There are some interesting posts on this thread. It's a bit hard to imagine getting so incensed though internet chatter that one would wish to punch out another guy, although a few of the intended recipients here have earned some disgust and scorn. For those who may be serious, in the early years I did a good bit of organized/sanctioned punching (and receiving as well) - that sort of experience tends bring lessons about the sensibility of going after others with fists.
As for the stuff about easy and unnoticed bleeding by old guys, happens here a lot. Comes with aging skin and Coumadin.
My grandpa too. Along with blood thinners those massive and well worked hands would get cut and I thought he was gonna bleed to death, he'd just laugh, crack a warm beer he'd hid from grandma in his toolbox and put some Merthiolate (sp?) on it.
How did we ever survive with things like Merthiolate and Mercurochrome?
No idea...I had it applied whenever I had a cut or road rash that grandpa deemed worthy.
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It's the fugging internet. I'm not going to punch someone over chit talkin' on the 'net. After a negative face to face interaction, yes if it is merited. But I don't have the want or need to attack someone physically over mere words on the internet.
I talk enough chit myself up here on the 'fire, but keep that out of the other subforums.
Probably a lot of pre-req vaccinations and antibiotics if you wanted to punch Flave. Kinda like when cleaning a gator you have to scrub it with bleach first. Plus, it would be like hitting a blacked out drunk. He would either just pass out and forget or beat you senseless while still holding his beer and slurring unintelligibly.
After reading Barry's "Cheap Shotgun" thread and watching Blackheart call names and insult three of the fire's best along with chitting in Barrys thread where he was simply giving folks a heads up on what seemed to him (as well as several others) to be a good deal I'd say Blackheart would be pretty easy to punch in the snot locker.
Plus....some folks say Blackheart is a Larry Root sock puppet so it would be a twofer.....