DC Tom Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 c'mon lil guy..we would have a blast It's really fun watching him run around the house in his little hamster ball...
MattyT Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah. You've got to make people show respect. Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I always shake their hand. If they don't put their hand out to shake, I dislocate their arm, knock them on the floor, grab their hand and give it a firm shake. It always feels good to get respected with a handshake, voluntary or not. I guess I am just old school. coffee on the screen
DC Tom Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah. You've got to make people show respect. Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I always shake their hand. If they don't put their hand out to shake, I dislocate their arm, knock them on the floor, grab their hand and give it a firm shake. It always feels good to get respected with a handshake, voluntary or not. I guess I am just old school. Clearly you were raised properly.
taterhill Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah. You've got to make people show respect. Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I always shake their hand. If they don't put their hand out to shake, I dislocate their arm, knock them on the floor, grab their hand and give it a firm shake. It always feels good to get respected with a handshake, voluntary or not. I guess I am just old school. I agree 100%..one time in a restaurant, I saw a guy not pull out his chair for his wife..I lost it..I went over there, and slammed the guys head into the table and threw him out the front door...
bartshan-83 Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah. You've got to make people show respect. Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I always shake their hand. If they don't put their hand out to shake, I dislocate their arm, knock them on the floor, grab their hand and give it a firm shake. It always feels good to get respected with a handshake, voluntary or not. I guess I am just old school. Well played... To answer the original question, I always remove my hat during the National Anthem. If someone I'm with doesn't, I say "Take your hat off." That's where it ends. If someone I don't know is wearing a hat, that's his business. There is no point in ineffectively attempting to align every stranger's moral compass with your own.
In space no one can hear Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 I agree 100%..one time in a restaurant, I saw a guy not pull out his chair for his wife..I lost it..I went over there, and slammed the guys head into the table and threw him out the front door... That reminds me off the time I was in the bathroom at my local Barnes and Noble. Some dude came out of the stall after taking a dump and proceeded to walk by me at the sink and headed straight for the door. He was halfway out the door when I proceeded to put him in a headlock and dragged him back into the bathroom. I shoved his face into the porcelin sink, told the bastard to wash his freakin hands before I snap his mother-----ing neck. Needless to say he followed my instructions and this is one lesson in "respect" or "duty" that he will hopefully never forget.
taterhill Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 That reminds me off the time I was in the bathroom at my local Barnes and Noble. Some dude came out of the stall after taking a dump and proceeded to walk by me at the sink and headed straight for the door. He was halfway out the door when I proceeded to put him in a headlock and dragged him back into the bathroom. I shoved his face into the porcelin sink, told the bastard to wash his freakin hands before I snap his mother-----ing neck. Needless to say he followed my instructions and this is one lesson in "respect" or "duty" that he will hopefully never forget. I bet you he will never do it again...reminded me of another time I needed to make somone understand....I was at BJ's a few weeks ago and this guy left his shopping cart by his car and DID NOT put in the cart corral....well I f'n lost it.. I grabbed th cart and rammed this guys car until he got out...when he got out I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and slammed him into the cart...after unleashing a flurry of haymakers on this toss bag, I took him and the cart and pushed it out into traffic....did I feel bad when he was hit by a UPS truck? F no!! You have to teach people that you MUST return the cart to the cart corral...
RayFinkle Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 I bet you he will never do it again...reminded me of another time I needed to make somone understand....I was at BJ's a few weeks ago and this guy left his shopping cart by his car and DID NOT put in the cart corral....well I f'n lost it.. I grabbed th cart and rammed this guys car until he got out...when he got out I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and slammed him into the cart...after unleashing a flurry of haymakers on this toss bag, I took him and the cart and pushed it out into traffic....did I feel bad when he was hit by a UPS truck? F no!! You have to teach people that you MUST return the cart to the cart corral... I think Stojan is still looking for you...
pkwwjd Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Even though this question lost a lot of seriousness a while back ... I bring up the counter point -- Most cultures, i.e. besides western (european & american), consider it a sign of respect to cover the head, not remove the covering. I find this interesting because we remove our hat to sing the anthem, go to church, etc, but in the Jewish tradition (on which the Christian western culture is originally based) you place a covering on your head to enter worship, or engage in official business with political and religious authorities. As a pastor, I still ask the teens in the youth group to remove their hats when we pray, but how important is the hat vs. the importance of the heart within?
MarkyMannn Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Here's a story from a year or two ago. At the Bills game, anthem going, 3 young guys next to me refuse to stand, just sit there. Well right after the anthem, the usher comes over because they are in the wrong seats, they should be one section over. As they go by me, the last guy goes by, I gave him a hard push in the back and he stumbles over the next 2 seats. I'm yelling to "next time stand for the anthem MF's". You should have seen all the support I got then from the locals around my seats. I had 3 beers bought for me during that game But I also wouldn't recommend any one do that. It was stupid and I got have easily ended up on the bad end of that altercation
MikeH Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Teaching a kid to forcibly remove someone else's hat during the National Anthem is raising them properly I agree
DrDawkinstein Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Here's a story from a year or two ago. At the Bills game, anthem going, 3 young guys next to me refuse to stand, just sit there. Well right after the anthem, the usher comes over because they are in the wrong seats, they should be one section over. As they go by me, the last guy goes by, I gave him a hard push in the back and he stumbles over the next 2 seats. I'm yelling to "next time stand for the anthem MF's". You should have seen all the support I got then from the locals around my seats. I had 3 beers bought for me during that game But I also wouldn't recommend any one do that. It was stupid and I got have easily ended up on the bad end of that altercation please dont ever go to another Bills game again.
yall Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 I'm glad so many morons idea of respecting the anthem (and by way of proxy, American values) is to think that it's ok to force someone to do something. If you want to respect what people have died for, try respecting people's rights to freedom of speech and expression. Apparently the irony is completely lost on you dolts. I seriously hope one of you in the "I'll take it off for you" crowd gets your !@#$ing nose broken if you ever were to try it. Oh, but wait, it will probably never happen since I'm willing to bet you guys talk a lot of sh*t, but don't actually have the balls to back it up.
mead107 Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhatsoff.html hope this helps
Ramius Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 you guys are great. These last 2 pages have me in tears!
tennesseeboy Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 do you remove your hat?if you were at a game with your son, and he had his hat on? tell him to remove it or not say anything? I remove my hat, and my son is old enough to make up his own mind whether he wants to remove it or not.
tennesseeboy Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Reminds of the last time I was at Buckingham Palace. I asked the Queen where the bathroom was and she got all upset..I dragged her into the dining room, took a dump in her soup bowl, and stuck her head into it. I said "Next time someone asks you where the bathroom is, honey...don't act so friggin arrogant...AND STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, DAMMIT!!" Then I got drunk and went for a drive and ran over some illegal aliens.
UConn James Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Reminds of the last time I was at Buckingham Palace. I asked the Queen where the bathroom was and she got all upset..I dragged her into the dining room, took a dump in her soup bowl, and stuck her head into it. I said "Next time someone asks you where the bathroom is, honey...don't act so friggin arrogant...AND STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, DAMMIT!!" Then I got drunk and went for a drive and ran over some illegal aliens. But their anthem is, "God Save the Queen." Shame, tenny. Shame!
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