Yeah, but YOU TRAIN FOR REALITY!!! (Channeling my self defense instructor there, sorry)

I just wanted to come in and get a damn vanilla latte on my day off! IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK??? IS IT??

You are right, the attempt would be completely futile. They are the Tacti-coolest.

Cake for all!

As a history teacher of mine once said: “Technically it only promises you the right to bear arms, it says nothing about guns. Here’s a stick. Congratulations, you’re armed. Amendment fulfilled.” This teacher was pro-responsible gun ownership, but he was basically talking about how ridiculous the “you HAVE to let me…

Yes! I totally agree. This is a huge part of the problem- that it’s not only just a not very helpful attitude but it is also so mentally draining and emotionally taxing. You are basically just running through until you crack.

I am totally stealing “tacti-cool”.

this. I’ve seen enough bonkers stuff happen with fistfights- people do crazy things when they’re worked up. A bunch of people all worked up is even more unpredictable, add lethal weapons into the mix and things get very scary and very stressful very fast. No one expects that before they experience it, you can’t know…

But he is totally ruining your day off! You shouldn’t have to work that hard on your day off dammit!

I’m in the Bay too and I’ve run into so many people that scare the shit out of me lately. Just now when I was taking my lunch break a truck drove past with “God Bless the USA and the NRA” stenciled on the back window.

I like this. It also reminds me of something a friend of mine who is former military told me that made a lot of sense. He said, “it was my JOB to know how to use my gun better than anyone else, and I STILL had to lock it up in the armory every night when I clocked out. That’s for a reason. They are not things you just…

I like “Cher Horowitz Strategy” :)

Agreed. I’m not a lawyer, but I took several criticism writing classes and this is what one of my profs called a “grapeshot letter.” Where the big company with an expensive legal department gets their panties in a bunch and so they send a scary sounding letter on fancy letterhead throwing out as many possible charges…

Don’t stress about it too much, you have time on the cards. Anyone who doesn’t get why it’s taking you a while is a jerk. Plus partner can help write them too if they have a few spare minutes! For real, though, don’t worry about it, you’ll get them done when you get them done.

Helen Mirren, the latter of which specifically asked Vin Diesel for a role in the film,

I like a good anti-hero as much as the next guy, but this show and this character was not it. She wasn’t an anti-hero she was an obnoxious asshole. A boring, obnoxious asshole. That is not entertaining.

Some of my gay male friends have had exactly this happen, so it isn’t unheard of, unfortunately.

Some of my gay friends have had that happen, unfortunately, so it isn’t unheard of.

To be fair, and this isn’t regarding sexual assault specifically, but the number of guys who explain away beating up a guy in a bar with “he was asking for it” and no other justification pretty much outnumbers any other reason I’ve ever heard.

It also sounds a lot like he’s made these kinds of justifications before, quite probably about his own behavior. I said it further upthread but I’ll say it here too, this sounds a lot like “the [gentleman] doth protest too much.”