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Silicon Valley Fight Club Exposed

cbs5.com — Video: Software engineers show us what they’re made of.

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  • incognegro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113Sounds like someone forgot about the First Rule of Fight Club
    • marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24Second too...
    • vapb400, on 10/12/2007, -65/+3haha seriously.....and the 2nd rule
    • chewbaka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21No, this is the Silicon Valley fight club.
      Our first rule is everyone out before my parents get home from work.
  • whitlock, on 10/12/2007, -12/+13Fight Club Rules Broken: Rules 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, & 7. I'm not quite sure if they follow the 8th rule, but it seems that they don't know how to have a proper Fight Club.
  • fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12This is evolution at work. A beautiful thing. While they fight, the smart males (and females) can pick up their chicks. This is even better than spectator sports, America's previous #1 method for making the girlfriend or wife go hunting for a better situation. :)
    • rudolphdude, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Dude I am thinking no chicks to be gotten, call me crazy.
    • sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6What the ***** are you talking about... Have you gone retarded?
  • ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7That's some crazy stuff.
  • newmind, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14I wonder if they take requests. I'd love to see Ballmer in a hello kitty toilet seat match. :)
    • RMuffin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7The perfect way to determine the best OS. Ballmer V Torvald V Jobs
      and throw in Gates for good measure

    • newmind, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Gates would get his ass kicked in that match up. Somebody needs to make a flash game out of this. Ballmer would finish opponents off with his "Chair Decapitation Combo". Sergey Brin could cause opponents to explode with his "Smirk of Death".
  • mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7The weapons they use are such typical things that the stereotypical nerd would use. Plastic knives? Oprah magazines? Ha.
  • gumby013, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30His name was Robert Paulson.
  • fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5No sling shots?
    • Olle, on 10/12/2007, -14/+11No,

      Rule number one was "Don't talk about fight club".

      Filming it was never mentioned.
  • SlappyMc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Holy *****, Who knew software engineers were so badass?
    seriously, I wouldnt want to get in the ring with any of them.
  • mikeyaj86, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Please tell me this is all a lie ... please. HAHAHA ... oprah magazines covered in duct tape
  • Vill4no, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41What no 360 power supply fights?
    • Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I think they're trying to stay non-lethal here. Those bricks could knock someone's head off.
    • screamokid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hit my friend with one in the leg left a big bruise, cant imagine chucking it at someones head, well i can but it would be REALLY bloody
    • pete10203, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lives would be in jeopardy.
  • GGERG15, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6that's pretty f-ed up... I love the reporter... so typical
  • AnotherName, on 10/12/2007, -40/+3that was weak.
  • MalaysianMafia, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2bwahahaha
  • craigtheguru, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1I think I can stay away...
  • buttsakk, on 10/12/2007, -20/+1@ incognegro

    Damnit, i was just thinking that, lol!!
  • spyro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16No matter what people are doing there is always some panzy person whining about how someone could get hurt. I would rather get hurt having fun and goofing off than in a car on my way home which is probably more likely.

    I say, FIGHT ON!!!! and maybe add a mat to make the cryers happy.
    • Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8But isn't their risk for any extreme activity? It is inevitable unless they want us cooped up at home.
    • JeffD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@overdose

      And cooped up at home is exactly where they want us. That way were sitting on the couch watching TV and acting like good little consumers.
    • peteyako, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mats are way to expensive.......
  • jonshoberg, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken
  • jimmyM, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10when i read the description i thought those guys were gonna be chumps. but they rule. those dudes are ***** awesome.
  • cokebottletuque, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6ok so its a bunch of guys hitting each other with more or less harmless implements... this is news worthy why?
    • sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Because its software engineers in the Silicon Valley.
  • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Anyone else notice they mention martial arts several times, but _all_ of the fighting they do couldn't possibly be any further from a martial art, except maybe Hamster Style?
    • Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Martial arts is a lot different in real combat situations. They are not sparring or practicing in a dojo where you have rules.
  • nazuraki, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Yeah, nothing there had any style whatsoever, it was just frantic grasping and clawing.

    Oh man, check out the broom fight with the guy in the spongebob shirt...
  • devoinregress, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9If they are going to do something other than raw fist fighting then they need some Segway jousting. But it would be a lot more hardcore if they followed the rules and beat themselves up in front of their bosses.
  • BritOverseas, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Coming from a software engineer (a roughy toughy offshore oil one though, honestly, wink wink), I have NEVER met a softie like these, EVER, full stop, this has to be a joke.

    If they do exist, which I doubt, then for some reason they are hiding their superpowers from me, maybe they are scared of me? Who knows......

    Oh and by the way, they do rule, I would not want to mess with any of them and I am 6'4"+ 230 lbs.
  • crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9So this is why video game is violent.
  • jimmyM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12the guy that does the jump off the wall, that guy, he may be the coolest guy i have ever seen. jesus, who would try such an absurd move as that? i worship that guy.
    • johnroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I actually tried that once, I was fighting my uncle in my old garage. He weighs like 350 lbs. and I was 150. He weighed more then half of me. Everyone was pretty impressed when I bounded off the wall and landed a punch into my uncle's unfathomable belly.
    • drumbum360, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2sounds like he weighed more than half of you...
  • jimmyM, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8also the guy in the yellow shirt who is dropping nuclear elbows an the guy who gave up, that guy kicks ass too. this is the best thing ever on digg.
  • Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4how awsome was that? id so join if i became a software engineer
  • tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I think if I was fighting a short Korean(?) software engineer in a spongebob shirt I would die laughing (now that we know that you can...)
  • Otakoner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Anyone else remember the Backyard Wrestling fad? While this doesn't seem as violent, I'm with doctor on this one. It's only a matter of time before some nerd gets his head split open.
  • hurriedcorgi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I thought it was going to be a joke when I read the digg but thats crazy lol. I wouldn't complain about adding a mat though...
  • Lewisham, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Guy:"[My children] aren't able to understand when to keep going and when to stop..."

    Reporter: "Are you?"

    [Guy looks bemused].

    I love that bit. It's like no-one has ever told him this *might* be a bad idea :)
    • Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think the idea of it is, kids do not really understand what could hurt another person as well as an adult could. Also kids usually would panic and try and do something themselves if something did go wrong and maybe not know what to do in case of an emergency. But thats just my idea.
  • history1me, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I know one of the guys in the video. He's a very gentle cool guy that does screama? Philippino knife fighting. I'm taller than him by a foot but I would never mess with him.

    However, he's not a software programer nor in the tech field. So, I don't think all those guys are "software" or techie guys.
  • Mr.Glass, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Liberace gay?
  • accidental, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3This has to be something for the next diggnation lol.

    +digg
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Steve Ballmer with his chairs!!!
    • lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, it would suck to have Steve Ballmer find out and join in with a chair or something. Even worse if one of those guys works for Google.
  • namtellum, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Call me back when one of them actually lands a decent hit.
  • detrate, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2This sounds like more of a fetish than anything else...
  • skeetskeet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3That reporter got the worst reporting assignment ever.
  • tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8That doctor saying that someone could seriously get hurt seemed like a pussy. You can get seriously hurt riding a frickin bike. Its their choice to fight, they know the consequences.
  • VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -6/+3nerd fight: a fight consisting of two nerds. These fights commonly consists of tuggin on shirts and/or biting or scrating.

    These fights are usually started over arguements over star trek or star wars.
  • SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Looks like a lot of people have been breaking the first 2 rules of fight club.

    (i corrected it)
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4HOLY ***** THIS IS ***** AWESOME HAHAHA!!!
  • justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10These dudes suck at fighting which is why its so cool to watch. They almost wanna get hurt and ***** themselves up. Everyone knows nerds have the most anger
  • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'd like to see a fight between a Windows programmer and Mac programmer...were they try to bring down each other's Operating Systems, with 'viruses...'
    Oh wait....never mind!
  • Danarchy24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder if Oprah would approve of the use of her magazine? I wonder which one of those guys has the copies of O magazine.
  • simpletech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3WOZ should join and try out those lasers!
  • chopstickhero, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0geeks
  • Russian666, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2isnt the doctor a foot surgeon? Why are they interviewing him?
    • incognegro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Orthopedics is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention or correction of injuries or disorders of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints, and ligaments. You heard the "ped" and assumed he works on feet....
  • nato64, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4first rule of fight club: do not talk about fight club



    unless it's for publicity on a local news station
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