I'll be amazed if this gets approved for the app store. Anyway, before we took the lead out of Christmas gasoline, you could just go to a bar and find a good fight.
If it does start up (which...) I wonder how many accounts will be ones people have made for other people they know. I'm guessing a decent percentage.
If it's like Tindr, it will work better if I use the picture of somebody else anyway.
Among the terrible terrible comments this made me laugh, "like I need this to get someone to want to hit me."
some dude wanted to fight me at a bar on Halloween. I was pretty drunk so I don't know what set him off. One of his friends pulled him away from me. Bar fights are super infrequent now, but every so often you will see some aggressive posing.
I'm mostly in old-people/graduate student bars. I've not seen a fight in over a decade.
Also, I pretty much always stay home on the amateur drinking holidays.
Bar fights are super infrequent now,
I blame the decline of the lead content of drinks.
Would suck if you ended up fighting a bot
Especially if you were just using Flickr.
Let's sign derauqsd up without his knowledge!
One-on-one fight set ups by app feels fussy, unnecessary and contrary to the spontaneous spirit of true bar fighting. BUT if you could use this thing to set up large scale battle royales that would be amazing. Cathartic joyous brawling for all!
I guess that should be "battles royale."
FYI
You can even filter to show only girl fights or gang fights.
Can you apply both of those filters at once? Asking for a friend.
10: Right now somebody is downloading a bunch of YouTube videos as training data.
14, 15: I suggest we arrange just such a polygonal confrontation, à la the fight in Anchorman, among the personnel of our least favorite online publications. Could Slate win out over National Review's frank derangement? Would Vox update and link Gawker into submission? Will Grantland's ghost plod around footnoting everything in hashtags?
18: Can Salon muscle in on Slate's territory?
19 -- This time, a jacket WILL be required.
Will everybody's favorite internet feminist survive Slate-ification?
22: What's important is that Yoffe isn't doing it anymore.
Two and a half weeks ago, there was a contract dispute at work and we all were told abruptly to go home. Multiple times, our supervisors assured us that everyone would remain employed. While there would probably be a "bridging contract" which would probably not have room for everyone, they'd find something for other people to do. We had to use about three days of our saved-up paid leave, or take unpaid leave if we didn't have it, but they did in fact give us over a week of paid leave for free, with a tiny bit of work from home involved. (I got the assignment Tuesday, it was due Thursday, I estimate it took me six hours to complete.) Then, they got a bridging contract, which was nice. They did not, however, find work for everyone to do. After over a week of a free vacation, they're now furloughed without warning. I'm one of the lucky people at work.
Thursday morning my wife fell off her bike and broke a wrist and an elbow. Emergency room trip. Friday I got the call with the news that there was a bridging contract and I was one of the people who'd be going back to work. This morning we went to the hospital and got a specialist to see her and got a smaller cast. This afternoon it took me more than two hours to get into my computer at work today, due only partly due to the contract problems.
My aunt was visiting this weekend anyway, to meet the baby, and wound up helping out a lot more than planned. My wife's family will be coming for the next few weeks to help out> We're lucky they can do that and lucky we have good daycare, but I've been pretty tired anyway.
I have always wondered how I would do in a fight! I'm terribly out of shape but I'm very angry!
28 to 27.
Hope her arm heals soon and your job sticks.
Also, I had a cold. Also, I finished that teleworking assignment around midnight Thursday, because I put most of the work off until the last minute. But it seems less legitimate to complain about that stuff.
28: fire me irl, brah.
Could we get a legal update on this? Two people who agree to fight can still be arrested for varieties of assault, right?
I guess that should be "battles royale."
Battles royales, no?
arrested for varieties of assault, right
"Mutual combat" is a plausible defense. The availability of that defense might vary by jurisdiction, so I wondered about that.
It's also unlike all those other services in that it's a hoax.
Trundlr, it's for people who want to walk around the neighborhood slowly.
Bundlr, for people who want to go to bed with other people but not have sex with them.
"Mutual combat" is a plausible defense.
Don'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayit not if I defenestrate first!
Stumblr, for people who want their progress to be impeded by inanimate objects.
35: The other thing you can get hauled off for is disorderly conduct, which is pretty tough to defend against on public fistfights.
PinkPanthr, for people who want a surprise version of Rumblr.
The other thing you can get hauled off for is disorderly conduct, which is pretty tough to defend against on public fistfights.
I put it to you, Officer Swift, that any mass fistfight organised in advance using an iphone app is, ipso facto, not disorderly. (clears throat, adjusts wig, looks meaningfully over spectacles)