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I (think) that I have seen a pic of outandup, and I saw comments after last year's bash (I think from Pat McIrish) that out was "definately the kind of guy you'd want watching your back" or something along those lines. So, he's a big meaty white guy. I shouldn't pick on out so much because I don't want to be construed as trying to "pick a fight," because I'm not -- I just couldn't count the number of big meaty white guys I've either known or known of who had their asses handed to them in a bar parking lot, or worse (I was a pallbearer for one of them, after the guy he was pushing around whipped out a gun and blew his brains out.)
Just never understood the big meaty white guy tough guy mentality. Big guys tend to be divided into two categories in real life: ones who would run screaming from the room the minute the worm turned, so to speak, and ones who would have never instigated the situation in the first place. The Internet being the filter on personal behaviour that it is, I guess I'm just interested in which of these out truly is, given that he did this same stuff last year with me (but he was, according to himself, most emphatically not threatening me when he said things like, "You'll take one look at me and be like 'can I get you a dirnk, mr. outandup?'")
Observing people on Internet fora is like driving past a train wreck. You know you shouldn't gawk, but sometimes it's just so extreme you can't help it.
Phaedrus