Okay now we are just getting ridiculous!
In the interest of full disclosure let me just say that I know Kung Fu. I studied for many years. I also studied Tae Kwon Do, Goju Ryu, Ju Jitsu, Aikido, and learned bits and pieces of a few other styles. In my twenties I was essentially, a bad ass.
I worked both as a bouncer and a bodyguard, and was also a powerlifter who set a couple of state records (since broken). Now I am not telling you this to brag (but yeah I was pretty cool), but rather to make the following statement: I could NEVER have hijacked a plane!
Oh sure I could have knocked some heads together in row eleven and possibly bruised up a grandmother or two in the rows right in front or behind me, but eventually I would have had my ass kicked.
I mean let's get real. No matter how tough you are , you are badly outnumbered on a plane full of passengers. Eventually you would be overwhelmed by pissed off travelers who would essentially beat you into submission.
I have no idea where Matthews gets his information about Kung Fu from, but clearly it does not come from any reality based source.
And just so that nobody ever says anything as ignorant as this again, let me just say that any student of the Kung Fu who had attained the level of skill required to be a serious danger to a plane load of passengers would have also learned the true nature of their art, which is peace and harmony. And the idea of placing others in danger or harming their fellow man would be as alien to them as logic apparently is to Chris Matthews.
Perhaps somebody could teach Matthews about REAL Martial Arts and he can stop getting his information from movies scenes like this one.
Okay maybe Jet Li COULD take over a plane using his Wu Shu, but he is the only one I am sure.
Just kidding.
Chris Matthews is essentially a dolt, all across the board.
ReplyDeleteMatthews apparantly gets his info from "Kung Fu Panda", the movie.
ReplyDeleteTweety says some crazy stuff lately. He just loves to hear himself talk.
He goes with the wind. It all depends on his mood if he makes any sense or not.
I've had to stop watching him for a while. Sometimes, he really, really gets on my nerves.
You'd think as long as he's been around D.C. he'd makemore sense. Maybe that's his problem. Tweety has become the Ultimate Villager.
I've flown enough to know that the most harmless looking flyer when faced with flight delays or unruly children, can turn into a force to be reckoned with. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the fight in the dog.
ReplyDeleteWell sure, anyone could take over a plane with the right director, key grip, writer and stunt double :)
ReplyDeleteThere's something to be said for some of these people having watched way too much TV as kids...
Thanks, Gryph, I needed that. Now I can go clean corrals.
ReplyDeleteAnd let us not forget, a lot of pilots carry GUNS in the cockpit now a days. My husband has flown with several packing co-pilots, mostly militarily trained. He does not choose to carry a weapon, but as a sharp shooting Marine he certainly knows how.
ReplyDeleteYou've overreacted to a few words that Matthews said in order to do a bit of bragging haven't you Gryphen. Are you not getting enough strokes from your readers lately?
ReplyDeleteMathews has become an irritant. He no longer has a point of view. His constant interruptions merely mask his fear that someone will upstage him. I too also have stopped watching him. Ions ago. By the way why havn't we heard from $Pee lately? Is her little Linda Blair head spinning so fast she can't keep Track of her many lies?
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if Anon @ 9:15 AM fancies him/herself the little red devil on Gryphen's right shoulder, or the little angel on Gryphen's left shoulder, but for the first time in my adult life, I'm leaning toward the right...
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I thought there was some kind of rule against Muslims engaging in hand-to-hand combat?
ReplyDeletePacked in like sardines I doubt Kung-fu would do much. Now eat a jar of kim chi and beans and egg yolks before boarding and you could clear many seats. Just sayin.
ReplyDeleteKung Fu Flight Attendants. They kick a** at an aisle near you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the entertaining video of Jet Li. Don't think I've ever watched his movies. A comment on Chris Matthews...he takes loud, rude and obnoxious to such a level that it seems like he went to the same school(?) as the crazies on Fox. He's about the only one of the MSNBC TV commentators that I simply cannot watch.
ReplyDeleteMathews does say alot of strange things. I think he has the "hots" for Sarah. I wonder if he saw the Hawaii pictures. that should cool him off some, probably why he is off on this.
ReplyDeleteBetter yet, post this bizarre Dutch clip of the 70's classic "Kung Fu Fighting".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId2NDiuu2s
Matthews is assuming no one else on the plain is trained in marshal arts, but doesn't address that issue There are armed sky marshals on most major flights these day, and Matthews doesn't address that very important point.
ReplyDeleteAlso as a scenario the bad guy does what? Say they grab a child and threaten to kill them or start breaking their bones while the crew and a few passengers watch - horrible but not a threat to the plane, because the bad ass can't get into the cabin, and the pilot isn't going to crash the plane.
So then what does the bad ass do?
He is now in a defensive position. Surrounded, out numbered and with armed sky marshalls waiting for an opening.
The child is his shield, but he is trapped and effectively naturalized. He will not be able to get out of the plane until it lands and is arrested, and he can’t bring the plane down.
At that point I would use my own version of apartment defense weapon (I have a pistol but would only use it under extreme circumstances), I would grab a fire extinguisher and blast the bad ass full in the face. The marshals grab the kid away and bad ass is temporarily blinded by the powder and chocking. On go the cuffs and everybody gets a complementary drink on the plane and four star dinner when they land.
And a chance to go on their favorite Tee Vee news show.
Matthews just had a PMS day, we have to be tolerant.
Hey annonymous 9:15
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Gryphen isn't the only bad ass around here. I studied Aikido, was a powerlifter/bodybuilder, and also worked as a bouncer. In the words of Will Sonnett(played by Walter Brennan),"No brag, just fact". When I was a teenager I set up a lifting area on the patio(this was before it was popular for women to lift), everyday my dad would be out there laughing his ass off and I couldn't figure out why. Finally a boy fell out of the tree behind the house. My dad about died laughing and said it was because they got in that tree everyday to watch me while I had no idea they were there. They couldn't beleive a girl could be that strong. My dad told all the boys to eat their vegetables so they could be as strong as me. My nephew used to tell his friends his Aunt Celia was going to beat up their dad because I was as strong as He-Man, so people were always wanting to see what I looked like(I weighed 125#). I used to work with a male nurse who was quite threatened by my strength and called me She-Man.
A patient in a neuro unit we lovingly called the cabbage patch started telling everyone to go get that husky boy named Todd to move him up in the bed. They would come out looking puzzled and ask who that was. I would say,"it's me". This doctor came out of his room one day wanting to know if I could get that husky boy named Todd to move the patient up in bed. When I explained the situation he looked at my DD chest and said, "Apparently his visual cortex has been affected". The guy had been in a car wreck, was going through DTs, and had external fixation devices on every limb. His brain just couldn't believe a woman could lift him. They put the name Todd next to all of my patients on the assignment board for a long time and of course everyone called me Todd. It was very entertaining while he was in the unit.
Men would throw fits in the gym because they couldn't squat as much weight as I could or hurt themselves trying. I worked taking down and restraining psychotic and violent legal offenders in a dangerous psychiatric facility(without special equipment unlike the pussies at the DOC in Alaska and without hurting them)as well as with sexual psychopaths where the patient/inmates nicknamed me Mighty Mouse and most of the male staff said they would rather work with me than the other men. I used to go get rocks at the quarry and the men would tell me I couldn't lift them because they were "two man rocks". I would pick them up and say, "You're wrong, these are one woman rocks". My ex-husband once told a cop who was upset with a group of nurses I worked with known as "the street walkers" for working on the streets with the homeless in a dangerous area, "Don't worry about my wife she can take care of herself". The cop had never met me, but one day just happened to be somewhere he saw me kick in a door when I saw a patient was down through the window and said, "I'm guessing you're, Celia. Your husband told me about you."
Part 2:
ReplyDeleteI worked in the tenderloin in San Francisco trying to unionize sex workers(Got my ass kicked by pimps, but gay men always saved me),got clubbed by police in protest marches, worked in hospitals in inner cities where gang members robbed and shot at nurses, was hidden in secret rooms in hospitals with shot up gang members trying to save their lives while the other gang who wanted to finish them off searched for them, battled against a police department on the border aka drug cartel in NM who were the drug dealers, suppliers of alcohol to minors, and had sex with high school girls, as well as the hospital there which was double billing and pulling a scam. I stood up to them until two good cops told me they heard my life was in danger and more. I left before they killed me. I stood up to the corrupt prison system in Alaska and I am telling the story about the legal system in Alaska knowing full well I could be given another false charge and incarcerated again for doing so. I am a 5'2.5" female and I used to be a badass. I am 54 now and quite a bit slower. It took, CFIDS/ME, psychological torture called workplace bullying resulting in PTSD, and a corrupt legal system to kick my ass.
Asperger women don't generally have that peer group mindset or necesarily sex role stereotypes. I did not believe I was weaker, so I wasn't.
oh god anon...you will take anything gryphen says to try and put him down. Why is that? It has been my experience, that people who do this have very low self esteem. I am sorry you don't like yourself much...but ...well...we like Gryphen, and I personally find his stories interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy husband was also a power lifter. At 46 he still has the most beautifully well defined calves I have ever seen. Quite a turn on I must say. You probably have scrawny little sticks...and couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag.
Sorry Gryph...just another one of those days where my patience has worn very thin.
Use a name anon..any name if you want to be taken seriously. Hell...you are probably Toad...or one of Palin's other "toadies"
Funny how the talking heads fixate on aircraft. It's as if they think we haven't noticed how vunerable our water supplies are.
ReplyDeleteI really can't comment because I gave up Chris Matthews for Lent. I know, I know it's cheating to give up something you hate, but I did. He's an idiot & I got fed up with it. Hey he's supposed to to the professional journalist, me, I'm I just the listener, but I don't have to listen to his sorry ass.
ReplyDeletePS I also gave up Pat Buchannan. I'm not even going to go into that.
I have to admit I watch tweetie, but only because he has some good liberal guests. I have found his screaming over his guests has become a great deal out of hand, and I wonder why someone doesn't scream at him to stfu and let them answer. Chris holds the least power of all the talking heads...so he is nothing to be afraid of. He does not make or break careers...hell he doesnt even break the news.
ReplyDeleteYou go, Celia!
ReplyDeleteKick some ass young Lady!
Proud to be a co-commenter on Gryphens blog.
And......just ignore the trolls..they get off on it when they know they irritate you. Sometimes it's hard, I know because I have responded to them myself. But we are all better off trying our best just to ignore them.
Happy New Year One and All!!
Matthews in unwatchable unless Mike Barnacle or Lawrence O'Donnell is hosting.
ReplyDeleteI love the misconceptions of martial arts the uninformed have. I admire the self discipline, respect, self-confidence and determination it teaches. Should replace the lame phys ed classes in schools.
ReplyDeleteChris Matthews is a joke!
Mary b, I was just in one of those moods,lol. I usually ignore the trolls, but felt mischievous.
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