A question of etiquette.

[Cramulus]

Realize that they didn't mean anything personal by it, it was just typical territorial dick waving. These behaviors become a lot more pronounced when you're drunk. Your reaction is natural, you were responding to a territorial threat. (piss is the most ancient territorial marker)

He didn't actually piss on you though, it was just some barking. By not reacting to it, I think you actually won the conflict. But I can see why you're frustrated - you perceived the barking as a challenge, and didn't push back, so it kind of feels like you chickened out, right? Well you didn't, you kept pissing there until YOU were done, then you left. Everything happened on your terms. Meaning it was your territory all along.


"Hey! You're pissing where I wanted to piss! That's mah pee spot!"
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[Adios]

Thing is Cram, one day they are going to run into a really crazy motherfucker. There are plenty out there.

[Cramulus]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

[Adios]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

Uhhhh......Cram seriously let me just say it's far better to leave some people alone. I would have given them a chance to back off. However if they didn't...........

[Elder Iptuous]

i think Cram's analysis is spot on.

I would probably have simply taken my time....
shake a little too long....
if they say anything else, engage in quiet conversation with my penis, or something just to see how they react...

passive aggressive stuff always has worked well for me.
i ain't ever been punched, and i don't think less of myself for it.

[Adios]

I never look for trouble. I was just raised to not walk away from it.

[Elder Iptuous]

if all it takes is walking, then why not?

[Adios]

if all it takes is walking, then why not?

I guess I grew up in a different time and in a different place. Hardly anyone ever walked away. Oddly there was as a result a lot of thought put into starting anything because you knew you would get called on it. It worked for us and it still does for me.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

People who walk around trying to physically humiliate people for no apparent reason need to get jerked up short.

While I wouldn't go as far as destroying their knees, I wouldn't see any problem with forcing them to kneel at the altar.

[Adios]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

People who walk around trying to physically humiliate people for no apparent reason need to get jerked up short.

While I wouldn't go as far as destroying their knees, I wouldn't see any problem with forcing them to kneel at the altar.

My knee theory is self preservation. If the bastard can't get up he can't hurt me.

[Doktor Howl]

Walk away. The answer is walk after you stomp on their knees completely destroying every tendon and ligament. They will remember this night every step they take for the rest of their lives.

Hawk
doesn't believe in non-violence.

There's also a thing called a level of proportion.  Drunken jackasses should get knocked down a peg, but permanently crippling someone over what's basically some ook ook is taking things beyond a peg and into psychopathy.

Not to mention a monster lawsuit they ARE going to win, plus probably 2-3 in the pen.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

People who walk around trying to physically humiliate people for no apparent reason need to get jerked up short.

While I wouldn't go as far as destroying their knees, I wouldn't see any problem with forcing them to kneel at the altar.

My knee theory is self preservation. If the bastard can't get up he can't hurt me.

Dropping their chin on the urinal has the same effect and doesn't render them permanently crippled.

[Adios]

I'm just sayin' that if you respond to every symbolic threat as if its an actual threat, you're going to get in a lot of fights over absolutely nothing.

Hawk, you're talking about destroying somebody's knees and causing life-long damage in response to the suggestion that somebody might get some salty yellow fluid on your clothing. I hope that this is just talk, and you don't actually go around putting people in the hospital for looking at you cockeyed.

People who walk around trying to physically humiliate people for no apparent reason need to get jerked up short.

While I wouldn't go as far as destroying their knees, I wouldn't see any problem with forcing them to kneel at the altar.

My knee theory is self preservation. If the bastard can't get up he can't hurt me.

Dropping their chin on the urinal has the same effect and doesn't render them permanently crippled.

Yes but I openly admit I am crazy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

With understanding comes responsibility, and insanity is not gonna save your ass from getting raped in prison.

Also, I'm smelling a load of bluster, if you know what I mean.

[Adios]

With understanding comes responsibility, and insanity is not gonna save your ass from getting raped in prison.

Also, I'm smelling a load of bluster, if you know what I mean.

Not so much. One of my friends won a national kickboxing championship a few years back. Sitting at the bar one night he asked me what I would do if he came after me. Physically I would stand no chance so I told him I would start shooting at 15 feet and stop when the gun was empty. I think I really did grow up far differently than a lot of you.