Forums > Social Chat > most blatant display of stupidity (a rant)

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
because old people should know better.

i hate anger too, and someone getting me that pissed must've really hit the spot, you too i would think...

Here's a hug dude and if you see that guy again PM me and ill be over to help you kick his ass and steal his wallet. Selfish fer

Heigh ho...

ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
"i am a peaceful person, why did i nearly go into a bloodthirsty rage..."

I would have done the same.

I would have also sworn at him very violently in English.
Come on Konsti, you know your English slang well



You could have stuck your finger up one of the dogs bums, then told him you were going to do the same to him.... that'd scare him

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
Nice one for showing such huge restraint.

Love is the law.

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
Definatly, i wud have squared up to him as well, Good effort....
i think the blood drinking bit was a bit weird though....

----There are no opportunities, only problems----

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
yeah... It's weird that he got annoyed by the dogs having a laff.... he obviously neva had fun as a child... or he dosen't like other things having fun or sumfing...

He sounded like a stuck-up nob 2 me. I'm glad u put him in his palce.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005

Written by: Konsti

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my question is
what the hell is going on?
i am a peaceful person, why did i nearly go into a bloodthirsty rage...
why do old people being stupid p1ss me off more than young people being stupid....

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stupidity is frustrating, stupidity thrust in your face aggrivating, stupidity thrust in your face with a voice causes rage. next time you get stuck with stupidity like that confront them and calmly demand their details, if he goes to walk away follow him and keep asking him, follow them all the way home need be when he finally gives them to you tell him that your lawyer will be in contact itll rattle them good especially when your friend calls them serving them with a fake court date

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
lol, what a way to deal with 'stupidity'
Sounds like a plan...

----There are no opportunities, only problems----

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
hehehe
i can wait to see him again
ill walk up to him and ask him if he still wants to take a leak on me. itll be great if his kids are standing around.

im so stoked he said that.....

"is optimism in austria just a lack of information?"
-Alfred Dorfer

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
Konsti mate, If I had been there, I would have whipped it out, there and then, and pissed on him.



Then see if he had trousers as well as a mouth.

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
Old people like that really bug me, it's as though they're demanding respect just for living so long.

Don't get me wrong, I try to give everyone the same standard level of respect, regardless of who they are, but there seem to be alot of old people where I live who don't seem to understand that they're quite capable of losing that respect, but still assume they should be getting it regardless of how they act.

For example, not long ago I was walking down the street minding my own business, on a path that was wide enough to have 3 people walking abreast.
Coming the other way were 3 elderly women, walking side by side.

When we met, they stood there scowling at me, not pushing past, but not letting me past either, still standing side by side across the whole width of the path. After a couple of seconds one of them told me to 'just get out the way' and pushed past, followed by the other two.

I find it absurd that they think they can get away with behavior like that just because of their age. Old or not, there's no excuse for being obnoxious.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
Some peeps are just buttholes and cant be civil if their life depended on it, especially oldies.
I think your reaction was top notch You got him to shutup without even doing anything - brill

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!

Posted: 2nd Mar 2005
its natural to get angry when provoked.



the restraint you managed to display shows your quality of character.



i would like to think that i would have done the same thing in a similar situtaion.



but rather than the blood drinking threatening look, i would have tried to take the gandhi/rasta approach and either said 'okay' and waited for him to kick off or just ignored his ramblings and gone about my business as if he didn't exist.



doesn't mean that i wouldn't be fuming inside and itching to break something into very small pieces during and afterwards though











cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
You know...

Back in November I almost got into a barfight. For reference, I'm straightedge. I don't drink. I'm also a VERY tall, VERY big person. (Not puppy, PERSON). I was with friends, and someone who had been rolling drunk for 5+ hours did something stupid to one of the gals I was with. He ripped something off her belt, and tried to walk out the place with it.

I was in another section of the place when I saw it happen. I ran through a crowded bar, hopped a 4 foot tall fence around the bar (and over the staircase that went to the basement), stood NEXT to the drunk guy and very CALMLY asked him "Is there a problem here?" Oh yeah, forgot to mention. I'm wearing a "Chicago Fire Department" t-shirt, and I look the part.

So he throws the thing over my head, and starts to posture. He starts to spout at the mouth about how he's gonna kick my and how if I want to "step up" to him he wanted to fight and all that. Now another bit of reference. Mid october I had major back surgery. This incident was about 4 weeks after that. I was in no shape to fight, let alone run through a bar full of people, jump a 4 foot fence and stand tall against a drunkard. But, he basically assaulted my friend by taking something of hers, and I was going to see resolution before he could walk out that door.

His friends, and his girlfriend, realize that not only do I tower over this drunk, but that I could have probably handed him his posterior on a plate if I wanted to. (Truth was I couldn't, but that's not the point) I just kept commanding "You're done, walk away. You're done." I've got intimidation down, but I hate to use it. Never broke eye contact, never showed weakness, and (pardon the expression) never stopped barking my orders at him.

He stumbled out of the bar backwards making threats all the way and being pulled by his friends, and I stood there letting him leave, and stared him down the whole way. Thing was that, at that moment, it was pure Zen. No past, no future, just the here and now. And had he decided to go for it, I knew that I could dodge his first shot and PROBABLY send him to the hospital. I'd be there shortly afterward with a re-injured back, but I knew I could have done it.

Everyone said I showed great restraint in not just outright killing the guy or at least removing his... vital parts from his anatomy. This sod's "liquid courage" would have gone away, and he wouldn't have learned from it. That and I just don't see a point in fighting. I've got adranaline under some control in my system so I had complete control over myself. I wasn't sure about him, so I chose to take the win-win route. A little intimidation, a little authority, and a whole lot of self control.

Point is that it's in nature of man to fight. It's built into our mental state as a reaction to something that scares us. "Fight or Flight". We kill it, or we beat feet away from it. So when you got provoked by an old man, it's natural to have that become anger and rage. It's hardwired into the human mind. The fact that you didn't put your dog down, haul off and remove his jaw from his skull should tell you that you're still not a violent person.

Anger is an instant emotion that shields us from some harm. It's overcoming that on a day to day basis that lets us survive in society. I wouldn't worry about your reaction, as much as I'd smile and nod, knowing you didn't follow through on your thought.

As far as the old man goes, he's probably worried that his dog would get it's tail beaten by your dog. Either that or he's one of those "scary" people that look as dogs as children in furry coats? Look, love your dog and I'm happy for you, but it's a DOG! Not a CHILD with a tail! It's perception of the world is NOT the same as YOUR perception of the world! People that are over-protective of pets are the same people that scare me as parents.

(This coming from someone who dresses up like a dalmatian for kicks!)

Socks

I'm weird. Just work through that and we'll all be fine.

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail." - Fran Lebowitz

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
I have two dogs and on the rare occasion that I see another dog owner I put max on the lead, shadow is generally fine. Although it's not my dogs that have the problem.
Max dosn't like other dogs beside shadow and when a pesky overexcited dog comes up and starts sniffing his rear end, he gets a little pissy about it! There was one incident where max got his thigh ripped open by a bull mastif because the owner didn't have it on its leash. Tried to sniff Max, he growled at it and the other dog just lunged at him.
Max and shadow are big dogs, but with one of these clamped onto its leg...was just no competition. My dad tried to separat them so the bull mastif tore my dads hand apart - 9 stitches. It has since been put down.
When another dog comes up to max I have to push his bum away from the face of the other dog (charming ^.^) and try and get the other dog owner to call their dog away. Because Max gets pissy, they think I'M the bad trainer, when in reality its them that can't cantrol their own dog.

Konsti, i really don't see what the problem was with the other owner. You have a cute lil puppy, its bound to be excitment, and if the other dogs didn't have a problem with him then whats the bleeding problem?

Just for the record..this is Max wouldn't hurt a fly!...unless provoked
And Shadow

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
aaaaaaaww ur puppies are cute

on a random note when i was at the beach last week i was playing just where the water meet the sand dancing around ok more like prancing really and then i was standing still mesmerised by the ripples in teh water (simple things make me smile ) and this dog comes running up and starts snarling at me, as the dog started edging forward snarling i was having flashbacks to having my fingers ripped open by dogs in london, i clenched my fist and started backing away into the ocean, the dog kept snarling and followed me into the water the stupid owner just called it from a distance yelling out its ok, finally the dog went to its owner and he put it back on the leash, the scarey thing was that there was a little girl not 5 m from where i was, had the dog picked her instead of me it could have been really bad

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
Hey konsti,

What can i say? Elderly Viennese people... I can totally understand your reaction. Wish I'd been there to see your patented blood drinking look. its not often that it comes out, but when it does... whew! Give my greetings to charly, hope to see ya soon. (im actually in salzburg at the moment, but unfortunately i dont have the opportunity to come to wien.)

Ciao!

"Out here in the perimeter there are no stars... Out here we is stoned..."

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
I'm gonna be the odd one out in this thread (except maybe what Ben just said) but I think that dogs should be on leashes when they're out. Jack Russell or Rottweiler or whatever. (I have a suspicion I may get a drink your daughter's blood look for that one!)

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
why leash them... unless they are blood thirsty beasts? Its nice to know they can run around and have a nice time.

I'm not saying ur wrong newgabe, i just can't see why, if the dog ain't dangerous, it should be kept on a leash...

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
STUPIDITY
boundless human stupidity.
we had a guy walk past us spinning a couple of weeks ago, the question he asked.
'Is that real fire???'
just had to reply with
'no its special fake fire, we buy it off the internet'

people are stupid, accept it and move on

my original signature was tooo long.
this one is shorter

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
i always laugh when i read stories like that. I wud just love if it sum1 asked me... id just look at them and say "define 'fake' fire"
lol. people are pretty stupid sumtimes... me no exception

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Posted: 3rd Mar 2005
My favourite story happened to my friend's sister. She studied near the Black Forest, and one day tourists stopped her on the streets and asked "is the black forest open today?". She had a bad day, so she said "no"!

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