Yeah, it's actually a serious issue - the safety of water bottles. It's gotten little coverage in the USA but in Canada it's been shown to be a real issue. It's not about aggressive young girls = bad. It is about things like unwanted behavioral changes from chemicals = bad and unwanted fertility issues from chemicals = bad.
I know this was meant as a jokey post, but it's a serious issue that gets little press in the USA so I thought I'd use it to put a bit of info out there.
Maybe I am the odd one out here, but I totally understand the impulse for violent confrontation. I don't condone it most of the time, but I understand it, and sometimes feel an overwhelming desire to instigate a fight. I never have, and it would be absolute suicide- I am 5'7, 120lbs, never been in a real fight in my life.
Yes, drunken bar fights are usually idiotic. So why do I feel such pangs of jealousy? Am I the only one?
By the way, the ones I usually feel like punching are the disgusting creeps who say obnoxious, offensive things or invade my personal space in order to hit on me.
When I read this, my first thought was about those idiots that bring guns and rifles to the health care town hall meetings. What exactly are they thinking? Here is my gun and will shoot anyone that threatens my "safety".
@Sodypop: I was just talking about this very stuff yesterday.... these types are Authoritarian Followers... they respect authority, that's their psychological whatsits, and they go into every situation expecting authority to be established - It doesn't matter really WHO wins the authority, it's simply that there must be authority. A world without authority, and authority followers is a world of scary chaos to these types.
The worst case scenario for these people would be that NO authority is established.
without a flailing of fists and a loser left broken*, authoritarian followers can't figure out who won and then they can't figure out who they are supposed to respect...
That's why they go so apeshit when the liberals are in charge, because all of a sudden the authority doesn't seem so authoritative - giving people rights! and government paid-for doctors appointments! and whatnot - that's not what their idea of authority is.
Really, for their own good, these right wingers and nut jobs who get outta hand need to be slapped down hard by 'the man'. They crave it. They need it. God, how I'd like to give it to them.
But that one scene in Public Enemies where Johnny Depp punches a guy at the coat check because he's interrupting their conversation? HOT.
Also, Fight Club Ed Norton makes me weak in the knees.
In real life, it would probably just freak me out, though.
some women do get off on this though. my husband told me about this woman he used to date. they left some restaurant and some local guys began giving them grief. so my husband got all in their face which i guess they didn't expect. blows were not exchanged, but it came close to that
anyway when my husband and his date got in the car, she started acting all turned on like that was the hottest thing she'd ever seen. maybe she interpreted it as protecting her?
What was the average age of the men in the study? I wonder because I'd think that the obvious age group operating under these ideas would be the 18-25ish crowd. I like to think that once a man has reached an age where having dudebro nights at bars is no longer an enticing hobby, his penchant for violence-alcohol fueled or otherwise-would wane. Unless of course, said man is violent by nature, in which case his age would have little bearing on his maturity. I would think, too, that a man who feels bad about himself for not being aggressive enough probably has some other issues going on.
Boy am I glad Mr. Foibles is not this type. ExFoibles was like this, getting into fights when we were out at the bars and so forth. It was so fucking embarassing, not to mention disturbing, seeing your sweet gentleman getting all up in some guy's face and throwing his fists around. Yikes. He was otherwise a great guy, but I really dodged the proverbial bullet there. Anybody who feels like his genitals are an excuse for violent behavior is not the type I want around.
@now it's just Aesop's Heatstroke.: I have an ex who was all about getting into stupid fights, punching dudes who pissed him off, etc. He thought it was awesome. I thought it was embarrassing, not to mention evidence of an overall violent disposition. He turned out to be a douchey asshat though, so good riddance.
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I know this was meant as a jokey post, but it's a serious issue that gets little press in the USA so I thought I'd use it to put a bit of info out there.
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(Were people just too scared to say anything for fear of what it might reveal?)
(Or is there some special reason, other than a computer malfunction, they might be being hidden from me specifically? :-) )
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Yes, drunken bar fights are usually idiotic. So why do I feel such pangs of jealousy? Am I the only one?
By the way, the ones I usually feel like punching are the disgusting creeps who say obnoxious, offensive things or invade my personal space in order to hit on me.
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(Also "that threatens my right to carry a gun.")
I didn't say it had to make sense.
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The worst case scenario for these people would be that NO authority is established.
without a flailing of fists and a loser left broken*, authoritarian followers can't figure out who won and then they can't figure out who they are supposed to respect...
That's why they go so apeshit when the liberals are in charge, because all of a sudden the authority doesn't seem so authoritative - giving people rights! and government paid-for doctors appointments! and whatnot - that's not what their idea of authority is.
Really, for their own good, these right wingers and nut jobs who get outta hand need to be slapped down hard by 'the man'. They crave it. They need it. God, how I'd like to give it to them.
*also why they don't respect women.
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Also, Fight Club Ed Norton makes me weak in the knees.
In real life, it would probably just freak me out, though.
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anyway when my husband and his date got in the car, she started acting all turned on like that was the hottest thing she'd ever seen. maybe she interpreted it as protecting her?
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Boy am I glad Mr. Foibles is not this type. ExFoibles was like this, getting into fights when we were out at the bars and so forth. It was so fucking embarassing, not to mention disturbing, seeing your sweet gentleman getting all up in some guy's face and throwing his fists around. Yikes. He was otherwise a great guy, but I really dodged the proverbial bullet there. Anybody who feels like his genitals are an excuse for violent behavior is not the type I want around.
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