Ireland’s taoiseach has denounced anti-immigration comments made by Conor McGregor as the MMA fighter visited the White House before a St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump.
McGregor said “Ireland is on the cusp of losing its Irishness” and that an “illegal immigration racket” was “running ravage on the country”.
Last week, Donald Trump singled out “Conor” – who last year was found liable for sexual assault after a civil trial – as one of his favourite Irish people.
Dressed in a green business suit to mark Ireland’s national day, McGregor was at the White House at Trump’s invitation and participated in an impromptu Q&A session with reporters. “There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop,” he said, speaking in the White House briefing room alongside the president’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt.
How many punches and kicks in the head before they aren’t nice and normal anymore though?
I know that bare knuckles are supposed to limit the velocity (and thus impact force) of punches, but it still seems unlikely it’s not doing any damage. Especially if heading a soccer ball is bad.
No you don’t. For a given amount of muscle force, a bare-knuckles fist will be lighter (and thus easier to accelerate) than a fist with a glove on it. Gloves disperse the striking force, giving the impulse more of a low-frequency component, versus bare-knuckle strikes, which make contact in a much smaller area and transmit some of the energy at higher frequency. So, gloves give more a thud than a sharp hit that might cause a cut.
Sorry I guess I should have phrased it as “the common argument is that bare hands are safer than gloves”
We know for a fact that TBIs (traumatic brain injures) can cause significant character change and even drive people crazy not even mentioning cognitive decline.
Everyone knew of TBI effects in boxing for decades so its not some new revelation. Even historically there are records of fighters dramatically changing character when suffering a TBI. Phineas Gage is super famous example from 19th century where railroad worker got brain stabbed and turned super aggressive despite not having physical injuries, his friends said “he was no longer Cage”.
These people are literally brain damaged 🙄