# What if: The FIGHT CLUB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927 "2010-02-14T04:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/1 "2010-02-14T04:08:07Z")
Many people ask me, and now I wonder? What if like in the FIGHT CLUB movie they make bombs to kill the credit card computers, and the bombs blew them up? Would this make people like Tyler Durden wanted? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/2 "2010-02-14T04:34:24Z")
Don’t worry: the banks have excellent data backup procedures. Your debts are safe from angst-ridden terrorism, both foreign and domestic. ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/3 "2010-02-14T05:19:19Z")
I know you dont have to worry about insaniacs destroying the world like that, but I want to know if they kill the deot would we be like Tyler? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/4 "2010-02-14T06:13:04Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > I know you dont have to worry about insaniacs destroying the world like that, but I want to know if they kill the deot would we be like Tyler? We’re all like Tyler. Didn’t Freud call if the “Id”? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/5 "2010-02-14T06:52:20Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > I know you dont have to worry about insaniacs destroying the world like that, but I want to know if they kill the deot would we be like Tyler? I’m not supposed to speak any such information to you nor would I even if I had said information you wanted at this juncture . . . be able. ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/6 "2010-02-14T07:19:17Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > We’re all like Tyler. Didn’t Freud call if the “Id”? I don’t mean be a pretend man like Tyler, but we would live on vines cause there was everything broken like in Mad Max? Could that become so? ---
**Author:** ![IAmNotSpartacus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IAmNotSpartacus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IAmNotSpartacus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/7 "2010-02-14T07:24:09Z")
Bro, the first rule. Live it. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/8 "2010-02-14T09:47:50Z")
No. I mean, I don’t think any silly credit card collapse could do that. Nor do I think you’re fairly representing the movie; there’s a part that discusses a collapsed civilization, and there’s a part where Tyler blows up some buildings. There’s no statement of cause between the two. I don’t think anything short of a nuclear war could bring about the kind of civil collapse that you’re alluding to. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/9 "2010-02-14T10:59:49Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > Many people ask me, and now I wonder? What if like in the FIGHT CLUB movie they make bombs to kill the credit card computers, and the bombs blew them up? > > Would this make people like Tyler Durden wanted? Why do many people ask you this? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/10 "2010-02-14T11:25:16Z")
The first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions, sir… ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/11 "2010-02-14T13:54:42Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I don’t think anything short of a nuclear war could bring about the kind of civil collapse that you’re alluding to. Or zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/12 "2010-02-14T17:01:53Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > I don’t mean be a pretend man like Tyler, but we would live on vines cause there was everything broken like in Mad Max? Could that become so? Have at it. Why would you want to? ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/13 "2010-02-14T17:05:07Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Have at it. Why would you want to? I dont want to. Making the world break could hurt many people. That would be bad. But they said in the movie the debt would do that. I wanted to know if that could break us? Many people asked if that could eb for real and I didnt know the anwser. Is debt the duct tape of the world? And then appleciders said it couldn’t. So debt is not the duct tape of the world? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/14 "2010-02-14T17:14:34Z")
\ Oh my GOD IT’S MANNY PEOPLES. Where are the people who were on the old SDMB back when it was on AOL? THIS SAME GUY (or at least a guy who also called himself ZSPHOBIASZ) posted a number of inane questions to the old SDMB oh gosh, this was going on TWELVE YEARS AGO all starting with the phrase “manny people ask me and now I wonder…”. The repetition of the phrase and the ridiculous questions led to much mockery, and it became an inside board joke for years. I am amused and surprised to see this resurface after all of this time. I am curious to know if this is the same guy, or a really long-term troll. Or both, I guess. \ ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/15 "2010-02-14T17:15:33Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > And then appleciders said it couldn’t. So debt is not the duct tape of the world? Of course not. There is no “duct tape” of the world. People do their thing day in and day out because of inertia. Again, you’d need some hugely cataclysmic event (like a zombie uprising or a global simeltaneous nuclear war like Judgment Day) to break that cycle for everyone. Smaller disasters (like Hurricane Katrina or the Hait earthquake for example) can break the day-to-day cycle for a small group of people. But because they rest of the world still stands the idea of continuing on with a Mad Max-like existance is seen as silly. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/16 "2010-02-14T17:15:51Z")
Duct tape is the duct tape of the world. ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/17 "2010-02-14T17:28:05Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > \ > > Oh my GOD IT’S MANNY PEOPLES. > > Where are the people who were on the old SDMB back when it was on AOL? > > THIS SAME GUY (or at least a guy who also called himself ZSPHOBIASZ) posted a number of inane questions to the old SDMB oh gosh, this was going on TWELVE YEARS AGO all starting with the phrase “manny people ask me and now I wonder…”. The repetition of the phrase and the ridiculous questions led to much mockery, and it became an inside board joke for years. > > I am amused and surprised to see this resurface after all of this time. I am curious to know if this is the same guy, or a really long-term troll. Or both, I guess. > > \ Hi! I do not remember you. Are you OpalKat or DrainBead maybe? I was not a troll, I was just confused before. I was angry because I thought it was Jews and Black people and other species of humans who were trying to make the world bad. I have learned better. All species of humans are the same. It is bad to think otherwise and what some bad people try to make people do. And it is hard to know what other people live like because you have an invisible backpack. I was gone so long because I thought this was only on americonline, and then it left america online, and then I found it here in 2002 and signed up, but then I forgot about it, but then yesterday I saw a VHS tape of this at a yard sale and I remembered. So i came back. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/18 "2010-02-14T17:30:53Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > I was not a troll, I was just confused before. I was angry because I thought it was Jews and Black people and other species of humans who were trying to make the world bad. I have learned better. All species of humans are the same. It is bad to think otherwise and what some bad people try to make people do. And it is hard to know what other people live like because you have an invisible backpack. > > I was gone so long because I thought this was only on americonline, and then it left america online, and then I found it here in 2002 and signed up, but then I forgot about it, but then yesterday I saw a VHS tape of this at a yard sale and I remembered. Wow. This is surreal. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/19 "2010-02-14T17:35:20Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > Would this make people like Tyler Durden wanted? Wanted in the sense that the FBI would be after him? Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-fight-club/528927/20 "2010-02-14T19:11:40Z")
I keep my World Duct Tape in my invisible backpack.