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Oh yes. I started getting podiatry school invitations and I was pretty reckless; now both my knees are broken. Be careful!

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confused.... are you attempting to portray yourself as this person (avatar) or are you pre-pod with a liberal interpretation of the user status badges?

Decent article either way. A little rhetorical and self-inflating, but overall not bad 👍
The avatars are misleading like the field.

Was pre med and did research on the field and discovered how limited the degree was outside of podiatry. I learned that podiatry was not a regular medical specialty and that the career opportunities very limited even after the terminal degree even with a three year residency the scope of practice is not that of a full body physician. The brochures and recruiters make it seem like another specialty of medicine but according to the AMA they are not. I was really excited at the prospect of research but a DPM degree does not have much value there.
 
Are you a podiatry student? You keep saying "was pre-med"

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The avatars are misleading like the field.

Was pre med and did research on the field and discovered how limited the degree was outside of podiatry. I learned that podiatry was not a regular medical specialty and that the career opportunities very limited even after the terminal degree even with a three year residency the scope of practice is not that of a full body physician. The brochures and recruiters make it seem like another specialty of medicine but according to the AMA they are not. I was really excited at the prospect of research but a DPM degree does not have much value there.

So basically you thought podiatry school was medical school.
 
Are you a podiatry student? You keep saying "was pre-med"

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No,

Graduate student. Will complete Ph.D. first.
 
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so then your the idiot correct?

*you're

While this thread is a little bit silly and I cant really discern the purpose of the OP.... Please do not come in here blindly spraying inter-disciplinary flaming if you're just as guilty of what you are bashing another for. I have a very sensitive hypocrisy meter and it tickles funny when it goes off :scared:
 
*you're

While this thread is a little bit silly and I cant really discern the purpose of the OP.... Please do not come in here blindly spraying inter-disciplinary flaming if you're just as guilty of what you are bashing another for. I have a very sensitive hypocrisy meter and it tickles funny when it goes off :scared:

Excuse me, but the expression that I came here "blindly spraying inter-disciplinary flaming" is a bit over the top. My hypocrisy meter must not be plugged in, but you have many posts of experience which by default gives you seniority. I will not post comments such as the OP again.


I hope that itch has been scratched and you have not been tickled too funny.


The purpose of the OP was intended to highlight the deluge of confusing information and reflect upon this at what seemed like the appropriate forum.


Excuse me for any transgression.
 
Excuse me, but the expression that I came here "blindly spraying inter-disciplinary flaming" is a bit over the top. My hypocrisy meter must not be plugged in, but you have many posts of experience which by default gives you seniority. I will not post comments such as the OP again.


I hope that itch has been scratched and you have not been tickled too funny.


The purpose of the OP was intended to highlight the deluge of confusing information and reflect upon this at what seemed like the appropriate forum.


Excuse me for any transgression.

I was defending you..... while your thread is a little lacking in substance, the guy I quoted was calling you an idiot simply for looking into podiatry 👍
 
I think he was calling him an idiot because he thought podiatry school was equivalent to medical school.

He thought podiatry was a medical specialty. Outside of medicine it is a common misconception. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity and it was a douchey comment
 
He thought podiatry was a medical specialty. Outside of medicine it is a common misconception. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity and it was a douchey comment

What are you? An english professor? When i check SDN on my phone i don't analyze every post i make for proper grammar. Do you do that in real life? Probably not. Anyway i called the OP an idiot for thinking podiatry school was medical school. If you want to play jiminy cricket go ahead but i don't sense any "hypocrisy" in my post.
 
What are you? An english professor? When i check SDN on my phone i don't analyze every post i make for proper grammar. Do you do that in real life? Probably not. Anyway i called the OP an idiot for thinking podiatry school was medical school. If you want to play jiminy cricket go ahead but i don't sense any "hypocrisy" in my post.

Nope. Medical student :shrug:

I don't need a half assed explanation from you. The asinine insults don't serve any purpose and you might as well not communicate like a cave man if you want to try to insult someone in the first place. The OP is a legit noob, no doubt about it. Doesnt make him stupid and doesnt make you look any smarter for pointing it out 😉
 
Those who take the MCAT get podiatry literature, and other PR items to help recruit potential applicants.

~70-80% acceptance rates as purported by their schooling literature, and applicants are generally have lower GPAs, MCATs, and lower tier undergrads.

If family member had major foot trauma, who would you want: an MD ortho trauma surg treating your daughter, or a DPM? That's up for debate by some.

Podiatry training school is not medical school as governed by LCME. Yes, podiatry students attend 4 years of training school, they do not take USMLEs, nor can apply for ACGME residencies. The new standard for podiatrists is 3 years post graduate training that is hospital-based. However, one would reasonably surmise that for foot and sometimes ankle surgery, a minimum would be a 1 year surgical internship governed by ACGME tfollowing by 2-3 years of AOFAS regulated residency training to ensure quality and standardization amongst foot and ankle surgeons.

The scope is limited to feet, and in some states, ankles. The scope is not uniform throughtout the states.

Very few have opportunities outside of podiatry, given that the degree, DPM is not recognized or is familiar with many----many folks think that podiatrists attend medical school and are MDs and that podiatry is an ABMS speciality--which is not accurate. Training can be nonconsistent, nor standardized.

Perform major due diligence with a limited scope profession. Dentistry has a business model that can be quite successful and dentistry is integral in health care.

Good luck.
 
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I'm only posting in this thread to say that I have a friend who took the MCAT the same day I did "just for fun" before having taken Physics or Organic II and not having studied one bit for it.

He got a 19M.

Subsequently, he was offered admission into Podiatry School prior to graduating college, and enrolled immediately after his junior year of college. He was "given" a retroactive Bachelor's degree from his Pod school.
 
I look at podiatry the same way as dentistry. You aren't a physician, but you are a medical expert in specific field of medicine. It's fine if you know that field is for you, but if you want to be a physician, don't go into it.
 
I'm only posting in this thread to say that I have a friend who took the MCAT the same day I did "just for fun" before having taken Physics or Organic II and not having studied one bit for it.

He got a 19M.

Subsequently, he was offered admission into Podiatry School prior to graduating college, and enrolled immediately after his junior year of college. He was "given" a retroactive Bachelor's degree from his Pod school.

:scared:
 
Nope. Medical student :shrug:

I don't need a half assed explanation from you. The asinine insults don't serve any purpose and you might as well not communicate like a cave man if you want to try to insult someone in the first place. The OP is a legit noob, no doubt about it. Doesnt make him stupid and doesnt make you look any smarter for pointing it out 😉

wow sorry mom? people like you have such a large pole up their ass they think they are required to get into the middle of everyone's comments. Personally i really could give half a crap about what you think about my comment, whether you like it or not, the OP or his friend are stupid for entering a professional school without properly researching it. If you want to play heroic forum defender go ahead, makes you feel like a big man doesn't it?
 
What are you? An english professor? When i check SDN on my phone i don't analyze every post i make for proper grammar. Do you do that in real life? Probably not. Anyway i called the OP an idiot for thinking podiatry school was medical school. If you want to play jiminy cricket go ahead but i don't sense any "hypocrisy" in my post.

No, he only analyzes posts for proper grammar in fake life.

Seriously, if you're going to call someone an idiot, try not to make yourself look like one while doing it. I think that's insult rule #1.

And sorry, the giant pole up my ass sort of forces me to get in the middle of everything.
 
the OP or his friend are stupid for entering a professional school without properly researching it.

Except this isn't what happened. So we have poor grammar, poor reading comp, and propensity for butthurt to boot 😉. Again, please keep your nonsense to yourself. You can claim all you want how little you care about the criticism from myself and others but your behavior suggests otherwise
 
Except this isn't what happened. So we have poor grammar, poor reading comp, and propensity for butthurt to boot 😉. Again, please keep your nonsense to yourself. You can claim all you want how little you care about the criticism from myself and others but your behavior suggests otherwise

says the medical student trolling the pre-med forum.
 
says the medical student trolling the pre-med forum.

Why don't you go look up the definition of trolling. You came in here and called the OP an idiot (well.... technically said something about "his idiot" :laugh: but we can leave your 4th grade grammar alone for now 👍) on the basis, per your earlier post, that he entered a professional school without researching it. However, in reality the OP is a graduate student working on a PhD and this issue arose WHILE he was researching the topic. I underlined the use of that word so you could see the discrepancy between your interpretation and the facts as they truly are.


here is what he posted well before you came in here and douched on him

The avatars are misleading like the field.

Was pre med and did research on the field and discovered how limited the degree was outside of podiatry. I learned that podiatry was not a regular medical specialty and that the career opportunities very limited even after the terminal degree even with a three year residency the scope of practice is not that of a full body physician. The brochures and recruiters make it seem like another specialty of medicine but according to the AMA they are not. I was really excited at the prospect of research but a DPM degree does not have much value there.

so he said "wow, I, like many other lay people, thought pod was a medical specialty. I found out I was mistaken. However the pod recruiters make it seem like it is more than this. I thought I would give other people a heads up" This is noobish as all get out, but how does your response below have ANY validity?
whether you like it or not, the OP or his friend are stupid for entering a professional school without properly researching it.
Are you even reading the thread or just making things up as you go along?

So you come in here to call someone an idiot for coming straight out up front and saying he was mistaken and KNOWS that pod isnt medicine even though he had thought so previously.

Who exactly is the troll here? little hint: trolling has nothing to do with the "appropriateness" of the user title for the subsection. If you feel there are any other simple matters that you need me to hold your hand and guide you through, I am here to help. Help me help you, hemmi. Help me help you. I would like to help you refrain from looking like "your the idiot" as much as possible around here 🙂
 
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Why don't you go look up the definition of trolling. You came in here and called the OP an idiot (well.... technically said something about "his idiot" :laugh: but we can leave your 4th grade grammar alone for now 👍) on the basis, per your earlier post, that he entered a professional school without researching it. However, in reality the OP is a graduate student working on a PhD and this issue arose WHILE he was researching the topic. I underlined the use of that word so you could see the discrepancy between your interpretation and the facts as they truly are.


here is what he posted well before you came in here and douched on him



so he said "wow, I, like many other lay people, thought pod was a medical specialty. I found out I was mistaken. However the pod recruiters make it seem like it is more than this. I thought I would give other people a heads up" This is noobish as all get out, but how does your response below have ANY validity?

Are you even reading the thread or just making things up as you go along?

So you come in here to call someone an idiot for coming straight out up front and saying he was mistaken and KNOWS that pod isnt medicine even though he had thought so previously.

Who exactly is the troll here? little hint: trolling has nothing to do with the "appropriateness" of the user title for the subjection. If you feel there are any other simple matters that you need me to hold your hand and guide you through, I am here to help. Help me help you, hemmi. Help me help you. I would like to help you refrain from looking like "your the idiot" as much as possible around here 🙂

pretty sure its the guy going into so much effort to win a forum argument. At least we know your a medical student for sure seeing as you have nothing better to do. pew pew more bro.

ps: about the grammar issue your so held up on, most people don't consider it very important to analyze every single online forum post they make for grammar issues.
 
pretty sure its the guy going into so much effort to win a forum argument. At least we know your a medical student for sure seeing as you have nothing better to do. pew pew more bro.

ps: about the grammar issue your so held up on, most people don't consider it very important to analyze every single online forum post they make for grammar issues.

1) *you're x2 (srsly...... )
2) it isnt so much careful analysis as just reading the post for what it legitimately says. In this case: "my a med student" and "my so held up on" :shrug:. Either way, the fact that you can't write proper sentences is secondary to the fact that you did so while questioning the intelligence of someone else for something that isnt actually related to intelligence. I don't really care if your grammar sucks (thats the appropriate use there, btw), I just care that you are being a douche to this guy only for initially being interested in podiatry and for discovering for himself that podiatry is not a medical specialty. Classy - and way to not address anything else in that post :laugh:
3) also, since you seem incapable - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) We were on topic until you decided to come in here and demonstrate to all of us how cool you is 👍 So you can be "pretty sure" all you want. I am pretty sure there are plenty of other things you are also wrong about :shrug: but willingness to engage a troll is not what makes a troll so whatever amount of effort I am putting into this is completely irrelevant 😉
 
Hemorrage, you're getting owned pretty bad. Just leave it be...
 
Hemorrage, you're getting owned pretty bad. Just leave it be...

Yeah, if there's one thing I've learned during my short stint on SDN, it's to never pick a fight with Specter. Not only do you have zero chance of coming out of it victorious, but you run a very high risk of embarrassing yourself in defeat.
 
Yeah, if there's one thing I've learned during my short stint on SDN, it's to never pick a fight with Specter. Not only do you have zero chance of coming out of it victorious, but you run a very high risk of embarrassing yourself in defeat.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing 😳 ha
 
1) *you're x2 (srsly...... )
2) it isnt so much careful analysis as just reading the post for what it legitimately says. In this case: "my a med student" and "my so held up on" :shrug:. Either way, the fact that you can't write proper sentences is secondary to the fact that you did so while questioning the intelligence of someone else for something that isnt actually related to intelligence. I don't really care if your grammar sucks (thats the appropriate use there, btw), I just care that you are being a douche to this guy only for initially being interested in podiatry and for discovering for himself that podiatry is not a medical specialty. Classy - and way to not address anything else in that post :laugh:
3) also, since you seem incapable - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) We were on topic until you decided to come in here and demonstrate to all of us how cool you is 👍 So you can be "pretty sure" all you want. I am pretty sure there are plenty of other things you are also wrong about :shrug: but willingness to engage a troll is not what makes a troll so whatever amount of effort I am putting into this is completely irrelevant 😉

i'm responding to your stupidity on my cell phone so i don't have the patience to check for grammar on every sentence i write. I know 3 languages and unfortunately i don't have the patience to analyze grammar and learn its intricacies, why? I just don't give a crap about grammar. Believe me there are several people on this forum that will feel the same way. Doctors aren't graded on how well they write and most physicians that publish books have editors that fix issues like this. If your going to sit around and knock me for my lack of interest in grammar then go ahead but just FYI there are several people in your medical school class that will feel the same way as i do.

Now lets talk about you. Who are you? You claim to be a medical student, yet your in the pre-medical forum wasting your time on a forum argument. I could have simply forgot about this whole ordeal but people like you have a pole so far up your ass you just cant leave it be can you? The amount of effort, analysis and quoting your spending on this thread alone attests to the fact that you most likely have NO life outside of academics. Do i care? Not really. I have a right just as you do to say what i want. This forum is hosted on a datacenter located in the United States. If you want to hose me for calling the OP an idiot, go ahead, but realize that 1. i really DONT care what you have to say (primarily because you come off sounding like a self-righteous c***) and 2. your concept of "teaching me a lesson" by creating forum posts circulating improper use of grammar is pathetic. Get a real argument and something REAL to humiliate me on if your going to try.

I'm not trying to be cool, i just don't like people like you in real life or on SDN
 
i'm responding to your stupidity on my cell phone so i don't have the patience to check for grammar on every sentence i write. I know 3 languages and unfortunately i don't have the patience to analyze grammar and learn its intricacies, why? I just don't give a crap about grammar. Believe me there are several people on this forum that will feel the same way. Doctors aren't graded on how well they write and most physicians that publish books have editors that fix issues like this. If your going to sit around and knock me for my lack of interest in grammar then go ahead but just FYI there are several people in your medical school class that will feel the same way as i do.

Now lets talk about you. Who are you? You claim to be a medical student, yet your in the pre-medical forum wasting your time on a forum argument. I could have simply forgot about this whole ordeal but people like you have a pole so far up your ass you just cant leave it be can you? The amount of effort, analysis and quoting your spending on this thread alone attests to the fact that you most likely have NO life outside of academics. Do i care? Not really. I have a right just as you do to say what i want. This forum is hosted on a datacenter located in the United States. If you want to hose me for calling the OP an idiot, go ahead, but realize that 1. i really DONT care what you have to say (primarily because you come off sounding like a self-righteous c***) and 2. your concept of "teaching me a lesson" by creating forum posts circulating improper use of grammar is pathetic. Get a real argument and something REAL to humiliate me on if your going to try.

I'm not trying to be cool, i just don't like people like you in real life or on SDN

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD,

you're = you are

your = belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing

You messed it up three more times, and you still can't seem to grasp the idea that SDN is but one facet of "real life"
 
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD,

you're = you are

your = belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing

You messed it up three more times, and you still can't seem to grasp the idea that SDN is but one facet of "real life"

if you haven't noticed i'm purposely not typing it properly to piss specter off. Btw who are you? tag team ***?
 
i'm responding to your stupidity on my cell phone so i don't have the patience to check for grammar on every sentence i write. I know 3 languages and unfortunately i don't have the patience to analyze grammar and learn its intricacies, why? I just don't give a crap about grammar. Believe me there are several people on this forum that will feel the same way. Doctors aren't graded on how well they write and most physicians that publish books have editors that fix issues like this. If your going to sit around and knock me for my lack of interest in grammar then go ahead but just FYI there are several people in your medical school class that will feel the same way as i do.

Now lets talk about you. Who are you? You claim to be a medical student, yet your in the pre-medical forum wasting your time on a forum argument. I could have simply forgot about this whole ordeal but people like you have a pole so far up your ass you just cant leave it be can you? The amount of effort, analysis and quoting your spending on this thread alone attests to the fact that you most likely have NO life outside of academics. Do i care? Not really. I have a right just as you do to say what i want. This forum is hosted on a datacenter located in the United States. If you want to hose me for calling the OP an idiot, go ahead, but realize that 1. i really DONT care what you have to say (primarily because you come off sounding like a self-righteous c***) and 2. your concept of "teaching me a lesson" by creating forum posts circulating improper use of grammar is pathetic. Get a real argument and something REAL to humiliate me on if your going to try.

I'm not trying to be cool, i just don't like people like you in real life or on SDN

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

fail. You missed (or more likely just plain ignored) the part where I also don't care about your grammar, just the irony of such poor writing abilities while calling someone else out. Do you need a pat on the back to make you feel good about yourself? Otherwise I see no reason to start calling names like a child (I am referring to you calling the OP an idiot, not to the insults you try to stick on me). Lets get one thing straight here - there just really isnt anything a person like you can say that can affect the mood of a person like me 😉 And I don't even need to string a series of personal (and very unsubstantiated) claims in order to somehow validate the statement (3 languages my ass :laugh: pig latin and highschool intro to spanish don' count herr, son :laugh:)

However, I absolutely love that any time one of you kids gets called out like this your first response is to question whether or not I am actually a med student. Sure, have it your way - I am a student in podiatric nurse midwifery 🙄 doesnt change the fact that you are attempting to divert the discussion away simply because you are unable to come up with anything better to say - that in and of itself is the most embarrassing part of all of this.... but I don't actually trust that you have the ability to recognize it 😉
 
if you haven't noticed i'm purposely not typing it properly to piss specter off. Btw who are you? tag team ***?

No, I'm just one of several people who think you should stop making an ass out of yourself.
 
if you haven't noticed i'm purposely not typing it properly to piss specter off. Btw who are you? tag team ***?

I think you are now.... but hey, after several fails, might as well pretend it is intentional 🙄
If YOU havent notices, for the third time, your own lack of writing ability doesnt bother me at all. The purpose of all of my posts were your treatment of another member. Honestly, how are you not getting this? I've spelled it out for you and your overwhelmingly impressive intellect cant seem to figure out that your writing style is nothing more than one of many personal shortcomings :shrug:. Who cares? I'm sure you have plenty. The only one being addressed is the irony in someone like you calling someone like the op and someone like me an idiot 👍

The OPs misunderstanding was ignorance, not idiocy. And aside from just further trolling, I am not entirely sure on what basis you are attempting to question my intelligence.... but heads up: I am quite confident in it so this just really isnt the highest yielding tree for you to be barking up at the moment :laugh:
 
i'm responding to your stupidity on my cell phone so i don't have the patience to check for grammar on every sentence i write. I know 3 languages and unfortunately i don't have the patience to analyze grammar and learn its intricacies, why? I just don't give a crap about grammar. Believe me there are several people on this forum that will feel the same way. Doctors aren't graded on how well they write and most physicians that publish books have editors that fix issues like this. If your going to sit around and knock me for my lack of interest in grammar then go ahead but just FYI there are several people in your medical school class that will feel the same way as i do.

Now lets talk about you. Who are you? You claim to be a medical student, yet your in the pre-medical forum wasting your time on a forum argument. I could have simply forgot about this whole ordeal but people like you have a pole so far up your ass you just cant leave it be can you? The amount of effort, analysis and quoting your spending on this thread alone attests to the fact that you most likely have NO life outside of academics. Do i care? Not really. I have a right just as you do to say what i want. This forum is hosted on a datacenter located in the United States. If you want to hose me for calling the OP an idiot, go ahead, but realize that 1. i really DONT care what you have to say (primarily because you come off sounding like a self-righteous c***) and 2. your concept of "teaching me a lesson" by creating forum posts circulating improper use of grammar is pathetic. Get a real argument and something REAL to humiliate me on if your going to try.

I'm not trying to be cool, i just don't like people like you in real life or on SDN

you feel like punching me in the face? bring it on you ******. I know multiple fighting styles, and I also carry a switchblade with me at all times. Something ****ing tells me that you'd be better off keeping your arms down at your sides. If you can't ****ing put "cause" and "effect" together in that pathetic brain of yours, I'll help you out here. You'll be standing face to face with me, and let me ****ing tell you, it'll already be too ****ing late to back down at that point. You might decide "well ****, I might as well stay true to my word and throw a ****ing punch". This is where you will go wrong. I hope you don't have a job that requires two ****ing hands, because you're going to be missing one after I'm done with you. I'll casually divert your fist off to the side, as you suddenly realize you may have gotten yourself into something you can't back up. You'll try to regroup and pull your arm back, but that wont be easy when I jab my spear-pointed Benchmade switchblade straight through the bone in your forearm, and proceed to rip your entire ****ing forearm and hand off in one quick pull. At this point, you'll probably spend 2 seconds in shock. I say 2 seconds, because thats the amount of time you'll have before I reverse the knife in my hand, and uppercut it straight through your throat. You'll spend your last few seconds gurgling blood, and wondering where you went wrong. After that, I'll be forced to take care of any witnesses who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing a few quick choke slams can't fix, followed by a nice gentle slice across the jugular with the Benchmade.
Now, mother****er, you sure you want to go through with that punch?]

edit: This is just a ridiculous copy and paste I found. :laugh: No harm meant, I'm just being an idiot because his post is so blatantly stupid.
 
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No, I'm just one of several people who think you should stop making an ass out of yourself.

no no no jabws, give him his due. He totally caught us. Anyone who would criticize him is obviously involved in some conspiracy rather than just in agreement that he is a tool.

better get a mod to check our IPs.... we are probably the same poster! 😱
 
you feel like punching me in the face? bring it on you ******. I know multiple fighting styles, and I also carry a switchblade with me at all times. Something ****ing tells me that you'd be better off keeping your arms down at your sides. If you can't ****ing put "cause" and "effect" together in that pathetic brain of yours, I'll help you out here. You'll be standing face to face with me, and let me ****ing tell you, it'll already be too ****ing late to back down at that point. You might decide "well ****, I might as well stay true to my word and throw a ****ing punch". This is where you will go wrong. I hope you don't have a job that requires two ****ing hands, because you're going to be missing one after I'm done with you. I'll casually divert your fist off to the side, as you suddenly realize you may have gotten yourself into something you can't back up. You'll try to regroup and pull your arm back, but that wont be easy when I jab my spear-pointed Benchmade switchblade straight through the bone in your forearm, and proceed to rip your entire ****ing forearm and hand off in one quick pull. At this point, you'll probably spend 2 seconds in shock. I say 2 seconds, because thats the amount of time you'll have before I reverse the knife in my hand, and uppercut it straight through your throat. You'll spend your last few seconds gurgling blood, and wondering where you went wrong. After that, I'll be forced to take care of any witnesses who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing a few quick choke slams can't fix, followed by a nice gentle slice across the jugular with the Benchmade.
Now, mother****er, you sure you want to go through with that punch?

calm down there, sherlock holmes
 
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