Certainly he never hits ladies. Maybe Lady Shiva, but she gives as good as she gets. She put Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter, in a wheelchair!
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Batman doesn't hit women who aren't wearing lycra?
2: Does Orca the Whale Woman count?
Flippanter and I can make a whole thread out of links to the ISB, I suspect.
I could probably throw a motorcycle battery, but I'd need better core strength to throw a car battery.
6: "Now, Joker, I punch you! To death!"
Batman doesn't hit, he kicks people in the face
13: From time to time I speculate that kicking people in the face is more difficult than comics suggest, but surely that cannot be the case.
If I had to rank from easiest to hardest, I'd say:
1. Kicking someone cooperative in the face
2. Digging a giant hole
3. Kicking someone uncooperative in the face
15: All in a day's work ... for Batman.
Heebie, if you want to reward people for their cooperation, you shouldn't kick them in the face. It's a system, you see.
17: Efficient systems provide both positive and negative kicks to the face feedback.
I want to comment, but all I can think is "ugh".
I speculate that kicking people in the face is more difficult than comics suggest
Anderson Silva certainly makes it look effortless.
You know what's really difficult? Digging a giant hole and then kicking somebody in the face while you're still at the bottom of it and they're not.
19: I'm making fun of the conversation, but the mother's really not bad at all; she was juggling two kids, and the three-year-old is having a punchy phase that she is working on. I figure with a stranger in the elevator, she would have moved straight to restraining him, but given that I know them, and that the punching was not terribly aggressive (that is, clearly punching, but not a tantrum, just a preschooler thinking "Hmm, I'll punch this person. That might be fun.") she was working on talking him out of it.
When I think about similarly irritating behavior from my kids, I didn't really eradicate it so much as wait it out.
I'm just going to cut and paste from my other blog about this other two year old at daycare:
Gabriel has more manic energy than I've ever witnessed in a person. Sprinting in circles energy. He'd bolt over to an open mat and throw himself into a somersault, through the air, landing whump on his back. Pop up, sprint a couple steps, launch an air-somersault, and land, whump, on his back. Again and again and again. With tantrums if he was reined in for any reason. He was super cute, but holy cow. I can't imagine how tiring it would be to parent him.
"Hmm, I'll punch this person. That might be fun."
Maybe he is Batman after all.
I'm glad to read 23. For a while I thought that if a three-year-old was punching me I'd like to pick him or her up by their hands as high as I can and tell them "If you promise to stop punching me, I'll put you down. If you don't, I'll drop you." But then I wonder about the psychology of teaching a kid that might makes right, and also if the kid calls my bluff then I really shouldn't actually do it, and I know that parents often don't react well to other people interfering with their kids, but on the other other other hand...
if a three-year-old was punching me I'd like to pick him or her up by their hands as high as I can
That's an excellent way to get kicked in the face, Cyrus.
Kicked in the balls, then the face.
Maybe he is Batman after all.
Or Mark Trail.
Then kicked in the balls again on the way down.
also if the kid calls my bluff then I really shouldn't actually do it
This is key. Empty threats with a kid that little are very counterproductive, because the kid will call your bluff. (Empty threats with older kids can work as comedy, but otherwise are also a bad idea.) I don't think there was really a better response for a kid in the place that 'Bobby' was in other than restraining him and telling him it's not okay -- his mother was telling him it's not okay, but her hands were full.
Then kicked in the balls again on the way down.
The Littlest Ninja, a Golden Book for ages 2-5.
...because the kid will call your bluff.
Kids are natural scientists and parents are the experiment.
Sequel: The Littlest Ninja Learns the Scientific Method.
The littlest ninja is not going to start a blog on my watch.
re: 14
It's quite hard, yeah, but practice makes it a lot easier.
For example, the dude here is nearly 60 [and the bloke being booted in the head was in the final of the world championship last year, so not completely terrible at avoiding being kicked therein].
14, 38: It's not that hard, actually (although like 15 says, cooperation makes a big difference). Martial arts students start doing simple versions of it in a month or two, depending on the student and teacher and the martial art, and assuming pretty good fitness you could probably have someone doing it in less than a week if you focused on nothing but that for some reason.
This thing is, though, it's not that hard but it's just not all that useful either. Aside from competitive martial arts there's basically no situation in which it makes sense to kick someone in the face rather than punch them in the face, kick them in an easier-to-reach place, or run. It appears in fiction a lot just because it looks cool.
Aside from competitive martial arts there's basically no situation in which it makes sense to kick someone in the face rather than punch them in the face, kick them in an easier-to-reach place, or run
What if they've fallen over and their face is right by your feet?
basically no situation in which it makes sense to kick someone in the face rather than punch them in the face
The exception that proves the rule.
As a general rule, yeah. Although there can be exceptions, like anything. I know someone who's done it, and done it very effectively [and then ended up in court, as, hey, the police frown on you breaking someone's jaw]. And as dsquared says, sometimes their head is a lot closer to the floor.
It may not be practical, but when it works its awesome.
Batman doesn't punch, he bitch-slaps. MOSKITO!
I think the kid obviously should have said "I'm the fucking Batman" and put an end to this idle chatter.
