@joe.jones | 10 july

[malta]

What do people do for hobbies around here? Aside from volunteering for medical torture.

Has Victorian flower languages come back in style yet? Bookbinding and leathercraft seems obsolete by now, but what about backgammon or cards. I once lost a game of trappola to the Duchess of Ferrara, she was shark. Scrabble? Does that work with the translator? Pomme de terre is about twice as many points as potato.

[ please enjoy that this translates to "potato is about twice as many points as potato" unless you also speak french.

anyway joe is bored come talk to him ]

Who wants to bring fencing back in fashion?

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@callisto.diamandis

[myfavoritemurder]

[Callisto, being Callisto, really only jumps into this when it becomes clear in the comments that "fencing" is something combat-related, so--]

What sort of weapon is a fence?

[A modified fencepost, maybe???]

[malta]

A relative to the rapier, it is thin and flexible. Since it is for sport they don't do damage.

The most common one is called a foil.

[myfavoritemurder]

I don't know what rapiers are, either. Do they do damage?

[malta]

If the thrust is well placed.

[myfavoritemurder]

Better than nothing, but the people here should learn how to make proper swords.

[malta]

I think that is a vocation lost to time. All guns now.