Intimidation statistic apparently approaching maximum

[dave_littler]

Virtually without fail, every day I go to work, there's this little scene that plays out.

I'll be walking down the hall, someone will catch sight of me, they will gasp with unspeakable horror, sometimes scream with alarm, often clutch at their chest, and then, after a bit of nervous laughter while I give an increasingly half-hearted and insincere

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[dwaleberry]

"Most people think Marv is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him. They woulda tossed him girls like Nancy back then."

- Dwight, Sin City

[cyranothe2nd]

ROFL, this. Just take to carrying a battle axe and embrace it. :D

[dave_littler]

Personally, I've always liked the elegance and volume of the halberd.

[cyranothe2nd]

Rofl, as long as it's not a kitana. There can be only one!

[mothwentbad]

Hmmmm. I haven't seen you in person, so it's hard to give pointers. Maybe you're just that scary.

BEWARE THE ATHEIST.

[dave_littler]

This may aid you in conceptualizing the matter.

[katiebignuts]

I actually rather like how you look.
But your look is not unique, this type of build and attire is not like... unheard of?

I don't think you're frightening looking at all but I entirely sympathize with you. I run around with 'funny' and 'aggressive' t-shirts on, and for a while I rocked a mohawk, and I tend to talk very loudly.
I am often the cause of fear in strangers. Children, in particular, tend to shriek, hide behind their parents or the nearest architectural convenience, and then stare at me as if I can't see them ogling. I like kids, this is always confusing and bewildering to me, since when they get to know me, they love me.

I particularly enjoy the super hero pose you've taken in your photo. I wanted to help, so.... here.

[mothwentbad]

I would've given him a handlebar mustache and a barbell.

[dave_littler]

There's a certain class of people who I think might find that even more menacing in an only slightly different way.

[hentaikid]

Azrael had similar experiences but he is a large black man living in Japan, so he's probably a lot more unusual.

[dave_littler]

Magnificent. I have managed to induce nausea in frail oriental girls. But collapse and weeping? There must surely be a trophy to accompany that.

[aria_moonstar]

Dwaleberry beat me too it lol

I never thought you were frightening. And you even shouted commands at me demanding backed goods, so really, I think people are just strange. Mind you I am often referred to as the amazon at work so maybe we're cut from the same cloth. Let us tower over these wee half-lings and demand that they fetch us pies and purchase us board games!

[dave_littler]

To one mountain, another mountain looks like the reflection in the mirror. To the man on the surface of the mountain, the mountain appears to be the entire world. Your amazonian stature, I think, blinds you to the reality that I live. It is this blindness which I find charmingly refreshing, however, and so it is no slight against you.