I hate condoms, but I have always used them and the advice on going with the flow is spot on. I can lose it if there is fumbling around, damn things are soo tight as well.
However with the right people, and in the flow they are almost forgetable. I have had some of my best sex in a condom so you can get over droop if you work at it. Also once its in with the right lady, lube, and make of condom I find any droop soon stops...
An age old saying of mine is you cant legislate against the madmen...
Now I agree with some legislation. I feel far safer in the UK than the US. We cant bear arms, and guns are for hunting not defence. Equally I can see that assault rifles have very little place in society (AK47 for example). The same can be said of combat knives, designed to kill not cut.
A lock knife is a tool, an sas dagger is for killing. The trouble is a lock knife can kill, and how in law do you define an SAS dagger anyway?
Take the latest waste of time, banning swords. As an Aikido practitioner I know how to use a sword, and we dont use metal ones these days, not because of injuries, just insurance. However I like to own a couple for display, I find something deeply symbolic about them.
I think here I will point out Aikido is totally defensive, you learn no agressive moves and it is founded on disabling, never injuring let alone killing an attacker.
So the goverment banned swords as there were something like 39 incidents involving them. So now I cant buy a sword with a curve in it, but one exactly the same with a streight blade... yes that makes me feel safer.
Its like the guns, does it really hurt that I own a plastic BB gun to plink in my garden with? Lets go for the real ones on the streets guys, not the toys. If the toys can be made real ban them sure, but not the ones that cant.
Lets use some discretion here, I own a lot of knives, they are in the kitchen. Hey I like to cook. I also would like to carry my picnic stuff in the boat of my car without worrying that the knives in it are weapons. I bite my nails and want a 2 inch or so pocket knife to open stuff, cut fruit, and be a useful tool. Sadly I am too scared to get prosocuted.
Somewhere there must be a ballence, bearing in mind one of the tragic deaths this week was caused by broken glass not a weapon.
I have friends from SH, I would have to say hi to them. For all the others I have met my memory for names is soooo bad I would prob stay quiet, so they would not realise the name had gone...
I could be tempted Mal ;)
Still here Missy, but had to go AWOL to come back and visit. Missed you as well.
Oh and on overkill, you think you are about to die, the biggest call of your life is to pull the trigger. Do you fire 1, 2, 3, or 5 shots with your heart pumping... We forget even the best trained armed units are human beings and I dont care if they shoot 5 or 10 times if all the bullets go into who they are aiming at. If they were innocent then the fact it was 1 or 5 bullets wont matter since 1 can happily kill as per Harry Stanley, shot once only by each officer.
Here my friend you may need this:
Camoflaged for hiding at the bottom when they come looking for you ;)
Some forms seem to teach weapons for offensive use, I know in Aikido we use wooden weapons purely for help with ballence, control, and reactions. We also learn to disarm with them.
However end of the day a book on knife techniques on open sale, yes I have a problem with it. Thugs are dangerous with a knife, show em how to avoid blocks and where to stab to kill and they are even more dangerous. I know this stuff is out there on the net and you cant legislate against the madman, but you can be nervous about people who want this sort of book...
Form an orderly queue for the pies there....
Although I understand Harrods got their full xmas shop up (complete with Santa) a month or so ago. It was on the news :shock: