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Quoted: Should older guys know their place and keep their mouths shut around stronger young guys? View Quote I'm an older guy and I keep my mouth shut around stronger younger guys. I also keep my mouth shut around older, weaker men, so the keeping the mouth shut seems to stem from something else? |
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Quoted: Your post is too stupid to respond to seriously. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So where do you figure your life went wrong OP, that you find yourself obsessing over "weak old men" showing you deference? Is this perhaps a latent homosexual thing? And do post a pic of your fearsome self. Still waiting on a response, OP. @dan45678 Yes, you’ve nailed it. All of it. I thought I hid it all so well, but seeing through my defensive layers was child’s play for one as astute as you. Awesome comeback.  Seriously.  And here I thought your game was weak. ETA:  Good night OP.  And when you fall asleep tonight, try not to dream about penis, OK? Your post is too stupid to respond to seriously. It was awful presumptuous of him to think you wouldn’t dream about penis. But for real, your thread is too stupid to respond to seriously as well, but here we all are. |
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And here you are trolling GD, in all your glory and prowess. I didn't read the whole thing, but am guessing that OP is a yapping chihuahua.
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Quoted: Sure, but we aren't talking about today's old guys getting a time machine so they can go back and retrieve their younger selves to fight as their champions. Fact remains that even if today's younger men are weaker than they might have been a generation ago, they're still more than a match for some guy in his 50s or 60s. View Quote You are going to die young or in prison. |
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Old guy........they picked poorly.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-412399/70-year-old-ex-SAS-soldier-dares-tackle-muggers-wins.html |
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I'm staring 70 dead in the nuts. In my AO the younger guys show me respect because they know my history AND most importantly I show THEM respect by acknowledging them and their skills and positions in society. That being said when not in my AO my age allows me to see "problems" from a long long ways away. Besides, nobody likes to watch me eat their eyeball with their remaining eye. Quite disconcerting. I'm NOT a bad ass but I've made it this far. Prison looks pretty good compared to watching my family burned alive and there's NO hesitation in taking that decision. Little Johnny shit for brains may not understand that. NFG.
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The older weaker guys are more likely to pull out a gun and put an end to the confrontation. Don't fuck with them.
I can't run anymore. I can't pick up a 200+ lb. guy and toss him up against the wall anymore. If I try to kick someone my other knee might give out on me. My shoulders are messed up. If I lose my glasses I can't see much. If something starts, I need to get it over with as quickly as possible or I'll run out of breath, strength, etc. |
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Quoted: Quoted: The level of deluded boomer cope posting in here is the funniest shit I’ve read in weeks. There’s a reason you old fucks are barred from joining military SOF units and the like, and it’s not because you’re too strong. It is because of knees and backs. First off, no, that’s stupidly reductive. Even if your were right though, knee and back health still matters in a fight. Testosterone and growth hormone levels decline with age, this is not subject to the wishful thinking of old men. |
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This thread is rad, but I have a theory.
People will bend this rule in whatever way suits them. OP is right. If we're basing respect on capability of violence... that's a parabolic arc on the spectrum of deserved respect. |
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Quoted: Quoted: The level of deluded boomer cope posting in here is the funniest shit I’ve read in weeks. There’s a reason you old fucks are barred from joining military SOF units and the like, and it’s not because you’re too strong. It is because of knees and backs. It’s because old guys have maybe one fistfight left in them, which is what we’re talking about. Young guys still have battles and wars in them. Pretty easy, really. |
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Quoted: First off, no, that's stupidly reductive. Even if your were right though, knee and back health still matters in a fight. Testosterone and growth hormone levels decline with age, this is not subject to the wishful thinking of old men. View Quote |
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Quoted: Quoted: The level of deluded boomer cope posting in here is the funniest shit I’ve read in weeks. There’s a reason you old fucks are barred from joining military SOF units and the like, and it’s not because you’re too strong. It is because of knees and backs. Yup. I am not sure why people think middle age guys are feeble. |
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Quoted: First off, no, that’s stupidly reductive. Even if your were right though, knee and back health still matters in a fight. Testosterone and growth hormone levels decline with age, this is not subject to the wishful thinking of old men. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The level of deluded boomer cope posting in here is the funniest shit I’ve read in weeks. There’s a reason you old fucks are barred from joining military SOF units and the like, and it’s not because you’re too strong. It is because of knees and backs. First off, no, that’s stupidly reductive. Even if your were right though, knee and back health still matters in a fight. Testosterone and growth hormone levels decline with age, this is not subject to the wishful thinking of old men. You don’t have a clue. |
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Second Hand Lions Bar FIGHT Scene |
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The Winner |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: There are a bunch of posts in the "Mississippi Okay. Should the same logic apply to older guys? If you're 58, you're almost certainly going to lose a fight with any 25-35 year old man. Should older guys know their place and keep their mouths shut around stronger young guys? If an old guy smarts off to someone in his prime, is the young guy fully justified in smacking him around? Concerning the bolded, Really?  You are taking A LOT of variables out besides age.  Size, experience, training, etc. to name a few. Yep. A 70 year old drill Sgt who's been retired for 15 years will straight up fuck up most 20-40 year old "males". Lol. Fucking, lol. Don’t you know that most of Drill Sergeant school is training in hand to hand combat in case you run into one of those guys who would have joined but couldn’t because they’d punch the Drill Sergeant for yelling at them? It confers life long magical powers that offset the loss of muscle and bone mass and drop in testosterone. |
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Quoted: I sorta see this too. There's definitely old guys who earned their lumps and can still kick a lot of ass, but some boomers convinced themselves that their entire life was the bar scene from a bronx tale, on repeat, when irl picking up the dog food bag gets the k.o. by sciatica View Quote |
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I'm old and I don't treat anybody with deference. I treat everyone with respect and I nearly always get that in return. As far as getting my ass kicked because I'm old, that's not likely to happen for numerous reasons.
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Youth and strength are not a match for old age and treachery.
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Quoted: My old man passed on several pearls of wisdom to me in my teen years. Â One was: "Be respectful to old folks. One, because it is just good manners. Two, because old folks have less to lose than most and they will no hesitate to kill you if push them too far." View Quote Mine told me the day before I went to Boot Camp, "No matter how big and bad you get, there will always be someone bigger and badder. Don't go looking for trouble." For the most part, I abided by that. |
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Quoted: First off, no, that’s stupidly reductive. Even if your were right though, knee and back health still matters in a fight. Testosterone and growth hormone levels decline with age, this is not subject to the wishful thinking of old men. View Quote Testosterone and GH apparently decline with each generation as well. I can’t remember the last time I saw a 20-something that looked anywhere close to “prime” around here. |
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Looking back, there is a reason that most fights are between young drunk idiots. They are too stupid and lack the wisdom to avoid them. Fights that start with, you looked at my girlfriend funny. You know, world changing events like that.
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Quoted: But still a lot stronger than a punk with a hole in his chest. You need to deal with the issue of why you hate your father so much. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Because they're weak. But still a lot stronger than a punk with a hole in his chest. You need to deal with the issue of why you hate your father so much. lol my dad is cool. He wouldn’t get offended if I showed him this thread. |
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Quoted: lol my dad is cool. He wouldn’t get offended if I showed him this thread. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Because they're weak. But still a lot stronger than a punk with a hole in his chest. You need to deal with the issue of why you hate your father so much. lol my dad is cool. He wouldn’t get offended if I showed him this thread. Will he show you deference though? |
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Personally.... I won't mess with children or old people.
Children don't know any better. Their bad behavior is their parents fault. Old people... well, I will be old one day; so out of respect I leave them alone. Anyone in between is fair game. Accountant |
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It might be much simpler if people of all ages just minded their manners, kept their mouths shut, and kept their hands to themselves.
Old men can't fight with you, they will just have to kill you, I think was how the old saying went...or something like that. Colonel Colt made all men equal... It is still better to mind manners, keep mouth shut, and hands to yourself. But I guess that is too adult of behavior for some folks to grasp. ETA: another consideration would be why shouldn't younger folks show deference to older, and wiser people? That would make it a brains vs brawn argument. Brains almost always wins in the long run. |
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Quoted: It might be much simpler if people of all ages just minded their manners, kept their mouths shut, and kept their hands to themselves. Old men can't fight with you, they will just have to kill you, I think was how the old saying went...or something like that.  Colonel Colt made all men equal... It is still better to mind manners, keep mouth shut, and hands to yourself.  But I guess that is too adult of behavior for some folks to grasp. ETA: another consideration would be why shouldn't younger folks show deference to older, and wiser people?  That would make it a brains vs brawn argument.  Brains almost always wins in the long run. View Quote That’s the entire point. OP thinks might makes right when it doesn’t always. He speaks like a guy with classic Napoleon complex. Can’t bully people his own age so he wants the older men that he thinks he can beat to show him some unearned “deference”. |
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Quoted: Mine told me the day before I went to Boot Camp, "No matter how big and bad you get, there will always be someone bigger and badder.  Don't go looking for trouble."  For the most part, I abided by that. View Quote My dad told me, “single that motherfucker out first and beat his ass good, then you won’t have any more problems” lol. |
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Sounds like a dude wearing white reeboks and blue jean shorts rolled up in a C6 and stole OP's girl.
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lol no 26-year-old Robin Ventura charges 46-year-old Nolan Ryan, a breakdown |
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