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I demand satisfaction. Put ‘em up! Want to step outside and say that again? Mop the floor with you. I’ll bash your teeth in. Yo’ mama!

 

What are some other “fighting words”?
Sayings, expressions, adages, quotes, or phrases that either start a fight, signal that a fight is on, or egg someone on to fight?



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Posted - January 2, 2021

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  • 16197
    You looking for trouble, c**t?
      January 2, 2021 11:05 PM MST
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  • 4631
    Pretty much anything said with raised volume, speed, and stress in the tone of voice.
    It takes conscious effort to stay calm when that change signals that the other person has moved into fight mode.
      January 2, 2021 11:26 PM MST
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  • 52903

     

      Er, um, at least one example, please. Thank you. 

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      January 2, 2021 11:57 PM MST
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  • 4631
    Today, on our way home, ABC radio discusses Carmen Miranda.
    Husband remarks, "I saw her sing live in a circus tent when I was a boy of ten in Israel."
    I say, "That's impossible. She lived in Brazil and the USA, and travelled to Europe but never visited Israel, and she never sang or danced in a circus."
    Husband's voice becomes louder and faster. His hands tense on the steering wheel. "How can you possibly know? You weren't there."
    I feel irritated by his apparent belief that a fantasy (or decontextualized snippet of memory) is a reality and his inability to distinguish between them, or even see the importance in the difference.
    I'm do my best to stay calm and try for a guess at a possible explanation for the discrepancy.
    "I think you may have some vague memory of something - maybe it's someone in a Hollywood movie, perhaps there's a scene under a bigtop, and maybe some actress is imitating Miranda - but I swear you could not actually have seen Miranda live in Israel."
    "How dare you try to tell me what's in my head!" At this point his voice is almost at shouting pitch.
    I partially back down. "OK, have it your own way, but I challenge you to look up her life on the net when we get home."
    "I bloody well will!"
    Silence for the rest of the journey.
    A few minutes after we get home, he's looks it up and tells me I was right. His tone is miffed; he doesn't like it one bit.
    I say, "thanks for the willingness to check it out," and what might have become an awful argument has blown over.
    Phew!!! The relief is incredible.
    But what I've long known about how his memory works has had another detail filled in, and I don't like the implications. 
    I have to live with it, and I need to learn better patience and alternative strategies for coping.
      January 3, 2021 12:56 AM MST
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  • 52903

     

    Wow, when you give an example, you really give an example! You win!
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      January 3, 2021 7:55 AM MST
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  • 10449
    You was eyein' my woman!
    Well, you can just  kiss my ***!
    I'd like to see you try!
    Yeah?  You and who else?!

      January 2, 2021 11:36 PM MST
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  • 52903

     

      Wait, she eyed me first!






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      January 2, 2021 11:59 PM MST
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  • 52903
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      January 3, 2021 5:49 PM MST
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  • 13395
    "Yer a GOOF!"

    "If ya wanna fight go stick your head up your butt and fight for air!"
      January 3, 2021 3:52 AM MST
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  • 1893
    Would pull your mask up.

    Keep your distance.

    You are an idiot
      January 3, 2021 6:26 AM MST
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  • 52903

     

      You are so right! Lol!
      ~

      January 3, 2021 8:30 AM MST
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  • 13251
    "I'm funny how?" - Joe Pesce in Goodfellas.
      January 3, 2021 7:56 AM MST
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  • 52903

     

      Lol!
      ~

      January 3, 2021 8:29 AM MST
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    7268
    I don't let people jerk me around any longer.  
      January 3, 2021 10:53 AM MST
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  • 52903

     

      Er, um . . .



    :(

      January 3, 2021 3:23 PM MST
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  • 44175
      January 3, 2021 1:03 PM MST
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  • 52903

     

      Classic!
      

      January 3, 2021 2:01 PM MST
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  • 16197
      January 4, 2021 4:10 AM MST
    3