ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS SOLVED HIS PLANT MATERIAL NEEDS FOR THE MOMENT. A BALE OF IT “FELL” OUT WHILE ZARDOZ WAS MAKING A LARGE DELIVERY. ZARDOZ HAS SPLIT IT WITH SOME OF THE BRUTALS HE DELIVERS TO. THESE BRUTALS SEEM COOL.
SO ZARDOZ WILL GIVE LINKS TO HIS CHOSEN ONES, BEFORE HE GOES TO SMOKE UP.
OH YEAH, THAT IS WHAT ZARDOZ NEEDED.
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232 responses to “ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS”
Don’t any of you social?
Glibertarians.com doesn’t count?
wait, what?
Is he talking about socializing in general, or something else?
These euphemisms getting very abstract
They’re getting somewhere, that’s for sure.
You mean that was an invite to a circle-jerk?
I went to a house party last night, doesn’t that count for the month?
I went to the bank!……
Yeah, no, I really don’t get out much. Trying to enjoy as much alone time as possible before fall and I’m forced to socialize.
Instructor? Or student?
Student.
Right up there with you. I get anxiety sweats before class.
Doesn’t help that I can’t stand most people my age. Oh well. Going to a pretty small tech school, so hopefully less SJW bullshit to deal with.
Absolutely not.
Socialize? With all those nuts out there? Are you mad!?
Is that like cybering?
Glibertarians and chill?
*winks*
*shrugs* Might as well. TANLW.
There are a few of us, but I’m married, so that does you no good.
Does it require bringing a hot dish? I am not familiar with the “social”.
Pizza?
Some of us work you know.
I’ve been to Naperville
Shoot anybody?
Typo. He meant Raperville.
POPULATION STEVE.
Well, she was Irish. Can you blame him?
Ireland’s got its fair share of hotties.
Or maybe that’s Northern Ireland.
Both?
He should’ve at least sent off a tweet.
@canaryislandPD is there a lifeguard near me?
Great. Now Amtrak is going to get its version of the TSA. That would do wonders for it bottom line.
They’ve been threatening that for years.
Shooter is a “former” fed, right?
I mean, false flag is an option here….
/puts on foil hat
I haven’t used it enough to know whether to be surprised that Urban Dictionary has TDS. The activity graph on the right is interesting.
Buncha snowflakes organized on online rally.
Snowflakes because of the ashes from the ovens? I am completely ashamed that I found that slightly funny.
I didn’t. And I’m pretty unflappable. Is there nothing the left can’t ruin by shitting all over it.
I stumbled on it when the word came up at work and someone said they didn’t know what it meant, so I told them to check UD. I did a double-take and then googled another source.
It doesn’t make any sense in that formulation. Snowflakes melt on contact with anything not as frigid as they are. Uh, hello, social justice dweebs, the blackbodies of fun?
They have some weird history for the word snowflake. Jewish ashes? I don’t think NAZI’s even spoke English so that sounds dubious. Maybe it somehow transferred but I doubt it since that would be convoluted, and it doesn’t make much sense to call someone a Jewish ash.
Insult for abolitionists? No idea if that’s true. The link said it was used since people said abolitionists put whites over black. I don’t get that, are snowflakes white over black? Doesn’t make much sense. I’m also pretty sure if that was an actual thing almost nobody knows the history so that’s unlikely where it comes from.
Most likely it comes from the trope that everyone is special in their own way like snowflakes are all different. I think it just evolved from that for insulting people who think they’re special and yet seem very delicate like snowflakes.
“since people said abolitionists put whites over black.”
this makes zero sense.
According to this –
“In Missouri in the early 1860s, a ‘Snowflake’ was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery—the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people. The Snowflakes hoped slavery would survive the country’s civil war, and were contrasted with two other groups. The Claybanks (whose name came from the colorless color of the local terrestrial clay) wanted a gradual transition out of slavery for slaves, with eventual freedom accompanied by compensation to slave owners; the Charcoals—who were also called Brown Radicals—wanted immediate emancipation and for black people to be able to enlist in the armed forces.
“The available evidence suggests that this particular use of snowflake never moved much beyond the borders of Missouri or the era.”
Here we go:
“A small group of Conservatives clung adamantly to the belief that slavery could survive the [Civil] war. In Columbia, the *Missouri Statesman* dubbed these individuals ‘snowflakes’ because they were ‘more concerned about the white man than about the nigger.’”
What you’re seeing there is leftists trolling the shit of that site. None of it is remotely believable.
This ^
I’m still of the opinion that the current usage is derived from the use of ‘snowflake’ in “Fight Club” which has far more cultural heft these days than anything written by some white cis-male shitlords in books with hard covers.
Wait, if somebody else eats nuts, hey son is going to have a reaction? I’m calling bullshit. I’m also thinking the woman has a touch of whatever mental illness it is where mothers get off on attention for their children’s medical problems. Damn straight they told her to go pound sand.
It’s not just the nuts you eat. You’re actually eating the nuts of every one whose nuts that person ate.
This is pretty funny.
Yep. The airlines never listened to me when I said I want them to stop allowing parents to bring their small children on a plane. Allergies or not.
This story is nuts and the mother is nuts.
I think the mental illness you’re thinking of is “Munchausen by proxy”. I was wondering how the hell an allergy could be so severe the allergic person couldn’t even be in the same interior space as the (non-airborne) allergen. I think you’re spot on re: the mother – it’s either “Everybody pay attention to my center-of-the-universe child’s special needs!” or “If my baby can’t have nuts, can’t NOBODY have nuts!”
Yeah. “Munchausen by proxy”, or, “pay attention to me! Treat me like I’m special because my kid has an allergy!”
I thought for it to ve Munchausen-by-proxy it required the mother actively harming the child.
I think that’s the outlier cases.i think the actual real world cases are much more common, like the one we are discussing..
It’s pretty obvious that the mom is demanding attention.
Zardoz “lost” a bale? Ray isn’t going to be happy.
ZARDOZ WILL SOON BECOME HEAD OF THE ORGANIZATION.
OR OPEN A HEAD SHOP.
WHICH IS THE JOKE I SHOULD HAVE LED WITH.
Eddie hits it out of the park.
I’d buy shit there.
A Head Shop that also stocks guns?
Fuck yeah.
Interesting stats on media bias by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media:
“A Harvard study published Thursday has revealed a dramatic anti-Trump bias in the media, with major outlets including CNN and NBC producing more than 90 percent negative coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office.
CNN, NBC, and CBS give Trump’s presidency 93 percent, 93 percent, and 91 percent negative coverage, respectively, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy found . . . . Fox News provided the most even-handed coverage, with 52 percent anti-Trump coverage.
. . .
A third major part of Harvard’s study compared Trump’s coverage to that of the three previous presidents, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
Trump scored 80 percent negative coverage, whereas Obama, Bush, and Clinton received 41 percent, 57 percent, and 60 percent, respectively.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/19/harvard-report-there-is-a-huge-anti-trump-bias-in-mainstream-media/
If you’re somebody who suspect that the media may be biased against Trump, it might not just be your imagination.
Some people might argue that what Trump has done in his first 100 days was much worse than anything Obama, Bush, or Clinton did over their collective 24 years in office. I mean, after all, Trump did . . . well . . . he obviously violated the . . . um . . . well, he’s definitely written some outrageous tweets, that’s for sure. And what could be worse than that?
Just think how awful he would be if the media weren’t biased against him. *Stuffs handful of peanuts in toddler’s mouth*
Just think how badly they’re going to cover him if they really get mad!
Up to 11?
Please tell me Maddow drums.
Euphemism?
The fate of Spinal Tap drummers.
Was Clinton’s 60% associated with the Lewinsky thing?
I believe they’re measuring that as over the entire course of his presidency.
Here’s a link to the study:
https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=ab6d830a9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-ab6d830a9d-189799085
They have some telling graphs and pie charts.
So you’re suggesting I should look at other people’s links as well as post my own?
Interesting. I’ll have to consider that.
They have a podcast about the report!
Kinda having a nice 1) Drink 2) Watch the TWINS (with the sound off) 3) Listen to some power pop. Here’s some Paul Collins Beat for ya!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb636y8-3qE
Duck, I’m old. I thought you were linking to this band.
*Waves cane, screams at clouds*
BP: You may very well be old, but THE BEAT (later Paul Collins Beat) and THE ENGLISH BEAT were pretty much “contemporaneous” (thank you for giving me an excuse to use that word,) The 2nd Wave… 3rd Wave… whatever wave (I’m not great with all the “waves” of ska) ENGLISH BEAT added the “English” so as to not be confused with the LA Power Pop band I linked to. Both fun bands, though.
Yeah, well… FUCK YOU, DUDE! AAAGGGLLL!
Ok my, actual argumentation of that is a tad better than that. Not much, though. Especially when I don’t really care about the premise. And when I’m this drunk.
Also, “Duck” was a typo. I’m sure the more astute among you will figure out what I meant. I’m winding down, so I’ll just say this: “Save It for Later” and “Mirror in the Bathroom” are better songs than your guys (e.g. LHoR’s band) came up with.
bro,
Prove me wrong, bro, prove me wrong. *puffs up chest*
Fuck, the “bro,” after my 2nd pp fucked up the joke.
Zardoz should diversify
Horn Dog is the beer for tonight.
Ballast Point Sculpin
Leftover Shiner here.
Blue Moon Honey Wheat
329 days of summer lager by Golden Road. I thought I’d give it a shot. Its from LA, and like most things LA related, I want to like it but something I can’t explain keeps me from doing so.
Erdinger Dunkelweissen
GQ: Ted Cruz ruined rompers for men.
That headline needs a few scare quotes.
Theodore “Ted” Cruz “ruined” “rompers for men”.
Much better.
You know what else ruined rompers for men? Fucking sartorial commonsense that isn’t predicated on the whims of ten-year-olds and irrelevant publications like GQ.
Serious question: Do people make a living writing like that for GQ? I don’t read GQ so I don’t know who writes there or how stupid they usually are.
Granted Cruz’s tweet was stupid too but it was much shorter stupidity.
During my second trip to Iraq I became a bit of a recluse and read magazines in my bunk. No, GQ didn’t used to be this retarded and it even had scantily clad pictures of Olivia Wilde.
So you were a brown recluse?
lol
well, I guess I walked right into that one.
That story makes no sense. RompHims would have no room for Schumer’s tits.
Read two sentences, skimmed some gibberish, scrolled down and hit a fucking autoplay video, escaped.
Apparently the Celtics all went on vacation once they got to the conference finals and let some bumbling morons wear their uniforms against the Cavaliers. FUCK. I knew they would lose the series, but I didn’t think they would make Cleveland look like the 1992 Dream Team.
They just want Boston to make another upset!
Guessing you didn’t pay attention to the first round series.
Cleveland fucked off the entire last month of the season in order to get the #2 seed and face Pacers/Raptors and not Bulls/Wizards.
Also, everyone is rested and ready to run and gun.
I wonder how many votes “KILL ME AND MY FAMILY” will get in Iran.
Is it won’t to beat the shit out of some rude jerk who seems to think that because he’s escorting a blind guy he gets to be a rude jerk?
WTH is wrong with me? I go from not angry to kick your ass angry without anything in-between.
*wrong
some things, man.
It seems to be rudeness that triggers me. I can put up with a lot, but don’t be rude to me.
my current cashier job has moved that sort of thing to the front of my pet peeves.
People, on their cell phone, who throw their credit card at me. we have a machine for that, I can’t do anything by holding your CC. Don’t throw it at me like I’m a peasant.
I would say “thanks”, put it in my wallet, and ask for the pin.
noted.
Point in the distance off to the side and say, “oh fuck!!” Put the card in your pocket and then ask how they would like to pay when they look back to you.
You and Dr. Lecter.
I also eat people, but only the female ones.
… Go on
That’s what she said.
Assholes gonna asshole, man. Gotta deal.
Yeah, i delt with it by telling the guy to, and I quote, “fuck off”. But, seriously, I went from 0 to 60 in like 1.5 seconds. It’s troubling to me.
more pot?
Yeah. Yeah, that’s good advice.
I was in line at Safeway today and this woman waited for all her stuff to be scanned, bagged and put in her cart before she looked up at the monitor. She stared at for a minute…and then she slowly got her purse and then went searching for her wallet. Bitch could have had the card out already. Stupid fucking cunt.
At least she didn’t break out her checkbook.
this sounds familiar. half of the time they go through the whole bill at the end. half of those tend to think something is priced incorrectly.
I’m watching the Pole Day qualifications for the 1994 Indy 500. It’s amazing how much of a decline that event has had over the last 23 years. It’s really sad.
you might like this
So many directions I could go with that…best to leave it alone.
Directions? Left hand turn. Them another left hand turn. And then, wait for it, a left hand turn!
The Dakar is still pretty spiffy, despite not being anywhere near Dakar any more.
Watching the end of the NASCAR truck race and begging for someone to wreck Kyle Busch. I’d also like to state for the record that NASCAR is the Calvinball of motor sports.
I’m still pissed at Indy Motor Speedway for screwing the deal with Dorna Sports and losing the MotoGP.
What kind of donkey-ass mother fucker calls for one-sixth of his stack with those utter crap hole cards? Well the kind of stupid, probably spouse or child-abusing, luck-box asshole that hits a dumb-fuck straight with his dumb fuck shit cards.
FUCK YOU!
If this was a real space tournament I would be so tempted to pick up my chips and toss them on the ground*. Because fuck you, you piece of shit.
*chips that go below the table edge are considered permanently out of play.
That’s why regular card players often won’t play in tournaments.
It’s about going for broke all the time–and sometimes the stupid bastards get lucky.
You and Phil Hellmuth.
He has anger issues.
See, this is why I go to Vegas to get drunk. At least I see a return for my money.
Little help here. The audio on my IPhone is getting feedback. Sounds like a CD skipping. Video is fine. Cleared the cache and deleted all the old downloads. Don’t want to reset. Any ideas?
is there a soft reset? not a “get rid of all of the data” one.
My old iPod had that issue sometimes, that seemed to work.
Followed your advice, Doom. Worked. Guessed her password. How great of a dad am I?
Headphone problem?
Twist the end where the jack goes into the phone. push it left and right inside the phone.
You may have twisted the wires up near the jack, too.
Try different headphones. Same problem?
Skips even on speaker. Phone calls, of course, are fine. Actually, daughters phone and she doesn’t remember the password, so I can’t reset for now.
Very similar to testicular torsion, I hear.
‘Round these parts we call it ball binding.
Mike Rowe had some words to say about ball binding.
Mike Rotch offered a few comments, too.
Some prefer Mike Oxbig.
*Mike Rotch your order is ready*
Bite ’em off.
Tell the iPhone to fuck off, then kick it’s ass.
Pound it on the table once, then drop it on the floor a few times, then rub it on the left breast of the next woman you see.
This site is like Ann Landers, if Ann Landers was trying to get people arrested.
Oh we definitely need a Dear Glibby column….
DEAR GLIBBY,
STEVE SMITH LIKE HIKERS! STEVE SMITH LOVE HIKERS! STEVE SMITH RAPE HIKERS! NO MORE HIKERS FOR STEVE SMITH! HELP STEVE SMITH FIND MORE HIKERS!
There is a little known activity where older citizens group together and go on what they call “Mall Hikes”
Find a local mall that hosts this sort of thing and you should be good.
Glibby
Have you powercycled the phone yet?
here
Mighty ZARDOZ, it is the 37th anniversary of the first day that this masochist brutal first drew air upon your sacred earth. As an enthusiastic punching bag, I beg thee that you would see fit to not only command my fellow brutals to berate me, but participate as well. I bare my willing cat-ass for punishment…
As an aside, one tends to reflect on where one has ended up in life after half your life has been spent in adulthood. For example, where was I when I was rapidly approaching the ripe old age of 19?
Well, picture 5 pasty white kids with eyes ranging from pale blue to pure green and hair ranging from pale blonde to light brown…which is kind of irrelevant given the fact our heads were razor shaved…, wearing JeanCo phat pants and Echo shirts, ‘candy jewellery’ and equipped with rolls, acid and firearms, setting up shop in an all black highrise project to sling shit. Assume all you want about some unconscious racism but this place was a shithole. I mean a ‘buy a video surveillance system and a small tv to constantly survey your car, only hangout on the front porch of the building with a shotgun, the pusher around the block getting picked by the cops only to be replaced by another guy 20 minutes later kind of neighborhood. But we raley got fucked with. Most people just guessed that if we were crazy enough to be there and do acid,(which always ammused me seeing as how nearly half the time the person saying that liked to get wet) we were too out-there to fuck with.
Now, half a lifetime-ish later, I have a middling successful career in a nich market, a modest but nearly paid for home, a reliable mode of transport and negligible debt(I like Dave Ramsey). I’m not exactly now, nor will I ever be lighting the world on fire but I’m satisfied that my existence hasn’t been a net negative to humanity(purely subjective, I know).
Rambling aside, I was looking for a song that encapsulated my life as an overgrown child in my own Private Mile End.
This will do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MEaKNNboFiE
Happy Birthday!
Birthday! Those are great. Enjoy!
Happy birthday, dude. Next year, just say “it’s my birthday and I’m getting wasted”
Happy Birthday Trigger!
Trigger, please
was a joke said by one of those roommates.
Happy Birthday!
Goddammit! You all are supposed to mock and ridicule me! What part of masochist do you not understand?! 😉
you old as fuck!
Give me your address and I’ll come piss on your lawn.
Happy birthday you diseased rhinoceros pizzle.
Happy Dethday, dweebo.
Has anyone warned ZARDOZ that weed is a gateway drug? Next week, it’ll be doing lines of lime.
Things are about to get silica!
What happened to spray paint? Spray paint is the gate way to public art!
Venture Bros. is the greatest
adult cartoonanimated show for adults. Better than Archer.You are correct!
On a related note “Betty Fisting Veronica” is the best adult cartoon.
I started watching the pilot, and… okay, it’s pretty roughed in. I don’t think they expected the series to be picked up. But they did great stuff with it.
There’s character arcs in both. V-Brothers makes you WAIT longer, so it may seem … more profound.
I kinda soured on ARCHER. Somewhere in seasons 2-3 they started in with the whole. “WHAT THE SHIT, LANA!” “WHAT THE SHIT, CYRIL!” “WHAT THE SHIT, ARCHER!” “WHAT THE SHIT, PAM!” The idea of “yelling the joke makes it funnier” is lost on me. IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY suffered a bit from that as well.
Yeah, I was looking forward to the newest season on Netflix but I found that all the traits I liked of the characters before are just grating now. Watched one ep and called it quits.
I’ve enjoyed the themes they’re going with in Archer. It’s kept it fresh for me in the last three runs.
Rick and Morty?
It’s good stuff, no doubt. But I rank it ahead of, but in the same class as, Adventure Time: weirdly fascinating in a way I can’t immediately share with others.
I object to comics with questionable content! *shifts eyes*
What, since it went all SJW?
Joke about personal hypocrisy. You obviously don’t hang out here on Sundays.
The Marvel shit has been funny, though.
Personally, I look forward to Early Cuyler’s take on SECRET NAZI PRESIDENT
Damn, I wish I had the bandwidth to tackle issues like this in long format.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I thought
See, I assumed Jeph Jacques was dead from a Trump-related stroke.
Yes.
To the lady with the nut-allergic child:
If your kid is so allergic to nuts that he can’t be in the same room with them, why didn’t you ask about it before you bought the fucking ticket??! I thought giving out peanuts on a flight is pretty standard. Jeez lady.
What kind of airlines are you flying on that have peanuts? Next, you’ll tell me that I can buy them at my local baseball stadium.
That’s crazy. Next you’ll tell me that peanuts are a common ingredient in children’s lunches.
Evidently, this guy will block you in under 5 seconds of Tweeting him if you say the wrong word. I’m not on Twitter and I’m not joining. If you are and have some free time…
What guy?
Shit. Jason Shives.
Needs moar teeth.
Not Steve Shives? That dude’s a lefty douche.
Yes. Man, I’m off my game today.
I’m blocked by James Woods, and I’m also blocked by multiple left-wing individuals.
Still proud of getting blocked by James Woods.
I have two claims to fame. I cooked a cheeseburger for Peter Fonda and Ben Fucking Stiller got me perma-banned from the Huffington post. Shouldn’t have made that (((Jew))) joke…
Is it… Satan?
Trolling peanut allegies.
Back in the day, I would re-educate any dumb “parent” complaining about how Stacy or Chad was soooo allergic to peanuts.
I called them out for being racists.
Peanuts are the only vegetable Invented by the Black Man.
Peanut allergy? Yeah, right. You just don’t want your children eating BLACK FOOD. You KNOW that peanuts are the only food invented by the BLACK MAN, and you don’t want them eating it. It’s straight-up racism. Stacy and Chad are fine. They could eat a whole can of Planters Peanuts. It’s all about your racism and hate.
I like it.
The best part is saying “Do you DENY that George Washington Carver invented the peanut? DO YOU?”
The responses don’t even matter.
Actually cut my leg with a rusty axe today. Was half in the bag so didn’t bother to pour the Peroxide on it until later. Am i gonna die?
” Am i gonna die?”
Just a little bit.
So the Cavs arranged, by deliberately going aiming for second place in the standings to be in a position to play games three and four on their own court for both this series and the Finals?
Holy crap, that’s awesome if true.
I thought it was to avoid Washington in round 2, because Washington was the only team in the East with the slightest chance to make it a minimally competitive series against them.
The day I turned 40 (earlier this year) I hurt my shoulder. I’ve been in pain since. I should probably go to the doctor about this, shouldn’t I.
But for now I’m drinking a rum and coke and watching a James Bond movie.
Yup. If it hurts on day 3, go see doc. I had to do that with an infection that turned out to be cellulitis, which is not something you want to deal with with bed rest.
I dealt with that a few years back. It involved the side of my face blowing up to twice its size, a trip to the ER, a scan after an injection of contrast, and IV antibiotics.
This isn’t that. But it does hurt.
Is anything falling off and/or decomposing? If not, don’t worry about it.
Or what Rhywun said. Whatevs.
The reality of your current situation, JB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEhoyXpqzQ
Which movie?
Casino Royale.
Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to JFK 55 years ago today.
My Buddy’s wife made “eyes” at me twenty years ago (apparently). We’ve never gone back.
The /r/socialism mods don’t let you have any fun
broken
Dammit. We need a preview button!
https://twitter.com/Wokieleaksalt/status/865727504220401665
Frank knew – ” It sounds like you just got an Ice-pick in the forehead!”
The poor Maoists, the fuck they do to anyone? Communists manage to even have internal ideological purges on internet forums.
It feels so good to purge, though.
today my kid managed to “lend” his ipad charger to someone at his school. He doesn’t remember who that person was. Apparently, some rando said, “hey can i borrow that?” and my dweeb of a son said “sure” and handed it over without even looking at the person he was giving it to. naturally the cord did not return to him.
This is why thirteen year olds are still kids. Because they’re dumb as a stump.
Sounds like a nice, but gullible kid. Trick is to teach him how to be the former while not being the latter.
I remember buying fries for the group when I was young. They laughed at me and then I beat the shit out of them. New kid? Fuck you!
Anybody following the Sanders’ Supporters vs DNC lawsuit? Seems like a media blackout of it.
If I were as aged as Bernie, I’d just take my lake house and go home. Who does this guy think he is? Al Gore, apparently.
I prefer this
Donors lied, Burlington died.
Uuuuunngh! Bernie do you REALLY have to do that?
So, I’m home. An hour ago i asked for my tab.i was told that the last shift hadn’t documented my drinking, so they were only going to charge me for one round. So, i said, I’m gonna buy a round for the blind guy and his asshole friend. As I’m doing this, asshole friend comes up and apologizes. He says “i was an asshole”, i reply “yes, but i overreacted.”
I buy them a beer. I’m glad.
But i really need to figure out a way to rein in my temper.
Drinkin’ Buddies! I beat the shit out of all my best friends when I was a young fucker. They asked for it.
Yeah except I’m not young anymore. I’m way too old to be getting into fights every time I’m disrespected.
I think I’ve discovered a serious flaw in myself, and I need to fix it.
Unless it costs me time, money or physical pain, I let assholes have their fun. Why bother with them otherwise?
Personally, When I feel my fists getting itchy, I try to walk away from the argument. I try to grab a smoke, and try to see the other person’s POV. We’ve all had a shitty day where we snapped at someone who probably didn’t deserve it. We’re not proud of it, but it does happen. The countdown from ten doesn’t really stop the anger, but it is a good step towards telling them some variant of, “Sorry, I can’t really have this argument right now, I might be back in in a bit.”
For all you know, that blind guy is the guy who is meeting assholes all day long, and had just cock-blocked his buddy out of a threesome five minutes before you met him, so his friend was naturally a bit on edge.