Fisticuffs.

bluto63 · 12-11-2006 02:57PM

I've hit one guy in the face and got hit by another. Nothing stemmed from either of those situations though.

I love seeing strangers kick the **** out of each other. It's quality entertainment. I'd rather not get involved though

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me and the biz · 12-11-2006 03:53PM

At a 21st/50th last night. At the end of the night a girl got into a fight with some guy, her boyfriend got involved... lots more people got involved trying to break it up. Result is the night is completely ruined.

scop · 12-11-2006 04:00PM

I've been in some random fights, and almost always the outcome is a confused few minutes whereby you may or may not be injured. Its basically a way to wreck your clothes.

Dragan · 12-11-2006 04:28PM

The Scientist wrote:

So firstly allow me to clear up that i'm not a scumbag and that I in no way condone voilence etc... but still, in my drunken walk home i thought it was a valid argument. Am i missing out in a fundamental life experience? Engaging in some form of physical conflict with a counterpart?

I spent a large part of my late teens and early twenties dealing with violent situations. Both in my job as a door man, and out of a desire to keep my friends safe.

I can happily tell you that you are not missing much.

If you would like to see how you would do in a "conflict" situation i suggest you take up boxing or MT and train that...it is great fun, you spar and you learn a lot about yourself.

Keep things in your life postive, do not question the negatives that never happen.

scojones · 12-11-2006 08:00PM

Pighead wrote:

Chicks mightn't admit it but they get all warm and tingly when they see a man fight. Of course the fight has to be for a valid reason( ie defending someones honour or righting a wrong) or else its just thuggery

Sit any girl down on a sofa and make them watch Fight Club and watch the results. Pighead guarantees that when the films over they will have flushed cheeks and when they walk across the room they will leave a glistening trail behind them much like a snail would on a cold winters morn.

Haha, that's signature material.

TerrorFirmer · 12-11-2006 08:46PM

I've been in a good few fights alright but good control on my part always prevents really serious developments.

As I don't mean "I battered them senseless." Just a few times when I've been swung at I've dodged and been able tackle the other party and keep them down until someone else steps in to break it up....I'm not a fan of violence so I prefer to try and hold the situation down then escalate it.

Have been headbutted though (and had my face smashed into the kerb pretty badly, which I'd rather forget, although despite what it sounds like I was able to walk away or more accurately get 'back into the fight'), amongst other things, just never been involved in an actual fist fight. A fist fight is a situation I'd really try to avoid at all costs, one well placed punch from someone who knows what they're doing can do unimaginable damage.

qwytre · 12-11-2006 09:03PM

Well OP, you could get in a fight thats tame enough and come out none the worse for wear. Or you could end up getting a right beating like a guy I know. He has had to have plastic surgery on his lips as they were badly cut, they will never be back to normal and are a bit out of shape permanently now.

Never been in a serious fight myself thankfully, I would be really afraid of getting glassed into the face as ome guy threatened to do to me once. It was in a nightclub and like other posters it seems some people are just assholes and want a fight. I try to avoid them and have done up 'till now.

I did get a punch from behind once which just gave me a bloody nose. Some drunk idiot took a dislike to me telling him to go away as I was on a phone call at the time. I was glad to be able to pull the guy by headlock into the pub I was in and got the bouncers to hold him and called the guards. The scumbag legged it out through an exit door with the bouncers chasing after him, they eventually caught him and dragged him back.

It ended up in court, he got a 500 euro fine. At least I got justice

Dave! · 12-11-2006 09:28PM

I used to get in fights quite regularly in primary school, but haven't been in one since. I'm a bit of a wuss when I'm put in a situation that might lead to a fight! Probably cos I've not been in one in years. So I always try my best to avoid them.

But the funny thing is that I'm actually a good fighter! And I'm quite strong!

I was always able to kick my mates' asses, and cos I've done a bit of Jiu Jitsu training I'm quite good at controlling much bigger blokes, so I could hold someone down quite easily if they were around my size.

I'm quite interested in seeing how I'd handle myself in an actual street fight though. I'd like to think that I'd be quite calm and pace myself like an actual martial arts fight, but the reality is that it's alot more frantic and uncoordinated, so I doubt it.

I actually think the reason that I never got into fights after primary school is because there ceased to be such thing as a 'straightener'. It was always "I'll get my brother/cousin/sister/nephew after you", or if you beat someone's ass you'd have your windows put through or their mates would jump in. There was no such thing as a one-on-one fight.

damnyanks · 12-11-2006 09:31PM

Sure ya may as well like... :cool:

maxi-twist · 12-11-2006 10:46PM

Ive been in one or two in the last month.Nothing before that.I didnt start them or anything,but the night life of south dublin with high testosterone levels accounts for that.
Some idiots do it for fun,going up to people and just punching them,thats what happened to me.
I got the best feeling for hitting him back and then realising there were guards literally right behind me!they let me go cos it was in self defence!Decided not to press charges....mostly cos it wasnt too serious.
The adrenaline u get from being in one is pretty good.

Rb · 12-11-2006 11:02PM

DaveMcG wrote:

But the funny thing is that I'm actually a good fighter! And I'm quite strong!

Nothin' funny about it Dave, you're a Tallaght man, its in yer blood to be a fighter!

Dave! · 12-11-2006 11:22PM

Yeah, I'm a tiger! Hear me rAwR! :mad:

Rb · 12-11-2006 11:28PM

DaveMcG wrote:

Yeah, I'm a tiger! Hear me rAwR! :mad:

Just don't go losing any fights Dave that you do decide to enter (though your Tallaght blood should give you an edge over even the toughest of travellers), I hear they'll make you wear a bell and live in a wheelie bin in the Square car park.

connundrum · 12-11-2006 11:31PM

I've been in a coupla brawls, both as a barman and as a punter.

The only fistycuffs I was involved in was with a small guy.. I pretty much held him in a head lock till he tired his little self out. The lil fecker still managed to rip me favourite shirt

I was in a (what started out as) fistycuffs a coupla months ago.. but that quickly disintegrated into a "C'mon lads, lets all kick the crap outa Connundrum while he's down on the groud" session.

I'm not much into the aul fighting, I think I actually prefer breaking them up. What is the story with the amount of alchohol induced testosterone floating about amongst young lads these days

Rb · 12-11-2006 11:38PM

connundrum wrote:

What is the story with the amount of alchohol induced testosterone floating about amongst young lads these days

I'm not too sure tbh, an awful lot of young lads are training hard in the gym, using creatine etc. which I would have thought may have an affect on their aggression (especially while under the influence). I don't know if thats credible though. There certainly is a lot of young serious rugby guys kicking lumps out of eachother most weekends after clubs though, whether its just a club vs club thing or pure macho-ism I don't know. It wasn't happening to the same extent when I was in 6th year anyway.

Then you've got little knackers, as I mentioned in an above post, it seems a load of these little shíts just go out looking for a fight or trouble. They are scumbags afterall, and they didn't get that name for nothing.

maxi-twist · 12-11-2006 11:54PM

rb_ie wrote:

I'm not too sure tbh, an awful lot of young lads are training hard in the gym, using creatine etc. which I would have thought may have an affect on their aggression (especially while under the influence). I don't know if thats credible though. There certainly is a lot of young serious rugby guys kicking lumps out of eachother most weekends after clubs though, whether its just a club vs club thing or pure macho-ism I don't know. It wasn't happening to the same extent when I was in 6th year anyway.

Then you've got little knackers, as I mentioned in an above post, it seems a load of these little shíts just go out looking for a fight or trouble. They are scumbags afterall, and they didn't get that name for nothing.

i know a few lads that take creo before they go out cos it gets them buzzin!

Sad Professor · 13-11-2006 12:30AM

I'm 23 now and I haven't been in a fight in years. But I was in plenty during my early teens as I went to some fairly rough schools. Although I've been in a quite a few near fights since that were defused. I think I'd be as useless in a fight now as I was then. My problem is I have a bad temper and can be easily provoked by aggressive behavior.

One thing I learned from the school yard was how most aggression is bluffed. The ones who shout and threaten the most have something to prove and are usually cowards. Its the quiet ones you need to be careful of.

fish-head · 13-11-2006 01:01AM

I was in a fight once in 1st year. Beat the ****e out of a guy who had been bullying me for a while. I just cracked. Haven't been in one since, I can't stand it.

pvt. joker · 13-11-2006 03:08AM

drunken fights suck. you wake up the next day and feel like you fell off the top of a 2 story building

petes · 13-11-2006 10:30AM

I haven't been in a fight in years. Was in a few in secondary school but nothing major. Pointless to be honest, unless it is for a very valid reason.

Dragan · 13-11-2006 12:17PM

maxi-twist wrote:

i know a few lads that take creo before they go out cos it gets them buzzin!

A placebo effect i would imagine.

Kind of like me drinking water because it makes me hyper.

Terry · 13-11-2006 12:32PM

i was in a fight on friday night. can't actually remember it.
apparently one of my friends was quite drunk and was being wound up by the others in the group. enter a drunk me. i got two glasses of water for my drunk friend and tried to help his sober up a bit. he got up and pushed me. i landed on my arse. i then got up and threw the contents of a pint of guinness at him.
both of us had been drinking all day and neither of us can remember anything about the fight. we just laughed it off. no-one was hurt.
all of my fights a comical drunken misadventures where nobody is ever hurt.

Gurgle · 13-11-2006 12:40PM

rb_ie wrote:

Nothin' funny about it Dave, you're a Tallaght man, its in yer blood to be a fighter!:p

Meh!
I'd put a tenner on a 12 year old girl from Mayo beating the snot out of any tallaght man!

Jimoslimos · 13-11-2006 12:42PM

Not the fightin type and the only scrap I can remember was when I was about 14-15. Some little knacker and his mate were pi$sin me off, took a swing at him and busted his nose. Don't know who was more shocked, me or him, if either he or the mate had came back at me don't honestly know what I would have done, but they just skulked silently away holdin his nose.

Best part tho was most of my mates were there at the time, felt like the local hero (even though I spent the next few weeks in fear of the scumbag's older brother)

connundrum · 13-11-2006 12:54PM

Dragan wrote:

Kind of like me drinking water because it makes me hyper.

Que? Tell me of this magical water that you speak of

I remember being in a fight with one of me best mates before, I was moving up to Dublin and he didn't want me to go, and as with most typical Irish guys, all the feelings only come out whence we were bollixed. We were like a married couple to begin with - shouting at each other down the street, then he started pushing, then I threw him into a stack of kegs, then he launched me into a petrol pump (we were walking along the street whilst fighting like), then a tosser came over and tried to 'break up' the fight.. so we both launched into him.. (nothing serious though)

Note. Never get involved in a domestic

Tar.Aldarion · 13-11-2006 01:14PM

Ah yeah, i went to a school of about 90% knackers, been in loads of fights becuase of that, they usually happen in the peace park at lunch.Outside of shool just been in a few and I would never start one.
Learned two martial arts froma young age, quite handy for surviving...
:P

tbh · 13-11-2006 01:20PM

connundrum wrote:

shouting at each other down the street, then he started pushing, then I threw him into a stack of kegs, then he launched me into a petrol pump (we were walking along the street whilst fighting like), then a tosser came over and tried to 'break up' the fight.. so we both launched into him..

are you sure he was the tosser??

6th · 13-11-2006 01:25PM

Da Bounca wrote:

On the other hand it would be nice to know one's physical capabilities.

I wouldnt call my experiences fights but as quoted above I would be interested in what I would be capable of.

peasant · 13-11-2006 01:42PM

6th wrote:

I wouldnt call my experiences fights but as quoted above I would be interested in what I would be capable of.

simply put ...you're quite capable of killing somebody :eek:

Be that trough an unlucky push and even unluckier fall against something sharp and pointy, be it through a "wrong" punch on the nose, driving splintered nose bone into the brain, through a crushed adams apple, through punctured lung via broken rib, through internal bleeding via ruptured spleen ...

...the list is endless ...

Still want to find out?

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