If it enrages him, too bad. The point is that you don’t respond to mere words or gestures with violence. If the other guy loses it and starts swinging, THEN it’s ok to defend yourself with whatever amount of force is needed.
Whether or not it’s ok to taunt someone who clearly has problems with self-control, in order to entice them to get violent, and therefor kick their ass in self-defense, well, that’s another thread. Oh, and whether laughing at them is taunting them is still ANOTHER thread.
Gotta love the SDMB. Some dude nakes a post about his courageous struggle with a strange illness or injury, and the SDMB laps it up. Another dude says he’s physically attractive or makes one dollar over the national median and everyone calls him a liar and a bragging douchebag.
Gotta love the Rand Rover. People should care more about his solid gold commode and sympathy is for pussies.
Yeah. Um… what’s your point?
Just a disclaimer. I wasn’t there, I don’t know the OP, I don’t know the youngun he pushed, I don’t know the young ladies. So let me tell you what really happened
Two guys got in a douchebag contest at a bar, one guy lost. Story at never.
The point is that you believe sad-sack stories but not the opposite (uh, happy-sack?).
If he’s not telling the truth he’s a lying, bragging douchebag, otherwise he’s just a bragging douchebag.
Not true. Curling into the fetal position and letting someone kick you in the back until they hurt their knee takes guts.
This one time I fuckin punched a guy, and he didn’t like it.
That’s actually got a lot of validity to it. I haven’t been sure throughout this whole thread why people were lining up to give msmith a hard time - given that the encounter and his OP were both alcohol-fueled, this fits in with his board personality just fine, and I don’t doubt it happened pretty much as he said (well, the “two guys got into a douchebag contest” sounds right on the money).
But in an OP that’s about who’s the bigger douchebag why did the winning douchebag just happpen to fighting off all that vejayjay??? Huh??? What do douchebags and vejayjays have to do with each other!!!
Oh, for fuck’s sake. You sound like Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause.
“Is that meaning me? Is that meaning me?”
I think you/msmith deserve(s) a little more credit.
-I can believe chicks dig him now more than 15 years ago. And his being pleasantly surprised by it.
-He travels around on business trips and hangs out in hotels. Half the wankers in this thread live with their mom.
-Piss him off and he’ll get violent, take your women, then gloat about it. He may or may not bang one or more of them, depending on how drunk/faithful he’s feeling. People don’t like it, but it was fun for him. He got in touch with his inner chest-pounding gorilla! 
No really! I know the OP never takes me seriously when I recommend yoga, but I think it could be positive. You could get that Tarzan feeling without risking unknowingly shoving the '08 NJ bantam weight champion or something.
Pithy. I like the way you take the pith.
My mother-in-law lives with me. That’s not the same thing.
Unlike the guy who dubbed 1970s Hong Kong Action Movies, I have inflection and tone in my voice.
So, I (or any other person, in fact) can say “This is fucking bullshit” and have it mean no more than “I disagree with this event, result, or outcome, but really, it’s not worth getting all that worked up over in any meaningful sense”- say, for example, when I walk into work and there’s five pallets of stock to put out because the usual stock guy is off sick- or I can say “This is FUCKING BULLSHIT!” which can be interpreted to mean “I am extremely displeased and implore you to do something to fix the problem that has led to this exclamation”.
Or, to put it another way, no, my ability to make specific emphasis is in no way reduced by having an arsenal of swear-words on speed-dial if needs be.
And why should I be worried about startling or offending Americans with my casual profanity anyway? 
Really? Tell me more. I, as a chick, “dig” this sort of thing.
Well, not to brag or anything, but I’m easily one of the 500 million strongest persons on Earth.
I don’t mind a little macho bragging, but this is the part that says “douchebag” to me:
I admit that my own experience of bar-brawling is very limited, but ISTM that if you just shoved somebody who hadn’t laid a hand on you, and you genuinely want to avoid further trouble if possible, you would immediately pick up your drink and go elsewhere. Deliberately offering further provocation to the guy you just shoved, by making a point of talking to his female companions whom he didn’t like you talking to in the first place, comes across as being an asshole who’s spoiling for a fight.
Yup - so? I didn’t say anything about violence.
Why? Doesn’t seem to be that off topic.