys It looks like an old pair of underwear that had a document written on it.
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May 17, 2018 05:18
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darthbob88 posted:Confirmed as an American, and we use either hoes or neighbor kids for removing weeds. I guess if you're paying them it's technically correct but it's still weird to call your neighbors kids hoes
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My gardening tool needs a gut hook for... reasons! Also, wow, Zaloga himself is doing requests for the blog!
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