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Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up
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.'"
Fight Club's message hinged around a somewhat homoerotic S&M theme.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I think your wife needs a new profession.
The adult human skull, when healthy, is nearly impenetrable even when we're talking blunt objects swung under average human muscle power. The biggest concern in taking a knee to the head is eye damage, not brain damage. Eye damage can be extreme, permament, and can lead to far more serious complications. You may get jostled and become slightly disoriented, but if your skull lets a blow from a knee damage your brain permanently or severly, you either have some seriously shit luck or there's something fantastically wrong with your skull.
Knees don't do piercing damage (for all you AD&D nerds), they do blunt shock damage. Any impact on the brain comes from sudden shock causing the fluids to fail in protecting against impact on the inside of the skull of the brain as it sits still while the surrounding bone moves (like you in a car when the brakes are slammed). This will almost never, if ever, cause internal hemorraghing during a normal fight. Concussions, disorientation, and short term memory loss, yes, Internal bleeding is very unlikely.
I've been punched, kicked, and kneed in the head, I took a car door to the side of the head, fell off a mezzanine on my head, and been hit in the side of the head with a baseball bat. I may be damaged goods, but I've never once suffered even a concussion, much less any sort of hemorrahge. I've suffered short term memory loss, disorientation, temporary migraines, and blindness. Never bleeding into the brain.
People give WAY to much credit to the ability of a fist to cause damage. Even an untrained nerdy tech can withstand a pummeling that leaves him blood-soaked and unable to move and not suffer any permanent damage. Individual beatings, unless truly severe, do not generally create much cause for alarm. It's the longterm buildup of individual pummelings over years or even decades that cause serious problems. In the short term, most people "lose" fights because they're not used to being hit and the pain is more serious than the actual injury, causing them to panic and run.
If you haven't foed me yet, what are you waiting for?
ROTFLMAO
Y2k is not "years ago". It's not even "years ago" to my 8yo...
1970 is barely "years ago".
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
We live in a nation where burned-out hippies grew up and decided that the words "Theory" and "Fact" have become so intertwined we should teach them as synonymous in every science class, and the letter "L" for litigation makes up 20% of any self-respecting yellow pages.
Underground fight clubs are a thing of the new age where punching out the bully in class means a lawsuit and expulsion. 50 years ago, in a nation where 95% of eligible voters claimed to be "faithful churchgoers", litigation was not allowed in yellow pages, and the "Theory of Evolution" was still taught as a "Theory" - underground fight clubs didn't exist.
Enough with your flamebait when the facts oh-so-clearly point against it. The fact of the matter is that healthy outlets of aggression are being demonized and harped on by ALL media and society to a point where adolescents and punk-geeks who never grew up knowing how to take a punch in school end up choosing one of their few (albeit stupid) available options. They end up hurting themselves.