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Oddly enough, most of the bar fights I've seen tend to involve two guys fighting over a land whale.

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Hello researchers. They aren't fighting. That's just how kids "dance" these days.

Capoeira ?

That's because such serious offenses like stepping on another dancer's shoes occur.

Sounds like there were too many dicks on the dance floor.

HopScotchNSoda: When there's blood and a single gunshot, one has to ask "but just who shot whom?"

I heard that happened at the hottest spot north of Havana.

First, you should never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.

Second, always take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary.

And three, be nice.

Sybarite: It's usually when the man at the back says "Everyone attack" and it turns into a ballroom blitz.



Rough night, huh?
Everybody's kung fu fighting.

AverageAmericanGuy: First, you should never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.

Second, always take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary.

And three, be nice.

But what if he calls my mama a whore ?

One Bad Apple: AverageAmericanGuy: First, you should never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.

Second, always take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary.

And three, be nice.

But what if he calls my mama a whore ?

Is she?

I was a bouncer for a long, long time. I found most fights started over a pool table. Then again, I tried not to work at clubs because a lot of those people were armed.

One Bad Apple: AverageAmericanGuy: First, you should never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.

Second, always take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary.

And three, be nice.

But what if he calls my mama a whore ?

Is she?

Sybarite: It's usually when the man at the back says "Everyone attack" and it turns into a ballroom blitz.

Were done here.

DirkTheDaring
Sounds like there were too many dicks on the dance floor.

Too many misters, not enough sisters.

/five to one is a brodeo

It's no wonder this town is looking like a ghost town...

the weaves, they be a flyin'

Everybody do the Toxic Waltz...kick your friend in the head and have a ball

/slam dancing in my chair
//no one notices

CSB time:

Once saw a girl fight erupt out of the "lady's" bathroom, and one girl dragged another girl down by the hair and 2nd girl turned on her back and started kicking girl 1 with her pointy heels in the chest and face. Cool enough, but then they both just started flailing their legs, and their mini skirts promptly ended up around their waists revealing their very delicate thongs. Both we're in shape enough (and we were drunk in a dark club seeing satin panties) to get a huge reaction from those of us sitting on the couch directly in front of the action. It took the bouncers a good 2 minutes to get through the crowd, and me and my 2 buddies were just clapping and cheering. I love San Diego.

end CSB

Lady Farksalot: Everybody do the Toxic Waltz...kick your friend in the head and have a ball

/slam dancing in my chair
//no one notices

Don't sit there on your ass
don't look like you've got too much class
You'll be harassed

So assholes go to bars and start fights. Congratulations, I'm dumber than I was before I read this article.

Coffee Snob: I was a bouncer for a long, long time. I found most fights started over a pool table.

Yeah, I've been a barback for 10 years. (we don't say "bouncer", it sounds like a challenge or a threat). The pool tables definitely cause more tension than dancing. But then I work a sports bar, not a dance club.

Second place might actually be arguments over the jukebox, as lame as that sounds - "hey your music sucks", "you skipped my songs, dickhead", etc.

Third would be plain old classic testosterone. Guys who are cranky and in the mood for a fight when they first walked in the door. It's why they are here. It was going to happen no matter what.

A distant fourth place would be competition over the opposite sex. Which is a good thing, because this is usually the worst situation to have to do something about.

That coward David Lopan: CSB time:

Wow. You saw panties and everything.

As for the article, I no longer feel like I am wasting my time on Fark. Sitting here reading about some guy's glimpse of underwear beats the fact that someone out there is so bereft of ideas for research that they decided to do a study on where in a bar fights occur. It sounds like something Dirk "Animal" McPherson would come up with as his thesis.

ThrobblefootSpectre: Yeah, I've been a barback for 10 years. (we don't say "bouncer", it sounds like a challenge or a threat).

A barback is an entirely different job than a bouncer.

I worked in many bars and clubs over the years, been in a few fights. Usually it was something started over a coworker. The only one I started was shortly after my 21st birthday my friends took me to a club. I was a lil buzzed walking across the dance floor this gril I walked by on the dance floor smiled at me and groped me. I leaned over and thanked her. The guy she was dancing with didnt like that too much. So he pushed me a fell, my friends went apeshiat and administered a beat down. Good thing we knew the bouncers they ended up throwing the other guy out.

swahnhennessy: That coward David Lopan: CSB time:

Wow. You saw panties and everything.

As for the article, I no longer feel like I am wasting my time on Fark. Sitting here reading about some guy's glimpse of underwear beats the fact that someone out there is so bereft of ideas for research that they decided to do a study on where in a bar fights occur. It sounds like something Dirk "Animal" McPherson would come up with as his thesis.


Oh. Snap.

Are gonna' let him talk to you like that David Lopan ?

/I hear he called you a coward too.

swahnhennessy: ThrobblefootSpectre: Yeah, I've been a barback for 10 years. (we don't say "bouncer", it sounds like a challenge or a threat).

A barback is an entirely different job than a bouncer.

This. Although at smaller places, particularly sports bars and music oriented bars the barbacks will double as security as well.

Kid had it coming.

I don't know about where they start specifically, but I'd venture to guess that about 95% of all physical confrontations start in bars. Or because someone just came from a bar. Or the liquor store.

This is why pot is illegal.

swahnhennessy: A barback is an entirely different job than a bouncer.

Yep, in a large enough club that has full time bouncers. In places like that there's a difference between server and cashier too. In a pub with a less than 200 seating capacity and only a few fights, calming down a fight it's just a side job from lifting kegs and 200 lb. barrels of empty bottles.

I worked as a doorman at a very popular bar back in the 80s. I say "Doorman" because it was made plain to me on day 1 that my job was restricted to checking IDs, happy schmoozing with customers, and keeping glassware from leaving. Anything beyond that was the purview of the 6'5" half-drunk Irish bartender with the baseball bat. And if he wasn't enough, the fry-cook was a Gold Gloves champion.

100% of the skirmishes I observed resulted from one drunk guy walking without looking where he was going, and bumping into someone drunker.

One Bad Apple: swahnhennessy: That coward David Lopan: CSB time:

Wow. You saw panties and everything.

As for the article, I no longer feel like I am wasting my time on Fark. Sitting here reading about some guy's glimpse of underwear beats the fact that someone out there is so bereft of ideas for research that they decided to do a study on where in a bar fights occur. It sounds like something Dirk "Animal" McPherson would come up with as his thesis.


Oh. Snap.

Are gonna' let him talk to you like that David Lopan ?

/I hear he called you a coward too.

That's funny.

Hey, free panties is free panties. If he feels like he's above a free glimpse of two hotties undergarments, then youknowhowiknowyouregay.jpeg

/If I ever scoff at free upskirt opportunities, then I don't want to live on this planet anymore

Y'all go to the wrong bars. My favorite joint, the ladies' room is a freakin' orgy. Usually a couple of chicks topless and making out after 11 or so. Only ever saw one fight in there, and that's because I once had to pull some chick off my 5' friend with a big mouth.

Now, in the bar district near the university, we go drink down there sometimes just to watch dumb frat boys cause trouble. Girls are usually too drunk and on really high heels to do much there.

Once got into a fight dressed up as the Kokanee Sasquatch on Halloween pub crawl in the bathroom...

/got nuthin

Article 29: A Bro shall, in a timely manner, alert his Bro to the existence of a girl fight

swahnhennessy: As for the article, I no longer feel like I am wasting my time on Fark. Sitting here reading about some guy's glimpse of underwear beats the fact that someone out there is so bereft of ideas for research that they decided to do a study on where in a bar fights occur. It sounds like something Dirk "Animal" McPherson would come up with as his thesis.

You're just jealous you weren't the one doing the research. I know I am. Actually, it was probably pretty boring.

So the #1 spot in a dance bar for fights happens to be the dance floor - which is where the most people happen to be. And the #2 spot is near where you order drinks, which is the next most likely place for people to be.

And shockingly enough, the 3rd most likely place for a fight is at the tables, which is the 3rd most likely place for people to be.

It's almost like the fights tend to happen where there are people!

2 nights ago I was at a Guns N Roses concert and a fight broke out about 6 feet away from me because some drunk shirtless asshole tried to shove his way to the front of the crowd. It was funny as hell watching 4 or 5 take turns shoving him to the ground every time he tried to get up.

Yeah, it didn't happen at a bar, but alcohol was still involved.

/csb done.