What do people who can’t play guitar do?
Play drums.
What do people who can’t play drums do?
Play bass.
:::d&r:::
Speaking as a bass player, the badassest bass player I ever saw had a fucking cattle prod on his bass. Now that, my friend, was a weapon.
And, of course, those who can’t play bass… sing.
I so hope Phase42 isn’t a ninja.
They do indeed make electric violins. That Asian chick whose name I can’t recall (she insists on stepping over freshly spilled water before going on stage, and says “Fasten your seat belts” during Tacata In Fugue In D Minor) plays one. I actually saw one for sale at a flea market in Florida, but $400 struck me as a little high.
I googled em DocCathode and $400 is low-end! :eek:
Why does everyone on the SDMB have RealUltimatePower?! WHO LET THE SECRET OUT?! IT MAKES ME WANT TO FLIP OUT AND KILL PEOPLE!
It’s easy! I sound as awful at 1:30 a.m. as I do at 9 p.m.! I might even sound better given the amount of alcohol everyone has likely consumed.
By any chance, do you pity the fool?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the quart of blood technique™
All hail King Cockblaster!
Have you forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager or something? Your average 17 year old guy isn’t going to ask questions of a martial artist in a respectful manner. And as some people around here have pointed out, if these guys are trying to get a date they are going to act like idiots. Us guys don’t know how to talk to girls at that age, so we get tongue tied and weird, and then the girls think we’re assholes and run away.
- sturmhauke, who was rather luckless with the ladies way back when
I’m trying to stay out of this thread at the advice of LeftHand, but I’ll explain myself to YOU sturmhauke,
I remember EXACTLY what it was like to be a teenager, and a bumbling, clutzy nerdy one at that. Specifically I remember having a huge crush on a super popular athlete and trying to talk to him and how humiliated I was when he looked down his nose and laughed at me.
I just hope Ninjachick knows that saying “ewww, I hope you don’t want to date me” Can possibly be construed as HURTFUL to someone who doesn’t quite know how to express themselves.
I didn’t have the pleasure of guys falling all over me in highschool, or college, or ADULTHOOD for that matter. She shouldn’t punch a gift horse in the mouth.
jarbaby, have you ever had someone be attracted to you that you found oogy? I wanna give a couple examples from my own life.
- Once, in England with my then-girlfriend, she and I and her ultra-androgynous friend Camra went to a gay bar. Camra looked a lot more masculine than I did, and a five-sheets-to-the-wind Brit immediately began chatting her up. She smiled and told the guy that she was a woman; his face fell for a fraction of a second, then he weaved his way over to me and asked if he could buy me a beer. I laughed and said no thanks, that I was flattered but that I was here with my girlfriend. Again he looked crestfallen, but then he shrugged and went off in search of someone else. That was actually pretty flattering, and not at all oogy.
- I had a friend during college who was smart and funny and shared a lot of interests with me and had a huge obvious crush on me and not my type at all. She really was a good friend; when I had to go to the hospital on an emergency, she was the one that held my hand while they gave intravenous antibiotics to my ultraneedlephobic self. I hated the fact that she had a crush on me, because there was nothing I could do about it: I wasn’t attracted to her, even though I really enjoyed her company otherwise, and the crush just made things awkward and awful between us.
- In high school there was a really horrible, arrogant, insecure girl who had a crush on me, and interspersed telling me exactly how I should live my life with asking me when she would see me next. She just about made my flesh crawl: were it not for the crush she had on me, we would never have hung out. Although I never told her she creeped me out, I’m afraid I was rather brusquer with her than I should’ve been until she got the hint and left me alone. I wish I’d been more politic, gentler–but at the time, I really didn’t have the social skills to be.
Having guys (or girls) falling all over you isn’t necessarily a gift horse, in other words. Sometimes it’s flattering, but sometimes it’s awful.
Daniel
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Originally posted by NinjaChick
When Korea was liberated, and the ‘de-Japan-ification’ started, TKD evolved out of what was left of Taekyon, which had been greatly altered (obviously, with a Japanese twist on the style).
Well, there’s your problem, right there! You can’t go around altering your Taekyon field without some serious repercussions!
Just have Geordi put a sub-space damper around your Taekyon field (reversing the polarity of the shields should do it), and you’ll be free of these pesky questions in no time! Plus, you’ll be cloaked.
A win/win situation for any ninja, in my book.
You youngsters allways forget about the Dillithium Crystals. 
PS Hey, from a former Bessemerite.
I can appreciate being adverse to ooginess and your stories make sense. Here’s a funny one from my past.
There was a boy in my junior high school who struck me as very oogy. He was awkward and bumbling and not in my circle of friends, and from the opposite side of town and he hung around me all the time and asked me to go to a dance with him and I said no.
That boy turned out to be supermodel Tyson Beckford. I SHIT YOU NOT. I could eat a GUN thinking of that.
Even though I found him oogy, I was flattered that someone in the world was interested in me. I’m not saying she has to date them, but it’s NICE to be admired or interesting, isn’t it?
How do you think you reverse the polarity of the shields? By running them through the dilithium crystals, naturally!
For the right price, I’ll send you a care package from the Bright Star.
Make it a rack of pork ribs
Gallon of Sweet Tea
Qt. of slaw
Qt. of Beans
Loaf of wonder bread
and some banana pudding
From DREAMLAND, and you could just about name your price. God my mouth is watering. For my dads last birthday I actually had them fed ex me the above order, I think I going to have to do it again right damn now. Man I get homesick out here in Cal sometimes. Hows Vulcan these days? He get put back together?
You ain’t no fricking ninja babe. You don’t even study Ninjitsu. And what’s this with “I’m better than most of them, because they’re lower belts than I am?” An ass-kicking by a any color belt is still an ass-kicking. You lack wisdom grasshopper. You’ve yet to find the true meaning of the martial arts. BTW, do you spar full contact? If you want to learn how to fight (an I don’t know that you do) you have to fight.
:o
True story: In the late 80s, I wore a Dreamland t-shirt one day in DisneyWorld. No fewer than four people came up to me that day, either complimenting me on my taste in clothing and barbecue or cussing at me for making them want Dreamland when they couldn’t have any.
I was gonna tell you that you can have Dreamland food shipped to you, but then you mentioned your dad’s birthday.
Vulcan is fully reassembled, and is mooning Homewood as we speak.
Whoa! Chill out! Let her convince the world of her Ninjish, then when the world is secure in their knowledge of what a ninja is, those of us with the Realutlim…
/Cartman/ GODDAMMIT! Screw you guys, I’m going home. /Cartman/
The King duly waves his royal scepter.