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Hasn't everyone? I honestly can't count how many times. Fortunately it hasn't happened since I turned around 30, so it's been a while. Lesson? Each one was a little different, but the overall lesson was to avoid physical confrontations because I am a terrible fighter.
I haven’t. I hear older folks talk about their youth like it was the Wild West, getting in fights on a daily basis. Perhaps I live a sheltered life, but I’ve never had this experience
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82 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 8h
Count your blessings. It's no fun. Schoolyard fights were common when I was a kid. As a young adult the scenario was always one of my friends getting into an argument in a bar, and everyone jumping in. I was the innocent bystander.
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I once had someone (a countryboy) tell me he was surprised when he went to university and finally attended a party that did not end in a brawl. People raised outside of the city are made of different stuff, I guess.
He is millennial.
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 8h
Yes. College parties were peaceful in my day too. I do remember one time, though, when a commuter friend invited his neighborhood buddies to a party at our college, and all hell broke loose.
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Perhaps this is it. I’ve never been one to go to a bar, I can probably count the times I’ve been on my hands, and many of them are for work events
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 8h
Definitely. Alcohol was always involved.
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Not everyone grew up with big Italian lugs.
I did, though, so I also have been punched in the face.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 7h
I wasn't going to say that, but it's true. Thinking about it, though, it was usually my Irish friends who opened their mouths and got me pounded.
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My NY area family is actually Irish-Italian, so we have all the belligerence anyone could ask for.
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Can confirm that irish families have big-mouths.
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do you have any bashings that stood out lol?
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 7h
I do. I should tell a few of those stories.
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im here for it lol
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I am still learning my limits. Getting your bell rung is a swift teacher.
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