Who on ILX would you like to fist fight?

not me i hope

I am so insanely bad at fist fighting.

Ned and I could have a funny pretend slap fight.

Happy birthday, Abbott. Your vaginas are awesome.

no one! i've never been in a fight and would either back out or get my ass handed to me.

i wholly endorse funny pretend slap fights though

I have never thrown a punch in my life, and only been punched once, in a weird act of random middle school violence. That hurt. I vowed right then to avoid that for the rest of my life, at most any cost.

sasha to thread

I intercepted a punch from 3-yr-old Cyrus to 5-yr-old Rufus and it got me on the arm and there was wallop in it. It hurt.

I'll take all of you on, who wants some?

j/k

i'll fight you

let's go!

I have been thinking lately that it's kind of awesome that it's sort of normal-ish for boys to get in fights and realize they aren't fragile and can be punched. Apparently in boxing the first reflex to get over is the flinching and closing of the eyes as a punch approaches? I think that would be a useful sort of thing to know you can handle.

Also I'm going on a trip Saturday to an away soccer game at which the away fans have been known to get lynched in the parking lot. Probably nothing will happen but y'know, what if? I don't want to have to be protected unduly.

easy there, durden.

I just had to google that to get it. Movies, feh.

dom passantino
and what

nothing personal, just want to see what those toughies got

uh, lynched?

xxpost I'm flattered you cared enough to google. :)

Sorry okay I should say "jumped".

are you going to dc or boston?

F the DC scum

Hee. DC.

i know one of the united crew guys -- do you need a safe word?

I have been punched once by an evil ex. I have never punched anyone and honestly don't think there's anyone on ILX I'd want to fight!

One of my older brothers tried to teach me to fistfight way back when. I was always getting into fights - big girl, crazy house, kids being all mean and stuff. I was FORCED to fight.

So I might still be a contender.
Therefore, Deeznuts, I think we will have to meet in the ring.

xpost I might seriously consider punching the guy who punched you. Gut reaction. I'd be pathetic at it, though. :(

I have been thinking lately that it's kind of awesome that it's sort of normal-ish for boys to get in fights and realize they aren't fragile and can be punched.

Yeah. I kind of miss just being able to have throwdowns with my siblings when we were mad, rather than beat around the bush about things. Of course, getting hit by a grown-up, even when you too are a grown-up, is another story. Esp. considering both of my brothers are practically chiseled from stone.

ENBB that's terrible. I will perform random act of clothesline on him.

wtf aim i thought we were on the same team

rather than beat around the bush about things

You have sisters, I take it.

Yeah, the unevenness of the physical body-mass advantage is kind of the problem. We didn't have throw-downs, it was severely discouraged.

Awwwwwwww. Thanks guys - he'd deserve it!

Silly kenan, girls don't have family jewels!

Pfft. The value of the so-called "jewels" is just culturally normative baloney. You know, diamonds aren't rare.

let's get back to fighting ilx0rs plz!

Oh deezie it's a compliment! Who would you LIKE to fist fight!

I only fistfight people I like now that I'm a grown up.

also hey has anyone become unreasonably physically protective of yr pregnant bros? this has happened to me and it's kind of weird

OK between abbie punching her brothers in the bush and mookie having pregnant brothers, this thread is really starting to make me feel strange.

I would not mind, if pregnant, everyone was extra protective of me, to the point where they decided it would be best if I just ate watermelons by a pool all day every day.

Actually I would not mind that in my current no-babby state.

I think I would get in a fist fight w/Tape Store bcz...why not.

mmmm watermelon

Tape Store would win! Tho it would not make up for the Jordin jiltage.

my kids like to try out "moves" - karate things seen on TV

btw Maria I love your sons' names.

Silly kenan, girls don't have family jewels!

The Indiscreet Jewels (French: Les bijoux indiscrets) is the first novel by Denis Diderot, published anonymously in 1748. It is an allegory that portrays Louis XV as the sultan Mangogul of the Congo who owns a magic ring that makes women's genitals ("jewels") talk.

Well this sounds far more of a lark than 'The Magic Flute."

your brother sounds like a dick

And not the guy punching his friends?

I have a book by a woman who joined a boxing gym and won a title and then wrote about it. She said getting punched in the ring is a surprise, and yeah, it hurts, but after a couple of seconds you realize, "Hey, it's okay, I'm still here. And I have a wicked hook." and you get on with it. I'm interested in that watershed, primarily.

That is not the same as a drunken beat-down where people gang up and kick you, obviously.

I'm surprised it hasn't happend to me, I keep hearing stories about people I know personally getting mugged in my neighborhood. One guy wound up in the hospital after getting thoroughly womped with what the doctors said had to be something along the lines of a pipe. Scariest moment in my life was when a guy rolled up on me with an aluminum bat and asked if I had weed in my backpack. I nervously said no and he trotted off merrily o_O

Man, I'm in full-on Tell-ILE-A-Story mode.

So did he skip away with a song in his heart?

More like slinked off with his dirtstache glistening in the moonlight or some such thing. Which seems all bubblegum and snocones when moments before you were praying to a non-existent god that at least your spine makes it out okay.

his dirtstache glistening in the moonlight

I have a Thin Lizzy remake idea for you.

As for fear, you're not to be blamed. I promise not to bring a bat to Terrastock.

You can bring a bat, just don't come showing it to me in an alley at 2:00 am ;-)

TOMBOT punched me and it hurt quite a bit, so no, you don't wanna fight him. He is indeed a bro so you shouldn't want to anyway.

I would like to set Tombot on my enemies. Walk softly and carry a big Tombot, as they say.

I had a couple fights when I was a young man. Got my ass kicked in both of 'em. The thing that I didn't really expect to happen is how everything went in super slow motion, and how it felt that I was trying to punch thru water. I.e., everything was super slow but I was even slower. I wised up about taunting drunk bullies after that.

-- libcrypt,

i have become an absolute master of the misdirection because of situations like this

-hey buddy, you having a good time talking to my girlfriend?
-not as much fun as, uh, that person on tv! look!

then i run away

i wd like to see autumn almanac take on tombot

& am surprised jon and i never, at any point, threw down.

jon is such a rugged, manly man

You were too passive aggressive and ended up just complaining to your friends (sometimes for YEARS) if you have a problem with someone.

xpost, I think my high school fighting was limited to punching a gay who mocked me.

I hope deezie has forgiven me! We have an entire t-shirt company to run and all.

-- aimurchie

you are forgiven! money beats everything

I lied: gabbneb and I will be recreating the fight from Tom Brown's School Days behind the stage at the Isaac Hayes show tonight. No brass knuckles allowed.

Ned. I'd fite Ned Raggett.

it'll take more than that to get my SY tix, dude

I have wrastled Morbius.

"Women In Love" style?

that was the first thing that popped into my head as well.

And I wish it hadn't

yer all SICK. He wantonly attacked me.

I got SY tix too, 'nerd! How bout before the fireworks, then?

morbs, i do not share your interests in physical violence or purportedly funky scientologists

http://z.about.com/h/gp/sbinfocanada.gif

purportedly funky scientologists

Chick Corea?

fuck! forgot to get sonic youth tix

I broke fingers (one finger above the bottom knuckle, one below the knuckle) in a fist fight with my brother when we were about ten. I had my fist bandaged up so my left arm looked like a cotton bud. Kudos at school the next week. I haven't had a real fight since then, but based on my skills as a ten year old, I think I could take any of you mother fuckers.

xp: try it. they put up the res system 25 mins ago.

(or just mug gabbneb)

i'm more of a kicker than a fist fighter really

better that than a guerilla ass-biter

I tried to punch my brother in the gut once, he turned and I broke my finger punching his hip. He sucks. Having a "boxer's fracture" was kinda cool though.

j0n is a kicker too, rrobyn -- go for it

i'm more of a kicker than a fist fighter really

Like "The Zohan"! Don't mess with the Zohan.

kickfight!

how i would fight rrrobyn:

http://www.gameguru.in/images/joust-1.jpg

or

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/06/motherfuckinballoonfight.jpg

Joust is so awesome.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GTeOgqK5iHw

i fight dirty and mean.

i used to play arcade joust when i was a teenager b/c a friend of the family had it in his house!

TOMBOT punched me and it hurt quite a bit, so no, you don't wanna fight him. He is indeed a bro so you shouldn't want to anyway.

I still feel terrible about this. And RJG. I don't do that sort of thing anymore.

Balloon Fight O.T.M.

"Fighting" as means of conflict resolution sucks. As a means of excercise and recreation it is excellent indeed. You need the right rules, protective gear, setting, and probably a ref for this to work properly, though.

Start with something easy and gentle, like taijiquan push-hands. If you want to work your way up, there are many baby steps before you reach UFC levels of headsmashing.

I got picked on for a month or three in junior high and then wigged out when some dude spat on me so I knocked him off the bleachers and whaled on his face for awhile then sat down. That led to constant fights up to sophomore year in high school. Long pause since then. But I'll fight if you wanna; I've gotten much less skinny.