Varitek
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The Sad Punk said:So a few nights ago at around midnight I drew this:
I don't know why?
superwin?
The Sad Punk said:So a few nights ago at around midnight I drew this:
I don't know why?
major_panic said:
I remember reading about that, and thinking something like "if you pansies can't take the sight of them performing a war dance, you're gonna deserve what you get for making them do it indoors".
The Sad Punk said:Hey, Ax, apparently the Isle of Man did the whole women's suffrage thing, albeit not as an independent nation, before NZ. Being Manx myself, I think it is appropriate that you no longer pay out the shitty country I live in just because we're not as good as New Zealand.
Axver said:
I didn't fully get the details of the dispute, and it seemed both sides were rather unwilling to compromise on the matter. But the end result was just that the Welsh got themselves totally fucked over. They played their cards in absolutely the wrong way and nothing they could do on-field was going to fix it.
Also, I love how at home games, Australia's been trying to create some sort of Haka response by getting some musician to lead the crowd in a Waltzing Matilda sing-along. That makes me laugh. It deserves a poster:
HAKA RESPONSE
You're doing it wrong.
Alisaura said:Also, I love how the dude made the first comment, said "Yay, first comment!" without actually commenting on the vid... and then there were no more comments.
<--- easily amused
Alisaura said:Doing martial arts doesn't psych you up enough on its own, maj.?
Also, should not have had coke with dinner. Not at all tired and it's nearly bed time.
major_panic said:
The only way to respond to the haka, I've concluded, is to either look like you don't give a damn or to pull out some equally awesome war-dance.
Pity the Aussies can't really do it though, unless they pull out an Aboriginal war dance (if such things exist? I'm sure they do).
They are. Sometimes there are interesting bits of trivia (usually by interferencers), but usually it's utter drivel, or a flame war.Axver said:I didn't notice that. I as a rule ignore YouTube comments. They seem to be made by the stupidest people on the planet most of the time.
major_panic said:That's it, I've got to learn the haka now and use it to psyche myself up before performing martial arts. Or something. I just want an excuse to do it.
Axver said:
Yeah, there were a few non-independent entities who did it first. Though was the Manx one limited to property-holding women? I know some were, but I can't remember which.
Also, that's pretty fucking cool that you're of Manx descent. In about 2003 or so, I tried to teach myself some of the Manx language as it looks really fascinating, but it was hard to do it as a bit of a lone wolf, and I completely sucked at the pronunciation.
major_panic said:
Nah, the haka is much more primitive and brutal. Chinese martial arts are too pretty and flowery most of the time, and when you do a brutal, primitive performance, you just end up tired because odds are you've been doing flying kicks all around the place.
Axver said:
Yeah, that's the great thing about the Haka, it's straight to the point: "You're about to die at my hands. Get ready, bitch."
The Sad Punk said:Youtube comments are usually awful, but sometimes they're so bad they're worth reading just to make you laugh.
I believe so. But I didn't know anything about Manx history until last year in which my grandpa discovered that our heritage is very Manx, rather than British as we had suspected. I may have to learn some of our Gaelic sometime, because as we're fairly small in number I think it's worth preserving the heritage!
major_panic said:
The problem with the Chinese is that when it comes to fighting, they're either very subtle, or not at all.
They follow the traditions and rituals of offering opportunities to the other party to surrender, and meeting their leaders and so on and so forth, then they all line up, some guy yells "KILL!" and twenty thousand Asian guys in armour run forward screaming.
So, not much opportunity there for war dancing.
Axver said:
The Maori sure as hell didn't fart-arse around with traditional ritual niceties like that. As evidenced by the fact some Taranaki Maori wiped out the Moriori tribe on the Chatman Islands so thoroughly that no full-blooded Moriori are left ...
Some people postwhore... some make insulting You Tube comments.Axver said:I also don't get a lot of the very rude and insulting comments. I have a hard time believing that many people watch shit they know they won't like and/or go around insulting videos because they have nothing better to do.
There are some Cornish people in my family history too, way back when... I have a friend who lives there too, and she tells me that Cornish as a language is technically dead, because the last fluent speaker died some years ago. The linguists have kinda filled in the gaps with Welsh or other gaelic languages, but there's no way of knowing now if it's right or not.Ahh, cool. Yeah, I started learning the Manx language when I read about how it had almost died and efforts were being made to revive it. It seems really awesome. I also tried Cornish for the same reason - plus I have a small bit of Cornish heritage somewhere along the way.
The Sad Punk said:I believe so. But I didn't know anything about Manx history until last year in which my grandpa discovered that our heritage is very Manx, rather than British as we had suspected. I may have to learn some of our Gaelic sometime, because as we're fairly small in number I think it's worth preserving the heritage!
*tries to resist urge to correct AX's NZ geography*Axver said:The Maori sure as hell didn't fart-arse around with traditional ritual niceties like that. As evidenced by the fact some Taranaki Maori wiped out the Moriori tribe on the Chatman Islands so thoroughly that no full-blooded Moriori are left ...
major_panic said:
Ouch.
When it actually finally got down to the fighting, the Chinese were and always have been brutal and violent (see: Tibet, Tiananmen Square for recent examples, and see the unification of China by the state of Qin) but damn, sometimes it took them forever to get around to it. Bastards were really good at alliances and occasional backstabbing too, although their truly great leaders were some quite honourable men who were loyal to the death.
Alisaura said:
*tries to resist urge to correct AX's NZ geography*
*can't*
Chatham islands
Although I suppose you'll tell me now that there are some other islands called Chatman is. where the Moriori were also...
Alisaura said:
Some people postwhore... some make insulting You Tube comments.
There are some Cornish people in my family history too, way back when... I have a friend who lives there too, and she tells me that Cornish as a language is technically dead, because the last fluent speaker died some years ago. The linguists have kinda filled in the gaps with Welsh or other gaelic languages, but there's no way of knowing now if it's right or not.
My IE is screwed up too... yesterday it had no toolbars or navigation bars or anything... then some of it came back but it's still all messed up.Varitek said:fuck i restarted and i still cant watch youtube vids.
and there is something strange going on with my bookmark toolbar.
Varitek said:all the vids stop playing exactly 2 seconds in, and have no sound.
Suuuure, blame the tiredness and typos...Axver said:I'll have you know that was a typo, not an incorrect knowledge of the name! A really bad typo.
I think I'm getting tired a bit too early in the evening.
Axver said:
My Mac did that a few months ago, but a restart solved the issue. So, sorry, I'm of no help to you.
major_panic said:
Gaelic would totally be an awesome language to learn, but the sad thing is not many people would know what the hell you were saying...