I bet yer a blast at parties!! :D

Michale

There's a way to test this premise: add swords. Swords can be designed with cross-pieces so that they only make shallow cuts, and protective gear can be designed so that nothing vital gets even a shallow cut. Once a fighter collapses from blood loss and is unable to stand for a count of ten, they could be given a transfusion. Fans could be encouraged to give blood, so that the whole activity would be a net benefit to the medical system.

Barbaric? Sure. Less so than boxing, though.

Nothing to worry about..

Global Warming is in play.. Children will never even know what snow is!!

It is to laugh... :D

Michale

And then... Imagine the bat shit crazy hysterics that will eminate from the Left Wingery about President Trump.. :D

Trump Derangement Syndrome will make Obama Derangement Syndrome seem logical and rational by comparison!!

It's going to be fun to see the Left Wingery's heads explode on a DAILY basis!! :D

Michale

No need to wait 'till Nov, you already insufferable.

Ouch!

"And the ref takes a point away!!"
-Jim Carrey, LIAR LIAR

heh

Michale

No need to wait 'till Nov, you already insufferable.

M & CW-

It's nice to know the Rockum Sockum Robots are remembered so fondly. That got me to thinking about 3 other vintage toys of my childhood.

The Bull Dog Tank: A green, battery powered, very low geared, rubber tread monster that could climb a 45% slope at a speed of about 4" a second. It fired plastic shells and ejected brass casings, all of which were lost in about 10 minutes. This tank extended the useful life of your preschool wooden blocks, which made good rubble for the tank to climb.

Plastic Bricks: Sort of like loose Lego, they only built realistic looking brick houses with working windows and doors. Plastic army men could take cover in them, and the buildings could be realistically rubbled using rubber bands and marbles as "artillery." This would probably be frowned upon today. Nice synergy with the Bull Dog Tank.

Water Rockets. A a blue and red plastic rocket, a plastic air pump, and plastic funnel to get water "fuel" into the rocket. If you pumped until you could pump no more, the rocket would go straight up 100 kid feet, which in real units is somewhat higher than a two story house. Water rockets made good "bazookas" for attacking tree houses. If Google Earth had been around when I was a kid, satellite images would have shown nearly every house in my neighborhood had water rockets and Frisbees stranded on the roof. Little known fact: a water rocket fired with its nose just barely beneath the surface of a swimming pool goes twice as high! The physics of this phenomenon are still poorly understood, but it probably has something to do with the water confining the pressure wave from the escaping water fuel.

Michale

Trump and Palin are slowly BECOMING the Republican "Establishment" :D

Michale

Yea, they have been saying that for 20 years..

Just like they have been saying that the Arctic would be Ice Free by now...

Like children of this generation wouldn't know what snow is..

And so on and so on and so on..

I would be a LOT more sympathetic to the Global Warming if they weren't such blatant fear-mongerers and actually had ONE prediction or model that was ACTUALLY accurate...

But they don't so I'm not... :D

Wow! You're right! Michale is roasting in the middle of the Mojave!

Funny you should say that.. I actually LIVED in the middle of Mojave! :D

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0408913,-118.1753055,13.75z

Michale

Every so often you surprise me. You do indeed have the answer: Rock-Em, Sock-Em Robots!

Heh.

TheStig [6] -

That is an interesting angle, and one I hadn't considered.

TheStig [8] -

Well, I'd argue "rugby with the forward pass"... but you do indeed have a point. Interestingly, international rugby players have adopted one piece of protective gear: the same leather-style football "helmets" (they were really just headcoverings) as old-time football. It's to prevent cauliflower ear, more than to protect the head.

Michale [11] -

YEah, it's still dangerous. Remember the old bumpersticker slogan: "Give blood -- play rugby"?

Michale [13] -

You can call Palin lots of things (and many do) but being part of the GOP establishment just ain't one of them...

TheStig [18] -

Ah! Great minds think alike! I never had one, but my friend did and we had lots of fun with them...

Michale [20] -

Oh, OK, that's a better cite than Palin... heh...

LizM [22] -

Heh. Dunno how many other people will get that Canuck, "we use the same system as the rest of the world" humor, though.

I learned an easy way to convert, living in Europe. You just have to remember the ratio 5/9 and the fact that -40 is the same in both.

48 + 40 = 88

88 / 5 = 17.6

17.6 * 9 = 158.4

158.4 - 40 = 118.4

Wow! You're right! Michale is roasting in the middle of the Mojave!

:-)

Michale [25] -

Got beachfront property in Florida? Well, just wait a few years, you will...

Heh.

-CW

Belief in the global warming con is no different than the belief in god, santa claus, the easter bunny and the belief that the earth is flat...

It's really that simple...

Michale

I was being facetious...

Every since NOAA and NASA crowed and crowed about the Sat Temp system they were putting in orbit, how hyper accurate it was going to be and how it would prove once and for all the temp record...

And then, when the system came online, NOAA and NASA ignored that science because it didn't support their Global Warming con....

Every since then, I ignore anything coming out of NOAA and NASA...

When it comes to their con, they are nothing more than propaganda mouthpieces...

Once we swear in President Trump, those organizations will be relegated to the dust bin of history, insofar as their Global Warming con goes..

And good riddance...

Michale

since when is 0.3 written o.oooo3?

The 2015 avg. is 0.3 F higher than 2014. Apparently what's getting ignored is decimal places, by you!

Oh, wait ...

The absolute WORST thing that can happen to the Democrat Party is that Hillary wins the primary...

Michale

Who called it!??? :D

Donors changing tune on Trump
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/266389-donors-changing-their-tune-on-donald-trump

Looks like the Democrat Party candidate is going to face a well funded and United Republican Party...

Woot!!! :D We gonna have a battle!!!! :D

Michale

I am indeed.. :D

Great rec room fun, but my Blue Robot had a softer jaw than the Red.

probably because yer opponent slipped a little bit of sewing machine oil into the gears... :D heh

Michale

"Robot fighters... :D Ever see REAL STEEL?? You really should, if you haven't.. Great Hugh Jackman flick..."

You are probably old enough to remember Rock'em Sock'em Robots. Great rec room fun, but my Blue Robot had a softer jaw than the Red.

I am sitting in front of my computer and it's 48 degrees..

Global WARMING my left arse cheek!!

Michale

ONLY the records that support the agenda...

The records that don't support the agenda are ignored...

Funny how that always is, eh?? :D

So much for "science"....

Michale

Bashi called it many many years ago when he said for the record, that Palin had achieved the highest political office she was every going to achieve... :D

Michale

The previous record holder being last year! Comparable records going back to 1880.

Ya caught that, eh?? :D

I am laughing my ass off about that.. :D

Looks like the GOP establishment is finally coalescing around Trump...

Who called it!??? :D

Michale

Indeed.

heh

:D

Michale

But being "full contact" it's still "dangerous"...

So it's still a no go with the namby pamby snowflake Left Wingery...

Michale

Yea.. by a factor of .oooo3 of a degree... Hardly "by far"..

Of course, those scientists had to ignore a whole slew of data that proved they were wrong..

But hay.. All's fair in the name of the Global Warming con... :D

Michale

Broke the previous record by the largest margin.

Take away the helmets and armor from football and you get back to rugby, which is a full contact sport that is fun to watch and a lot safer to play.

"Gloves are designed to protect the fists of the wearer and do nothing to prevent brain injury unless they are so large as to be unwieldy. Indeed, the bare fist prize fighters of the past were able to sustain very long matches because the force of the punches was less than in modern times."

Old timey bare knuckle matches were fights to exhaustion, which could take 75 rounds or more. That's a long time for a paying audience to sit through. Modern rules were designed to make bouts short by making knockouts likely - more or less fighting to concussion or to a fixed number of rounds (12 take about an hr.) The very high risk of concussion is a commercial decision on the part of promoters. Get a lot of asses in the seats and get 'em out of the seats quickly.

Indeed.

There are those who would argue that...

Take away all contact from football and what do you have??

Soccer..

I don't mean to be a killjoy for boxing fans,

Gonna go out on a limb here and say I honestly doubt there are ANY Weigantians that are boxing fans.. :D

but sooner or later boxing is going to be classified with dog fighting, cock fighting, and bull fighting. Society once accepted those as legal sports, but then times changed, and now they are nothing more than crimes (at least in this country). My long-term prediction is that one day underground boxing will be seen in the same light by the public at large -- nothing more than unacceptable assault and battery, made even worse because it happens for profit and wagering.

The solution is simple...

Robot fighters... :D Ever see REAL STEEL?? You really should, if you haven't.. Great Hugh Jackman flick...

Michale