How does head butting someone in the head with your own head ever work

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I see this shit in movies all the time and it always just looks insane to me. Even just basic physics should mean that the equal and opposite reaction of one skull banging into the other would knock each person out equally. How does this ever work? The character always walks away like some badass as if they wouldn’t have some major concussion and are invincible. The only use of this I ever appreciated was the parody in an Adam Sandler movie where the guy did it and did actually pass out from it.

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It looks cool in movies, but hurts like hell in real life and you rarely land it right.

I sometimes managed to end up in fights with boys when I was a kid, and for some reason I got it in my head that since I wasn’t physically as strong as they were…. I’d just headbutt them and win! Perfect plan.

Which did not work. At all.

Though I did win sometimes, it was purely coincidental.

Most of the time I’d hit their fucking forehead with mine and miss their noses completely. Other times I did hit their nosebridge perfectly…… With my eyebrow. Which resulted in probably even more pain for me than for them. Other times I’d accidentally butt MY fucking nose on THEIR stupid forehead.

Some things should not be tried in real life. And I wish someone taught me that the hight difference mattered too.

11 year old me probably looked completely deranged and they most likely stopped picking fights with me cause they thought I was insane.

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