CDZ On behaving badly

[usmbguest5318]

On the short "Active Topics" list one finds at the right side of USMB pages, I saw the topic "Jason Priestley Claims to Have Punched Harvey Weinstein in the Face in 1995." For "grins" I read the linked article accompanying the OP of that thread. What I saw there, along with the narrative of the the OP was quite disappointing.

No, I don't care that Priestley punched Weinstein; that he did is between them. What I care about is that, if one is to judge by the article author's remarks, the U.S. has descended even further into a character malaise whereby barroom brawlers are now lauded for their inability to exercise emotional restraint. To wit....

From the article:

According to the 48-year-old actor, Weinstein yelled at him to leave a Miramax Golden Globes after party back in 1995. The argument apparently got so heated that it came to blows.

Seriously? A young actor "feeling his oats" determined that being told to leave a party he wasn't hosting took to punching in the face the party's de facto host! What?!? Priestley punched someone over whether their having asked him to leave what was, for that moment, "their house?' Would it really have been too much to just leave as requested?

As recounted by Priestley:

“‘I didn’t say you had to leave’ [Weinstein] replied. ‘You just told me to leave… right over there,’ I tell him once again. Getting heated now. He then grabs me tighter and says, ‘Why don’t we go outside and talk about this.’ That was all I needed to hear. ‘I’m not going anywhere with you,’ I said as I pushed him back and punched him with a right hand to his face. Suddenly, there were security guards pulling us apart and I was escorted out of the party…”

Wow! An invitation to, away from the festivity of the party, resolve their differences was "all [Priestley] needed to hear to haul off an punch the man in the face! Really?​

The details of the imbroglio transpired are what they are; however, as deplorable as punching someone in the face is, Priestley's doing so and why isn't the theme/topic of this thread. (If members care to discuss that, the linked thread in the first sentence of the OP is a fine place to do that.) What I read next in the Observer's article, what left me aghast is.

Priestley does not explain why Weinstein was yelling at him to leave in the first place and it’s unclear how accurate this story is. But if true, it represents the dream of just about everyone in Hollywood at the moment. We score the bout in favor of Priestley by unanimous decision....Hopefully, [the story and Priestley's actions aren't] too good to be true.

Seriously? People, in Hollywood or elsewhere dream of punching in the face someone whom they detest? That's where our culture has landed? I had rather it not be, but maybe it is....

For my part, I now will say that dreams of suckerpunching middle-aged men or women in attendance at social events takes little beyond unmitigated gall.


Note to the "peanut gallery":

I am not at all defending Weinstein. I'm deriding the pervasive mindset that applauds intemperance.​

 

[ChrisL]

Some people ONLY understand a punch in the face. Don't you know people?? You must be a very sheltered individual.

 

[ChrisL]

Too bad none of those women had the cojones to punch him in the face. I would have. Maybe I would have punched him right in the cojones! That would have dropped him to the floor quickly! Then you can make your escape from the rude disgusting bastard.

 

[ChrisL]

If you could internet punch people in the face, you can bet your ass that the people here wouldn't say half of the things they say (or type - whatevs). That is EXACTLY what some people need and ask for.

 

[Circe]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

 

[ChrisL]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

 

[ChrisL]

We could just have like celebrity death matches or something.

 

[ChrisL]

If they called the Bull Ring the USMB Celebrity Death Match Ring, they would probably have a lot more participants.

 

[Circe]

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

Well, sure ---- I could just line up my Ignore list and knock them all down.

Problem is, they are probably all bigger than me.

 

[ChrisL]

If some guy was trying to sexually assault me or one of my friends or a child or something, then he deserves even more than a punch in the face, if you ask me. Sure, I would hope that any man around who witnessed such a thing would punch him in the face too.

Pasofists. Pfft. Pacifism is SO overrated and doesn't really work anyways. People are jerks and some of them need a good punch in the face, IMO.

 

[ChrisL]

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

Well, sure ---- I could just line up my Ignore list and knock them all down.

Problem is, they are probably all bigger than me.

Perhaps. I wouldn't know. I'm just saying that it is normal when you feel angry to at least want to punch someone in the face (the person you are angry at anyways). Even if you don't REALLY want to and you are just really angry or even if you wouldn't actually do it, I'm sure all of us have felt it, thought it, said it from time to time in our lives.

 

[ChrisL]

Behaving badly to me is what Harvey Weinstein was doing, not what the actor said about him or felt about him. The actor was just REACTING to bad behavior, arrogant jerk behavior, etc.

 

[JoeMoma]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

 

[ChrisL]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

 

[JoeMoma]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

Jail

 

[ChrisL]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

Jail

I knew that, I just thought it was funny.

 

[JoeMoma]

If it were a punch place, nobody would be here. Shoooo, not even any booze to lubricate the bar fight. Just name-calling and punching? No good.

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

Jail

I knew that, I just thought it was funny.

Glad you knew that. But you did use a question mark.

 

[ChrisL]

There aren't people here you would like to punch? Come on! Be honest. Besides that, a good punch in the face is a lesson learned.

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

Jail

I knew that, I just thought it was funny.

Glad you knew that. But you did use a question mark.

Right. As in, "the pokey? Really?"

 

[JoeMoma]

There have been many occasions in which I felt like punching someone. However, it was never worth spending the night in the pokey or being sued for damages.

The pokey?

Jail

I knew that, I just thought it was funny.

Glad you knew that. But you did use a question mark.

Right. As in, "the pokey? Really?"

Yep, that is the likely place that I would go for punching someone.

 

[JoeMoma]

The pokey?

Jail

I knew that, I just thought it was funny.

Glad you knew that. But you did use a question mark.

Right. As in, "the pokey? Really?"

Yep, that is the likely place that I would go for punching someone.

And the popo would probably take me to the pokey.