Weekly Meaty Mutterings

Karate Stuff

What qualifies me to give an opinion on karate stuff?
I've been doing Karate for 40 years. I've entered numerous competitions, national and international, and done okay in a few of them. I've trained with some very, very hard men and had my ass handed to me by those very same hard men; as well as - I'm a little ashamed to say - some not so very hard men. In the past, I taught at a successful university dojo for a number of years, and have ex-students at black belt level training around the world. Today I train in a small dojo in Tokyo under a 65 year old instructor who once had a  fierce reputation as a fighter and a drinker. So in Karate circles I've been around the block once or twice.

Rugby Stuff

Hurricanes finished the season with a loss. The team is shit and it looks like we could be losing Barrett. C'mon guys we need a good coaching team. Hammet moans on about how exciting this group of players are and how they have become so tight knit blah blah blah. The bugger just doesn't want to lose his job. Notice how no Hurricane player has come out to talk him up? Get him out now and bring back John Plumtree from S.Africa I say...

Sumo Stuff

Hakuho is doing his stuff again. Although a bloody good Yokozuna; it doesn't help that the top division of sumotori are so damn pitiful. As for the other Yokozuna - Harumafuji - he's just too small to be of a consistent threat to Hakuho. Although a fan of his, I can't see him lasting too much longer as a Yokozuna before being forced into retirement. 

Weight Training Stuff

Don't you hate the fuckers that curl in the squat rack? Had to wait 20 minutes the other day for some ass hole to get out of the squat rack where he was curling the incredible weight of... 20 kg. That's right the bugger was curling the bar, AND with a weight belt on. As I stood there slack jawed and fuming he noticed me staring and must have thought I was admiring his guns or . Little did he know I was thinking on how to throw him out the window with out requiring a visit from the boys in blue. Now I got no problem curling just the bar as I've been known to do it as well. But boy, if you ever come across this meaty mutt curling in a squat rack please please please shoot me and put me out of my misery...

Privacy Stuff

So the country of my birth is thinking of giving children as young as the age of 3 identification numbers so that their parents can be tracked in some sort of welfare blah blah blah blah. Who gives a flying fig about the reasons, this is invasion of privacy in a HUGE way. C'mon my fellow brethren get off your asses and nip this one in the bud...