Dude was trying to intimidate you with physical size and presence. He got what was coming to him.

Should we play the "Your country is shit" game?

America also has a whole lot of racism and is almost entirely descended from criminals. Except everyone likes to forget that because "Australia criminals LOL".

Kids usually ride for free on a student bus pass. One of the conditions of using the bus pass is that paying customers get a seat before you do.

Thankfully that stuff all comes from a very small number of prolific 4chan shit stains.

Australia was never as racist in the past as it is now. 15 years of nationalistic political dogma and an increasingly toxic governmental attitude toward immigrants from third world countries have had a terrible effect on the national idea of what's an appropriate response when someone who isn't your colour annoys you.

Rapier wit you have.

Your post was so edgy that I cut myself.

You know what you should totally do? Double down and pretend to be making an academic argument that the idiots here don't understand.

At least he was nice enough to put his crazy right up there for you to see. No reason to wait until he offers to show you his underground bunker to decide he's a terrifying head case.

Was English not his first language? This is the kind of disjointed stuff I get from ESL students trying to write speeches.

With your winning personality, I can't believe you aren't already taken!

Did you post this in the online dating horror stories thread on Something Awful a few years back? I'm sure I've read it before. Prop swords are not something that come up often.

Australia. The driest place in the world.

I fear that you have never been to an Indian restaurant in the same postcode as "good". This sounds like a description of a late night drunk-food Indian "restaurant", where all the food is under glass and they scoop it into take away containers while you watch and charge a dollar extra for curries with meat in them.

In Alien she was a great character and in Aliens she was a weirdly realised mother figure enacting violence to rebuild her surrogate nuclear family. The first movie they were essentially truck drivers. Blue collar slobs shipping minerals from point A to point B. I really don't feel like there was any character…

That Shonen Knife song is rad.

Samus Aran has a pretty huge amount of character development for a video game character, especially one who is more often than not mute.

O'Bannon has said that he sort of imagined the whole cast as male by default, but he deliberately wrote them all to be gender neutral. When the studio asked him who could be female he was like "All of them, I guess. Howabout Ripley?"

Alien doesn't really have a main character until about half way through. Once the ensemble starts dying off, Ripley emerges as the intelligent, resourceful survivor. And like Jabom001 said, the entire cast was "male" (or gender neutral according to O'Bannon) until pretty much time for casting.