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That's a two way street though. When someone punches Tommy when he's clearly no physical threat to them, it's documented evidence and he's within his right to take action. I would suggest we treat their 'here's what really happened' after the fact video in the same way that we treat his. In that there may or may not be something to it, but the actual video evidence of an assault is there to see.

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Exactly. Only doing what my Mum taught me.
None of her boys were going to come worst off, and equally none of us have ever mouthed off at strangers (or people we know for that matter) and brought a hiding on ourselves.

I'll pass that mentality onto mine when the time is right, they already know to speak to others how they wish to be spoken to. I'd much rather be the parent of a child who knew how to get out of a sticky situation then one grieving because their idealist child got kicked to death waiting for the rules of engagement to be established.

Like you say, all in the upbringing.

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Well, the good news is that any old have a go Harry that wants to lamp Yaxley for what he says is now completely within their rights to do it.

Oh, and when you only have half an iris because the other half got torn our, your eye looks black.

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It depends what you mean by fair. I would suggest that someone saying that they would 'jump on my head' is drifting someone from a notion of what any decent person would be expecting from a fight.

Of course ChrisGC with his family that he clearly doesn't particularly care about, if he's filled with excitement about all of this apparently wild, head stamping fights he's been in or is egging on, is getting a little carried away and trying to relive his youth. That's his prerogative.

As another poster said, as adults generally speaking people realise that if you keep having fights where you behave like this, it's not going to particularly end well for any of those involved. It's an unsustainable behaviour. Prison, brain damage, death? Oh what fun for the family.

Someone didn't get enough toy soldiers as a kid.

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Everything is situational isn't it and yes thats something wroth paying mind to. Your logic legalimises knife crime though. 'I best tool up and stab someone in case they're going to do the same to me'.

Clearly the vast majority of fights aren't serious, as you well know, late night pub stuff.. and as such this idea that we should all instantly have some kind of no holds barred approach where we're head stamping away.. even in case where the bloody bloke clearly wasn't interested in a fight, is absurd.

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Dollardays, you're coming across a bit naive. Everything is situational? Well, yes! but we are talking about animal instincts, which is what we are, with the advantage of higher intelligence.

If the bloke wasn't interested in a fight, then he would not have used such provocative words like racist.

As said before, if your parents never told you about the dangers of insulting people you don't know, then live with you actions, and the consequences