Maybe if you'd been wearing your Moderator's cape... "; ) On 2/20/19, smplx wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, RussellMc wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 11:24, stephen.forrest@agilent.com < >> stephen.forrest@agilent.com> wrote: >> >>> As David Attenborough once noted, the most dangerous animal in the worl= d >>> is the adult male human :o( >>> >>> For day to day hurly-burly, perhaps the late teen male human. >> Which these guys may have been. >> >> We olde guys can be reasonably lethal in more subtle ways once we drop >> into >> gear. >> Several groups of 'younguns' have regretted breaking into cars in my >> street, without my having come near them on one occasion, or even having >> seen them on another :-). >> >> >> Russell > > Consider this: many people that are disciplined in martial arts are > disciplined (they practice long and hard). Many yobs that throw their > weight around are NOT disciplined and could never achieve any kind of ran= k > in any martial art. It follows that a yob encountering someone that > practices martial arts will be at a great disadvantage and will ALWAYS > lose a confrontation. Also consider that such yobs are VERY UNLIKELY to > advertise the fact that they lost a fight - especially to an old geezer. > So hearing about such events is rare even though they do happen more ofte= n > than you might think. > > So put a smile on your face and consider that sooner or later your > "younguns" will wish (most profoundly) that they had never got out of bed > that week :-) > > Regards > Sergio Masci > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .