Whats wrong with this?

I decided it would be best to send them a PM, because I would then have an unlimited amount of space to work with and it would not be available for public scrutiny. I enclosed some helpful links to them as well. If anybody wants to read the PM, I'll PM it to you, but I'd rather not post it openly if there's a chance they may join the forum. I was polite and tried to be helpful. I hope other SBGers will follow my lead if they decide to post a comment.

And thanks for the karma, dude! ^_^

Very scary.

The cutting head on, cutting stuff out of the girls hand, cutting around the cat, cutting with all that stuff underfoot, doing draw cuts with obvously no training... all dangerous, all bad.

Good luck Jenn in your atempt to speak with them... hopefuly they will listen. Someone is going to get hurt if they don't.

I don't believe you were misunderstood, sometimes the web gets in the way of expression. I took your post for what you meant it to be, and you were correct in that. Midori not only pointed out that we shouldn't condescend, she went the extra step to extend a hand in friendship.
I think what the others were trying to say is that I was directing my post towards the comments made by members here on that youtube thread, but I won't put words in their mouths.


shadowhowler - The drawing from the saya was especially worrying. I seem to remember an incident where the saya was eventually cut through and caused a nasty cut from the same behavior.....except that fella practiced in a safer manner.

I hope that the folks in that vid will accecpt Jenns invitation and join us. But I assure all of you they will not do so if they are called "dumb".
I'm dumb as hell and would rather not be called dumb....or stupid.....or a semprini.....or moron.....

Ignorant I can see, because I do ingnore certain things while doing other certain things.....

If they're in their late teens to early 20's and are like most of the kids I knew back in high school... they won't. (>.<) You know it's bad when you're of around average intellect, but you look like a bloody genius because of the rest of the people in the classroom.

Eh... I'm getting off-topic now, aren't I?

I commented directly on the video page in hopes that not only they, but the other people who are seeing that video and think it's cool, might have a thought about it.

As you can all see, though, I was polite about it. It was just a heads up and a friendly invitation to our forum. I wasn't them to know about SBG if they are that careless in their cutting practice. We here can lead by example to those on the outside who still treat swords like sharp toys.

I hope he has read and considered the invite.

Thank you Midori for inspiring me to speak. It can be easy to see something like that and just say "how stupid", and then forget about it. YOU, Midori, inspired me to say something when it was still real to me. I wouldn't have even thought to say anything if it were not for you. Thanks.

Eh, I like my comment. Start out all in caps to get the youngsters attention, then hit them with logic. I call it the Greggers 1-2... well, not really. I just made that up on the spot.

Watching that makes me wish I didn't log on tonight, but then again since we all post and cut publically, that kind of semprini should be brought to our attention. Certainly that is not the message we send but there are the immature that see what we do and just got a try it, "fun style". Beligerant messages to these kids will not mean semprini, hopefully some intelligent suggestions to these kids will be positive.

Thank you for saying that, Margshus. That means a lot to me. ^^

I hope everyone else who has commented or PMed them since has been civil.