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A gentlemen never uses his teeth (lemmy.world)
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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This technique is referred to as "sword swallowing".

[–] teft@piefed.social 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

During that period most sword maneuvers had german names so it'd probably be like Schwertschlucker or some obscure german pun.

[–] python@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Der Stahlbläser

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aka, the Gluk Gluk method.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

"Hawk tuah!" - medieval dude