who do you want to beat up in KWF?

[Tenken]

who do you want to beat up in KWF?

[kendokamax]

all of them

[mingshi]

wow!!! I can beat myself up!!

[Confound]

I'm disappointed that I'm not winning. I'm the resident curmudgeon after all. It takes no talent to be a troll, but it takes quite a bit to be a witty, crusty old fart, especially as such a young age.

c

[AlexM]

Disappointed that there is no "all of the above" option...

Even more disappointed that I didn't make the list :(

Am I not worth the time to be beaten up? Is Confound right, am I a doormat?

Tenken makes the team but I don't (21 posts vs. over 200)? What makes you more of a target huh? Who chose this team? Probably another case of bad judging on the part of the shinp..... I mean poster. Totally unjust result in my opinion.

I propose another team to beat up on:

AlexM, kendokamax, Ares, alexpollijr, NeilG

We can piss off people as well as anyone on that list! (you'll note I put Ares as chuken).

[KhawMengLee]

Awwwww...okay okay...AlexM I'll bash ya!;):D

Seriously though....Tenken(and all those who voted to beat up Confound and maybe Mingshi because she probably voted for herself;)), you actually put some thought into beating up women? Oh, wait....I see your futures....you all are on stage!...On a new show televised straight from prison called "The Ike Turner review!"

Now in shiai is a different story...

[itazura]

Oboy, oboy, after only a few posts I made the list. But I don't have any votes yet!

I'm going to have to try harder.....

[Paburo]

tenken,

you don't specify though in what sense do we want to beat them.

i'd like to beat in a friendly match all of them, but only a few of them i'd like to beat in a tournaments final. (just so they can whine and complain more about the judges, or weather, or anything :D :D :D)

[M.K. Kawai]

It was a tough choice, but I just couldn't vote for you Mr. Kurukuru.

I had to vote for my "Best Friend" :D

MKK

[J. Schitt]

You left me off your stupid list.

[Inouye02]

kawai sensei , did you vote for who i think you voted for ?

chawan atama ?

[M.K. Kawai]

Guess again... :D

MKK

[Tako-kun]

confound and mr.kurukuru, neck and neck with 15 votes each! What a horserace! "AAAAAAND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!!" :D

[aru-ma]

Originally posted by Tako-kun
confound and mr.kurukuru, neck and neck with 15 votes each! What a horserace! "AAAAAAND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!!" :D

Do you think we may need a re-count after that?

[Inouye02]

of course , do you really think confound will be happy with losing ,
shes not the baddest on the block anymore

[kendomushi]

I don't want to beat up on any of them. Doing so would be a complete waste of time and energy. However, I don't mind cheering on those of you who do want to take them on. lol

[Confound]

Poor Inouye, he confused being well-spoken with wanting to be 'the baddest on the block'. I never set out to be the king of the anthill. It's too large and troublesome a responsibility. As for being the 'baddest', it is as interesting to me as a dead cockroach, that is to say, not at all.

Move along, nothing to see here.

c

[KATSUJIN]

oh well....anyway...luckily...i am not in the list!!!
:D

[KhawMengLee]

Well, Confound...making intelligent debate with these guys is like casting pearls before swine.

[William Honda]

KMLee,

Generally speaking, I do not see where Confound debates, she usually makes inane, cutting comments (granted, grammatically correct but not as "eloquent" as she thinks).

Her comments are befitting of her moniker: curmudgeon.

Mr. Hyde is exposing his ugly head. Down alter-ego! Down! Arghhhhh. Arghhhh. Arghhhh.

[Tato]

Ha! finally a ...

...catharsis thread where KWF kenshi can duel freely

:D

Rei

[UncleDave]

To proof everyone here once and for all, you two are the “top dog” in U.S. I like to see you monkeys enter this year’s Ultimate Fighting Championship. Until than, why not go watch your WWF reruns, you still have much to learn from your idol “ the rock”.


p.s. One day someone will tsuki you two where sun don’t shine lol


-This is my first post...many to follow...

[William Honda]

The Rock?????

Tajiri is da man!

[William Honda]

Uncle Dave,

Who two you talking about?

[Phorest]

NOBODY WANTS TO BEAT UP PHOREST?!

I am sad. *sniffle*

Not even Confound? :(

[UncleDave]

The Yondan that act like a 4kyu and his side show Bob.


p.s. no need to private msg-ing me. I will not reply. FYI yes, I study kendo for 19 years now and YES, I still regard myself as beginner. Rank? (you can do you math)..but, that is not so important to me “anymore”.

[m_french]

Originally posted by Confound
Poor Inouye, he confused being well-spoken with wanting to be 'the baddest on the block'.
c
confound...
Amusing that you equate your grand knowledge of adjectives with being well spoken:) :D ;) :o :o :o :o that and a 21 year old scotch has made my night. thanks

[Confound]

It would be useless to demonstrate oratorical prowess around here. It would be akin to forcing Cicero to lecture to the Picts.

There have been some who have lectured those who cannot comprehend, most notably Assisi and the birds, but it should be remembered that he was preaching to carrion birds in a church yard, not songbirds in a garden. History has distorted poor St. Assisi and confused his message to the church fathers with an act of eccentricism. There are some times when addressing a deaf audience, or one incapable or unwilling to understand, has an entirely different purpose. The delivery of the message itself, and its context is the purpose, not the content.

However, I would not presume to compare myself with Assisi, but rather with Cicero and the Picts. At least carrion birds are a polite audience that could pass for being well-mannered.

c

[hammock]

Originally posted by Confound
It would be useless to demonstrate oratorical prowess around here. It would be akin to forcing Cicero to lecture to the Picts.

There have been some who have lectured those who cannot comprehend, most notably Assisi and the birds, but it should be remembered that he was preaching to carrion birds in a church yard, not songbirds in a garden. History has distorted poor St. Assisi and confused his message to the church fathers with an act of eccentricism. There are some times when addressing a deaf audience, or one incapable or unwilling to understand, has an entirely different purpose. The delivery of the message itself, and its context is the purpose, not the content.

However, I would not presume to compare myself with Assisi, but rather with Cicero and the Picts. At least carrion birds are a polite audience that could pass for being well-mannered.

c

how do you change your vote?

[PhilMcLaughlin]

Confound

I really wouldnt want to be Cicero if I had to lecture to the picts - a wiild and unruly bunch whose reaction to being lectured to would be even less polite than this thread (and would involve forcible removal of bodily parts )

that posting is a spectacular own goal :-)

[Tako-kun]

Ha Ha, that was great! Someone stir up confound again; I want to read more of her clanking, lumbering, name-dropping prose! :D

[William Honda]

Damn! I usually don’t laugh out loud but you crack me up with your sense of humor.

Some dry, some not, but funny none-the-less. Enjoying myself reading the posts.

William

[Confound]

Tako-kun,

In oratory, it is important to use examples, may I refer you to any of Aristotle's works on the subject, where you will find that he says it is absolutely necessary to demonstrate by example.

As for being clanking and lumbering, it is only so to those whose reading skills aren't up to par. Should you wish to read more of my apparently displeasing prose, you are free to browse the archives of my website. I'm sure it will provide you with ample amusement.

c

[M.K. Kawai]

Looks like the voting has slowed down. I was just wondering who the "others" were. Anyone who voted for "other" would you like to reveal who you wished was on the list? :)

MKK

[Tako-kun]

Confound:

Ok, first of all, you mention the inductive 'Argument by Example, using illustrative parallel', but your example of Cicero lecturing to Picts presupposes it's own uselessness without bothering to show that it would, in fact, be useless.

Also, your second example seems to be stricken with premature senility, since it appears to just kind of wander off into left field, presumably wearing a bathrobe and a confused (confounded?)
expression, with its pajamas down around its ankles. :D A treatise on the historical distortion of Assisi, followed by postulating that in certain circumstances, addressing an uncomprehending audience may be done for reasons other than communication does not help you demonstrate the uselessness of oratory on the Kendo World forums. It's just lazy name-dropping; showin’ off your edgamacation.

Although your examples are faulty, I was going to whip up a proper counter-syllogism to refute them using an illustrative parallel featuring Augustine of Hippo and Bishop Ambrose, but it's now 3:00 AM, and I just can't be bothered. Maybe next time.

And finally, since you're living in the twenty-first century you might as well drop the eighteenth century sentence structure you seem so fond of. You're starting to sound like Edward Gibbon.

PS. This was actually pretty fun, let’s do it again sometime. :)

[m_french]

Originally posted by Tako-kun
Confound:

Ok, first of all, you mention the inductive 'Argument by Example, using illustrative parallel', but your example of Cicero lecturing to Picts presupposes it's own uselessness without bothering to show that it would, in fact, be useless.

MEN


Also, your second example seems to be stricken with premature senility, since it appears to just kind of wander off into left field, presumably wearing a bathrobe and a confused (confounded?)
expression, with its pajamas down around its ankles.

KOTE


A treatise on the historical distortion of Assisi, followed by postulating that in certain circumstances, addressing an uncomprehending audience may be done for reasons other than communication does not help you demonstrate the uselessness of oratory on the Kendo World forums. It's just lazy name-dropping; showin’ off your edgamacation.

DOH


Although your examples are faulty, I was going to whip up a proper counter-syllogism to refute them using an illustrative parallel featuring Augustine of Hippo and Bishop Ambrose, but it's now 3:00 AM, and I just can't be bothered.

HIKI-MEN


Maybe next time.

KOTE


And finally, since you're living in the twenty-first century you might as well drop the eighteenth century sentence structure you seem so fond of. You're starting to sound like Edward Gibbon.

MEN


PS. This was actually pretty fun, let’s do it again sometime. :)

HIKI-DOH



Ippon Tako-kun great combonation:beard:

[Tako-kun]

This is the place where confound was supposed to put her dazzling rebuttal of my previous post, but she doesn't seem to be her usual talkative self. So instead, I present a bunny with a pancake on its head.

[Inouye02]

hahahah thats funny ,

guess you smacked her down pretty hard tako- kun,

but hell hasnt frozen over yet

[Tako-kun]

hehheh, all in good fun :)

[M.K. Kawai]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

That's a good one :D

As for hell freezing over... it has now been proven that it can't. :(

The following information is "proof" of that. Enjoy...

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic gives off heat) or endothermic absorbs
heat)? Most of the students wrote roofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools off when it expands and eats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1) If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2) If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having an affair with her, then #2 above cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze over."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

And I was looking so much to seeing hell freeze over :rolleyes:

MKK

[Confound]

If we consult Dante, we'd know that hell is already frozen at the middle, but that's a moot point.

As a matter of fact, Confound has a life, and has been very busy. There is art in oratory, it's more than name dropping. I'd respond, but the rabbit with a pancake on its head really doesn't leave room for more commentary.

That said, Confound is going on vacation to Nikko this weekend, then going to Tokyo to see Gackt Camui, and really doesn't care about too much else lately (except more exams, packing, finding a shipping company, and all the usual practices and practice related things).

c

[m_french]

:D :D :D :D :D :D
Okay so i get up this morning and find a picture of a bunny with a pankake on it's head, i'm laughing so hard I spilled my coffee!!!
MKK don't you know that there is not much else to do winter quarter at the UW but drink and think about warmer climates!!
Originally posted by Confound
If we consult Dante,

There is art in oratory, it's more than name dropping.

c

That may very well be, but i dare say you can't help yourself.:beard:

[M.K. Kawai]

Ahhhhh.... The memories of UW Madison:)

How I remember the cold wind from the north cutting across the lake and cutting right through me like an ice cold katana :eek:

Hey, French don't forget that I spent some time in Kyoto too. One of those winters was the coldest on record in recent history :D

BTW, I think that frozen part is Purgatory!

OMG!!! That means I went to Purgatory and back!!! :eek: Twice!!! :eek: :eek:

Yeah, right. :D I stand behind the evidence.... Hell is exothermic! :D

MKK

[Tenken]

seems like mr.kurukuru is still winning! I haven't seen this thread for about a week but I guess he's still the best. Confound is doing well but not good enough. Anybody know who the "others" are?

[M.K. Kawai]

I don't know about you, but I am ready to declare Mr. Kurukuru the winner :cool:

MKK

[smith]

french and kawai: this is totally OT but hey, it's a dumb thread anyway (except for that bunny... genius): did either of you do Kiyota's Kendo course at UW Madison?

[Kiki]

Tako-kun’s Bunny was the best. Although m-french’s shiai analysis was very fun. You are all so clever. Can’t help but wonder what your banter would be like face-to-face in a pub. Thanks for the amusing read.

[M.K. Kawai]

Hi Smith,

I never took Kiyota's Kendo class when I was there. It didn't exist then. But, I do remember his name at UW.

There was a Kendo Club at UW when I was there. They used to practice at a small gym that located in the building next to the ROTC building. That was started by my mentor Atone Sensei who got his doctorate at UW. I have no idea about the status of the Kendo club there. Do you have any info?

MKK