Aikido/Bullshido in Dresden Files

***DerAuslander*** · Posted On: 5/11/2008 4:02pm

I am going to tear your skin off & use it as a condom after I resurrect your dead ancestors to **** them in the jaw bone.

**Cy Q. Faunce** · Posted On: 5/11/2008 4:06pm

I'm going to travel into the future, **** your children, eat them, **** them out, and then **** the ****.

**3moose1** · Posted On: 5/11/2008 4:47pm

lol.

well, about Aikido, i was told, by a 3rd dan aikidoka, that aikido isn't about fighting, and that he got out of the aikido circuit, because there are more crazy people in aikido then anything else.

Such as, (and he told me this) an aikidoka told him that he could channel his ki, so that if he was cut by a knife, the blade would dull...

and that they could channel their ki to stop chokes and armbars...

crazy.

Also, errant, thats very, VERY intense. Vid plz.

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 5/11/2008 5:05pm

Originally Posted by chardin

I guess I should have added "effortlessly" to my original sentence. Karrin Murphy beats huge, tough guys with ridiculous ease.

Exactly when did she beat huge tough guys without effort? Keep in mind that I have only read the books and have never seen the TV show (I prefer to avoid page to screen adaptations that do not have the name "Peter Jackson" attached to them). I remember her getting slapped around by the King of the White Court, slapped around by the ghoul assasain lady, and seriously smacked around by the Nightmare. The only times I recall her holding her own physically were against the werewolf FBI agent lady (who was in human form at the time) and the giant tree monster thing she attacked with a chainsaw.

Royce Gracie worked for his victories.

Oh no you didn't....

**poidog** · Posted On: 5/12/2008 1:57am

Originally Posted by DCS

You asked about good literature. If you had asked about bad/escapist (and I'm an avid reader of that ****) my answer could have been different.

Touche.

Originally Posted by DCS

Of course without that 'I read 9 books a month' JFS'ish chestbumping parking lot reading gongsau.

**** you. I read WAY more than JFS ever did.

Originally Posted by DCS

Are we going to make a list of shitty books we own/have read/in Santa's list for the winner to earn a tag in the line of 'i read shitty books'?. That would be hilarious, Poi. If you want the tag for you, no problem, ask Phrost for one. I'm not going to complaint.

No thanks, I already have enough stigma to overcome.

Originally Posted by DCS

As if reading that shitty prequels didn't deserve something more than thinly veiled insults. These 'novels' are horrid as literature and those who read and enjoy them (myself included) should be tarred, feathered and anklelocked to death.

Never read any of the prequels, just knew the reference.

Originally Posted by DCS

Like FLMikeATT said, guilty pleasures. Taking them with all seriousness about content or style doesn't make sense.

The thread started off fairly lighthearted in my opinion, however, I had my panties in a bunch yesterday. But **** you all the same.

Originally Posted by DCS

However, if you want another 'Aikido sucks and it's for fa66ots' megthread, go for it. They are fun too.

Done to death already.

Aloha, Poi

**poidog** · Posted On: 5/12/2008 2:00am

Hmmm, this thread has taken a disturbingly homo-erotic overtone...

**JKDChick** · Posted On: 5/12/2008 2:06am

I read three pages of the first book, turned to someone in the same room, threw the book at them and said "Confirm for me this dude trains in Karate please."

They looked at his bio and, yep, he trains in Karate and a bunch of other TMA's. He writes like a geek who thinks he's tough.

I read that book to the end and you couldn't pay me enough to read any more of'em. Butcher is a hack and the writing sucked 500 donkey balls. Too bad because he built a good world.

**poidog** · Posted On: 5/12/2008 2:12am

Originally Posted by JKDChick

...the writing sucked 500 donkey balls...

That is a LOT of donkey balls.

***JohnnyCache*** · Posted On: 5/12/2008 2:49am

Originally Posted by JKDChick

I read three pages of the first book, turned to someone in the same room, threw the book at them and said "Confirm for me this dude trains in Karate please."

They looked at his bio and, yep, he trains in Karate and a bunch of other TMA's. He writes like a geek who thinks he's tough.

I read that book to the end and you couldn't pay me enough to read any more of'em. Butcher is a hack and the writing sucked 500 donkey balls. Too bad because he built a good world.

You should keep reading them. The first couple he has all this wiccan threefold rule hippy horse-**** going on, and you eventually find out that's not really him per se.

I can't really believe we're dealing with suspension of disbelief regarding a female being tough in a book about wizards and vampires and holy knights.

Also, come on, this is the geek who writes like he thinks he's tough capital of the internet.

**vigilus** · Posted On: 5/14/2008 2:44pm

Originally Posted by 3moose1

lol.

well, about Aikido, i was told, by a 3rd dan aikidoka, that aikido isn't about fighting, and that he got out of the aikido circuit, because there are more crazy people in aikido then anything else.

Such as, (and he told me this) an aikidoka told him that he could channel his ki, so that if he was cut by a knife, the blade would dull...

and that they could channel their ki to stop chokes and armbars...

crazy.

Also, errant, thats very, VERY intense. Vid plz.

Part of the 3rd dan aikido test is to fight a dozen guys with swords.

Part of it is fake though because the swords START sharp but the dudes ki dulls the blades like you said so when he DOES slip up a little (hey it happens) he doesn't really get cut.

I know I don't agree with it either and think it's cheating.