For those who don't want to provide hits to the BBC website.
The public will judge a man by what he lifts, but those close to him will judge him by what he carries.
Quote: (10-01-2016 09:43 PM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (10-01-2016 10:08 AM)apolis Wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audi...s/37522714
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Quote: (10-02-2016 02:37 AM)apolis Wrote:
Quote: (10-01-2016 09:43 PM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (10-01-2016 10:08 AM)apolis Wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audi...s/37522714
Major newbie fail here.
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Quote: (10-02-2016 07:31 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2016 07:07 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:
Several men just stood and watched a 140-pound manlet destroy thousands of dollars of product.
More like a bunch of display models.
Quote: (10-02-2016 07:07 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:
Undoubtedly, someone would have kicked this guy's ass in the US.
Quote: (10-01-2016 11:00 PM)NomadofEU Wrote:
ROFL! The T-restricted Apple store employee doesn't know what to do when confronted with real anger^^
Quote: (10-02-2016 12:41 PM)eatthishomie Wrote:
On one hand, you have a meek non-confrontational people-pleaser scared to really confront someone who is ostensibly a nuisance in his store.
Quote: (10-02-2016 01:26 PM)XPQ22 Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2016 12:41 PM)eatthishomie Wrote:
On one hand, you have a meek non-confrontational people-pleaser scared to really confront someone who is ostensibly a nuisance in his store.
I don't think picking and choosing your battles is necessarily meek. If I were in the same position as these employees? Yeah, I'm just going to sit back and chuckle, sorry. I don't own the store, I don't own the products, I'm not jumping a mentally-deranged hipster with a whacking tool over a dozen iPhone 6es to defend the honor of the spirit of Steve Jobs. As if the Apple Store deserves my loyalty - everyone knows in retail that they'd can your ass over just about anything given the opportunity of someone who would work for less.
If he looked like he was going to take it to another employee, that's a different story. But hey, if all you wanna do is smash a bunch of Chinese made crap, have at it pal.
Self-defense is pretty narrowly defined around here as well. Pounding the stuffing out of a vandal likely wouldn't qualify, and then you're a guy with a criminal record, too. And facing a lawsuit.
The guys who feel this is a situation worth confronting anyone over are exactly the same guys who'll lash out in public over trivia, in my estimation. It sounds like some guys harken back to some supposed golden age of masculinity, where miscreants and ruffians would have immediate justice dealt out if they pulled a stunt like this. But as onerous as our Western legal system can be, the reason it's there is because that era absolutely sucked nuts for just about everyone.
YMMV.
Quote: (10-05-2016 04:03 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote:
All you guys virtue-signaling by saying that you don't own an Apple phone and trying to shame others for owning them are being just as bad as some of the SJW crowd.
I've never owned an Apple phone, but that kind of shaming language and holier than thou attitude is not needed here.
Now, what we do need is to ban heavy round objects like this guy used. Ban them all!