• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    As a European I am always baffled by how normalized throwing fists is in the US. I’ve never witnessed a real fight my whole life and I don’t known anyone who ever did, it’s just so rare.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Its still the Wild West. You think they’d be more reserved without healthcare for free

    • paraplu@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      It may vary by region. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fight in the US. I’m sure someone I’ve known at some point probably has witnessed one, but I doubt I could pick them out of a lineup.

      • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        28 days ago

        The only fights I’ve ever been in that weren’t sparring with friends were when I was a kid.

        First one some kid decided to tackle me and we ended up just kind of rolling in the grass not unile the two that fell off the front. Just less coordinated since neither of us knew how to fight. We kept trying to pull wrestling moves but didn’t have enough strength to do it. I’m sure if I were to see two kids trying to fight like we were, I’d be trying not to laugh as I half-heartedly tell them to stop. No damage done to either of us except from the initial tackle we both had scraped arms. Never saw him after that.

        Second time I was in highschool, had taken some self defense, got punched in the back of the head, turned around and told the kid to fuck off. When he (very cartoonishly) wound up for another punch, I backed up, he stepped forward, and I stepped in to grab his arm, used his momentum to throw him head first into the lockers and went to math class. I never got in trouble for it even though I know it happened in front of cameras and our school had a habit of punishing both the bully and the one they were bullying. Weirdly also never saw that kid after that day. I think he was moving and just decided to start a fight on his last day?

        Maybe 3-4x a year I hear about a local bar that had to throw out some guys who were fighting.

        Nowadays the only fights I see are between squirrels. Although a discord server I’m on recently had some drama where two members did the bird-arm t-pose at each other aggressively while yelling about how they were going to fight. Neither was drunk.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The two guys who just start working again. Lol

    But seriously. Extremely dangerous. Luckily no one was seriously hurt.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    If my day ever goes so south that I’m thrown off a roof, get three strikes on one swing and a miss, and get choked out all in the span of 30 seconds, just send my soul to hell.