I was riding my motorbike home and a pedestrian shouted "wanker" from the other side of the road.
I can't work out why they might have done this. I considered pulling over at the nearest opportunity, walking back down the road, and throttling the stupid cunt asking why.
This is bothering me more than it should.
I'm fairly certain everyone has had this happen to them at some point in their lives, but I honestly do not know why it's done.
But this was a pedestrian, walking alone on the other side of the road. There was nothing I could have possibly done to bother them. The sound of my bike is pretty far from a Harley.
People act like dicks sometimes. I once had a half-full can of lager thrown at me from a car window, for absolutely no reason.
I think that some people are just angry about their lives and looking for an excuse to vent. There's no meaning to their choice of target, it's just something that gives them a plausible excuse to vent. Anyone on two wheels is part of the out-group. If a pedal cyclist dares to ride in the road rather than the gutter, they're a smug prick who's holding up traffic. If a motorcyclist filters through traffic, they're a smug prick who's cheating the system. It's the same non-logic that created Schrodinger's immigrant - immigrants are simultaneously coming over here to sponge off our benefits, whilst also coming over here to take all our jobs.
I think the most sane response is pity. Happy and fulfilled people rarely feel the urge to shout abuse at strangers.
>>3861 > It's the same non-logic that created Schrodinger's immigrant - immigrants are simultaneously coming over here to sponge off our benefits, whilst also coming over here to take all our jobs.
Those two things come from different types of immigrant. The ones taking all the manual labour jobs are the Polish. The others are...Other.
I once joined a road on my bicycle. About 5 to 10 seconds later a Fiat 500 pulled past me and the passenger, a lass, shouted "Wanker!". It annoyed me. I was no danger to them, I did not pull out in front of them, they were a good distance away and it was a residential area.
I made my way home, which was not far at all, and would you believe it? that same car has parked up about 8 doors down from me.
I was not in the mood for an argument (I very rarely am truth be told, especially with people I do not know), but I wanted to have a good look look at them at least. What followed was satisfying; cycling slowly, almost coming to a stop, sneering at them through their car windscreen, two chavvy looking girls, looking over their car, the house they were parked at, and then back at them, as they sat in the car looking worried. I may have been subtlety intimidating them, but I feel the eye daggers were well justified and if honest, somewhat pleasing.
I looked back at them just before I walked down the alley to get to the back of my row of houses to ensure they knew I lived locally. A week or so later, me and my housemate walked passed them by their house. I pointed out they were the ones who called me a wanker, to which they looked sheepish once again! They did not say a word.
Perhaps. Maybe I should have knocked on the window and asked for an explanation. Or perhaps I should have left it and cycled on by.
But despite the way the situation was handled, I certainly got the impression that they knew they did wrong. Shouting abuse at people is not on and i'd like to think that they will think twice about doing it again in the future.
>>3871 If you're really worried about being attacked maybe you shouldn't be randomly shouting abuse at people on the street, hmm? They're just lucky the lad isn't a crim because he easily could have been.
I mean this in the most sincere way possible, but some of you need to grow a spine and accept there are people out there who will irrational hate you. It is nothing you can do anything about, nore should you cow to it, or feel guilty about it, because it won't improve your relationship with them and it will only detract from the fulfilment of your own life. Empathy on your part is not always the solution. Someone called you a wanker, does it really matter, they were a total stranger their reasons probably have nothing to do with you as an individual, they quite possibly don't process you as a real person, and probably as just a cheep form of entertainment.
Depends what it is. If someone called them a naughty word, sure, they are quite possibly being self indulgent if it didn't happen in the last 5 minutes. I doubt your heart bleeds every time someone calls Trump a cunt on Twitter. You probably feel like he somehow deserve all that hatred from total strangers
My problem is when people let this shit get on top of them and define them and I feel we have a culture that feeds into that. I honestly believe emotional trauma is made worse by wallowing on it. Life will never be a perfect hugbox, you have to expect a certain level of innate shittyness from sharing society with others with wholely different life experiences and backgrounds, and if learning that sticks and stones break bones but words will never hurt you, is the extent of what you have to tolerate I'll call you lucky.
>>3873 Right... they should be raped by a gang of men because they called a cycling twat a cunt.
Coward. I bet op wouldn't have done that to a couple of burly men in a white van. I bet he would have avoid his street until they left. Fucking cowards.
>>3883 Like you. You look like an idiot because you are an idiot. You are an idiot, by definition you look like an idiot. It's not surprising you're having difficulty with this concept.