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Nutso wrote:So Koreans are, like, a warrior race?

They were, inasmuch as any eastern or southeastern Asian peoples were in the middle parts of the second millenium. The Chosun/Joseon kingdom, which ran roughly from the late 14th century to the late 19th century, was - very much in the same vein as shogunate Japan (from whom the Koreans borrowed much during Japan's occupation of Korea.) There was a great deal of admixture of native Korean martiality with Japanese cultural cues, which many people take to be the dominant cues, but Korean martial anthropology can be traced to at least the middle of the first millenium (which was Bronze Age in southeast Asia.)

In fact, many styles and items which are popularly attributed to China, Japan, or Okinawa originated (or at least developed concurrently) in Korea. The so-called "butterfly swords," weaponized fans, and the short-hilted double-edged straight sword of Asian design are all Korean contributions; and gungdo - traditional Korean archery with a very specialized recurved horn bow and generally practiced with a thumb ring - was the state of medieval Asian archery, inclusive of the long bows and pellet bows used by shogunate samurai.

He's on my desk right now.

SF Debris reviews Transformers G1: More Than Meets the Eye

For me, this is where it all began.

I miss Star Trek.

Nutso wrote:I miss Star Trek.

One of my favorite episodes of the franchise. It just makes you think.

Wow, that's amazing, how did he do it. It's not like he could hang from the floor above or anything, it must be a miracle.

I used to go to school with a gentleman from Zimbabwe. Even people from Zimbabwe don't believe anything that comes out of Zimbabwe.

SF Debris reviews episode two of 'Transformers: More Than meets he Eye.

Spike was fooled by Soundwave once over the course of the series, mind.

I think the woman is a plant. There's no way anyone would risk a customer like this. Not even in Australia.

I have a friend who posts here now and again as T'Pau, who I watch movies with over skype. She absolutely looooves terrible shark movies... she's gonna wish this was real...

I admit, I kinda wanna see Jaws 8 and Jaws 15.