"You and a barroom brawl" Topic

1) I get beaten up by quakers
2) I hide under a table until it blows over
3) I punch and kick like an eight-year old girl
4) I'll throw a few random punches if somebody attacks me first
5) I'll defend myself if anybody attacks me
6) I join the fray if it looks like fun
7) I'm usually throwing the first punch
8) Most people go down after my first punch
9) I tend to send people directly to the hospital
10) Anybody foolish enough to fight leaves in a body bag
11) They leave in a bucket

12) I finish my drink. See if anyone has left any uneaten crisps. Duck occasionally. If things get out of hand I will pick up the landlord's dog by the back legs and use it as a club.

Pat

Combo of 1 and 3.

13) I don't drink in bars where people fight, and if they did I would get out fast!

Rick

Eight years as a Marine… make sure your back is toward something solid, be aware #1 no one has eyes in the back of your head. Keep an eye for a hasty exit MP's and cops usually come pretty quick and often they crack heads to break up the fight and then ask questions. (like the ability to exit through the bathroom window) #2 Everything in a Bar can be used as a weapon : pool balls,glass pitchers,pool sticks and most deadly is the knife you don't see. If your drinking don't go fighting. Last if you have to put someone down don't mess around with them do it fast and be done with it. In the eyes of the law you have to be able to justify your actions under the cold light of day,Macho doesn't count and broken bones will get you 2 to 8 in state. Here endith the lesson…

What Florida Tory said.

I put up with my fair share as a youngster but thankfully have grown up. I assume we all have …

5 and when it happens move to 9

What Yesthatphil said.

14) I decide it's time to go to another bar

13

13, bars where fights break out tend to interfere with my drinking.

Rule #1, don't go into a bar if there are more than three motorcycles parked there. Renders the whole question moot.

15 – hold the coats and prepare to congratulate the victors.

2, and then when someone finds me, 3, and if that doesn't work grab my chest and faint. I have no aspersions as to my fighting ability.

5: but thankfully I've never had to test my convictions.

16. Continue playing the piano.

17. I grab the hand of the really cute girl, to "save" her from the fight, and duck out the nearest door……

5.

After being disqualified, unfairly I might add, in a boxing tournament, my old CO commented that I would have aquitted myself well in a pub brawl. Rather cheekily, I replied "Yes sir, I know, I'd be the one armed with a billiard cue".

Happily, my days of fisticuffs, officially sanctioned or otherwise are in the past.

17. I grab the hand of the really cute girl, to "save" her from the fight, and duck out the nearest door……

Kinda like that but make it:
18. I grab the neck of a booze bottle, to "save" it from the fight, and duck out the nearest door……

#19: I'm a lover, not a fighter….while the stooges are throwing down on each other like the family in the song "Finneans Wake", I'll be making time with the cute girl….

5 using what ever is in hand

5 Then crumple up after the 1st or 2nd punch taken back

Funny thing that when I was a drinker ( I quit when I turned 21 and haven't had even a drop since) I never set foot in a bar (er…oh yeah, I wasn't old enough…duh!).

Quit fightin' at about the same time. But I guess I would say for that time when I was, it would be 8.

Advice from my old Senior Constable – find the largest guy who is leaving peacefully, engage him in polite conversation, back up so you are in a corner with the large guy between you & the crowd, continue talking until everyone else gets tired then go in & 'break it up' when the swinging has stopped. Worked for him every time.

I only drink alone

6

22 Years in the navy, only ever experienced one bar fight, in Copenhagen. At the time I was in that twilight zone where I'd been selected for officer training but still a SNCO – if I so much as trod on the cracks on the pavement my career would be over before it started – so I drank up and headed straight for the door…followed by another couple of chiefs…

Lined up outside were about 20 Danish MP's, who seemed quite happy to let us leave. I plucked up courage to ask one of them why they didn't enter the bar:

"Oh, No rush – things wil be calm soon – better to wait" he said! (in impeccable english)

As an ex-paratrooper I tend to dive right into the middle – haven't been stretchered off yet – mind you I am too old for that stuff now. Also prefer the cute babe nowadays. This had a nice result in Northbridge, Perth, WA one late night about 15 years back when a fight broke outside the pub. A gorgeous blonde policewoman did my kind of dive into the middle and started whacking heads with her stick. In my excitement I drifted out to find her stick in my face – beer still in my hand. Says I "me tourist, you fantastic, came to see if I could help or get a date". She thought I was extracting the michael but I did get the date, a couple actually. We're still buddies.

They kinda have come with the job for the last 16 years. I'm no tough guy but luckily its been mostly # 5 for for me.

5) as I have a badge so I kind of have to act responsible

#5.

But if I do have to, I will do my damnedest to end it as fast as possible with as much damage to the opponent and as little as possible to myself. Beer mug, pool cue, table, whatever. Last on the list is 'hit in head with hand.' Good way to break your hand. Fair fights are for suckers.

Find the hot female bartender and make sure she is ok by leaving out the back door.

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Been 30 years since I've been in a bar fight, and I plan on it being another 30 before the next.

At 53 soon 54, I really don't go to bars any more.
The last real fight I was in was high school. Even during my time in the Navy there were no times where this occurred.
If it did come up, I'd find the nearest door, as Murphy said "with the cute girl."

11 but I was always lucky at Wild West games.

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