THANKS ROADKILL: FOR THIS CLIP

I SIMPLY HAVN'T STOPPED LAUGHING AT THIS--FOR LIKE 2 DAYS STRAIGHT.
MOUTHY GUY STARTS IT, MOUTHY GUY BUYS INTO CONVENTIONS/ASSUMPTIONS--
AGE NOT THE LEAST OF THEM. THEN THE 67 YEAR OLD GIVES THE YOUNG[ER]
GUY A SPANKING.

STILL LAUGHING AT THE STRONG RESPONSE AND COMPLETE SCRIPT REWRITE


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and for those who were curious, when the dumbass got off the bus to show that
he had been caught off guard, the old fella--although perhaps missing a screw,
toyed with him and psyched him down, end off...

excellent, kid got schooled, disgusting to front up to a near 70 year old


...cue the racist comments from the pondlife in cyber land ...

scrolling the youtube comments... ah yes, 5 th comment down..."nigger" this and "nigger" that.... Yawn...

Here is an interview with EBM and it is really funny and really sad all at the same time....

that was--as you said, funny and sad. but i have to add one--and maybe i have a extra
soft spot for old wood tick nutters who've done their collective time earning their reps,
but that guy i like. i'd buy him a breakfast and check in with him every so often, he's the
kind of guy that sort of makes me less bored. i used to have an odd habit with chatting
with homeless guys for hours on end. not as hard as that guy, sort of regular versions
who'd been other places in their lives than just washed out. i guy had sort of played the
religious begger all over the world--even living in spain, and there he was knowing that
bible of his inside out in DC. eloquent/knowledgible on many subjects. sort of surprizing
what's out there. i used to think it was only halfwitts. but my eyes opened to many other
things that either break a person's spirit or floats a person's boat.

one guy was stabbed to death by a local pimp for attempting to chat up one of his girls
whilst high. what a roller coaster. strange tight rope act. many women don't even go to
the shelters--hot bed for rape, etc...they end up trying to build walls for themselves by
talking to themselves, being dirty, wearing a shitload of layers. i knew of another that
was okay for a while but them ended up with all the sores of an STD victim--probably
repeatedly raped as she was so f'king introverted and would invariably disassociate and
sleep in different places. when i first saw her homeless, as a guard, i'd let her sleep in
a heap in the back of the bookstore i worked at [all day]. she was actually petite, and
cute. what a night mare to be some little suburbanite girl mentally ill, thrown on the
DC streets and sort of an escapist probably coming from home trauma or whatever.
i still think about her--how easy it'd have been if one of those she grew up with or whatever,
had simply looked out for her. she's probably dead now too.

DC is like DAWN OF THE DEAD for homeless. loads of these folks have the 'outpatient'
look on their face--some with those hospital name tags still on their wrists. loads of
drugs, etc...it's total madness in that regard.

That was a cool interview - so interesting nowadays that everything is uploaded and spread out so fast that not only do we see this moment on the bus, but then there's even a follow up interview and a background story!
Oakland is like DC, Russ, the homeless population is very large ... and unlike DC it's warm enough to live outside all year. San Quentin is just up the road, and the area is surrounded by lord knows how many mental institutions and hospitals that don't have the resources to help people as they 'should'.
I'm glad that there was a bit of 'justice' done in this case, and that a career criminal, by the sounds of it, is back inside. I just hope this helps out EBM in some way.
Thing that struck me about the vid in the first place was the seeming inevitability of the attacker having to follow through. After EBM had pretty much made the other lose face, along with the egging on by the girlfriend(?) it just seemed so inevitable.
I posted a long time ago about a book, the name of which escapes me, which was a research project that interviewed prison inmates incarcerated for violent crimes, to try to find if there were any common denominators that drove them to commit these crimes. As I remember it, turned out that feeling humiliated or feeling shamed were extremely common triggers to violent behavior.
Seemed the case here too.

maija wrote:

Oakland is like DC, Russ, the homeless population is very large ... and unlike DC it's warm enough to live outside all year. San Quentin is just up the road, and the area is surrounded by lord knows how many mental institutions and hospitals that don't have the resources to help people as they 'should'.


I posted a long time ago about a book, the name of which escapes me, which was a research project that interviewed prison inmates incarcerated for violent crimes, to try to find if there were any common denominators that drove them to commit these crimes. As I remember it, turned out that feeling humiliated or feeling shamed were extremely common triggers to violent behavior.
Seemed the case here too.

-i can only imagine, the warmer areas get more and more folks living rough--i saw sort of the equivalent
of anglo saxon gypsies in tousan [sp?] arizona. an odd seen that is etched in my rotten mind because of the cat that was in an establishment that had been terrorizing all those inside [the cafe]. this dusty girl
that looked positively mental walked in, leaned over to the tabby, scooped it up, and like some seen out of a quasi native american myth whereby those closer to the land can whisper animals into gentle compliance, the pschotic cat went with her--accompanying her to where all of her pig-pen pals were, only to run off and remain ferral [but with one dusty girl as her human friend i reckon].

-that book sounds really good, i'd say almost all of the fights/gun-fights/etc...are all humiliation and shame themes. we had a guy get shot for someone treading on his sneakers. it's all built around fragile
egos. quite infantile, and yet i'm sure i can ascribe to many of those feelings. the male ego in these parts is very easily manipulated and instigated into so many things over here. the word 'instigating' sometimes can undo some potential damage--it's often used,
"SHE INTIGATIN'" etc...whereby the weak male is permitted to divert some of the rage back on those
attempting to amp others into their own potential lethal situations and watch from the comfort of the crowd.

i learned script rewrites way early on since it was so obvious as an outsider,
"you want to see him punched so bad, you f'kin do it!"