[ap] China kung fu monks seek apology for ninja affront

This is ridiculous. So now Chinese institutions are going to react to every single dufous internet poster of 10 years of age?

 

how r****ded...it sounds like its a joke but sadly its not.

ninjas kick shaolins butt...i've seen it.

 

I've heard a story about some of the Keebler elves going to China and kicking some Shaolin butt. I guess now I'm going to be condemned.

I can't believe that it would come from the temple itself. I actually practice martial arts and can't envision such masters acting so foolishly in response to a kid on the internet.

 

Man oh man, just wait until the doggedly repressed factual account of Chuck Norris's visit to Shaolin gets out!

It was, like, 80 kicks-to-the-face per minute, and Chuck had one leg tied behind his back.

 

Tell them to STFU...there is much more important stuff to worry about than some dumba$$ on the internet......

SHEESH !!

Don't they know we have senators engaged in sex in Idaho's bathrooms, for chrissakes?

Ninjas....lol...

DD

 

chuck norris slammed the shaolins revolving door

 

I guess that, in China, one have to take internet more seriously than here. Because the lack of credibility of the official media, internet is becoming increasingly important source of unfiltered news. The monks may feel a story like this detrimental to their commercial businesses, as a tourist attraction (near 4 million US dollar admission fee, last year), martial art school, martial art performance, ect. Anyway, this is not the first time that Shaolin responses publicly to internet posting. Less than two weeks ago, they also publicly rejected a rumor that Shaolin will issue IPO in Hong Kong.

 

They still have Ninjas nowadays?

I mean, is there a market for assasins trained in martial arts in Japan still?

 

On the looks of it, it seems like a pride issue, but true pride for their tradition has already been watered down to great effect. A lot of the temples and monasteries have been co-opted by the government into tourist traps. I guess this situation is better than demolishing them like some were 50 years ago.

As for the motives and intents behind this, I have no idea.

 

If you've seen a ninja, then it's either a hack dressed up as a ninja or it's because you are about to die.

No one sees ninjas and lives. Except for other ninjas. and maybe monks.

 

These Shaolin monks refused the challenge only because they were too embarrassed to have to fight people who run around only with their underwears on.

 

It wasn't that they were beat by a Ninja that was embarrassing. The specific Ninja that beat them was embarrassing.

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Unlike that male ninja, at least these female ninjas had more than just the underwear on.

 

In some weird way, that's kind of hot.

 

If you want an example of sh!tty poor Reuters report, this is the one.

Henan province is in the central, not northern, part of PRC.

Did the reporter who wrote this article pass his/her English test?

Of course, there is no better way to have icing on a cake than to put [ap] as the source of a Reuters' report in the thread title.

 

I say they fight and put it on youtube!