Healthy Confrontations
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- zenmasterfoo0
but you really shouldn't talk to girls like that dude. really.
- locustsloth0
Healthy confrontation is a tricky thing. It's human to want to win your point (for Affliction, to make you cower before him and apologize for whatever it is he thought you did). So even when one realizes that they had the facts wrong and that there's no reason to try and win the point, some feel like changing their course, compromising or capitulating (for Affliction, saying that he must have misunderstood your intentions) is admitting defeat and humbling themselves to others. And some can't let themselves do that.
i have to force myself to think rationally and kind of let off the gas a bit when engaging in any sort of confrontation. i want to be right. Always. So when i understand i am wrong, i make myself acknowledge it, rather than do what my reptile brain wants to do, which is keep pushing my point harder and harder, slinging whatever erroneous facts and ad hominem attacks i can, just so i won't have to say "i was wrong"
- autoflavour0
did you end up having gay sex in the bathroom? i didnt read to the end..
- SunSunSun0
It's only our ego that wants to be right all the time. If someone is trying to argue with me about something I KNOW is right and I can tell they are the type that HAVE to be right, I just let them and agree with them - even if they're wrong. Cannot be bothered with that shit.
- Ambushstudio0
There's no such thing.
- detritus0
I find most confrontations are easily won by bursting into tears, pulling down my trousers, then shitting down my leg.
Most no fucker's got a response to that, yo.
- d_rek0
Pushover.
- detritus0
There's a type here in Britain, probably all over the Anglo Saxon world too — conservative, middle class, staid.
The type that..
..is convinced the country's going to hell in a handbasket.
..whinges about youth.
..whinges about foreign or different types.
..whinges about how their tax is abused..
Who, nonetheless..
..does their utmost to avoid paying their share of tax.
..won't look foreigners in the eye.
..won't stand up to kids, or tell people off for little thing (litter,
swearing.. all the menial decencies in a civilisation)
..won't interact, or try—just moan.These are the people who are fucking up our country.
Not the kids. Not the foreigners, or any of the other subjects of these Types' ire.These are the ones we must confront, so that they doo too in turn.
- These are the people who “are going to leave the UK, as it's all gone to shit”. fucking cowards.detritus
- Yep, the spineless.set
- doo too!detritus
- I wish they wold but no- they won't get benefits if they leave innit bruvProjectile
- BonSeff0
just get your fucking gas and stfu.
- <plash
- NO, YOU SHUT UP!!!locustsloth
- < healthy confrontationlocustsloth
- hahaSunSunSun
- Projectile0
I've been in a few situations where there are drunk bro's or gangsters picking on me.. I've already done something wrong like spill beer on shoes or smile at girlfriend or something, so they're literally a hairline trigger away from beating me to a pulp.
I've always found that a smiling (whaat? aah sorry dude) followed by aquick change of topic (dudes ja know where a guy can get some weed round here?) and then ramble on till they get bored and piss off (yeah cos I bought some off this dude the other day and it was complete shite and I mean like it actually smelled like catpiss and bla bla bla)
then walk away smugly knowing that you've won the battle..... with MIIIIIND BULLETS!!
- Fax_Benson0
Affliction comes across as the slightly less annoying of the two protagonists.
- set0
I keep a printed 'come at me bro' jpeg for such occasions as this.
- autoflavour0
i went to a petrol station once and the guy gave me the wrong change.. i gave him back the extra 50c and left.
true story
- and yes, i said petrol, because unless you are using LPG, you aren't using GASautoflavour
- Fax_Benson0
It's because of threatening situations like this that I stopped leaving the house 7 or 8 years ago.
- explains a lot.. fachs-bronsonautoflavour
- what's it like in the literal world?Fax_Benson
- MHDC0
- brandelec0
this morning...coworker and i are having a smoke and this lady parks her car in front me and asks "do you see that sign" as she points at a "fresh-air zone" sign that says stay clear 9 meters of entrance. i eyeball the distance and tell her my mistake i'm 5 meters away and proceed to walk a few more steps away from door... but nooooooo she had to come back with "no, you need to go across to the parking lot to smoke. which company do you work for?" i reply "it doesn't matter which company i work for calm down."
she switches to lecture mode as i flick my cig unto the lot, say have a good morning and walked away. she was fucking livid.
- i apologized to my colleague inside and she replied "for what? that was hot. keep up the good work" aaaaaww yeaaaaabrandelec
- kona0
haha. i recently had a very similar, healthy confrontation.
every morning i take our child to daycare, and when he's in the car (even when he's not so that i can get in a good habit), i drive extra careful and don't take any stupid risks. ie. pulling out in front of someone or trying to make a yellow light that i know will turn red before i go through.
anyways, i'm driving the speed limit down this residential street and this dude in a bmw is riding my ass. i stay on course and we get to a stoplight that was red. because the view of oncoming traffic is slightly blocked by a retaining wall it clearly states "no turn on red". so i don't turn. the dude explodes and starts laying on his horn trying to force me to turn. i can see that he's screaming at me from inside his car so i put the car in park, open my door and step out. i take off my shades and in a really nice, jesting way, to calm down (hands facing palm down, motioning downward). i point to the "no turn on red" sign and then point to my son sleeping in the carseat and gesture "shhhh" to inform him that he's sleeping.
i could see the guys face get bright red and i was sure he was going to get out and throw down. instead he said "i'm sorry" and put up his hand like "my bad".
if my son wasn't in the car i would have popped the trunk and gotten out my 3 iron (cause i can't hit that club straight to save my life) and i would have hauled off on his rearview mirror. fucker.
- We should play golf some time!boobs
- absolutely. i'm going out on saturday. it's supposed to rain so i'm going to take my 1 iron...kona
- cause if i get caught in a bad storm i'm just going to hold the 1 iron above my head and continue on...kona
- because not even God himself can hit a 1 iron. lol.kona
- hahahah...stoplying
- boobs0
One time I was in a bar, and this dude was coming at me to blindside me. I didn't see him at all.
Girl I was with put her cigarette out in his eye.
End of discussion right there.
- did you marry her? you should have.kona
- < what kona saidlocustsloth
- Frankly, she was trouble. A real handful.boobs