Man who fails to knock out pub hardnut says “Now is the time for diplomacy”

A man who crept up behind the hardest bloke in his local pub and hit him with a barstool but failed to knock him out has said he feels “Now is the time for diplomacy”. 

Colin Sawdust of Oswestry was apparently stung by his girlfriend’s mockery when the local hardnut, Dave Concrete, accidentally jogged his arm as he walked past, causing him to spill his drink.

'It’s not like he meant to do it,' Sawdust protested, which in no way made his girlfriend think him less of a pussy.

Realising he would have to do something to prove his bravery, he decided he would hit Concrete from behind with a barstool, run out of the pub before he came round and never drink there again.

However, genetics had gifted Concrete with an abnormally thick skull and muscular neck, and he seemed barely to notice as the barstool shattered against him. Nor was he persuaded by Sawdust’s subsequent appeal that, whatever had happened up to now, they should put the past behind them, sit down and talk like adults in order to avoid further violence.

“In the face of such provocation, it would be unreasonable to expect me not to retaliate,” is probably what Concrete meant by pushing Sawdust face-first through the pub’s jukebox.

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