He probably would have felt sorry for you once he saw you had a flip phone and offered to buy you a drink as an apology for bothering you.
Or he’d have assumed I was a dealer with a burner phone and beat me like some sort of magical drug pinata.
Like an MMA fighter is going to ever
a) admit that his opponent got him with a good shot
b) admit that he would have tapped when the circumstances of the fight played out so he didn’t have to
c) admit he would have tapped earlier if he tapped
anyway, when watching UFC and seeing a ground and pound my reaction is more of an instant distain for it rather than a considered opinion on the morality of it within a consensual sporting event.
/\ If the participants don’t have a problem with it, I’m not going to lose any sleep.
A Portuguese fighter died recently at an MMA event in Dublin.
Here’s the link to the story that has the video, don’t watch if you’re squeamish. The fight’s over at 0.09 in this vid, the ref not stopping this when he finally went down and letting the guy hold him up and land 9 heavy blows is gross negligence.
Conor McGregor was at the event which might explain his strange behaviour of late
I saw that. In other news, high schoolers died on various sport fields across the world last year. And a few in the boxing ring.
^when did you become such a jerk?
i feel something changed over the last month or so
It’s not the UFC fights that are troubling, it’s the shit you see on worldstar
I’m not saying it should be banned, I’m just saying that personally I can’t bring myself to cheer for a blood sport or at someone being injured in a knockout.
Last night in the gym I had the realization that there’s probably a mirror thread to this on world star with my assailant bitching about me.
On the up side, the body shop says everything will buff out, $80
sure G, it’s the same thing.
I thought I made it clear. My operating system is due for an upgrade. I’m not evolving with the rest of you. The new programming supposedly has thinner skin and more sensitivity.
OK. I just read your novel. I’ve always learned that there are 3 sides to each story: yours, the other person and the truth which unsurprisingly ends up somewhere in the middle. If your side is truly what occured, then I agree that you should have not fought and stayed in your car. If you provoked him or intentionally got under his skin (akin to your character on AF) then you should have got out of your car and faced the consequences.
Your situation reminds me of something I did back in my younger days. I was hanging out with a buddy and his GF when his GF received a call informing her of a “massive party” going on at her friend’s apartment. We decided to eat diner and join afterwards. When we finally arrived several hours later we found a HCB passed out alone on the couch (the door was unlocked). The party was over. She woke up suddenly, got a second wind and asked us to stay but not to be too loud because her fiance was sleeping in the next room. So we all started playing drinking games. At some point my buddy takes his GF in another room and I’m left all alone with this HCB. We start drinking some more and at this point I’m hammered. One thing leads to another and we start making out (I was in no condition to remember she had a fiance). Things get heavier and I start banging her and she starts moaning. A few minutes later we hear a man yelling in another room. The HCB screams out “It’s my BF, you have to leave now”. My buddy and his GF run out of the other room and urge me to hurry. As I never took off my shirt all I had to do was raise my pants and run out. I had time but decided to face the music for my actions. What I did was like robbing a bank while police cars were parked right in front. The fiance was around 6’4 220 lbs and starts swinging. I ended up with a black eye and bruised ribs but I got what I deserved. And a lesson learned: never bang a man’s girl…while he’s in the next room.
I really did not provoke this guy at all. When I say I tailgated the guy for about five seconds while slowing down for him that’s exactly what happened. Beyond that, I was so unfocused on the situation I never looked at him or antogonized him to the point that when he popped out of the car at the end was the first time I actually saw him and my only words were, “dude you hit my car”. I’m not an inflammatory person in real life, that’s what the internet is for.
This was nothing like what you described above and one of my main reasons for not getting out of the car was that I had zero desire to fight regardless of whether the guy was 5’1 or 6’4ish (he was the latter so the decision was easier). Literally all I wanted to do was go to work and enjoy my drive.
quality anecdote… leaves the shirt on for the banging but waits patiently to take a beating anyway… this bloke is sheer class.
Or how about just illegalisng guns completely like a normal society.
I gotta be honest, if it were possible to completely take them out of circulation, I’m coming around to the idea.
I can’t believe one would even have to ‘come around’ to the idea of taking weapons off the streets. It should be a total no brainer. Then again, that’s the disparity of the American & British attitude towards firearms.
got gun violence problems? Buy more and encourage more people to buy higher powered rifles!! Solve the problem with the problem. LOL
It is a cultural difference. I see both sides.