Watching BBC Four and the English National Ballet are doing Romeo & Juliet. One of the guys has just had a foil straight though the palm of his hand. Ow ow ow ow…

Have they never heard of the little plastic buttons that go on the end??????

Rachel

ballet – go hard or go home

true – another one sprained a wrist now…

/noob

What’s a foil?

Fencing type sword.

Fencing type sword.

Ahh. Cheers.

double-type post.

Ok, I heard you the first time 😉

Sorry Jamie – I wrote foil but actually I think it was an épée…

Rachel

Sorry Jamie – I wrote foil but actually I think it was an épée…

Rachel

Don’t worry, I would have had to ask what that was as well.

I am such a philistine.

Runs off to find out if Rachel just made up the word épée ( with acutes and everything ) …

No.

The “acutes” are just me showing off that I finally remembered how to do type them. I used to teach fencing many years ago so I knew how to spell it…

Rachel

ballet – go hard or go home

Unless it’s a children’s ballet. Then you would most likely end up with Gary in the nonce wing.

I dated someone who did Renaissance fencing – that was proper mental big FO swords and major slashing did seem to happen fairly often.