Some *Stimulating* Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation, A Craptastic Movie, and MMA

At Thanksgiving dinner, one of the guests happened to be a sales rep for a medical supply company.  He was talking about the sorts of things that he sells to customers.  Then he mentioned that at least he was not the guy who had to sell the penis pumps.  My ears certainly *pricked up* at the mention of that!  Ha!  (Arekino's not the only who is expert in ducking quickly!)  So the guy says that the poor bastard who has to sell the penis pumps also has to take the clients' measurements to get the correct fittings.  LOL  And that penis pumps come in different sizes.  They don't call the smallest one "small", they call it "standard".  I don't recall what he said the other two sizes were...I guess large and extra large?  Jeez, what a job to have! 

Oy, what is it with me and the topic of penis pumps always *coming up*? (Okay, I'm stopping now!  ;D)

Anyway, I just got through watching Oz the Great and Powerful.  I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst.  I figured that it couldn't possibly be *that bad*, but it was.  It was even more awful than I had anticipated. There goes two hours of my life that I can never get back.  :(     Hollywood, please stop doing remakes and come up with something original, m'kay?  And stop relying on CGI for every freakin' movie.

Now on to the MMA!

Last night there was absolutely *NOTHING* on so I found myself watching the weigh-ins for tonight's TUF Finale.  I was a bit surprised to learn that there was going to be three women's fights.  The one between Julianna Pena and Jessica Rakoczy is to determine the winner for the ladies, obviously, but also one between Roxanne Modafferi and Raquel Pennington which I was very surprised to see, and one between the two tall chicks (whose names escape me at the moment) from Team Rousey.

This season's TUF was a bit of a disappointment for me.  I was excited to see women fighters this season, but most of them fought like crap.  I very much liked a couple of them personality wise, but their skills just didn't seem to be up to par in my opinion.  Dana White seems to disagree with me there.  I guess the ratings were high for the shows in which the ladies fought so he went ahead and signed them all to contracts.  Pena seemed to me to be the one with the best all around skills, and Rakoczy, even though she was the last one picked for her team, was an accomplished boxer before coming into MMA.  Even at that, I didn't think she was that great.

In my opinion, both Tate and Rousey were awful as coaches.  Rousey spent all her time mean-mugging and acting childish and being insulted at Tate's mere existence.  She needs to grow the hell up already.  That nonsense does not impress me.  It just makes me hate her even more, which I didn't think was possible.  And Tate, who I really didn't care for, just proved to me why my original opinion of her was correct.  To me, she didn't seem to posses any great fighting skills and didn't seem to be very good at teaching her fighters.  She didn't seem to be able to give good instructions at ringside, either.  Same with Rousey.  It seemed like Edmund was doing the majority of the coaching at ringside.

Oh to be fifteen years younger with my current fighting knowledge!  I'd tear these chicks the hell up!  I'd put my Evil Chinese Fighting Tactics to use!  ;D  Anyway, I'd at least make a good coach. 

I just don't get these people.  The last fight I watched between Pennington and Rakoczy was making me nuts.  Rakoczy is a boxer.  Her skill set is boxing.  So why, if you are Pennington, are you going to try to box with her?  Rakoczy was leaning forward an awful lot.  I would have gone for a front kick to the face or a flying knee.  Or at least pepper her lead leg with kicks.  Give her some roundhouse kicks just above the knee or just above the ankle.  Or take her down and drop some elbows.  Or since your take-downs weren't working, put her up against the fence and throw some knees or uppercuts or elbows.  Jeez...   Pennington was driving me crazy.  She is a strong girl but she only wants to throw one or two punches at a time.  What a waste.  And freakin' Tate didn't even give her any good instructions.  That pissed me off to no end.  Idiot could have helped her fighter with some clear instructions but instead chose to cheer-lead her into doing the same thing that wasn't working.  :::face-palm:::

Anyhoo, I hope the fights tonight are better than the ones from the other TUF episodes.  And they threw in one between Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz.  Hopefully that one will be entertaining.  And for the fight between Tate and Rousey in a few weeks,  I wish they could both lose.

Hit

Ya know, those misogynist/chavanist assholes over at that blog that shall not be named still have me a bit worked up.  I remember watching a show a long time ago called Sports Science which featured a female professional boxer who hit just as hard as a man of her same weight.  I couldn't recall her name, but I remembered that she played the character "The Blue Bear" in the film Million Dollar Baby.  So a little web-searchy revealed that her name is Lucia Rijker, "The Dutch Destroyer".  Heh.  What's with all these feisty Dutch peeps?  I had no idea she was of Dutch/Surinamer descent.  I just knew that she was probably the best female boxer that I had ever seen.

So there ya go douche-canoes.  Anyone of you care to step in the ring with her?

And speaking of Sports Science and feisty Dutch fighters, here's a clip of Bas Rutten breaking a spleen with one punch.

For a while now, I have been thinking about how cool it would be to be able to train with an anatomically correct dummy.  I have been thinking about how I could make one for myself.  It would be cool to have a few of different heights and weights.  These dummies would be poseable and you could hang them like a regular punching bag and perhaps tether them to the ground so they wouldn't swing around when you hit them.  Then it occurred to me that there *is* something very similar to what I want, only it is intended for *very different* purposes.  ;P

OUAT 3.08

Pretty cool episode overall.  Definitely wasn't boring and there were a couple of funny lines to boot.  And I totally freaked out at the beginning when they were rolling the guest star names.  Someone who I absolutely did not expect was in the episode and I was wondering just what in the heck role he would be playing.  Turned out it was just a "voice of" role.  I got all excited for nothing.  I can't say who or it'd be big time spoiler but I'll just give a couple clues.  Back when I was in high school he was the lead singer of a local band that me and a bunch of my friends liked.  He's a solo act now but he used to hang with some spooky kids and I have maybe three degrees of separation between him and I.  He also came up with the name for a band whose members a friend of mine went to high school with--Jack Off Jill.

Anyhoo...got to see Rump's wayyy back story and that was pretty cool.  Also Henry is such a total dink.  He obviously takes after his father.  A triumph of nature over nurture.  Also, this was sorta a cliffhanger episode as there is some stupid music awards show on next week in OUAT's slot so it'll be two whole weeks until the next episode.  Ugh!

MMA, 2 Concerts and OUAT

Saturday night there wasn't much interesting on TV.  There was some shitty UFC fights from Brazil.  I usually don't watch those as it seems like the fights are fixed so the Brazilian fighters can win.  I tuned in just long enough to watch the main event between Hendo and Belfort. And right on cue, the Brazilian Belfort won in the first round.  It looked like Hendo slipped or something and then when he was getting back up Belfort kicked him in the head and the ref stopped the fight.  In my opinion, it seemed like it was a quick stoppage.  The more I watch UFC, the more I'd swear there's some shady shit going on.

So that fight lasted all of two minutes so I flipped around to find something else to watch.  I landed on a concert by a band called Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.  I had never heard of them before but they put on a damn good show and I was definitely entertained.  I'm not sure what the genre was.  I guess some sort of rock.  Then afterward, there was another concert, this time a live one from Denver with a band called Blackberry Smoke.  I hadn't heard of them, either.  They were described as a Southern Rock group, but the band described themselves as Outlaw Country.  I'd say they were Southern Rock with some snarky gospel-y lyrics.  These guys seriously kicked some ass on stage.  I thoroughly enjoyed that concert as well.  The lead singer played guitar as well as sing and he was one hell of a guitar player.  The whole band was seriously tight in their musicianship and I always appreciate that in a band.  So I highly recommend them.

Now...OUAT!  Tonight's episode was okay but not great IMO.  I'm getting a little tired of Neverland and can hardly wait until everyone is outta there!  There were a couple funny moments.  I liked where the dwarves were talking about how nice it is without the Charmings around and the lack of chaos and mayhem and the line about Doc getting his Miata squashed by a giant.  LOL  And also Rump and Regina snarking at each other and that Regina held up her end of a bargain for once.  And *someone* using the magic that was learned from Regina.  The one thing that I found kinda funny, mainly because it's me being myself and cracking myself up, was the "secret magical item that must be retrieved" reminded me of the Hellraiser puzzle box.  That would be hilarious if Pinhead and the Cenobites were summoned to open up a can of whoop-ass on a certain little punk who so richly deserves it.  And the two Hogwarts rejects turned out to be relevant characters and not two more annoying plot devices.  For now.

QoH is such an effing mentaler nut

She ordered something from HSN the other day and it was to be delivered in a few days.  I was outside today cleaning up some of the shrubbery and a FedEx truck pulled up to one of the neighbor's houses across the street.  QoH had poked her head out the front door to see what I was doing and upon seeing the delivery truck, she assumes that it is *her* package that is being delivered and the "stupid" driver is taking it to the wrong house.  Then she insists that I stop what I'm doing and walk over there and find out who the package is for.  I flat out refused as that is just totally fucking nuts!  Well, she didn't like my refusal and flipped her shit on me and started spewing venom which I just ignored as best I could and continued doing what I was doing.

A few minutes later when I went back in the house, she was on the damn phone with HSN demanding to know when her package was to be delivered.  Turns out, Surprise! Surprise!  The FedEx guy wasn't delivering *her* package to the wrong house after all.  *Her* package is due to be delivered by UPS tomorrow.  Oy vey.

By this point, I had went back to my bedroom with a bowl of soup and was minding my own business when the lunatic busts into my room to berate me on how *I* have issues because I wouldn't barge across the street and confront the FedEx guy.  Yeah, *I'M* the one with issues because lunatic's delusional paranoid fantasy turned out to be just that.  :::facepalm:::  I swear she does more projecting than the damn IMAX theater.  She is so NPD that it isn't even funny.

OUAT 3.06 Ariel

Okay, just for full disclosure, I've never seen the movie The Little Mermaid so all the references to that in this episode were totally lost on me.  Basically, I knew that there was a mermaid and her name was Ariel and there was an eeeeeevilllll character who's name was Ursula.

So!  Finally an episode that wasn't boring!  It was actually very, very good!  I was getting tired of everyone bushwhacking through the jungle or sitting around with their thumbs up their arses.  Regina was sick of it, too.  She was like, "Fuck this shit!" and took control like the boss that she is.  And FINALLY some Regina and Rumple scenes.  Why do you writers insist on keeping Lana nad Robert apart?  Dudes, on screen chemistry!

Regina found Rumple and was like, "Dude, seriously?!? WTF are you doing?" and put the kibosh on all *that* fucked up shit that was going down cuz game recognizes game.  You can't bullshit a bullshitter!  Regina totally had a plan and wasn't wasting any more time lollygagging around.  It was *AWESOME*!!!

Also, flashbacks of the Evil Queen being evil!  ***Luuuurves!!!***  And Snow not liking Charming's secret and walking around with the Grumpy Cat face made me LOL.  But just one *little* aside...I hope Regina has the equivalent to a tetanus shot potion and a good plastic surgeon back in Fairy Tale Land, cuz she sure has been getting cut up and stabbed a lot lately!  Dude, getting stabbed with a fork in neck has *got* to leave a mark otherwise.  :O

Oh, BTW, Regina did to Ariel one of the most evil(for me anyway) things that one could do to a person.  I had it happen to me for a day or two and was about to die, but Regina?  She put it on that girl for like 30+ years! 

Eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiilllllllll!!!!!!!   ;P

That's right, baby, I'm evil!