A real knife fight - Page 3

On January 17 2013 15:09 ninazerg wrote:


For a possible Zombie uprising, I believe you should keep an aluminum bat. Not only is it lighter, but it won't shatter when it makes contact with a zombie's skull. Most people like the idea of using firearms against zombies, stupidly assuming that their supply of ammunition will never run out. A blunt object is cheap, effective, and will last much longer than any firearm will. However, a machete or bladed weapon may be more effective at achieving one-hit kills. The downside is that bladed weapons may quickly become dull, and will require constant sharpening. My favorite weapon for anti-zombie defense is the crowbar, because it is easy to hold, has a blunt end for traumatic blows, and a sharp end for stabbing/ripping.

I know you're asking because you want advice on which weapon would be most effective against zombies.



Unless they are on meth. Meth users do not feel pain. The only way to stop them is to break their knees/shins, disabling their ability to run, or kill them. The same applies to zombies.

On January 17 2013 09:33 SamsungStar wrote:


First off, I say at the very beginning why I wrote the story. Had nothing to do with pride or badassness. I'm astounded how many people have said something about sadness/pride/you're a tool etc and have completely missed the point. I wanted to give people an eyeball into what a real knife fight looks like and the mindset of one of the people involved. The original impetus for even writing this story was by the request of other TL members and by a blog that struck me as decidedly fake.

I didn't promise an epic brawl with insurmountable odds somehow surmounted. Because guess what? Real life rarely works like fiction, and most people won't go charging into a dozen knives without numbers on their side. Nor did I promise some moralistic revelation or story of justice being served. It's like kids go through everything expecting a hero and a happy ending. I don't know what gave you the retarded idea that me and my friends were supposed to be King Arthur and the knights of the fucking cafeteria table. Or that it's somehow sad that we weren't. I didn't live my life so I could come to TL a decade later and get kids who've never fought anything bigger than a chihuahua to give me their stamp of approval. I just lived it the way I knew how. And I'd be interested to see how many of you internet heroes would wade into a fight where people are swinging knives, 45-15, bat or no bat. Ofc, this is the internet so I'm sure you're all samurai and have won more one on one duels than Musashi.

And dude, just straight up learn to read. Beat them up over nothing? A few dudes? First guy punches a girl in the mouth, punches her in the mouth. Do I need to repeat that again? He does so on the front lawn of a house full of her cousins. Said dude gets smacked upside the head for it, so he leaves. He then comes back with five fucking cars full of people, all looking for a fight, one of whom then proceeds to kick the shit out of my friend's car. My friend goes to stop him destroying his fucking ride and the rest of us back him up. But I guess all of that is "nothing" in your world.

Nor was it 45-15. It was more like 20-15. Half the cambo guys barely topped 120 lbs. These aren't trained fighters here, they're baked, half-drunk lil Asian dudes. I don't know if you've ever been in a fight, but a 120 lb guy don't hit very hard. And if it was an actual 3-1 ratio, I highly doubt that guy and his friends would have stuck around to kick the shit out of Hakim's car now would they?

But I guess in your world, facts don't matter. Just emotions. Like sadness.

To the Talib/Tariq thing, LOL. His real name is Tariq. Guess I forgot midway thru and just started saying it hahahah.

On January 17 2013 23:54 pigmanbear wrote:
All of the Euro posters are like .... wtf why would anyone do this? Kids in the US, except for really sheltered communities, fight a lot. And it tends to be the adults who never scrapped as a kid who either get their nose broken for saying something stupid, or embarrass their wives because they can't stick up for them.

Edit: I'm talking about adults in the US. Yall in Europe are cool, don't fight if you don't have to

On January 18 2013 03:13 Kukaracha wrote:

Yeah they fight but not like in movies. Life isn't a movie.
I've lived in shitty parts both in France and South America (someone-got-stabbed-to-death-in-front-of-our-door shitty), and OP's story just seems weird.

I mean, I did get into a lot of fights when I was very young, but clubbing, gang fights, what ? Come on. You'd fight people until you were a teen and then you would either calm down or go to the extreme (=dying at the age of 20 after getting beat up by thugs). OP makes it sound as if it was a San Andreas lifestyle for everyone, but hell no, in Chile the bad people in my neighbourhood were BAD, you couldn't have drinks with them or anything because they were INSANE, with scars on their faces and all... they would've never tolerated a bunch of teenagers around them, especially if any of them had any money to begin with. They were the kind of people that would just put a knive to your throat and ask you to lead them to your house if they knew you were't poor like everyone else.

Hell, how could kids from the ghetto like us go clubbing ? No money, no clothes. Those who had any sort of money were the real gangsters, and they weren't 15 years old. When I was little and we had nothing to do but fight, well, we didn't have anything to do but fight. We'd make fires on parking lots just because we were bored.

I don't know, this whole story is waaaay to "special" or "glamorous" to be real. In my neighbourhood in Chile, a kinfe fight was just about drunk guys or thugs going at each other by surprise, there weren't any large gang fights or anything, that's fantasy (or rare at least). People would just catch some dude in a corner, stab him and run away, and it was over. It wasn't a fucking adventure, it was just a silent murder among others. You'd avoid dark places at night because it was there that such things were likely to occur, just like that, in a second.

And what's the deal with being known and respected by the neighbourhood at 15, and getting in fights with everyone ? If we had done that, wether in Chile or in France, something really bad would've happened sooner or later because there were a lot of people out there with nothing to lose. There's bound to be a bigger brother who comes up to your house one day and smashes your dad's head with a baseball bat. There's bound to be a moment where kids who don't like you would find you alone in some street and kick your ass until you're on the verge of death.

Growing in a ghetto wasn't fun, nor was it a sort of adventure, in my experience it's just daily boredom and violence, and unless you're the most violent of them all (and willing to die by the age of 20 or become a real thug), you'd have to shut up and stare at your feets regularly.

I don't know, I have to call bullshit.