It's kind of an unfortunate paradox that the more you practice these things, the more compliant you become to the actual movements. So, in a way, you become less resistant to protect yourself from injury and also to allow your partner to focus on their movements...but in the end, you become more susceptible to the techniques than an unpracticed person.

It's like dance partners. Being the best dancer in the world may allow you to move an unskilled partner in a manner that mimics skill but you're not going to pull off any complex movements.

I have all the respect in the world for what these guys do but I think they'd agree that they're just messing around and showing off some stuff that doesn't work so elegantly in real life.

Do you Tweet? http://videosift.com/video/Twitter-Pigeon-The-Elegant-Gentlemans-Guide-to-Knife-Fight

That brings to mind the most succinct definition of evolution I know of:

A series of successful mistakes.

Why should language follow anything other than that simple, elegant pattern?

My understanding is that a correct autorotation is NOT accompanied by a hard landing. However, it IS very difficult to pull off (hard---what a pun!), the closest personally analogy I can think of, being docking a boat by chopping the throttle while still tens of yards away from the dock, casting it up alongside just So---with all the kinetic energy elegantly spent before kissing the dock side.

The helicopter analogy, again, to my knowledge, is that once engine failure is clearly happening, you flatten the pitch, give up the lift the blades were generating, start falling and preserve main rotor RPM as much as possible---and you get exactly one chance and one chance only to pull pitch (make the rotor blades bite the air) at just the right distance above the ground to decelerate the helicopter just as all the rotational energy of the blades finishes spending itself in generating that last, final iota of lift--and then you kiss the ground.
Or not.

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For those of you in the dark (or a bit daft) this isn't a "real" commercial, it's a skit from a comedy TV show in Australia called - you guessed it - The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting. Nothing to do with knife fighting, just a plain ol' whacky name for a comedy TV show.

The saddest thing is, that guy is not far off from the real eco-nazis all living in and around metro Melbourne. They are psychotic

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Dance is a movement your soul makes! It's done with elegance and passion, so yes, this is dance

@chingalera

I'm impressed with your ability to craft an elegant response when you choose to. However, many of your arguments can be cast on yourself in the exact same way. From your argument that, 'it depends on your experience,' perhaps you live in an armpit down in texas where all the police treat everyone terribly, and you can certainly go online and find examples from all over the world which self-support your idea that all law enforcement is bad. However, I have lived in a college town area in the midwest all of my life, and I have found the local law enforcement to be extremely helpful and amicable. Most of my friends are not white, and I do hear an occasional bad story, though on the whole, we have far more good stories than bad.

We indeed have our own constructs, but your assessment that 'all law enforcement is corrupt' is an example of everything you hate about law enforcement which you exhibit yourself. When I first read your statement, '...profiling, unprovoked aggression, and general douche-baggery from the hind-brained, alpha-or-wannabe-alpha victims of abuse and racism...' I was legitimately confused about whether you were talking about those in law enforcement or not. Consider your opening statement, 'up voted for all the times I have personally told cops to go fuck themselves. Some reacted as expected or were otherwise prone without my attitude, and the others took it very well....and those that did not, simply, dicks,' You seem to be exhibiting all of the behaviors that you personally detest, and seem to be describing it as a social experiment. You don't have to stretch the imagination too far to see why people are thinking of you as 'whiny' or 'not a good person.' Unless your goal is to troll for responses so that you can blow off your canon about law enforcement corruption, don't be surprised when people continue to think lowly of you.

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Here is the english version (I shortened it a bit) :
"A gift that can make someone really happy. Dicky our solid silver pendant that will fill your girlfriend, your wife or your mistress with wonder. Take a closer look at this sublime jewelery that I'm wearing. Delight for the eyes, delight for luxury also michel bevause dicky is one of a kind that will be the perfect match for an evening dress weared on the skin, or even a mohair pullover. Dicky will makes you an elegant women and sophisticated woman in all occasion.

We can have a closer look of the pendent details, with exquisite grooves and a bigger piece at the end of it. But it's not over as I kept the best for the end because Dicky is not a simple jewel like the other. You can express your mood with a nice feature added by the designers. Happy, not happy, happy, not happy."

You'd think that if shinyblurry was correct that scientists would agree with him. Scientists aren't trying to "prove" anything -- they want an orderly universe just as much as shiny does. What do they gain from insisting on the universe being older? Shiny and his ilk have an agenda -- scientists don't.

They have been known to be blinded by their egos, but that doesn't last that long. (Lots of new discoveries and theories have been poo-poo'd before they become accepted wisdom. Because the data is more important. Ego doesn't win in the long run.)

If a scientist could prove the existence of god, a scientist would.

Plenty of scientists do see the hand of god in the orderliness of the data, the elegance of the math, the clockwork of the mechanisms of the universe. They just don't insist on it for everyone.

PAT ROBERTSON THINKS SHINYBLURRY IS MISGUIDED. See link to vid above.

It really is depressing. Hundreds of years of careful study, interspersed with moments of genius, each backed with millions of man hours of experiment and analysis have revealed a truth that is almost inspirational. That the earth, and everything on it, is formed at the centre of stars and gradually came together in one of the most elegant and brutally efficient processes to arrive where we are now and that process continues!

And yet, bronze age idiots contort themselves to ridiculous extremes to justify a theory that is not only long since disproved but is actually far more boring and clichéd than the truth.

Damn, nature...

[someone was going to say it anyway]

...you elegantly evolved!