# Mel Gibson dials it up to 11 with new telephone recording. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490 "2010-07-13T03:07:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/61 "2010-07-13T15:13:36Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > He obviously means he’s going to ‘set the roof on fire’, common party parlance. Her blowing him is related to her being a whore. You’re reading too much into it, **Dio**. Yeah that’s it.[He’s a party machine.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsaNOnWW3ZQ&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/62 "2010-07-13T15:26:55Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “I am going to come and burn the f\*\*king house down… but you will blow me first.” And they say that true romance is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/63 "2010-07-13T15:31:47Z")
This would be a good time to get into Stand-up Comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/64 "2010-07-13T15:47:13Z")
It would be a good time to download some Mel movies from Pirate Bay. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/65 "2010-07-13T16:25:49Z")
He was a quiet man. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/66 "2010-07-13T16:32:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > True, but… you don’t date O.J. and then act surprised when he gets insanely jealous. There’s no way that she couldn’t know he was a lunatic when she started dating him; there’s also no way she didn’t know he was one of the richest men in show business and the married father of seven kids. There’s a big difference between spewing anti-Semitic nonsense and having a drinking problem, versus knocking out your wife’s teeth while she’s holding your baby, then threatening to kill her. His being already married when they met has nothing to do with this. She should have been expecting that he’d **cheat** on her, not beat her. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/67 "2010-07-13T16:50:10Z")
Racist, misogonyst, anti-semitic…he has hit on three of the big four, only so far as I can tell missing out on homophobic, although given his religious leanings I am sure I just haven’t looked hard enough. What a vile man. Our Trivia team name yesterday was “Mel Gibson’s PR Agency” and our motto was “Always assume you are bekng recorded”. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/68 "2010-07-13T17:03:22Z")
Oh, he’s [homophobic.](http://ml.berkeleyblogs.com/archives/mel_gibson_is_homophobic_too.html) ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/69 "2010-07-13T17:09:12Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Oh, he’s [homophobic.](http://ml.berkeleyblogs.com/archives/mel_gibson_is_homophobic_too.html) Wow. That was quite a while ago, too. Guess everyone forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/70 "2010-07-13T17:17:03Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Oh, he’s [homophobic.](http://ml.berkeleyblogs.com/archives/mel_gibson_is_homophobic_too.html) Mel hits for the cycle! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/71 "2010-07-13T17:35:46Z")
I’ve known loud mouths my entire life. I’ve had guys get in my face. Threaten to beat my ass. Even had one asshole threaten to burn my house. Usually the loud mouths are just that. All bluster. They don’t have the balls to back it up. Well usually they are all talk. 😛 I did have to fight one of those guys years ago. I never enjoyed fights. Sometimes you can’t avoid them. I personally think Mel is a loud mouth jerk. He was blowing off steam. It’s macho posturing bull crap. Guys do that sort of thing. All this terrorist threatening stuff is silly. If Mel was dangerous he would have killed this woman months and months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/72 "2010-07-13T17:37:30Z")
Mel Gibson is an animal. I have never heard anyone in my own life talk like that to anyone ever. I don’t care how she might have “led” him - no one could be led that way who wasn’t inclined in the first place. He’s sick. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/73 "2010-07-13T17:40:44Z")
What would you say to the fact that he’s already actually knocked out her teeth (with the baby in her arms, I might add)? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/74 "2010-07-13T17:43:30Z")
😕 😕 you must have led a sheltered life. I’ve heard much, much worse. loud mouths are usually harmless. The quiet guys are the ones that are dangerous. They are the ones that mean business. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/75 "2010-07-13T17:45:42Z")
He should be prosecuted for that. If there’s proof I’m sure charges will be filed. > [@descamisado](#): > > What would you say to the fact that he’s already actually knocked out her teeth (with the baby in her arms, I might add)? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/76 "2010-07-13T17:46:36Z")
He’s my favorite actor, and I like him even more now. Not only is his performance in The Patriot one of the best ever, now he’s fighting Communism too! You go, Mel. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/77 "2010-07-13T17:46:53Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I’m not disagreeing with you all. I believe that’s what he meant also. > > But if you want to stretch your mind to the limits of absurdity, you can think that when she says that twice, he goes all goofy and starts making that boo hoo sound, then says “your all angry now”… He sounds like he’s mocking her. He then says “you deserved it” to mock her allegations again. > > All I’m saying is that even though he’s cooked in public opinion, he’s not cooked legally yet. Here’s the thing, I’ve never heard of a situation in court where the judge tells anyone that they must stretch their mind to the limits of absurdity. Hell, even in murder cases it isn’t NO doubt. It’s REASONABLE doubt. Reasonable does not equal stretching your mind to the limits of absurdity. IMHO you are just caught up in arguing with **Dio** about this and do not want to back down. A reasonable person can see that “You deserved it” means “You bet I did and you had it coming.” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/78 "2010-07-13T18:40:10Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Here’s the thing, I’ve never heard of a situation in court where the judge tells anyone that they must stretch their mind to the limits of absurdity. Hell, even in murder cases it isn’t NO doubt. It’s REASONABLE doubt. Reasonable does not equal stretching your mind to the limits of absurdity. > > IMHO you are just caught up in arguing with **Dio** about this and do not want to back down. A reasonable person can see that “You deserved it” means “You bet I did and you had it coming.” I don’t think the issue is whether he agrees Mel did, or did not do it, the issue is whether it’s provable in court via the recording. Given Gibsons ranting it’s not beyond imagining he could have done (or did) many violent things if he got himself sufficiently worked up. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/79 "2010-07-13T19:51:34Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 😕 😕 > > you must have led a sheltered life. I’ve heard much, much worse. Seriously? I’ve never heard anything even close to that bad. I stopped it at 3 minutes–if I’d seen a character acting that way on a movie, I would have thought it over-the-top and unrealistic. It blows my mind that anyone could sustain that level of vitriol for 8+ minutes. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490/80 "2010-07-13T20:06:07Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > Seriously? I’ve never heard anything even close to that bad. I stopped it at 3 minutes–if I’d seen a character acting that way on a movie, I would have thought it over-the-top and unrealistic. It blows my mind that anyone could sustain that level of vitriol for 8+ minutes. As epic as you think that rant is some people have to deal with people who are that bad and worse every day of their lives. It defines some people’s everyday existence to terrorize other people. I am surprised by how relatively sheltered some people are in thinking this is as bad as it gets. It can get worse. Much worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-gibson-dials-it-up-to-11-with-new-telephone-recording/546490.md?page=5)