Computer techs turn to fisticuffs for fun

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[The Lion Roars]

MENLO PARK, California (AP) -- They may sport love handles and Ivy League degrees, but every two weeks, some Silicon Valley techies turn into vicious street brawlers in a real-life, underground fight club.

Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable -- from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans -- they beat each other mercilessly in a garage in this bedroom community south of San Francisco.

[The Lion Roars]

Geeks turn freaks!! lol..

[Ronin]

Someone dig out the old "Monty" cartoons about the Nerf Mafia!

[Ronin]

Nerd, not Nerf.

[Ruth A.]

"You get to be a superhero for a night," Klimanis said. "We have to go to work every day. We're constantly told to buy things we don't need, and just for a couple hours we have the freedom to do what we want to do."

How pathetic. Let them go through boot camp and show how tough they are out in Iraq or Afghanistan. Oh, they don't want to get that real.

[MAexile]

Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.

In other words some really disturbed people are programing the computers we all have come to rely upon for modern life.


Scary.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Yeah, but I know after 8 hours in my cubicle, I sometimes wish I could hit something.

What they should do is take up some active hobbies, like boating or hunting.

[MAexile]

Hunting!?!!?

You want to give them guns?!?!?

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Geez, I would hope that they would completely reinvent themselves to see that hurting people in the real world has a time and a place.

Girls who cut themselves can reform; why not guys who fight?

[fnord]

ysk, tsk

the first rule of the Fight Club is ...

[Balding_Eagle]

This release of pressure among men has been going on for eons.

I see it as a weird outlet for sort of weird people who have a weird occupation.

Good for them.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Ruth A. wrote:
"How pathetic. Let them go through boot camp and show how tough they are out in Iraq or Afghanistan. Oh, they don't want to get that real."

------Hell why not? How about letting them go to iraq and Afgan, they fill out a "non disclosure" form that frees the "company" from liabilities, let them in on the action over the weekend, and promise to return them to their cube (walking or strapped to the ventilator) by Monday morning :)
Imagine them showing up at their cube monday mornings after kicking some jihadi ass, (or getting theirs kicked) and they can't talk about it at work. It would be priceless.

[Echo Talon]

isn't the first rule never to talk about fight club?

[Jeff Chandler]

some really disturbed people are programing the computers

You think they're disturbed? Take a look at the way cartoonists draw women. Now those boys are weird, and apparently very lonely.

[MAexile]

Granted.