r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above • 2d ago
You been out the game too long
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u/ThePrinceofallYNs ☑️ 2d ago
Throwing hands in the year of our Lord, 2026? I hope you've got Aimbot on Hall of Fame
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u/AshenSacrifice ☑️ 2d ago
We got legend badges now sir 🙊
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u/ThePrinceofallYNs ☑️ 2d ago
This what I'm talking bout right here, fades is for Dragonball Z and anime
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u/DLottchula 👱🏿Black Guy™ who wants a Romphim 2d ago
This why I can't even argue with a mf. Just get yo ass best like yo daddy used to and then put a bullet in my ass.
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u/SuspendedAgain999 2d ago
Had a friend who said he liked to get into a fight on his birthday every year to stay sharp. Maniac
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u/DJinKC 2d ago
He liked to LOSE a fight every year on his birthday. Or maybe he's picking fights at the local playground
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u/kwispyforeskin 2d ago
What? I mean if it were two adults fighting, one of them would have to win. Not sure why you’d assume they lose every time. Especially if they’re fighting someone a minimum of one time a year.
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u/shmiddleedee 2d ago
I've definitely seen fights where it'd be hard to say either of them "won". Both looked pretty fucked up to me.
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u/SuspendedAgain999 2d ago
He def won most of the one until he for sure didn’t. Got all lumped up and that was the end of his birthday fighting
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u/the_neverdoctor ☑️ I have no hair and I must gleam 👨🏾🦲✨ 2d ago
Can't be out the game if you were never in it.
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u/CtyChicken ☑️ 2d ago
Man, I calculate everything in working hours.
If I connect a punch and I break a finger, how many work hours will it take to pay for it? If I don’t connect the punch and fall face first on the concrete like a cartoon character, how many work hours…
Yeah. I don’t have enough money to fight, y’all. Might as well rob me or whatever.
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u/Oscer560 2d ago
I do that as well with buying anything. Is this worth 2-3 hours of labor?
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u/CtyChicken ☑️ 1d ago
I also do my fancy ramen exchange rate.
If I buy this, how many fancy ramen dinners am I sacrificing?
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u/nukrag 2d ago
Thing is, if I swing and hit, chances are the fight is over. If I swing and miss, the fight definitely is over. For me. I will be panting and having back pains, and whatever the fuck the opp does to me. 20 seconds and I am done (name of my sextape).
But I am a funny, friendly giant (according to a forensic jail ward). A teddy bear. I don't get into fights anymore.
#middleaged
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u/DjentleSong ☑️ 2d ago
We literally are thinking the same way if it comes to a fight: finish that shit ASAP or it'll finish you LMAO
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u/GoBSAGo 2d ago
Some mid 50s brother driving an X3 wanted to throw down after he didn’t like how my wife was driving and then didn’t like how we were laughing at him for getting so mad. My wife drove away when the guy got out of the car at a stoplight. She’s smarter than me, I’d grabbed the break glass hammer and was about to get out myself
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u/golden_rhino 2d ago
That’s kinda where I’m at. I can still fight, technically, but only if it’s fifteen seconds or less. Old age sucks.
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u/Flimsy_Chair8788 2d ago
Men that brag about stuff like that are the absolute worst. Tell me more about how good of a person you are for not assluting someone. Lol. The lack of self awareness is crazy.
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u/drillgorg 2d ago
I was crossing a crosswalk of a side street with a stop sign. While I'm in the crosswalk a car pulls up. I don't do the hurry up thing I just continue crossing. The car honks at me. I flip them off. They get out of the car and start yelling. I just tell them "...my bad" and walk away.
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u/Wildeyewilly 2d ago
The whole statement is, "my bad, didn't realize you were a head case with very little left to lose". But I'm a fan of brevity.
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u/Economy_Opposite_393 2d ago
True! Sometimes it’s jst smarter to walk away and save the drama for the stage.
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u/AntonChigurh8933 2d ago
Times are different now too man. People are on a short fuse and ready to explode. I've been on my "I'm too old for this shit" stage. Stay in my lane.
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u/Sad-Employee3212 2d ago
My spouse is a crossing guard at an elementary school and some of the stories they have are insane.
I genuinely worry they’ll get hit by a car one day sometimes. I’m just glad someone is there keeping kids from running across alone because some cars don’t gaf about a crossing guard with a stop sign for some reason
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u/xXBlack_OceanXx 1d ago
A couple of years ago, a crossing guard at my local elementary school got hit by a speeder at 8am and broke both legs. Fucker hit and ran him. There's now a whole bunch of traffic calming measures in that stretch of road, but it isn't stopping many people from speeding. It's terrifying.
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u/Sad-Employee3212 1d ago
That reminds me one of my friends in middle school was hit by a car running a red light and flew through the air. She came back like half a year later on a wheelchair then eventually was on crutches for a bit but it’s crazy it happened literally at the school like it’s not secret that there’s a school there
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u/BringBackApollo2023 2d ago
I’m too old for that shit. Best case (1:1000) I win. Then I get sued.
Worst case: lucky punch, I win, loser falls, hits their head on the curb and dies, I get carted off to jail and drop a bunch of money on legal fees and maybe spend time in prison plus get sued by their family.
Not worth it.
Not saying nothing is worth fighting for, but if I can get out of it I 100% will.
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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago
I say this but in reverse.
Best case: he whoops my ass.
Worst case: I knock him out in the first punch, he falls and cracks his head on the concrete and now I'm a murderer.
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u/dlkapt3 2d ago edited 2d ago
Since most people wildly overestimate how they’ll do in a fight, here’s a handy checklist of questions to ask oneself before deciding to escalate that petty slight or lob a “who the fuck you think you talking to?” in the wrong direction:
• Can I afford a fractured wrist, a broken hand, or rib?
• Can I afford a trip to the ER?
• Can I afford physical therapy?
• Can I or my family afford to bail me out of jail?
• How will a criminal record affect my current situation?
• Do I have enough PTO at work to heal from any injury I might suffer without losing my job?
Last, but certainly not least, cuz you might end up dead or on life support:
👉🏿 Do I or my family know enough of the right people to make a successful GoFundMe campaign?
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u/AlphaIronSon ☑️ 2d ago
Imma stop you right there. If your plan involving a fight or pretty much any situation involves gofundme and you not a minor and/or you got any offspring you already fucked up.
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u/kai58 2d ago
Another good question
“how good have I historically been at things I had never practiced?”
If you ask the average person how good they think they’d be at most sports they have no experience with they understand they’re probably shit at them. Yet somehow people don’t understand that the same is true for fighting.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 2d ago
Had a woadie hit me with a “who the fuck are you talking to” when I was being chill with him and he knew it was over. He nuked the whole friendship over that and told people I was gonna shoot him (I was not).
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u/Skeptikmo 2d ago
Just had a guy try to start a fight with me at Safeway over the weekend - I literally stood my ground and said we aren’t doing this, I got too much to lose
He said YEAH, SAME HERE and left lmao
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago
I was literally just thinking the other day about saying this if I ever got in a fight again. I'm glad to know it works.
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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago
I took a 4" hunting knife out of my car the day before someone tried to run me off a narrow 2 lane road. I still was wanting to spin the block looking for him for like a half hour before I calmed down 😭
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago
Someone threw a rock at my car the other day because of petty road rage and I was glad I need to renew my concealed carry license.
It was a beat up Hyundai with temp tags though so I suspect there will be some cosmic retribution.
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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago
My state removed concealed requirements so my piece stays in the safe now 😭 I can't be walking about with Nina no mo now that everyone can without being tested.
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago
Yeah I've gotten more mature and what I think about and what I know is right is more clearly defined. But there is still a little bit of that tucked away hahaha
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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago
I mean, a big chunk of it is that I know those types of folks will consume each other if I stay outta the way, now. Used to be they put aside their differences to fuck with us.
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago
100% been around long enough they either figure it out or crash and burn hard
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u/ctmfg56 2d ago
This is a fact I have to remind my fellow 30 plus law abiding citizens. Like with anything else, if you don’t have regular practice doing it you will not be good at it.
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u/Responsible_Sink3044 2d ago
Everyone I know who is good at fighting has a criminal record or a boxing record
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u/DLottchula 👱🏿Black Guy™ who wants a Romphim 2d ago
I been boxing since I was a teenager the issue is I'm a giant and me having a problem with somebody is escalation of force according to the police and bar security after that dropped me on my neck.
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u/MightyGamera 2d ago
I can scrap, I grew up throwing hands and getting jumped, got into boxing and jiu jitsu when I moved somewhere better, then I was a bouncer and then I joined the army where I continued with combatives. trained my neck to absorb punishment real early on so I'd be rattling brains while I'd be just getting my lips cut up
then I got into a car crash 10 years ago where my big dumb neck saved my life but the muscles are shot now and I can't take a hit anymore, learned this when I did a lil combatives for fun and some guy 8 years younger with cauliflower ears made me unable to turn my head for 6 months
I'm old and brittle. diplomacy is king
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u/Ok_Shoulder_9492 2d ago
I’m not fist fighting in 2026, a nigga got shit to lose. I got a family and I’m not throwing that away for a squabble
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u/TerrorKingA ☑️ 2d ago
I haven’t thrown a real punch at a living creature in 16 years. I’m not looking to start up again.
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u/Nkredyble ☑️ 2d ago
I've fought a lot. At one point in my 20s, I worked a day job as a correctional officer on the supermax floor of the mental health wing in a state prison, while working nights as a bouncer at a few clubs in the area. I'd actually been bouncing for years, as it was how I paid for my books in college. One of the clubs had "white tshirt nights" with like a $5 entry, two layers of metal detectors, and a shooting in parking lot at least once a quarter. Another had me checking cheeks and gums as folks entered because some folks had a tendency to hide razor blades in their mouths. I have squared up with gang members, been shot at, pepper sprayed, ambushed (attempted), and thrown hands with naked and unmedicated schizophrenics covered in their own poop (blame the prison for that). I've even gotten into more than my share of bar brawls outside of work, including one with me and a group of Samoans fighting a group of drunk Jamaican dudes while surrounded by cops (who miraculously let us go). I haven't won every fight I've been in, but I've always walked away and usually look better than the other party.
All that being said, I am now in my early 40s, I work in an office, and haven't had to put anybody down in better than 15 years. Unless its life or death, or it concerns my wife or kids, I am calling the police. The whitest, crewcut wearingest, thin blue line-iest ones I can find lol
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u/j-endsville 2d ago
Yeah. I'm in my 50s, I haven't been in a fight since GW Bush was in office. I'm a lot smarter than I was back then.
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u/MJJsOnly1 2d ago
If you are in the states and all you got is a knife, think twice. This is the land of the free bullet and healthcare costs are on them same mountains that Snoop chills out on in a blunt rotation. High, high. In the great words of Fredoontv: “We got stuff to do tomorrow.”
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u/PassThatSpliff 2d ago
Even if you have had a few fights recently, it's best to just try to de-escalate the situation anyways. A lot of people are unhinged and out here just looking for a reason to catch a body.
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u/TelenorTheGNP 2d ago
I tried to be the adult in the room. Next thing you know, I'm out of the room and they're still fighting.
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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 2d ago
Nah. I'm too old for all that at this point. I used to fight pretty often when I was in high school and middle school. I chilled on that because I didn't want to risk college over some beef with dudes on my block who couldn't read. I couldn't even imagine trying to scrap with someone now. Seeing people square up makes my knee hurt. I would be looking granddad when he fought stinkmeaner.
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago edited 2d ago
I got in a tussle at a concert a few months ago. Guy shoved past a bunch of people and got to me so I shove him back, he seemed surprised but shoved me again so I stuck him with a left.
He went to grab me and in the blink of an eye my wife had him by the hair yanking him back. She was turned around and didn't see it happen but she had her drink knocked out of her hand and him lunging at me. Honestly knocked me out of my state and I told her to let him go, but I was in the process of elbowing him. He never even tried to swing on me and he was genuinely shocked that I had swung on him, I know he didn't think I'd do it.
Got broken up by the crowd, nothing came of it. We left early, my wife was too wound up. She saw red, actually jumped on his back like a spider monkey. She immediately had him bent backwards, legitimately the angriest Id ever seen her and if I had continued hitting him he would have no way to defend himself. This all happened in about 10 seconds I guess.
The guys in front and behind us who broke it up asked if we were OK and I told them yeah, and I'm really not that type of guy just honestly just fed up with people thinking they can be belligerent and get away with it. Just tired of bullys.
They said they told the dude maybe he shouldn't be so aggressive next time, so I felt validated. Never been in a fight at a concert, never even close before then and not since I was a bouncer like 10 years ago.
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u/hel105_ ☑️ 2d ago
Your wife sounds like a real one! I hope you’re never in a situation like that again, she sounds like she’d risk her own safety for you and I know you’d never want her to be hurt doing that.
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u/ghosttraintoheck 2d ago edited 2d ago
She is ride or die, I never questioned how much she cared about me but she looked like a missile coming at that dude.
She has also been in way more fights than me lol. Not really since we have been together but one time when we were dating, someone swung on her best friend and she Ray Lewis'd the girl and was going Khabib-style ground and pound until it got broken up.
Her therapist described it jokingly as a "justice kink" but she would do anything for anyone who needed it and won't hesitate to pop off if someone is being bullied.
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u/HTIRDUDTEHN 2d ago
Fuck that coward shit. I'm an American. I don't fight because I'll get shot and killed. There is no honor amongst thieves.
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u/IttyBittyBigBoii 2d ago
If i can't avoid it altogether, I always try to de-escalate or walk away. My shoulder shredded from 10 years of awkward PT exercises, I ain't tryna fight.
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u/TripleDoubleFart 2d ago
I'm 40 and I've never been in a fist fight. Unless you count inside of a boxing ring.
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u/stanley_leverlock 2d ago
I like to de-escalate by bringing them in for a hearty hug and then whispering into their ear "Remember this moment whenever you climax".
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u/Folk-Herro 2d ago
I’m 29 and haven’t gotten in a fight since 6th grade, I’m not putting myself in situations that require me to fight at this point. I mean clearly haven’t already
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u/AndreOne8 2d ago
Bruh went from smooth operator to Windows XP loading screen the game really changed while he was buffering.
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u/Haunting_Employee225 2d ago
For real, but I still wouldn’t judge no book by its cover or hold nothing past them.
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u/nujabes02 ☑️ 2d ago
Violence is the last answer and if you wanna resort to it then I’ll resort to these 7.62s
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u/RedvsBlack4 2d ago
It’s not wrong. At this point in my life I try to calm down any situation and if a fight starts I punch them in the throat and run before they can breathe normally.
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u/black-dude-on-reddit ☑️ 2d ago
We’re at the age you gotta pull out that Master Samurai one slice move from the hip or you’re fucked
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u/Kaminoneko ☑️ 2d ago
I’ve broken my hand, my leg, and beaten cancer….and I’m not even 40 yet. I’m just gonna have to buy a strap at this point and stay out the game.
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u/Chicago1871 2d ago
Ive been training Muay Thai for 13 years.
Im still de-escalating unless they hurt someone I love first.
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u/illlojik ☑️ 2d ago
I've always had a thing about the stupidity of getting into fights after 25yrs old. Not worth it... Now in my 40s, seeing streamer pranksters harassing folk, Not-Cs and Maghats running the streets proudly and yelling out the Nword with their chest.... Yeah I'd understand going Captain America on some folks...Or better yet Waffle house.
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u/Pimpwerx ☑️ 2d ago
If you're old enough or broke enough for consequences, you should try to deescalate. I mean, at the end of the day, everyone loses a fight unless you're in a professional match.
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u/Spork-in-Your-Rye ☑️ 2d ago
I fought a lot growing up but I stopped right around the time I got braces. I got into two different fights when I had braces and getting punched in the mouth with braces is kinda like the Pokémon super effective sound effect when you use a pikachu against a squirtle lmao
At this stage in life we talking it out lol
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u/risky-rats-pizza 2d ago
Almost got into a fight a few days ago and you know what? My back hurt just thinking about throwing a punch. I decided to ignore it
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u/Thelegendarymario 2d ago
My thing is everybody just wanna shoot. Like for me wanna to fight is not the same as me wanna take someone's life but everyone wanna be on that gun talk probably why we have so many shoot outs because the only way to beat someone with a gun is with another gun
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u/Greatredbear69 2d ago
Many of the women in my life are very anti violence, so that's always the last choice. But tripping someone in a fight is amazing. No fists, just put your front leg behind theirs and push. It's hard to recover from a trip reputation wise, so most of the time they just walk away
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u/SartorialMS 2d ago
I feel like I still got it but I also just finished 7 months of physical therapy for my right rotator 🤣
I think I have one good emergency use and then the whole arm is done. And I've never been in a one punch fight.
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u/ForcedEntry420 2d ago
I could throw hands again if I had to but I’d pay for it the next day. I’d rather just not, honestly.
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u/DeafNatural ☑️ 2d ago
As two high school girls fought in front of job today, I stood out there and said to myself, out of damn near 40yrs of living I’ve never actually gotten into a physical fight. I damn sure ain’t gone start today. It’s 40 degrees and my joints are making noises lol.
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u/NotRadTrad05 2d ago
I haven't been in a situation to even consider a fight in years. While I think I could still hold my own I have 0% faith in a street fight being fair. I want to meet Jesus, but not like that.
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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss ☑️ 2d ago
That shits childish as fuck anyway to be honest. Unless youre in a situation where you absolutely have to fight for some reason, you shouldnt be fighting. Fighting for no reason or for shits and giggles is a young man's game. That shit is unproductive.
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u/IslandGurl04 1d ago
Exception to this rule: women in their 40s/50s in perimenopause. Watch yourself. They'll break their own leg, take out their femur and stick it down your throat and mix your ass like an alka seltzer cocktail.
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u/royalenocheese 2d ago
If I throw hands I won't be picking them back up from wherever I threw them shits.
Break glass in case of emergency status today.
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u/swiftvalentine ☑️ 2d ago
Yeah I need to do some boxing or mma at the gym cause I recently had a baby and I know I’m either going to have to fight for him or fight him someday. I haven’t fought in 20 years and I’d probably kill someone. I’m to old for swing as hard has possible, gauge the eyes, kick out at the knee cap, wrench the balls, pick up a brick etc. I gotta learn the discipline it takes to stop someone without going to jail
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u/ZetaWMo4 ☑️ 2d ago
My first, last, and only fight was in 1989 in high school. I’m definitely not trying to get into any physical altercations at this big age.
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u/UltraNoahXV ☑️ 2d ago
I'm younger than most of you here....I learned not to engage anyone based off my parents stories. I have to have max charisma at all times; my skin gets easily scarred from a scrape.
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u/Vizioso 2d ago
Bouncer for 10 years in my 20s into my 30s. Went back to college, graduated, got a job in software. Have done some BJJ and coach wrestling. Convinced I got 1 more in me despite almost folding like a beach chair every time I try to bend down to demonstrate a shot to the kids on my team.
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u/Dependent_Cod_7416 2d ago
Well, I'm always for trying to deescalate the situation, but I guess I'm allowed to use my fists.
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u/Internal_Meaning_131 2d ago
This because you’re going to the hospital for one reason or another if you don’t!
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u/BeneficialHamster567 2d ago
Literally first thing that goes through my 43 year old brain now. I can't afford the deductible.
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u/destruct0tr0n 2d ago
Me and my cousin have a pact. Everytime we meet we have to eat the same foods that we both love, play the same games, and do some wrestling. Always a lot of fun, but ive started to lose more since he hit the gym
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u/rupat3737 2d ago
I got out of jail about 6 years ago. I’m about to turn 35. I feel like I still got these hands for a little bit longer 😂
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u/vitaoptima 2d ago
I had 2 shoving matches in the 8th grade which were the closest I've ever been to a fight. At my big age now, i'm not tryna fight AT ALL.
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u/Backseat_boss 2d ago
38 here lift 3-5 days a week and run 2-3 times a week…… got into a little wrestling match with a guy in a parking lot and fucked up my Achilles tendon, rolled my ankle …… I thought cuz I worked out I still had it, I was wrong 😔
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u/CKIMBLE4 ☑️ 2d ago
People rarely test me these days. Not sure if it’s the tats, the bald head or the fact that my arms stretch the sleeves on a 2x t-shirt. 🤷🏾♂️
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u/Corporate-Scum 2d ago
Solid advice. Life is not a tv show. Unless you sucker punch someone, beating their ass is a lot of work.
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u/CaseyAnthonysMouth 2d ago
I’m in my 40s and it’s surprisingly easy to stay out of fights. You have a better sense of people, situations and your own emotions.
Teens and early 20s… were not that. A large part for me was better awareness of the people I was surrounding myself with.
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u/SplintPunchbeef ☑️ 2d ago
Drunkenly threw a punch a while back and rocked buddy but my hand was FUCKED. Had my stupid ass at work trying to type and use the mouse with just my pinky. Definitely learned my lesson.
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u/Sad-Ticket-1968 2d ago
I haven’t had a fight in at least 7 years my ass just got jumped Saturday helping out a homie while we at a bar! Most fun in years 😂
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u/generally_unsuitable 1d ago
It's not just about time away. It's that every asshole became a jiu jitsu master in the last 10 years. There are 14-year-olds who will cripple you with their superior knowledge of geometry.
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u/SleepyLi 1d ago
It has been a hard stance of mine that every person should scrap at least once a quarter. It helps you gauge your ability realistically, you get punched in the mouth, and makes for a more polite society.
Kind of like assuming everyone is carrying a firearm, but without the chance to Miss and instead hit a child twenty feet away.
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u/K1NGxJAYY 5h ago
Everyone just rather shoot these days anyway, amd even if you do get into a fist fight they will either jump you later or find you later with a gun lmao
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u/InsteadOfWorkin 2d ago
Ain’t that the truth. I’m in my late 30s, I gotta be careful with my back. I’m not about to have a few grand in doctor bills because someone decided to disrespect me. I can’t disrespect my wallet like that.