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When was the last time you got in a fight?

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  • #32
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Deadzone wrote: »
    Oooh... Your life!!!


    Yeah, cool story isn't it? Want to hear it again??


  • #33
    Deadzone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    Yawn.... Heard it before and probably will again.


  • #34
    jimgoose
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    Menas wrote: »
    He got off lucky. Don't threaten another person with a weapon unless you are prepared for the consequences of that weapon been used on you.

    Most people don't seem to realise that a weapon is only as effective as they are. You have to be even faster and more adept than usual to use a weapon effectively, particularly against someone who has, shall we say, certain skills.


  • #35
    FTA69
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    Boxing a month ago. Had a four round unlicensed boxing match. It's pretty much the same as normal pro boxing but the standard is lower; often the term "unlicensed" brings up images of Snatch but it's nothing like that at all.

    I ended up losing a split decision after four 3-minute rounds. We use small ten ounce gloves so there's a serious bang if you end up shipping a punch. I wasn't as fit as I should have been so your man got the nod; I nearly got KO'd in the first round so glad I managed to overcome it and get back into the fight later. Broke my finger however so no training for a while.


  • #36
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Most people don't seem to realise that a weapon is only as effective as they are. You have to be even faster and more adept than usual to use a weapon effectively, particularly against someone who has, shall we say, certain skills.

    That's a load of cod in my opinion. Even if a fella is a slapless c*nt, the fact he might be swinging a baseball bat or something at you makes him a lot more dangerous and drastically increases the chances of you getting a complete hiding. If I was trying to turf a fella out of a nightclub, that job would be made a hell of a lot more difficult if he had a bottle in his hand and was trying to connect it with your head.


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  • #37
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Most people don't seem to realise that a weapon is only as effective as they are. You have to be even faster and more adept than usual to use a weapon effectively, particularly against someone who has, shall we say, certain skills.

    You can lick your own elbow?

    I might be wrong but according to the legal definition of assault brandishing a weapon is a form of assault.


  • #38
    fleet_admiral
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    Secondary school, so around 20 years ago


  • #39
    jimgoose
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    That's a load of cod in my opinion. Even if a fella is a slapless c*nt, the fact he might be swinging a baseball bat or something at you makes him a lot more dangerous and drastically increases the chances of you getting a complete hiding. If I was trying to turf a fella out of a nightclub, that job would be made a hell of a lot more difficult if he had a bottle in his hand and was trying to connect it with your head.

    The difference is you don't want to injure the fcuker.


  • #40
    jimgoose
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    Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    You can lick your own elbow?

    I might be wrong but according to the legal definition of assault brandishing a weapon is a form of assault.

    Some people are known to the Gardaí, and some people are known by the Gardaí.


  • #41
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Some people are known to the Gardaí, and some people are known by the Gardaí.

    Hmmm. Cryptic.


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  • #42
    FTA69
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    The difference is you don't want to injure the fcuker.

    The point stays the same, when dealing with the average man a weapon makes him far more dangerous in a fight than if he didn't have one.


  • #43
    JustShon
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    The point stays the same, when dealing with the average man a weapon makes him far more dangerous in a fight than if he didn't have one.

    I think some people will overestimate the advantage it gives them. Of course it depends on the weapon too. I wouldn't rate my chances against someone with a baseball bat or a knife but a smaller blunt weapon like a wrench I might be able to defend against since it's not adding significant reach like a bat would nor is it going to be able to kill me in one strike like a knife might.

    People often telegraph a blow more with a weapon in hand too; they draw it back really far to get the most power into it and give you plenty of time to react; even if that reaction is just to leg it.


  • #44
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
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    *Paging all internet tough guys*


  • #45
    mynamejeff
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    of course , I ve killed more people than Cecil B. DeMille


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
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    A few friends took my to my first ever gym a few months ago and some girl there came over and hit on me - long story short some tight vested muscle he-man wannabe took offence to this and accused me of using the gym as a cruising joint. After failing to diffuse the situation with words - it was abundantly clear he came into the confrontation with the agenda to end it violently - I got to put some of my combat training into real world use.

    I suppose I have had a few physical confrontations in life - none of them of my choosing or initiation. Generally cos of the weird relationship I am in - which is not obvious or overt in public - but occasionally when someone cops the dynamic for what it is there have been a few lads who for whatever drunken reason felt the need to uphold chivalry in the world and attempt to pound on me. It has not ended well for any of them. I would like to say this is due to my physical prowess and combat training of course. Which it partly is :) But 80% of it is mainly due to the fact I drink very little and the chivalrous types tend to be highly oiled. I do sometimes wonder if any of those fights had been sober on sober - would I have come out of it as well. Most of them maybe. But I am sure at least one of them would have ended up doing me an injury.


  • #47
    allibastor
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    Saturday night!


  • #48
    allibastor
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    A few friends took my to my first ever gym a few months ago and some girl there came over and hit on me - long story short some tight vested muscle he-man wannabe took offence to this and accused me of using the gym as a cruising joint. After failing to diffuse the situation with words - it was abundantly clear he came into the confrontation with the agenda to end it violently - I got to put some of my combat training into real world use.

    I suppose I have had a few physical confrontations in life - none of them of my choosing or initiation. Generally cos of the weird relationship I am in - which is not obvious or overt in public - but occasionally when someone cops the dynamic for what it is there have been a few lads who for whatever drunken reason felt the need to uphold chivalry in the world and attempt to pound on me. It has not ended well for any of them. I would like to say this is due to my physical prowess and combat training of course. Which it partly is :) But 80% of it is mainly due to the fact I drink very little and the chivalrous types tend to be highly oiled. I do sometimes wonder if any of those fights had been sober on sober - would I have come out of it as well. Most of them maybe. But I am sure at least one of them would have ended up doing me an injury.

    You have to expand more on this!!!!


  • #49
    c_man
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    allibastor wrote: »
    Saturday night!

    Hope you won :P


    Last time I was in a "fight" was a couple of years ago when I was jumped walking home. Few punches to the head before I registered what happened, I defended myself and then ran! I've never really been in a fight that I consented to (lol) outside the Gaelic pitch.


  • #50
    allibastor
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    c_man wrote: »
    Hope you won :P


    Last time I was in a "fight" was a couple of years ago when I was jumped walking home. Few punches to the head before I registered what happened, I defended myself and then ran! I've never really been in a fight that I consented to (lol) outside the Gaelic pitch.

    I certainly did!!!

    Not that there was much to it, When you know where to hit someone to knock them out.

    Did stay there till he came round though.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    allibastor wrote: »
    You have to expand more on this!!!!

    You first. Your post was even vaguer than mine.


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  • #52
    c_man
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3na9umxDA


  • #53
    allibastor
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    You first. Your post was even vaguer than mine.

    Very quick, he hit me I hit back. He went down.


  • #54
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    allibastor wrote: »
    Very quick, he hit me I hit back. He went down.

    Conor McGregor...is that you?


  • #55
    Peregrine
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    I don't think I've ever been in one. None that I can remember anyway.
    Collie D wrote: »
    Conor McGregor...is that you?
    No. This is Conor :P


  • #56
    AnonoBoy
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Generally cos of the weird relationship I am in - which is not obvious or overt in public - but occasionally when someone cops the dynamic for what it is there have been a few lads who for whatever drunken reason felt the need to uphold chivalry in the world and attempt to pound on me.

    What on earth does that mean?

    Guys think you're being abusive towards someone a lot and try to fight you? :confused:


  • #57
    timthumbni
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    A while ago I was involved in an extremely violent incident which makes me sick still to even think about it. I was a totally innocent party but I still am in pain in various parts of my body to this day. A lot of Hollywood style stories on this thread but I will admit that I was hurt bad and would never want to go through anything like it again.

    Real violence (and I'm not talking of the hold me back type lads in a bar) is not glamorous nor pretty. I'm thankful that I'm still alive to be honest as I could easily have just been a statistic in some newspaper.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
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    allibastor wrote: »
    Very quick, he hit me I hit back. He went down.

    I got that much :) I was more asking about the back story. Fights rarely interest me. What starts them is always much more interesting :)
    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Guys think you're being abusive towards someone a lot and try to fight you? :confused:

    I live with two girls. Its not obvious or apparent when we are out. But on occasion when someone cops this dynamic for whatever reason - there are people who get abusive over it. Either because they think that the girls could not possibly be autonomous human beings who make their own choices - and therefore I must somehow have coerced or abused them into the situation - or because the girls are particularly good looking and they think that by flooring me they will somehow get some of the "action".

    It is hard to say. I have wanted to ask them but I have found that if someone attacks you - and you beat them - that if you pick them up and offer to buy them a drink after it and have a chat about what their issue is or was - they think you are completely insane and get the hell out of there. It is - seemingly - the last thing they expect. Perhaps I have that scene from that movie in my head all the time :) "Almost an angel" where Paul Hogan beats up the guy in the wheelchair and then sits down with him afterwards and they end up the best of friends.

    Suffice it to say however that we do our absolute best not to be overt or obvious in public. A shame not to just be ourselves but that is alas the world we live in.


  • #59
    Collie D
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I got that much :) I was more asking about the back story. Fights rarely interest me. What starts them is always much more interesting :)



    I live with two girls. Its not obvious or apparent when we are out. But on occasion when someone cops this dynamic for whatever reason - there are people who get abusive over it. Either because they think that the girls could not possibly be autonomous human beings who make their own choices - and therefore I must somehow have coerced or abused them into the situation - or because the girls are particularly good looking and they think that by flooring me they will somehow get some of the "action".

    It is hard to say. I have wanted to ask them but I have found that if someone attacks you - and you beat them - that if you pick them up and offer to buy them a drink after it and have a chat about what their issue is or was - they think you are completely insane and get the hell out of there. It is - seemingly - the last thing they expect. Perhaps I have that scene from that movie in my head all the time :) "Almost an angel" where Paul Hogan beats up the guy in the wheelchair and then sits down with him afterwards and they end up the best of friends.

    Suffice it to say however that we do our absolute best not to be overt or obvious in public. A shame not to just be ourselves but that is alas the world we live in.

    This post deserves its own thread, if not its own forum.


  • #60
    timthumbni
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I got that much :) I was more asking about the back story. Fights rarely interest me. What starts them is always much more interesting :)



    I live with two girls. Its not obvious or apparent when we are out. But on occasion when someone cops this dynamic for whatever reason - there are people who get abusive over it. Either because they think that the girls could not possibly be autonomous human beings who make their own choices - and therefore I must somehow have coerced or abused them into the situation - or because the girls are particularly good looking and they think that by flooring me they will somehow get some of the "action".

    It is hard to say. I have wanted to ask them but I have found that if someone attacks you - and you beat them - that if you pick them up and offer to buy them a drink after it and have a chat about what their issue is or was - they think you are completely insane and get the hell out of there. It is - seemingly - the last thing they expect. Perhaps I have that scene from that movie in my head all the time :) "Almost an angel" where Paul Hogan beats up the guy in the wheelchair and then sits down with him afterwards and they end up the best of friends.

    Suffice it to say however that we do our absolute best not to be overt or obvious in public. A shame not to just be ourselves but that is alas the world we live in.

    Ive never been nor am I ever likely to ever be in maynooth but if I am I hope I bump into you for a pint as you sound very interesting. You sound unique and that is never a bad thing I've found. :-)


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  • #61
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    timthumbni wrote: »
    Ive never been nor am I ever likely to ever be in maynooth but if I am I hope I bump into you for a pint as you sound very interesting. You sound unique and that is never a bad thing I've found. :-)

    I am actually horrifically boring. A huge % of my day is taken up with meditation - growing vegetables - running - and cooking. None of which is interesting to talk about. And my job as a programmer of point of sale computer software for shops and stores is - remarkably - even duller again. You may find that pint to be the longest you have ever had :)


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