A question of semantics

[LunchpackOfNotreDame]

Aibu To think If you say to someone 'stop acting like a drunken arse' you're not attack them as a person you are in fact challenging their behaviour as a pisshead?

Apparently I've launched a personal attack by using the above sentence

[LeaveMyWingsBehindMe]

Well if you needed to say it (and it wasn't just a good natured, light-hearted quip) then you were probably justified and they probably are a drunken arse. Or at least a complete arse when drunk.

Instead of getting angry with you for saying it they might want to think about why you needed to say it.

[KurriKurri]

You tried to debate semantics with a drunken arse?

You were crazy acting like a crazy person.

[Booboostwo]

If you said 'stop acting like a drunken arse' you were criticising the behaviour, if you said 'Stop acting as a drunken arse' you were criticising the person.

[LeaveMyWingsBehindMe]

There's a technical answer for you. Was the person in question sober enough to remember exactly which one of those two you said?

[borisgudanov]

YABU to try to stop a drunken arse from acting like a drunken arse.