dude no way! that's bad ass

Exactly. So stop explaining it as though someone disagrees with you.

If that was intentional, which I don't think it was, cool.

[QUOTE Bump;9145233]everybody knows that, I thought[/QUOTE]

Exactly, that's why I don't see the point in a post of Lprechan's like this:

B/c nobody disagrees that you reanimate after death. Everyone does agree though, that unless a bite can be lopped off, you're dead.

Okay. Whoever is currently writing, then. Or whoever wrote that episode.

Exactly, that's why I don't see the point in a post of Lprechan's like this:



B/c nobody disagrees that you reanimate after death. Everyone does agree though, that unless a bite can be lopped off, you're dead.[/QUOTE]

THIS!!!

If you watch the scene after Big Tiny is bite in the prison.

They ask Rick to help him."you helped the old guy" and rick basically says it the location of the wound.

Rick "Look at where the wound is"

"lets lock him up or sumptin,quarantine him"

Rick "Theres nothing we can do"

Nice!

You need to do all you can to let them make you into a zombie so you can have your head chopped off by Michonne! Do this!

I certainly do not have any expertise in this area, but it sometimes seems like they portray the 'stabbing through a skull' bit as a little too easy. I would think it would take a wrist-spraining amount of force to get a knife blade through a skull bone. Perhaps the bones get a little more brittle as they walk around dead.

Any of our resident hunters or mass murderers care to comment?

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. . . or military historians.

There are plenty of instances in the past of people who have gotten knives, swords or other pointy things through the skull. Francisco Pizarro, for example, received several of these from swords in his last few seconds on Earth; they had no problem penetrating the skull, and a knife stabbing downward can deliver a lot more force in a thrust than a rapier can stabbing forward. The upshot is that knives can definitely do penetrate even a full-strength human skull, and they often have.

Incidentally, I've seen people wonder if slashing towards can bisect a skull as well. They also can, but not necessarily from the characters in the show. Thomas a Becket's head was cut right in half with a swing of a sword, albeit from a Crusader knight, who would probably have more upper body strength (not to mention skill with a sword) than anyone you've ever met in your entire modern life. So, can someone use a machete to cut a zombie head in half? Yes. Can short, thin, non-muscularly-developed pizza-delivery-boy Glen? Considerably less likely.

Our "zombie killing group" aka friends fascinated by the thought have been figuring that while the flesh is rotting away it would be odd to think the bones would become "spfter" so to speak... so I cant justify thinking it would be too easy to get a knife in and out of the skull so easily... the comics tough on that BTW.

Oh, getting it out is a different story. There would be many more instances of the knives getting in the bone, or in the suction caused by whatever soft matter hasn't decomposed, than there are in the show.

I wanted to verify that stabbing the brain with a knife is possible and as easy as they make it look. So I went to my local mortuary/morgue and snuck in to a wake. I took out my handy K-Bar and yelled, "We must end it before the change or we're all doomed!" I swung the knife down as hard as I could into the skull of the 70-ish old man on display in his husker shirt and red coffin. (I also yelled "GO MIZZOU!")

Sure enough, the knife went right in to his frontal lobe. No problem.
I made bail and I have a psyche review Tuesday since I told the cops that I had to do it to so we won't have another outbreak of zombie Husker fans.

****in-a Glenn, ****in-a!

That's what I'm sayin'! Glenn is a badass! :rockon: