View Poll Results: Have you been in a propper fight?? (since the age of say 16 - not a schoolyard scrap)

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  • Yes - i started it

    3 4.17%
  • Yes - i didnt start it but probably pissed the other person off

    9 12.50%
  • Yes - i was picked on and there was nothing i could do to help it

    6 8.33%
  • Yes - i waded in to help a mate

    10 13.89%
  • No - i wouldnt mind but it hasnt come up yet

    18 25.00%
  • No - i would avoid a fight under all circumstances

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    Fighting..

    knox's piercing thread seems to be headed into a discussion about getting into fights so i thought i'd start a new thread - i personally havnt been in a fight since i was about 16 and i dont see that changing quickly. but it appears other people have - whats your views on fighting??
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    by the way - the gif http://forums.hexus.net/images/polls/bar6-r.gif is missing or corrupt or something??
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    Been in a few because I have stood up for my self I have also been in a couple that I have started. I don't make a habit out of fighting, although I do enjoy the massive rush you get when fighting.

    I won't go into details but the 2 fights I have started, they both got what they deserved and I would do it again.

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    Haven't really been in a fight at all. I was headbutted nearly 2 months ago tho for absolutely no reason expect that I was standing in a nightclub with two mates after we had finished DJing that night. Bloke obviously didn't like me and just decided to charge and butt
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    I've defended myself if I've been jumped on, and more often than not, I've come away better than the guys who have jumped me.

    I've never really started a fight in the sense of throwing the first punch, although there was a guy who tried to climb onto my head after Raging Speedhorn at Reading, last year. He manged to get on my shoulders, but ended up having himself thrown back on the floor. If you want to crowdsurf, either don't do it, do it away from me, or at least don't try to climb onto my head when your only two rows from the bloody front.

    Ain't nobody climbing on my head without permission.

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    No, I'll do it as a last resort, but I haven't had the need to yet.

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    i've waded in to help mates on a few occasions recently, but never started a fight, or been started on. i don't like fighting at all, violence disgusts me, but if i need to help a mate, its different. i try not to hurt anyone tho, just split it all up.

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    Originally posted by Skii
    No, I'll do it as a last resort, but I haven't had the need to yet.
    Ditto. I'm a pacifist but if needs be I would defend my self. It would be a very last resort though

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    I dont like fights but i would of course help mates out. I wouldnt start a fight but i will defend myself

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    I had enough of fighting at school, and two months before i left i lost two teeth in a fight!.

    So now im real careful and keep calm even if im being walked over sometimes , but i have threatened a couple of people i have worked with who have pushed me too far (i think im rambo or something )

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    I used to really enjoy fighting and would often look for it, but not in a "You looking at me" way, but in a if someone messes with me I'll kill them way. I suppose it's cause I got my share of beats growing up (when I was 14 I was jumped by 8 or so 16 year olds from Buckpool school - the rough school in the area) and promptly hospitalised. It didn't help the fact that my mom owns the local shop, so everyone knows where I live, it started to become I break someones nose, they smash my windows.

    I've grown up a lot since then, I suppose it happened when I lost a one on one fight- something I hadn't lost ever before. The bloke is the World under 18 kickboxing champion but I was sure I could take him..... :S

    I find fighting exciting, but my view of fighting is different to most peoples. I like fights that are one on one, fair, don't involve weapons or kicking people when they're down, repercussion less and is left when one has had enough.
    There's art in boxing and there's art in street fighting. I admire both and respect anyone with talent in either of those fields.

    Most fights I've been involved in have been protecting weaker people and fights caused by splitting up fights.

    Example. In stoke, I walked out the recording studio at one in the morning (bottle of wine in hand) to get some air, following me are a group of Jamacian rappers, who have popped into the studio for a night of boozing, across the road is an asian man grabbing a screaming at a woman, I go across and ask him to let her go, he swings a punch at me, which although in a drunken state I manage to dodge. The Jamacian chaps lay into this bloke and start to batter him, which I split up cause it's 4 on 1, which I don't believe him. The asian bloke grabs me and holds on to me and starts begging for me to get him an ambulance (he's pretty bloodied) the jamacan blokes are still waiting for me to let go so they can lay in some more, I help this asian bloke around the corner and away from the rappers and he starts thanking me and rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish, I'm pissed off cause I'm absolutely covered in his blood. 3 random asian blokes walk down the road, the batter asian shouts over-This racist has just bottled me. and then he runs after that woman he was grabbing earlier. I'm covered in blood, drunk and holding a wine bottle. Suprising a fight ensures.

    ?!?

    That's my luck. :S Still talk about digressing....

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    I don't get easily intimidated......
    Alcohol only calms me down. On the other hand there are so many ppl I'd like to punch in the face. I also have to say that being 186cm and 95kgs with a shaved head [until may] really does make ppl think twice.
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    I've had a couple of fights and one good beating since leaving school

    While at Uni I got started on by 4 bloody northern monkeys who were down in Bournemouth. The police had been watching them causing trouble all night on the CCTV and when they started on my a paddy wagon was sent out. By the time it got to the scene I was pretty beaten up but had taken a couple of the idiots out down to. The police carted me off with them and then let me go a little later with a warning :sigh:

    I also got thwacked across the back of the head with something solid and sharp about a year ago in a club. It cut the back of my head wide open and I had to be rushed to hospital to receive 6 staples That time though I have no idea who or why, it was later (about 3 months) revealed to me that I had been targeted by mistake and that the following night a bloke fitting my description was killed outside the same night club

    Since that incident I stay very sober in nightclubs and only get into fights if a friend is taking a kicking.


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    Not been in a fight since i was 16, don't want to because situations like that are out of control and anything could happen.

    I suppose at some point tho we will all face some sort of situation like it. I prefer to cross a road if i think trouble is going on in front of me.
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    Not much of a fighter me self, so far avoided it, part from under 16, when some prick was picking on me m8. Most people who threaten you are wuss's anyway, i called the bluff of about 4 people when i was in secondary school! "yeah well just dont do it again" cos their response :-/, fools.
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    TBH the more you grow up, the less you get into those situations.

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