The Big List of Buffista Goals is a wonderful thing.

I just adore you, Erin.

Hee—it's nice to happy people who love you for you ubergeekiness.

Now, I need to decide on a new goal. I can't talk Dan into letting me see if I can actually make him pass out by applying pressure with my thighs (I am SORELY disappointed in him) and I've tried on myself to see if I can really temporarily paralyze myself by pinching my radial nerve (not so far).

But I succeeded with the handcuffs, so I'm sure I'll get the radial nerve thing down!

If you want a safe way to choke someone out experimentally with your arm, I can tell you one.

KRAV THING, FREAKS.

From io9:

Men in Black 3 will erase all meaning in your life

Will Smith has starred in lots of formulaic movies. And he knows better than anyone that there's something comforting as well as exhilarating about a movie that plays out according to a set of steps. Which is what makes Men in Black 3 so weird: it's a movie where the blockbuster formula is the opposite of comforting.

The random plot twists and unfunny jokes in Men in Black 3 are so oppressive, you'll come away with a deep gnawing sense of the futility and meaninglessness of existence. This is a film so empty, it leaves you eagerly anticipating the heat death of the cosmos.

Guess I won't be seeing it.

AV Club gives a straight up "A" for Moonrise Kingdom.

I would like to know, ita ! (I mean, I have more leg strength than arm strength, but arms are better placed and have more finesse. I'm open to either leg OR arm's being the vehicle for pressure-unconsciousness.)

I'd read that i09 article, and I didn't have any desire to see MIB3 anyway, but that killed it.

So, you're doing a carotid choke, not a bar arm. Your target is the veins on either side of the neck, as opposed to constricting their airway. Simplest way to get good form is to make sure your elbow is pointing the same direction as their adam's apple would be--right out in front of them. So your forearm and bicep are equally situated to compress the vein.

For testing purposes, sit on the ground with them sitting inbetween your legs both facing the same direction. Put on the choke pretty much like this, but get them to raise their arms out to either side before you apply pressure. If you're properly situated, you can go to zero to pressure by just flexing your muscles.

The tap out is when they hit your legs. If they don't consciously do it in time, just passing out will make their arms drop and hit you.

Then, obviously, stop.

That window should be perfectly safe and not cause any oxygen-deprivation problems.

How you fasten the choking arm rightly is a judgement call. I do a crossed arm thing like the guy in the picture, but some people clasp their hands like this.

There has never been anyone in my life that I would trust to do that to me!

I'd tell you it's not very scary at all (it was an optional part of class, but most people wanted to try both sides of it), but I understand my word isn't actually valuable in that regard.

The thing itself isn't scary. I mean, I know what's happening. What's scary is the loss of control and the having to trust the other person to know when to stop. IME the other person has never been real good at that. I have issues.