Lol Ox yeah sorry but your family is a little extreme I thought I was bad, me and Dad would playfight all the time. Heck I drew blood through his sweater sleeve one Christmas with my teeth and he has managed to draw blood by stamping on my feet (admittedly by accident but still). I'm like Shiny in that respect, never back down from guys now which of course still means I eventually lose, just with more pain than if I'd actually given in. Particularly living with Kung Fu Mole! I have picked up a couple of techniques from him though...

Oh errrrr yeah on the article... what a psycho! Switching it off while he's in the middle of a game, maybe stabbing would be understandable... But not switching it on!

To put Ox' story in a better perspective:

3 good friends of mine were living in our street and were brothers, age difference was a bit bigger (oldest - middle: 3 years and middle - youngest: 2 years) but i so recognize ox' story.

They mostly threw objects at eachother (preferably the PS controller) are started punching eachother. Or kicking when one was down on the floor. Very entertaining. Untill one guy gets slammed with his head against the solid iron heating, then you were thinking "dysfunctional". But it seems normal for 3 brothers to be like that now that i read Ox' story.

Being 4 years older than my sister and 6 years older than my brother, i didn't have to use physical force that often.

Hahaha, thanks for the defense J! Yeah it wasn't all that weird tbh. Most people (especially one girl who came from a family with three sisters) are pretty freaked out and think we're a collection of compulsive rageoholics, but that's not quite true. I actually rarely fought or disagreed with my brothers in the last 6-7 years anymore. In fact I think we get along better than most families. It was always all about establishing/resisting dominance, not because we didn't get along or anything. And hey, I got some pretty decent no-rules fighting skills from that time!

Everyone who ever went to our home or heard the stories instantly pities my mother. She was always asking for us to maybe join her when she went to the store, or to drink a coffee with her at the shopping centre or some gay shit like that. In the end, one of my nieces more or less filled up that female bonding vacuum in her life.

lol @ female bonding. I would've figured you'd fit right in.

Yeah, me and my subtle ways and gentle manners. I sometimes think I need to be nicer to my mum. I was at a store with her last week (to explain her how the photo developing computer touch screen works) and basically was pretty gruff towards her and these people were walking by and looking at me like I was some kind of brute.