POSTED BY LAZS:
batfink.... I have no idea of what the point of your story is unless you think that every fight in America that is simply a fair fight ends in gunplay..
You have no idea. In fact... allmost all fair fights in America end much as you have described... I would feel no need to shoot a drunk at a local resteraunt.
And... You claim to be one of the toughest men on the planet with superhero reflexes... that may be true.
So where the hell were you when your muslim gangs were gang beating and gang rapeing your fellos citizens and women?
Huh tough guy? How do you think you would fare in a ghetto here? Tell em "go ahead"??? What makes you think that they would even understand what you said? What makes you think that they weren't allready planning to "go ahead".
It allways cracks me up when some young strong guy who is too dumb to realize that he could go down in a heartbeat himself.... thinks that everyone else will play by his rules for one.... and for another.... thinks that his options are the same as the weak... the infirm.. the old and the female.
You aren't protecting em... your criminals are running wild on your weak and you aren't doing anything but getting blotto lying around in some bar while it is happening.
You wouldn't last 2 minutes here in the situation xmarine finds himself... Hopefully you would figure that out and move away to some place in America (and there are plenty) where they have lilly white bars for you to hang out in and the most threatening thing will be some guy even more drunk than you are.... until you get older or infirm of course... then you can just pray no one hurts you I guess.
This may sound harsh but.... xmarines situation isn't some pub playtime for swaggering aussie bully boys... It's the real deal with gangbangers who often have killing a white guy as part of their initiation (they would love you to offer your sunburned neck)...
You simply have nothing of any importance to add here. You don't know anything about it here and it would appear... that you can't see past the strength of your own arm there... It would appear that you only care about swaggering in a bar and don't give a whit about your fellow aussies who have to deal with life in a more realistic manner.
lazs
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POSTED BY BATFINK:
this guy just wanted to hit me, so be it. I knew him, i knew he was all mouth. a risk maybe, but one that i took and didnt suffer from.
would you consider that X-marine's actions are more, or less foolhardy than mine? he is starting a war with someone who doesnt care if they go to prison, and probably has nothing to lose anyhow.
now.....had guns been an issue in my scenario, i would have reacted instantly and without bravado. a knife or a drunk idiot are easy to fight off, a gun, near impossible.
i calculated the risk he posed to me, and came out on top.
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your reply is totaly off the mark, and you are the one missing my point.
I aint saying im tough, im not, i hate fighting and violence. the 'reflexes' comment ws a little tougne in cheek. but still, i have delt with people with knives, and drunk idiots, and i am confident (in my local area) of being able to look after myself.
your point that in America i would get killed is exactly my point.
your point that xmarine's situation is 100 times more serious, is my point too.
I act in the way i do when mugged, because of where i live. its all relative. In another country, or even in a place i dont know in the UK, my imediate response would be to protect any weaker friends who are with me, and/or run the hell away very fast.
how about you actualy try reading what someone posts before you jump up and down pointing fingures at me, saying im stupid.
Honest to god, my point was that i do not have to fear that a drunk in a pub will have a gun, in my country.
Xmarine has made a little feud into 'who has the biggest gun'.
that is all.
(edit: and I'm not from Australia, im Brittish)