If they weren't brawling in low-rent theme pubs, they were being thrashed by the English in increasingly new and interesting ways.
Last winter's "Butmir process", an embarrassing failure, saw Bosnian leaders brawling and swapping lewd jokes and insults like schoolboys, while Carl Bildt (the Swedish foreign minister) and Jim Steinberg (the US deputy secretary of state) failed to establish order in class.
"Caravaggio: The Final Years" is the first to concentrate on the last four years of the artist's life, 1606-10, when hadhad fled Rome after accidentally killing a man.His artistic reputation had preceded him, and he was welcomed first in Naples, and then Malta, where he was invited to join the knighthood for his artistic virtue before being imprisoned for brawling.
When you are brawling on the edge of a cliff, the big question is not "Who is right?", but "What the hell are you doing on the edge of a cliff?"The shutdown itself is tiresome but bearable.
When you've spent a decade publicly abusing, denigrating and brawling with someone, it's quite hard to hit the STOP button and pretend like nothing's happened.
As Wyatt was delivering a sermon after the match, Dean Ambrose appeared and the two started brawling, Ambrose coming out on top and destroying his rival's rocking chair.
A Devonshire duck known as 'Star' has badly injured his beak after brawling with a dog following a drinking session at his local pub.
You manage to barricade yourself behind an upturned table in the corner, and just when you think things can't get any worse, a bunch of thugs from the rough pub next door hear there's some trouble and decide to use the opportunity to take over the pub and make it as lawless as the one they've come from (where people have been brawling non-stop for the best part of a decade).
Andrew Powell, the international No 8 sacked by Wasps after brawling with a group of football supporters in a Shepherd's Bush bar and finishing a distant second, has secured a two-year contract with Sale, who are rebuilding their squad after confirming the departure of 21 players earlier this week.
It's a typically bruising encounter by the two, brawling back and forth trading signature moves and spilling outside the ring.
In the end, it was a fight that lived up to the hype and became a terrific scrap over the last four rounds with both men bleeding and brawling.
