What’s the opposite to The Internet Toughguy - The Internet Milquetoast, who thinks everything should be settled by a rousing game of speed chess?
Or attempted murder, like pushing a guy backwards down a flight of stairs?
How would you score the above on the contemptible scale?
CMC fnord!
He does look badass as a redhead.
You know what I hate? Sneak-bragging. That’s that thing where, you pretend to be casually discussing a topic, all the while, trying to work in all the ways you are awesome.
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Well, black, because that is the color of my bookcase which holds 500 books. I had more books, but had to purge, so I gave away 75% of my collection. Having had learned to read at 2 and a half according to my mom, I decided that my book case one day would be black. Also, since I read so fast that the words are really a blur, I would have to say gray is my favorite color also…since gray is the color of the blur. So, yeah…black and gray are my favorite colors.”
It would be annoying if it weren’t hilarious.
But sometimes, you just want to do some good old fashioned bragging. Like when someone says, “let’s talk about how cool our kids are!” and we can all join in to talk about Billy’s win in the soccer game, or Kisha’s win in the spelling bee. Those times, bragging doesn’t bother me, because it is just in honest fun…not sneak-bragging.
I think the OP was just indulging in some good old fashioned honest bragging. He had a cool story to tell and wanted to tell it. I think it would have been a smidge more honest if he had put it in MPSIMS. He just had a story to tell and wanted to share it. He probably shouldn’t have put it in the Pit as if it were still upsetting him so much that he had to blow off steam. But other than that, I find it to be a much more honest form of bragging than we often get around here.
Defended your personal space? Check.
Didn’t get a bloody nose or a shiner? Check.
Didn’t spill your scotch? Check.
Stayed out of jail? Check.
Didn’t hook up with some girl who wasn’t your wife? Check.
Embellished story so it would stay out of MPSIMS? Check.
Angered other posters for said embellishments? Check.
Sounds like a successful trip, IMHO. Just ease up on the embellishments a little and stick to the notion that if you value your personal space, then respect other people’s personal space…i.e.- keep your hands off of other people (even if they’re idiots) and stick to self-defense.
IMO nothing the OP said comes close to sufficient reason for initiating physical contact. I’ve been in a number of hotel bars, and am having a hard time imagining a situation where I could not have kept an eye on the people around me while I made a rapid exit. Hell, I probably would have apologized to the young idiot as I excused myself. If feeling generous, might have offered to buy him a drink. Initiating a fight simply brings too many negative possibilities to the table, as opposed to the numerous alternatives available.
If I had acted as the OP, I would hope that I would later regret my actions, and feel embarrassed.
Hell, makes me relieved that during my drinking days my general practice was to buy a bottle of gin and hole up in my room watching cable! 
The Opposite is just another version of the Internet Toughguy. The person who masturbates furiously over every opportunity to be recreationally outraged at the idea that someone else might actually assert themselves in real life.
AKA The White Knight.
[Takes a break from furious masturbation to compose this post]We only wank off when the post goes like, “So all these fine bitches wanted my junk, and this one dude was jealous because they wanted my junk so bad and tried to pick a fight with me, then I totally kicked his ass, which made the bitches want my junk even more. Fuck yeah!”
The thing is, the OP is sneak bragging. The title of the thing is “I cannot believe you are actually making a 37 year old man on a business trip kick your ass”, but there was no actual fight. Ms. Mith didn’t actually kick anybody’s ass. He shoved a guy. That’s it. There was no fight.
Instead we get him talking about how all the ladies are hot for him on his business trip. Consider:
He’s not talking about the fight or kicking somebodiy’s ass (because, well, he didn’t actually do anything). He just wants us to know how irresistible he is to the ladies. He is sneak bragging and it’s pathetic, because he neither fought nor did he get laid. Nothing happened, so what the fuck is he bragging about? Again, pathetic.
And the line about “turning down sex” registers on my bullshitometer. It really sounds like it’s coming from the guy who tells all his friends “I could of had her” after some random chick just happens to smile at him.
You show me a man who is cool enough to assert himself in real life and I’ll show you a man who doesn’t wank off over it by posting about how cool he was for doing it on the Internet. Bonus points for when he asserts how all the 20-something cuties present wanted his 37 year old cock so bad they were fighting over it.
I’m just surprised that the OP didn’t tell us all how he once had an awkward moment just to see how it feels or that he can speak French … in Russian.
Stay thirsty, my friends.
My mom has a tatoo that says “son”.
Then there’s the creepy guy who masturbates over Internet Toughguy, imagining *himself * putting loudmouthed whippersnappers in *their *place with a chest-butt, or perhaps just some passive-aggressive condescension…
(bolding, mine) Yes! My term is catching on! I made that up!
Just make sure he’s not spending like a sailor, and doesn’t have like four hotties forming a line to the right, and you’re probably good to go.
Could it be our boy’s done something rash?
At least you aren’t sneak bragging about it. 
This is an example of unconcealed bragging.
We call that ambush bragging.
Not the way I presented it. My experience has been that if one doesn’t shut this sort of situation down before leaving, turning ones back just makes Asshole worse.
OP was drunk, both at the time and when he wrote the post. Some, if not all, of his possible desire to be the tough guy is probably booze fueled. OTOH, being the tough guy and being the bigger man are not necessarily contradictions.
It can be. Depends on what you choose to do when Asshole takes it as an indication of your being chicken.
Apparently, you have never been in a situation when laughing in Asshole’s face results in his becoming enraged at the slight on his “manhood”…
BTW, this sort of problem isn’t limited to the male of the species. It may even be that it is more of a problem in females.