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wagyl wrote:Wait, wait, they list race (well, I would call it ethnicity) on Singapore ID cards?? Educated once again by FG.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:Wait, wait, they list race (well, I would call it ethnicity) on Singapore ID cards?? Educated once again by FG.
I'm not surprised. Race and the concept of racial differences were a big issue during the formation of Singapore as a nation.
Over the years, Steven has claimed that he:
- Helped train CIA operatives and did "special favors" for them (his ex wife says, "Not at all. He was never in the CIA.")
- Is of Italian descent (he's actually half-Jewish, half-Irish)
- Fought the Yakuza(lol) with assistance from the American mob (lol)
- Is called in to help authenticate antique swords by auction houses as he is one of the world's "foremost experts on swords" (again, lol)
- Was a student of the founder of Akido, Morihei Ueshiba (who died in 1968, meaning Steven would have had to have been a teenager living alone in Japan for that to have happened)
- Speaks four languages fluently (I'm unable to find any evidence of him speaking anything other than English made entirely of lies)
HE POOPED HIMSELF
In a 2002 profile in Vanity Fair, martial artist Gene LeBell claimed he choked out Steven during an Aikido exhibition, causing Seagal to poop in his pants. Steven denies it ever happened. But he also said he was a multilingual, Yakuza fighting, CIA assassin. So, ya know...
- Was a student of the founder of Akido, Morihei Ueshiba (who died in 1968, meaning Steven would have had to have been a teenager living alone in Japan for that to have happened)
Yokohammer wrote:- Was a student of the founder of Akido, Morihei Ueshiba (who died in 1968, meaning Steven would have had to have been a teenager living alone in Japan for that to have happened)
Not that I feel inclined to defend Steven Seagal, but I do hate bullshit...It is my understanding that Seagal was a military brat here, so he most probably would have been in Japan as a teenager ...
Sure, He's Making a Box-Office Killing—but Who Is Steven Seagal?
People Magazine | November 19, 1990 Vol. 34 No. 20
...Seagal's mom, Pat, says he was born in Lansing, Mich., and that Steven and his three sisters lived outside Detroit before the family moved to Fullerton, Calif., when he was 5. There, Pat worked as an emergency medical technician, and her husband, Steven Sr., taught high school math.
Although Seagal likes to paint himself as an urban "street kid" whom the Fullerton youths saw as "some kind of crazy gangster," Pat says her son was frail and suffered from asthma. "He was a puny kid back then," she says. "But he really thrived after the move [from Michigan]."
Seagal, Pat recalls, spent a deafening part of his teen years holed up in the garage playing rock music. When he wasn't pumping up the volume, he was pumping up his aikido abilities at a local dojo. "He worked with this nice old Japanese man at a dojo in Garden Grove," Pat says. "He encouraged Steven to go to Japan."
Just when Seagal packed up and left for Japan is another confusing matter. During various interviews, he has indicated that it was anywhere from 1968 to 1973. According to enrollment records at Fullerton College, he attended classes there from the fall of 1970 and left after the fall of 1971, putting him at age 19 before he could have departed for a long stay in Japan. The date of his departure is only an issue because Seagal has claimed that he studied with Morihei Uyeshiba, the founder of aikido, who died in 1969. "That story is bull," says Terry Dobson, a fifth-degree black belt who studied with the master from 1961 to 1969. "[Back then] I never heard of Steven Seagal."
Whatever the course of his travels, by 1974 Seagal was back in California. That year he met Miyako Fujitani, now 43, a second-degree black belt and daughter of an Osaka aikido master who had come to Los Angeles to teach aikido...
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Yokohammer wrote:- Was a student of the founder of Akido, Morihei Ueshiba (who died in 1968, meaning Steven would have had to have been a teenager living alone in Japan for that to have happened)
Not that I feel inclined to defend Steven Seagal, but I do hate bullshit and whoever wrote the above is guilty of liberally spreading some.
It is my understanding that Seagal was a military brat here, so he most probably would have been in Japan as a teenager. I can't even understand the reasoning behind the statement that he would "have had to be a teenager living alone in Japan." Why would he have had to be alone?
All credibility lost right there.
Now back to bashing Seagal ... with facts ...
- Is of Italian descent (he's actually half-Jewish, half-Irish)
Taro Toporific wrote:According to this artical and interview his father, Steven Sr, taught high school math and his mother, Pat, was a medical technician and do not sound like the family left the US with Steven in tow as a military brat--but nobody really seems to know.
Seagal moved to Japan in his late teens after he went to Japan with his father who was visiting for military purposes and met karate masters and decided to remain in Japan.
Seagal, "went to Japan with his father who was visiting for military purposes" could make 'sense' if his father took a one year contract as a DoD teacher to work in Japan.Yokohammer wrote:This is from Wikipedia, so it should be taken with a large grain of salt, but it sort of agrees with what I'd heard earlier.Seagal moved to Japan in his late teens after he went to Japan with his father who was visiting for military purposes and met karate masters and decided to remain in Japan.
Even though the above sentence doesn't really make sense ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal
monstersandcritics.com/people/Steven-Seagal/biography/
...Seagal attended the Buena Park High School in Buena Park, California. It was at the age of 7 that Seagal first began allegedly studying the martial arts under the direction of renowned Shito-ryu karate master Fumio Demura and Aikido under Rod Kobayashi, the President of the Western States Aikido Federation. He earned belts in aikido, karate, judo, and kendo and in his late teens, Seagal became part of Demura's Karate Demonstration Team and performed daily demonstrations in the former Japanese Village and Deer Park, in Southern California. In 1974, he was promoted by Kobayashi-sensei to shodan in Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido...
Ned Zeman in Vanity Fair quotes an actress who described Seagal's new spin on the casting-couch lure. According to the woman, Seagal had asked her to take off her top and groped her breasts in order to show her where her spiritual "meridian points" were located.
kurogane wrote:kurogane wrote:TennoChinko wrote:* VICE: STEVEN SEAGAL IS THE LAMEST GUY EVEROver the years, Steven has claimed that he:
- Speaks four languages fluently (I'm unable to find any evidence of him speaking anything other than English made entirely of lies)
Taro wrote:He earned belts in aikido, karate, judo, and kendo and in his late teens, Seagal became part of Demura's Karate Demonstration Team and performed daily demonstrations in the former Japanese Village and Deer Park....
IparryU wrote:Taro wrote:He earned belts in aikido, karate, judo, and kendo and in his late teens, Seagal became part of Demura's Karate Demonstration Team and performed daily demonstrations in the former Japanese Village and Deer Park....
Took me a bit to figure out what you meant by deer park...
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chokonen888 wrote:Buena park is Knott's Berry Farm and Medieval Times territory...IparryU wrote:Taro wrote:He earned belts in aikido, karate, judo, and kendo and in his late teens, Seagal became part of Demura's Karate Demonstration Team and performed daily demonstrations in the former Japanese Village and Deer Park....
Took me a bit to figure out what you meant by deer park...
chokonen888 wrote:LOL, 35 mins? I made through 1...and many of the Aikido instructors in the US are pretty overweight. .
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