Are you not not going to watch the Oscars this year?

[washing machine]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

[Strat]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

That’s not the same thing at all

I guess this is just Reid’s whole Texas justice upbringing

[washing machine]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

That’s not the same thing at all

I guess this is just Reid’s whole Texas justice upbringing

Of course it's not the same thing, but they are both the same in the sense that neither require police intervention. Also it was an excuse to share that story which continues to be hilarious to me.

Spoiler: show

The barback who called the police got arrested, weirdly enough. He had traffic warrants.

[tree_]

Guys, this also has a lot to do with the state of comedy right now, and how people react to humor in general.

Did you hear his acceptance speech? He was talking about how as actours in this business they have to endure and just laugh when being made fun of and stuff. Is it really that hard to laugh at yourself? I do it all the time.

[VinylGuy]

i mean we all saw he hit him so it would have made sense to press charges.

[Chris_H_2]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

I hope that dude was fired

[washing machine]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

I hope that dude was fired

Yes, he was.

[The Argonaut]

Even if you think the slap was just a bad moment that could happen to anyone---it boggles the mind that he just sat there laughing for the next hour and then a whole room of morons gave him a standing ovation that same night

[Jorge]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

I hope that dude was fired

Yes, he was.

I hope he won the Academy Award for Best Actor

[Anders]

i mean we all saw he hit him so it would have made sense to press charges.

If it was a random dude that attacked him at a comedy show he did, he would have.

[Jorge]

Even if you think the slap was just a bad moment that could happen to anyone---it boggles the mind that he just sat there laughing for the next hour and then a whole room of morons gave him a standing ovation that same night

They were afraid he would hit them too

[VinylGuy]

Even if you think the slap was just a bad moment that could happen to anyone---it boggles the mind that he just sat there laughing for the next hour and then a whole room of morons gave him a standing ovation that same night

and he was dancing at the post party event. And singing too.

It was like ¨ ey!! it was because of looooove¨

[macphisto]

He is not even pressing charges.

That would have been ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the time a barback I once worked with called the police and attempted to press charges on a bartender who wouldn't stop poking his nose with a bar spoon and saying "boop" during a shift. (true story)

I hope that dude was fired

Yes, he was.

What about the serial booper? Hope he got his ass kicked...or at least slapped.

[Strat]

Even if you think the slap was just a bad moment that could happen to anyone---it boggles the mind that he just sat there laughing for the next hour and then a whole room of morons gave him a standing ovation that same night

Invoking god and the devil. Laughable. What a magician he was. I can’t believe people applauded him.

[tree_]

He is a righteous defender of his loved ones, despite everyone else.

[warehouse]

it's almost like will smith is human with complex emotions!

[tree_]

uncontained*

[wease]

I'll walk not calling it violent back a bit. You're right. That slap was de facto "violent." The language was aggressive. He probably should have been walked out of the building, but I'll stop way short of saying he should have been arrested or even that this was a toxic display of masculinity. I guess that's where the bee in my bonnet comes from. This behavior isn't some new thing. Like spike pointed out, I see it in the bar often (and we train our door staff to de-escalate it by walking people out of the building.) We see worse in baseball games, as I've pointed out. It's the attempt to load the event with deeper meaning of capital V violence, like the kind that escalates into true fisticuffs, that I think is overboard. A man insulted another man's wife, then got slapped by a husband who thought he was doing the right thing in the heat of the moment. Is that really so surprising? This is how the world works.

It's different. He's not just some guy in a bar. He's up there on his pedestal with his platitudes; "I am God's vessel for love" on the very night he SMACKS rock in the face. Hypocritical, ironic, hilarious.

Jackie Chiles

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

Rich people are not human