Foo - The anger thread

I was on another forum and some guys posts this. We have some internet tough guys here and I thought they might like this.


Would this have gotten you into a fight???

So in my younger day I was quite the hot head. I would swing and had at the drop of a hat or for a wrong glance. I am now 30 years old. I am a SSgt in the Marines. I am a combat vet of both Iraq and Afghanistan. I am in Special operations. Worked years as a bouncer/bartender, dabbled in martial arts, wrestled in college and know I have nothing to prove, and my wife knows I would never throw down just to impress her. I no longer go out looking for trouble and would prefer just to be left alone anytime I am out. I do not consider myself a barroom tough guy.

Well I was out with my wife and her friend at a local bar. Once we went in they went to the bathroom and I grabbed a pool table. As they were walking by some guy said “damn” and turned his head and watched them walk all the way to the bathroom staring them down like a piece of meat. I got his attention and held up my ring and said “ careful that’s my wife” . He simply shrugged his shoulders as if saying I don’t give a S==T. I started to walk over with pool stick in hand. I was out numbered and out sized. There were his 3-5 and all bigger then me. One of the girls in their group grabbed him and another tried flirting with me to get my attention off it. When my wife and her friend cam back I simply said it was time to go and left.

I know I technically did the right thing but I still feel like I let someone get away with disrespecting my wife and her friend. I am sure they would have gotten the better of me and I would have gotten a pretty good beating but not before I took the pool stick across his throat. All I could think about was smashing the pool stick across his face then breaking one of his legs with a strait kick to the knee cap.

So my question is what would you guys have done???

Thanks guys and have a good one.

I would've said she's with me and just smiled.

Obviously this guy has some insecurity issues if he thinks he has to try and protect his wife from going home with another guy.

If my bf would've fought that guy, I would have been pissed.

I would've said she's with me and just smiled.

Obviously this guy has some insecurity issues if he thinks he has to try and protect his wife from going home with another guy.

+1
You have to wonder how many times he's said that himself when a pretty woman walked by and he wasn't with his wife.

If his wife heard the comment I bet she was high-fiving her friend when they got into the restroom.

I would've said she's with me and just smiled.

Obviously this guy has some insecurity issues if he thinks he has to try and protect his wife from going home with another guy.
I didn't read anywhere that he thought he was worried about his wife going home with another guy, just her being disrespected by some *******.


I've let my anger out once when WoCB was in a car wreck. She called me and said the guy was punching her car and window. I lived less than a mile from the accident and went to see what was going on. I walked up to the guy and ask what the issue was and why he thought it was OK to react the way he did. He invaded my personal space and paid the price. I regretted hitting him afterwards, but it happened. Cops showed up and thankfully he didn't press charges. After he left, the cop said he would of done the exact same thing.

I would've said she's with me and just smiled.

I probably would have said something similar. Maybe added a bit of humor to preface it. The other guy was rude and crude, but in all honesty chris....... can you say you've never looked at a fine woman that way?

But you were smart to get out of there, given the situation.

can you say you've never looked at a fine woman that way?
Looking and making a snide comment towards the women are two different things.

I would have to kick my own butt first, for I have looked at her and other women that way.

I would not fight over a look. I would speak up for obvious insulting verbal or physical disrepect, but not just for watching her walk by. If violence ensued, I would like to think I would not instigate or escalate, but I would defend myself.

I probably would have said something similar. Maybe added a bit of humor to preface it. The other guy was rude and crude, but in all honesty chris....... can you say you've never looked at a fine woman that way?

But you were smart to get out of there, given the situation.

I'm not the angry guy in the thread, I was just reading it on another forum. And yes, my mouth has got me in to trouble a few times. I know that's hard to believe.:)

I'm not the angry guy in the thread, I was just reading it on another forum. And yes, my mouth has got me in to trouble a few times. I know that's hard to believe.:)

Here in America, where you sound like a furriner, or back in BangersandMashville?

Looking and making a snide comment towards the women are two different things.

"Damn" is considered a snide comment? I guess if it was said to me I would choose not to be offended by it.

Here in America, where you sound like a furriner, or back in BangersandMashville?
Mostly back in the old country. Alcohol was usually involved. I've always been a bit of a smartass, unfortunately the boy is just like me.

Here in 'merica they just look at me with a confused look, while their women fawn all over me.

"Damn" is considered a snide comment? I guess if it was said to me I would choose not to be offended by it.

I'd agree with you there.

Damn

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n147/chrisa62401/2761435205_fb372d21b2_b.jpg

So my question is what would you guys have done???



I would have slapped Charlie Burgh in the face for hitting on Tude.

El Coucho

I would have done the same thing you did without getting in his face probably. One needs to avoid fights at all costs nowadays... people are very inclined to press charges at the slightest incident. The charges are often dropped, but it's still a hassle. I've only been in two fights. One, I provoked with a "yo momma" joke in 8th grade, refused to fight back and got a busted lip... and the other was when two guys tried to mug me on the way back from a kegger at SIU. Somehow in my drunken haze I managed to break one of their noses before they could get a hit in on me, which I only remembered because of the blood all over my sneakers in the morning, and that was enough to scare both off.

I'm not the angry guy in the thread, I was just reading it on another forum. And yes, my mouth has got me in to trouble a few times. I know that's hard to believe.:)

Just a few times? Slacker.

"Careful, that's my Wife!" Was this a Brady Bunch episode? :roflmao2:

I would have said, "Careful, that's my husband." Then the guy would have been confused, and I would have added, "Yes, I said husband."

Pile Drivers and Suplexes all around! Yeehaw!

Personally I would have avoided being in that situation in the first place, and would have hoped I wouldn't have had to remember more of my martial arts training than just letting it slide.
One of my biker friends used to be a bouncer in a bar with a lot of fights, and he's ended way too many of them that involved people who later regretted what they did when the sobered up. When he gives a party and says don't bring anyone with you that I'll have to throw out people know what he means.

I'm not the angry guy in the thread, I was just reading it on another forum. And yes, my mouth has got me in to trouble a few times. I know that's hard to believe.:)

Sorry, reading it closer, I see. My apology.

Hahaha LL. Or "can you believe he's pre-op? Imagine after the sex change!"

And I also misread thinking it was chris...

It is not worth the criminal or civil liability. I only take direct physical action in the defense of myself or others in response to a tangible physical threat. Idiots mouthing insults do no reach this standard.

Idiots mouthing insults do no reach this standard.

I find it strange that one would take "damn" as mouthing an insult. Then wanting to beat him with a pool stick because he shrugged his shoulders and filled in the words he wished he could have heard so that he coud get his arse beat by a group of guys.

As far as iditos, what kind of guy takes his wife to a bar, knowing drunk guys are present and expects them not to look or thiks that they won't? Now that is an idiot!

Guy referenced in OP has serious insecurity issues. Personally I don't mind people gawking at my wife and she kind of digs it when I notice. Heck, I do the same thing. Although it's more often at the latest Ferraris, damn... Hot chics are a dime a dozen around here.

I would have gone with ignore him. But would have rounded up the women folk once they returned from the washroom and headed back to the ponderosa on the horse and buggy. Well, maybe I'd scrawl "potty mouth" on the dirt on his horse.

Sorry, this makes no sense. My excuse is I had some gelato for dessert and the sugar goes right to my head.

I was on another forum and some guys posts this. . .

I'm sorry I don't understand, there are other forums?

as one who got into fights with guys at the sprawl-mart because I simply asked 'what's no parking means where you come from'? I have to say it is ridiculously easy to brawl. I don't do that anymore. although last summer I walked past a guy parked 10 feet from the store doors and all I said was moron. his window was up and he couldn't hear me, but he heard me say something and the next thing you know we're fighting and having total strangers pulling us apart.

I've found 90% of my brawls were because the guy thought I was smaller than I was and he was a bully. 75% of the time, once they realize they're in a fair fight they have some place to be and we'll have to do this again real soon. as for going into a bar and expecting drunks to respect your date, I don't even want to recount how stupid I've been in that situation, I don't go to bars anymore.
my last genius move was to tell loud biker dude blocking the crosswalk to buy a real bike.

seriously, other forums?

When I was taking martial arts class all my teachers said that we should not be involved in fights unless our safety or the love ones that with us are compromised. One I asked one of my sensei (who was a very intimidating guy) what he would do if someone points a knife at him. He said if he could he would just turn around and run.

Fighting is the last resort.

I live in MD and I would think twice about getting into an argument in VA since people could be carrying guns.

They could be carrying guns anywhere, regardless of what state laws say. Always something to consider, especially if you start or escalate a fight such that your opponent is legally or morally justified in using deadly force against you.

legally or morally huh?

legally or morally huh?

There can be a difference. What is legal is not always moral, and what is moral is not always legal.