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Japanese ladies long for date with brutal men of history (girly men dumped)
The Times(UK) ^ | 12/12/09 | Richard Lloyd Parry

Posted on 12/12/2009 9:08:01 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Edited on 12/12/2009 11:36:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Masamune Date is not an obvious heart-throb for today

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: badboys; bushido; history; historyladies; japan; masamunedate; masculinity; mishimayukio; rekijo; samurai; women
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To: DTogo

Oooh, I forgot about Ken Watanabe. Very handsome man and not a stick thin wuss. He was the best thing about ‘The Last Samurai’.


61 posted on 12/12/2009 10:21:40 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: DTogo

My husband digs Michelle.


62 posted on 12/12/2009 10:22:59 AM PST by Tax-chick (Here I come, with a sharp knife and a clear conscience!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yeah. “Darling, your eyes take up your entire face.” Scary that.


63 posted on 12/12/2009 10:23:25 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: DTogo

Wasn’t Tom Cruise in a movie about Asian warriors of some kind? Mifune would wipe the floor with Cruise.


64 posted on 12/12/2009 10:24:04 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Richard Kimball

The training sequence led by Charles McGraw in SPARTACUS is a great example.


65 posted on 12/12/2009 10:25:15 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

The Last Samurai.

Mifune could wipe the floor with just about any actor I can think of. Except maybe that ‘Sword of Doom’ guy whose name I can never remember! He was very good as well.


66 posted on 12/12/2009 10:26:31 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: SIDENET

Darth Dork.

67 posted on 12/12/2009 10:35:34 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Narcissistic, death-obsessed, role-playing...Yep...hits many of the not normal checkmarks on my list, above and beyond the gayness...


68 posted on 12/12/2009 10:36:28 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: ReneeLynn

> Mifune could wipe the floor with just about any actor I can think of. Except maybe that ‘Sword of Doom’ guy whose name I can never remember! He was very good as well.

Bruce Lee? Audie Murphy?


69 posted on 12/12/2009 10:39:21 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’ve always managed the panty-grab by being myself at the Shinjuku rock-n-roll bars. No metrosexuals required.


70 posted on 12/12/2009 10:41:40 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: SIDENET

girls love bad boys...

I’ll pass on this one.


71 posted on 12/12/2009 10:41:59 AM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
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To: grey_whiskers

LOL!


72 posted on 12/12/2009 10:42:42 AM PST by Tax-chick (Here I come, with a sharp knife and a clear conscience!)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

The two most decorated soldiers in WWII were Audie Murphy and Neville Brand. How’s that for REAL men.


73 posted on 12/12/2009 10:42:59 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Tax-chick

> Do you think a real fighter from the Golden Age of Greece would have been “sculpted” like that, or do you think it’s an artistic convention for the depiction of epic heroes?

I should think running around and doing battle in bronze armor would make them very fit, if not well-sculpted. The artist would probably take some... er... artistic license when drawing them, like they do today. But probably not much.

That’s my SWAG anyway, for what it’s worth...


74 posted on 12/12/2009 10:44:13 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Tax-chick

A closer look leads me to believe this guy was on steroids


75 posted on 12/12/2009 10:49:01 AM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
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To: Tax-chick

Smart man. ;^)


76 posted on 12/12/2009 10:55:11 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Ev Reeman

(Grin!) Definitely.

And in the case of Audie Murphy, he had boyish good-looks perfect for Hollywood. To look at him, nobody would ever know that he was one of the bravest tough-guys ever.

Proof positive that “looks can be deceiving.”


77 posted on 12/12/2009 10:55:31 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Ev Reeman

Yes, but I think Cruise did a very good job, I like that movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/


78 posted on 12/12/2009 10:56:52 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: DTogo

I think even my Aunt Fanny could wipe the floor with Cruise in a fair fight.


79 posted on 12/12/2009 11:03:18 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Richard Kimball

“Guys can drop ten pounds in fluids even while hydrating properly.”

THAT I did not know. Never would have guessed it. I must have been colse to keeling over on a few occasions.


80 posted on 12/12/2009 11:34:17 AM PST by TalBlack
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