The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[JenB]

Nobody got plastered at Entmoot... right?

[Fedora]

I think you should find a Daffy-related tagline :)

[JenB]

I just don't want to bring a steak knife to a gunfight.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good tips, I am all for using anything as a weapon in a desperate circumstance, but I don't like the idea of any average woman using a hand-to-had weapon on a likely-to-be-stronger intruder.

Better to have guns in every room. :~D

[Fedora]

Ayyyyyyy! Spam ain't cool.

Now that was not cool :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Clearer: I don't like the idea of any average woman ~thinking she should rely on~ using a hand-to-hand weapon on a likely-to-be-stronger intruder.

[Fedora]

I wanted to come up with a Kenshin-related tagline but I couldn't think of one which would be intelligible to FR at large. I liked "Oro!" :)

[Fedora]

Yeah - Jen prolly won't be comin' home all plastered the way I did...

LOL! Yeah, I suppose if you're coming home plastered booby traps might not be such a great idea. . .

[HairOfTheDog]

Now that was not cool :)

They are exponentially creepier in a group.

[Corin Stormhands]

I weren't there long enough...

[Fedora]

I just don't want to bring a steak knife to a gunfight.

If you can reach a gun, by all means use it. But let's say you've got your gun stored in your bedroom and the attacker broke in while you were out, so you end up confronting them in the living room and you can't get to the gun in the bedroom. In that case it might be handy to have another means of defense available.

[Fedora]

They are exponentially creepier in a group.

You ain't kiddin'!--whoah!!!! :)

[Corin Stormhands]

You cain't just say "scuse me whilst I obtain my firearm?"

[JenB]

Yeah, I agree - I'm not very strong, and I don't have impermeable skin. I don't want the bad guys getting near enough to me that I have to use hand-to-hand.

[RMDupree]

I think you may be on to something there, Fedora. I'll have to do some research and see if I can find the perfect one.

[HairOfTheDog]

The guy who ends up breaking into a house has probably been in more fist-fights than I have... It's just a hunch.

[Overtaxed]

But...but...I have to leave on Monday. :(

[JenB]

Absolutely. But he's no better at taking a bullet than I am.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well put!

[Fedora]

Clearer: I don't like the idea of any average woman ~thinking she should rely on~ using a hand-to-hand weapon on a likely-to-be-stronger intruder.

If a woman is going to use a hand-to-hand weapon, she has to rely on technique rather than strength. For instance a mistake you often see in movies is that a woman tries to wield a knife with an overhead stabbing motion. That's not the best way to use a knife if you're not a strong person. But anyone of any size can stab and slash effectively. Likewise when women punch, women generally don't have as much upper-body strength as men, so if they try to outpunch a man by punching the way a man punches they're likely to lose. However there is a way women can punch which is biomechanically efficient for a woman's body, using the entire body mass to drive the punch rather than just upper-body strength. A woman may only weigh 100 pounds, but 100 pounds suddenly accelerating in one direction and slamming into your windpipe can kill a 300-pound man. Likewise it only takes a few pounds of pressure at the right angles to break an elbow or knee. Few guys will know how to defend against a woman suddenly picking up their foot and stomping down on the side of their knee with 100 pounds of weight.