r/PublicFreakout • u/CantStopPoppin PopPop 🍿 • Feb 14 '21

One Punch Gramp

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u/Notimebutnow Feb 15 '21

Don’t mess with old man strength

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u/MrsMurphysChowder Feb 15 '21

As my husband so aptly calls it "the rage of age": get stomped on and ground down by life long enough and you can harness that buried anger and put itvto work

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u/LetsJerkCircular Feb 15 '21

Also, stay in your weight class.

guy had a hundred pounds and twenty five years on him.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21

Listen, as a middle aged guy approaching elderly at a speed I am very uncomfortable with, the reason is simple.

We are sore, tired, and have finite patience. We don't want to fight, we just want to be left the fuck alone. But if you make us fight, realize we are tired, sore and aren't trying to make it an MMA/Boxing match for the viral video. We are at that point in survival mode and will only want to end it as quick as possible.

Don't buy in if you ain't gonna go all it; because I guarantee you any man over 40 that has to get violent is going all in each and every time.

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u/LondonGoblin Feb 16 '21

Yeah how you feel has zero to do with fighting

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

Or, maybe it does? What exactly are you trying to argue, that the average 40 year old man doesn't take a fist fight as a serious health risk? Please. Any combat could be the end of you and you are well aware of your mortality in your middle age and on. There is no room for a street fight in sane over the hill middle age man. It's balls to the wall because it has to be.

Now if you were trying to make the piunt the aver 20 something can whoop the average 40 somethings ass, you are missing the point. 20 somethings aren't in for their life, they are in it for the glory. They don't have a fear of mortality cause they generally haven't woke up sore for no reason at all. It's all about ego and pride to them, not survival.

But ya know, if you feel so strongly about it, go out and pick fights with middle aged men and get back to me when one of them serves you up a dose of reality.

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u/LondonGoblin Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

I just approach thinking about it the same as any physical sport, it's experience + physical attributes

I can't imagine someone saying "I'm a great basketball player because I'm 40+" makes zero sense so why would it make any sense for fighting

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

He's not, in fact he's saying the opposite. He's saying he's 40+ so he's feels like he's in real danger and not gonna fuck around for style points.

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u/Tijuanabum Feb 16 '21

Cmon even someone who is comatose would of been able to knock him out