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Come back and say that the day you get surrounded by gang members who push you back into the fight when you try and get away.Rob Wilson wrote:You haven't been in a fight? Congratulations you are a winner in the Game of Life. Anyone who has started a Fight or has not run away/talked their way out when the opportunity presented itself is a Loser. That's it basically.
Well, obviously there is a time for fighting.IG-88E wrote:Come back and say that the day you get surrounded by gang members who push you back into the fight when you try and get away.Rob Wilson wrote:You haven't been in a fight? Congratulations you are a winner in the Game of Life. Anyone who has started a Fight or has not run away/talked their way out when the opportunity presented itself is a Loser. That's it basically.
Don't you people understand that there is a time for peaceful reconciliation and a time for bloodshed and slaughter of the other party? Being surrounded by gangers doing what Iggy did or a bunch of other belligerents is a time for the second.IG-88E wrote:Come back and say that the day you get surrounded by gang members who push you back into the fight when you try and get away.Rob Wilson wrote:You haven't been in a fight? Congratulations you are a winner in the Game of Life. Anyone who has started a Fight or has not run away/talked their way out when the opportunity presented itself is a Loser. That's it basically.
Could you run away? Could you talk your way out? Did you start the fight? By the sounds of it - NO. So what's the problem with what i wrote? If the answer somehow was Yes, then you're a Loser. If you had to fight as there was no alternative then you still qualify as a winner.IG-88E wrote:Come back and say that the day you get surrounded by gang members who push you back into the fight when you try and get away.Rob Wilson wrote:You haven't been in a fight? Congratulations you are a winner in the Game of Life. Anyone who has started a Fight or has not run away/talked their way out when the opportunity presented itself is a Loser. That's it basically.
Emphasis on "when the opportunity presented itself". Sometimes it's not there, and sometimes it's not an option, as in the gang scenario you pointed out. I can honestly say that violence is the only choice when you're surrounded by a gang that's out for blood, there's no talking or walking away from that shit, you can only try to avoid getting into the situation in the first place or if that fails try to take as many of them out to create an exit.IG-88E wrote:Come back and say that the day you get surrounded by gang members who push you back into the fight when you try and get away.Rob Wilson wrote:You haven't been in a fight? Congratulations you are a winner in the Game of Life. Anyone who has started a Fight or has not run away/talked their way out when the opportunity presented itself is a Loser. That's it basically.
Then you should have clarified that, ne?Rob Wilson wrote:Could you run away? Could you talk your way out? Did you start the fight? By the sounds of it - NO. So what's the problem with what i wrote? If the answer somehow was Yes, then you're a Loser. If you had to fight as there was no alternative then you still qualify as a winner.
I did. It was right there in my post, everyone else spotted it "when the opportunity presented itself".IG-88E wrote:Then you should have clarified that, ne?Rob Wilson wrote:Could you run away? Could you talk your way out? Did you start the fight? By the sounds of it - NO. So what's the problem with what i wrote? If the answer somehow was Yes, then you're a Loser. If you had to fight as there was no alternative then you still qualify as a winner.
I appreciate the assist Mike, but Environment and chance are a big factor. You live in gang territory then there's always a chance that you're going to get in a sticky situation that you simply cannot control. Plus if a friend is in trouble and you go to help them and thn get stuck yourself...Darth Wong wrote:I don't know about you, Iggy, and I can't say. However, I have noted that a lot of the people who I've encountered who find themselves "forced" to fight have a funny habit of getting themselves into these situations. Why doesn't it happen to everyone?
True enough. I reiterate that I don't know enough about Iggy's particular situation to say. But it is still true that an awful lot of people who get into fights (particularly bar fights) have a habit of pretending they'd done nothing to instigate it after the fact.Rob Wilson wrote:I appreciate the assist Mike, but Environment and chance are a big factor. You live in gang territory then there's always a chance that you're going to get in a sticky situation that you simply cannot control. Plus if a friend is in trouble and you go to help them and thn get stuck yourself...
Mike, I'm assuming you want to a halfway decent high- and middle- school.Darth Wong wrote:I don't know about you, Iggy, and I can't say. However, I have noted that a lot of the people who I've encountered who find themselves "forced" to fight have a funny habit of getting themselves into these situations. Why doesn't it happen to everyone?
"honest guv'nor he headbutted my fist repeatedly. I didn't do nuffin'."Darth Wong wrote: But it is still true that an awful lot of people who get into fights (particularly bar fights) have a habit of pretending they'd done nothing to instigate it after the fact.
)There's people I know who go to seedy bars hoping to get involved in a bar fight. I can see how it might work to blow off stress or take out excessive aggression, but honestly, there's much better ways of going around it.Darth Wong wrote:But it is still true that an awful lot of people who get into fights (particularly bar fights) have a habit of pretending they'd done nothing to instigate it after the fact.
I recall Don Corleone saying something like this in The Godfather.aerius wrote:There's people I know who go to seedy bars hoping to get involved in a bar fight. I can see how it might work to blow off stress or take out excessive aggression, but honestly, there's much better ways of going around it.Darth Wong wrote:But it is still true that an awful lot of people who get into fights (particularly bar fights) have a habit of pretending they'd done nothing to instigate it after the fact.
There's a difference between using violence to resolve problems and just getting drunk and throwing a few with your friends as a method of relaxation. Or so I've been assured by many people.aerius wrote:
There's people I know who go to seedy bars hoping to get involved in a bar fight. I can see how it might work to blow off stress or take out excessive aggression, but honestly, there's much better ways of going around it.
That's what they tell me too. They say that they know what they're doing, and that no one really gets hurt too bad. I don't know about that, they're going out and getting into bar fights with complete strangers, and generous amounts of alcohol are involved. Sounds like a goatfuck to me, and it's a small miracle that no one's been killed or seriously maimed yet.The Duchess of Zeon wrote: There's a difference between using violence to resolve problems and just getting drunk and throwing a few with your friends as a method of relaxation. Or so I've been assured by many people.
Yes, me and every other soldier in the British Army at some point in their service life.Ted wrote:Rob, you're in the British Army, right?
Were you ever deployed to Northern Ireland?
Yeah, punchbags work fine and you rarely get arrested for hitting them.aerius wrote:There's people I know who go to seedy bars hoping to get involved in a bar fight. I can see how it might work to blow off stress or take out excessive aggression, but honestly, there's much better ways of going around it.Darth Wong wrote:But it is still true that an awful lot of people who get into fights (particularly bar fights) have a habit of pretending they'd done nothing to instigate it after the fact.
aerius wrote:That's what they tell me too. They say that they know what they're doing, (they don't)and that no one really gets hurt too bad. (who goes to the hospital for broken bones and gashes, anyway?) I don't know about that, they're going out and getting into bar fights with complete strangers, and generous amounts of alcohol are involved. (not to mention the possibility of being beaten with a club) Sounds like a goatfuck to me, and it's a small miracle that no one's been killed or seriously maimed yet. no kidding)
Nope, not ever. Everyone loves me. *bats eyelashes*Next of Kin wrote:You've never been in a kat fight!?!
Besides, cat fights are not sexy if there's actual violence. We men like catfights to be just like they are in our dreams: a little bit of swearing and hair-pulling, followed by nakedness and lesbian sex.Zaia wrote:Nope, not ever. Everyone loves me. *bats eyelashes*Next of Kin wrote:You've never been in a kat fight!?!
