"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/30/2020 at 22:37 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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Chariotoflove
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
09/30/2020 at 22:45 |
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They are the champions.
This one was pretty good too, as I recall.
ttyymmnn
> Chariotoflove
09/30/2020 at 22:54 |
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That was my immediate thought.
AAAAaaaaaarrrrrrmmy training!
Also, PJ Soles. Rowr.
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> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/01/2020 at 00:29 |
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This would’ve made my time on MCRD San Diego so much more fun, and by that I mean it would’ve been the only fun thing that happened there.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/01/2020 at 00:50 |
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They’ve got work to do.
hillrat
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
10/01/2020 at 06:48 |
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Thanks for posting that and showing these guys what a real Haka is all about.
It also occurs to me after watching that Haka how tremendously cathartic it must be to have a ritualized, physical way to express your grief and dismay when you’ve lost a comrade.
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
10/01/2020 at 10:54 |
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I can’t look at an egg beater without thinking of her.
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ttyymmnn
> Chariotoflove
10/01/2020 at 11:17 |
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It was an ice cream scoop, wasn’t it?
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
10/01/2020 at 11:24 |
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You’re right. Whelp, time to watch the movie again.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> hillrat
10/01/2020 at 16:55 |
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Indeed. While the haka is generally viewed (outside NZ, at least) as a “war dance” or ritual challenge, it’s use in Maori culture is as a general purpose vehicle to express strong emotion, which might include pride, defiance, contempt, joy, frustration, grief, or anything else you need to get off you r chest .
Also not well known is that there are literally thousands of hakas. Many of them are comp osed for a single event or made up on the spot, but some are created for a p articular purpose and re-used for that purpose, and others become popular for whatever reason and are used in all sorts of circums ta nces - basically it’s not the words that matter, it’s the emotion. For example the words of the best known haka, Ka Mate - which is the one used by the All Blacks rugby team and probably the only one most non-kiwis have ever heard - are completely wrong for a pre-game challenge or exp ress ion of national pride : they describe the feeling of having just cheated death. R eputedly it was composed by a famous war chief, Te Rauparaha, as he hid under a rock having run away from a losing battle* . On the other hand t he one in the video was composed by one of the fallen sold iers’ comrades specifically for the funeral, and the words express determination that the deaths won’t be in vain.
* pre-colonial Maori, as well a s being a warrior race, were very pragmatic: they had a strong sense of hono r , but it didn’t match the European one. Running away was n’t seen as a cowardly act if do ne in the ri ght circumstances : a finely tuned sense of when to get the hell out of Dodge would have been a highly valued trait in a war leader. A nd they they thought the best way to win a battle was to sneak up behind your enemies and slaughter them in their sleep, or lure them into a tr uce then betray it . One reason why NZ has a (rela tively) civilised colonial history is bec au se, as well as being colonised late enough that the Brits were developing some morals WRT their treatment of indigenous races , Her Majesty’s representatives on the ground had developed an understanding that subduing the se folks might not be any fun...