Drunken Monkey

it cannot be contained in the same way as hot plasma. in a tokamak, a field is set up that suspends the plasma. you can't do the same with anti matter because the field is made of matter. further more, the field is produced by a combination of currents form external coils and currents from the plasma intself. you cannot measure what happens in anti-matter so you would have no idea what currents occur. once again. YOU CANNOT HAVE ANTI-MATTER WEAPONS. and do you know how much energy you put in to actually do this? that is, to power your power station, to power your particle accelerator and tokamak field generator. if you're going to use a laser anyway, you might as well pump that energy in tehre in the forst place. at least then it makes sense and it would work.

well, i was trying to point out that it is a still from a sequence. if he was actually like that, stationary for say ten minutes, then i'd be impressed..

um, no, anti-matter is nothing like a plasma. by definition it is "anti" matter. once again, when anti-matter and matter meet, they annihalte each other. even in a controlled magnetic field as produced in a tokamak generator (which is also quite huge...) is made up of normal matter. generally, a tokamak generator is used to harness the energies released from the annahilation, not to contain the anti-matter. unless of course you are talking about Star Trek here... in case you missed it, my arguments against anti-matter weapons are as follows. either you have a particale accelerator (huge) and a power generator (also huge) or a tokamak type generator (huge) oh, and no way of "shooting" your weapon

tkd guy? you mean that little dude? y'know, he's probably the star of his current stunt team. he had to stand in for one of the bad guys for the rooftop scene in "who am i" (not sure if this is the one, y'know, the one in rotterdam)

well, your first statement is a bit daft, what were you doing on a fast moving conveyer belt anyway? the situation is dangerous because it contains an element of risk. conveyer nelt moves, you fall, hit ground, break a bone or two. that isn't common sense, it's a probable result. as for your second situation, i don't think it's valid because the reactions are determined by the individual. for a highly trained martial artist, the sensible action may be to disarm the guy. like i say, common sense is the thing that tells you that driving close to the edge of a cliff is dangerous.

little question for you. why are you always so defensive/argumentative? everything always seems to be a point of contention for you...

anyway i dont think i need to explain myself further. if warp spider insists theat a person who knows he has thai origins would say he is chinese then fine. i'm not going to argue. as for the accent thing, well, there is a lot to consider. however, i am suuming that he had a "normal" upbringing that includes education at a place where english is spoken without any thai/chinese accent (which are very, very different i should add). it's a very hard against him saying he has an accent on his english... maybe i'm just too cynical. maybe i should trust people more.

nope way off

some of the older jackie chan fight scenes were good. police story at the end against four/five people rocks. meals on wheels against the jet (and how cool was him going up that wall with them sticks???)

as for the guy who mentioned jayce and the wheeled warriors, i remember watching that when i was about 6/7... i'm gonna guess them guys are about 27/28 well guys, how close am i? and back to x-man cartoons. i seem to remember a few episodes of spiderman and his amazing friends with guest appearnaces form the x-men. something about juggernaut going on a rampage and the stone that gives him his power.

you're missing the point. people from china are chinese. people from thailand are thai. it's as simple as that. if you were of thai origins you WOULD not call yourself chinese. likewise, if he had an accent, it WOULD not be chinese.

if i had to guess i would say not older than 20. probably around 16/17

well, i didn't mean exact age just sorts out guys in 10s, 20s 30s etc etc

somethig else just came to mind. i guess he would pick up an accent if he father spoke english to him (with that accent) and that was the only english he was exposed to. but the point still stands, he said his father spoke thai around him. and any time in a local english speaking school would've gotten rid of it anyway.

well, lots of different people in london. hence lots of mother tongues. in some cases people have more than one mother tongue but their first spoken language is still english... to be honest, i'm not entirely sure on the names/terms they use for this but you get the gist...

well the scottish/chinese thing is kinda different. you have to ignore the fact that the english spoken has a scottish accent on it as it's the native english. what you're left with is person who was brought up speaking one language who had to learn another language. see what i mean? if you go back to what the guy said, he doesn't actually speak the language. therefore he wouldn't have actually used the thai language anyway, how would a language that he doesn't know affect his english?

when anti-matter and normal matter meat they annihilate each other. tell me how you would contain anti-mater prior to using this weapon? oh and do you know how big a particle accelerator is? not to mention the power station you need to run the thing in the first place. and all this is to produce a few particles of anti-matter that exist for a few millionths of a seconds. not saying that anti matter doesn't exist. you just can't make a weapon out of it.

um... how bout a few examples of this common sense?

i don't think i have to ask everyone in the world. i just have to ask every chinese person whether he's thai. or ask every thai person if he is chinese. your argument is rather weak. by your rational, if i consistantly call you a pillock, then you are a pillock? probably a bad example but i think you get my meaning. like i say, the term is used to denote a nation. if he is indeed of thai origin, then he would not call himself chinese. besides, since when was a thai accent a chinese accent? they are two different languages and hence two different accents. the only reasons i can think of for this inconsistency is that either he is lying or he is incredibly stupid... so which could it be?

i'm chinese. my mother tongue/language is cantonse which i speak at home. everywhere else i speak english which i would call my first language. that's the distinction we have here in uk. ok, think about all the people you knowwho has an accent of origins outside of an english speaking country (which is what we are talking about, not regional dialects of english). how many people do you know born in an english speaking country where they are educated in english have an accent of their native country? it's all just wrong. i know i can't make you understand what i mean. it's just that i know a lot of chinese, thai, vietnamese, malay people and well, none of them born here have any accent and they CAN speak both languages. as for the last bit about this not being real life. well, i guess you're right. maybe i should just accept that a lot of people will pretend on the internet. it still bugs me when they do in a place liek this. i guess i kinda see it as being disrespectful to the board and hence to martial arts (this thing that we are all passionate about). sorry for my rant.

how about Sniper...?

wow, you really can tell how old the guys here by their answers on this thread...

oh god... you cannot have anti-matter weapons... and another thing, wolverine's adamantium skeleton is not part of his powers. as far as i know, his power is his super healing, which is kinda cool. there was another thread here somewhere that talks about him a bit more.... and while i'm at it, we're talking super powers, not super techniques... totally different kettle of cliched fish.

sorry don't really understnd what you mean... common sense is what tells you not to juggle sharp knives without practicing with something less dangerous. what has common sense got to do with 400lbs kids etc etc? like i say, you seem to bring rather silly examples.... it might help if you explain clearly what you mean cos it sounds like we are talking about two different things here.

oh yeah, and any half intelligent guy trying to cheat people would have something on their contracts that goes a little something like this: "we accept no responsibilty for injuries caused from the practice or from use of the techniques taught at this academy" like i say, you said you signed it. even if the thing is bogus you cannot annul a contract just because you lost a fight.