I defied my instructor to hurt me with a piece of tissue paper. He was able to, so I would say that given the right situation anything can be a weapon. It doesn't even have to be a physical object either!
My Kali instructor, as an exercise, has us go home and choose a room and catalog how every item in the room could be used as a weapon. While it seems a little extreme it gets you into the habit of deconstructing home "traditional" weapons work, looking for items with similar characteristics, and then understanding how to weild those items. For example he's stopped carrying knives and just carries pens, since he can do just about as much stabbing damage with a pen as he can with a tactical folder. - matt
I think Everything is a weapon generalises. As we know, all generalisation are incorrect Rather, if you were to redefine the statement as Most things can be used as a weapon in the right situation, that would be more correct. For example, banana could be used to slip someone up
or said bananna could be thrown in to some ones eyes Yeah tah right fear my bananna-fu throwing style
HAHAHA the statement "all generalization are false" is a you know what. And i am going to mug someone with a bannana to prove my point. I'll smash it in their eye then grab their money and run.
Freeform - I'm really curious, just how did he hurt you with a piece of tissue paper? Also, mugging someone with a banana is too easy! Just pop it in the freezer and it will be as deadly a weapon as you could want. Even better, stick the banana in your pocket, get the jump on them, and press it into their back like a gun!
Title: Self-defense Against Fresh Fruit From: Monty Python's Flying Circus Transcribed By: Jonathan Partington ( JRP1@PHX.CAM.AC.UK ) Colonel (Graham Chapman): get some discipline into those chaps, Sergeant Major! Sargeant (John Cleese, shouting throughout): Right sir! Good evening, class. All (mumbling): Good evening. Sargeant: Where's all the others, then? All: They're not here. Sgt.: I can see that. What's the matter with them? All: Dunno. Chapman (member of class): Perhaps they've got 'flu. Sgt.: Huh! 'Flu, eh? They should eat more fresh fruit. Ha. Right. Now, self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit. (Grumbles from all) Palin: Oh, you promised you wouldn't do fruit this week. Sgt.: What do you mean? Jones: We've done fruit the last nine weeks. Sgt.: What's wrong with fruit? You think you know it all, eh? Palin: Can't we do something else? Idle (Welsh): Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick? Sgt.: Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit... All: We done the passion fruit. Sgt.: What? Chapman: We done the passion fruit. Palin: We done oranges, apples, grapefruit... Jones: Whole and segments. Palin: Pomegranates, greengages... Chapman: Grapes, passion fruit... Palin: Lemons... Jones: Plums... Chapman: Mangoes in syrup... Sgt.: How about cherries? All: We did them. Sgt.: Red *and* black? All: Yes! Sgt.: All right, bananas. (All sigh.) Sgt.: We haven't done them, have we? Right. Bananas. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless. Palin: Suppose he's got a bunch. Sgt.: Shut up. Idle: Suppose he's got a pointed stick. Sgt.: Shut up. Right now you, Mr Apricot. Chapman: 'Arrison. Sgt.: Sorry, Mr. 'Arrison. Come at me with that banana. Hold it like that, that's it. Now attack me with it. Come on! Come on! Come at me! Come at me then! (Shoots him.) Chapman: Aaagh! (dies.) Sgt.: Now, I eat the banana. (Does so.) Palin: You shot him! Jones: He's dead! Idle: He's completely dead! Sgt.: I have now eaten the banana. The deceased, Mr Apricot, is now 'elpless. Palin: You shot him. You shot him dead. Sgt.: Well, he was attacking me with a banana. Jones: But you told him to. Sgt.: Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourselves against fresh fruit. Idle: And pointed sticks. Sgt.: Shut up. Palin: Suppose I'm attacked by a man with a banana and I haven't got a gun? Sgt.: Run for it. Jones: You could stand and scream for help. Sgt.: Yeah, you try that with a pineapple down your windpipe. Jones: A pineapple? Sgt.: Where? Where? Jones: No I just said: a pineapple. Sgt.: Oh. Phew. I thought my number was on that one. Jones: What, on the pineapple? Sgt.: Where? Where? Jones: No, I was just repeating it. Sgt.: Oh. Oh. I see. Right. Phew. Right that's bananas then. Now the raspberry. There we are. 'Armless looking thing, isn't it? Now you, Mr Tin Peach. Jones: Thompson. Sgt.: Thompson. Come at me with that raspberry. Come on. Be as vicious as you like with it. Jones: No. Sgt.: Why not
Yes, how? I too want to know. Oh, as for the original question, not "everything is" a weapon, but "most things could be" used as a weapon. Maybe after I hear about the tissue paper I'll change that to "everything" could be used as a weapon.
"And i am going to mug someone with a bannana to prove my point. I'll smash it in their eye then grab their money and run." i was not suggesting a bananna was not a weapon, merely stating not all weapons are equal. fruit is good for you BTW, might improve your reading skills
IMO, anything COULD be a weapon. But, not an offensive weapon. Anything could be a weapon if you include defensive weapons. You could pick up a pinecone and jab it in their eye -- Offensive. A banana....well....you could throw it at someone to distract them -- Defensive -- and then run in with your pinecone. A piece of tissue paper....ummm....well....uhhh....now that's a hard one....but....wait....ummm....uhhh....well....hey, Freeform, why don't you tell us that one.
ooh....ooh...ooh, I got one for the tissue paper...make it into the biggest spit ball you can create and throw it at them. Make sure it's wet and gooey with spit.. Also, when it dries up, it'll be hard as a rock so just imagine the different use of a hardened spit-ball...
