Spoken like the true Putin! Russian players are the manliest men in a manly world.

If intelligence is the one thing that sets mankind apart from animals then Chess is the manliest sport.
Stop.

He's too busy practicing concealing his face with a hoodie in summertime look to impress the retarded chicks and score nudes.
Actually, this time of day he's far more likely to be sleeping for lack of anything better to do. He'll probably get back to hoodie practice after waking up from his nap and having himself a good cry about the cruel, cruel world and all the "retards" that he's better than.
Bring. More. Sheep.

This is what is technically known as a conversation-stopper. Unless Rocket comes in here and commits cyber-seppuku in his usual fashion.

Life.
When lived properly, it is by far the manliest sport. 90% of all soapboxers, something I consider a disturbing number, factually still live with their parents, don't have jobs, and have done **** all with their lives, so they obviously wouldn't know anything about that. Which has never stopped them from speaking as if they do.
It's genuinely hilarious watching morons like Rocketman give people life advice or making any kind of commentary about others when he has never lived it himself. A man of his age should have more experience existing outside the confines of his parents house and broadcasting his feet stumbling around as he paces the length of his parents driveway on tinychat begging legit retarded chicks for nudes on filmboards because that's all his made up "social anxieties" allow him to do. That's why nobody thinks of him as a man, certainly he can't think so himself. It's funny because some of those legit retarded chicks he sniffs after actually have their own place, have jobs, and take better care of themselves than he does but he thinks he's better and smarter than they are, somehow.
Bring. More. Sheep.

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Is that like wife-beating?

happy slapping

I was thinking the same thing! Violent sport, and really feeble war skills. Though it makes a certain amount of sense. I knew boxers at school who could deal with almost anyone in the ring, and they'd get beaten up by some thug who didn't know the first thing about how to punch. I think aggression in battle is gradually built up through drilling and fear of officers (not to mention fear of looking like a coward to your mates). The Incas and Aztecs treated war very differently from Europeans. They also thought the Europeans were gods (which would make it hard to want to kill them).

yes. strange how they could muster the almost superhuman stamina to compete and do all this and have hundreds of thousands of spectatots yet Cortez with 500 barely competent soldiers and a handful of even less competent cows was able to conquer the Incan empire.
well, at least lacrosse passed into american hands where it resides safely today even though canadians, british, french, native tribes, and, no kidding, australians vie for a true world cup victory.

I've heard of this. Almost more religious than sport, I assume.

old school- circa during Incan days- north american (field) lacrosse as played by native and meso american indians. goals could be tens of miles apart and fatalities likely.
present day i'd say indoor lacrosse aka "box" lacrosse. some of the northern new york state indian tribes play as well as their canadian counterparts.

Nice! Does that make anti-vaxxers very manly or just very stupid?

Avoiding Kung Flu is it now.

‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? ..?

A good choice. I grew up revering Bruce Lee.

‍️ Christina 1986-05-20

kung fu
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? ..?

Sounds great! I only know Sanders from the fact that he did the voice of Sher Khan in the (animated) Jungle Book.

ja mein furer.
the original was british. good actor names george sanders played the villain. i kinda remember the "hunter" sighting on Hitler and then removing his finger from the trigger knowing he could have taken the shot.
this was before actual war. but the germans "disposed: of the englishman but he wasnt dead. they then pursue to london where they kill his girlfriend.

How did Hitler come into it? Was the general a Nazi?

the original was one of the first to feature "hitler" in a plot.

I still remember "En garde, General orloff" or something like that at the end. And he (Rainsford?) had never slept so well in his life…

Not sure if there is a pure adaptation of it, but there’s lots of movies with similar premises. Kinda like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now.
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I loved that story! Didn't they make a movie of it?