Martial arts on TV - star trek the next generation

Klingon tai chi was a contradiction in terms and excruciating to watch.

Martial arts on TV - star trek enterprise

T'pol did vulcan martial arts which essentially entailed rolling around on the floor for no reason.

Martial arts on TV - stargate atlantis

A lady did arnis and whilst external, was at least entertaining.

Then they had this neanderthal guy do his stuff and it was so dumb-ass; dreadlocks and stooped posture.

Martial arts on TV - stargate sg-1

Stargate SG-1 featured armour + chain mail clad warriors doing capoeira. This was one of the stupidest things I'd ever seen.

Later in the show they had a guy doing some kind of stick combat, and this was much better.

Steampunk yin/yang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlCVD_cxsc

Branded

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/branded/

Yumi - badly made dresses?

I tried a Yumi dress on two days ago and found that the fabric had come away from the seam. Yesterday it happened with a second item.

The sad part about this is that I'm exceedingly small and was so glad to find that Yumi dresses fit my petite figure so well. Now, I'm entirely disenchanted with Yumi products and am unlikely to buy any more.

Kung fu movies?

Students imagine that Hubby would be into kung fu movies.
Why would he be?
Hubby can do kung fu... why would he want to watch an actor with considerably less skill and experience hamming it up?

Movies Hubby loves:


300
12 Angry Men
13th Warrior, The
Adjustment Bureau, The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
African Queen, The
Almost Famous
Always
Amelie
American, The
Apocalypse Now
Arthur and the Invisibles
As Good As It Gets
Avatar (Extended Collector's Edition)
Bad Santa
Batman Begins
Being John Malkovich
Being Julia
Ben-Hur
Best In Show
Big Lebowski, The
Big Sleep, The
Birds, The
Blade
Blade 2
Blade Runner (US theatrical release)
Blithe Spirit
Bobby
Book of Eli, The
Bruce Almighty
Buffalo Soldiers
Burn After Reading
Casablanca
Cat Returns, The
Catch-22
Charade
Chasing Amy
Chocolat
Chronicles of Riddick, The
Collateral
Contact
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Cousin Bette
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crow, The
Daredevil (Director's Cut)
Darjeeling Limited, The
Dark City (Director's Cut)
Dark Knight
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Day The Earth Stood Still, The (remake)
Dish, The
District 9
Doctor Strangelove
Dune
Easy Virtue
El Cid
El Dorado
Election
Elektra: Director's Cut
Elizabethtown
Emma
Empire Strikes Back, The
Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain, The
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Euology
Ever After
Evolution
Fall, The
Family Man, The
Fifth Element, The
Fight Club
Finding Forrester
Fisher King, The
Fistful of Dollars, A
For A Few Dollars More
Forbidden Kingdom, The
Fountain, The
Frequency
Galaxy Quest
Game, The
Garden State
Gattaca
Gladiator (3 disk Extended Special Edition)
Golden Compass, The
Groundhog Day
Guns of Navarone, The
Harvey
Heartbreak Ridge
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Hellboy Director's Cut
Hello Dolly!
High Fidelity
High Plains Drifter
Highlander
Hitcher, The (original)
Holy Man
Howl's Moving Castle
Hulk
Human Nature
Hunt for Red October, The
I Love Huckabees
I Robot
Ideal Husband, An
Illusionist, The
In the Heat of the Night
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Intolerable Cruelty
Iron Giant, The
Iron Man
Island, The
Jane Austin Book Club, The
Joan of Arc
Jumper
Just Visiting
Kama Sutra
Kick-Ass
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ladykillers, The (remake)
Laputa Castle In The Sky
Last Castle, The
Lawrence of Arabia
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Life Aquatic, The
Living Daylights, The
Lord of the Rings (Special Extended Edition)
Lost In Translation
Lucky Number Slevin
Maltese Falcon, The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Master & Commander
Matrix, The
Meet Joe Black
Mighty Wind, A
Minority Report
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Miss Potter
Morituri
Much Ado About Nothing
My Best Friend's Girl
My Neighbour Totoro
Napoleon Dynamite
North By North West
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Paint Your Wagon
Piano, The
Pillow Book, The
Planet of the Apes (original)
Pleasantville
Porco Rosso
Quick and the Dead, The
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window (original)
Red Violin, The
Room With A View, A
Rope
Royal Tenenbaum's, The
Rushmore
Seventh Seal, The
Shot in The Dark, A
Silent Flute, The
Sirens
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleuth (original)
Solaris (remake)
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The
Spartacus
Spirit, The
Spirited Away
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek 3 The Search for Spock
Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home
Starship Troopers
Stepford Wives, The (remake)
Strictly Ballroom
Submarine
Surrogates
Thomas Crown Affair, The (remake)
To Catch A Thief
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tombstone
Tron: Legacy
Trouble With Harry, The
True Grit
Truman Show, The
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
Unbreakable
Unforgiven
Vertigo
Wag the Dog
Watchmen (Ultimate Edition)
We're No Angels (original)
Wonderboys
Zombieland

Paint Your Wagon - great fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7SzvUu_9o

Steampunk tai chi movie

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/taichi0/

Anna Karenina

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/annakarenina/

Yumi Direct - returning my returns

I returned 2 dresses to Yumi Direct because both items had stains on them. A couple of days ago Yumi posted the same dress back to me - stains and all.

Today I received the second dress and this one was again the very same item I returned last week.

Are you kidding me? This is shabby and unprofessional service.

Ugly bare feet

Please and thank you

I notice on films that nobody says please and thank you anymore.

In everyday life this is quite apparent also. Common courtesy has been replaced by "Get out of my way" or even worse: a complete disregard for your presence.

Many people drive their cars this way; with poor lane discipline and serious risks being taken in order to shave seconds off a journey.

Table manners

I recently watched a 9 year old girl demonstrate modern table manners. Most of the food went in her mouth but a notable portion ended up on the floor and down her front.

9 years old? She had the skills of a 3 year old.

Don't people teach table manners anymore?
http://momsonedge.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/14-table-manners-that-your-child-should-know/

Hubby and Me as happy as can be

Wanderlust?

I've always enjoyed romcoms but the recent offerings have been truly pitiful.

Wanderlust hit rock-bottom. Coarse, vulgar, corny, tasteless. The script was terrible and the plot lame. I winced through 90 minutes feeling bad for exposing my hubby to such tripe.

Open Your Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1Q9y6VVy0&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Iron Sky - mad and sexy!

Woola from John Carter

John Carter was the best film we've seen all year long. Absolutely riveting.

Based on stories written by the guy who created Tarzan.

Dancing barefoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbuG2w0Kzo

Speed

Hubby has amazing memory and a wide range of very strong cognitive skills, but his main 'edge' is the sheer speed of his brain. Students have no idea how fast Hubby thinks. I can keep up for a few minutes and then I get a headache.

Hubby's dad Peter says that debating/talking with Hubby is like having a drill boring into your forehead.

Three Little Birds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LanCLS_hIo4

Disputes

Periodically we find ourselves in some sort of inadvertent dispute: the landlord wants to keep our bond, we receive a parking fine displaying a ticket, an on-line shop won't let us return goods... etc. You get the idea.

Whilst we can both handle such disputes adequately, Hubby is superb at it. He researches the law on-line, then  writes these amazingly simple, direct letters or e-mails, and always wins his case. He doesn't get upset. He just does it and wins immediately.

Yoga

Hubby did yoga for many years with a really strict old lady in Bradford. She was cruel and forced you into postures that your body was not comfortable with.

This in itself explains why yoga and tai chi don't mix.

Pilates

We tried pilates for a while and Hubby even had insanely expensive private lessons for a few years but it just didn't click with the tai chi.

The disconnected limb use and contracted abdomen were incongruent.

Weight training

Hubby was encouraged to try weight training many years back by a tai chi buddy but he never got into it.

The contractive muscle use associated with weight training is the opposite of tai chi and bagua; where the muscles lengthen rather than contract.