Fighting isn't such a bad thing at all. It's a primitive and instinctual thing, it's natural.
Long ago there was a respectable Irish culture of fistfighting. My dad got into a few fights. They weren't ever trying to knock someone's teeth out or hurt them badly, god no, just slugging it out to see who bait who. Now you have knives, you would NEVER have knives back then.
We're competetive by nature. Sure hurling and soccer are good competetive sports, but you'd be a fool to think they were somehow more refined or "better" than a pure fight. Apes fight all the time, just for fun. They can also pick up stones and try to bash each other over the head with them, but they extremely rarely do that in their own group.
And it's probably the trying to suppress and disallow that instinctive flame of fighting that causes a lot of these deadly and completely stupid "fights" in the end. People want to let it out somehow. The closest thing we probably have that's widespread is boxing clubs. I'd actually be interested in joining a boxing or karate club, some sort of fighting club.
So I think fighting itself isn't such a bad thing, it's only when alcohol etc. is involved that it gets so terrible and disgusting and frightening.
Last edited by nicegirlsarenice; 14-03-10 at 17:24.
well nicegirls if you want to join a club try judo thats great for keeping fit and self defence i done a black belt in judo fuck nearly 20 years ago but it was great sport boxing and karate wasent my cup of tea althought i have done karate i found judo more good if you were in trouble thank god i never had too much trouble as i always like to avoid those situations
The entire drink culture which has built up around paddys day is not doing our country and the image thereof any good. I just stay in now as not worth hassle of going to over busy over priced pubs rant over lol
sometimes its just to much drink causes all this annoyance on a nite out... but i hate it when you`ve had a great night out and someone decides they are superhuman and all the rest of the world around them are the baddies and they feel they need to put the world to rights... though their beer heads are to full of fluid instead of sense and they just wont go home... spoils nights out for us normal folk..xxxx
There are too kinds of people: those who get sleepy when they drink too much, and those who get aggressive. I am fortunate enough to be the sleepy kind. I still try to avoid getting drunk, though, because it's just not worth the feeling you get the next morning.
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I notice it here too St.Paddy Day is a day to stay indoors away from the agro.
I also have the West Cork Rally that weekend and its worst. Some of the crowd it attracts do cause problems in the pubs and outside especially with the cars. Nearly every junction has a Donut scorch mark and beside the fact I am either locked in or out of my home. So WCR weekend is a weekend I pack up and leave here.