At 1/7/09 06:47 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Ss you were fighting against two guys?

Awesome as that would have been, no. They were in separate fights.

At 1/7/09 07:12 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote:

At 1/7/09 06:47 AM, HeavyTank wrote: Ss you were fighting against two guys?

Awesome as that would have been, no. They were in separate fights.

Rather unfortunate. I have to do martial arts at school in Pe, I am pretty bad at it, can't get my kicks very high.

At 1/7/09 07:12 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: Awesome as that would have been, no. They were in separate fights.

l don't think it would be very awesome to fight a white and a black belt together...

At 1/8/09 06:12 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 1/7/09 07:12 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: Awesome as that would have been, no. They were in separate fights.

l don't think it would be very awesome to fight a white and a black belt together...

Depends what belt he was... I guess.

At 1/7/09 12:10 PM, sirtom93 wrote: Rather unfortunate. I have to do martial arts at school in Pe, I am pretty bad at it, can't get my kicks very high.

Well, it takes time. I can easily go for the head of anyone my height (6ft), but it's taken me 5 years to do so. And as for the "injuries", the kick to the face didn't do much, seeing as there was no swelling or anything. I still have trouble putting weight on my bruised arm, though.

At 1/8/09 02:46 PM, sirtom93 wrote: Depends what belt he was... I guess.

Brown, for the record.

One under black. And sorry for the double post.

At 1/8/09 02:46 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
Depends what belt he was... I guess.

even if you're a black belt, fighting a black belt AND another guy is still hard...

G'day folks. The weekend is upon us, good times.

At 1/9/09 11:21 AM, sirtom93 wrote: G'day folks. The weekend is upon us, good times.

Yeah. I could be getting a name change soon, so be prepared for that.

Because this one is starting to get annoying. But it all depends on Wade's good graces.

At 1/9/09 05:16 PM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote:

At 1/9/09 11:21 AM, sirtom93 wrote: G'day folks. The weekend is upon us, good times.

Yeah. I could be getting a name change soon, so be prepared for that.

Because this one is starting to get annoying. But it all depends on Wade's good graces.

It is worth a try, I my self regret putting numbers at the end of mine, but I don't mind to much.

At 1/9/09 05:27 PM, sirtom93 wrote: It is worth a try, I my self regret putting numbers at the end of mine, but I don't mind to much.

That's partly why my name is like this. I wanted it to be unique, as so I would have numbers at the end.

But that seems fairly trivial now.

At 1/9/09 05:29 PM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: That's partly why my name is like this. I wanted it to be unique, as so I would have numbers at the end.

But that seems fairly trivial now.

lolz, your name is so messed up...nobody will EVER have one like yours..

lolz, your name is so messed up...nobody will EVER have one like yours..

A forward backward name, quite original. HeavyTank is pretty cool I guess.

At 1/10/09 12:15 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
A forward backward name, quite original. HeavyTank is pretty cool I guess.

oh, l never noticed that...you're right about the forward/backward, but what the hell does it mean?
Oh, and, if you want to know, l chose this username because l like tanks and (no, l a, not fat) l like them better when they're heavy :P

oh, l never noticed that...you're right about the forward/backward, but what the hell does it mean?
Oh, and, if you want to know, l chose this username because l like tanks and (no, l a, not fat) l like them better when they're heavy :P

I like soviet world war 2 tanks, they owned.

At 1/10/09 12:15 PM, sirtom93 wrote: A forward backward name, quite original. HeavyTank is pretty cool I guess.

I don't mind the mirror aspect, just the ungodly length of it. That and it's Death Note, of all shows.

I still like the show, but just....I don't know.

At 1/10/09 05:37 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
I like soviet world war 2 tanks, they owned.

you played a lot of CoD 5 right?

At 1/11/09 11:03 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 1/10/09 05:37 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
I like soviet world war 2 tanks, they owned.

you played a lot of CoD 5 right?

Never played Cod 5 in my life. Also, level 23 - more vikingish I think :3

At 1/11/09 12:55 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
Never played Cod 5 in my life. Also, level 23 - more vikingish I think :3

Oh..l assumaed that you did because there are a lot of russian tanks there...
And a fire axe is a bit more vikingish, but not as the lv.37, 38 and 53 weapons...

At 1/12/09 02:16 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 1/11/09 12:55 PM, sirtom93 wrote:
Never played Cod 5 in my life. Also, level 23 - more vikingish I think :3

And a fire axe is a bit more vikingish, but not as the lv.37, 38 and 53 weapons...

I like to assume people fought with broken glass back then.

But, I only do because I don't vote anymore. And it's still plausible.

At 1/12/09 07:29 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: I like to assume people fought with broken glass back then.

But, I only do because I don't vote anymore. And it's still plausible.

Wait, what?
People fought with broken glass?
What?

I just assumed it was a generic axe.

At 1/12/09 02:00 PM, sirtom93 wrote: I just assumed it was a generic axe.

I dunno, it looks like a fire axe to me...

At 1/12/09 07:32 AM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 1/12/09 07:29 AM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: I like to assume people fought with broken glass back then.

But, I only do because I don't vote anymore. And it's still plausible.

Wait, what?
People fought with broken glass?
What?

I said "I like to assume". Just picture it. Two vikings enjoying a nice flagon of mead in a mead hall. They start arguing, then they start shoving, and then one of them downs their flagon, and breaks it against the table and holds up a shard of it to the other viking.

So picturesque.

At 1/12/09 05:12 PM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: I said "I like to assume". Just picture it. Two vikings enjoying a nice flagon of mead in a mead hall. They start arguing, then they start shoving, and then one of them downs their flagon, and breaks it against the table and holds up a shard of it to the other viking.

So picturesque.

That would be hard since they didn't have any glass back then (except for perhaps some really rich people who imported glass drinking vessels), but they did have knives!

I once read about a supposedly popular drinking sport from the Viking era. One fighter takes out his knife and measures with his thumb nail on the blade with the challenge "How much steel can you handle?", the other fighter measures perhaps a larger amount of steel, and so it goes back and forth between the two fighters until they've reached an agreement. The knives' blades are then wrapped in leather up till the agreed length of blade and the fight commences. Up till four inches (10 cm) of steel would be common. Usually ended up with one fighter dead. It was according to the source also quite common in these fights to tie a two yard long rope between the two fighters' belts, to make sure no one backed away to far.

Of course backing off from either challenge or fight would be deemed very disgraceful.

Of course backing off from either challenge or fight would be deemed very disgraceful.

Was there any prominent writer from the viking period where we gain much knowledge from? sources etc..

At 1/13/09 03:21 AM, vdviking wrote:

I once read about a supposedly popular drinking sport from the Viking era.

Wait, l din't get it...what did they do with that blade?

At 1/13/09 12:15 PM, sirtom93 wrote:

Of course backing off from either challenge or fight would be deemed very disgraceful.

Was there any prominent writer from the viking period where we gain much knowledge from? sources etc..

The Eddas by the Icelander Snorri Sturlason and Saxo Grammaticus' The Chronicle of Denmark, but they were both Christian and thus their accounts should not be taken a the final Truth. Saxo's work was even commissioned to tell the "Heroic" ancestry of Denmark and it's Kings, and is full of historical discrepancies, but still a good source as long as one is aware of it's flaws. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan gave a good account of his travels along the rivers of Russia and his stay in Scandinavia (unsure where actually, the name he gave of the area, Ultima Thule, isn't know today). But there are few, if any, accounts from the time written by Scandinavians. Runes carved on rock aren't good for long stories.

Other than that there are as you might understand plenty of Scandinavian historians who write about the Vikings. Sources for me are Anders Baeckstedt's book about Nordic Gods and Heroes ("Nordiska Gudar och Hjaeltar" in Swedish), Mats G Larsson's Vikings in the East ("Vikingar i Oesterled") and Lars Magnar Enoksen's The Viking Art of Warfare ("Vikingarnas Stridskonst")

At 1/13/09 01:08 PM, HeavyTank wrote:

At 1/13/09 03:21 AM, vdviking wrote:

I once read about a supposedly popular drinking sport from the Viking era.

Wait, l din't get it...what did they do with that blade?

They measure from the tip, the longer down you put your nail the braver (or foolhardier) you are. The wrapping is from the hilt up to the nail, more uncovered steel gives deeper wounds.

Very interesting. We have currently been learning about the Vikings invasion of England in the dark ages, specifically how they took over York. They didn't make to many progressions though, and somewhat ruined what the Romans and to a lesser extent Saxons had done.

Thanks, vdviking. I knew there was glass back then, but I didn't know it was that rare in Scandinavia.
And, that's an interesting drinking game, to say the least.

You know you've got a good game when someone ends up dead. Jai Alai, anyone?