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Terme has just gained the Necromancer achievement for bringing a thread back just 2 months shy of being 3 years gone. Laughing

No, that isn't a challenge to revive older threads...

It's a quick fix that was put in to get around a database hacking vulnerability... that's the short answer. Apostrophes are dangerous to databases, so unless we do clever things with them it's quicker ...

You could just resize the browser window you are viewing GD in.

The variable width works well as it scales to the window you are working in, no matter what screen size - whether Iphone, or tablet, ...

A note on tetanus shots.

If you had a tetanus shot at 15 or 11 (under the new schedule), then you aren't due for another one until you are 45 and then 65 - so most people are "up to date" without n ...

Maybe a Super Cheap Auto?

I was going suggest the place that I got mine in bulk from, but they are in Christchurch...

This is where I think there should be more onus on the combatants to acknowledge good blows, and not have a system reliant on the marshals. The marshals are only looking with their eyes, but the comba ...

Having watched SCA tournaments for many years, a call of "HOLD!" from anyone participating or watching will almost always get immediate cessation of combat, and the call is taken up by everyone else p ...

I have an authorisation card for SCA combat archery - actually, it's just expired so I'll need to renew it.

To get it I'll have to demonstrate my knowledge of the rules.
Questions on minimum armou ...

I like standard fletching more than I like flu-flus - they fly faster and more accurately, and my enemy sometimes doesn't see them coming.

But they are used in a context where everyone is sufficien ...

A good portion of the combat archery in Australia is, I'm presuming through my limited experience there, done by the SCA, who got their combat archery rules (which are _entirely_ different to the SCA ...

Before you advocate changing any rules, it would pay to find out if the rules as they currently stand were being followed at the time of the incident.

If the rules say no gaps bigger than 5mm witho ...

If you generally allow the shooting of arrows at people`s heads, and injure someone, ACC will justifiably refuse to pay out. Because it will not be classed as an accident.

Ignoring the rest of ...

If it's the helm I'm thinking of, then looking downward opens up the gap presented significantly, to about an inch, larger than the blunts we use.

I can't recommend mesh enough - covering all gaps ...

That would quite possibly be me...

Where should I be sending said training device to return it?

Rob, how about just the one post, in just the one (appropriate) thread (ie, not this one), okay?

Many of us don't have Sky, or just don't give damn, and would prefer a higher signal to noise ratio. ...