http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 18:48:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248&page=2#post-134328 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:56:09 +0000 dvo4fun 134328@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@cinquecento. Ah, now that looks more like it. </p> <p>I'd assumed from recent TV that it was only kicking that was allowed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248&page=2#post-134327 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:49:31 +0000 waylandsmithy 134327@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brawling would be a good Olympic event. Maybe weight it towards biting, or burning the face with a fag? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248&page=2#post-134325 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:16:01 +0000 cinquecento 134325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Sinnick - my old karate instructor described it as 'embarrassing', and he was one of the pioneers of tkd back in the 70s... now <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5faGD5b6Zw&amp;list=FLGlRyPqTqHVzhqgOHvJhPfg&amp;index=2&amp;feature=plpp_video">this clip</a> is more my idea of good tournament fighting.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248&page=2#post-134312 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:47:25 +0000 Sinnick 134312@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Analysis spot on, cc. I did 3 years of TKD at uni, many years ago, and it didn't look much like the Olympic version. I almost felt I could do better myself (but, for the sake of argument I won't). I'll ask some Karate instructor friends what they thought. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248&page=2#post-134278 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:07:07 +0000 riesler 134278@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Round our way, according to our local refuge, they're good at fighting women. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134264 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:38:14 +0000 beau-jolly 134264@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm sure I saw a bit of a sub about us being good at women's fighting. Where's that gone then or did I dream it? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134263 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:27:06 +0000 cinquecento 134263@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@dvo.. as one whose graceful and dynamic karate style was once described as 'like chucking out time at the Sailors' Rest', my two penn'orth is that traditional tae kwon do is a valid form - it is the stupid Olympic rules and scoring system (no punches to the head, points heavily weighted to kicks) that has given us this floppy armed travesty more akin to Michael Flatley than Bruce Lee.. God forbid that karate gets accepted into Rio and gets castrated in the same way </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134220 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:57:54 +0000 The All New Jeni B 134220@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The best I've heard is "Look at the size of that helifuckingcopter!!" as a Chinook passed over head. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134215 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:49:34 +0000 dvo4fun 134215@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@sinnick: Tae Kwon Do. Hmm, the younger master4fun probably still has a little medal from when he was aged about 8. About 25 years ago.</p> <p>I had to wait all day in a smelly sports hall somewhere in North Wembley. I asumed that the dancing round and mostly kicking thin air whilst looking stupid was due to the kids' inexperience. So (making due allowance for the passage of years and the toll too much whisky has wrought on my memory), it was a bit of a shock to turn on the TV and see that Olympic standards don't look much better. </p> <p>Still, well done anyway.</p> <p>Sorry, bit off the thread there </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134200 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:21:15 +0000 Sinnick 134200@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I watched a little Tae Kwon Do, where one of our hopefuls is called "Stamper".</p> <p>"Stamper is trying to stamp him out"<br /> "It's like ball-room dancing with menace"</p> <p>So, the Beeb understands it, then. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134197 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:11:42 +0000 Sinnick 134197@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Unusual way to clean a car.</p> <p>Americans, always trying to Americanise everything </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-134102 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:13:40 +0000 charlies_hat 134102@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely Tmesis Cinq - best example of this is when I had a Saturday job in a garage washing cars in mid eighties: 'oi you, pass that span-fucking-er'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133855 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:45:36 +0000 cinquecento 133855@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>ah, this used to come up in my linguistics classes - pretty much any nominal clause can be used as a verb - remember your mother saying things like 'Don't you I'll come down for lunch after I've finished Scooby Doo me". This, together with the unbefuckinglievable facility to insert an expletive anywhere, makes English officially the Best Language. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133854 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:33:03 +0000 Smart Alex 133854@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An American once told me that any noun can be verbed </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133425 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:17:46 +0000 Ironduke 133425@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've been told I'm minute. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133424 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:40:29 +0000 Al OPecia 133424@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Who's going to minute? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133402 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:59:29 +0000 Scroat 133402@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you need a volunteer to chair the meeting, I'll head up proceedings. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133383 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:33:26 +0000 tedweasel 133383@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I fully agree with Al and shall be tabling a motion to that effect. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133368 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:24:30 +0000 Scroat 133368@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You may be right there VCG, but context suggested olive branch ie gesture of love and peace and stuff. </p> <p>But who knows with f***ing politicians. Do they say what they mean or mean what they say? Or just talk f***ing b*llocks?</p> <p>I think we all know the answer to that really. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133365 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:35:01 +0000 Ironduke 133365@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have the cyclists put their pedal to the medal? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133363 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:09:47 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 133363@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fig leaf could actually be correct there Scroat, unless I'm missing something.</p> <p>It's going to be a climb down for the Lib Dems so they are offered a small victory on something in place of what they really wanted (a fig leaf) to hide their shame.</p> <p>It is entirely possible that I'm getting my semaphores confused too though and trying to make sense of what somebody is saying when they're really talking bollocks. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133358 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:08:02 +0000 Al OPecia 133358@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>All of these nouns require deverbing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133357 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:05:22 +0000 charlies_hat 133357@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Friend of mines wife at petticoat lane market:</p> <p>"You can really smell the incest in the air can't you...." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133353 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:18:14 +0000 The All New Jeni B 133353@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr B on phone to a friend: "So how's your dad? Did the Doctors give him a good synopsis?"</p> <p>And he couldn't understand why I was rolling on the floor laughing... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133352 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:12:57 +0000 charlies_hat 133352@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mixing their semaphores methinks. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133336 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:31:16 +0000 Scroat 133336@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And on The World at One today, talk of a fig leaf being offered to the Liberal Democrats over Tory plans to scrap planned legislation over reform of the House of Lords. </p> <p>Freudian slip there I think.</p> <p>It's a sad day when journalists can't even get clichés right. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133334 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:44:47 +0000 Scroat 133334@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This morning someone said that when Jessica Ennis comes in "this crowd is literally going to blow the roof off this stadium."</p> <p>Well apart from the 'literally' thing, the stadium doesn't have a f***ing roof anyway. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133230 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:37:07 +0000 riesler 133230@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm a verb! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133211 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:46:48 +0000 beau-jolly 133211@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Interesting to see what Tweddle looks like if she meddles. She already has a grin like a wanking Jap. </p> <p>I'm so sorry. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46248#post-133205 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:00:00 +0000 charlies_hat 133205@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm pleased because I Tickered the other day, I'm hoping to Ticker again soon. </p>