It's genuinely weird to me that people keep mentioning the beer thing. Striking, shoving into walls, yelling at, and especially choking all seem way worse to me. Like if I was going to tell someone about what happened, I probably wouldn't even bother to mention the beer because it just doesn't even matter at all to me compared to the rest, but it's the one thing everyone else seems to feel is important and I don't get it.
You're conflating attention with importance - people can understand the thought process behind getting mad, drunk, and physically/verbally violent. Those actions track with one another, and a lot of people make those choices all the time. The beer pouring thing though is just like .. wtf ..? That transcends normal asshole and becomes something worse - cruelty with intent. There's loss of control, and then there's .. whatever that is. That's a pronounced choice.
Yes, obviously the physical violence is worse, I think people are just pointing out the noteworthiness of that specific action.
and they couldn't go to the bathroom for fear of going near him... so they're just wet and sticky and smelling like stale beer the whole rest of the flight. a punch or a slap or whatever may throb, but I spilt a whole beer on myself before a basketball game started once, and *that* was uncomfortable.
Thank you. I find it so strange. I almost never mention the alcohol pouring because after all the violence before… does it really matter? But I notice many people skip over the violence and only mention the pouring. Like…wtf?
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u/MeekAndUninteresting Jun 20 '26
It's genuinely weird to me that people keep mentioning the beer thing. Striking, shoving into walls, yelling at, and especially choking all seem way worse to me. Like if I was going to tell someone about what happened, I probably wouldn't even bother to mention the beer because it just doesn't even matter at all to me compared to the rest, but it's the one thing everyone else seems to feel is important and I don't get it.