I used to watch WWE waaaay back when (they were still WWF and I was a kid)... Not so much recently. May have something to do with the fact that Japan doesn't air it.

But I do remember that as time went on, there was a lot less fighting and a lot more drama, saber rattling, yelling, threatening and whatnot. That's what my Friday night was like.

Funny thing was, we're talking about small-town Japan here. We were out on the town celebrating a friend's birthday party and I just about had to lay the beatdown on TWO (not one) but two drunk idiots! The first was a drunk company man who wanted to show off in front of his buddies and thought it would be funny to try and kilt-check me as I passed by. As he took a corner and started to lift, my arm was up like a flash, ready to backhand him straighht in the jaw. He let go of it SO fast.... and I gave him a dirty look and continued my walk to the exit of the restaurant.

The second incident happened outside. A drunk, local ex-DJ (who is old enough to know better) started making fun of my friend (whose b-day it was) for wearing a Malaysian sarong. He was calling him gay and accusing him of wearing women's clothing. So I stepped right in front of him, about a foot in front of his nose, dead-serious expression on my face and said to him in Japanese: "Have you seen what I'm wearing? He looked down, and the shock of seeing a second guy wearing an unbifurcated garment really messed with his head because the look in his eyes was priceless. While he was still too shocked to speak, I told him, "This is what REAL men wear -- take a look around you -- the women are the ones in pants. And if you make one more stupid comment about being gay or dressing like a women to EITHER my friend or me, I'll FLATTEN you!" (That's the polite version, anyway. The real version was in Japanese and also included colourful expletives).

He just turned around and walked away rather quickly. The rest of the evening was relatively incident-free (at least as far as choices of clothing went).

Just goes to show you -- stupidity and drunken ignorance knows no borders and is not limited to a single culture, time or place.