Is this how people treat each other these days?

Not "these days," I think it's always been like this.

NerblyBear wrote:Look, I did the leg work to figure out the truth about 9/11 conspiracy theories. I spent a couple of days researching it exhaustively. I feel pretty proud about that episode.

Listen you tit. People are getting annoyed about your claims not because of what you 'proved' about 9/11 but because of your repeated insistence that you were the first to grace us with your discoveries which finally saw off Bob/Rick.

People had been arguing with Bob for months - years even - and you brought nothing new to the argument - at all. You read a fucking book and instantly your world view changed and you became convinced that you are the prophet of all things 9/11.
It didn't even feel to me that you had time to digest the information.
It certainly doesn't seem like you read any of the numerous threads.

Although Rick new he always pissed off many people on the board I think it got to a point where he thought he was pissing off too many people (along with yourself twitchingly bumping threads dozens of times like a fucking maniac).
Specifically I imagine Mr Albini's outburst had bucketloads more to do with it than your PHDs worth of two day research.
And I also imagine he'll come back again in a while.

Just do me a favour - you got your mind changed - cool, well done for having the balls to admit it. But stop saying you conquered and convinced anyone with your own conviction.

You didn't - anymore than Bob did.


And yes - I think the stuffed wallet idea is a good one. That's what my trainer does in fact. He carries a falsey to throw on the ground if confronted.
And he's hard as nails.

Also there are these courses where you are taught about the mental aspects of confrontation. Not martial arts (though you should do that too) but psychology and all that.
I haven't done one of them courses but they sound pretty intense and I plan on doing so soon. I imagine there'll be someone doing it in most of your big Yanky cities.

NerblyBear wrote:egregiously.

Number one reason why you shouldn't carry a knife?

You are the kind of person who uses the word "egregiously".

How old are you NB? You often come accross to me as some sort of self-appointed intellectual of about 19 years old. Plus your philosophy stinks.


Coincidentally, here in sunny England, where we all hold hands and dance in the fields, I called the police last night. I was woken up at 1am by my girlfriend who'd heard a girl screaming; I looked out the window and there was a guy on the floor getting two shades of shit kicked out of him by another guy, whilst some girl pleaded with him to stop.

Now, I don't know what was going on - hell, maybe this guy even deserved it or whatever, maybe it was justified, etc, etc. I just know that I don't think twice about calling the police in this situation, because I think it's a good idea that a fight like this gets broken up before someone ends up seriously hurt/dead, and that's what the police are there for.

Simmo, did the police actually turn up though?

Anyway, you must be a prize numpty if you think carrying a knife around with you, for 'protection' or otherwise, is a good idea.

The problem with discussions such as this is that talk about violence and retribution (particularly if the discussion is predominantly between young men) usually drifts quickly into borderline, faux-somber wank-fantasy.

Nerbly Bear. If you are seriously interested in street-fighting, or self-defense or whatever, the obvious course of action would be to hot-foot it down to your local Police station and ask them to point you in the direction of a reputable self-defense class.

No further bickering about knives/candlesticks/maglites/magic wands required.

gjhardwick wrote:Simmo, did the police actually turn up though?

As far as I know they did, I think I heard them just before I fell back to sleep. I'd done my bit so to speak - I wasn't gonna stay up to watch the drama unfold!

3 rules I learned at the tai chi school:

1. stay out of trouble
2. walk over the road if you see trouble come your way
3. it does not hurt to run away

bassdriver wrote:3 rules I learned at the tai chi school:

1. stay out of trouble
2. walk over the road if you see trouble come your way
3. it does not hurt to run away

Didn't go to Tai Chi school, but have the identical philosophy. 'Specially the last one. I'm quite happy to run away like a pussy, any time.

bassdriver wrote:3 rules I learned at the tai chi school:

1. stay out of trouble
2. walk over the road if you see trouble come your way
3. it does not hurt to run away

The school I go to, despite being a hard as nails MMA type place, also has this philosophy.

In my experience really hard people generally tend not to pick fights.
They're usually quite nice folks who don't feel they have anything to prove.

simmo wrote:

gjhardwick wrote:Simmo, did the police actually turn up though?

As far as I know they did, I think I heard them just before I fell back to sleep. I'd done my bit so to speak - I wasn't gonna stay up to watch the drama unfold!

But, did you puke in the toilet?