Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.

'War Stories'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DXMachina - Jul 27, 2005 10:20:37 am PDT #3356 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Now I'm getting a puddle around the pottie. I cannot see where it comes from or when.

Is it possible it's condensation from the tank? Is the tank wet?


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2005 10:21:25 am PDT #3357 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

tories from his times on the tournament circuit

Is that shot legal in TKD tournaments? We have a fair number of people (male) that complain about groin shots, and think fights would be better without them. And this is even over the liver shot, which they cop to being more painful. And it's even more prevalent among those (male) who come from different arts, where they never had to think about it.

Of course, we also have an instructor who (cheerfully) insisted on absorbing (yeah, sure) multiple groin strikes to drive home the point that they're not a sure thing. But I figure if you're going to kick someone, they're low risk with a decent chance of paying off big.

Hand strikes to the groin are so unexpected (and you can do so much more with the testicular manipulation) that they are a good option, though you give up more getting in there -- which doesn't matter if they're the ones who closed the ground.


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2005 10:22:06 am PDT #3358 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's HST - Harmonized Sales Tax.

I love that. It's so nice.


JohnSweden - Jul 27, 2005 10:22:57 am PDT #3359 of 10002
I can't even.

The couple times I've forgotten my cup, I've ended up regretting it.

I took a vigorous 9-foot fibreglass spear shot to the inner upper thigh one Lilies War a few years ago, and realized it felt weird. As I walked off the field, and my (tired, overheated) brain was doing the math, the nearly-crushed-testicle realization caught up with me. To my best recollection, that's the only time I've been in armour without a cup in fifteen years of fighting. No cups in soccer though, you just get booted in the nuts a lot.


DXMachina - Jul 27, 2005 10:23:35 am PDT #3360 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I love that. It's so nice.

It almost sounds like they'll sing you a song while they're taking your money.


DavidS - Jul 27, 2005 10:24:44 am PDT #3361 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It almost sounds like they'll sing you a song while they're taking your money.

We're taking your money
It's really rather fun
There will be a dunning
Until your money's gone


DXMachina - Jul 27, 2005 10:26:32 am PDT #3362 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

No cups in soccer though, you just get booted in the nuts a lot.

Yeah, this happened to me a couple of times when I used to practice with my (women's) team. There's nothing more fun than crawling around on the ground in severe pain while being surrounded by women asking "what's the matter?"


Dana - Jul 27, 2005 10:28:12 am PDT #3363 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

This is what the men feel like when the women are discussing bras and tampons, isn't it?


Lee - Jul 27, 2005 10:29:55 am PDT #3364 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Which is why at least 3 families I know in Chicago-area come to MN for school clothes shopping.

Juliana, how hard/long is it for you to get to Chicago?


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2005 10:30:09 am PDT #3365 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is what the men feel like when the women are discussing bras and tampons, isn't it?

I'd have thought episiotomies a better parallel, but I'm not looking at it from all the way outside.