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    Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It

    Grab the Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Now

    New Version of Google Mobile iPhone App Features Added "Ninja"

    Samurai Ergonomics

    The Ask a Ninja iPhone Game is Coming Soon

    Pirates vs. Ninjas Mobile Helps Your Baby Make An Informed Decision

    Ninja Tacks Pierce Your Papers...Silently

    Ninja Blowgun and Knife Combo is a Pocket-Sized Assassination Kit

    Shuriken Magnets for Refrigerator Ninjas

    Somali Pirates Steal Nintendo Wiis, Christmas Joy
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    Image of zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns
    05/28/09

    In reply to Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It
    Hah, yeah right, it's hard enough to plug USB devices in the right way around when you're staring right at the dumb thing.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/28/09

    @zeroprime: It's really not that hard to do. You'll figure it out someday.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/28/09

    In reply to Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It
    Yarrrgh!


    This not be fer the piratically inclin'd such as meself an' me hearties.


    Personally, I be preferrin' me computin' be done on more liquor-themed items. Why, jes' t'other night, me server be actin' up so I be smashin' an empty rum bottle o'er th' case. It not be havin' lag issues now. Nothin' be fixin' a troublesome iMac quite like a floggin' an' a night spent lash'd t' th' riggin'.


    Fer the record, a floggin' an' a night spent lash'd t' th' riggin' is how I deal wi' most o' me problems. Ladies, this cap'n be available.


    But I git lost while waxin' piratical about th' sex lives o' pirates (git yer mind off th' poop deck, lubber!). This ninja "solution", like all things ninja, sounds great but in practice, be a waste of space. If yer computer be actin' up or needin' memory or what have ye, just beat it round the case with a batten or smash it wi' a bottle or stab it wi' yer cutlass (or machete if tha' be yer preference).


    This be especially true if ye be havin' an expensive piece o' kit. The more pieces of eight ye be spendin' on yer 'puter, the more damage they be able t' be takin'.


    If ye be havin' a Mac Pro an' matchin' 30" Cinema display, I be suggestin' ye be fixin' it wi' powder. A broadside from a cannon be settin' it right.


    Enough of me jawin'. Get fixin' yer computer wi' blunt force, mateys. I be wantin' t' hear glass an' plastic fly.

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    05/28/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Get off the computer, Granddad!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/28/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Ha-ha...foolish sea drunk...ha-ha...this will suit me just fine...ha-ha!
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It
    what's next, a usb penis with vagina cover? i can see it now, "beware of memory leak, may stain jeans."
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/28/09

    @saving daylight: Don't even ask about the first time you use it.....
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    05/01/09

    In reply to Grab the Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Now
    I dunno, i'm getting pretty tired of accelerometer controls in games. terrible for the subway
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    04/29/09

    In reply to New Version of Google Mobile iPhone App Features Added "Ninja"
    This thing had better come with a ninja as promised or I'm gonna SUE SUE SUE!!!
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    Image of 1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle 1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle
    04/29/09

    In reply to New Version of Google Mobile iPhone App Features Added "Ninja"
    Oke, I need some help.


    When giz blogs something about pirates everyone,including me, says: Argg!


    But the f*ck do we say when they blog about Ninja's huh? Ninja!!!
    I know they aren't supposed the make sounds,cuz they like ninja's and shit, but I want a recongision sound, oké.


    So somebody help!

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    04/29/09

    @1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: Just the sound of your limp body falling to the floor in a heap of "WTF just happened"?


    "Whump!"


    "WTF was that!?"


    "The sound of ninjas not making a sound"

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/29/09

    @1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: SHING!


    See also:

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/14/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    That's quite on the cutting edge. Mwahahahhahahahaha.


    Siiiiiiiigh.


    Anyways, I'm taking Medieval German Swordsmanship. If I learn it correctly, it should beat mere Samurai ergonomics with German efficiency and brute power.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/14/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Arch your back backwards as much as you can.


    I had the same problem about a couple years ago on my lumbar muscles. At one point, I sprained it and I was out (disability) for a whole month. During that time, my PT told me it was because I've been sitting too much or hunched over my lumbar muscles start to strain. I trained to work out my core muscles and practice to keep my back muscles relaxed by having good posture.


    When your on your laptop or watching tv, try lying on your stomach on the floor or bed.

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    Image of Adam Jackson Adam Jackson
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Well. This video has some perfect ergonomics as well.
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @Adam Jackson: his students are defeated mentally before they even try. you can see they don't even readjust their feet in some of the drills to attempt to keep balance.
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    Image of Jamez Jamez
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    There's no easy way to say this. Brian, you are getting old. :sadface:
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @Jamez: so true.


    Secret: we all are.

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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    So you traded in going to see a chiropractor, and learning to sit properly in a chair that, to saying "F*** it I'm a going to this feudal style?"


    If I had done what you'd done I wouldn't have learned that I had two freaking coccyx bones in my back fused. If I hadn't gone in I would have had a shitty future ahead of me.


    Go to the chiropractor and get some X-rays, you probably have a pinched nerve in your lower back. Also when he laughs at how you decided to "fix" your pain please do post it here.

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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/13/09

    @lstar28: Wait, let me guess your going to disemvowel me with your samurai sword, cuz I made a snarky comment? lol that would be funny...
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    Image of kyel57 kyel57
    04/13/09

    @lstar28: There's no need to be snarky. If this works for him and some other people great. A lot of people consider chiropractors hacks anyway.
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    04/13/09

    @kyel57: true story. i'd be more willing to trust a samurai over a chiropractor any day.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/13/09

    @danger the pirate ★ has a fake star and that's good enough ...: At least the Samurai has some real serious training and doesn't think cracking a kids back can cure an ear infection. You cut the ear off, and the infection just flies away. ;)
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/14/09

    @lstar28: Umm, NO. Chiropracty is fraud medicine and can actually be very harmful. As somebody else that also has prolapsed disks and arthritis due too lifting too much weight for my size, scoliosis, and from sitting in front of computer for too long I firmly disagree with anyone going to see them. Go to your regular doctor and request an x-ray. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD!!!!!
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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/14/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: and everyone.

    Look it sucks that you had a bad experience with chiropractors, I've had positive very ones.


    Truth be told if Mr. Lam is having back pain he should see a professional. It doesn't have to be a chiropractor but I just don't think that sitting on your knees would be the wisest choice. Pain in the human body is a sign that something's wrong, I'd say 90% of the time. Of course you know his back pain just might be nothing at all.

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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/14/09

    @lstar28: The point I was trying to make is that they are not professionals, it's not recognised medicine and can cause serious complications.


    I agree with everything else.

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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @lstar28: sorry about your hurt back. I guess I've had better luck than you. That's all I can chalk it up to. Feel better, man.
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    Image of Muckley Muckley
    04/14/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: and @Lukasz Fabis: It's recognised in some countries, whether or not it's publicised by the larger medical community. The hospital in my town regularly refers back-pain/neck-pain sufferers to the local chiropractor. I can walk straight now because of chiropractors, I literally could not do that for a decade. They even got rid of the constant headaches.


    Pseudo-science or not, I don't care, it works for me and many many others. I could go to an expensive doctor to get an expensive x-ray and expensive injections/drugs for the pain... I'd rather go to the chiropractor and have him deal with my pain completely in about ten minutes flat. It's probably some odd placebo effect... do not care, works for me and lots of others.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/14/09

    @Muckley: So lets see what logical fallacies are present in your comment. I see an appeal to authority, anecdotal evidence, confusion of correlation and causation, statistics of small numbers, and bandwagon fallacy. Nice.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Hot damn.


    I can draft accounts, with the lethality of Bruce Lee, and the stealthiness of Catherine Zeta Jones, sans sexy laser moves.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I really don't want to picture you in her stretchpants.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/13/09

    @Lite: does not like fishsticks...: Neither do I.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    I wouldn't be able to ware a tight skirt… FAIL
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Eh, you'd just have to bunch it up about your hips first.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    There are even ergonomically correct ways to brush your teeth, and you know what, pretty much nobody uses them.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    04/14/09

    @Lite: does not like fishsticks...: Yeah, I took a class on ergonomics (AKA "human factors") and they said that you could basically call anything "ergonomic" or "ergonomically designed" if it was designed in any way taking into account the human body. So yeah, most anything can be "ergonomic," which kinda makes the word a little meaningless...
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    Image of Ryanraven Ryanraven
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Gosh darn land pirates....
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