Posted on 01/27/2002 8:48:53 AM PST by moodyskeptic
The only person that was out of control was the flameing little "Richard"wad.
How well will the 145 lb. Marine do against a 200 lb. Marine? That is the relevant question.
By the same token, occasionally a woman will defeat a man in a fight (often due to a male mental hangup against "hitting a girl"), but that doesn't mean that the average man will not routinely clobber the average woman when it comes down to it.
Given equal ability, the bigger, stronger person will almost invariably win.
Why do they target you?
From the tenor of your post, you seem to carry a chip on your shoulder.
I don't know how many of you freepers have been in an inadvertant serious fight with guys who play dirty. Apparently very few.
Yea, because most of us don't walk around looking for fights, as you apparently do.
Little guys with an agenda are everywhere, perhaps they were traumatized, they didn't get chosen for teams or were ignored by daddy, whatever.
Big guys with agendas are everywhere too.
Are you as much of a punk as you appear to be?
I've never been in a fight, of any kind, in my adult life. I've found that people who frequently fight are usually looking to fight.
Sounds like you like to fight.
We now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast. HOO-AH.
Bravo Sierra . . .
What should the judge do? What message should he send to Michael Costin's family and his son? "Suck it up, kid, your dad was a jerk" . . .
The "Gentle Giant" was humiliated? He was the victim?
I was heretofore unaware that humiliation was so injurious to men taller than six feet . . .
The same reason there are timed rounds, gloves to protect the hands, mouthpieces, etc.. IMO, it has more to do with organized crime, specifically gambling, and the need to make an event as equal as possible so you can have people gambling on both sides. That's why they give odds - give good enough odds and someone will bet on a fighter they typically wouldn't bet on. Same reason they cooked up point spreads in football. From a "business" view you can't have 80 or 90% of people betting on a fighter and only 10-20% betting on the other. You'll lose big money that way.
I have seen some martial arts "games" in Korea and China in which there were three rules: No attack to the eyes, no attack to the windpipe, and no attack to the spinal column. I never saw the rules actually enforced but they did exist. The games usually lasted less than 40 seconds and had no weight classes. I've never seen them in the US, probably for liability reasons.
I've heard of 'littlemanitis'....I don't know the equivalent for big guys.....just the way you wrote the article, I get the impression you have a 'chip' right there....on your shoulder....but then, I'm just a woman and dont' understand those guy things like feeling the need to beat on someone til their eyeballs pop out or blood flows from all body orifices.
And in case you think I have it in for 'big' guys.....one of the funniest things I ever was privy to learning about occured to a small guy....a cop, no less....a neighbor who lived catty-corner to where we lived...couldn't stand the guy....that 'littlemanitis' disease really had a hold on him....his wife and kids suffered from it.
I'll call him "Bob". Bob worked one of the black areas in Los Angeles (this was back over 25 years ago). He would often brag or joke about people he picked up during the evenings duty. One I particular mention was how he cracked up in telling us about a couple of teenage boys - black - that they had picked up during the night...and one of the questions asked during booking was about how they masticate....and the one kid blurted out "man, I doan do that--I gots me a girlfriend".
Fast forward a bit....Bob's wife got pg; they had only wanted 2 kids so Bob goes and has a vasectomy. Macho Bob is ready to go back to work in 3 days.....and lo and behold, in attempting to make an arrest, the teenage boy kicks him smack between the legs!
He was hospitalized for about 5 days during which time his wife and I talked several times...I was concerned about a potentially life threatening problem....however, she was quite amused about the whole thing--she was almost gleeful as she told me the perp was even smaller than Bob!
Junta lost control.
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