Tickling and knifing people

[Fallout]

Ok, so I have this theory about tickling and knifing people. Makes perfect sense to me.

I remember seeing this marine training video years ago which taught you how to take someone out with a knife. They cut major arteries so people bled out very quickly and most importantly of all, they shut up. I think it was on CBBC, but I could be wrong. Anyway, basically they get the pointy thing and damage their assailant in a nasty way, hitting key areas.

What were the key areas that I remember? Well, obviously the neck, because as everyone knows, the neck contains a little juggler from the circus. Also they go for under the arm, where a major artery runs which supplies blood to fingers which are used for swearing. Another was the inner thigh, which is obviously a sexy area, as it's close to the sexy bits. Those are the ones I remember.

Now, I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the most ticklish areas are your neck, your arm pits, and your inner thigh. My theory is that us hairless apes have a natural inbuilt ticklishness in those areas because they contain major arteries and we need to protect them. When a naughty girl wiggles her digits in your arm pit your natural instinct is to giggle, pull away, and then in my case, knock her the feck out. I believe that's our natural response to protect areas that if wounded could result in our untimely demise and a lot of cleaning.

What do you think? Is ticklishness a fun and silly giggly response which has no real purpose except to make you look like a little girl, or a mechanism to protect you from being killed dead? Is ticklishness actually extremely manly because it means you have an elite defence mechanism programmed into your nervous system?

This does raise an interesting point though. What about people who aren't ticklish? Aside from being inhuman, are they easier to kill with a knife? I bet they are. I bet you could just slip a knife between their thighs at the coffee shop and they'd just sit there reading a magazine and not even realise it'd happened. Throwbacks, the lot of them.

[Littlepeahead]

I'm not ticklish, and I often think up different scenarios of how I'd most like to kill you.

[Bibio]

you will find that the non ticklish ones are the ones who will knife you as they have no feeling.

[Wideboy]

food poisoning

[Fruity-ya-ya]

Interesting question though i'm not sure all areas that are sensative to tickleidge carry a vital blood supply.
Some people are ticklish on their hands and feet or on the end of thier nose/ears. Perhaps someone who knows about reflexology or pressure points might be able to explain as it's thought some seemingly unrelated areas are linked to vital organs.

[Mr Speirs]

Drugs are bad m'kay

[rb8989]

Yeah I don't laugh, I lash out when tickled, I do warn people.

[Jayneflakes]

Not ticklish here, but this is a learned response due to having a father who thought it great fun to tickle us until we screamed.

As I recall being tickled is a response that is based in anxiety, it is more to do with the fear of being tickled than the actual tickling action. Also that kind of sensation is linked on the pain scale and is a way of confusing the body. Biologically I cannot imagine what use it would be, other than to fend off parasites who make the skin tickle when walking across it.

It really annoys the wife that I do not respond to being tickled. :D

[Spank86]

my most ticklish spot is my stomach and if you knife me there I'll writhe around screaming for hours before expiring.

[dkid]

I remember seeing this marine training video years ago which taught you how to take someone out with a knife. They cut major arteries so people bled out very quickly and most importantly of all, they shut up. I think it was on CBBC, but I could be wrong.
I need to seriously review what my kids are watching I think! :eek:

[Runako]

I like this thread. This stuff has been missing lately. More crazy threads please :D

[TamSV]

Interesting thread.

If someone tickles me, I knife them and THEN I laugh. Does that still mean I'm ticklish?

[Fallout]

I think you're all making light of my valuable contribution to science!!!

Next week I shall be pondering whether farts that don't smell actually happen at all, or whether the actual noise of a fart is completely independent of the passing of gas. After all, sometimes you get silent ones which reek .... but no noise?! See, now you're thinking.

[Fruity-ya-ya]

I think you're all making light of my valuable contribution to science!!!

Next week I shall be pondering whether farts that don't smell actually happen at all, or whether the actual noise of a fart is completely independent of the passing of gas. After all, sometimes you get silent ones which reek .... but no noise?! See, now you're thinking.


Not at all this is cutting edge thought provoking scientific stuff that might one day lead to a cure for being stabbed.

We wouldn't mock your mighty interlect. In fact i'm now trying to imagine what a worm farting might sound like and what it might smell of. Bird trumps must smell of worms but what do worms eat?

[garynortheast]

I do know that if you wish to tell one end of a worm from the other, the trick is to put it in a bowl of flour and wait for it to fart........

[Specialone]

I do know that if you wish to tell one end of a worm from the other, the trick is to put it in a bowl of flour and wait for it to fart........

I thought you did that with fat birds?

[Spank86]

I think you're all making light of my valuable contribution to science!!!

Next week I shall be pondering whether farts that don't smell actually happen at all, or whether the actual noise of a fart is completely independent of the passing of gas. After all, sometimes you get silent ones which reek .... but no noise?! See, now you're thinking.

I think it might be to do with gas mixture and pressure.

[Bibio]

farting and sneezing at the same time is sore.

[punyXpress]

Not at all this is cutting edge thought provoking scientific stuff that might one day lead to a cure for being stabbed.

We wouldn't mock your mighty interlect. In fact i'm now trying to imagine what a worm farting might sound like and what it might smell of. Bird trumps must smell of worms but what do worms eat?

They eat the bloke who wandered around Ilkley Moor without his helmet om.
. . and in space, all farts are silent. ;)

[Sir Trev]

You can always tell when the weather is getting carp - we get interesting threads like this instead of "have you tried the B9937?"

[Brettus]

You can always tell when the weather is getting carp - we get interesting threads like this instead of "have you tried the B9937?"

Yeah but just wait till March/April when everyone has cabin fever from being stuck indoors so much, it can get pretty ugly.

[Sir Trev]

Yeah but just wait till March/April when everyone has cabin fever from being stuck indoors so much, it can get pretty ugly.

True, but in the mean time we get the comedy stylings of the GM to keep us amused. Every now and then they can actually be funny which is a bonus.

[Specialone]

Every now and then they can actually be funny which is a bonus.

Can you pm me when there is one? ;)

[Sir Trev]

Can you pm me when there is one? ;)

Cannot promise to notice but I will see what I can do.

[SV-net]

Thanks Fallout. This helps me understand why I didn't die after being stabbed six times in the front and back chest. When I saw the knife poking through my shirt front I didn't feel much like 'giggling' haha.

[Runako]

Thanks Fallout. This helps me understand why I didn't die after being stabbed six times in the front and back chest. When I saw the knife poking through my shirt front I didn't feel much like 'giggling' haha.

Story here? Share with the Org!!!

[SV-net]

Well, yes quite a story. I was stabbed six times, I even saw the blade come through the front of my shirt when being stabbed in the back! This was quite a long time before stabbings became everyday news, it was a rare occurance back in 1987 (yes I am old)!!! I don't mind talking about it, I even don't mind telling about the massive injustice served upon me by the British legal system. I was convicted of Violent Disorder, my stabber was let off with 'self defence'. now I hear you all muttering..... whats the whole story..... there must be more to this one....
After stern words, I hit this person and he went down onto the boot of his car. I started it, I threw the first punch I have never lied about this fact and I know I did wrong. However, when he went down I turned and walked away which to me was the right thing to do, nowdays they kick you in the head when you are down.
This was a big mistake, because whilst walking away I had my back to him. So in "Self Defence" he came up behind me and stabbed me in the back three times, in the side and in the front chest.

This is pretty much it and I live with this and the physical pains everyday. I was so young and immature I was a scared lad in a Crown Court so worried that I may face jail that I just accepted anything so I could go home. Now I am (semi) grown up I think back and no doubt I was screwed over BIG TIME.

[Runako]

Well, yes quite a story.

Wow... It's impossible to predict how life works out sometimes. I'm glad you are here to tell the tale. As for the result, I can only hope that the system has improved since then.

[dkid]

Wow, glad you are here to tell the tale.

Stabbing someone six times hardly seems like proportionate self defence of a single punch? Especially when you consider you were in the process of walking away from the person.

[Lozzo]

I'm not ticklish, and I often think up different scenarios of how I'd most like to kill you.

This has nothing to do with you not being ticklish - this is all about you being ginger and having no soul.