Coppers ain't so bad...

? The term* 'treat it for what it was'* is a tautologist mystery to me, I don't know what you mean by this ?

Also this is not how you would or should react to someone grabbing at you girlfriends bum or tits - it is about her reaction.

So someone does this to your girlfriend, she shows her contempt with her sharp tongue and you apologise to them for her ?

Although this is very magnanimous of you, for this to make any sense to me I would need to swap the you, them and her parts around a little.

You are right that people can react badly, you might even get hurt, but to not do anything is basically establishing that is fine (in that there is no come back) to grab at women, to grope and so on, it's just a bit of fun and she won't (maybe even shouldn't ?) react.

Weird stuff.

I say take each situation as it comes, be flexible and if in doubt kick the little bastard in the shins. :)

You say tautologist mystery, i say Tomato ;)

it was being forum faineant. to idle to discuss at length where the line is drawn, and how it takes the individuals; the surroundings, and the details of the incident to decide if it was innocent or indecent.

I have a relaxed view of life and tend to look for the good, but there are days when i am pushed to the end of my long fuse. the same incident would get vastly different responses from me in these cases. I have gone from appeasing the ego of a ignorant black youth to slamming a mans head in a car door. i would like to think the youth looked at the way i treated him and realised good people are out there and the mans whos head was smashed with the car door didn't pent up the anger that would have grown inside him!

I know Sam well enough to judge her reactions, I have also seen her worry the days away after she has overreacted to an incident. I have only appologised when i see it begin to flare, everyone has a catalyst - racism, religion etc etc

@cg5154 - it's more of a manly chortle than a tee hee and i prefer the term Dame over Honey. ;)