Friday Night Smackdown

**CDNSushi** · 22nd June 09, 11:39 PM

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.

**McFarkus** · 23rd June 09, 06:35 AM

Wow! That was quite an experience. The closest I came to that was when a drunk asked me if I was Rowdy Roddy Piper's dad.

**GreenDragon** · 23rd June 09, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by CDNSushi

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.

Can i get a PM of the Japanese version?

**CDNSushi** · 23rd June 09, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by GreenDragon

Can i get a PM of the Japanese version?

Lol! Better not... Don't wanna get someone in trouble. Funny thing about Japanese -- they don't swear like we do. It's not so much the words you use, it's how you use them. For instance, there is a "polite form" and a "rude form." Just by changing the ending of a verb and its intonation, you can go from "Please be quiet" to "Shut the %(#@ up!" and everything in between...

**Dan R Porter** · 23rd June 09, 10:59 AM

I watched WWF as a kid too, now when I say WWF the kids look at me and ask... "World WIldlife Foundation?"

I then took a turn where I hated WWF/WWe. Then when I started to study Catch and Jiu Jitsu I realized those are all real moves! SO now I respect it, though I like to watch the wrestling and nowdays it seems there is more talking.

**Alan H** · 23rd June 09, 12:01 PM

I've popped one person for "making kilt comments', but it wasn't really for making comments about me, it was for making comments about my hostess at the time. That then turned into comments about me, when I acquainted him with the fact that his behavior was unacceptable.

But this is a family-friendly forum and the consensus here is that what real men do is skewer the rude lout with flair, a rhymed couplet, references to historical garb and an abundance of personal style, thuys leaving him shamed and confused. Since I lack flair (though I can cough up the couplet and am more than passing familiar with poetry) and have the personal style of a brick.... not to mention that when I get really mad, I can't talk, I don't operate that way.

It doesn't happen very often, in fact it almost never happens but it DOES happen. It's clear that we're not supposed to speak of such matters, here, so I don't.

Anyway, good on ye.

**Tony Miles** · 23rd June 09, 12:41 PM

Woah that's insane - So Japan has rednecks too????

**LANCER1562** · 23rd June 09, 02:38 PM

The last time some drunken lout tried to kilt check me, I grabbed his wrist so firmly he thought he'd been latched onto by a pit bull and told him in a growl that might have given Clint Eastwood pause, that if he ever tried something like that again he spend the rest of his being called "Lefty". Amazing how quickly he sobered up and apologized. The thing that surprises me most is that he heard me over the live band that was playing and I hadn't raised my voice.

Robert

A pacifist by nature. I will pass a fist every time.

**BroosterB1** · 23rd June 09, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Tony Miles

Woah that's insane - So Japan has rednecks too????

Believe it or not every society and culture has it's fair share of ...Jerks! yeah that's the word....

**crboltz** · 23rd June 09, 03:29 PM

I have yet to get the connection between gay and wearing Kilts (or sarongs etc.). While I am gay, I have to say my straight friends accept the kilt wearing far more quickly than my gay friends do (and in fact I have turned several of my straight friends on to kilting, and it was a straight friend who got me into unbifurcated garments)

Like others have said -- I guess idiots can be found almost everywhere

Well, everywhere but this forum.

Cheers
Chris