[quote=“jimipresley”]
Next time this situation arises, Mother Theresa, don’t make eye-contact. Just stare into the distance. Oh, and if you have an umbrella handy, open it.[/quote]
:bravo:
Thanks Jimi. That was my first real laugh of the day.
[quote=“alidarbac”][quote=“Mother Theresa”]“Fuck you, you’re an asshole,” I told him, “Fucking asshole, fuck you. . . and your car’s a piece of shit, too. Nide cheze bien bien,”
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“Bu yao,” I told him, “Bu yao gun ni wan” (I don’t want to play with you).[/quote]
Dude, you know to learn some Chinese from someone else other than your daughter. I don’t know if you can say that you won considering you told the guy his car is poo-poo and you impetuously told you don’t want to play with him anymore as if you’re two first-graders at the playground.[/quote]
Alidarbac - Very funny… :bravo:
MT -
First, Congratulations on your 50th Birthday. May you enjoy many more. The fun is just beginning.
Second, you done good. You gained much face, as the locals are wont to say, with your “no action - action” wu wei.
Just don’t get cocky and think that this will happen again if you allow someone displaying such an aggressive manner get in so close.
It may have “heightened the absurdity of it all” for you, but it wouldn’t have had that effect on him, and he is the one on whom you wish your words to have a dramatic effect. “Your car poo-poo” and “Don’t play with you” would not have humiliated him. (Bu Yao + verb doesn’t equal “I don’t want to verb”, but is rather a negative imperative: “Don’t verb!” That plus the your car poo-poo remark just make you look weird. The actual content and impact of what you want to communicate would have been greatly diminished.
Next time stick to English - he’ll still get the gist of what you’re saying, without the confusion created by ungrammatical baby-talk.
Something similar happened to me recently with a cab driver. He pulled over with 2 customers in his car and pulled out a giant cop mag light. The two customers ran off, haha. I held my ground like you did. He gestured repeatedly to hit me and my motorcycle. He was an old man, and I told him in Chinese if he hits me or my motorcycle he would get hurt. He cursed and cursed at me, told me to go back to America. He made a huge scene, lost face, and lost his customers. Hhaha what a maniac!! I did provoke him though, he was driving very dangerously and he nearly clipped me, so I gave him the finger.
I know keep mace with me, and next time someone does that to me, I wont hesitate to pull it out of my pocket and just mace him and take off. That will teach him. I asked a cop if this was legal and he said it was as long as he starts the flight and or has a weapon. In this case he had a weapon. The Taiwanese are such wonderful people, but when it come to any kind of argument on the road they turn into crazy lunatics. How could a 60 year old taxi driver pull over with customers in the car and try to start a fight with a fit 31 year old. What is he thinking!!!
Anyway, I’m glad you didn’t get hurt Mother T. That could have turned ugly, you did the right thing. He lost! Congrats! I think I would have used a different word to describe his car though. Poo poo car just doesn’t do it for me. 
People do tend to look idiotic fighting - the blood, torn shirts, lost shoes, ruffled/pulled out hair, missing teeth, split lips etc.
I say leave it to the UFC boys.
I think I look rather handsome, debonair and sexually alluring when engaged in fisticuffs.
That’s the beer talking, Jimi 
I had a weird one tonight, too.
Walking up Hoping East Rd in Taipei, I am about to cross a lane (walking) there was a pedestrian crossing on the lane and as I stepped onto the crossing a taxi pulls into the lane from Hoping East Rd, he swings wide to go around me as he sees me on the crossing, but as he goes wide he has to stop as there is a car coming the other way out of the lane so as I continued walking, he stops right in the middle of the crossing, and I walked into the back of his car. I thought to myself “Fuck this guy, why do they do this, he was in a hurry to beat me but now he has to stop and he blocks the crossing.” So depite being pissed, I walk around his taxi and as I go around the other side the guy opens his door and yells at me. It goes something like this:
Taxi Driver: Hey Man! What’s going on?"
Me: It’s a fucking crossing, you should have stopped for me. Do you know how to drive your car?
Taxi Driver: (getting out of his taxi) Hey Man! Don’t push my car.
Me: Don’t stop ya car on a crossing, asshole. (I take out my phone and take a picture of him and his taxi stopped on the crossing from the side and from the back so I can get his number plate.
Taxi Driver: walks around and looks at the back of his car. (Geez, I only bumped it with my stomach) and he has caused a big traffic jam in the lane now…
Me: Just walk off…
The end.
I remember for my license test here, I had to stop at the pedestrian crossings… Maybe the rules have changed since…
OMG with your tummy?? MY tummy may have made a 5000nt dent in his trunk
Keep Pepper Spray Handy…ends any confrontation in 1 second. And causes you no physical harm.
Can be purchased legally at any one of those military surplus stores or Airsoft BB gun stores for about $400nt - $800nt a can.
I keep one on me at all times. Just blast and go about your business…or feel free to take out a few angry kicks to the assailants midsection.
I figure wild animals and insects have their own means of protection when provoked…Humans have science, and since im forbidden to carry a GLOCK in Taiwan… a can of spray will surfice.
[quote=“Beast619”]Keep Pepper Spray Handy…ends any confrontation in 1 second. And causes you no physical harm.
Can be purchased legally at any one of those military surplus stores or Airsoft BB gun stores for about $400nt - $800nt a can.
I keep one on me at all times. Just blast and go about your business…or feel free to take out a few angry kicks to the assailants midsection.
I figure wild animals and insects have their own means of protection when provoked…Humans have science, and since im forbidden to carry a GLOCK in Taiwan… a can of spray will surfice.[/quote]
You will find yourself in a world of pain with that logic. :no-no:
Jimi, I’m on the fence here, because I used pepper spray on a problem person in Joburg when I had a door job, and all he did was get more incensed.
But the coppers use it all the time, it should work, no?
Now what if it was legal to have a glock in the glove compartment in Taiwan 
It would give less space for food in the news.
Food on the news seams idiotic to me, but I’m still glad you can not bring a gun out in this country.
It would wipe out half the population in a week.
[quote=“Stian”]
I’m still glad you can not bring a gun out in this country.
It would wipe out half the population in a week.[/quote]
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
[quote=“redwagon”][quote=“Stian”]
I’m still glad you can not bring a gun out in this country.
It would wipe out half the population in a week.[/quote]
You say that like it would be a bad thing. [/quote]
Flying schooters is enough for me. I don’t want too dodge bullet that missed it’s target when I try to cross the street.
Just thinking about myself, but it would be more show in TVBS 
Jimi, I’m on the fence here, because I used pepper spray on a problem person in Joburg when I had a door job, and all he did was get more incensed.
But the coppers use it all the time, it should work, no?[/quote]
Won’t work in the rain or on pissed off/ drunk people.
Jimi, I’m on the fence here, because I used pepper spray on a problem person in Joburg when I had a door job, and all he did was get more incensed.
But the coppers use it all the time, it should work, no?[/quote]
Won’t work in the rain or on pissed off/ drunk people.[/quote]
Right. It will just piss them off more. Angry/drunk people have been shot 10 times with 9mm pistols and still kept coming.
And cops don’t use those puny little cans of mace.
Also, spraying someone with mace if they haven’t assaulted you first, could find you in a lot of legal trouble. 
[quote=“redwagon”][quote=“Stian”]
I’m still glad you can not bring a gun out in this country.
It would wipe out half the population in a week.[/quote]
You say that like it would be a bad thing. [/quote]
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: 
And, once you establish that the parties are allowed to use foreign objects in the fray, anything goes – guns, knives, broken bottles, tire irons. Until then, in most fight settings such as the one I was involved in over the weekend, it’s my understanding that there’s a sort of code of honor that it’s a fist fight, wrestling match, martial arts, whatever, but foreign objects are considered a violation of the rules. Sure, people violate unspoken unclear rules all the time in fights, but if you escalate right off the bat you’re inviting him to do the same, and I’d rather keep it just fists and feet.
That may be the case in North America but I’m not so sure that this is a social norm here in Taiwan.