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08-07-2009, 01:28 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
I must confess, I once purchased Ikea furniture some twenty years ago but have not since. I only recently thought of purchasing it again. Am I a fraud for posting in this thread?
David
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08-07-2009, 02:04 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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David Skaggs wrote:
I must confess, I once purchased Ikea furniture some twenty years ago but have not since. I only recently thought of purchasing it again. Am I a fraud for posting in this thread?
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David, there's only one thing to do: stop asking questions or reading reviews of furniture, get out there and check out a couple of local Ikea stores, see which one has the best meatballs, and make your choice!
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Janet Rosen
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"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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08-07-2009, 02:08 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
No, you all have it wrong.
IT can all be seen the close analysis of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf...layer_embedded
It shows the meatball essence of Ikea, expressed in the fundamental structural intent of Ikea found in the Myorkmork-undo
It is proven to be the real Ikea-do by the exhibition of the ancient koryu weapons practice at the beginning.
You are all headed full speed in the wrong direction.
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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08-07-2009, 02:21 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
But if I push on the meatball, how would you model that Erick in engineering and physics?
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08-07-2009, 02:40 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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But if I push on the meatball, how would you model that Erick in engineering and physics?
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The true meatball is immune to a push --- Silly boy, if you got out and tried pushing some real meatballs around you would know this ...
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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08-07-2009, 02:43 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
It Has To Be Felt.
And now I leave you all with the idea in your head of feeling up a meatball...
God that was horrible...
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St. Bonaventure (ca. 1221-1274)
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08-07-2009, 03:15 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
I think you have to feel the weight meatball in the crotch area. oh no...me too Ron.
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08-07-2009, 04:07 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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The true meatball is immune to a push --- Silly boy, if you got out and tried pushing some real meatballs around you would know this ...
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You have to surround it with vector waves of soft unbendable spaghetti....do NOT use elbow pasta!
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Janet Rosen
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08-07-2009, 04:39 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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I think you have to feel the weight meatball in the crotch area. oh no...me too Ron.
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Ron, Kevin, please. you know better.. The meatball in the hand or in the crotch is but a partial understanding -- you must put on the full meatball suit.
And while Janet is correct, elbows are strictly to be avoided -- the only possible pasta that goes with the suit is the bowtie.
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
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08-09-2009, 08:03 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
So this brings us to the big question....
Is Ikea really about the furniture or is it about the meatballs?
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08-09-2009, 10:02 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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So this brings us to the big question....
Is Ikea really about the furniture or is it about the meatballs?
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Both.
To have a place to sit and eat your meatballs.
But if it isn't O'Sensei's Ikea-do this may happen to your meatball?
David
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08-10-2009, 08:32 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
Enough of this philosophical mumbo-jumbo.
"How many Kami fit in a flat pack?"
Sheesh, we need more some practical training suggestions -- or -- equipment reviews.
I, personally, feel it is the key to proper practice to look the part in order to express the essence of ikea:
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Erick Mead
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08-10-2009, 08:46 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
This thread is awesome.
+6
...LMAO..
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08-10-2009, 11:23 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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Sheesh, we need more some practical training suggestions -- or -- equipment reviews.
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Ok.
The futon: a lousy weapon, I can't even pick it up, in OR out of the box.
The lamp: nice heft, good balance - recommend removing flimsy electric cord as it will tangle around your ankle and hakama - but ultimately disappointing as it shattered on uke's head.
Side table: very very good weight and heft for doing two handed cuts and basic kata. The four legs give it a lot of flexibility both for changing direction of attack and also striking multiple attackers at once.
The meatballs: excellent atemi lobbed randomly at uke.
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Janet Rosen
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08-10-2009, 02:11 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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Ok.
The futon: a lousy weapon, I can't even pick it up, in OR out of thebox. ...
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Obviously, you are lacking in I-S ("ikea-strength"). You need more meatballs....
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The meatballs: excellent atemi lobbed randomly at uke.
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-- a key element here is doing the necessary solo work -- putting sufficient flour and sugar in the original sauce -- so that they stick -- thus does one achieve "lingering meatball" -- the supreme expression of zanshin
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Erick Mead
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08-10-2009, 05:47 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
I still don't like their meatballs as well as my own chicken katatori.
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Janet Rosen
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08-10-2009, 06:42 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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I still don't like their meatballs as well as my own chicken katatori.
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You presume too much on the limits of even an o-pun forum ...
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
一隻狗可久里馬房但他也不是馬的.
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08-10-2009, 07:37 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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You presume too much on the limits of even an o-pun forum ...
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Au contra ire. I believe this is a good example that shows that Janet ins not just following someone elses Ikea-do but she is making her Ikea her own.
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08-10-2009, 10:20 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
Wait a minute, you folks actually think the futon is a weapon? Obviously you haven't been studying the socio-historical background of Ikea!
The futon is a device to practice nap-waza, preferably after eating meatballs and lugging flatpacks around.
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08-10-2009, 11:31 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
Weapons, ja? Very well.
My weapons, let me show you them:
Karo
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08-11-2009, 08:12 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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Karolina Owczarzak wrote:
Weapons, ja? Very well.
My weapons, let me show you them:
Karo
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Nø, nø, nø. Øur weåpon is feår.
Feår ånd surprise....
Øur TWØ weåpøns are ... feår, surprise, ånd å ruthless efficiency, ...
Øur THREE -- weåpøns -- åre feår -- surprise -- å ruthless efficiency -- ånd ån ålmøst fånåtical devøtiøn tø the...
Ågh! -- I'll cøme in ågåin ... .
(Nøbødy expects the Swedish Inquisitiøn ... )
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The above is among the esoteric mantras dwelling on the root køtødåmå "ÅØ!" of the ikeaverse mandala --
One must recite the root køtødåmå -- with strong ikea -- when one has experienced the sudden, sharp communion with the weapons of ikea. Thusly:
"ÅØ!" "ÅØ!" "ÅØ!" "ÅØ!" "ÅØ!" "ÅØ!"
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Erick Mead
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08-11-2009, 08:29 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
Yuk yuk yuk...I love Monty Python. You'da thought I'd grow out of that, but no....
B,
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Ron Tisdale
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08-11-2009, 09:29 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
Not strictly about Ikea, sorry.
My friend has a hard time remembering what I do, and asked me how the "Kudos" was going.
The next time she asked me was I still doing "Fondue."
Brings new meaning to the idea of sticky-hands...
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08-11-2009, 11:32 AM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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Yuk yuk yuk...I love Monty Python. You'da thought I'd grow out of that, but no....
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Well, ... they never did .. and it ended up killing Graham Chapman ... so what chance does that give us, really....
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Cordially,
Erick Mead
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08-11-2009, 07:56 PM
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Re: Practicing Ikea
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(Nøbødy expects the Swedish Inquisitiøn ... )
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Now you have me pining for the fjørds...
Karo
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