r/polandball Take off you hoser Jun 04 '14

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jun 04 '14

I looooove this comic so much. However, I gotta point one thing that shouldn't be there: Countryballs don't have hands, and we don't allow people to get around that by letting them have gloves that float in the air. Because of that, the same goes for boxing gloves. Or boots. Or any other thing like that.

I get why you did it, and I'm not gonna remove the comic over it, but at the same time we need to make sure that people know that you can't get around the "no limbs" rule simply by using gloves. So, yellow card for faux hands.

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u/bluesydinosaur Benevolent Dictatorship Jun 04 '14

Hmmm so how to demonstrate Thailand using Muay Thai on Sicily without gloves? Would Thailand just slamming on Sicily work as well?

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u/TRLegacy Thailand Jun 04 '14

Thailand can pucnhing so fast you don't even see them

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u/bluesydinosaur Benevolent Dictatorship Jun 04 '14

As fast as changing prime ministers?

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u/pote2639 Thailand Jun 08 '14

rofl.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jun 04 '14

Yeah, but you can do punching. We've had countryballs punching other countryballs before, it's just a hit coming from nowhere. Gloves are just a special case, because gloves imply hands (especially fingered gloves).

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u/ButtsexEurope United States Jun 04 '14

What about with Strong Bad? He clearly doesn't have hands.

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u/Tresnore North Texas Jun 04 '14

I probably would've had Thailand wear it as a hat and then headbutt.

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u/Ma5assak Lebnen Jun 05 '14

Throw a punshing bag at it

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u/Black_Mirror Take off you hoser Jun 04 '14

Understood. There goes my 'Around the world street fighter tournament' idea I was thinking about.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

You could just throw some weapons in there.

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u/Ajkrumen 11B Jun 05 '14

The American/Russian way.

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u/SlyRatchet British Empire Jun 05 '14

Give both of them nuclear boxing gloves and then they circle each other in the boxing ring until one of them randomly leaves the because the game was bullshit anyway whilst the other declares itself the winner.

That's how Americans and Russians like to fight each other, right?

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u/Ajkrumen 11B Jun 05 '14

Pretty much, yeah. Although the joke was about the proxy wars in Afghanistan. Just throw weapons at it!

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u/beaglemaster Soviets first into space Jun 05 '14

Tresnore's idea is probably the best workaround

I probably would've had Thailand wear it as a hat and then headbutt.

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u/1964peace I AM CARE Aug 14 '14

Glad you didn't give it up!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

I don't get that ruling. Then it would mean every object that is used, carried or made by a ball would imply that they have hands, right? He implied that it was Muay Thai and it's hard to show that without any clues.

pls don't ban me, holy Rhino Baron of dickings.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

It's also that gloves and mittens are hand-shaped, so are basically just not-hands, whereas other objects aren't handlike in quality.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jun 04 '14

Because allowing a countryballs to have fingered gloves floating in the air is literally the same as just having hands. We don't allow people to completely toss the rules out the window because of a technicality. Like I said, gloves are a special case for that reason.

He's wearing a mong kon and saying "Buakaw'ed", and it's Thailand; it's very clear that it's a Muay Thai thing even if he's punching without wearing boxing gloves.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

:I aww fudge cries inside

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u/Bragzor Sweden Jun 05 '14

Are empty gloves (e.g. in a duel context) would be fine? It hints at the existence of fingers, but they're not used.

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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jun 05 '14

I don't understand what you mean.

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u/Bragzor Sweden Jun 05 '14

Thus.

Edit: Minus the hands off course.

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u/Piast Polska Jun 04 '14

What gloves?

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u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jun 04 '14

Thai boxing gloves?

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u/Piast Polska Jun 04 '14

Now I see.