Who is on your bad-ass list?

Your first example: Bad ass. Maybe.
Your second example: Dumb ass.
The students in our welding classes would never do that. And they are 12–18.

Hmm. I think we have different definitions of bad ass. See, the people you mentioned, I just think they had crappy luck and feel sorry for them. I mean, bar fight, what? That’s not bad ass, that’s silly. As for the blow torch, oh god, now THAT had got to hurt. Also makes me hope that he isn’t this careless in the future.

Now bad-ass, according to me, are people who’ve done something worth being proud of or worth boasting. People who have truly done something cool, noteworthy. So here are some of the people that make my bad-ass list.

My grandma was, for 94 years. She was feared by all of us! You must be bad-ass to teach for 38 years, many of those years spent in a one-room school.

Shaft.

And I think Andrew’s mom qualifies thanks to another thread.

@PnL I guess the situations are more bad-ass than the people themselves, they make more “hey here is something that happened to me that was stupid/or that I did that was stupid.” My friends and I do have a different definition of bad-ass definitely…that could be because we are in college. We do stupid things. lol

@IBERnineD It would be more bad ass if he had done the ass-kicking.
But it sounds like he got his ass kicked and his ear chomped.

There is nothing bad ass about the second example.

Guy in Bar: OM NOM NOM. Delicious!

@Nimis He did kick ass, that’s how he got his ear back!
and the second one, yeah obviously stupid, J.C. just wasn’t paying attention, and like I described above, my friends’ and my definition of bad-ass is really how stupid the situation was.
@asmonet haha yum…ear…

After most of my relatives, it would have to be The Hebrew Hammer.
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Bruce Willis, he’s the first person who came to mind after I read that question.

Jean Claude VanDamm <total Badass>

hulk hogan
chuck norris
the original kane

@Fallenangel I would have agreed with The Hulk (especially since he was in The Male Nanny or whatever that sweet sweet movie was called) but then I saw his reality TV show and found out that he cheated on his wife and let his teenage daughter sell herself to the media… now I don’t know anymore about the Hulk.

I don’t have a list.
Instead, I have two lists. My shit list, and my hit list.
If someone makes me mad, I say, “That’s it! Shit list!” And they cringe in fear
If they make the mistake again, well, I’ll let you figure that one out on your own.

I have a friend who fell off a cliff when hiking and gave stitched himself up. We now call him TOMBO!

There’s a man in Placencia , Belize (Japs) who, as a young man, tangoed with the tentacles of a Portuguese Man o’ War. His face has a centimeter-deep scare running the length of his face. Japs is 60 and still dives. Old school….Bad Ass.
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There used to be this creepy old guy that would stalk my sister’s junior high track team.
He’d watch them during practice and sometimes even tried to follow some of the girls home.

One day, my sister decided to do something about it.
She took a pencil out of her book bag, walked over to him,
and just stabbed him right in the thigh with the damn thing.

Needless to say, the guy never came back.
Though in retrospect, I can’t really say whether it was bad ass or just plain crazy.

slightly crazy can equal bad ass!

Plaxico Burress would surely, now. Oops, Dick Cheney while on the hunt.
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I just watched my friend go through 15 hours of serious labor without drugs. BAD ASS!!!

Al pacino.

@jonsblond @Likeradar
My mom is a bad ass.
She taught in a one-room school.
And also had 4 kids without any anesthesia.

Mr. Peanut…he knows why.

paulc for his badass Fluther user stats.

richardhenry for his badass Cursebird app.

johnpowell for badass-ness in general.

gailcalled for being a badass historian and scholar.

delirium for having a badass science job.

←real bad ass

@robmandu: An honorable mention:

aanuszek1 for having a badass part of the ass in his username.

Robmandu- for (civilly) standing up for his beliefs; and being an all-around good guy. And the whole running thing, which I’ve yet to enjoy.

In my book, the bad-ass got all the girls. Any guy that gets all the girls, then, is a bad-ass. I always wanted to be a bad-ass. In fact, I used to use bad-ass as my online handle, in a kind of wishful or hopeful affirmation (of course, I had to translate it into an obscure language so almost no-one would actually know what it meant). Unfortunately, I have never attained bad-assitude. Sigh.

@daloon I think you achieved Bad-Assery by using the word Bad-Ass so many times. Congratulations you are Bad-ass!

@IBERnineD: You made me laugh out loud. Thanks!

Still, you raise a troubling issue: is it “bad-assery” as you suggest, or “bad-assitude,” as coined by myself?

I believe it would be understood as achieving Bad-Assery by having a Bad-Assitude. <—That was a sweet sentence!

@Fallenangel: that depends. Did you do it to prove a point, or did you do it because it was your job, or did you do it by accident?

Sounds like proving a point to me. That you can do what you want. Not that it matters. Tomorrow is so far away.

It counts.

My grandma. She was a bar tender for 30+ years. I actually saw her stop a fight by grabbing a guy, slamming him to the ground, stepping on his throat, and calling the cops. All in one quick move. Also, heard a story (from quite a few different sources) of her blacking both eyes, breaking the nose, and busting the lips of a man with 1 backhand.

She’ll forever be on top of my “bad-ass” list. Loved that woman.

XD im so bad-ass the moderators had to censor it out

good to see you fallen angel

yeah yeah
dont go gettin all sentimental on me tho….