Ok, everyone knows I'm a huge prick and have rage issues. Well if they didn't, they do now.



So. Here's a situation and reaction. I'm trying to defend my actions to my family but they are flipping out and are like "you never hit family blah blah blah"


I sit down in the living room with my computer. I grab the remote and turn on the TV. After a few minutes, my by brother goes up to the TV since I have the remote, and just starts changing channels.

ME... "Um..I was watching TV"
HIM..."No, you're using your computer"

me"No, I'm doing both ****head. You do it all the time as well"
him"Well, Too bad"

*I use the remote to change it back to the channel I was watching*
*He continues to channel surf*

me "Are you ****ing serious?"
him "yup"

*5 minute debate about how I was watching TV and he should stop changing channels. Oh, btw, he covers up the infrared so I can't use the remote*

"If you keep this up you'll regret it"

*he continues*

So I throw a punch. In the face of course. I wanna make it hurt.


Now my whole family is *****ing about how I'm a little ****head.

UM. OKAY. He's the ****head that just goes up to a TV someone is watching, covers up the infared so they can't use the remote, and flips channels for 5 minutes. No, not just change it and try to watch something different. CHANNEL SURFING. FOR SEVERAL MINUTES.

When verbal debate fails, what the hell else are you supposed to do? Be a little ***** and walk away because you're brother is a giant cock? NOPE.

I can't recall how many times he's pounded my ass for being a little ****.

Now I finally do it to him, and it's a big deal.

RANT.

yea, I got rage issues.

Leaving tips to sucky ass waiters, changing my channel. FRAK.

He's 27. I think he'd be a little more mature than that.

Damn, how old are you? Twelve?

24.

And the "how old are you" ... shouldn't that be directed at the one fraking with the channels when someone is watching a show?

I don't let people walk over me. I gave him a fair warning. He continued to act immaturely. He paid the price.


I'll NEVER hit someone without a warning, or unless they attacked first.

He ignored the warning. How does that make me the bad guy?

Haha. You're a little pussy.

Seriously?

Hitting is a pretty poor solution as it tends to piss the other person off and equate to some sort of vengeance, usually in the form of *****y behavior.

If he takes the TV when you don't want him to, and you're pissed, just find good reasons to annoy him out of the room. You can always claim you were there first if he doesn't like the obnoxious music you can commence to play loudly, or the other many annoying sounds you can find on the internet. But hitting? That's old school.

You need to learn to just let go and allow it. You didn't HAVE to watch that show at that time.

Annoy him out of the room?

Wow, that seems like the immature thing to me. I wouldn't steep that low.

A punch is simple and effective.


Let me ask you this though..


If you were making an annoying noise, and someone said to you "if you don't stop that I'll punch you" What would you do?

Unfortuantly for me, the guy was stronger than me. He ended up kicking my ass.

So let me get this straight.............

I can just start being a total ****, and people will let me do it because they won't want to get in a confrontation??

who forgot to send me the memo?

I'll own the world soon.

Your family sounds really messed up.

Mostly just perverted, but a little messed up too.

No reason you can't hit someone just because you're related. If they're being an ass they deserve it. Especially after a warning.

You're justified. And tell your whole damn family I said so.

It's alright, but I would have avoided the face.

It wasn't a suggestion based on what I would do in that situation. I thought it was something you would be good at applying considering you're trying to find justification on the internet for your actions, and being annoying in doing so.

TV: SERIOUS BUSINESS

Um, no, it was covered in your post so I didn't have to ask. Yeah, sounds like he was being dumb, especially for a nearly thirty year old, which also makes me wonder what a bunch of grown siblings are doing living at home although that's an inference on my part. You all just might still hang out at home or something.



Yeah, basically you guys are acting like a bunch of teenaged siblings. He was a fool but you weren't much better.



I don't know, he was being a clown and you PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE. Can't see why anybody would think that is excessive. Mind you, I'm actually not really chastising you here. It's just that you both sound like a couple of idiots in this case.

I think you should just take him out for a few drinks and settle it. Don't forget to tip.

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Really, you're both dicks. You're a bigger dick, though, for punching your own ****ing brother OVER THE TV CHANNEL while you were using the computer.

You physically struck someone over a TV. You're ****ing retarded.

Hey, sounds like your brain isn't quite up to snuff. I recommend this book to get the most outta your brain.

I think you both did more than enough to earn that question.

Eh, he's your brother. I don't see anything wrong lol. I definitely wouldn't do it to OTHER random folk, but if your brother is being an *******, call him out on it and if he continues to be an *******, show him whats up. Apparently since he's the type who has beat the **** out of you before, I guess that is his preferred method of getting his message across.

Although if that brings you to a fight, you should really find some more constructive things to fight about

Yup. Sure do. Seriously...hitting family over a ****ing TV? Sorry to say it, but you really just seem like a big ******* now.

Either use the computer or watch TV. Don't be a brat. Your brother has more reason to punch you in the face.

I'm highly amused how you keep calling him immature when you're the one acting like a baby.

Oh, no, I've always been a big *******.

Oh, I think it might help to mention there are 4 other TVs with cable around.
This TV is an old boob tube model, 32". My brother HAS HIS OWN 52" HD LCD, ASIDE FROM THOSE 4.

So yea. I was being a brat watching TV on ONE of the many TVs.

You should have tased him.

Yeah, dude, you were being a *****.

yes you really were. maybe he wanted to sit on the sofa and watch tv. SO ****ING WHAT. yeah he was being an idiot first but you were acting like a child when you resorted to violence. if you wanted to watch tv that badly why didnt you just leave the room and go see one of the better tvs you wanted him to watch?

It's too bad this didn't come on the TV.

I mean, on one hand, he's your brother and fights happen, including minor injuries. It's just that the entire situation could have been avoided, especially at your ages.

And yet you couldn't muster up the decency to walk away and watch another TV.

I DONT LET PEOPLE WALK OVER ME IM A BIG TUFF GUY LOOK OUT WORLD

I can see why he did it. You must be goddamn hilarious to stir up.

This whole thread boils down to 'what are your personal feelings about your own family?'

No one is going to give an answer that will apply to you because they didn't grow up in your family with your living situation or your childhood. Some say 'you were an ******* you should never strike your family' and others are saying 'eh, its just your brother, who cares'. No one but you and your brother can know what flies. With you guys, apparently it's fists.

It sounds like your brother initiated you in a who can be the biggest assclown competition and you won.
For a while there he was miles ahead, being very childish, but the moment you punched him in the face you were victorious.
If you want to solve it violently, do an arm twist or something, it causes pain and is low-risk for real damage, unless you are twisting WAY too far.
How would you feel if (as unlikely as this is) as your first came towards him, he foolishly turned to look at it, and you managed to push the cartilage into his brain and killed him. Or you hit him too hard and he got brain damage? Or if you 'merely' broke his nose?
Would causing permanent or long-term damage to him over tv still leave you feeling self righteous?

No, what it boils down to is that he punched someone in the face over a TV set.

Guys, he didn't punch him in the face because of the TV. The TV is irrelevant, it could've been a toaster or an airplane. Doesn't matter, it's just what his brother chose to annoy him with. The real issue is that his brother was being a gigantic dick and words weren't getting that idea into his skull. So please let's stop focusing on how immature it is to fight over a TV. What's really going on is that these two brothers seem to have a history of annoying the hell out of each other just because. THAT's what's immature here. So let's re-focus our insults a bit.

EDIT: And actually, since ^that's the case Zell is right. People's reactions boil down to how they would handle an aggravating situation with their family. Since I have no brothers I use my relationship with my best friend. We would've done the same thing (minus the face-punch, more like in the shoulder or something) when screwing around. Therefore, I feel it was warranted even if maybe the face was too much for me.

Holy **** dude. I would have punched you right back! You really need to seek some professional help. If you punch someone over something so trivial, you will kill someone over something slightly less trivial. I ain't joking on this matter. You will kill someone because you lost control of your temper. Conversely you're gonna piss of the wrong dude and he's gonna beat the ever living **** out of you because you lost your temper.

heh, hehehe, ahahahahaha, "DON'T TAZE ME, BRO!"

I forgot to answer this.

Why didn't you watch on his 52" HD LCD? If this 32" TV was yours, and he was watching it, could you not watch his?

Well, I think it's a little gay to make too much out of this. Many things could have been done differently but the bottom line is these guys are brothers who have probably been pounding on each other for two decades. They both acted stupidly and, if I read it correctly above, SK got his ass kicked in the end. It is what it is. Dumb all the way around.