"He limped a bit after the grain truck incident,..." LOL Couldn't stop laughing at that point.

Ya I had a tom cat that slit it's belly open one time in a fight, I could see his intestines even, I bandaged him up gave him penicillin shot's a few days in a row and he was just fine for years didn't even stitch him up. Well that part was more his idea then mine but you get the picture here.

>> ^bcglorf:

>> ^Thumper:
Uhh, That cat just died. Or it was badly hurt. Look at the view and things in the distance. This window is at least a second floor possibly 3rd

I grew up on a farm and can assure you that cats are tough. We had one that survived a fight with a muskrat, only to snag itself on a fish hook which was deep enough that some of it was left in him, and he then went on to be fully run over by a loaded grain truck. He limped a bit after the grain truck incident, but ultimately lived on to die of old age.

>> ^Thumper:

Uhh, That cat just died. Or it was badly hurt. Look at the view and things in the distance. This window is at least a second floor possibly 3rd


I grew up on a farm and can assure you that cats are tough. We had one that survived a fight with a muskrat, only to snag itself on a fish hook which was deep enough that some of it was left in him, and he then went on to be fully run over by a loaded grain truck. He limped a bit after the grain truck incident, but ultimately lived on to die of old age.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^ShakaUVM:
Heh, I taught kids TKD for a number of years. This isn't too out of line with what normally happens.
Sometimes I'll get on my knees and tell them to punch me in the chest, and they can't do it. I'm not moving. I'm not blocking. They just can't do it.

There were teenagers in my class; of higher rank than me, even; who fit that description and were no more dangerous in sparring than these little guys. It used to really annoy me that they kept passing their belt tests without developing any skills at all.


It's funny there could actually be a thread about this.

Even fifteen years later and 70 pounds heavier, I can still knock a fucking house down with my back-turning side-kick. But I remember when my one tough instructor Marcus used to yell at me to hit him while sparring, I could never hurt him. He was a veteran of a shitty childhood and even when he put his hands behind his back, I could never hit him hard enough in the chest, stomach, kidneys, etc. to even make him blink. Of course, I was wearing gloves, but still. It was always like one of those dreams when you just can't do the thing you want to do and it always made me feel like my arms were just a couple of limp sausages.

I wonder how much of their reaction is due to the actual contraction of their muscles versus their instinctual reaction to the pain they feel.

One is actually physically causing them to limp, lay down, etc, while the other is all in their head and they could play right through it.

Kind of a limp twist ending. It might have been funnier if the girls had said something about being disappointed his friend wasn't there so they could do him too. Then he really would have missed something.

Other than that, I guess the joke is the guy thinking this is how marriage works?

I awwwed when it started limping around with one frozen wheel And then slowly sunk into the dirt in the end there


Rest in peace, litte rover buddy. You did a great job.

Limping is to walking as Pimping is to rolling.

Limping is to walking as _______ is to rolling.

>> ^ulysses1904:

Yeah, I have to ask what is so shocking. When the cop in NYC maced the girl who was already behind the police net and offering no resistance, I would call that shocking. Based on this edited video these police officers LOOK TO BE dispersing people who refused to disperse after being ordered to.
Of course you have to yank or drag someone who goes limp or links arms and refuses to cooperate. How else do you move someone like that from point A to point B? And the woman screaming at :08 comes across more like someone freaking out and resisting rather than someone actually being hurt by the police.
We all should know by now the magic of video editing can leave out all context, reality TV is based on it. This comes across more like a viral ad for The Herald Sun than some shocking footage of police overreaction.


As far as Australian law goes (pretty sure the US is similar), the cops are allowed to use equal and proportionate force to complete their duties. I don't see truncheons, I don't see pepper spray, I don't see stun guns/tasers, people being slammed face first in to the ground etc.

Yes, people have a right to protest, but with rights come responsibilities. As far as public opinion goes, these guys might have garnered more sympathy if our banking sector had emulated Wall St's screw ups. How unfortunate for them that Australia didn't trigger the GFC or even suffer that badly because of it... \8 |

Yeah, I have to ask what is so shocking. When the cop in NYC maced the girl who was already behind the police net and offering no resistance, I would call that shocking. Based on this edited video these police officers LOOK TO BE dispersing people who refused to disperse after being ordered to.

Of course you have to yank or drag someone who goes limp or links arms and refuses to cooperate. How else do you move someone like that from point A to point B? And the woman screaming at :08 comes across more like someone freaking out and resisting rather than someone actually being hurt by the police.

We all should know by now the magic of video editing can leave out all context, reality TV is based on it. This comes across more like a viral ad for The Herald Sun than some shocking footage of police overreaction.

I had a semi-stray tomcat on my farm when I was growing up that got into fights with coyotes. It had about one and a third ears, a lower lip that got sliced from the corner down so it drooled and stuck its tongue out all the time, a broken/crooked tail, and walked with a perpetual limp. But that was over the course of 4-5 years or so, and it never "lost" a fight in the ultimate sense (ie. it came out alive).

It eventually died after being hit by a pickup. Some cats can be real tough little bastards!

Fuck IKEA. I'm done with them . Everything in their store is well below shit quality. I don't care how cheap it is, most of it is not even worth having. I'll never buy another piece of furniture from IKEA.

First example: their tealights. Wow, 100 tealights for $5!? Seems like an incredible bargain. But a tealight that won't even stay lit is worthless at any price. IKEA tealights just don't stay lit... the wax doesn't burn away fast enough, and the wick is limp. So the wick dips over and snuffs itself in the liquid wax. Don't ask me why I'm fucking around with tea-lights (I used to have girls over and light candles etc... now that seems like a previous life). I'd rather pay $10 for 40 tealights that will actually stay lit until the wax is gone. I bought a bunch of IKEA tealights back when I moved into this place... I was there every week for a couple months, and half the time I'd just snag a pack of tealights thinking they were a great bargain. It took me a couple years to finally accept that those tealights were worth less than the plastic wrapped around them, and just throw them all out.

Don't get me started on the lightbulbs they sell... Every once in a while I get some new bulbs for all the little underlights I have around for vases and shit... the bulbs last a few weeks of infrequent use on average.

Their tea-lights

I bought a whole bunch of IKEA shit just under five years ago when I moved into this apartment. Shelves, lamps, some mats. Most of it has literally started to fall apart from regular use. One of my BILLY bookshelf sets sufferend a "pancake collapse" of the shelves inside, which could not (ironically) support the weight of the (comic) books I was storing on them... the shelves are now basically useless until I figure out some kind of repair on the parts where the shelves connect to the bookshelf body... that's where it all came apart.

And once you've put doors onto a BILLY shelf it's up around $250 for a set (maybe more? I can't remember), at which point you may as well look at some real shelves made for grown-ups.

at the request of BoneRemake (because my "m night shyalaman is an idiot" rebuttal wasnt long winded enough =P):

sixth sense was "meh" for the following reasons:
"These souls who for whatever reason are not at rest are also not aware that they have passed on. Theyre not part of consciousness as we know it. they linger in a perpetual dream state; a nightmare from which they cannot wake." this may sound familiar. it may sound familiar as the general premise of The Sixth Sense and central to the "twist" (if you could even call it that) ending.

it may also sound familiar as a line from Poltergeist, and also being the central premise of the conflict resolution.
speaking of poltergeist, the open cabinet drawers scene in sixth sense is directly lifted from the moving chairs scene in poltergeist. you may call this an homage, i call it half-assed hackery.

his color reference as hints are just too obvious. theyre vague and ambiguous at first, but once you start noticing em it becomes plainly clear. as for the whole "twist" BRUCE WILLIS IS DEAD OMG YOU FOOLED ME YOU OLD TOSSER i felt it took away from the movie. when i originally went to see the sixth sense with my dad i went to see a tense psychological thriller that would chill me. and for the first 20-30 minutes or so, it did not disappoint..... until my dad and i figured out willis was dead (the "i see dead people" scene gave it away for us). we were dumbfounded at first, wondering what in the hell this had to do with furthering the plot, but we didnt need to wonder anymore once the movie became about bruce willis being all emo about being dead. and the big reveal at the end, considering we already knew, really just made us both scoff. simply put, it was a pretty scare and intense movie when it was about the boy, then it became boring and stupid when it does a 180 and becomes about bruce willis. thats my opinion anyway, tomaytoe-tomawtoe

now having said all of that, there is one, and only one thing, i like about shyalaman: his vision as a director. He's not a genius or anything, but he's pretty damn good. he has a real knack for framing, tone, and pacing. probably the only thing i like about sixth sense was his ability to add tangible tension through masterful pacing and mood setting.
....i take that back. theres two things i liked about sixth sense. the overall directing, and the anniversary dinner scene. that scene really did add an ambiguity to the whole dilemma of willis being dead. on one hand the scene must play out as an emotionally drained wife frustrated (and even pissed off) at her husbands increasing distance. simultaneously she must convey a mournful widow still in grief over her husbands death on their anniversary (and the anniversary of his death if im not mistaken). that scene is legit. but credit must be given to the actress and her portrayal more so than shyalaman because she nailed it beautifully.

whether he makes shitty films or not, sixth sense rocked the boxoffice and gave him some arguably deserved limelight. but his subsequent films proved that he is a one trick pony. his movies became exponentially more and more transparent, more and more boring, and more and more stale, lacking anything of substance. (with the exception of Signs arguably. i personally didnt love it, but i kind of liked it and its a solid enough film if you disregard the shit ending) the fact that his handle of "the twist ending filmmaker" is a passive aggressive insult shows this.

m night shyalaman as a filmmaker just.......sucks. theres really not a better or more concise way to put it. as a director, however, he really does shine......which brings us to devil, a movie in which he wrote and produced but did not direct. so basically the one thing he's actually good at, he didnt fucking do in that movie........and it shows.....its utter shite. at the risk of sounding pretentious, the twist ending (cuz you know theres fucking gonna be one, its a shyalaman movie for christ sake) is so limp and stupid, you can figure it out just from watching the damn trailer (i did).

and as far as the michael bay (barf) comparisons, i think the only difference is this: michael bay knows what he is. he knows exactly what kind of movies he makes. In cinema, motion pictures come in two forms: Films (art form) and movies (entertainment). Michael bay makes the latter, and he knows it, and everyone who watches his movies knows it. shyalaman makes movies masquerading as film. seriously, when your go to device is the plot twist, and you have one in each and every one of your god awful movies, they really lose the "surprise" appeal which utterly defeats the purpose of it in the first place and thus, deserves to be mocked

there, that a thorough enough rebuttal for ya, you crusty bastard? =P

I'm pretty sure cats do this for leashes (mine did to as a child) for much the same reason as http://videosift.com/video/How-to-deactivate-a-cat . Natural instinct from kittenhood, when mama picks them up by the neck, they go limp. The leash is probably close enough. Never really occurred to me till now.

>> ^frizlefry:

The pressure between the shoulder blades simulates the bite a mother cat uses to carry her kittens. Adult cats respond to this to some varying degree due to that instinct to become limp while being carried as a baby. It's useful to know if you have to give your cat a bath. Don't try to carry them by that fold of skin though. Their adult weight and the grip force necessary to hold them makes it too painful to bear for prolonged periods.


What I was about to say. Both my cats are very different in personality but both respond to having that area pinched repeatedly. It really chills them out.