I so sick of hearing about Bruce Lee on this forum. WTF? Because every little guy thinks he is the next Bruce Lee? Because they are hoping they can toss “big guys” around like rag dolls? This got stupid about 6 months ago.
Being big, tall, strong will not necessarily scare off everybody, in some cases it is more likely to make you are target, and also might cause an attacker to start their attack with more lethal force ie instead of coming up to you and insulting you, they might lead with a stab from a knife or broken bottle. You are lucky he came up to shoot his mouth off.
I’ve seen a tonne of guys like this and it does seem to be a kind of small guy syndrome, but they might not necessarily be small guys, they could be tall, fat, anything. If a guy is 6’1" and 180lbs and you’re 6’0" and 250 pounds he can take that 1 inch height difference and think he is 40% bigger than you in his drunken mind.
A lion and a bear … I think a bear would beat the lion. I think any of the big bears, brown, or polar bears, would beat even a pack of lions. Lions don’t like to fight, really, except each other when competing to mate. A bear is a big bloody carnivore and extremely powerful, has powerful arms, claws and a big bloody bite.
A Polar bear can kill a large seal with a single blow. A lion CANNOT kill with a single blow, only hook on with claws, and bit the throat to choke to death an animal, or bleed them to death. Also, a lion would tend to run from a bear and a bear would stand its ground.
Not black bears they are chicken.
But brown and polar bears, definetely.
[quote]Magarhe wrote:
Being big, tall, strong will not necessarily scare off everybody, in some cases it is more likely to make you are target, and also might cause an attacker to start their attack with more lethal force ie instead of coming up to you and insulting you, they might lead with a stab from a knife or broken bottle. You are lucky he came up to shoot his mouth off.
I’ve seen a tonne of guys like this and it does seem to be a kind of small guy syndrome, but they might not necessarily be small guys, they could be tall, fat, anything. If a guy is 6’1" and 180lbs and you’re 6’0" and 250 pounds he can take that 1 inch height difference and think he is 40% bigger than you in his drunken mind.
A lion and a bear … I think a bear would beat the lion. I think any of the big bears, brown, or polar bears, would beat even a pack of lions. Lions don’t like to fight, really, except each other when competing to mate. A bear is a big bloody carnivore and extremely powerful, has powerful arms, claws and a big bloody bite.
A Polar bear can kill a large seal with a single blow. A lion CANNOT kill with a single blow, only hook on with claws, and bit the throat to choke to death an animal, or bleed them to death. Also, a lion would tend to run from a bear and a bear would stand its ground.
Not black bears they are chicken.
But brown and polar bears, definetely.
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What does this have to do with anything?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I so sick of hearing about Bruce Lee on this forum. WTF? Because every little guy thinks he is the next Bruce Lee? Because they are hoping they can toss “big guys” around like rag dolls? This got stupid about 6 months ago.[/quote]
Its even stupider because most guys don’t fucking fight on a regular basis. Hell, I think most guys have probably never been in a fight after eigth grade. So what the fuck does it matter?
Being a big guy has two sides. While sometimes it may deter physical violence, if violence is imminent, and you’re the biggest dude standing around, you can garauntee anyone with half a brain is going to get a couple guys on you right away.
But we’ve all been in so many barfights around here that the big guys throw people through walls, while the little guys jump on the bar using pool sticks as bows and knock everyone else out (Bruce Lee style).
Sure.
Don’t test me, I’ll go and bump that thread again.
[quote]Travacolypse wrote:
My hand speed was so swift I sometimes wondered where it came from, I used to break those automatic punching machines that they used to make.[/quote]
Dude why even debate this when the ancient Romans actually TESTED this out?
I can’t recall for sure but I think the lions came out on top.
[quote]Magarhe wrote:
A lion and a bear … I think a bear would beat the lion. I think any of the big bears, brown, or polar bears, would beat even a pack of lions. Lions don’t like to fight, really, except each other when competing to mate. A bear is a big bloody carnivore and extremely powerful, has powerful arms, claws and a big bloody bite.
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[quote]knewsom wrote:
Jet Li, well, 6 time Chinese grand national WuShu champin. …need I say more? this guy is the baddest ass out of 1.6 BILLION PEOPLE. …yikes.
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Yeah and if there was any contact fighting in wu shu it might mean something.
It’s all forms.
[quote]Travacolypse wrote:
My hand speed was so swift I sometimes wondered where it came from, I used to break those automatic punching machines that they used to make.[/quote]
What is this post in reference to?
to the OP: Chokeslam, haha, I’ve never seen someone actually do that.
[quote]rsg wrote:
He must have been on drugs. What kind of normal person in his right mind would challenge a 275lb man, provoked or not?[/quote]
Well, simply put, fighting is fun as hell. Especially when you’re the underdog.
I would only challenge someone if it were for a righteous reason. Or if he was a big mouth; then I would calmly challenge him to put his money where his mouth is, and fight me NHB in a gym or something. I agree though that unprovoked shit like that bar incident is ridiculous.
Fighting might be fun when you’re the underdog, but I used to bounce and hold my own very well in fights. I dont think it would have been fun to get your face beat in.
[quote]HardcoreHorn wrote:
rsg wrote:
He must have been on drugs. What kind of normal person in his right mind would challenge a 275lb man, provoked or not?
Well, simply put, fighting is fun as hell. Especially when you’re the underdog.
I would only challenge someone if it were for a righteous reason. Or if he was a big mouth; then I would calmly challenge him to put his money where his mouth is, and fight me NHB in a gym or something. I agree though that unprovoked shit like that bar incident is ridiculous.
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[quote]HardcoreHorn wrote:
rsg wrote:
He must have been on drugs. What kind of normal person in his right mind would challenge a 275lb man, provoked or not?
Well, simply put, fighting is fun as hell. Especially when you’re the underdog.
I would only challenge someone if it were for a righteous reason. Or if he was a big mouth; then I would calmly challenge him to put his money where his mouth is, and fight me NHB in a gym or something. I agree though that unprovoked shit like that bar incident is ridiculous.
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How chivalrous! Of course that happens in bars all of the time. Then the patrons finish their snifters of brandy, dust the meth off of their nostrils, and procede to the honorable ritual of breaking bottles and pool cues over each others noggins.
Then they relax over a hot apple toddy!
uhh, like I said, fighitng is pretty stupid, unless you’re doing it as sport (SCA fighting, Boxing, Wrestling, etc.)
…and for the record, I have NO delusions of grandeur about “being the next bruce lee” - I just think he was a badass, and had INCREDIBLE strength for such a small man, AND he probably coulda kicked all of our asses.
[quote]knewsom wrote:
Well, being short and skinny doesn’t bely toughness…
Dare I mention Bruce Lee? …or Jet Li?
Bruce Lee could’ve kicked ANY of our asses, I don’t care HOW big and strong we are. he had such explosive strength and speed that a full powered one-inch punch to the chest could potentially stop a heart from beating. …yikes.
Jet Li, well, 6 time Chinese grand national WuShu champin. …need I say more? this guy is the baddest ass out of 1.6 BILLION PEOPLE. …yikes.
granted, this dude at the bar was probably just some tool who felt he had something to prove - the fact that you’re so big means that you’re a higher profile target. If this dude managed to kick YOUR ass, well… he’d have to feel pretty damned good about himself, eh?
Some people need to accomplish silly things like this to feel better about themselves. Me, I feel great everytime I take a shit, ESPECIALLY when I’m drunk… “Man, look at the SIZE of that one!”[/quote]
i hate you
[quote]tveddy wrote:
I’m having a little trouble understanding the “little man syndrome”
Here’s what happened. I’m in a bar, not many people there, and there is this little guy about 5’6" maybe 150 pounds. The bartender tells me that he’s been trying to start shit with everybody. Well pretty soon he starts staring at me. I’m 6’1" 275 pounds. The guy walks over and stands next to me at the bar and stares at me for like 5 minutes, I was watching him in the reflection in the glass behind the bar, and he kept holding his empty beer bottle like he was ready to hit me with it.
Finally he gets some nuts and says something to me. So being that I didn’t feel like getting hit with a beer bottle, I just picked him up by the throat and choke slammed him. Told him if he really wanted to start a fight tonight, that he could come up swinging. So he left. What I don’t understand is what he was thinking. It just kinda floors me that anybody his size would pick a fight with me. I don’t get it.[/quote]
I’m sorry, but does this reek of “So i wuz @ this bangin’ part w/ my boyz and I met this honey but she was all buggin’ cuz i ripped out a stop sign w/ my bare hands, yo, and had, like, viens and shit all stickin’ out, right. Yo, then i got cock-blocked by the muthafuckin’ po-lice. Legal cockblocks sux the most, yo.” to anybody else?
The lion vs bear was in response to a previous post where someone asked who would win, a lion or a bear. I didn’t start it.
The Romans … I doubt they pitted a polar bear against a lion. Also I don’t recall anything on them pitting lions against bears. I don’t doubt they did it, I just can’t remember hearing about it or the outcome.
Which would win, a lion or a tiger - I think the tiger. They are bigger and stronger. What about a tiger and a bear?
What about a Koala bear? they are fierce little critters. The small man of the bear family.
Tigers aren’t much bigger or stronger than lions… it’s a minimal difference - an outcome between a fight between those two, maybe the tiger has a slight size advantage, but remember the lion also has that bigass thick mane for protection. I’d say it’s a dead heat, but IMO, NEITHER have much of a chance against a Grizzly - if it gets ONE swipe in, well, fight’s over.
…now a LIGER. THAT might be able to take on a grizzly. For some reason, when a Lion is crossed with a Tiger, the resulting offspring grows to be ENORMOUS, bigger than either a Lion OR a Tiger.
plus, you know… those wicked skills in magic. 
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
A lion and a bear … I think a bear would beat the lion. I think any of the big bears, brown, or polar bears, would beat even a pack of lions. Lions don’t like to fight, really, except each other when competing to mate. A bear is a big bloody carnivore and extremely powerful, has powerful arms, claws and a big bloody bite.
A Polar bear can kill a large seal with a single blow. A lion CANNOT kill with a single blow, only hook on with claws, and bit the throat to choke to death an animal, or bleed them to death. Also, a lion would tend to run from a bear and a bear would stand its ground.
Not black bears they are chicken.
But brown and polar bears, definetely.
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Really. I’m not sure that bears in the wild go around picking fights for the hell of it either - it’s contrary to animal survival to fight when it isn’t necessary. And it’s convenient how he left off Pandas and Koalas, isn’t it? I think that bears and lions probably wouldn’t fight each other anyway, rather they would be good friends and gang up on the Tigers, because they are mean buggers.
DB
[quote]knewsom wrote:
uhh, like I said, fighitng is pretty stupid, unless you’re doing it as sport (SCA fighting, Boxing, Wrestling, etc.)
…and for the record, I have NO delusions of grandeur about “being the next bruce lee” - I just think he was a badass, and had INCREDIBLE strength for such a small man, AND he probably coulda kicked all of our asses.[/quote]
Only if we circled around him and rushed at him one at a time, twirling our weapons around our heads rather than using them in a manner that would harm. Me, I would just use a trident on his ass - end of story.
DB
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I so sick of hearing about Bruce Lee on this forum. WTF? Because every little guy thinks he is the next Bruce Lee? Because they are hoping they can toss “big guys” around like rag dolls? This got stupid about 6 months ago.[/quote]
I call for a TSB on all stupid Bruce Lee references.
Ok, here’s the scoop with the animal stuf. First Tigers & Lions. Tigers get bigger, I’m not sure about stronger, but the size doesn’t make up for the aggressive nature of the Lions. In zoos, when male lions & tigers have gotten in fights, the Lions have kicked ass. Unfortunately for the lions, this gets them shot to break it up.
The Romans tested Bulls against Bears and as I recall, those matches were about 50:50. I don’t think they had Grizzly’s. That would have been a very different story.
A Grizzly vs an adult male African Lion. Grizzly wins. Two adult African Lions working together would take a Grizzly but I think it would be impossible to get them to work together.
Lions will work together hunting, taking on invading male lions and to drive off Hyenas. Throw two in a pen with a grizzly and I think it will go down one at a time.
I would like to know what happens when Polar bears and Grizzly’s meet in the wild. It must have happened at some time. There is some overlap of territory. I think they would avoid each other but it would be interesting to see.