Went out last night to watch some footy with a mate. We went to an almost totally deserted Delaney’s and had a bit of chat and a couple of lagers. After a while there was a little commotion behind us, a bit of shouting and swearing. I looked round and saw a huge skinheed shouting at a small woman. My glance lasted less than a second and I turned back to the screen. A second later I heard the UK yob favourite “What the fuck are you looking at?” I ignored it, but sensed him moving and wanted to duck if he was about to lamp me, so looked round and there he was looming over me all aggro-stance. “What the fuck are you looking at? You got a fucking problem?”
I wanted to say “You have to be joking? You’re not giving me that line?!” or “Yes I have got a fucking problem, I’m trying to watch the footy and you’re harrassing a tiny woman” or just laugh or tell him to fook off, but I didn’t want any bother, or a kicking, so I just said “No mate.”
It just pisses me off. It’s so UK yob. I looked at him. Nothing else, and he was ready to hit me. I honestly thought he was going to. You can’t reason with these idiots. You can’t let them drag you down to their level - they’ll beat you with experience and their fists. You just have to say “No mate” and ignore it and that pisses me off. Unless you’re bigger than him, or handy.
Another reason I don’t really want to go back to the UK.
Perhaps you were “lookin’ at ‘is bird”?
I so know what you mean. For the record, with my few years of martial art training (cough), you did exactly the right thing. It is so not worth it.
I know quite a few stories of things like that which have potentially escalated, calmed down, and then all seems normal. The antagonist then returns with a) a knife b) a baseball bat c) his mates and carnage ensues.
So the only thing I would suggest would be to leave immediately it is possible, and avoid him and that bar for the rest of the night. I know it sounds harsh and a huge amount of trouble on your part, after all you havent done anything, but with these sort of idiots, it is worth it.
Alternatively, get the MLCCC together, and assault him with cricket bats. Its the only way to be sure.
an excellent suggestion from james. perhaps the MLCCC could become some sort of immaculately-dressed vigilante group that goes around wanchai practicing their hook shoots on dickheads like the one you describe.
having spent a month with my jaws wired together at college as a result of having the temerity to beat a “local” at pool and darts in some pointless southern town you would have my full support.
Shaky, what I can’t work out is how do these “yobs” get into HK and how come they are allowed to stay. You are so right in that they are just a bunch of shit kickers yet there seems no ability to “manage” them out. The HK Immigration has a plethora of rules for some nationalities (http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2004/12/14/my-sir/) but seems to let every other piece of shite in without question.
Was watching the football in Delaney’s once and these two English supporters seemed to be borderline yobs/hooligans spoiling for a fight. Wonder if they’re the same people you had a run in with.
Yobs exist in any flavour - I’ve had a run in with an Australian and a local Hong Kong guy.
Walking away is perhaps the harder thing to do and you did the right thing, although it probably didn’t feel so at the time.
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