Lightfall on 6/10/2005 at 13:51
Indeed. My first car was a rarity in the 80s with no console. I made great use of this feature through high school. All my cars since then have consoles, one of many features they possess that add significantly more panache than my first car could ever muster. Still, I really miss that bench seat... :erg:
I've always had a thing for 50s cars, and I think the one I would really like to have for the window-fogging action is a two-tone dark-blue-green on white 56 Mercury I once saw at a car show. That thing was 10 kinds of spiffy and the column-shift auto meant NOTHING in the way when it was parked. :devil:
Ultraviolet on 6/10/2005 at 23:20
You crazy netizen, people online don't have SEX!
Lightfall on 7/10/2005 at 13:46
well, since cars aren't online, particularly the old ones, I guess we're still okay.
liquidfear on 26/2/2006 at 23:59
Well, just a bit of an update. I did manage to contact the already family friend from the first post, Vic. He is still training, although he now asks for a price of 10 dollars a lesson. This is acceptable, I'm thinking: He lives 45 minutes away and drives here to teach.
I'm glad that he still teaches. He's done martial arts for most of his life, a good 40 years or so. He's practiced Wing Chin kung fu for at least 20, and has ended up using it in all sorts of situations, from competition to real fights. I don't say this to paint him as an aggressor (he actually is one of the most patient and calm men I know), but he does know what he is doing.
A real plus is he has trained is an untold number of martial arts and weapons, notable ones that I know of inlcude karate, Muay thai, kali sticks, the bo (score) , and both judo and aikido. He's spent most of his life practicing some form of martial art.
The only thing I really have left to ask is if anyone has heard of a chinese liquid pronounced "teen (tea?) chet"? It's supposed to stop long term nerve damage, inflamation, and bruising that comes with repeated beating and squashing of a body part (in this case, the forearms). I'd look it up, but without a proper spelling, I'm not having much luck.
Lioness Rampant on 27/2/2006 at 02:30
It's called di dat jao or something. Never gotten the actual spelling/pronounciation from my teacher. If it smells nasty, is an icky brown colour, and gives you sweet sweet relief when you put it on, it's probably jao.
It's a type of topical blood thinner that helps with bruising. I'm not sure if it actually helps with nerve damage, but if you've been doing the 7 star drills for your forearms, you're going to be damaging your nerves all to hell no matter how much Ancient Chinese Slop(TM) you slap on.
liquidfear on 27/2/2006 at 03:35
Sounds pretty close to the stuff, the only differance being it smells good, almost like a chinese dinner. :p Almost a soya saucy kinda thing. It does have relieving qualities, and it dries really quickly when you rub it in.
Kroakie on 27/2/2006 at 04:27
The closest thing that springs to mind is tian qi. From what I know it's a herb. My mum used to cook it with peanut roots and force feed it to me. Supposedly aids in healing. But I've never heard that it can be applied, so I don't know if that's what you're referring to.
-Edit- I asked my mum and I'm now quite certain that that was what you were talking about. According to her, tian qi is good for bruises, and there is an ointment made from it. Also I made a mistake. She never cooked it with peanut roots. Peanut roots is another, erm... dish altogether.
Oh and Lioness Rampant, is it die (pronounced like ye) da jiu?
Fig455 on 27/2/2006 at 13:39
Quote Posted by Lioness Rampant
Yeah, like theBlackman said, ninjitsu is really dodgy. Too many teachers get caught up in the whole 'way of the ninja' mythos and start believeing that they're teaching you to be t3h d34dly sh4d0w w4rr10r. A lot of ninjitsu is fake teachers looking to make a quick buck. It's the whipping boy style over on (
http://www.bullshido.net) Bullshido .
Weeee! That site is absolute entertainment. I spent hours there laughing.
Lioness Rampant on 27/2/2006 at 17:09
Quote Posted by Kroakie
-Edit- I asked my mum and I'm now quite certain that that was what you were talking about. According to her,
tian qi is good for bruises, and there is an ointment made from it. Also I made a mistake. She never cooked it with peanut roots. Peanut roots is another, erm... dish altogether.
Oh and Lioness Rampant, is it die (pronounced like ye) da jiu?
The stuff I'm talking about is pronounced "deet da jaow". It's made using an alcohol base (rice, vodka, pretty much any type of alcohol), artemesia, borneol, carthamus, catechu, cirsium, dragon's blood, mastic, musk, mrryh, pinellia, and arnica blossom.
Shadowcat on 28/2/2006 at 22:07
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is it die (pronounced like ye) da jiu?
The stuff I'm talking about is pronounced "deet da jaow"
Regardless of the precise pronunciation, that must surely be the same thing.
