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LOOKING FOR SOME articles and videos to help break up the afternoon, but only have 10 minutes to spare?
Try these nuggets for size – all take 10 minutes or less to enjoy.
Have you seen this inspirational ad yet? Here’s what our readers thought of it. [TheJournal.ie - 3 mins]
2. “You wouldn’t be long gettin frostbit”
This Derry lad has been getting a lot kudos for his amazing accent – but is it real? DailyEdge.ie finds out. [DailyEdge.ie - 3 mins]
Yet Earle is not a redneck. Far from it. He’s articulate and aware, the son of middle-class parents who raised him in San Antonio, Texas, to be something and were dismayed when, at 14, he quit school and hit the road for Nashville.
The legendary Steve Earl (you might recognise him from The Wire even if you don’t know his music) has a new album out soon. Here’s a look at an interview he did back in the day. [The Guardian - 10 mins]
4. Heard the one about the anti-feminist party?
“Feminism is a hatred, and it should be a badge of shame,” he said. “To call yourself a feminist should be no more acceptable than calling yourself a bigot or a sexist or a fascist. It is a deeply vile, corrupting ideology and the idea it’s a benign movement about gender equality is dangerous nonsense.”
There’s an anti-feminist party running in the UK’s general election… and people are falling over themselves to comment on this interview. [Buzzfeed - 7 mins]
Serial Podcast / SoundCloud
This time, an interview with Rabia Chaudry, the woman who brought the case to Sarah Koenig. [Stanford Daily - 5 mins]
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Hasn’t this been kept alive all these years through a certain culture.
no they use slash hooks
Where’s Jon Snow when we need an expert opinion from someone who knows nothing?
Amusingly its less barbaric than mma as well
kinda nerdy don’t you think?
True it’s hard enough to pull off a rear naked choke when you can’t get your hands around the armour let alone squeeze it.
Rear naked? you can try grab the base of the torso armour and shove it up so the collar bites into the neck I guess
tbh this looks like nonsense, its like two panzer tanks armed with pea shooters firing at each other
You are welcome to try it out, trust me it’s a lot harder than it looks! The hits in the 1v1 fights aren’t as hard as in the groups, you want to hit hard enough to score a point but not so hard that you wear yourself out early. Even with that I was hit hard enough in a 1v1 to have my helmet broken with me inside it.
This might impress you a bit more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKSI1OPGa4
But to experience it at it’s best come see us in action and then decide what you make of us.
Thanks matey but I’ll stick to doing weapons sparring with minimal armour, I kind of like footwork, combinations, defense and all that skill based stuff instead of standing toe to toe and just swinging like lumberjacks.
have your say