"My hands are lethal weapons..." Topic
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 Parzival  | 20 Dec 2012 5:54 p.m. PST |
… and so are yours: link How about that— in a sense, you could say we're born to fight, at least if we have to. |
 Editor in Chief Bill  | 20 Dec 2012 6:27 p.m. PST |
The only way to verify this is to train apes in the boxing ring. |
 Saginaw | 20 Dec 2012 9:55 p.m. PST |
The only way to verify this is to train apes in the boxing ring. They already have, Bill. It's called "cage fighting". |
| kreoseus2 | 21 Dec 2012 6:04 a.m. PST |
The only way your hand is a lethal weapon is if it is involved in food preperation…. |
| Bowman | 21 Dec 2012 4:18 p.m. PST |
Researchers at the University of Utah have another suggestion: The hand is the shape that it is because it allows us to make a nice fist for fighting that protects key parts of the hand from harm. Really? Ask any Emergency Ward worker or EMS worker about injuries from fistfights involving drunks. The common knowledge is that the recipient of the punch comes into Emergency the night of the fight. The guy who threw the punch comes in a day or two later with broken bones, lacerated knuckles, and a nasty Staph infection. The human hand is made for grasping and delicate manipulation. In that respect it is a weapon, as it holds and throws rocks and sharpened sticks. By itself, not so much. In our hunting-gathering days, anyone with a broken and lame hand was a liability to everyone. I wonder how they explain the correlation between the opposable Hominid thumb and the rapid development of the Hominid pre-frontal brain. |
| skippy0001 | 21 Dec 2012 7:21 p.m. PST |
Unless it's built to hit the soft spots. |
| Last Hussar | 10 Jan 2013 5:59 p.m. PST |
The self defence training at work is at pains to point out how delicate the hand is. The advice is don't punch the head – the skull is too tough – despite it being the obvious target |
| tkdguy | 09 Apr 2013 11:00 p.m. PST |
Open palm strikes and hammer fists are much easier on your hands than punching. |
| zoneofcontrol | 14 Apr 2013 4:03 p.m. PST |
Further research has determined that the hand is only useful as a weapon up to a limited size. Any hand up to and including 11.99 inches will form a good fist for fighting. However, if it reaches the length of 12 inches, it just becomes a foot. |
| tkdguy | 14 Apr 2013 5:43 p.m. PST |
Ha! That would work even better for me, since my style is Taekwondo. |
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