Sweet Revenge, sort of
02-10-08, 09:53 AM
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02-10-08, 10:12 AM
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Thanks for propping up the community with your childish actions.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
02-10-08, 11:26 AM
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Hey Norton
Cagers sometimes forget they are not in their car and they decide to throw out a comment that the friends will think is funny. When I was a kid living in a working class neighborhood, you had better be prepared to back up you trash talk with your fists. This is the way it used to be.
A couple of months ago I got the *** comment from a high-schooler walking with his friends. I was late for an appointment so I didn't address it right there. But I was pissed because I hate that comment, a couple of my close friends are gay and this is right up with calling a black man a ni*ger.
I was reminded of that nasty skit back in the 80's where the audience is asked to remember that just because a man is gay, he can still beat the **** out of you.
Cagers don't seem to like cyclists, they are largely jealous of rippled muscles and probably think we get laid allot more than they do. Which we do. So they lash out, verbally, with horns, oranges and they assault and kill us with their 3000lb death machines.
What people should remember is that a man on a bike is the fastest animal on the earth. Through regular physical exercise and lots of sex we are unusually strong physical specimens able to catch up to you at the next light, let you know you have been an assh0le and there is really nothing that you can do about it.
In our ranks though is the weasley specimen who thinks we should placate this behavior. We give cyclists a bad name. What these apologists should remember is that everyday is like your first day in prison. So you are mopping the floor and some 300 lb baboon makes a comment to you, break the handle off the mop head and beat the offender into a pulp before he know what hit him. You get a couple of days in solitaire and no one fu*ks with you, at least for a couple of days.
Respect in life is taken, and if you don't stand up for yourself and your community no one else will.
Now, don't say I told you to go beat people up. Violence is empty and shallow and leaves takes away a bit of your soul. But we don't apologize when someone assaults us with their car or an orange.
A couple of months ago I got the *** comment from a high-schooler walking with his friends. I was late for an appointment so I didn't address it right there. But I was pissed because I hate that comment, a couple of my close friends are gay and this is right up with calling a black man a ni*ger.
I was reminded of that nasty skit back in the 80's where the audience is asked to remember that just because a man is gay, he can still beat the **** out of you.
Cagers don't seem to like cyclists, they are largely jealous of rippled muscles and probably think we get laid allot more than they do. Which we do. So they lash out, verbally, with horns, oranges and they assault and kill us with their 3000lb death machines.
What people should remember is that a man on a bike is the fastest animal on the earth. Through regular physical exercise and lots of sex we are unusually strong physical specimens able to catch up to you at the next light, let you know you have been an assh0le and there is really nothing that you can do about it.
In our ranks though is the weasley specimen who thinks we should placate this behavior. We give cyclists a bad name. What these apologists should remember is that everyday is like your first day in prison. So you are mopping the floor and some 300 lb baboon makes a comment to you, break the handle off the mop head and beat the offender into a pulp before he know what hit him. You get a couple of days in solitaire and no one fu*ks with you, at least for a couple of days.
Respect in life is taken, and if you don't stand up for yourself and your community no one else will.
Now, don't say I told you to go beat people up. Violence is empty and shallow and leaves takes away a bit of your soul. But we don't apologize when someone assaults us with their car or an orange.
02-10-08, 11:28 AM
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Spitting in someone's face may technically be physical assault, but we all know it's very different from punching them in the face.
(you can argue about 'what if they have a blood born disease' if you want, but I won't go there)
(you can argue about 'what if they have a blood born disease' if you want, but I won't go there)
02-10-08, 11:32 AM
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02-10-08, 12:02 PM
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Alright friends what about this, about 4 months ago i was riding down penn ave in s.e. DC heading towards 8th street. i was going to make a right onto 8th but about 20 feet before i make my turn somthing ****ing hits me in the shoulder. i look back at the ground and theres a WHOLE ORANGE lying there.
--- more pure awesomeness ---
--- more pure awesomeness ---
I grew up in Massachusetts. I was 6, my brother was 10, and we'd throw snowballs at cars. That wasn't good enough, so we started packing them until they were iceballs (much louder 'thump' on the cars). Most cars slowed down a bit but kept going.
One night, my brother and I really unloaded on one car, two direct hits. The car skidded to a stop, so my brother and I ran and ran. We thought we'd gotten away when some dude comes running around the other corner of the house. He was *pissed*. He grabs my brother and I by our jacket collars, and (at the same time) smashes our faces into the snow three or four times each - total Hulk move. He yells something at us, then stomps off back to his car.
This wasn't powder snow either, it was a day or two old so it had the thin icy crust at the top. It *hurt*. My brother and I cried all the way home, and we never threw snowballs at cars again.
That punk knew what he was doing was wrong, and got a thrill out of it. Knowing he may face repurcussions may have been cured of his orange-throwing ways.
02-10-08, 12:28 PM
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Cagers sometimes forget they are not in their car and they decide to throw out a comment that the friends will think is funny. When I was a kid living in a working class neighborhood, you had better be prepared to back up you trash talk with your fists. This is the way it used to be.
A couple of months ago I got the *** comment from a high-schooler walking with his friends. I was late for an appointment so I didn't address it right there. But I was pissed because I hate that comment, a couple of my close friends are gay and this is right up with calling a black man a ni*ger.
I was reminded of that nasty skit back in the 80's where the audience is asked to remember that just because a man is gay, he can still beat the **** out of you.
Cagers don't seem to like cyclists, they are largely jealous of rippled muscles and probably think we get laid allot more than they do. Which we do. So they lash out, verbally, with horns, oranges and they assault and kill us with their 3000lb death machines.
What people should remember is that a man on a bike is the fastest animal on the earth. Through regular physical exercise and lots of sex we are unusually strong physical specimens able to catch up to you at the next light, let you know you have been an assh0le and there is really nothing that you can do about it.
In our ranks though is the weasley specimen who thinks we should placate this behavior. We give cyclists a bad name. What these apologists should remember is that everyday is like your first day in prison. So you are mopping the floor and some 300 lb baboon makes a comment to you, break the handle off the mop head and beat the offender into a pulp before he know what hit him. You get a couple of days in solitaire and no one fu*ks with you, at least for a couple of days.
Respect in life is taken, and if you don't stand up for yourself and your community no one else will.
Now, don't say I told you to go beat people up. Violence is empty and shallow and leaves takes away a bit of your soul. But we don't apologize when someone assaults us with their car or an orange.
A couple of months ago I got the *** comment from a high-schooler walking with his friends. I was late for an appointment so I didn't address it right there. But I was pissed because I hate that comment, a couple of my close friends are gay and this is right up with calling a black man a ni*ger.
I was reminded of that nasty skit back in the 80's where the audience is asked to remember that just because a man is gay, he can still beat the **** out of you.
Cagers don't seem to like cyclists, they are largely jealous of rippled muscles and probably think we get laid allot more than they do. Which we do. So they lash out, verbally, with horns, oranges and they assault and kill us with their 3000lb death machines.
What people should remember is that a man on a bike is the fastest animal on the earth. Through regular physical exercise and lots of sex we are unusually strong physical specimens able to catch up to you at the next light, let you know you have been an assh0le and there is really nothing that you can do about it.
In our ranks though is the weasley specimen who thinks we should placate this behavior. We give cyclists a bad name. What these apologists should remember is that everyday is like your first day in prison. So you are mopping the floor and some 300 lb baboon makes a comment to you, break the handle off the mop head and beat the offender into a pulp before he know what hit him. You get a couple of days in solitaire and no one fu*ks with you, at least for a couple of days.
Respect in life is taken, and if you don't stand up for yourself and your community no one else will.
Now, don't say I told you to go beat people up. Violence is empty and shallow and leaves takes away a bit of your soul. But we don't apologize when someone assaults us with their car or an orange.
02-10-08, 01:33 PM
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I just want to state for the record that I have nothing against striped button-down shirts.
02-10-08, 02:01 PM
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A few months ago, in the middle of the Burrard St Bridge in Vancouver, I spit a big loogy into the passenger side window of a guy who had just tried to run me off the bridge deck. It was a nice Volvo with leather seats. I still wish I'd done something worse.
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02-10-08, 03:18 PM
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Too many people in the world walk through life thinking that they can treat other people with the greatest disrespect and suffer not a single repercussion.
Spitting in someone's face is universally one of the most offensive things you can do to a person. It's repulsive and demeaning. I see no problem with what the OP did. The arguments against it are pretty weak... yeah, I'm sure those three guys held cyclists in high esteem until that fateful night. Please.
Personally, I think that guy deserves worse. He needs to learn that you can not walk all over people because of the fact that you're a man, you're white, you're rich, you're attractive; whatever it is that places you in your perceived position of superiority. People like that need to have one of their "victims" beat them with a blackjack.
Spitting in someone's face is universally one of the most offensive things you can do to a person. It's repulsive and demeaning. I see no problem with what the OP did. The arguments against it are pretty weak... yeah, I'm sure those three guys held cyclists in high esteem until that fateful night. Please.
Personally, I think that guy deserves worse. He needs to learn that you can not walk all over people because of the fact that you're a man, you're white, you're rich, you're attractive; whatever it is that places you in your perceived position of superiority. People like that need to have one of their "victims" beat them with a blackjack.
02-10-08, 09:42 PM
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Here is my version of sweet revenge: Today me and my lady friend were riding bikes. We road by the local bar that caters to the middle age alcoholic probably living out of a pickup truck crowd. As we ride by one of the local drunks does the standard "lift up your shirt and show me your boobies" hand gesture. At first I thought it was funny, then I realized that its sort of my job to defend her honor and such. She didn't see him at all so she is totally oblivious. I turn out of the bike lane and into the parking lot, stop, put a foot down, make an angry face, and lift up my fist and shake it like a junior high bully in a movie. I was half joking and half serious. I had to try really hard not to crack a smile. The drunk immediately avoids eye contact, turns around, and speed walks back into the bar thus making himself look like a girly man. I'm pretty sure that I am now recognized as a serious badass in that parking lot.
02-11-08, 12:03 PM
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I was intentionally right hooked once and almost smashed into the back of a truck one time. I looped back and found the guy after he had parked his truck and confronted him. I asked him to be more careful and told him that he had nearly caused me to crash. He got all pissed and called me a skinny *** so I hocked a loogie on his shoe and rode off. It felt good, but I always worried that he would see me and run me over with his truck (this was my regular commute).
Another time, I was out with some friends when a guy in a truck honked and buzzed us. We chased him down and when he realized he was going to be stuck at a red he did a u-turn and headed back towards us. I picked up my bike a threw it at his truck. He jumped out and we started a verbal exchange that I don't really remember. A few seconds later there were 20 or so guys in the street that had come from a party to see what was going on. One of them was a relative of the guy in the truck and they were ready to send us all to the hospital. Luckily the guy was older and wiser than the rest of us hotheads and he accepted my apology, agreed to be more careful and let us go. It could have ended very differently.
I've chosen not to escalate those situations anymore. It's one thing to defend yourself, spitting on someone for their words or throwing a bike at someones car for reckless driving is something else.
Another time, I was out with some friends when a guy in a truck honked and buzzed us. We chased him down and when he realized he was going to be stuck at a red he did a u-turn and headed back towards us. I picked up my bike a threw it at his truck. He jumped out and we started a verbal exchange that I don't really remember. A few seconds later there were 20 or so guys in the street that had come from a party to see what was going on. One of them was a relative of the guy in the truck and they were ready to send us all to the hospital. Luckily the guy was older and wiser than the rest of us hotheads and he accepted my apology, agreed to be more careful and let us go. It could have ended very differently.
I've chosen not to escalate those situations anymore. It's one thing to defend yourself, spitting on someone for their words or throwing a bike at someones car for reckless driving is something else.
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02-11-08, 12:52 PM
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wahhh., he called me a ***,
spit..., take that!!
ahhhh time to flee !!
next time dont call me names or ill spit in your face and run then post about it on the net
havent you ever heard of the sticks and stones thing?
anyone that lets a strangers word affect them enough so that they risk serious injury is an idiot.
you cant control fate, what if they would of thrown a rock, stick, or if they had a gun. What if you crashed while riding a away like a little girl. what if they recognize you at a later date and you get a bat smashed to your head?
Its not worth it,
spit..., take that!!
ahhhh time to flee !!
next time dont call me names or ill spit in your face and run then post about it on the net
havent you ever heard of the sticks and stones thing?
anyone that lets a strangers word affect them enough so that they risk serious injury is an idiot.
you cant control fate, what if they would of thrown a rock, stick, or if they had a gun. What if you crashed while riding a away like a little girl. what if they recognize you at a later date and you get a bat smashed to your head?
Its not worth it,
02-11-08, 12:53 PM
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It seems like all the Philly people think it's funny and have no problem with the dude spitting on them. I have to admit I laughed when I read the incident, but I don't think I would have done the same. Then again, if he was to go back and start confronting them about why they would mouth off such a stupid word, in the most civil manner, he'd probably anticipate being knocked off his bike and getting his ass kicked.
I do believe they will think again before yelling *** at someone the next time they do that, but that's about it. People forget/don't care.
