I suspect the word choice of “decorum” was a little tongue-in-cheek, but there is a legitimate point there. If you are going to put your hands on someone, you should be willing to take what comes. Punch-and-run is contemptible.
Excessive use of profanity is. It illustrates that the young’n hasn’t learned that the more you say “fuck,” the less it means to the people hearing it. You’re disarming yourself by using it all the time. Save it for when it counts, and the effect is much more gratifying.
I disagree completely with you on this.
Unusual and exciting it may have been, but do these things really happen in hotel bars? I can’t blame the OP for have wanting to engage the opposition if he had decided to continued directly antagonizing him, but the repercussions might have been incalculable. Don’t employers generally frown on their employees going on the road and getting in fistfights? Not to mention that even if you’re traveling on your own time and dime, what seems like a fair fight may look like aggravated assault to the locals, including the twelve men and women who will sit in judgment on your behavior. I’m not exaggerating, this happened to a friend of mine.
Nope, apart from the brawling part. If you’re on your own and not at home then a few beers is a good way to ensure a good nights sleep.
No doubt, but–no offense–do you have any basis for knowing the difference?
You made clear that your cultural background involves liberal use of profanity, and that nobody thinks much of it. So I’d say you Aussies are disarmed in the sense I meant. Other Aussies will hardly notice, and you may startle or offend some Americans by your casual profanity without intending to. Either way, your ability to make specific emphasis is reduced.
That’s a completely different scenario. Were that to happen, all bets would be off and an ass-kicking would be justified. OP, on the other hand, didn’t even try to be the bigger man, just the tough guy. Sure, he said he only wanted to get a drink at the bar, but he only extricated himself from the situation after he impressed everybody with his hardassness. I don’t blame him, though, I guess. “I told him to knock it off, he didn’t, I walked away with my integrity intact, and didn’t sink the level of a dumbass bar brawler” doesn’t make a good Pit thread. He also wouldn’t have had the chance to tell us how much chicks dig a guy like him who “kicks ass.”
*It is not “spineless” to protect ones self, nor to insist that at least a small amount of respect be displayed. *
Nor is it “spineless,” as Rand Rover insinuated, to get up and walk away. Who gives a fuck if some retard brags to his friends about how he “punked some guy” who “didn’t even do shit?” Big fucking deal. Who listens to dumbass bar braggarts anyway?
The more people like you allow Asshole to act anyway he likes, the worse he gets
There’s no better way to defuse a guy itching for a fight than to laugh in his face, walk away, and not give him what he wants.
What a shocking turn of events. Rand Rover develops a less than effusively gushing opinion of another poster. To what is the world coming?
Perhaps trying to start a bar fight is something you should have grown out of by now.
Well, since she’s been dead and in the ground for a year and a half, that pretty much says more about what you’re willing to fuck then about her lack of ability to turn you down.
You gotta be careful. It might be the one that carries a knife. I think they wrote a song about him awhile back.
Believing that profanity has any special power compared to normal words (superstitious BS) is immature. I’m not disarming myself when I say “fuck” because I don’t consider myself armed by it to begin with.
Eggggsactly! I think the OP was imagining himself to be a sort of Clint Eastwood when he was writing this. Unfortunately, he sounds more like an aging Steven Seagal in one of his pathetic, and sadly ubiquitous, pool hall fight scenes.
Good job.
He seems to be quite fond of necrophilia, actually.
Recent events have made me change my mind on this. I know longer care if the guy was violent. You act like an asshole, you risk having that ass kicked.
It’s precisely the fact that this is not the case on the Internet that creates the Internet Toughguy, and allows assholes to roam free. Even on this very message board.
BigT, could you pass that through a translator, and run that last post by me again?
Thanks!
I can’t be the only one who keeps reading msmith537’s username as “Ms. Mith”, and since he’s picking fights I can’t help but picture him like this. But judging from his apparent maturity level, perhaps it should be more like this
It’s the second link, FTW.
Both are wrong. According to the OP, smith looks something like this.
That’s how I picture everyone on the boards.
