#nerd shenanigans

I sent my friend these memes:

And he responded with “hmm… I can lift one hundred sixty-six pounds. How many swords is that?”

(Oddly specific number btw 🤔)

Anyway— maths ensue on my end:

The average medieval short sword is two pounds.

The average medieval greatsword is six pounds.

So… my friend can carry about…

eighty-three short swords

or

twenty-seven and a half greatswords.

BUT…

I wasn’t including the weight of sword belts, because who wants to carry all of those naked blades with their bare hands.

The average sword belt (no frogs or large fastenings, and average leather thickness) is a little less than one pound. I’m just gonna round up to one because I’m lazy.

Assuming we’re being inefficient with our sword belt storage optimization, and saying one belt per sword, that’s about…

fifty-five and a third short swords

or

twenty-three and two thirds greatswords.

Now with scabbards — because let’s be honest, this is the modern age and SOMEONE’s going to enforce safety protocols.

Short sword scabbards are about one pound.

Greatsword scabbards are about two and a quarter pounds.

SO. If all the swords have scabbards, and each sword has a sword belt, how many swords can my friend carry?

Forty-one and a half short swords

or

about eighteen greatswords.

…

One event I am a founder for, the other I was not (thank God).

So I have the lurgy now but spending the rest of the week in Devon before going home.

Did something last night that I literally hadn't done in a year. I'm part of a Dungeons and Dragons Adventure League in my local city and a few months ago our HR lady suggested we do another karaoke night similar to the one we had last year. Everyone who was interested got in touch, we all paid her individually for the privilege and we planned to have a meal beforehand. However...the night did not go as expected.

When we got to the sports bar we were going to eat at, the menu we had all approved of online, had changed by a LOT. It was a kitchen takeover thing, there was like three maybe four menu items and none of them were the ones we'd picked. Most of us are neurodivergent so this did not so well with us including myself so we straight up told them we wouldn't eat there because this hadn't been made clear on their website so we left and instead got food at the bowling alley our karaoke room was part of. Which was so much better and for a better price. We'd paid for two hours of karaoke cause there was like 15 of us in attendance.

We got in there, the machine was setup, we started a queue of songs ranging from 90s-00s emo songs to show tunes to rock classics and pop hits, something for everyone. But then at the 30 minutes left mark for some reason the machine was not cooperating. It was supposed to play the next song when ones finished and it was not playing ball. I went and told the staff and they said they'd try and fix it. It git to 20 minutes left and we saw the mics still worked...and turned it into an acapella session.