When to start windmilling?

[xoggoth]

Not sure which is worse, that or some druggy in the street putting his arm round you and telling you you are his best friend

[SimonMac]

Yeah, so i'd just finished work earlier and swung by my quiet local for a quick pint on the way home. I was ordering my first beer and a bloke sat across the bar with his mate shouts across to me "oi you, come here" and starts gesturing aggressively that i should join him because he wants to talk to me.

So I ordered my beer and looked over and said in a non-threatening but assertive tone "naa, i'm not coming over to talk to you".

So he marches over with his pint and puts his head in my face and shakes my hand asking my name. So i told him. Then he says "I dont give a f**k who you are!!". His face is one inch from mine.

So.. what would you do next?

As antipodean being isn't this sort of conflict resolution part of your barman training?

[PAH]

Not sure which is worse, that or some druggy in the street putting his arm round you and telling you you are his best friend

While pickpocketing you.

I always make sure any new jacket I buy has a zip pocket for wallets and valuables. Only mugs keep them in their jeans pocket. Though I shouldn't complain, gives the scum plenty of easier targets to pester.

[Old Greg]

Yeah, so i'd just finished work earlier and swung by my quiet local for a quick pint on the way home. I was ordering my first beer and a bloke sat across the bar with his mate shouts across to me "oi you, come here" and starts gesturing aggressively that i should join him because he wants to talk to me.

So I ordered my beer and looked over and said in a non-threatening but assertive tone "naa, i'm not coming over to talk to you".

So he marches over with his pint and puts his head in my face and shakes my hand asking my name. So i told him. Then he says "I dont give a f**k who you are!!". His face is one inch from mine.

So.. what would you do next?

Declare, 'Sir, you have made a beast of yourself.'

Then invoke your right of substitution.

[aussielong]

And what did you do next?

I squared up to him and told him politely to go back to his mate.

[aussielong]

What I wouldn't do is get my phone out and post on CUK asking what to do next.

Neither would I. My phone can barely make calls never mind access the web. Despite being a programmer, I'm a luddite.

[PAH]

I squared up to him and told him politely to go back to his mate.

If I was an aussie I'd have gone for armageddon:

"Look mate, I'm a foreigner here to steal your jobs and women, now piss off so I can spend some of my benefits money on a Fosters. Hooroo."

That would have had him burst a blood vessel, proving it's possible to kill with words, no need for sticks or stones.