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You seem to be aware of this given the subject of this very comic panel…

Is this funny?

Until she’s crying again.

*hugely funded?

So, it’s an astronaut. Like Katie Perry.

Oh, dang. I’ve been wrongly doing a Ralphie voice all these years whenever I say it. I’m so embarrassed, I’m going to Africa.

How are you “Really into crypto” but asking these questions?

Crypto’s a lost cause. It’s used for laundering money and for ransom payments to threat actors. The Trump family is exploiting their power to exploit Stablecoins and skim money into their coffers.

Crypto was a novel idea that had its time in the sun, but now it’s lost its luster.

Good luck on whatever you’re doing with it… I hope you get what you’re looking for from it.

“I’m so hungry I could eat at Arby’s!” --Ralph Wiggums

I would hang out there. That’s my vibe.

Yeah, but in the end it it is just a sword and many styles used it… Just not whatever these people are doing.

Is that the fucking gambit? More coal?

-o)-

M’bladey.

It’s cool that you’ve trained for so long. I started in 1998 - I walked into a school in Fort Worth, TX that had Wing Chun on Monday and Wednesdays, 7-Star Praying Mantis on Tuesday and Thursdays… I walked in on a Monday and the rest was history. I will say that being able to fight against other styles within your own school was great. Most people train in a vacuum - only fighting against people from their own lineage. It took me a long time to learn how to “squash those bugs” effectively. ;)

Over time I realized that there’s really no such thing as “hard” and “soft” styles, as they all end up morphing into one another after enough practice. That said, I’m craving something different after all of these years and have been considering finding a BaGua or XinYi teacher here in the Seattle area - I know both exist, but boy are the prices just insane.

Keep training, friend. We practice dying arts.

This is idiotic. It’s not yoga. The “Jian” is used in many forms of Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi being one of the more famous… We would also recognize this sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the Green Destiny sword was a “jian” style weapon.

Yeah, I get it… it’s just exercise, but there’s no substance to this. Might as well hold a stick. There’s no “martial” to this art, in other words. The woman in a horse stance pointing her two fingers forward in the same direction as the sword is doing a strange move.

Typically, -in combative forms of Tai Chi, such as Chen Tai Chi-, the empty hand will make this shape to “release energy” in the opposite direction from the blade. In practice, this is a way to get your hands out of harm’s way of the weapon and create a structure to the method. Tai Chi is all about balance, ergo the Yin Yan. For each movement, there’s an opposite yet equal motion that has a meaning.

25 years ago, I fought in a Chinese national kung fu competition in Yantai. I was still a young pup doing Wing Chun style kung fu. This is long before the entertaining but silly movies “Yip Man” came out and made the style popular. Anyhow, Wing Chun has a practice technique called Chi Sau (sticky hands). Tai Chi also has a practice technique called Push Hands - both similar concepts.

I was able to touch hands with a Chen Tai Chi master - a woman who at the time had been practicing her style for 40+ years. To say I was outclassed would be to say a cat 5 hurricane is just a mild breeze.

Anyhow. Sorry for the rant. I find this style moronic.

Here’s a photo of the lady I trained with briefly - she’s in the center with white.

Here’s my brother and I “fighting” on one of the steepest parts of the Great Wall. (sorry for all the JPEG in this one, it’s old.)

Capitalists hate this one trick.

We had a meteorite over Cleveland last week, and another over Houston that hit a house last week, and now a new crater on the moon. If we’re lucky, another dinosaur-level asteroid will put us out of our misery.

Better as “what do you get when…” format. Still would qualify as a dad joke.

Quorn is my favorite. That shit is tasty. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll fat bitch a plate of wings in a heartbeat, to stop said heartbeat, but I do prefer Quorn to nuggets or tendies.

Mainly, chicken breast is bland if unseasoned, and that’s what meatless chicken is emulating. So, any flavor tends to stand out more.

Spoiler: Yes.