1. I tend not to like lists like these, so I always ensure that at least some answers are completely made up. In protest I will not reformat this list to make it more readable.
2. I was quite good at fencing. I was Irish national sabre champion, but that's a lot less impressive than it sounds.
3. I won Miss Fencing Intervarsities 3 years running. I'm male.
4. I'm a Monty Python fan to an unhealthy degree. I co-wrote the first Python FAQ online, based on actual questions that were asked frequently.
6. I have called every living member of Monty Python 'Michael' except Michael Palin. I called him Terry. None of them called me on it.
7. I have what amounts to a secret crush on someone here on the sift. They always say what I'm thinking, but far more eloquently than I ever can. I grin when they upvote me.
8. I have a Scaramanga-style extra nipple.
9. I have a son. My girlfriend's waters broke while I was watching Alien. I'm more proud of the second part than the first... lots of other people have tiny pet humans.
10. I was once kicked in the head by Armand Assante (a b-list-ish actor).
11. I can sing the names of about 20 particularly nasty diseases.
12. I'm batman.
13. I've been online since the 80s, but at this stage the web is pretty much read-only for me. I'm more active here on the sift than anywhere else, and that's not saying much.
14. I was in Russia during the 'invasion of Georgia' in 2008. In fact, I was in the mountains bordering the two countries and saw the situation almost first-hand. Before then I had little confidence in the news we get here in the west; now I have almost none. Stuff broadcast as fact was (to me) easily proven false at the time, and the subsequent UN report backs up my side of the story.
15. I teach tai chi.
16. One of my happiest memories is not sleeping with a hot (and very cool) Norwegian woman.
17. I once ran a marathon backwards. It's not as easy as it sounds.
18. My grandmother owned race horses, including one who holds a significant record in Cheltenham. She's quite famous here in Ireland (to a certain generation at least).
19. Online (and sometimes off) I tend to use anagrams of my name. The idea is that it's hard to find Noims from my real name (until someone ruins that), but not too hard to go the other direction. My avatar is based on the same principle. There are at least 3 other Noimses online, but I was the first.
20. My favourite piece of software is the vi editor (specifically gvim). I have no idea what my favourite book, music, or non-python film are.
21. I'm a keen gamer, but most offline. I hate Steam. I've been playing Nethack since the 80s, and still play in the devnull competition yearly... it's the longest running online game tournament there is.
22. I think one of the worst facts in the world is that marketing works.
23. I was in a metal band called the Bubonic Duck-Fuckers from Hell (BDF).
24. I used to be big into RPGs (role playing - not rockets). I once got first prize in 3 games in a single weekend convention with 4 game slots.
25. I love the number 12, and know all the powers up to 12^12. Consequently I dislike the number 5. I strongly tend to favour multiples/powers of 12 over those of 5.

And this is why I don't bother with these debates any more.

I don't care what you think you know about Aikido or Systema or Wing Chun or Tai Chi or whatever else you want to hate on.

It's not all about "proving" yourself in an MMA match or "on the street" or whatever other made up scenario you care to concoct.

If you are a better person for having studied your art.... that's all there is to it.

My fave is the orange pair that went second. They do a Tai-chi form "shoot tiger with bow" while in the air.

- finished watching it. They created an entity with their spinning for the win.

I had a tai chi instructor (who was Chinese) who started my first class by showing videos like this. Then he stopped the video and said something to the effect of:

This is all a bunch of nonsense. None of this is real. Do not expect me to teach you anything like this.

The dude instantly won my respect. I was just there to learn a fun way to relax and because I thought it was beautiful. Apparently I was in the right place.

There are too many good movies that are overlooked because theyre foreign language (someone mentioned chow sing chee, you MUST watch Fight Back to School), if this pulls in more of a western audience, gets them revenue so they make more films, im all for it. Plus its very tongue in cheek, so i really dont see where its trying to trick you.

>> ^nomino:

I found this trailer incredibly patronizing. Fuck this guy for thinking we are all retards that need digested bullet points to distract us from the fact that this is a foreign language film. I don't care if it's not in English and I hope others feel the same way. But this narration is just insulting.

>> ^mxxcon:

Is this a real trailer or a spoof?



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981080/

Very real, and let's hope it's as clever and well-acted as Stephen Chow's, Kung Fu Hustle!
Kung Fu Hustle was the highest-grossing film in the history of Hong Kong-Until, "You Are the Apple of My Eye" in December 31, 2011 ~ WIKI

It's Piccolo!
>> ^Darkhand:

Narrated by Vegeta or Giroro? I dunno

Oh you!>> ^quantumushroom:

These two leaders complimented each other.
Of course! They're both communists.

>> ^quantumushroom:

These two leaders complimented each other.
Of course! They're both communists.


The Republicans, from Nixon to Dubya, are a much better complement to China.

A lot of people do like Tai Chi, but if we only mean it's combat training in a make-believe kind of way, that might be fine if that's what we want, except I think it does raise society's intelligence to point that out.

It's what I do. Who says Cuervo is an impairment?

In reply to this comment by choggie:
Way to go on the lightening fats response time!....

In reply to this comment by rougy:
Sorry Choggster - I only have one silver bullet left, and you know how it is around here once the sun sets.



In reply to this comment by choggie:
duuuuude?...One vot efor the publishing of the real here....promote me and this ones on me....

In reply to this comment by rougy:
So...the message is that we fat old guys can kick some ass once in a while.

Sorry Choggster - I only have one silver bullet left, and you know how it is around here once the sun sets.



In reply to this comment by choggie:
duuuuude?...One vot efor the publishing of the real here....promote me and this ones on me....

In reply to this comment by rougy:
So...the message is that we fat old guys can kick some ass once in a while.

^these guys aren't tubby-wouldn't call em that....besides, let oneself go a bit in certain respects age after having practiced a discipline for years....it's all body mind and energy direction with Tai Chi anyhoo....size nor fitness/age matters much with this demonstration-

>> ^rougy:
So...the message is that we fat old guys can kick some ass once in a while.



Yeah!...Ya bet yer ass the guy you thought was a pussie could!

Two wushu masters going at it....rules include no blows to the head-guy in reds' got a handle on is chi-flow, his root is superior-Tai chi is best known practiced slowly, this example shows it fast and furious-