Strakeln wrote on Jan 30
th, 2012 at 9:01pm:
Perhaps. Of course, that's not at all the case for the other 3/4s of them. We don't have to go far to see unprovoked blatant ITG behavior - hell, we only have to flip a few pages back.
Sure you would.
No, given that I carry a gun most of the time, I try to avoid and de-escalate physical confrontations. But that's pretty much the point. You don't know how a given person will react. For every 19 guys out there that would shrink away or try to de-escalate the situation, there's one guy who would love nothing more than to crank that shit up to 11. And that's why most people don't talk to others in a face-to-face setting like you have been speaking to people from behind your keyboard.
Sounds like you're shifting back into deflection mode. You're the one with the posting history that consistently demonstrates ITG behavior, Oak, not me.
Calling people on their bullshit is something that is done everywhere, even in professional settings. The only thing that changes is the manner it is done. While you're trying to avoid admitting it, you know the reality is that in a face-to-face setting, you wouldn't speak to people in the same way you regularly do here. Can you remember the last time you called someone a little bitch to their face, in the same tone most of your posts that use it convey?
You're a smart guy, Oak, and you can present a very persuasive argument. The ITG behavior only serves to detract from your positions, and your posts in general - as the repetition demonstrates. You've been running around like an ITG for quite a while now. I don't care whether you keep it going or if you try to change... all I'm seeking is that you do as you've so often suggested to others: own up to your own behavior.
If it was somehow possible to anonymously show up with a group of people with whom you hang out, insult people without them knowing your identity and do so just to protect your reputation, I would gladly call someone a little bitch for doing so.
I'm more than willing to pop off in real life. The last time I remember saying something similar was when someone was being a dick to a cashier at my local Dollar General, and I told them that there was no need to be a dick in a fairly disdainful tone. It got me a dirty look from the guy and a few cracked jokes with the cashier after the guy left.
I'm not a tough guy for doing so, but I've never had anyone try to take a swing at me over it or anything of the sort. It's not that often that you run into people engaging in the kind of truly shitty behavior that would cause me to call them on it, when you're not on the Internet. But I'm not generally afraid of telling people that they're being dickheads or being a bitch.
I'll admit that I ramp it up a bit for trolling purposes, like when I was calling Zippo a piece of shit and goading him into anger. But even that is something that I've been willing to do with folks in the past, truth be told. Though to be fair, in most of those situations it was someone I knew couldn't take a swing at me for various reasons. Still, it's not something that I'd particularly shy away from if I had to put up with someone who was that big of a consistent dipshit.
Feel free to believe me or not, I don't give a shit. I'm more than willing to call people out on being complete shitheads. If you really want me to give you the annotated edition of each of my uses of 'little bitch,' I can gladly go ahead and break it down. But I'm not here to win arguments. I'm just here to have fun and throw myself into arguments, win or lose. If calling someone a little bitch when they're being one makes my arguments less sound, I'm okay with that.
But I am what I am, like it or lump it. I don't always think I'm right and I'm willing to apologize when I'm not, but I'm also not terribly afraid of confrontation when someone's engaging in shitty behavior, and that's trebly true when I'm somewhere that I consider to be part of a community that I'm in, like the Vault. Them's just the facts.
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