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Post by 3piggles on Jun 6, 2016 14:02:42 GMT
Van Damme is a sexist pig, so well deserving of the fist to the cheek by pretty much the whole female population. Well done, Baz
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 7, 2016 2:21:12 GMT
Van Damme is a sexist pig, so well deserving of the fist to the cheek by pretty much the whole female population. Well done, Baz I've heard bad things, not only about him but pretty much the majority of those action stars. I stopped putting them on a pedestal years ago.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 7, 2016 20:42:49 GMT
It's really is a blow to find the action heroes aren't heroes at all, but people with overblown egos. I've never been a person to put anyone on a pedestal, though I've had hopes for some people to be worthy of being heroes, which was rarely the case. I also think the world tends to make excuses for heroes, so they get away with more than others do. I remember seeing pictures of Van Damme's wife after he beat the stuffing out of her. After that, I really couldn't stomach him.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 8, 2016 19:59:36 GMT
I didn't know he was like this but you live and learn, what other action stars are the same, I am curious please? You are right Piggles love, the world does make excuses for them because they want them to be perfect, it is stupid.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 9, 2016 1:36:28 GMT
I didn't know he was like this but you live and learn, what other action stars are the same, I am curious please? You are right Piggles love, the world does make excuses for them because they want them to be perfect, it is stupid. Hugs Jo xx We had a conversation about Steven Seagal earlier, but I'll repost a link to some of his stories: theflyingguillotine.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/the-ridiculousness-of-steven-seagal-part-1/I recall some scandal about Stallone propositioning a woman in a gym some years back, and I heard a cringe-worthy episode about Schwarzenegger where he humiliated a female production assistant on a set- apparently he tore her shirt open in front of a crowd of his cronies, who all laughed. Not sure if this is true, but I find it disturbing enough to lump Arnold in with the others.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 9, 2016 13:17:45 GMT
I'm totally not a religious person, but I believe in doing unto other as I would have done to me. I wonder how those men would like being demeaned and abuse they way they treat women? I doubt they would like it. They've become entitled. I don't know if this news item has reached the UK, but an olympics-contender swimmer at Stanford University in California was caught raping an unconscious woman. The other male students who discovered it had to haul him off the woman. Several eye witnesses to the rape and to their first hand accounts of what it took to stop him, and a judge gave him 6 months in prison, with a chance of parole in 3 months, for good behavior. There is a huge uproar over it. The woman was grilled as if she were a prostitute, which is typical of victim questioning in the US Then, despite all of the first-hand accounts of his guilt, the judge ruled that one stupid mistake shouldn't be the end of a promising life for the rapist, and sentenced him to 6 months. He's out of olympic contention, but the whole process was a slap in the face to the victim, as it usually is. What I don't understand it that all of our criminal laws have minimum and maximum sentence penalties attached. How do these judges get away with violating the minimum sentences? Also, when is the system going to stop treating the victim as if she were the criminal, and as if saying NO only means no, if she's never had sex with a man before, under any circumstances? A petition to remove the judge gained 400K signatures in one day. Hopefully, she will appeal, and the judge will lose his seat.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 10, 2016 2:11:03 GMT
I don't know if this news item has reached the UK, but an olympics-contender swimmer at Stanford University in California was caught raping an unconscious woman. The other male students who discovered it had to haul him off the woman. Several eye witnesses to the rape and to their first hand accounts of what it took to stop him, and a judge gave him 6 months in prison, with a chance of parole in 3 months, for good behavior. I've been following this myself, but the version I heard says once he was found out, he tried to run away as fast as his cowardly legs would go, but two Swedish students tackled him and held him down until the police arrived. Even more disgusting is his father's plea for leniency, as there is no mention of what his son had done and what damage he did to that girl. The most recent article I read is that the little rapist is only getting 3 months in a county jail. Fortunately, he will have to register as a sex offender when he gets out.
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Post by Bean on Jun 10, 2016 9:07:02 GMT
I read the woman's victim statement and it's one of the most powerful things I've ever read. Not just about the attack itself, but how she's been treated by the courts.
After having read that, seeing that the father was saying Turner shouldn't be punished for the rest of his life for '20 minutes of action' was sickening. And that even from Turner himself, he only seems to be conceding that it was a mistake for him to drink so much his judgement was slightly impaired - there's no genuine remorse or understanding of his actions shown at all.
A few months in jail is a joke, whether he's a good swimmer or from a rich family shouldn't even come into it.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 10, 2016 17:00:27 GMT
That's why I really hope someone is appealing this ruling, and the judge is removed from the bench, so he can't perpetrate such a travesty of justice, again!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 10, 2016 20:32:22 GMT
I do not like Steven Seagal either, I saw him interviewed once and he couldn't put a sentence together.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 14, 2016 13:04:35 GMT
There is a huge push to learn as much as possible about the long term effects of concussions in the sports world, and martial arts is a sport. If Segal couldn't put together a sentence, I wonder if he's getting the form of dementia that people in other contact sports are getting? I'm not defending him as a person in general, but how many times can someone get kicked in the head before it starts to have long term repercussions? He's still be a slime ball, even if he is losing his mind.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 15, 2016 20:09:16 GMT
Quite agree Piggles love.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 16, 2016 3:03:23 GMT
There is a huge push to learn as much as possible about the long term effects of concussions in the sports world, and martial arts is a sport. If Segal couldn't put together a sentence, I wonder if he's getting the form of dementia that people in other contact sports are getting? I'm not defending him as a person in general, but how many times can someone get kicked in the head before it starts to have long term repercussions? He's still be a slime ball, even if he is losing his mind. Being that he trained in Aikido, which is a "soft" martial art, I doubt he received many blows to the head. The training simply doesn't do a lot of that; it focuses on joint locks and throws, and students are instructed on how to fall properly so they do not injure themselves when they land. His ego also probably didn't allow for him to get hit much in movies, so it's unlikely he took damage while working in Hollywood. Some of the stories I've heard include him shying away from real trouble, so this may just chalk up to someone believing his own hype and nonsense. Still, who knows?
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 16, 2016 21:29:00 GMT
I didn't know what his specialty was, but it makes sense that he wouldn't want to risk his body, when he can risk someone else's. Seems very wussy to me, especially against people like Jackie Chan, whom we know does his own stunts, and often gets hurt. Smarmy is the word my mother would have used to describe Segal
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 17, 2016 2:38:01 GMT
I could imagine Chuck Norris getting dementia, as he competed heavily in contact bouts during his prime (and in those days, they didn't wear protective headgear- they pretty much soaked up the punishment.) But Seagal did no such thing. (I don't want to knock practitioners of Aikido- it is hard to simulate arm-breaks and knocking opponents down with a forearm to the throat!)
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 17, 2016 19:15:07 GMT
I'm all for a martial art that allows a person to get away without killing or injuring an opponent, but it doesn't make for great action in a martial arts action film. It does seem that Chuck Norris put his money where his mouth was, while Segal stayed as protected as possible.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 17, 2016 21:26:48 GMT
I heard that when he was younger Chuck Norris was Contact Karate champion. Apparently the contact bit made all the difference because you are really fighting.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 19, 2016 1:48:57 GMT
I've never figured out how you can compete and not make contact. I can understand wearing some protective gear, but it's like playing American football without actually tackling anyone, just going through the motions.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 19, 2016 2:50:36 GMT
I've never figured out how you can compete and not make contact. I can understand wearing some protective gear, but it's like playing American football without actually tackling anyone, just going through the motions. The school I trained at for the most part was no-contact; they stressed the importance of being able to pull your punches and come close, but not actually striking the other person. Of course, when it came time to hit, there were bags and pads, so you were able to hit something. (Eventually the school evolved to a point where a separate group of us wore pads for sparring, and we went for about 25-50% striking power. I also trained with a small group of guys outside the school and no one wore pads, but as I was the smallest guy there I had to wear some sort of protection. I eventually stopped training with them because I didn't want to end up permanently damaged. (I did end up with a permanent knee injury and decided it was time to quit.)
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Post by Bean on Jun 22, 2016 19:05:55 GMT
We've had the odd nice day, but this hits the nail on the head!
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