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OK who else out there has to listen to endless annoying references to Robin Hood, Erol Flinn and green tights? Any other comments you have to endure from friends and family?
And they look puzzled when you point out that pople were "shooting" long before guns were invented...:sigh:English Bowman said:These are some of the things that annoy me.
People talking about "firing" a bow / arrow. There are no explosives involved, and I don't set light to my arrows (as a rule) so I shoot or loose, I never "fire"
There's number of websites perpetuate that one. They usually have the British maiming the French though, after Agincourt or Crecy. It's posited as the source of the "v-sign" as an insult...English Bowman said:The French would cut off an Englishman's drawing fingers. Why? Why not just kill him, he's worth nothing as ransom, so what's the point of keeping him alive? Where did this myth come from?
Wasn't there an episode of Buffy, where they were sitting around watching a martial arts film and the eponymous heroine piped up "He so couldn't do that from a standing start!"...?English Bowman said:As for other TV and film portrayals of archery, people running around with permanently braced longbows that they can hold at full draw indefinitely until given the command to fire! Arrghhh.
What about those tests in the Glade recently?English Bowman said:Arrows can't go through armour. ....
I think Daniel's point is that he gets annoyed by people saying thatFurface said:What about those tests in the Glade recently?
Is that "old man" = father or "old man" = partner ?Little Miss Purple said:My old man has my medals and asks for each one I win!! :beer: