Roger Waters:Would he have been easy to beat up?

bmet · Post by **bmet** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:08 pm

It's Saturday afternoon and I want a fun question to ask other members!

I've seen pictures of a young Roger in Nick's book:(Scrawny,gangly,pimples,etc).
I've read of the written remarks of how he tended to bring an opponent down verbally with his quick mind and tongue and that he doesn't suffer fools easily.
I look at those old pictures and often wonder if a "good swift kick to the arse" would have been an eye opener to him at the time.(Perhaps not having a dad plus a determined mother influeanced his behaviour).

So my question(s) is: Would Roger have been easy to beat-up? Or was a scrapper and quite prepared to defend himself?

MadJedi · Post by **MadJedi** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:12 pm

i woulda taken his lunch money and locked him in his locker...

flashback · Post by **flashback** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:42 pm

how bout a short sharp shock to the head

matknny · Post by **matknny** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:30 pm

jedi with crazy diamonds wrote:i woulda taken his lunch money and locked him in his locker...

flashback wrote:how bout a short sharp shock to the head

How nasty

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:40 pm

No wayy, he'd destroy us all with his Rickenbacker bass.

kagee · Post by **kagee** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:42 pm

He might have been gangly but he looks like the type of bloke you would have knock out to stop.

I reckon I could take him though!!

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:40 pm

Wait a moment! are you asking this to get an idea of whether or not you should attack him after you see him live?????

flashback · Post by **flashback** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:41 pm

I bet he was a big-time nerd or geek in highschool

The Gunner's Dream · Post by **The Gunner's Dream** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:22 pm

In 1967, he looked like he could get his assed kicked all over the place.

Fast-forward to 1977...hmm, dont think so

DoctorFloyd · Post by **DoctorFloyd** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:36 pm

I dunno, he'd probably have been one of those people it would have been very difficult to actually be bothered trying to beat up. Usually if someone is pissing me off, I ignore it, and if they are wittier and better able to put me down verbally, then in all likelyhood attacking them would probably only assert their superiority mentally speaking.

bmet · Post by **bmet** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:00 pm

PublicImage Posted

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Wait a moment! are you asking this to get an idea of whether or not you should attack him after you see him live?????

I was more or less thinking of the younger Roger in the 50's and early 60's.

Most of us here are adults!
Mind You,If there's anyone out there thinking of beating up Roger today,please wait 'til after Sept 20th!!

flashback · Post by **flashback** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:07 pm

bmet wrote:
PublicImage Posted

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Wait a moment! are you asking this to get an idea of whether or not you should attack him after you see him live?????
I was more or less thinking of the younger Roger in the 50's and early 60's.

Most of us here are adults!
Mind You,If there's anyone out there thinking of beating up Roger today,please wait 'til after Sept 20th!!

I think you could take him bmet

vickyc007 · Post by **vickyc007** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:24 am

I think I recall reading in an interview somewhere that he used to get beaten up quite a bit whilst he was in the Sea Scouts in his youth, so yes, you probably could take him.

WishIwasthere · Post by **WishIwasthere** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:21 am

Being tall, he could possibly have used this theory:

It is better to win a fight by 100 metres.

Mooner · Post by **Mooner** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:42 am

He wanted to be an architect. Almost as easy a whoopin Keith's ass I bet.