Kung Flu Panda! Wait, I mean Kung Fu Panda! Impressive skills, TAM!The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:00 pmI have some martial arts experience (a brown belt in one art, and other lower belts in others), but that was a long time ago. The last time someone assaulted me from behind was in about mid 1977, in NYC. I didn’t hear his approach because of traffic noise (it was mid-afternoon on a weekday, on Central Park South). When he shoved me, I pivoted on my right foot so I was quartered to him, weak side out, and lashed out with a right backhand punch to the bridge of his nose, producing a satisfying crunching noise. That was the end of the fight. I’ve twice disarmed someone with a knife, using a back roundhouse kick, ending the confrontations both times. I’ve never gotten into a knockdown dragout fight. I didn’t have to.Rafe wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:45 amDoesn't TAM have a bunch of years of martial arts experience in him? Not the correct reaction at all in that instance, but it would still have been satisfying as a spectator to see the idiot's hand touch TAM's shoulder, and have TAM instantly do some sort of Jet Li Chin-Na joint locking stuff to drop him to his knees before he had time to blink.
The world is getting crazier and crazier. Glad it all worked out but that guy was definitely out of line.