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[HairOfTheDog]

Sorry, I am cheating on you with another thread ;~D

[Fedora]

Yeah, if ya happen to see him again, count the arms, if you would!--give me a chance to practice my identification. I like doing that stuff for some weird reason :) No starfish around here unfortunately, but my Dad had a collection of dried ones he picked up in Florida along with a bunch of seashells and sea urchins and stuff.

[ecurbh]

OK, I'll try to remember, then!

[RosieCotton]

Mmm...kebobs...if I had a grill, I could LIVE on those! Yum!

Want!

I'll have to look at small gas grills this summer, or next time I see some major sales. The convenience would mean I'd use it a lot. Right now I'm settling for broiling, which isn't bad...but not the same.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I am gonna start a horse-chat thread today

Tired of us, already?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Good evening... there's a box of candy on its way to you.

Feel free to re-use the box... the label is just taped on, if you cut the tape around it the label will come right off.

[ecurbh]

Right now I'm settling for broiling, which isn't bad...but not the same.

Yeah, I had to do that during my apartment years... the taste just ain't the same, though. Another benefit is that during summer, it is nice to be able to cook without adding extra heat to the house!

[HairOfTheDog]

Never tired of ya... Just finding so many people that like to talk horses and care nothing 'bout hobbits. I intend to two-time y'all.

[RosieCotton]

Works well when it's twenty below and you don't wanna let cold in, though! And I don't exactly mind the heat, then.

But summer is a comin'! I hope...

[RosieCotton]

Okay, where'd ya'll go? Do I have to turn on the CAPS LOCK again so you'll hear me?

Sorry. I was off cookin' again. *shamefaced*

Treats for tomorrow. I'm experimenting with custard.

[Ramius]

Sorry to hear that a Coast Guard officer was KIA in the Gulf. Kind of puts a downer on a beautiful day here.

I've been trying to follow that story. Not a lot of detail, yet, but it looks like a rigid-hull inflatable (RHI) with a boarding party intercepted a dhow on it's way to the docks. The dhow blew up, and a coastie and a navy sailor were killed. Apparently there were two other bomb-boats that also blew up, seemingly short of their target.

From the sound of it, the terrorists were stopped, since no apparent damage was done to the docks or the supertankers in port. I think it is safe to assume that there were other teams in other RHI boats that were also involved, but didn't suffer direct casualties. It would appear to be a failure of the terrorists, at the cost of these two sailors. There were six other sailors on the RHI that undoubtedly had a pretty bad day too.

A big BRAVO ZULU to all.

I can't find a picture of it. Picture this, but in grey and black... with a .50Cal machine gun mounted on the front:

[Wneighbor]

See ya'll after while. Debbie got out of class early and doesn't have to be home for an hour and a half. We're going somewhere's for a while and then I'll be home. My class is over now.

[Fedora]

If you followed those rules in anime, it would be really really boring.

Yeah, all martial arts movies require some premise which evades these rules, LOL! The Badger had one issue making fun of that where the martial arts teacher was lecturing on morals and Badger was promising he wouldn't fight, but he had his fingers crossed behind his back :)

I try to avoid situations where I'd have to make that choice. I'm pretty hapless at fight, so I'd have to try to run, not that I'm good at that either.

You can learn basic self-defense a lot quicker than you can learn martial arts. Most people are going to try to grab your wrist or throat, try to get you in a headlock, try to get you in a bearhug, take a big haymaker swing at you, or try to get you on the ground, or things to that effect, all of which can be countered with minimal training. Example: try grabbing yourself around the wrist with the thumb side of your hand facing up (one of the two basic ways someone can grab you, the other way being with the pinky side up). Leverage-wise, the weak spot in this grip is the web between the thumb and first finger. Use the edge of your grabbed wrist to press down into that web and it will spread the thumb and finger apart and break the grip; you can add a twist for extra power. If they're grabbing tight kick them in the balls or poke them in the eyes or step on their foot first to weaken the grip. If you extrapolate from that to other common holds, you can learn to get out of most types of ways people will grab you. Learning to block a punch requires learning about two basic blocks, one moving in (across the body's centerline, which you can do most easily blocking with the palm or forearm rotating in) and one moving out (away from the body's centerline, where you'd usually use a forearm rotation). As far as if someone has you on the ground, the ways to get out of that are covered in wrestling basics and involve pretty simple applications of balance and leverage principles (for example someone's sitting on your chest, their balance is resting on you, so if you buck/twist your hips while you grab their arm support to break down their support base they will go flying). You can learn everything I just summarized here inside an hour or two, though practicing it to perfection takes practice of course. And if you add a knife or other weapon to the picture, that's a lot more complicated. But unarmed stuff is pretty simple if taught straightforward without the ceremonial mumbo-jumbo, IMO.

[Fedora]

See ya'll after while.

See ya later WN! :)

[Ramius]

I'm here... was off looking for pictures. I'm back now. Mostly.

[Ramius]

Sounds like a good reason to carry a gun, to me. :-)

[JenB]

Hmmm... sounds theoretically simple, but harder in practice.

[ecurbh]

Well, we are gonna go for a walk now... enjoying the last remnants of a bee-yoo-tiful day!

[Fedora]

Sounds like a good reason to carry a gun, to me. :-)

Carrying a gun sounds good to me, too :) But then you have to be able to draw and aim it in time, which depends on a lot of stuff. For instance, if a woman is carrying a gun in a purse, she has to be able to reach inside the purse to use it, and there may not be time for that. So I think guns are good, but you also need options for situations where the gun isn't available; likewise for any concealed weapon.

[JenB]

Got the latest and cleared out my mailbox again. Interesting... what were they on?

Right, one more Ranma, then bed. How can I resist an episode title like "The Dumbest Bet in History"?