By: Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey
Nice try, angrycat. We know that the chair is where you stash all of your deadly weapons. I'm picturing some sort of Ben Hur contraption. She stuntin' like Boudicca. Who's simultaneously a ninja. From...
View ArticleBy: arcticseal
Nice try, angrycat. We know that the chair is where you stash all of your deadly weapons. I'm picturing some sort of Ben Hur contraption.
View ArticleBy: Ghidorah
Nice try, angrycat. We know that the chair is where you stash all of your deadly weapons.
View ArticleBy: Countess Elena
"Dear honorable samurai retainer; sneak into the castle, kill the boy prince his sleep, and make it out or not, your family is ass-deep in honor and rice outta my coffers. Go gettem!" That's pretty...
View ArticleBy: angrycat
Last week a student came to me to make arrangements for taking a test because she is going to Cambodia to see a cousin's wedding. She said her family is freaked because of some kidnapping worry. I was...
View ArticleBy: Harvey Jerkwater
Not to mention, that dressing entirely in black would have been rather impractical for a number of reasons. Not only does it stand out in any situation that doesn't involve creeping through the...
View ArticleBy: Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey
Well, they would have been commoners, so that would limit their visibility in official documents, plus their use would be seen as underhanded at best, and scandalous at worst, so there's that as well....
View ArticleBy: TheWhiteSkull
Not to mention, that dressing entirely in black would have been rather impractical for a number of reasons. Not only does it stand out in any situation that doesn't involve creeping through the...
View ArticleBy: TheWhiteSkull
It's funny that the guys claiming to be ninja are dressed in a style that was most likely derived from uniforms of stagehands in 18th- and 19th-century kabuki. During the Sengoku period, and during the...
View ArticleBy: Navelgazer
But I gotta admit, I'm kinda in the "Hmmm, this utter lack of period documentation about their existence thing..." Well, they would have been commoners, so that would limit their visibility in official...
View ArticleBy: Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey
It would be fascinating if the holders of these "family ninja scrolls" would allow them to be examined by historians and book experts. I mean, if they're not naming successors and are content to let...
View ArticleBy: anti social order
"No one appears to have asked these last ninjas whether they have killed anyone." He mentioned guns and better medicines, but combat is part of it as well. The ninja 'fighting style' is both highly...
View ArticleBy: andreaazure
I tried attending Ninja Tech, but that did not really work out so well for me. But, for these guys, it turned out rather awesomely.
View ArticleBy: mule98J
Using... the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but deadly. Named after the combat cry of the user when he strikes, accent on the ...YA!
View ArticleBy: ph00dz
This is just what they want you to think! ... also, "Professor of Ninja History" is the second coolest job title ever.... to "Ninja" of course.
View ArticleBy: Ad hominem
"We now have guns, the internet and much better medicines," Jinichi Kawakami told the BBC, "so the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age." These dudes they found to interview? Obviously not...
View ArticleBy: staccato signals of constant information
Interesting dichotomy between those two articles. The BBC was was more staid and attempted to be academic, while the Guardian link was all movie-ninja love. Way more fun when read in succession. Nice...
View ArticleBy: Krazor
brain_drain: "No one appears to have asked these last ninjas whether they have killed anyone." Are you sure that's something you want to know?
View ArticleBy: Segundus
Using... the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but deadly. My blowpipe is widely feared.
View ArticleBy: brain_drain
No one appears to have asked these last ninjas whether they have killed anyone.
View ArticleBy: LogicalDash
I figured the black suit was actually underwear. They'd wear some suitable disguise and strip down when they had to disappear proper.
View ArticleBy: acb
There is some doubt on whether the ninja ever actually existed, or whether they (as in the stealthy, black-clad warriors) were invented by Japanese popular fiction authors, and modelled on the...
View ArticleBy: FJT
These guys have not done their homework at all! Yes, because they miss the all important Ninja FACTS!, which are totally true; and by true, I mean sweet: 1. Ninjas are mammals. 2. Ninjas fight ALL the...
View ArticleBy: Slap*Happy
Not certain if they're a dying breed, or just getting better at what they do...
View ArticleBy: FAMOUS MONSTER
They will disappear or, in the UK, be renamed heroes. I have no idea how many people will get that joke but there it is.
View ArticleBy: pwally
All this means is that ninjas have finally hired some PR people.. nice try ninjas.
View ArticleBy: GenjiandProust
And walk on water: CIA intelligence says they used "water shoes" - circular wooden boards or buckets - and a bamboo paddle for propulsion, but doubt remains over their effectiveness Man, this myth was...
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