Toughguy or not?
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RE: Toughguy or not?
My post was not a support of M/C 's. Three to one is cowardly but someone still got their a__kicked over a shirt. If you wish to wear a shirt and thumb your nose at an outlaw M/C things could happen. Getting you butt kicked doesn't make it right and it doesn't make you smart. It just proves you can take an a__kicking over a shirt and you wish to send you favorite dentist on a nice you paid for vacation. There are things I will fight over but a support shirt for an opposing M/C is not one of them. There are M/C 's in most states. Awareness of your area and the clubs in your area is wise. I am not praising them --just pointing out if you aren't a member you aren't important in their world. They call themselves a club--you can call them a gang, I don't care. I go to a lot of events where there are M/C members present. I don't mix with them as a rule and they don't bother me. It is what it is.
ORIGINAL: akenaten
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ORIGINAL: skiahh
Bull... it's a GANG mentality. And criminal at that. Protect "their" terrirory, their colors and anything else they consider theirs. Not much better than animals, really (canines, big cats, bugs, birds etc... they all protect their territiry)... humans don't beat others up for a stupid T-shirt regardless of what it says.
And for 3 guys to gang up on one is cowardly, too boot.
Just stupid. Be it motorcycle club members, sports fans with the wrong team jersey or anything else.
It's criminal, petty, animalistic and just plain stupid. I'll keep the patches on my jacket to cruises, campaigns and aircraft I've flown.
ORIGINAL: oldairboater
M/C mentality is club mentality. Several support clubs in my area and one dominate M/C. They don't seem to go out of their way to start trouble but they have the potential at any time. The only advice I can give someone about m/c's is to remember they are family and you are not. Even if you win a confrontation you would still lose eventually. I would not wear anyone's support shirt. That is a suckers bet. You don't belong to the club and all you did was purchase a shirt. I wouldn't think you are cool---I would think you are a dumba-- or a want to be.
M/C mentality is club mentality. Several support clubs in my area and one dominate M/C. They don't seem to go out of their way to start trouble but they have the potential at any time. The only advice I can give someone about m/c's is to remember they are family and you are not. Even if you win a confrontation you would still lose eventually. I would not wear anyone's support shirt. That is a suckers bet. You don't belong to the club and all you did was purchase a shirt. I wouldn't think you are cool---I would think you are a dumba-- or a want to be.
And for 3 guys to gang up on one is cowardly, too boot.
Just stupid. Be it motorcycle club members, sports fans with the wrong team jersey or anything else.
It's criminal, petty, animalistic and just plain stupid. I'll keep the patches on my jacket to cruises, campaigns and aircraft I've flown.
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RE: Toughguy or not?
It's very easyto jump to conclusions based on limited information, but there are two sides to every story, and I don't form an opinion without getting all the facts (from both sides).
I would want to get all the facts from someone that was actually thereto witness (and hear)everything thattook place leading up to the conflict.
Not defending either side, but sometimes there is more to a storythan you initially think when only limited information is received.
I would want to get all the facts from someone that was actually thereto witness (and hear)everything thattook place leading up to the conflict.
Not defending either side, but sometimes there is more to a storythan you initially think when only limited information is received.
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RE: Toughguy or not?
Glad to hear your buddy is going to be OK, but it sounds to me like he got a beating for wearing a t-shirt supporting a specific MC, not for wearing a beard. I guess whatever makes him feel safer. As John Lennon said, "Whatever gets you through the night..."
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RE: Toughguy or not?
You folks are getting worked up over nothin'.
I got jumped as well one night but quick thinking saved mypride.I had the facial hair thing going(OK not quite facial hair but I did have on Groucho glasses w/mustache). Thankfully, I had about 30 rubber-bands in my pocket {and I know how to use them}. As an alternative, I had already eyed a desk stapler as plan B. Luckily, plan B wasn't needed.
Grisley details not-withstanding, it was a long battle.
To this day I have no issues wearingGroucho glasses w/mustachein public. But, I do get annoyed when I see others wear them around me...
I got jumped as well one night but quick thinking saved mypride.I had the facial hair thing going(OK not quite facial hair but I did have on Groucho glasses w/mustache). Thankfully, I had about 30 rubber-bands in my pocket {and I know how to use them}. As an alternative, I had already eyed a desk stapler as plan B. Luckily, plan B wasn't needed.
Grisley details not-withstanding, it was a long battle.
To this day I have no issues wearingGroucho glasses w/mustachein public. But, I do get annoyed when I see others wear them around me...
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RE: Toughguy or not?
well i think he did not tell the whole story......i bet quit a few words were exchanged and he thought he was a bad ***,but then got his *** whooped.. plain and simple you don't wear/fly colors unless you are ready to defend it....and those colors if they hit the ground you better be wearing them.
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From: Arizona
RE: Toughguy or not?
ORIGINAL: BCGlide
You folks are getting worked up over nothin'.
I got jumped as well one night but quick thinking saved mypride.I had the facial hair thing going(OK not quite facial hair but I did have on Groucho glasses w/mustache). Thankfully, I had about 30 rubber-bands in my pocket {and I know how to use them}. As an alternative, I had already eyed a desk stapler as plan B. Luckily, plan B wasn't needed.
Grisley details not-withstanding, it was a long battle.
To this day I have no issues wearingGroucho glasses w/mustachein public. But, I do get annoyed when I see others wear them around me...
You folks are getting worked up over nothin'.
I got jumped as well one night but quick thinking saved mypride.I had the facial hair thing going(OK not quite facial hair but I did have on Groucho glasses w/mustache). Thankfully, I had about 30 rubber-bands in my pocket {and I know how to use them}. As an alternative, I had already eyed a desk stapler as plan B. Luckily, plan B wasn't needed.
Grisley details not-withstanding, it was a long battle.
To this day I have no issues wearingGroucho glasses w/mustachein public. But, I do get annoyed when I see others wear them around me...
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RE: Toughguy or not?
sorry to hear what happen to your firend, and im not gonna get into the mc debait here, thats just a world i have no interest in, but sounds to me that he got humbled a bit and chose to clean up his act,(present a different image of himself)so to speak,
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