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Post by Telemachus on May 29, 2019 9:23:08 GMT
Exactly. I get it from my mother who was always challenging bad behaviour, typically dropping litter, cycling fast on the pavement past pedestrians etc. Even when she was in her 70s and 80s she would still challenge the local yoofs, most of whom were too gobsmacked to repost! Stems from years working in a youth club in the 60s and 70s, then becoming a magistrate and sending all the naughty ex- youth club yoofs to prison. So you inherited being an interfering old biddy body from your mum, where did you get being a condescending judgemental prick from? I think anybody would have told you to mind your own business? Zzzzz, so predictable. The only odd thing is that your mum didn’t call you Jack.
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Post by kris on May 29, 2019 10:23:52 GMT
So you inherited being an interfering old biddy body from your mum, where did you get being a condescending judgemental prick from? I think anybody would have told you to mind your own business? I'd probably say that anyone being abusive, violent and/or rude in public makes it all of our business. You have no expectation of privacy when you're in public. I have an expectation of the right to take the piss out of Nick as he deserves it.lets look at his opening post again. I saw someone being a dick in public. I opened my big mouth and made some derisory condescending comment. The guy being a dick made a comment back shock horror! What did you expect Nick? The guy to agree with you?
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Post by naughtyfox on May 29, 2019 11:10:03 GMT
about an hour later, all 3 boats had filled and gone so we moved across and began to fill up... at which point a boat pulled in behind and asked "will you be long" - I said as long as it takes to fill the water tank... "how big is it?"... 500 litres - ish I replied... "500 litres?" - "why so big... ours is 300 and last us ages"... " cause we're a hotel and guests get through a lot of water"... "bloody hotel boats..." THEN another boat came along oppiste... holding his centre line and shouted across would we be long cause he wants water... - the other boat the interfered and shouted back "they'll be ages cause they've got a 500 - GALLON tank" as they're a hotel boat... at which point "mr angry" on the other boat started to fizz "they shouldn't be allowed to use "our taps" they should get water elsewhere ... If it is actually 500 litres then I wouldn't say that was particularly large anyway. My boat, which is only 42' has a 100 gallon tank which is circa 450 litres. We estimated 850 litres for ours. Our water tank would make a good coffin for 4 people. 8 if they were chopped up a bit.
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Post by wellyftw on May 29, 2019 11:15:29 GMT
I'd probably say that anyone being abusive, violent and/or rude in public makes it all of our business. You have no expectation of privacy when you're in public. I have an expectation of the right to take the piss out of Nick as he deserves it.lets look at his opening post again. I saw someone being a dick in public. I opened my big mouth and made some derisory condescending comment. The guy being a dick made a comment back shock horror! What did you expect Nick? The guy to agree with you? Fair
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Post by Telemachus on May 29, 2019 11:15:56 GMT
I'd probably say that anyone being abusive, violent and/or rude in public makes it all of our business. You have no expectation of privacy when you're in public. I have an expectation of the right to take the piss out of Nick as he deserves it.lets look at his opening post again. I saw someone being a dick in public. I opened my big mouth and made some derisory condescending comment. The guy being a dick made a comment back shock horror! What did you expect Nick? The guy to agree with you? Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it.
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Post by naughtyfox on May 29, 2019 11:17:52 GMT
not totally on topic but relevant none the less, today I encountered "mr angry" at having to wait at the water point behind us and the boat waiting for us in Nantich... When we got to the only tap here, there were two boats breasted up AND another on on the service point waiting for them to Finnish filling... we pulled along (opposite side) and waited for a gap to move in... about an hour later, all 3 boats had filled and gone so we moved across and began to fill up... at which point a boat pulled in behind and asked "will you be long" - I said as long as it takes to fill the water tank... "how big is it?"... 500 litres - ish I replied... "500 litres?" - "why so big... ours is 300 and last us ages"... " cause we're a hotel and guests get through a lot of water"... "bloody hotel boats..." THEN another boat came along oppiste... holding his centre line and shouted across would we be long cause he wants water... - the other boat the interfered and shouted back "they'll be ages cause they've got a 500 - GALLON tank" as they're a hotel boat... at which point "mr angry" on the other boat started to fizz "they shouldn't be allowed to use "our taps" they should get water elsewhere ... ffs - at which point i had to explain to BOTH of them that as we pay at least twice their licence fee to operate AND bigger insurance premiums they could both whistle... I had half mind to wash the boat down too.. however, that wouldn't have been cricket so once full we pulled off thinking what incredibly rude people they were... It seems boaters "think" hotel boats are a nuisance and should not be allowed. Thats nice isn't it? twunts
an unbelievable amount of angry, bitter tossers on the cut. Yes, we've come across some right miserable and downright rude gits. But most boaters are OK, we've had many friendly encounters.
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Post by wellyftw on May 29, 2019 11:18:43 GMT
If it is actually 500 litres then I wouldn't say that was particularly large anyway. My boat, which is only 42' has a 100 gallon tank which is circa 450 litres. We estimated 850 litres for ours. Our water tank would make a good coffin for 4 people. 8 if they were chopped up a bit. It is estimated the average person's volume is 66 litres. If you put people into an industrial scale blender and liquidised them, you could fit up to 12 liquidised people in your tank and perhaps a couple of small liquidised children.
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Post by kris on May 29, 2019 11:21:41 GMT
I have an expectation of the right to take the piss out of Nick as he deserves it.lets look at his opening post again. I saw someone being a dick in public. I opened my big mouth and made some derisory condescending comment. The guy being a dick made a comment back shock horror! What did you expect Nick? The guy to agree with you? Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it. Are you sure your not just trying to virtue signal on an Internet forum?
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Post by Telemachus on May 29, 2019 11:30:35 GMT
Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it. Are you sure your not just trying to virtue signal on an Internet forum? Yes quite sure. I am 62 and visit B&Q relatively often - and other shops of course - and have never before seen behaviour like that in a shop (with or without being in charge of a child). Therefore I considered it to be unusual to the point of being mildly interesting and hence worthy of posting on this forum which is otherwise mostly full of non-stuff.
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Post by Clinton Cool on May 29, 2019 11:34:56 GMT
I have an expectation of the right to take the piss out of Nick as he deserves it.lets look at his opening post again. I saw someone being a dick in public. I opened my big mouth and made some derisory condescending comment. The guy being a dick made a comment back shock horror! What did you expect Nick? The guy to agree with you? Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it. I don't understand anyone ever suggesting to "take it outside". All this does is give the other person a chance to prepare, maybe 'get tooled up'. If you're going to do someone best to just do it on the spot, without any warning or hint that it's about to happen. Like everything in life, those who succeed are those are take advantages, not give them away. Not that I condone this type of behaviour, of course.
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Post by wellyftw on May 29, 2019 11:41:27 GMT
Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it. I don't understand anyone ever suggesting to "take it outside". All this does is give the other person a chance to prepare, maybe 'get tooled up'. If you're going to do someone best to just do it on the spot, without any warning or hint that it's about to happen. Like everything in life, those who succeed are those are take advantages, not give them away. Not that I condone this type of behaviour, of course. Well said. And particularly if you're in B&Q. What would be stopping Telemachus picking up a small hatchet, set of garden shears or reciprocating saw on the way out? Fighty man would certainly be regretting his request to "take it outside".
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Post by Telemachus on May 29, 2019 12:15:09 GMT
Well obviously I didn’t expect him to say “terribly sorry old chap, I’m having a bad day”. Obviously he was going to react badly to being ticked off. The point of my post wasn’t about the effect on me. It was about swearing loudly and being violent in front of his young and vulnerable daughter, and then at the first sign of someone saying something, wanting to “take it outside” again in front of his daughter. But to ignore it is to condone it. I don't understand anyone ever suggesting to "take it outside". All this does is give the other person a chance to prepare, maybe 'get tooled up'. If you're going to do someone best to just do it on the spot, without any warning or hint that it's about to happen. Like everything in life, those who succeed are those are take advantages, not give them away. Not that I condone this type of behaviour, of course. It was clearly just bluster, you only had to look at the skinny runt vs me and Jeff (who looks scarier than he is) to see he wasn’t actually going to do it.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2019 12:29:03 GMT
Perhaps his invitation to go outside with you was a reference to fine weather and the possibility of a picnic?
He may have recognised you are a jovial and likeable fellow as is your bearded bodyguard.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2019 12:31:51 GMT
I don't understand anyone ever suggesting to "take it outside". All this does is give the other person a chance to prepare, maybe 'get tooled up'. If you're going to do someone best to just do it on the spot, without any warning or hint that it's about to happen. Like everything in life, those who succeed are those are take advantages, not give them away. Not that I condone this type of behaviour, of course. Well said. And particularly if you're in B&Q. What would be stopping Telemachus picking up a small hatchet, set of garden shears or reciprocating saw on the way out? Fighty man would certainly be regretting his request to "take it outside". Yes if you want to deal with it need to catch people unaware. I do this when one of the girls has hiccups. She will say "scare me Papa to stop my hiccups" I just say "I'm not scary " then wait til she has forgotten about it and scare the shit out of her. this stops the hiccups and always gets a good laugh. Same thing with bare knuckle boxing. One hit when opponent is not expecting it. Job done.
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Post by NigelMoore on May 29, 2019 12:34:41 GMT
I don't understand anyone ever suggesting to "take it outside". All this does is give the other person a chance to prepare, maybe 'get tooled up'. If you're going to do someone best to just do it on the spot, without any warning or hint that it's about to happen. Like everything in life, those who succeed are those are take advantages, not give them away. Not that I condone this type of behaviour, of course. It was clearly just bluster, you only had to look at the skinny runt vs me and Jeff (who looks scarier than he is) to see he wasn’t actually going to do it. I had a threatening confrontation once while running Covent Garden Cycles, and had seen off a couple of kids who had opened up a side door allowing a customer's bike to be stolen. That evening about a dozen family members crowded into the shop, with the father asserting that if I ever laid hands on his boy again he would call the police on me (odd recourse for a known thug). I asked if that was a threat; he said yes it was, so I handed him the phone and told him not to threaten future action, but to do it right now. His face was a picture. He said he didn't know the number, so I said I did, because we had had to ring and report the stolen bike, and handed him the piece of paper with the number written on it. I shall always treasure the memory; he had no choice but to ring in order not to lose face with the extended family behind him.
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