Female students?

[gregimotis]

So.....cakegirl....how 'bout a drink after class...... ?

"Then maybe a quick stop by the ole' 'by the hour' chatroom for some... uh.. conversation..."

[cakegirl]

Really, Gregimotis, I'm not that type of girl!

[Tom Yum]

Really, Gregimotis, I'm not that type of girl!

I know.

That's why I suggested the stir-fry thing, then coffee later...

[cakegirl]

You sure know how to sweep a woman, and not just in the BJJ way...

[Tom Yum]

You sure know how to sweep a woman, and not just in the BJJ way...

Thanks cake gal...

[Ahoym8e]

Er... yeah... must have been...

My point was more to say that there is no relevance to saying that someone saw some "hot" women at a bjj tournament... Their hotness or lack thereof has nothing to do with talking about women in martial arts. It'd be like if I was posting on this board and making a point of pointing out each time someone I was referring to was blonde... It has nothing to do with the topic!

Sorry to touch a nerve there...

I'll use the biological male excuse... 2 million years of biological conditioning are hard to shed all at once....

[cakegirl]

Oh... right... evolution...

In that case, when I go to the tournaments, I like to see which strong, virile man wins the heavyweight match, because clearly he has good muscle tone, conditioning, and skills, which could help him to build me a cabin and kill the bears to protect me and my baby...

[Hikage]

Er... yeah... must have been...

My point was more to say that there is no relevance to saying that someone saw some "hot" women at a bjj tournament... Their hotness or lack thereof has nothing to do with talking about women in martial arts. It'd be like if I was posting on this board and making a point of pointing out each time someone I was referring to was blonde... It has nothing to do with the topic!

Doesn't this just speak volumes? I have been directed recently towards understanding the extent to which the male mind is one-tracked and selfish.

-Hikage

[OmaPlata]

Oh... right... evolution...

In that case, when I go to the tournaments, I like to see which strong, virile man wins the heavyweight match, because clearly he has good muscle tone, conditioning, and skills, which could help him to build me a cabin and kill the bears to protect me and my baby...

-Did you just drop the "kid bomb"?

[gregimotis]

Does Australia have bears? I thought it was just dingos and wombats and weird stuff... I mean honestly, does anybody really need protection from a kangaroo?



I know you've got poisionous snakes and crocs and such, because I've seen that crazy guy on T.V. He's usually swimming around in a swamp or something though, so all the dangerous stuff HE finds doesn't really count.


Seems to me that Australians are some of the craziest humans on the planet*, therefore bears would do well to stay in Europe or wherever they are thinking of immigrating from.






*Evidence of Australian craziness: Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile hunter, Mad Max, That one about the guy on the motorcycle that robbed banks for beer money; The British were so scarred of you, they moved you onto an island (though this really speaks more about the British than Australians), vegomite, rugby. Also, that crazy lookin' opera house thing. Beer comes in big ass cans.

[JKD Student]

those scary koalas

You forgot those scary koala beasts

[gregimotis]

Yes, you know what I'm talking about!


I think those are technically bears, but I still say they've got more reasons to fear the people than the people have to fear them.


And sloths, too.

And didn't the aussies build some kinda jillion-mile long fence just to stick it to the rabbits?! The whole country just dropped what they were doing one day and said "Nothing is more important than kicking out these damned rabbits!"


I'm with the Brits on this one: You Australians just stay over there on your island, I'm gonna back away slowly...

[cakegirl]

LOL, OK looks like I'm going to have to clear a few things up...

Omaplata, I didn't drop a kid bomb... But clearly as a woman, it's in my evolutionary makeup to constantly be on the lookout for a man who can 1) make me pregnant, and 2) protect me and that baby. If you're going to go with Ahoym8e's way of thinking.

Gregimotis, Australia does not have bears, but once again, it's still in my biological conditioning to want protecting from them, because I am mostly white, so my ancestors came from Europe, where there are bears.

Some people do need protection from Kangaroos. I knew someone who ended up with one accidentally jumping in the back of his convertible as he was driving down a freeway, and the car was a MESS afterwards. Their legs are SO strong, and their claws are huge, and the upholstery in the car was just shredded. Lucky the roo landed in the back, not on my friend.

While I agree with you about the Crocodile Hunter looking for trouble, I don't know anyone who hasn't seen a deadly snake, spider, crocodile or shark in the wild.

I've never heard about the guy who robbed banks for beer money, but that sounds fair enough.

My very good friend used to live in an airconditioning duct in the Opera House. He worked there, but he was homeless, so he set himself up in it. While it certainly looks odd, it's apparently a great place to live - or as he used to say "They've got everything at the Opera House: showers, TVs, kitchen, pool tables, and I can watch the performances too!" (He was like Phantom of the Opera!)

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VEGEMITE!!! In fact, I was questioned by 3 people a couple of weeks ago who all thought I was pregnant - based on how much I like vegemite LOL! I'm not pregnant. It's just that vegemite is SOOOO good. Guess what I'm having for breakfast? Bread roll with vegemite. Back when I was a poor student, I used to make "risotto" by boiling rice, then stirring a spoonful of vegemite through it. Mmmmm.

What is crazy about beer in a big can?

And nobody whose into MMA could possibly say that rugby is crazy... Come on, it's so much more of a man's game than American football.

And about koala 'bears', they are not bears. They are related to the wombat. And when people (usually Americans) come to our country and say "look at the cute koala bears", we take that as a sign of stupidity and general ignorance. And we say over and over again "THEY'RE NOT BEARS!" and when you don't learn, we take that as another sign of stupidity and general ignorance.

And they are mean little critters! If you want to move one, say it's injured and they need to get it to a vet, or it's in a danerous spot or whatever, it takes 5 or 6 adult men to hold one down and get it into a bag.

I'm not sure what "And sloths, too." means... We don't have sloths here. Unless you're counting the people in my town who hang out in the park taking heroin, but other than that, we don't have sloths...

Yes, we built a rabbit-proof fence, and we built another one for dingos. And until you've been to the Australian bush, you have no idea how destructive rabbits can be. Don't even get me started on the rabbits... We have a football team called the Rabbitohs - they're not named after rabbits. They're named after the men in the 1930s whose job it was to kill rabbits.

[polegirl]

Okay I have to so get on this conversation.

Cakegirl you rule! Which I am sure you already know.

I too cannot believe that someone would say kangaroos are not dangerous. I hate to break it to you but they can be. They have really long claws and can shread you really bad. I have cousins who live in the bush and when you drive at dusk the kangaroos can run into the side of the cars and boy do they dent it. There have been people killed in Australia by kangaroos falling through the vehicles and kicking them to death (a very unpleasant way to die).

As for spiders, please don't get me started. My family are like the dangerous spider family, my mum has been bitten by a red back, I have been bitten by a funnel web (one of the most dangerous spiders in Australia) and my sister by a white tail (that if you have a reaction to it eats into your flesh, luckily for my sister she ended up only with a weird scar).

As for koalas, they are NOT BEARS. But Cakegirl do you think they could mean "drop bears?" Drop bears are animals that live in trees and drop on unsuspecting tourists and suck their brains out. Now this is a story that Australians love to tell to people who ask us questions like "so do you ride a kangaroo to work?" "Do you have electricity?" or my all time favourite "Your english is really good".

And as for being convicts my father says "at least his relatives got the free trip". Though Australia may seem weird and dangerous to outsiders, it is a great country and really every country has its own weirdness (often the people!). A friend of mine lives in Malaysia and was saying how weird Australia is when I mentioned the time her Dad had to wrestle and kill a python in their backyard!

You guys should come for a visit I guarantee you will love it here.

P.S. The Opera House was designed by a Danish man, so even though it is Australian we cannot take all the credit.

[polegirl]

Oh and vegemite RULES. I love it. I just went and saw one of my work mates and she is eating vegemite on turkish bread. It is the best when I am not feeling well or just generally. When I visit the US I always make sure I have some on me. It is amazing stuff.