[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
There was a guy at the gym who was staring at me. I took it the wrong way and avoided him. That was the same guy who came up to me the next week and said I “inspired” him to work out. Again, you don’t know what people are thinking.
This is the truth.
One time I was banging She Say and her girlfriend during my lunch hour in a hammock in my backyard. This guy wanders by (I think he was passing out political literature or something as it was back in late October) and stares at me over my fence for a good 5 minutes. I finally yell, “you gotta problem with me banging my wife and her girlfriend in a hammock in my back yard in broad daylight during my lunch hour jerk face?” He says, “No sir,just wandering where you bought that lovely hammock.” I hollared, “Hank’s Hammocks. You can find them online.” He thanked me and went on his way.
It is alllllllllll about communication people.[/quote]
**logs off to find “hank’s hammocks”…hoping they come with two naked women in them.
What the hell kind of bars do you hang out in? I very seldom see a confrontation when I’m out. Aside from that I know how to avoid trouble by paying attention to my surroundings and avoiding trouble.
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One bar I used to frequent all the time was like fucking Roadhouse. The bouncer was a huge black cat who was an ex(?) banger and was fucked up on southern comfort and coke all the time. He’d be selling coke on the side of the bar, and people would be blowing it in the bathroom. There was blood on the floor in that place every fucking night.
Friends of mine got stomped there once, another shattered a pint glass on a guy’s face another time. I had one guy try to fight me for saying, “Excuse me” as I was walking through.
It took a while but I outgrew that place. Other places are either in the hills or the ghetto, and I’ve seen shit go down at all of them.
Maybe I attract the wrong kind of people.
I say it all the time- awareness is the key. I agree.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
There was a guy at the gym who was staring at me. I took it the wrong way and avoided him. That was the same guy who came up to me the next week and said I “inspired” him to work out. Again, you don’t know what people are thinking.
This is the truth.
One time I was banging She Say and her girlfriend during my lunch hour in a hammock in my backyard. This guy wanders by (I think he was passing out political literature or something as it was back in late October) and stares at me over my fence for a good 5 minutes. I finally yell, “you gotta problem with me banging my wife and her girlfriend in a hammock in my back yard in broad daylight during my lunch hour jerk face?” He says, “No sir,just wandering where you bought that lovely hammock.” I hollared, “Hank’s Hammocks. You can find them online.” He thanked me and went on his way.
It is alllllllllll about communication people.[/quote]
I choked on my own spit just now, a group of kids across the room just looked over at me to see if I was OK.
[quote]gonugs wrote:
I’ve always found it’s best to make quick eye contact and say “hey” or just do the head nod thing. Acknowledge the person. Then they can’t get it in their head that your ignoring them somehow.
Funny story…
I was walking to lunch the other day. Empty sidewalk, one guy walking towards me. He’s young and dressed “street.” I do my usual, when he’s about 5 feet away I make eye contact and nod. Apparently he was deep in thought or I caught him off guard or something. The dude got a big, goofy smile on his face and freaking WAVED to me. From 5 feet away. I would have thought he was mentally challenged or something, but then he looked really embarrassed and hurried off.
It was awesome.[/quote]
Dude. That was me. I was afraid that you were going to kick my ass.
I don’t think you should think about it to much. The concept of staring down is just stupid. It’s just a cultural thing to avoid eye contact. If you are used to it you shouldn’t even notice and you can look at someones eyes till your bored. If people are looking at my eyes I don’t change my expression really most people look away quick but if not I say hi and/or smile.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
There was a guy at the gym who was staring at me. I took it the wrong way and avoided him. That was the same guy who came up to me the next week and said I “inspired” him to work out. Again, you don’t know what people are thinking.
This is the truth.
One time I was banging She Say and her girlfriend during my lunch hour in a hammock in my backyard. This guy wanders by (I think he was passing out political literature or something as it was back in late October) and stares at me over my fence for a good 5 minutes. I finally yell, “you gotta problem with me banging my wife and her girlfriend in a hammock in my back yard in broad daylight during my lunch hour jerk face?” He says, “No sir,just wandering where you bought that lovely hammock.” I hollared, “Hank’s Hammocks. You can find them online.” He thanked me and went on his way.
It is alllllllllll about communication people.[/quote]
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
Bite into their throats and gorge yourself on their hot blood, then rip their testicles off, hold them above your head, and yell ‘DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO LOOK AT ME NOW?’
It’s what I do. So far it’s worked pretty well.[/quote]
[quote]sidewalkdances wrote:
Happened to me at the weekend in a club.
Some drunk guy barged into my friend, I looked at him and shook my head. He went mental, squared up to me swearing (and slurring) and said “He knew who I was, and I shouldnt act like a big man”. I just stood there, listened to him go on and on and then said “Sorry, what?”. This pissed him off more than arguing back would have done. He just looked confused and slightly angry and walked off.
Had it got into it, I could have taken him anyway, but its hardly the point.[/quote]
So what your saying is you were a smartass to a stranger in a charged there maybe a fight stituation because you “felt” you could take him?
I think you forget people are mental and carry weapons like GUNS.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
NeedforStrength wrote:
Stare at them right back and risk getting into a verbal confrontation/fight, or just glance and walk away? Where I live there’s always morons who think their hardcore trying to stare you down, what do you guys normally do?? and am I pussy if I just glance at them and then stare right ahead as I walk by when this happens??
One, you care too much what everyone else thinks. Two, the bigger you get, the more people will stare at you. Very often, their facial expression does not give you an accurate picture of what is actually going on in their heads. In fact, if you plan to get serious about weight lifting, people staring is just something you will have to get used to or else you will be in fights daily from jumping to conclusions.
No one should be “staring you down” because you shouldn’t be staring back long enough to even notice.
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That is a good point, but kick their ass anyway "some people need to be shown their place…mines in front of my computer).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
thaiclinch wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
Depends where you are. Most times looking directly at them for a couple seconds, then scanning away establishes that they’re not worth your time.
You guys can say what you want, but if you’re somewhere like less-than-reputable bar or something, eye contact is a big thing in establishing dominance and can lead directly to a fight. If you don’t believe me, go somewhere and give some dude hard looks for a couple minutes. He’ll say something.
Why should anyone give a shit if someone is going to show “dominance” by staring at you…proves absolutly nothing in my book. I would rather do what Im there to do drink, hang with my boys, or talk to people…theres other ways to prove dominance then by looking at them…but thats a whole different topic.
It’s always the little guys trying to express how “dominant” they are all of the time.
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You’d think after enough beatings they would just stop…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
NeedforStrength wrote:
yeah the only reason I brought this up is because it does get annoying, and no I don’t act like a douchebag. This tends to happen more often when people are in groups, as opposed to when people are alone. Like the other day, I was at a restaurant with a couple others and these guys, about 6-7 of them kept staring at us. Whatever it probably is an insecurity thing though.
There was a guy at the gym who was staring at me. I took it the wrong way and avoided him. That was the same guy who came up to me the next week and said I “inspired” him to work out. Again, you don’t know what people are thinking.
You’ll be happier once you finally adopt a “fuck it” attitude about life and just focus on what you have to do. [/quote]
You don’t know what people are thinking. One of the guys I work with who is a bit of a brawler almost started one when a group of guys in a bar kept staring and staring. When he got up to go over, he realised the television was behind them/over their head and that’s what they were looking at. He sat down.
[quote]thaiclinch wrote:
I had a guy at my girlfriends bar walk up and poke me in the side and ask if I wanted to fight outside and the looser buys the tab…I laughed my fucking ass off then realized he was serious…Dude was fukin hammered and just got back from a Nascar race…It took me about 15min to talk him out of fighting me ( Mind you this is in my girls bar) Luckly he was with some friends that know me and they talked him down and de-escilated the confrontaion…5-10 min later he appologized so I bought him a shot…he set it down and pushed me afterwards and his friends drug him outside…
i finished my beer and followed him outside only to realize that he broke into someones car and passed out in the back seat with the door wide open, so my revenge was calling the cops and having him arrested for B&E…that was the best fight I ever got in…I didnt have to pull his face off and I still got satisfaction…PS he wasnt little he was about 210lbs…I was about 270lb at the time.[/quote]
Sweeter still if ya stayed and snapped some pics with a camera phones as he’s taken away and post’em around the bar, his place of work, send to his family, etc .
