I assume that was deliberate... pausing only to put a burning one-armed midget on his shoulder he yelled "reh fo tou LLEH eht teg uoy"He was living in some place in Philadelphia that had been unused for a while and some people broke in once he was living there and he jumped out of bed, put his pants on backwards and charged ot of the room with this sword someone had given him raised above his head, shouting "You get the HELL out of here!" and they all legged it.
I read that one tactic was that they would try and stab their enemies in the arse cos a) they wouldn't die so you were unlikely to be up for murder b) apparently it's very painful and bloody and c) it obviously has a subtext of implying the victim is gay.Italian hooligans are mad. Some Inter supporters once tried to throw a burning moped at another set of fans inside a stadium.
I know - I surprised myself!That's very sensible, Rich.
But obviously a lot of people are into it cos they like the idea of being a bit tasty and people of that kind are more likely to be longing for the chance to use it . They think that if a fight kicks off in a bar and, despite the odds originally appearing hopeless, they casually hospitalise a number of people without breaking a sweat and dispatch the last one with a pithy one-liner then they will gain the admiration of every man in the place and will have their pick of the ladies to do sex on.Martial arts is this weird thing, 'cos if you're into it for self-defence, you are training for something you never want to use.
I reckon if you like that sort of thing, you'd just end up doing MMA, these days.But obviously a lot of people are into it cos they like the idea of being a bit tasty and people of that kind are more likely to be longing for the chance to use it . They think that if a fight kicks off in a bar and, despite the odds originally appearing hopeless, they casually hospitalise a number of people without breaking a sweat and dispatch the last one with a pithy one-liner then they will gain the admiration of every man in the place and will have their pick of the ladies to do sex on.
Yeah, I've heard that about Rome in particular.I read that one tactic was that they would try and stab their enemies in the arse cos a) they wouldn't die so you were unlikely to be up for murder b) apparently it's very painful and bloody and c) it obviously has a subtext of implying the victim is gay.
"My orange box cutter makes the world go round..."boxcutters. a couple of those suckers took down the World Trade Center, so to speak.
My friend had a funny story of being mugged in Mexico City. I can't remember the full details but he was walking through a market and I think they kinda shoved him into an empty lot between two stalls where he was hidden from the crowds, and put a knife to his balls. What made it funny was the way he told how he - unsurprisingly - agreed to give them all his valuables, but this involved him searching through all his pockets amd his rucksack and passing over the useless (to a robber) stuff which they kindly held in a neat pile as he dug deeper. He enacted the exchange for me which was conducted in his rudimentary Spanish and this imbued it all with a weird kind of formality as he was thanking them for holding stuff and excusing himself for the time taken and so on, and they recognising the limitations of his Spanish seemingly replying in kind and then poiitely helping him re-pack the bag minus valuables at the end - all the while with the blade pricking his testes.a friend in Barcelona once had a junkie mugger walk up to him and put a knife right under his crotch, the tip of it pressing against my friend's balls. that'll get your attention.
My dad knew a guy back in the 80s who could do that sort of thing, although not in the glamorous, one-liner way. He'd just start bar fights and take on three, four people at a time and kick the shit out of them all. Apparently he was a bully and an absolute prick. He'd "practice" on drunk people staggering back from nights out and stuff. A real Begbie from Trainspotting type.But obviously a lot of people are into it cos they like the idea of being a bit tasty and people of that kind are more likely to be longing for the chance to use it . They think that if a fight kicks off in a bar and, despite the odds originally appearing hopeless, they casually hospitalise a number of people without breaking a sweat and dispatch the last one with a pithy one-liner then they will gain the admiration of every man in the place and will have their pick of the ladies to do sex on.
Now I'm obviously not talking about you guys there and I'm sure there are plenty of others who get into this for genuine self-defence reasons or spirituality or whatever - but most of the people I've known who brag that they do karate and that they could kill me with their little finger are not in that category (I guess those who brag are a self-selecting sample of course).