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Stairs & Our Attitudes Toward Them

Floyd1 said:
I'm learning a lot about you today- you can fight with knives and swords and you used to fling yourself downstairs (sometimes wearing chainmail) for fun.

I mean where does one even get chainmail from anyway?

You're either a top chap/es, or unhinged. I can't quite decide which it is......
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Right.
Let me get this cleared up.
I'm a year away from being 60 years old. (humph)
I used to be in a Dark Ages/Viking reinactment group and, honestly, learned how to fight with a lot of heavy ... metal ... sharp things. We purchased our chainmail hauberks from a local ... wideboy, called Graham the Skunk. BTW, I know how to make 'fake' chainmail but, honestly, I'm getting on now and I can't be bothered,
And while (on recollection) I think I was an alcoholic, I've settled down now to old age, memories and a grab-bag of anecdotes that when my wife met some of my old cronies (and they remembered shit I didn't) she realised that what I had told her was only the tip of the wassname.

I say this not to impress or get 'clout'. I state fact.
Even I look back on all the crap I've experienced or done and still use the WTF expression.

I've not been around the world, I've not been wealthy, I've not climbed [insert mountain of choice]. I've been shot, stabbed, sliced and - sorry - I've sliced and broken other's limbs.

I'm not a top whatever.
I've just had an interesting, alternative, time of life.
And I'm nearing the end.
 
Floyd1 said:
I'm learning a lot about you today- you can fight with knives and swords and you used to fling yourself downstairs (sometimes wearing chainmail) for fun.

I mean where does one even get chainmail from anyway?
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That's one of the funniest posts I have read in ages.

In the internet age, one buys Chainmail from here

https://www.theknightshop.com/buy-historical-armour/chainmail-armour-uk

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And after you've had enough of stair surfing, you can sit on a long wooden bench, admire a tapestry and sip mead.

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https://www.theknightshop.com/horn-mug-and-mead-set
 
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For an extreme stairway experience, I can recommend taking the stairs at the Eiffel Tower.
We took the lifts up, but opted to walk down from the second platform.
My knees were complaining a bit by the time we reached street level, but the amazing vertiginous views at every turn, from which you are separated by just a few rusty bars, made it worthwhile.

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Stormkhan said:
Right.
Let me get this cleared up.
I'm a year away from being 60 years old. (humph)
I used to be in a Dark Ages/Viking reinactment group and, honestly, learned how to fight with a lot of heavy ... metal ... sharp things. We purchased our chainmail hauberks from a local ... wideboy, called Graham the Skunk. BTW, I know how to make 'fake' chainmail but, honestly, I'm getting on now and I can't be bothered,
And while (on recollection) I think I was an alcoholic, I've settled down now to old age, memories and a grab-bag of anecdotes that when my wife met some of my old cronies (and they remembered shit I didn't) she realised that what I had told her was only the tip of the wassname.

I say this not to impress or get 'clout'. I state fact.
Even I look back on all the crap I've experienced or done and still use the WTF expression.

I've not been around the world, I've not been wealthy, I've not climbed [insert mountain of choice]. I've been shot, stabbed, sliced and - sorry - I've sliced and broken other's limbs.

I'm not a top whatever.
I've just had an interesting, alternative, time of life.
And I'm nearing the end.
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I was just getting in to that post and then you stopped!
 
Victory said:
That's one of the funniest posts I have read in ages.

In the internet age, one buys Chainmail from here

https://www.theknightshop.com/buy-historical-armour/chainmail-armour-uk

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And after you've had enough of stair surfing, can sit on a long wooden bench, admire a tapestry and sip mead.

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https://www.theknightshop.com/horn-mug-and-mead-set
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Ooooh, ooooooh, @escargot and me and my daughter went in there! An American who'd never heard of mead was buying some, my daughter bought a Kraken bottle holder, and we found lots of lovely things we liked!
 
pandacracker said:
That's an interesting question.

I think the lesson from the joker was "You think you can play jokes? Look what I can do"

I have no recollection of what the incident did to my fear of falling downstairs. As my mother hugged me and consoled me I remember being... horrified... aghast... appalled... that my trick had backfired. I wanted to try and explain to her the whole thing but feared a telling off because it was me that had caused it all so I kept quiet. I was left alone with the realisation that I was the architect of my own horror.

A few years later my parents 'modernised' (think 1970's) the house by replacing the old staircase with a polished wood, open plan flight
of stairs like these

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They terrified me even more.
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Oh, and I asked because I used to have a recurrently nightmare about waking up and being unable to turn on the lights (electricity never works in my dreams). There'd be something scary going on and I couldn't turn on a light, which made it double scary. Then, one day, it happened for real. I was working on a farm and living in a tiny converted farm building; there was a thunderstorm which woke me, and I couldn't switch on a light because all the electricity had gone out. I've never had that dream since (lots of other scary ones, but never again one where I was trying to turn the lights on in a panic). So I think sometimes the feared thing happening makes you stop fearing it, because you lived through it!
 
catseye said:
Ooooh, ooooooh, @escargot and me and my daughter went in there! An American who'd never heard of mead was buying some, my daughter bought a Kraken bottle holder, and we found lots of lovely things we liked!
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That looks like an awesome shop. They sell swords at an affordable price.
 
Mythopoeika said:
That looks like an awesome shop. They sell swords at an affordable price.
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If you like this stuff, do a taster weekend with a local re-enactment society. Usually good people and learning a new creative skill is always worthwhile. Wasn't kidding about the long winter evenings. :twothumbs:
 
Frideswide said:
If you like this stuff, do a taster weekend with a local re-enactment society. Usually good people and learning a new creative skill is always worthwhile. Wasn't kidding about the long winter evenings. :twothumbs:
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No, I don't want to do that or LARPing. Too old and decrepit.
But I do have an interest in bladesmithing.
 
Heh.
Not only am I an afficionado of mead, but I've been making it since I was 15.

Oh and as weapon-smith, I can recommend Heron Armoury. Tim, the proprietor, made most of my stuff, including a custom design for my 30th birthday!
 
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