Red Mosquito

VinylGuy wrote:He is not even pressing charges.

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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 wrote:

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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

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

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

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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)

Chris_H_2 wrote:

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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.

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

The Argonaut wrote: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

The Argonaut wrote: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

washing machine wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote: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 wrote: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

tree_ wrote:

washing machine wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.