This scene from Baahubali 2 is quite possibly the coolest, most awesome and ridiculous, over-the top alpha thing I have ever seen come out of ANY foreign movie

Yeah, I have to admit, that's pretty badass. Of course, Hollywood did it better – back when they still made decent movies:

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And that version of Robin Hood couldn't even do a proper English accent.

Not to mention that the Sari-Choli combo is one of the most attractive classical outfits ever produced for women, when the women are actually attractive.

That's very true. However, the women who look the best in those dresses, aren't Indian. They're Russian.

I'm not convinced about the validity of that hoary old chestnut. Quite apart from the fact that a severed head isn't round, kicking it is far more likely to break the small bones in one's foot than it is to accomplish anything meaningful.

As far as I can tell, the most ancient predecessor of football is some sort of Chinese game called cuju, involving a leather ball and a silk net.

But that's just being pedantic. I must admit that the story of Mongolians kicking severed heads around is ghastly and intriguing – which is everything that the modern sportzball equivalent is not.

while the diving in international futbol drives me as nuts as anybody, the game started by decapitating an enemy combatant and kicking the head around.

that's kind of badass.

This scene from Baahubali 2 is quite possibly the coolest, most awesome and ridiculous, over-the top alpha thing I have ever seen come out of ANY foreign movie…shooting past some of the more ridiculous over-the-top stuff the Japanese produce as a matter of course.

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Anyone that can produce something like THAT still has hope, in my book. Even if all the chicks in the movie resemble Danny DeVito.
Not to mention that the Sari-Choli combo is one of the most attractive classical outfits ever produced for women, when the women are actually attractive.

and there's no jumping up and down and screaming in pain just because someone got too close to them with the puck, unlike South America's laughable 'football'

Lord but I hate football. Yes it's actually a pretty brutal game in terms of contact and tackles and so on, but I'd love to see those European nancy-boys play a game of full-contact American gridiron and THEN complain about how hard their sport is.

And then there's the diving, which always makes me see red.

A sport without deadly weapons isn't a sport, it's a children's game of tag.

Yeah, I'm kind of with you on that one. That's why I like watching MMA – high-level problem solving with devastating physical and mental consequences for any mistakes.

They don't. She has at least one daughter with her African husband.

That being said – I know, through a reader, about this one half-African, half-Russian girl serving in the Russian Army. She looks like a young Naomi Campbell with curly hair.

I've also personally observed African men with Russian women during my time in Russia. It does happen, though it's very, very rare. From what I can see, most Russians are pretty easy about that sort of thing, but it's not considered normal, at all.

It's worth noting that the pairings are always African man, Russian woman. Pairings between Russian men and African women simply DO NOT seem to happen, from what I have seen. I'll leave it to others to speculate as to why.

I do have a high opinion of ice hockey. It's like MMA on ice. I particularly like the fact that the referees are told explicitly NOT to interfere in a fistfight between players until and unless someone actually goes down onto the ice itself.

That said – even ice hockey is tame compared to the Gaelic origins of the sport. I remember being told by a tour guide in Scotland back in, oh, 2004 that shinty, played in the highlands with a stick and basically NO protective equipment, sometimes on the ice in winters, was and is so brutal that Highlanders who play it today often have missing teeth and eyes.

Considering the name of her husband, her kids will not resemble her at all.

Me like hockey

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