The "Stop a Douchebag" movement

[gigantes]

i'm pretty sure someone posted one of these before, but i wasn't able to find it. oh well. the big confrontation happens around 3:00 in this episode.



https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ibl6SHbq8sY/mqdefault.jpg
"Stop a Douchebag" Ep.14 - Bully Vs. Wrestler 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibl6SHbq8sY)


i haven't looked through all of these. anyone see an ep where particular bad shit goes down?

[highwhey]

And you called me a masochist? Btw why did you call me that? I simply posted pictures of Tacomas. Am I misunderstanding the word?

[gigantes]

And you called me a masochist? Btw why did you call me that? I simply posted pictures of Tacomas. Am I misunderstanding the word?
yeah, it sounds like you're both misunderstanding and misremembering.

[highwhey]

yeah, it sounds like you're both misunderstanding and misremembering.
:coleman:

[gigantes]

:coleman:
:party:

[Wally450]

I've watched about 5-6 of these after watching this one. Good stuff.

[gigantes]

Putting a giant sticker on someone's car is asking to get yourself hurt. You don't respond to stupidity with more stupidity.
i agree to a point, but

1) they don't just slap a sticker on. first strategy is always to be patient and try to talk the driver back on to the road.

2) only when a person has certified themselves a total douchebag and put lives at risk do they apply a sticker.

3) they have numbers and people skilled in combat if things turn ugly. if one of them gets hurt, they know they got hurt for a just cause.

[kNIOKAS]

i agree to a point, but

1) they don't just slap a sticker on. first strategy is always to be patient and try to talk the driver back on to the road.

2) only when a person has certified themselves a total douchebag and put lives at risk do they apply a sticker.

3) they have numbers and people skilled in combat if things turn ugly. if one of them gets hurt, they know they got hurt for a just cause.
Fighting abuse and bullying with more abuse and bullying is not the best choice, however. It seems these guys are just looking for a free pass at being douchebags themselves.

It must be fairly rare to be able to talk a guy off doing something, especially in lives settings like these. He won't listen just to safe his face, and then the conflict gets escalated invariably.

The fines or other penalties are instituted by faceless, uniform people, payments delayed in time and out of the actual traffic situation and through an abstract entity like police for a reason.

So I don't know.

[gigantes]

Fighting abuse and bullying with more abuse and bullying is not the best choice, however. It seems these guys are just looking for a free pass at being douchebags themselves.

It must be fairly rare to be able to talk a guy off doing something, especially in lives settings like these. He won't listen just to safe his face, and then the conflict gets escalated invariably.

The fines or other penalties are instituted by faceless, uniform people, payments delayed in time and out of the actual traffic situation and through an abstract entity like police for a reason.

So I don't know.
good points.

it's like i'm balancing upon "what should i do as an adult" versus "how to shame and punish people who simply don't care?"

[kNIOKAS]

good points.

it's like i'm balancing upon "what should i do as an adult" versus "how to shame and punish people who simply don't care?"
First one is a great [and very open] question. The second one must concile with the fact that shaming and punishment is not as effective in preventing behaviour as it intuitively seems. More often that not it's counter-effective or neutral with unpleasant side-effects.

However to me this looks like a scripted situation where one can bully somebody but remain righteous. Again, a quite discredited notion that bullying the bully is ok, eye-for-an-eye, sharia law type of shit. Those youngsters are looking to pick up a fight (no wonder, that's why they're young males), so why not hide behind a cause.

For last, Russia is pretty different place and some of the very same wise notions might not be sensible. It's a place where sometimes might makes legitimate right and people don't question it in the same way others would. Perhaps those kids should do what they're doing until they pick on a mafia don who'll skin them all for bothering him with the traffic rules. Why not

[tomtucker]

they do this shit in russia ?? :eek: :facepalm
they must be tired of living. i once knew a few russians, they are savage.
sooner or later they will get shot to death