I don’t know Rebel Without a Cause but the “Is that meaning me? Is that meaning me?” sounds extremely immature. An immature response is not what I was going for.
I was the guy he punched 
It made me sad (you can tell by the upside down smileys).
Please put my name betwixt multiple parentheses in classic sad-sack-loving SDMB fashion
Well, we’ve got rather a large stock of nuclear weapons, for one thing.
Yeah? Well, you show up to mess with me, you’d best bring the other 499,999,999 with you.
You gotta be in **MPSIMS **for this to work, dude. Here in the Pit, you’ll only find hate, more hate, and some guy who wants to fuck your mother when she dies.
Yeah, that’s why I like it here.
Also, I’ve got a pretty terrible batting average with mom jokes and dead mothers. Word to the wise–if I ever say anything about fucking your mother, you’d better call that skank and make sure she’s alright (or call her pimp if her phone got cut off again)
((((Rand Rover))))
The thing is, usually the person who throws the first punch already wins. You already have an advantage of knowing when you are going to start it, and, if you know anything at all about fighting, you’ve already dealt a pretty substantial blow. Plus, once you’re already angry, it’s much easier to take a hit–you barely feel it.
And, honestly, I reject that there is some bright line that cannot be crossed. Laughing in someones face is already over the beginning of the line. What I actually propose is that the legal bright line pulled back a bit. Where it is right now is basically saying we’re okay with people being assholes. There’s no reason for anybody not to walk straight up to the line.
That was actually close to my original point, that the wimped out society we currently have just encourages some people to become assholes, and current assholes to just get worse. I wasn’t recommending throwing the first punch tho.
Well, not really. All it says is that we don’t consider someone being an asshole a sufficient justification for initiating physical violence.
And that’s fine by me.
Over what line? Over the line of being an asshole? Absolutely. Over the line of actually starting a fistfight? No.
If I saw a guy in a bar punch another guy for laughing at him, even for laughing at him in a deliberately nasty and assholish way, I would not be thinking “Oh good, that asshole got what was coming to him, three cheers for the guy who punched him”. I’d be thinking “Holy shit, that’s one violent crazy goon over there physically attacking someone for laughing at him, maybe time to leave”.
Buncha fucking savages. Beasts - the OP and all his silverback supporters.
This is a horrible thread. It leaves a bad taste in my brain.
I was thinking more Marty McFly.
I’ve no reason to believe the events described in the OP didn’t happen in some form and I’ve no issues with someone on a business trip having a drink at the hotel bar (because that’s what you do on business trips). However, the thread title alone moves this from “Let me tell you about this thing that happened to me” to “Let me tell you how awesome I am, no really I am”. Which, on the Internet, automatically draws derision no matter what messageboard you’re on. I’m surprised we haven’t had a “pics or it didn’t happen” post somewhere along the line.
If this had just been a minor rant along the lines of “Stop bothering me when I’m drinking, loser boy” it probably would have gone down much better. The OP needs to work a lot more at the whole self-deprecation thing.
I once shot a man in Reno just to see him die.
Frankly, it wasn’t worth the trip.
I made the same mistake–I thought the OP was female as well. Apparently we’re supposed to pay closer attention to the 60,000 people who post here. :rolleyes:
ETA: Now that I know what goes on in hotel bars, I see no reason to change my habit and frequent them. I may miss some drama, but I’ll take my chances.
Don’t make us go all apeshit on your ass…
Careful, a hug in The Pit is probably of the Trojan variety, ending with an atomic wedgie.
I’d relate my own story from this past weekend but I’ve got a couple of stolen ladies in their mid thirties that need my attention…
Woo, I’m so scared:rolleyes:
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