Boxing Day

[R. Richard]

In my youth, I was a prize fighter, in South Central Los Angeles. The prize was the other guy's watch and wallet. I also had seven professional fights, although the fights were under seven different names. Now, I live in Central America.
Earlier this year, I was attacked by the guy that they called Smooth Black. SB stopped his ca in the middle of the road and some other guy ran into the back of his car. I managed to avoid the crash. parked my motorcycle and went back to see what happened. I was then attacked by SB. for no reason. I blacked out., Per witnesses, I hit 6 foot four inch SB in the solar plexus so hard that I lifted him into the air. I also suffered a second degree dislocation of my shoulder. However, I heal quickly. I'm now ready for combat again.
I checked out Boxing Day here, but there's nothing set up.
I ask of you UK people, how do they do Boxing Day in the UK? Are there weight classes? Are there monetary rewards for the winners? How much can a real bad ass make? How do I hook up? I fight as a Middle Weight/Super Middle Weight, but bare knuckle I'm wiling to step up to at least light heavyweight.
HELP!

 

[Penuche]

I checked out Boxing Day here, but there's nothing set up.
I ask of you UK people, how do they do Boxing Day in the UK? Are there weight classes? Are there monetary rewards for the winners? How much can a real bad ass make? How do I hook up? I fight as a Middle Weight/Super Middle Weight, but bare knuckle I'm wiling to step up to at least light heavyweight.
HELP!

Wiki is your friend, I am not:

"Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers,[1] in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December."

 

[Handley_Page]

In my youth, I was a prize fighter, in South Central Los Angeles. The prize was the other guy's watch and wallet. I also had seven professional fights, although the fights were under seven different names. Now, I live in Central America.

I ask of you UK people, how do they do Boxing Day in the UK? Are there weight classes? Are there monetary rewards for the winners? How much can a real bad ass make? How do I hook up? I fight as a Middle Weight/Super Middle Weight, but bare knuckle I'm wiling to step up to at least light heavyweight.
HELP!

As stated, Boxing Day has absolutely nothing to do with the art of fisticuffs.
It's the day when those who serve us may get a small token of appreciation; the Christmas box.
Most of the times, it's just another Day off.

And yes, Boxing is divided into weight classes over here.

 

[Penuche]

It's the day when those who serve us may get a small token of appreciation; the Christmas box.

Most of the times, it's just another Day off.

I remember the Boxing Days of my childhood - on the nearest working day before it, the bin men, the milkman, and the postman all received a little something as a token of appreciation for their work the rest of the year. This was entirely optional, except that households who gave nothing might look forward to a year of rubbish being spilled from dustbins onto the driveway, milk being accidentally left in the sun, and envelopes maybe being slightly torn or bent.

I still make sure the postman gets a bonus. They're not supposed to request it, but with the amount of work he cheerfully does in all weathers, he's more than earnt it.

 

[Handley_Page]

I remember the Boxing Days of my childhood - on the nearest working day before it, the bin men, the milkman, and the postman all received a little something as a token of appreciation for their work the rest of the year. This was entirely optional, except that households who gave nothing might look forward to a year of rubbish being spilled from dustbins onto the driveway, milk being accidentally left in the sun, and envelopes maybe being slightly torn or bent.

I still make sure the postman gets a bonus. They're not supposed to request it, but with the amount of work he cheerfully does in all weathers, he's more than earned it.

Same here.

 

[Gorza]

In some families, the boxing starts on Christmas Day. However, the traditional expectation of peace and goodwill at Christmas has meant that most boxing commences on 26 December. The weight categories are always difficult to determine after the Christmas feast. That's why bantamweight gives way to turkeyweight on Boxing Day. It's strictly amateur, so gloves, hats and scarves are worn. And thus the Christ Child is honoured in this land.

 

[R. Richard]

I should have checked Wiki, but, with the general ineptness of what was supposedly a local bad ass, I figured that I could maybe pick up some easy cash.
Alas. the local scumbags didn't like my idea of turning out SB's family to earn a bit of cash.
Locally, it would appear that the workman is not worth his wages.

 

[sr71plt]

I'll be on the road for most of Boxing Day. I don't plan on getting into any boxing matches. But who knows? I have to navigate a fourth of a way around the Capitol Beltway.

 

[NotWise]

Here and I always thought that Boxing Day was when you exchanged the presents you didn't want and/or packed up the boxes from the presents that you did want. Foolish me.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I leave a little money in an envelope for the milkman with a note saying 'Have a pint on us' , but how do I give money to the postie and dustmen? There are three sets of environmental cleaning agents operating here , some of them come round very early. One year in another place I had to run down the road after the dustmen to give them a fiver. I figure the sight of me sprinting after blokes in my pyjamas waving cash may not give me a good reputation.

As for boxing day as opposed to Boxing Day, the fighting usually starts very early in my family and is not reserved for the actual Day of Boxing Your Siblings' Ears and telling them how much you always hated them. This year Christmas is just me and Piglet and she is even going off to her Dad's for Boxing Day, leaving me and the cats to our own devices - there will only be a cat fight to watch here. It's very rainy, perhaps we can go out in the garden and wrestle in the mud instead?

 

[Penuche]

I leave a little money in an envelope for the milkman with a note saying 'Have a pint on us' , but how do I give money to the postie and dustmen? There are three sets of environmental cleaning agents operating here , some of them come round very early. One year in another place I had to run down the road after the dustmen to give them a fiver. I figure the sight of me sprinting after blokes in my pyjamas waving cash may not give me a good reputation. <snip>

Milkmen are few and far between these days - I get my own milk from the supermarket. And the people who remove the rubbish from council estates like this don't do doorstep collection, so they don't get tipped either. OTOH the postie (the regular one, not the temp replacement) is at the door most days, and seeing as one of us is in most of the time, we keep his card stuck near the door until we've managed to grab him as he delivers yet another handful - he has to knock or ring if a packet is too big to go through the letterbox.

 

[NaokoSmith]

the postie (the regular one, not the temp replacement) is at the door most days.

I will put a bit aside, hoping to catch the postie. I'm not sure I have a regular one here, though, and as I live in the first floor maisonette, I will have to listen out for the door and then run down the stairs as fast as I can to catch him.

I like to have gold top Jersey milk, which you can only get from very large supermarkets or the milkman. You can find out if the milkman delivers to you in the UK by going on the Milik&More website and entering in your postcode. It costs a little more but it's very convenient when you wake up on a Monday morning and find your milk and bread waiting on the doorstep for you. Only once has anyone nicked my milk, although this may be more of an issue depending how rough the estate you live on is.


ETA - I've had a better idea! I have a fan who is a postie. I will write him a special dirty email as a Boxing Day treat.

 

[malefica]

I plan on enjoying my last few hours in Paris.

 

[Handley_Page]

Would that be Pairs, France, EU., or Paris, Ontario, or Yukon, or Indiana or somewhere else??
[sorry; I'll get me coat.]


I'd be happy to buy a pint for my regular postie; he's a good bloke.
We used to have milk delivered by a good guy to whom a modest contribution was usually offered [if I could catch him]. But the dairy was taken over and the Rules changed and he left.

 

[Hypoxia]

No deliveries except occasionally UPS or DeFex er I mean FedEx out here on my rural gravel track so no bonuses to deliveryfolk. A foot of snow on the sub-frozen ground so we're not driving anywhere today. It's a half-hour drive over mountain roads to the nearest town with a WalMart and an hour more to one of the state capitols with decent shopping but we have what we need so why bother? Just another shitty day in paradise. Happy Boxing Day, y'all.

 

[sr71plt]

Parris Island?

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm still trying to figure out how Richard blacked out from hitting a guy in the stomach

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[Penuche]

I'm still trying to figure out how Richard blacked out from hitting a guy in the stomach

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Either he was typing while pissed and missed out a few words, or he was hoping nobody would notice - I certainly didn't as he made my eyes glaze over.

 

[lovecraft68]

I certainly didn't as he made my eyes glaze over.

Common reaction to a lot of his posts.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm still trying to figure out how Richard blacked out from hitting a guy in the stomach

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I didn't back out from hitting a guy in the stomach, if indeed I did hit a guy in the stomach. I black out during episodes of violence, the entire episodes. What I later saw was a cell phone video of the episode. It appears that I hit the guy in the solar plexus, NOT the stomach. It's also clear, from the video that a larger, perhaps stronger person (SB) attacked, without provocation. a smaller, perhaps weaker person (me.)
The scumbags then removed evidence, from a supposed crime scene (via ambulance.) Why they did this is a mystery to me, as SB wasn't breathing. The scumbags then prevented me from teaching SB's dependents a practical method for earning a living (working the streets.)
The only real positive that I saw out of the episode is that SB isn't gonna stop his car in the middle of the road anymore. (Apparently traffic safety isn't a concern of the local scumbags, nor is a larger person attacking a smaller person.)

 

[oggbashan]

We had our first Spam phone call, apparently from the Indian sub-continent, at 9.30 am thos morning. My wife told the caller, not too politely, that it was Boxing Day and she didn't appreciate advertising calls on Boxing Day.

He didn't know what Boxing Day was. My wife tried, through gritted teeth, to explain but the call was cut off by the supervisor.

I had another one at 10.15. I too explained that it was Boxing Day and that many people in the UK would have hangovers. The caller then understood why he was getting even more abusive responses than usual. I said goodbye and hung up.

 

[Handley_Page]

We had our first Spam phone call, apparently from the Indian sub-continent, at 9.30 am this morning. My wife told the caller, not too politely, that it was Boxing Day and she didn't appreciate advertising calls on Boxing Day.

He didn't know what Boxing Day was. My wife tried, through gritted teeth, to explain but the call was cut off by the supervisor.

I had another one at 10.15. I too explained that it was Boxing Day and that many people in the UK would have hangovers. The caller then understood why he was getting even more abusive responses than usual. I said goodbye and hung up.

I rather think that I've been lucky, then.
I think I've missed loads. . . .