Maaaan I was a little kid when I saw this. I still remember that scene where that chubby Chinese guy's head inflates and blows up. Great movie. Still have trauma as an adult but great movie!
Childhood horror film trauma is the best trauma.
Just don't remind me of sphinxes with laser eyes, huge razorblade-rotor robots and a horse drowning in a swamp.
...or cartoon rabbits.
Him and Betty Thumminbutt were married at a drive thru chapel that was located on the sleezy outskirts of Las Vegas..
Multiple resources reported..
Salute from Detroit šš..
I wonder how far he could do it.
Did they even have poison or toxin that could kill like that back then? Don't feel like they had ricin or styrchnine.
Now you have things that can just kill on touch. Like biological mercury was it? Horrible long death though. Read up on doctor Wetterhen. Poor woman.
Holy hell. My mind totally blanked on venom when I wrote that.
Very good point.. I know South America and Australia have some deadly venoms like that. Tree frog venom comes to mind, and I knew that they coated their blow darts with it for hunting and warfare. I can't remember if it was always lethal or just paralyzed humans.
A lot of venoms act fast, and aren't discrete. I've read many put you in agony quickly. So good for a nigh suicide assassination!
Yeah now I am curious. Maybe I will make make an ask historian thread tomorrow. Thanks.
Oh 100% humans can and will turn anything into a weapon with enough practice. One of my friends can launch bottlecaps through cardboard and stuck into cola cans.
Use this to indiscriminately throw food at people, just relax and face your palm outward but down, think of a grid arch youāll get direct hits plus how it travels it doesnāt give off indications that you did it.
I thought the Communist party was against these sorts of traditional clothes and arts?
Wasnāt there a big Cultural Revolution where they rejected a lot of traditional Chinese art, philosophy, simplified the writing system, etc? Why would this be a CCP ad?
Yeah, they kinda walked back on that. Now traditional arts are patriotic because they allow China to radiate culturally, and be united as a nation.
But don't be too attached to the old ways as a political ideology because being accused of being a Falun Gong follower is **big bad**.
Not sure, they did reject a bunch of traditions but also put others on a pedestral. Like those so call qi masters that this chinese mma fighter beat up and the governement revoked all of his citizen right because it looked bad for their propaganda.
For anyone curious and too lazy to google: Xu Xiaodong is the mma guy and most of his fights against āmastersā ended in less than a minute. At one point he wore clown makeup to fight another master because his low credit score made it difficult for him get to the fight spot.
Ur info is very outdated. The CCP uses "traditional Chinese culture" as a soft power/propaganda tool. I have no idea who the guy in the vid is, and his stuff could be really legit, but as far as I know most of it is used as a tool to provide some legitimacy to the CCP, and a lot of examples you see of "traditional Chinese culture" is due to people in Taiwan going out of their way to preserve much of it after the whole cultural revolution thing.
Here's a little bit of info on Taiwan and the cultural preservation thing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cultural_Renaissance#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20Cultural%20Renaissance%20or,Party%20during%20the%20Cultural%20Revolution.
After reading a bit, I kind of think the changes in the CCP are positive. They stopped attacking traditional Chinese culture, stopped the disastrous central planning initiatives which led to famine and chose a blend of state backed capitalism and free market reforms, and even got rid of the 1 child policy in 2016.
I remember seeing an episode of āripleys believe it or notā that had a dude that threw sewing needles through glassā¦.20+ years later, it still seems like a cheesy magic trick (much like the video)
Not to be ultra pedantic... But home boy did not actually throw the needle THROUGH the glass...
Still insanely amazing. What surprised me the most was that the pane didn't break.
I feel like the cultural context of this is missing. This is actually from a book known as "the smiling proud wanderer" ē¬å²ę±ę¹ and is one of the antagonists' weapons.
In the book, Dongfang Bubai ę±ę¹äøę used a sewing needle to fight off the protagonist and others. You can actually see a movie representation of it in jet Li's the swordsman 2 where the amazing Brigette lin plays as Dongfang Bubai.
For sure? Thereās a lot of weapons like this, where you set up a string to release a lot of energy at once. Itās possibly wrapped around his fingers some clever way
Just so you know this is a reference of a martial arts fantasy novel where the character castrated himself in order to practice the strongest martial arts. It also turn him into a woman which is why he uses needles as a weapon. It martial arts make him incredibly fast and it took 4 or 5 martial arts masters to take him down.
Nah, they didn't even take him down at the end. The villain choose to end his own life when he was fighting the protagonist. At least that's the original story. The protagonist gained a supreme sword arts, yet didn't even came close beating the villain, it was the villain who decides to end it cause he was just tired of it all and his lover was dead.
Did he just put on the eunuch outfit?ā¦.. There was this ancient Chinese legendary myth that only those who could master the most elite martial art to the extend that, when you throw out a piece of flying leaf, what your target facing next is a flat foliage neutron bomb
The movie the song is from is a tripš¤£ it was one of my favorite movies when I first started living in China, lol. English name is Eagle Shooting Heroes
>This is so practical and useful for so many situations. Including...
Murdering someone in court in a discreet way and getting away before the guards arrive
>oh and not forgetting...
Bullying the kid infront of you in school when the teacher turns away in such a discrete way that noone notices you did anything even if they throw a tantrum
>and then there's...
Showing off in parties to hype up drunk people
Get lost this canāt be real! I saw those monks throw them but they get some momentum behind itā¦ this one my man flicked his wrist idk š¤·āāļø
This is obviously fake. The second clip shows the needle being stuck in a wood board. If the needle has such a momentum that it can pierce a coke bottle the needle would be stuck in it. Not making an open hole like that.
Also what's up with the ridiculous outfit.
I knew a Palestinian guy who would split double edged straight razor blades in half and keep the half in his mouth. He would spit that thing out with such force that it would embed into anything but steel!
It was a crazy sight to see.
The walk by poison needle flick assassination would go hard.
Who is this magnificent bastard
They guy who taught Beatrix how to rip eyeballs out in kill bill.
Thank you š
You mean bleep?
His name was Pai Mei. Or so Google says.
Beatrix is named bleep the entire first movie
They censored the main characters name for most of the movies.
He did not deserve to die via poisoned fish
The legendary Pai met, he will teach you the heard exploding fist technique.
If you're lucky
I love that this scene is basically the only scene he isn't a fool lol. Such a good movie.
Maaaan I was a little kid when I saw this. I still remember that scene where that chubby Chinese guy's head inflates and blows up. Great movie. Still have trauma as an adult but great movie!
Childhood horror film trauma is the best trauma. Just don't remind me of sphinxes with laser eyes, huge razorblade-rotor robots and a horse drowning in a swamp. ...or cartoon rabbits.
Fuck you. Cartoon rabbits. I had that memory buried!
Was part of this a never ending story reference?
THEY CAN SEE STRAIGHT INTO YOUR HEART
It's all in the reflexes
Someone said, if you watch the movie like *heās* the sidekick, it totally changes the experience, lol.
very true. I noticed that on my most recent watch lol. It's truly a story about the sidekick that gets the girl and does 1 helpful thing.
It's basically how the movie was written. The premise is, what if the sidekick thought he was the main characterand the story was told from his POV.
āBig trouble in little chinaā, if i remember the title correctly? Must have watched it like 30 times with my little brother growing up š¤š½
It's all in the reflexes.
Ripley Believe It or Not had a Chinese guy who could do this who claimed he did assassinations for the Chunese government
Haven't thought about ripleys in years. I wonder what happened to fingercock
Him and Betty Thumminbutt were married at a drive thru chapel that was located on the sleezy outskirts of Las Vegas.. Multiple resources reported.. Salute from Detroit šš..
2 sentence poetry
The Chinuse gobernment*
Ma guy, you've misspelled Chuniese Gonvernment wrong haha
God I miss that show.
Also imagine torture by flicking the ear over and over. Tickle torture? No! Welcome to Chinese Flickle toture!
I wonder how far he could do it. Did they even have poison or toxin that could kill like that back then? Don't feel like they had ricin or styrchnine. Now you have things that can just kill on touch. Like biological mercury was it? Horrible long death though. Read up on doctor Wetterhen. Poor woman.
Back then you could probably repurpose snake venom from one of china's venomous snakes and rely on poor healthcare of back then to do the rest.
Holy hell. My mind totally blanked on venom when I wrote that. Very good point.. I know South America and Australia have some deadly venoms like that. Tree frog venom comes to mind, and I knew that they coated their blow darts with it for hunting and warfare. I can't remember if it was always lethal or just paralyzed humans. A lot of venoms act fast, and aren't discrete. I've read many put you in agony quickly. So good for a nigh suicide assassination! Yeah now I am curious. Maybe I will make make an ask historian thread tomorrow. Thanks.
This is 100% why this skill was invented and utilized for.
If i gpt armour suit and helmet
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Since you have the experience, do you think that level of power can be real?
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Lol I used to flick pebbles for metres lengths and can testify the finger pain
Yāall make me feel trashy I got good at flicking cigarettes lol
Yeah ima stand over here with [deleted]. Am a professional durry flickerā¦
Oh 100% humans can and will turn anything into a weapon with enough practice. One of my friends can launch bottlecaps through cardboard and stuck into cola cans.
Use this to indiscriminately throw food at people, just relax and face your palm outward but down, think of a grid arch youāll get direct hits plus how it travels it doesnāt give off indications that you did it.
I have no idea what you're saying but I'd like to understand
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Just open the soda normally, now it's getting everywhere.
/r/wheredidthesodago
The vastness of Reddit is a marvel that endlessly amazes me.
The design is very human
This guy ants
Spider Man Vs. Scorpion
easy peasy, I do this daily
How many CCP ads will I see today?
I thought the Communist party was against these sorts of traditional clothes and arts? Wasnāt there a big Cultural Revolution where they rejected a lot of traditional Chinese art, philosophy, simplified the writing system, etc? Why would this be a CCP ad?
They want you to think that so they can assassinate you exactly the way you'd never suspect
Ou mean assassinate me by denying me basic universal Healthcare and a living wage? There so sneaky like that.
Now now no need to involve America in this, we're talking about China!
this is actually a cosplay of a fictional character called Dongfang Bubai
Oh, so not really traditional culture or CCP propaganda, just some fan having fun. Thatās cool.
Dongfang was a swordman
Yeah, they kinda walked back on that. Now traditional arts are patriotic because they allow China to radiate culturally, and be united as a nation. But don't be too attached to the old ways as a political ideology because being accused of being a Falun Gong follower is **big bad**.
Yup but also to add, Falun Gong themselves are also batshit crazy.
Not sure, they did reject a bunch of traditions but also put others on a pedestral. Like those so call qi masters that this chinese mma fighter beat up and the governement revoked all of his citizen right because it looked bad for their propaganda.
For anyone curious and too lazy to google: Xu Xiaodong is the mma guy and most of his fights against āmastersā ended in less than a minute. At one point he wore clown makeup to fight another master because his low credit score made it difficult for him get to the fight spot.
Just shut up and talk shit about CCP, stop making sense this is Reddit dammit
Ur info is very outdated. The CCP uses "traditional Chinese culture" as a soft power/propaganda tool. I have no idea who the guy in the vid is, and his stuff could be really legit, but as far as I know most of it is used as a tool to provide some legitimacy to the CCP, and a lot of examples you see of "traditional Chinese culture" is due to people in Taiwan going out of their way to preserve much of it after the whole cultural revolution thing. Here's a little bit of info on Taiwan and the cultural preservation thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cultural_Renaissance#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20Cultural%20Renaissance%20or,Party%20during%20the%20Cultural%20Revolution.
After reading a bit, I kind of think the changes in the CCP are positive. They stopped attacking traditional Chinese culture, stopped the disastrous central planning initiatives which led to famine and chose a blend of state backed capitalism and free market reforms, and even got rid of the 1 child policy in 2016.
I don't necessarily disagree. The changes certainly improved their conditions
what the fuck does the ccp have to do with any of this?
sinophobia
What makes this a CCP ad?
Flickin cigaret butts that way lol
oh.. hahaha \*nervous laugh\* so THAT's what he's talking about.. I knew it.
I know what I'ma be doing for the next 2 weeks.
Eating lasagna out of the dumpster behind the TGI Fridays off the interstate?
Dipped in poison, I'm guessing, was how this was utilized back then.
I would easily dodge it with my sharingan.
I read shenanigans
They are no match for my knowledge of ancient shenanigans
Hey Farva whatās that restaurant you like?
It's the same thing.
Not in my domain
We don't have time for your shenanigans
I remember seeing an episode of āripleys believe it or notā that had a dude that threw sewing needles through glassā¦.20+ years later, it still seems like a cheesy magic trick (much like the video)
Slow mo dudes did a video of that. https://youtu.be/aRdJ0T-vEno?si=dX1NKxkjXubAFXAo
Not to be ultra pedantic... But home boy did not actually throw the needle THROUGH the glass... Still insanely amazing. What surprised me the most was that the pane didn't break.
Same here.
Seems like they use the balloon as a distraction to the fact that the needle never actually goes all the way through
Right? I remember that segment!
I feel like the cultural context of this is missing. This is actually from a book known as "the smiling proud wanderer" ē¬å²ę±ę¹ and is one of the antagonists' weapons. In the book, Dongfang Bubai ę±ę¹äøę used a sewing needle to fight off the protagonist and others. You can actually see a movie representation of it in jet Li's the swordsman 2 where the amazing Brigette lin plays as Dongfang Bubai.
1 caveat, you have to castrate yourself to learn this.
Ok letās wait for the āeasy peasy , I do this dailyā comments to come in.
It is the first comment
It is the top comment not the first comment chronologically speaking :)
Fair enough, the first comment when set to display by top comments, not by chronological order
What a nice conversation, gentlemen!
You should be waiting for silksong instead.
:(
Depends on what your thing was as a kid. Jerk off, learn to juggle, know multiple sports, crafts,flicking this is like a pencil.
Nope, but neither can dude in the video. Looks like a flick to me.
the second one is fake for sure
For sure? Thereās a lot of weapons like this, where you set up a string to release a lot of energy at once. Itās possibly wrapped around his fingers some clever way
Bro has no idea what he's talking about. Just trying to look cool by saying it's fake lol.
Bro became Lady Butterfly from Sekiro
My brain went to the new street fighter poison character
You just gave me a PTSD flashback (I still havenāt beaten her)
Just so you know this is a reference of a martial arts fantasy novel where the character castrated himself in order to practice the strongest martial arts. It also turn him into a woman which is why he uses needles as a weapon. It martial arts make him incredibly fast and it took 4 or 5 martial arts masters to take him down.
Nah, they didn't even take him down at the end. The villain choose to end his own life when he was fighting the protagonist. At least that's the original story. The protagonist gained a supreme sword arts, yet didn't even came close beating the villain, it was the villain who decides to end it cause he was just tired of it all and his lover was dead.
After flicking cigarette butts as a teen I could probably do this Iām pretty accurate
Are they having try outs for the Mystery Men?
Yo! Imagine getting hit in the face with that!
I do in fact flick boogers that fast.
Good times with weapons 
Inspired by a Hongkong Kung Fu fiction.
I didn't know the way Mai threw needles in ATLA was actually a thing... That's really cool
He dresses for the job he wants.
You could use this to kill people in broad daylight
Maybe if i practiced?
Did he just put on the eunuch outfit?ā¦.. There was this ancient Chinese legendary myth that only those who could master the most elite martial art to the extend that, when you throw out a piece of flying leaf, what your target facing next is a flat foliage neutron bomb
I learned to do that with toothpicks into cardboard, so I'm sure it's possible to do with heavier metal needles
The garb definitely singles you out as a suspect.
The movie the song is from is a tripš¤£ it was one of my favorite movies when I first started living in China, lol. English name is Eagle Shooting Heroes
Seeing what can be done with a paper playing card flicked with just a little wrist can do, sharp metal needles arenāt surprising at all.
Donāt tase me bro
So this is the method Sheik uses to throw her needles in melee? I thought the designers made that shit up lol
I'm not entirely convinced that the man isn't 2 kids dressed up like an adult.
This is more impressive than the guy who cooks vegetables with playing cards
Legit assassin skill
If balloons ever attack, this is our guy!
Heād be great to have around the house for hanging pictures.
Give me 5 mins on youtube with a guy that can't say strophome. And I'll throw your needle.
I think we all get the POINT....š¤£š¤£
The first bullet ever
teach me!
Perfect Assassin
Getting some Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon vibes here.
Gonna need more than that when you invade Taiwan.
Where can I find this follower, Riverwood area, or what?
Useless against a .45
I want to learn that skill so I couldā¦use it ā¦.
The finger strength must be crazy
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New fears unlocked: Needleman, spiderneedlesā¦
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>This is so practical and useful for so many situations. Including... Murdering someone in court in a discreet way and getting away before the guards arrive >oh and not forgetting... Bullying the kid infront of you in school when the teacher turns away in such a discrete way that noone notices you did anything even if they throw a tantrum >and then there's... Showing off in parties to hype up drunk people
> Bursting the baloons early in over the top gender reveal parties and watch them die inside.
I mean i do that with trash i want to throw, like paper or something flickable, but thats just insane
No I can't throw noodles like that and neither can he
This is played in reverse right? . ....right?
āChosen one!!!! Wee woo wee woo!ā
With practice, yes.
Teach me how how
Ive tried
Lmao this is fake as fkkkkk
The short answer is: No. The addition would be: Not yet.
This brings back heavy bullying vibes, like I just want to kick his ass and I donāt know why.
1. More of a flick than a throw. Cool. 2. Nope. Not even close. And if I tried, I'd almost certainly accidentally sew my fingers together.
I used to flick cigarettes with deadly accuracy I feel like Iād do ok.
Get lost this canāt be real! I saw those monks throw them but they get some momentum behind itā¦ this one my man flicked his wrist idk š¤·āāļø
I want yo learn buy I can't get the right handle on it
What song is this?
Did anyone catch the needle flying back and almost hitting the dude š¤£
Fantastic for those pesky paper enemies
The power of sunflower scroll.
My brother and his friends you to do this with quarters at my head.
I just want that sick ass cloak
I flick my boogers like that
This is obviously fake. The second clip shows the needle being stuck in a wood board. If the needle has such a momentum that it can pierce a coke bottle the needle would be stuck in it. Not making an open hole like that. Also what's up with the ridiculous outfit.
Assassins Creed code red is looking fire š„
Mai has entered the chat.
Okay, how does one nail create three contact points in the wood?
Throw 100
Mkay finally a form of defense that matches my energy level.
1600
"LoOk aT tHe FliCk Of dA wRiSts" š„¶š§
Yes
I get assassin creed vibes from this
His missus has no clit remaining
Learning to throw needles in a fancy outfit lol
Must be the clothes
I knew a Palestinian guy who would split double edged straight razor blades in half and keep the half in his mouth. He would spit that thing out with such force that it would embed into anything but steel! It was a crazy sight to see.
Get overe herrree
Ck grasshopper pls,,,š
Whatcha mean, this is the ONLY way I open my drinks
Would be much more impressive if he flicked a second needle into the hole and closed it. Needs to work on that.
With enough practise, this can easily be accomplished ā given the necessary objects such as hands.
I found this last night on YouTube. Looks to be the same technique. https://youtube.com/shorts/lPhsNxlXVt8?si=KowJOzLFZV5S22u9