When I was a snot nosed grade schooler and my friends and I were obsessed with Hollywood-stylized hand to hand combat we had one strikingly specific belief: it is a medical fact that if you karate chop the bridge of someone's nose breaking their "nose bone" then strike the nose with the palm of your hand in an upward motion you will jam a shard of nose bone into their brain instantly killing them.

I don't know if this two strike death move came from a B-movies or just the musing of a fifth grade blowhard.

losthighway wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:36 pm When I was a snot nosed grade schooler and my friends and I were obsessed with Hollywood-stylized hand to hand combat we had one strikingly specific belief: it is a medical fact that if you karate chop the bridge of someone's nose breaking their "nose bone" then strike the nose with the palm of your hand in an upward motion you will jam a shard of nose bone into their brain instantly killing them.

I don't know if this two strike death move came from a B-movies or just the musing of a fifth grade blowhard.

Totally serious question...

Any of your circle of grade school friends ever see The Last Boy Scout?

numberthirty wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:50 pm

losthighway wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:36 pm When I was a snot nosed grade schooler and my friends and I were obsessed with Hollywood-stylized hand to hand combat we had one strikingly specific belief: it is a medical fact that if you karate chop the bridge of someone's nose breaking their "nose bone" then strike the nose with the palm of your hand in an upward motion you will jam a shard of nose bone into their brain instantly killing them.

I don't know if this two strike death move came from a B-movies or just the musing of a fifth grade blowhard.

Totally serious question...

Any of your circle of grade school friends ever see The Last Boy Scout?

That sounds very familiar. Is this mythical death combo employed in that movie?

^ This explains everything.

Bad guys tune their pianos with the high notes on the left.

The Chicago Reader's concert listings have completely gone to shit. How did they mess that up so badly?

Jerry Garcia had horrible buoyancy.

Can Texas be voted out of the union?

Krev wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:22 pm Can Texas be voted out of the union?

I think it should be converted into the world's first libertarian reservation. The process would look like this:

Step 1: Provide funding to relocate anyone who doesn't want to live there to somewhere like Wisconsin since it'll be empty after the fact anyway.
Step 2: Provide funding and incentives to repatriate the anti-government types to Texas... which is why Wisconsin and Iowa and whatever will be empty.
Step 3: Remove or destroy all military infrastructure including nuclear weapons and destroy all existing military bases. They can build their own (good luck without scientists, a supply of fissile material, or access to state secrets).
Step 4: Remove all grid and gas and other utility connections to the outside world. They can bootstrap it internally, relying on the outside grid is evil commie socialism.
Step 5: Wall it off and step away

Terms for joining the reservation would include us revoking their US citizenship since they want to be sovereign citizens anyway. US citizens convicted of crimes like the January 6th thing will have their citizenship revoked and be deported to the libertarian reservation via air drop in lieu of taking up space in the prisons. Anyone caught sneaking into in the US without a passport or attempting to live in the US without a Visa would get the full-on dickhead treatment we give to Mexicans, not the kids gloves we give to Canadians and Europeans. Then they can have all the lawlessness and dictatorship that they want, and they get to prove to the world how good they are at bootstrapping their way around needing to have a food supply and basic infrastructure. And if they piss us off, we nuke them, but I guarantee that, after less than 50 years of a nightmarish collapsing society, there'd be a revolution and a socialized nation would spring up real quick, so nuking probably won't be necessary.