ita !, are these guys raising practical objections to you racking them in krav classes/tests where the threat of rape/death is only simulated, or are they saying it's not fair to do it to actual attackers out in the world?

Real world violence, they're talking about. That it might include many things, but just like you wouldn't immediately defend your life with a gun (oh?) a nut shot is even more extreme than that.

First off, nut shots are allowed in class because they're allowed in the world. So, you both learn how to defend against them, as well as perform your own.

If you don't want to fuss with nut shots during training, take karate. Once you've signed up for krav, it's too late. What the sensible people say is "You wear your cup just to walk in the door."

And so it is.

I do get the bit where I tailor our strikes to the cup to make it hurt more is being mean. I get that. But it's also fun. Kelly cracked at least two cups with her strikes. What I preferred to do was to knock it off center, and then strike it straight on again. If it's not fitting right, that pinches.

What I preferred to do was to knock it off center, and then strike it straight on again. If it's not fitting right, that pinches.

ita, have I said lately how awesome you are?

I spent the morning with my folks and of course my mother doesn't like the idea of the cook five days a week. SIGH.

And now I have to make a pie. Or at least come up with an idea for a pie. Maybe a Dutch apple pie with a crunch topping.

Some dude outside my window just sneezed like 10 times in a row. Poor guy.

That sounds like my husband. People will say "Bless you," but he keeps sneezing. I have to say, "Not yet" to them or they keep saying bless you and seem to get annoyed that he keeps sneezing. Once we were outside our house, and people from three other houses all called "bless you!" when he was done.

Please, someone COMMA the James Brown stuff, for I am on my phone and cannot.

aurelia, Simon Callow like Mr. Beebe and Charles Dickens?

I am with Nora hoping those dudes get nut shotted and can't reproduce.

Yep.

Happy birthday, askye!

Burrell, it looks good on us.

Oo pretty! I like Vampsterdam as well.

You won't be shocked to learn that was the other color I was debating...

Tep, NYC has a polish called Skin Tight Demin that is a total dupe for that blue and about two dollars. Available most everywhere.

Happy birthday, askye.

I would probably ask the nut-shot-shy ones if their objection was purely philosophical. And I also agree that an attack that might take a would-be rapist out of the gene pool is multitasking, not problematic.

It may be a little catty for me to laugh at this bit from a bio, but I'm laughing anyway.

As a theatre educator, he is always striving to help inspire young artists to develop their skills in a comfortable and supportive way while providing them with incite into the industry.

Oh, homophones.

This is the sort of bullshit that I'm up against:

One of the earliest observations in what would eventually become medical science was that male behavior changed drastically when the testicles were damaged or removed. Cultures as old as the Sumerians understood this. Thus, to damage a man's testicles was to damage his manliness, and that was a fate worse than death to many.

Wut? Drastically change their behaviour? The thought never even entered my mind except for the part where you IMPRESS DEEPLY UPON THEM TO NEVER RAISE A HAND TO ME AGAIN. Telling me I shouldn't do it because I might results I want is going to be a frustrating argument.

I'm trying to decide if I should add a facial hair section to provocateuse.

What would I call it? This is what I currently have: [link] on a very under-designed front page. Mother *fuck* I need to fix that. But I have zero inspiration. And I don't know how best to SEO seed the front page with so little of the content.

Any suggestions?

Mnnf. Just got an email from my best friend saying "Never mind about the coding question, TTYL." Uh, coding question? Is that why the light on my land line has been blinking for a few days? Uh, oops? And I suck?

But I really have a difficulty right now with "extra" conversations. The amount of talking I do at work (which is a *lot*, because of how I work my relationships with the business) is just draining me. I wish I had more left over for her. She's never been anything other than there for me, even (or especially) when she's going through a hard time.