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What's your Kung Fu (striving skill/talent)? Is it strong?

Hammurab
12-04-2009, 21:54
Remember that movie where the kid has super computer abilities, and says "This is my Kung Fu. And it is strong."

What's yours?

EDIT FOR CLARITY: Apparently, the term "Kung Fu" doesn't just refer to martial arts.

Any skill in which one strives to improve, works hard to become proficient, diligently seeks to become better, is called "Kung Fu".

An artist, a programmer, an athlete, anyone who pursues their "striving skill" with true dedication, has "Kung Fu".

What's yours?
Ring of Isengard
12-04-2009, 21:58
Wha'?
Skallvia
12-04-2009, 21:58
Mine's somewhere along this:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b42/Segomo2/Akuma_special_ragingstorm1.gif
greed and death
12-04-2009, 22:01
Drunken Boxing also tax avoidance.
Conserative Morality
12-04-2009, 22:02
The Force is Strong within This One.
Vault 10
12-04-2009, 22:04
My Penis Quigong.
Hammurab
12-04-2009, 22:05
Wha'?

Apparently, the term "Kung Fu" doesn't just refer to martial arts.

Any skill in which one strives to improve, works hard to become proficient, diligently seeks to become better, is called "Kung Fu".

An artist, a programmer, an athlete, anyone who pursues their "striving skill" with true dedication, has "Kung Fu".

What's yours?
The Parkus Empire
12-04-2009, 22:10
Remember that movie where the kid has super computer abilities, and says "This is my Kung Fu. And it is strong."

"Rat, call me 'Rat'."

What's yours?

Political science.
The Romulan Republic
12-04-2009, 22:15
None, really. I don't work nearly hard enough at things in general. But I'm most skilled, I think, at essay writing and public speaking. To be really skilled though, I'd probably have to work harder and improve my spelling, gramar, and organization.
Fnordgasm 5
12-04-2009, 22:16
My Kung Fu is soldering and drilling tiny holes with a tiny drill..
Ifreann
12-04-2009, 22:18
Drinking. And it is strong.
Hammurab
12-04-2009, 22:20
None, really. I don't work nearly hard enough at things in general. But I'm most skilled, I think, at essay writing and public speaking. To be really skilled though, I'd probably have to work harder and improve my spelling, gramar, and organization.

At least you're honest and get the principle.
Hammurab
12-04-2009, 22:22
My Kung Fu is soldering and drilling tiny holes with a tiny drill..

We used to have a little electron drill in a lab I worked at, but one day, we had to put it in a glove box to make some beryllium gaskets, and once you've machined beryllium with something, it never comes out of that box...

Anyway, nice Fu. Very practical.
Saige Dragon
12-04-2009, 22:29
Drinking. And it is strong.

'Whoa... I know kung-fu.'
Ifreann
12-04-2009, 22:34
'Whoa... I know kung-fu.'

I'm a master of the drunken scumbag style. I can empty a bottle, break it across your face, and deposit it in your stomach before you can blink.
Lunatic Goofballs
12-04-2009, 22:55
What do you do if your kung fu is kung fu? :confused:

I am proficient in wrecking ball style Clown Fu and I am more than proficient in the exquisite art of the groin kick. *nod*
DrunkenDove
12-04-2009, 23:02
Procrastination. I'd tell you how strong it is but first I have to revolve every pen on my table by exactly 180 degrees and then watch a kettle boil before rotating them back.
greed and death
12-04-2009, 23:04
What do you do if your kung fu is kung fu? :confused:

I am proficient in wrecking ball style Clown Fu and I am more than proficient in the exquisite art of the groin kick. *nod*

No pie throwing?
Lunatic Goofballs
12-04-2009, 23:08
No pie throwing?

That is a Clown Fu technique. *nod*
Indri
12-04-2009, 23:21
Me: I know Kung Fu.
Cow-orker: How many styles?
Me: Kickass ones.

I also know Shaq Fu.
Call to power
12-04-2009, 23:36
this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGIX3WezvQ&feature=related)

I don't know if I have any Kung-Fu I guess I'm a black belt in being cool :confused:
Hydesland
12-04-2009, 23:43
Music
Nanatsu no Tsuki
13-04-2009, 00:36
Shag-fu. I am a mistress of it and it's quite strong in me.
Mobius III
13-04-2009, 01:36
My skill lies within my total, utter and absolute apathy. It is so strong, that not only do I not excel at anything, but I actually suck at everything. Unless smoking and drinking count? Actually, I suck at the first one of those too.
Antilon
13-04-2009, 03:44
So far drawing, teaching (I tutor some of my classmates in Chemistry, they say I do a pretty good job and they seem to be doing better) and video games (I like to test how well I can improvise against human opponents).

I hope to become proficient in fire arms, my body (achieving peak physical fitness), kendo and a number of foreign languages (aiming for French, Korean, Chinese and Arabic).
Truly Blessed
13-04-2009, 03:50
I find weaknesses in computer programs. Essentially I break things well. I am a bit shifter which is a little different than a Bit Shifty although you can be both.
Sgt Toomey
13-04-2009, 03:51
So far drawing, teaching (I tutor some of my classmates in Chemistry, they say I do a pretty good job and they seem to be doing better) and video games (I like to test how well I can improvise against human opponents).

I hope to become proficient in fire arms, my body (achieving peak physical fitness), kendo and a number of foreign languages (aiming for French, Korean, Chinese and Arabic).

When I lived in Japan, I knew this old guy, a Kendo Teacher up in Tohoku. Evidently head of the Kendo organization for some major chunck of Northern Honshu.

Holy shit, dude...when he went down the hallway, he looked ancient, but once his bogu was on, he moved almost faster than I could see. Slick old dude.

Not "Kung Fu", but definitely Kung Fu.
Sgt Toomey
13-04-2009, 03:52
Shag-fu. I am a mistress of it and it's quite strong in me.

Bows to your superior shag fu...
Conserative Morality
13-04-2009, 04:09
To be serious, my Kung-Fu is writing. Or, perhaps more precisely, Storytelling, as my handwriting sucks.
Heikoku 2
13-04-2009, 06:09
Translation, arguing, trickery. And yeah, pretty strong.
greed and death
13-04-2009, 06:12
Translation, arguing, trickery. And yeah, pretty strong.

More like be Getúlio Dornelles Vargas number 2.
Heikoku 2
13-04-2009, 06:14
More like be Getúlio Dornelles Vargas number 2.

I don't think Getúlio Vargas was a translator. :p
greed and death
13-04-2009, 06:16
I don't think Getúlio Vargas was a translator. :p

But you secrectly dream of bringing about Estado Novo #2
Heikoku 2
13-04-2009, 06:33
But you secrectly dream of bringing about Estado Novo #2

No, I don't. :p
greed and death
13-04-2009, 06:36
No, I don't. :p

I will mark that down as a vote for yes.
Anti-Social Darwinism
13-04-2009, 06:37
Naps. I'm an outstanding nap-taker. I can nap any time of the day. Frequently my nightly sleep will become a nap without my even being aware of it. I'm really more of a Zen napper, though.