Mexican gun forum with a razor section

[edhewitt]

#sillysausage @Edhweitt

to be honest i dont know what a twit looks like either but hashtags where invented years before the internet

Ok Mr smartypants, what are they for?

[bombay]

ok edit. hash's are ancient and are whats on telephones e.t.c.

a hashtag is when one uses a hash infront of a word to tag it which makes it a link

#simpleaspeas

[thebigspendur]

Back in the day no thug would be caught dead without a razor in his shoe or boot. They were very handy for messing someone up bad without killing them and in a pinch you could slit their throat.

[gssixgun]

Google

Capoeria, Straight Razor,

You will find some interesting info and some Youtube vids about SR's used in this Brazilian Martial Art, I will let you go look rather then spoil your surprise

[unit]

Interesting thread over there. What I find particularly interesting is how many of those fighting razors I have actually seen on other forums. In fact, I know the guy who made one of them.

Suffice to say there is some seriously different stories I have seen presented with those exact same images.

[edhewitt]

ok edit. hash's are ancient and are whats on telephones e.t.c.

a hashtag is when one uses a hash infront of a word to tag it which makes it a link

#simpleaspeas

Ok Pete, I see, well sort of. For clarity I know what a hash symbol is, I just didn't know what they were for in interneteese, so I put hashtags around the place like #DODGY PETES DODGY BUT AT LEAST AVERAGE GARDENING and if someone clicked on it they could find you, assuming that is what you call your business.
Though the simple as peas one doesn't work if I click it.
And what is the @ all about before someone's name, I understood it to mean at.

[Magpie]

my father told me stories about people using razors in street fights back in the 40's and 50s, and that they would frequently chip up the blades so that they would do more damage instead of a simple clean razor slash.

[unit]

my father told me stories about people using razors in street fights back in the 40's and 50s, and that they would frequently chip up the blades so that they would do more damage instead of a simple clean razor slash.

It just seems like a really really lousy weapon for a host of reasons.

(Carry, deployment, handle, durability, safety for user).

[Magpie]

Lousy? probably, handy, and EVERYWHERE back then? absolutely. Dont judge by todays standards, judge by the times. there were no junk china blades being hawked on every corner and in every bodega, fighting knives on existed in the military and in the hands of hunters, and a shop keep had scruples and might likely turn away a "tough" if he thought he was up to no good. But nobody thought twice about a young man needing a razor for shaving with.

[edhewitt]

I heard stories from only a couple of decades ago about football holigans using Stanley knives with two blades side by side to make nasty wounds that wouldn't heal well, leaving bad scarring. I guess people will just use what is cheap and available.
And in some ways a razor would be more intimidating than a big knife as there is the association with "razor sharpness".