fisticuffs

I presume this is for fisticuffs with VCs, right?

Sir, I challenge you to fisticuffs at dawn!

That guy is moaning for months after fisticuffs with a lion. Let’s try a long stick instead.

Sparring" became "fisticuffs". Etc. It was maddening, because he would correct students who slipped up and failed to use his terminology.

Perhaps that's true, but isn't it also true that fisticuffs were a "natural" way for impromptu humans fights? I highly doubt that boxing was the first invention of fighting by standing up and punching the other person.

Similarly, one can find plenty of dark-complexioned people engaged in fisticuffs on /r/fightporn. What speculative conclusions one should form based on these two facts is a matter of opinion.

As for fights, fisticuffs are not generally an accepted method of conflict resolution in the adult world anyway.

They're worried some irate person gets in fisticuffs with a customs worker in a manner that creates a viral video that creates political problems.

At this point in my life; I am ready to challenge any design team of any mobile device which decides to leave out expandable [micro]SD storage to a bout of the fisticuffs. There is absolutely NO reason any mobile device should lack this.

I don't think I ever read about a duel involving fisticuffs. I suppose you could be saying that a duel is the posh version of a drunken bar fight, but that's like saying that a moderated debate is the posh version of a profanity filled screaming match in a bar parking lot.

As a result, cats’ stares can look cold and unfriendly, and two cats staring at each other can often be a prelude for fisticuffs. But a slow blinking stare – one that your cat probably gives towards you from the other side of the room – is something else entirely; it’s their way of expressing love.

If for example two people have fisticuffs at a bar and we measured testosterone before and after, the winner would see an increase in testosterone secretion while the looser would have an reduction. And then we come to violent content, and indeed there exist some research on this.

The real villains aren't the companies involved in battles of fisticuffs, they are the corrupt or incompetent politicians who fail to abolish software patents.

All in all I thought this essay was a nice albeit not too deep train of thought through kinds of thinking - not anything worth getting into fisticuffs over. Yet some comments make me feel like they expect, with the threat of harsh criticism, uber-deep and profoundly insightful content from PG on a highly consistent basis.

> Are you prepared to pay your employees a significant premium for the requirement that they engage in fisticuffs with random strangers who may try to tailgate into the building? I have zero experience with this, but I imagine the policy would be "Don't enter the building if someone is too close behind you."

Specifically, I had in mind relatives of mine who will get into fisticuffs with each other over which politician is the best. They clearly see important differences and feel strongly about it, and I was attempting to acknowledge that those differences are important to many people.

If a parabolic dental arcade offers better protection against blows, perhaps fisticuffs remained an evolutionary pressure but nature just found a more efficient way to address it than making thicker bones.

The way to overcome it is stand up for yourself and to establish your competence in whatever the group respects whether it be fisticuffs in the Army or technical skill in a company. I suspect that the crack pipes remark, coupled with her obviously correct understanding of the problem at hand, won her respect points with her co-workers that will make them more likely to listen to her later on, no matter what the boss thought.