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Looking at the post below, I see I’ve repeated some of what has already been said (even the Compton bit!). Well, I don’t think the point can be stressed enough- just avoid these places and situations and you’ll cherish your experience on the island.
Obviously you haven’t been in an English pub on a Friday or Saturday night. It is a free for all and you can be male or female. With a bat, glass, bottle, head, knife or whatever you can get your hands on. Also in reply to a different thread. Normally you didn’t start a fight because you were scared shitless that the bouncers would kick the crap out of you. A fight in a pub is the same all over the world. Drunk arseholes proving themselves for different reasons. If your friend is in a fight and getting a kicking then you go and help (otherwise your not his friend) this escalates until either the bouncers get there before it gets out of hand or the whole pub is involved and the police kick the shit out of you. If there are no bouncers then you get kicked inside and then outside . ref P&W
The quickest risers to violence, from my experience are the Vietnamese. They go from the beginning and pass all other phases of fight prelims and go for the maim right away. At least in Taiwan you usually have the time to think about how stupid you are being and what a fucking dangerous situation is brewing for you…and then, hopefully, make a quick exit.
Or try North Koreans, especially when there are any South Koreans around and a bottle of Maotai has been emptied before dinner :s
No, it has got to be the Americans. I mean piss them off and they invade your country. forget about the pub and your mate say goodbye to your family and whole country. No bats there just tanks and a few hundred planes!!!
Five years in Taiwan and the first person to swing a chair at me was some dickhead from my own country. (and he was looking for trouble) I’ve had a few disagreements with the locals but it’s never amounted to much.
These ‘rules of engagment’ remind me of those laid out by a good friend from NZ. He claimed they were the fair rules. The reality is that they are the rules that he will win under almost all the time. Anything other than that, and he’d claim they were unfair. But the fact is that the boys back in NZ or South Africa or even in our beloved land of politeness, Canada, are just as likely to gang up on you if they think that’s what it takes to avoid getting their ass kicked. And anybody who says that is so has never been in a fight that wasn’t broken up by their home room teacher.