Meet Silicon Valley's very own fight club (NSFW)

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Why do men in Silicon Valley join Apple engineer Gints Klimanis's fight club? In this clip, Limanis tells ESPN:

Silicon Valley is just a facade, constructed to just allow us to work together. But underneath, as an individual you have the caveman nature.

Jeremy Schaap's full report — perhaps unwise to view in your sanitized cubicles — is embedded below. It exposes a group which is not quite the "apocalyptic death cult" some of our readers have been hoping for lately, but it's close enough to satiate your blood lust for now.

'The first rule of Fight Club is...'

Tim Faulkner — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:43:47 EDT

TIM FAULKNER — "The first rule of Fight Club is never talk about Fight Club," but some San Francisco tech workers have adopted their own rules according to WRCB TV. They've formed their own underground fight club, the Gentleman's Fighting Club, to release stress after work as programmers and engineers. Apparently, they are unaware that the film and book by Chuck Palahniuk is a work of fiction. Of course, geeks sometimes have difficulty discerning fantasy and reality and often take their favorite obsessions too far: whether it be Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Battlestar Gallatica... or in this case Fight Club.

Also, like stereotypical geeks, the Gentleman's Fighting Club backs down from the more violent practices of their inspiration: "The fighters wear some protection: gloves, helmets and gear for below the belt and there are two "gentlemanly" rules: 1.) Do not try to put the other person in the hospital. 2.) Do not humiliate the other person." How is that supposed to relieve stress?

Now if only there was some video... few things more entertaining than a geek fight, besides the stereotypical cat and hobo fights.

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Meet Silicon Valley's very own fight club (NSFW)

'The first rule of Fight Club is...'