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Jun 11Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

I'm cry-laughing. There was a kid like this in my primary school class- miniature Viking- I later looked him up and he had become the strongest man in New Zealand, there was a photo of him single-handedly towing a train

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Thats how they end up !

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Jun 11Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

I mean, could've gone either way. It happened via the same career path though, MMA

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Rum with blue food coloring... The nectar of champions

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And down at the end, this..."Your youthful Viking example increased my inner strength by 27%."

Says it all.

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May 23Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

I remember an amazon girl at my high-school. She was kicked out of her old school for getting into a fight. She was in our class for about 3 months before some girl or other from her old school decided that they needed to taunt her. But not without her group of friends

Apparently she slammed that girls head in a car door 3 times before walking off. The other girls were too stunned to do anything. And even though it happened off school grounds on a weekend, the Amazon was kicked out of our school for the incident.

I always felt that was shit. I liked amazon girl. The other girl started it. and if you have to take quick action to protect yourself you shouldn't be punished. I heard this all through the school grapevine. So I likely never got the "real" story but to this day in my mind there's a girl with dangly earrings out there kicking ass.

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I moved my son from the USA to Auzzie ( 2008 ) where it’s still 1982. Kids were bullying him and he was just enduring it, until I informed him that the teachers here don’t care about kids fighting at school.

He got into a brutal fight and that was the end of the bullying. He couldn’t believe the teachers did not care.

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Chilling, in some ways, and certainly resonant of our shared time and culture. I'm not sure Netflix are gonna be able to replicate the era :)

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Yip. I pray for the internet to go down every day. Ill ready my stoires in Cafes to people like I used too.

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Fuq yeah

I had a good mate like this. Barbarian skald sigma type: good drawer, wrote poetry and practiced violence as art (had a huge compound bow which I had trouble even drawing)--high in opennness to experience, you might say. He ended up an outlaw bikie. What else *could* he do?

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Thats right. There is no place for the Jester the shaman or the brigand for those why reject our modern world.

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