Fight Club

[davywavy]

Long term readers might recall that some time ago I read Fight Club and was distinctly unimpressed. The whole setup struck me as a bloody stupid and unconvincing idea, although I'm reliably informed by those who know that the film (which I've never seen) is a lot better than the book. The thing that the book gets wrong is, for my money, the idea that men will bond by socking each other on the nose a few times when the reality is that us boys tend to bond over a few drinks.
Now, it's been suggested that, as I am the soul of teetotal forbearance, ukmonty performs a sort of Tyler Durden function to me and it's noticable that we're never seen in the same room at the same time - whenever Monty comes round, my next memory is of waking up with a stinking hangover and the only possible explanation is if he is my evil twin.

But anyway, that aside I thought Fight Club was a bloody stupid idea, but I've come up with a much better way of allowing us chaps to bond togther:

Drink Club

1st RULE: You should not be able to talk about Drink Club.*
2nd RULE: You SHOULD NOT be able to talk about Drink Club.
3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, the drinking is over. Call an ambulance instead.
4th RULE: Only two guys at the bar.
5th RULE: One drink at a time.
6th RULE: No lager, no soft-drinks.
7th RULE: Drinking will go on as long as it has to.
8th RULE: If this is your first night at drink club, you HAVE to drink. You must also drink on all subsequent visits.

So. Who's in?


^{* "Well, there'sh thish clu...clu...club I go to, shee. An' it'sh...it'sh...oh, Jesush. You're my best pal, you know that? I love you.
"Anyway, whjat wash I shaying? Oh, Yeah, Cluub. Thingy. It'll come to me in a minute."}

Comments

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

That sounds much better than fight club. Can girls join or do we need our own club?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Girls who want to get drunk with me are alwys welcome.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I'd only get drunk with you if you did your Barney the Dinosaur impression

[vierkilau.livejournal.com]

David being barney the dinosaur is not an image I wanted

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

He does one, I really want to see it...I've begged

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Sounds spiffy!

Much as drink club sounds fun...

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaactually, speaking as someone who goes and fights other men (though in a Thai Boxing club rather than an underground garage) you DO get a great deal of bonding from bashing hell out of someone. Try it. It's great.

Plus the issue is more about the constrains and expectations of modern society rather than just about fighting...

JmC
No shirt, no shoes

Re: Much as drink club sounds fun...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Dude - I kickbox twice weekly. Whilst I've made some damn good chums out of it, the number of people who bond in that way is a vanishingly small proportion of the population.

Re: Much as drink club sounds fun...

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

You don't feel a big kinship and need to hug the person who's nose you've just broken after 3 rounds in the ring? You're weird!

JmC
Gotta fight for your right

Re: Much as drink club sounds fun...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I've not broken any bones in the ring for over a decade. I really only train for the fitness these days, as I reckon I'm too old for proper full contact.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The evidence is usually in the porcelain the next morning.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Mine's a double.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Mine's a large one! Ding dong!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oooo-er missus

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Also everyone has no name in the um, club

"Whash your name? Mine's B... be.. um... beeer. I'm beer!"

For clarification

[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

"I'm drinking the lager ..... yes - the lager! ALL the lager !"

But I'm only doing it out of solidarity with Brewery workers ! (grin)

[winterbadger]

Sign me up! Zathras like Drink Club! People drink, Zathras drink; people not drink, Zathras drink; either way is good for Zathras.

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

Fight Club rocks! Mostly because its not about fighting but actually about just how crap/full of it modern society is. Like "Survivor" ( by the same author- think Flight Club with Jesus, and drop the fighting), it's a real big in-ya-face look at what is wrong with our civilisation... the kind of thing no British writer has been able to do in a generation, but Americans always seem do with ease.
This being said- give me Dave's Drink Club!!!
"Awrigghh... which one of ya fockers nicked me beer?"
Oh, oh, can I been the back-up 'Token Drunken Irish Man In the Corner' (back-up as Vinny has dibs!)

And lest we forget Sean Prather's awesome 'Fight Club' via email a few years ago. Still some of the funniest things I have ever seen on the web!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

This is where it fell down for me: I rather like modern sociaety. It's pretty much teh best possible outcome of the last couple of thousand years of history. When you look at how badly wrong things have almost gone so often, you can't help but feel..."Modern Society: Hell, Yeah."

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

Hey, in many ways modern society is great- lowest crime level in 600 years (actually, I would say ever but we do not have accurate crime figures from the Roman period- certainly the rate of murder has been dropping since recorded history began), medical revolutions that has extended human life span hugely, the idea (radical and new though it is) that humans are actually entitled to be "happy", electricity (great thing), TV, RPG's... yep, Modern Society is pretty darn good. But it comes with a price- part of that price is of course the songs of "2Unlimited", the existance of the Daily Mail, and a civilisation which is currently wonderfully bemused most of the time- a reactionary society obsessed with beauty, self and image. hey, on the great scale of things that's a damn good society to live in... as you say, could be MUCH worse. But that don't mean we don't have an obligation to push the boundries and try and tweak it now and then. I mean... after all...
It only GOT this good because people tweaked it!
(Notice the precise wording- tweak- not 'overthrow' which leads to nothing bar even more reactionary civilisations which always justify massacring children somewhere along the lines... tweaking is MUCH more civilised. A bit like 'pottering'. )

[applez.livejournal.com]

I'd join, with sufficient corallaries to the Rules...

Namely: Lagers should be permitted if of suitable quality, say freshly tapped Budwar, or the harder-to-find dark bock-style Czech Eggenburger.

Also: Soft-drinks should be allowed so long as there is sufficient liquor to 'liven' them up. After all, tonic water can be considered a soft-drink, and gin is such a sorrowful drink without her tonic mate. :-)