# You wanna kick MY ass? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414 "2008-10-31T12:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/21 "2008-10-31T14:41:31Z")
I got your back, **VB**. If you would have picked a stronger greeting like cocksucker, you could have avoided the rest of the conversation.😃 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/22 "2008-10-31T14:44:31Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’ll stand-up for the bubster. No he wasn’t Polly Purebread, but I don’t see anything wrong with what **VunderBob** said. Had I been the inadvertent line-jumper, I’d probably have replied, “Oops. Sorry about that, chief.” > > Being called “bub” is no call for threats of violence. [Dane Cook] Chief? I got your **chief** right here, **Pal** [/Dane Cook] ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/23 "2008-10-31T14:55:50Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > The fact that you could have been even MORE of a dick does not render your behavior other than dickish. And for some reason you consider yourself justified because you consider yourself to be a badass. > > You - not the other guy - provoked, and then chose to escalate, that situation. Well played, asshole. Yup. He was the bigger asshole, but you started it with your jerkish bowing up because he didn’t realize the line was in a different place, and it’s a reflected by your later “I coulda kicked his ass” attitude. You come across as a guy who thinks he’s a badass and therefore you see no reason to be polite. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/24 "2008-10-31T14:56:45Z")
Too Late for the edit - What **VunderBub** should have done. NSFW audio - [Dane Cook](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgOm0RCZOw) For those of you who don’t have headphones. It’s a Dane Cook Comedy monologue about a line cutting incidence escalating at a Walgreen’s store. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/25 "2008-10-31T15:01:53Z")
I’m curious about these “aces in the hole.” If you mean weapons, you’re a coward as well as a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/26 "2008-10-31T15:04:46Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I’m curiousm about these “aces in the hole.” If you mean weapons, you’re a coward as well as a jerk. No weapons, but I’m not a soft target, either. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/27 "2008-10-31T15:11:59Z")
This is heading downhill fast [/voice of experience] ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/28 "2008-10-31T15:12:47Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > This is heading downhill fast [/voice of experience] On that, we agree. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/29 "2008-10-31T15:16:52Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > After being told that I’d better wait for him, I would have went to sporting goods, picked up a bat and proceeded to checkout, being sure to pass him on the way. And then Bub goes to the same section, and gets a golf club. And **Vunder** goes to the garden shop and grabs a hedge trimmer. So Bub goes to hardware and gets an axe. Then he sends one of yours to the hospital, and you send one of his to the morgue! Wait, I sort of got distracted there. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/30 "2008-10-31T15:16:56Z")
Pal - Buddy-Chief-(Bub) are [officially](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfi7dLLiX4) documented as being terms that mean “it is on”. You’ve actually covered the last 20 minutes of Comedy album. Is this a whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/31 "2008-10-31T15:30:08Z")
And I thought being screeched at by a grumpy old lady while I was in line @ the grocery store and my response was a bit mean—“I’m sorry, but it seems that you’re not the most important person on the face of the earth, so please to be shutting up now!” I have no real clue what I did or didn’t do to piss her off. Maybe I was making her 5 minutes late to something, I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/32 "2008-10-31T15:30:43Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > After being told that I’d better wait for him, I would have went to sporting goods, picked up a bat and proceeded to checkout, being sure to pass him on the way. > [@VunderBob](#): > > 😃 As he goes to the gun department… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/33 "2008-10-31T15:31:14Z")
Whatever happened to “Excuse me, but, I was next”? Nobody waiting in line for a prescription fill is going to be in the best of moods. I agree that threatening to ‘beat you up’ is way, way over the top. But ‘Bub’ is not a particularly good way to address a stranger in this innocuous social interaction. I’m curious, where do you live? I’m gonna come over there and kick your ass. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/34 "2008-10-31T15:35:42Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > And then Bub goes to the same section, and gets a golf club. And **Vunder** goes to the garden shop and grabs a hedge trimmer. So Bub goes to hardware and gets an axe. Then he sends one of yours to the hospital, and you send one of his to the morgue! > > Wait, I sort of got distracted there. Isn’t that just like a Bub, bringing a weedwacker to a lawn dart fight. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/35 "2008-10-31T15:36:18Z")
I find it really amusing that some of you criticizing **VunderBob** for a lack of decorum, are yourselves resorting to insulting him in this thread. And don’t give me “it’s the fucking Pit” routine. If you’re going to act like you’re the paragon of virtue in real life, perhaps the Pit’s a good place to demonstrate how it’s supposed to be done. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/36 "2008-10-31T15:40:37Z")
> [@Mellivora\_capensis](#): > > I find it really amusing that some of you criticizing **VunderBob** for a lack of decorum, are yourselves resorting to insulting him in this thread. It’s called calling someone out on their bullshit. Don’t make me come over there later! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/37 "2008-10-31T15:44:11Z")
> [@Mellivora\_capensis](#): > > I find it really amusing that some of you criticizing **VunderBob** for a lack of decorum, are yourselves resorting to insulting him in this thread. And don’t give me “it’s the fucking Pit” routine. If you’re going to act like you’re the paragon of virtue in real life, perhaps the Pit’s a good place to demonstrate how it’s supposed to be done. Hey, skippy, you’re not the boss of me! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/38 "2008-10-31T15:44:44Z")
Wow, talk about deja vu! I posted a “flipped the guy off and walked away” story some months ago. (My adversary was a belligerent drunk ex-con on public transport). The general consensus was that I should have just ignored the jerk. I have since taken that advice to heart. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/39 "2008-10-31T15:51:41Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Hey, skippy, you’re not the boss of me! Maybe, but the back of the line is behind me. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414/40 "2008-10-31T15:52:15Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You need to pick your fights better. We may be of similar height and weight, but I’m ten years younger and in a lot better shape, and I have a few aces up my sleeve that give me the advantage. Razor sharp retractable blades in your forearms? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-kick-my-ass/470414.md?page=3)