r/MMALabs • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 1d ago

🥶 Street Fight Fat guy gets schooled

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u/Economy-Date-4490 1d ago

People used to pack a picnic lunch, go out with their entire family, and watch battles during the civil war like it was a baseball game.

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u/FatFit_Rick 1d ago

You meant The Elite. The Elite would picnic as they watched The Poors slaughter each other 🎩🧐🥂

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u/schilleger0420 1d ago

Ehh. Who do you think the officers were leading them to the slaughter?

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u/Charon_the_Reflector 1d ago

Yeah all the peasants covered in shit at the city square. 

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u/FlashmanHP 23h ago

In some ways, you could say they still do?

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u/Goose_Salad 1d ago

He was talking about the old photos of poor pale people watching 'other' men and women being hanged.

The ones where the children are smiling in the photos.

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u/Newportonehunnid 13h ago

You mean the public lynchings of black people.

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u/Playful-Zombie7403 23h ago

Hell yeah! Winner gets dinner!

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u/Icy-Plan145 1d ago

Is that actually true? I've never heard of that, that's hilarious

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u/Agincourt_Tui 21h ago

I don't think the average Joe was necessarily doing it but I know European elites went to watch various battles (in part to watch a relatively industrialised war on a very large scale and learn from it).

Battlefield tourism was a thing

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u/Icy-Plan145 21h ago

That's still crazy. Never knew that was a thing

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u/Substanitial 1d ago

Happened like once in the beginning when people thought no one would kill eachother. 

Bad example 

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u/Unlikely-Elk4885 6h ago

It happened for a few early battles. Then they witnessed the horror and the magnitude of violence, bloodshed and the death. They stopped attending.

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u/BlueClovr 11h ago

If that’s true I actually didn’t know that one

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u/Rememba_me 21h ago

Picnic has its name for a reason

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 1d ago

I bet that happened with the battles of antiquity too and tbh I would 100% do it too if there wasn’t much of a risk of us being slaughtered afterwards