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Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unleashing-geek-fury dept.

Browncoat writes "USAToday reports a new phenomenon hitting some of the cubicles of Silicon Valley. It seems that engineers and developers previously confined to sitting in front of their computers are getting their anger out the healthy way: by pummeling each other. From the article 'Inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton, underground bare-knuckle brawling clubs have sprung up across the country as a way for desk jockeys and disgruntled youths to vent their frustrations and prove themselves. "This is as close as you can get to a real fight, even though I've never been in one," the soft-spoken Siou said.'"

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  1. Dude FUCK YOU for that link by JudgeFurious · · Score: 1, Flamebait


      You know I'm clicking anything tha "the ladies are into" just to see where that's going but I wasn't expecting that. You had to go put that link there and then I clicked it and now I can't ever get clean again. It's like a combination of that creepy embarrassed way you felt when you watched all those sad bastards in Trekkies with just a touch of homophobia I didn't even know I had.

      Fuck you so much man. Fuck you. I wish that page and those people had never touched my consciousness.

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  2. Re:MAYBE the reason Fight Club is so copied... by DerekLyons · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    MAYBE the reason Fight Club is so copied... is that the themes in the book / movie really hit home for a lot of people. Sitting back in your chair laughing at the idiots may be fun for the armchair warriors at large, but not everyone has really been tested and that was one of the core themes FC - how do you know what you've got if you never put it to the test?
    A pair of silver Dolphins and four SSBN patrols under the North Atlantic. I know *I've* got it. These sad little wannabees, don't. No matter how many nights they spend a fight club.