Dear chav fuckhead

[andygates]

You do not, ever, shunt people with your pimped-out Astra. If you do, you may discover that the spotty nerdy cyclist is some hulking great very very angry horror with a stupid moustache.

I'm very impressed that I didn't go beyond throwing his keys in the traffic: for some reason I really, really wanted to go at all three of them. Ho hum, at least they did me the favour of driving with their windows down. Spring may bring the fuckheads out, ,but it makes them easy targets.

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

Omnia vincit vis, more like. Apologies for the declension. Must finish those chainmail gloves.

Omnia vincit amor my arse. I refer the honourable aldy - as she damnwell knows - to her favoured quote about pacifism. You could, without doubt, conquer the entire planet armed only with a butter knife.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

And those Fortress gloves are sooooo cool :)

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Hops over to Google.

Hey, neat. Izzat sintered armorgel?

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

And, speaking of sintered armorgel, check this out.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

Me want.

No, the Fortress Gloves have kevlar.

They are quite fine. Specialized actually make gloves that fit my dinky little not-properly-opposable mutant hands.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

"Feels like gritty jell-O, protects like a stack of telephone books" eh, thud?

See, now THAT is a superhero suit. Beats bloody lycra. My tastes run a little more medieval and homebrew: http://www.ravenfamily.org/andyg/images/mailglove.jpg

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

"Feels like gritty jell-O, protects like a stack of telephone books" eh, thud?

Let's just say that, if I ever come into a truly obscene amount of money, Snowcrash is on the short-list of novels I'd consider making a miniseries out of. Along with Guards!, Guards! and ... I don't even know what else. A very short list, then.

My tastes run a little more medieval and homebrew:

Very nice work. Protection, style, and also good for dropping chav fuckheads if necessary.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

No, the Fortress Gloves have kevlar.

That's what I figured, honestly, since I got sintered armorgel out of Snowcrash. I was really surprised to see that someone had actually made the rough equivalent of the stuff, though. I mean, this kind of material has been a mainstay in scifi for years, and I was vaguely aware that there were materials with strain rate flexibility (which is presumably the cause of its appearance in scifi), but I this is the first I've heard of a practical application in body armor.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

For lo, I am a Hawk amongst pigeons.

Bring it on, baby.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

They need reminding that they're not the alpha predators. We are.

They're the beta herbivores, medium-sized herd animals. The alphas, the big bulls, are trucks and buses - but regular car drivers? They're just cattle. The kind of dinosaurs no schoolchild ever wanted to be. Psittacosaurs. Edmontosaurs.

We're the mammals, baby.

Well, apart from some hawks.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Omnia vincit amor

Until Sam's rant, I'd been misreading this as "omnia vincit armor", especially when the Kevlar uber-gloves showed up in context.

I think I like the "armor" version better than the other one. Very OGRE.