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I watched a real life FITE from my window last night - the first proper one I have ever seen I am happy/embarrassed to say - and was a bit concerned to discover how excited (not sexually... although maybe it's a fine line?) I was by it. Am I evil or have I just had a tragically sheltered life? Or was it a normal adrenalin rush due to being a bit scared? How do FITES make you feel? Have you been in any?

― Archel, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New passive-aggressive answers!

― Archel, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's terrible, Archel!

― N., Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I dont like watching fights particularly. I have never been in one which is a good thing as I would be beaten to a pulp. However I do like watching people throw drinks over each other, thats pretty entertaining. Mana to you LD. I'm sure G enjoyed walking home with his cold clammy crotch region in the arctic dunedin breezes.

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You are evil. Nah, just kidding.

Actually getting into fites is even more of a crazy rush than watching 'em. Not that I recommend starting fites. That would be EVIL.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was in a few in primary school, mostly with the same guy, he was a fool as I recall.

I avoid fights like the plague these days but I was very drunk last year sometime and got a few smacks in the face and a bottle thrown at me after some pissed conversation with some guy in a chipper. God knows what a cheeky idiot I was that night.

I have friends who wouldn't avoid fights so readily as me, and it bothers me a little. I've never seen them in a fight but I've heard of their antics the odd time.

If I see fights I run away like a girl, although I have got pleasure out of watching the odd scuffle in a semi controlled environment like the local crappy pub.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd love to be involved in a big western saloon kinda brawl "Take that you varmaint" but otherwise I don't especially like watching tham. Unless it's a purely girl thang, natch.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An old boyf once came home shaking and told me he'd just been in a fight. He was really hyper and his knuckles were bleeding so I believed him. He couldn't stop shaking, it was weird.... then we smoked a spliff and he threw up everywhere at which point my 'ohmigod darling are you OK' turned swiftly to deep revulsion. Also IIRC the fight was in some way football related, sheesh.

I have not been in a fight but I am very handy with my fists innit.

― Emma, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When Jill (mrs k-rad) lived in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, it was in a bad area. She moved in w/me shortly after witnessing a gang-type grudge fight, the conclusion of which was some guy breaking another guys legs (true!) Police, paramedics etc etc. It was REALLY fckng ugly, a true horror. I haf not been in a fite since school, myself.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was once a hockey player in my younger years and had quite a few fights, im missing four teeth, have broken my nose three times, broken all my fingers, i have a knuckle that sits half way down my hand, not to mention assorted scars and nicks on my face and hands.

― Chris, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been in a fite. The last one I saw was in a rather horrible club in Oxford called DTM (short for Downtown Manhattan). I remember that the bouncers walked past me having separated the combatants, one of whom had blood streaming down his face.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suspect that my twisted interest in the fight last night only happened because I was 3 storeys up and a hundred yards down the street. Perhaps I am so used to seeing violence on screen that it seemed closer to that than reality. If I had been nearer or had a responsibility to do anything (other people were already intervening) I wouldn't have enjoyed it AT ALL. I don't think.

I have never been in a fight but I was fought over once (admittedly at primary school). Boyz are stupid.

― Archel, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One or two. Never fun. Best avoided.

― Matt, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I started it, the other guy got arrested and carted off in the meat wagon. Life's so unfair sometimes eh?

― dave q, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have never been in a proper one. Entertaining to watch from a distance, certainly. Not so entertaining when you're walking back to a friend's house in Hackney and pass a pub with two blokes outside, one of whom is on the ground screaming 'No! Please, NO!' while the other kicks the shit out of him.

I did once beat someone up for kicking my football down a hill. I think I was about 12.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't been in a fight though since i was 21.

― Chris, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Something quite concerning about fights is the ambiguity - is it really a fight or is it someone getting beaten up and trying to defend themselves? Is that man on the pavement dead drunk or dead? I am pretty used to walking by on the other side (in Brighton on a Friday night for example) but a friend got beaten up last week and it made me think. Would I have been like the couple who ignored him as he walked home bleeding?

― Archel, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably.

― Matt, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A month or so ago I was going into our block of flats when a girl ran up to me, a bit younger than me, and seemingly in great distress, her face was covered in cuts & bruises and she told me she'd been beaten up & could she borrow some money. I was really concerned & offered to take her to the Whittington which is about 10 minutes away but she said she wanted to get back to her mum's & then go to hospital. I gave her some money & only later did it occur to me that her bruises & cuts didn't look fresh & that I had been scammed like a softhearted fool. Still I figured that she had been beaten up at some point anyway so what the hell she probably has a shitty life & deserved a few quid.

― Emma, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Such is the frequency of rucks outside the kebab shop on the way home (returning to an earlier theme) that I've noted with interest that it is possible to walk through the middle of them and not have anybody pay you the blindest bit of notice.

― Matt, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My firend, you ahve just discovered why i love watching boxing.

― Queen G's netherlands, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Post-pub fighting in the UK is a sorry tradition perpetuated by blokes who can't accept school is over, and try their best to keep up the Law of the Playround for as long as they can. If you're a big hard lad in school you're constantly in fights as you grow up, it's no surprise when you carry this pattern on in later life. Personally fights make me run away, thats all they do for me.

― Lynskey, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Couple of elementary school fights, but that's it. Being threatened by real violence or being in the vicinity of it would horrify me greatly...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's funny because I loathe boxing with all my heart and I think people who use violence as a problem-solving method are twats. I'm thinking maybe the appeal of watching that fight from a distance was in trying to work out the EMOTIONAL drama that was going on. Who were the main players, why did they want to fight each other, where was the girl they could be heard shouting about, who was trying to break it up, was that PETROL they were asking for in the pub? etc etc

― Archel, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always end up in a fight after a pint of PETROL.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend Tait got so loaded on Bacardi 151 one time he started hallucinating and berating me for allowing him to drink gasoline. I was like "look, Tait, it's Bacardi" so he lit some on fire with his lighter. I had to admit he had a point.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I think people who use violence as a problem-solving method are twats."

But problem-solving twats, occasionally. Physical force is not inherently wrong any more than minding your own business is inherently right. I'm speaking of self-defense situations though I don't think it necessarily has to be the self you're defending.

― Stuart, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

most of the fights i've been in have made me scared as hell. and trapped. there was one more recent example that i got totally adrenalised, mad mad mad, and actually i don't remember much except the anger. i have also been in the position of witnessing drunken morons threaten to beat up numerous of my gay friends. that is also pretty scarey, i guess some kind of empathy.

yes the alcohol on the crotch incident was most hmmm shall we say satisfying.

― di, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've avoided getting into any for a lot of years. I used to work in a city centre pub in Bristol, which meant the occasional bit of trouble. I hate them, personally (in real life, as opposed to say the WWF).

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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