The context is very important. Had the woman been sitting there minding her own business and then the bus driver suddenly came out of nowhere to smack her upside the head, then yeah, it would be kind of off for a bunch of people to be like 'HELL YEAH!'. But for the context given? Entirely appropriate. The woman needed a reality check and got what was coming to her.NightowlM said:I'm sure the world is really missing out what with those videos being taken down. Oh where will we all go to watch women being punched in the head because we're totally equalists, guys. And filling up pages of cheers for women being punched in the head is completely healthy and normal and not creepy at all.GistoftheFist said:So both video links are no longer there. Will anyone ever post these things on sites other than youtube? They always get removed within minutes. So even though I haven't seen the video; equal rights, equal fights. Either your ticket gets punched, or you do. Sit your dumbass down on a bus and let the driver do his job.
On the other hand(or the same one, I can't tell in this context), they are some of the most appreciative people for common courtesy. You can really brighten their day just a please thank you and a smile.Caramel Frappe said:Seriously, I have known and talked to a bus driver. It may not be the hardest job out there, but sure enough they have to deal with a ton of stress from people who are constantly rude or causing problems every day. Push a bus driver to far, you will get man handled they don't care if the law gets on them after .. they've had enough, and that is why despite I am respectable of people, don't think regardless of your build or size that a bus driver will let you abuse him or her in any way. They will not deal with it, think of them as honey badgers.
The longest video of this I've seen was around 3 mins - and, while I don't understand much due to crap recording, shouting and Ebonics, it doesn't really matter what she said, as she was shouting at the driver in an abusive manner while he was driving the bus.Jezzascmezza said:I honestly don't know whether I know enough context in order to judge whether or not she deserved that.
Still, I will say that hearing what sounded like cheering after the bus driver hit her kind of disturbed me. Is that really how people naturally react to seeing violence?
I was thinking more along the lines of 'Next time remember to confiscate the camera phone'.FelixG said:I would LOVE to be the fly on the wall during that verbal warning.Kopikatsu said:It was a bit excessive of the bus driver, but I don't think he should be formally punished for it. Maybe a verbal warning or something, but sometimes people just need to be hit. Gender is not a factor.
"Now Jim, you cant go uppercutting abusive assholes no matter how great the uppercut is."
Wait, there is a BIG difference between "smacking" and Ike Turner!SaintlyTurkey said:Stupid people deserve a smacking regardless of gender.
Brad...what are you doing?Brad Shepard said:whats all this about woman complaining about equal rights i keep hearing?
LOL at the Mike Tyson commentPandaman1911 said:...Mike Tyson drives a bus now?
Right, so, writing the rest of this under my desk, hiding from all the things being thrown at me. I'm sorry, it's what came to mind. Er, anyway...
I feel it's a shame that this is going to become this big gender thing. Violence is violence, no matter who has the penis and who doesn't. And violence isawesomealways the worst possible option in any scenario. The girl shouldn't have been talking shit/ screaming at a public serviceman/ doing whatever else she was doing that involved not sitting down and shutting up, and the bus driver shouldn't have fucking shoryuken-ed her into next week.
Yes, I agree. (looks both ways)Shadowstar38 said:Ebonics. Blanket turn for what you're trying to say. I can understand it clearly, but yeah. To you, it could be like listening to aStu35 said:Well...
She clearly wasn't about the shut up. To my English ears, all I heard was a whole lot of "blackanese" (Can someone please tell me a non racist way of saying this, because I'm really struggling... "Urban-American dialect"?... Dunno... Anyway, it's not English, and it offends me, almost as much as Scousers or Brummies, but thats another conversation altogether).welshmanCthulhu speak.
Well...I didnt need to know that. But Okay.Syzygy23 said:Yes, IShadowstar38 said:Ebonics. Blanket turn for what you're trying to say. I can understand it clearly, but yeah. To you, it could be like listening to aStu35 said:Well...
She clearly wasn't about the shut up. To my English ears, all I heard was a whole lot of "blackanese" (Can someone please tell me a non racist way of saying this, because I'm really struggling... "Urban-American dialect"?... Dunno... Anyway, it's not English, and it offends me, almost as much as Scousers or Brummies, but thats another conversation altogether).welshmanCthulhu speak.agree.Like the smell of Asian woman (looks both ways)
I would if i could, but i was at work when you wrote this but tomorrow...today... WHATEVER IM ZEROZ of the Na said:Brad...what are you doing?Brad Shepard said:whats all this about woman complaining about equal rights i keep hearing?
Shut upCease this incessant troll-baiting and boot up Borderlands 2 so we can play.