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Wow! I recieved and angry, jealous(?) email from some guy called Richard whom I have never met nor communicated with before.
Richard is spitting fire and venom, he hates me and thinks I am Satans offspring.
But why.....?
First up here is Richards email, in it's entirity, I will let you read it for yourself then I will not answer but give my thoughts. Now remember that I have never had any contact with Richard before he started emailing me:
I must admit you love yourself, stop calling yourself Conan in the 3rd person......your not the worlds biggest action here or actor for that matter. I can name about 7 actors with at least half a foot on you. You are from Australia- Why dont you move to London? LA? New York where the movie markets are good. Thailand is crap and your gonna be doing shit movies for as long as you are there. You are not 7 feet? you are very big and bulky because you shoot steroids up your ass. I live in LA and am involved in the acting world. Do you really think people are going to take you serious when they view this site? Your big ok get over it- your not gonna make a career on your height for long, once the novelty wears out then what? If you want to make it in this industry then use your acting skills first and your height second- must succesful tall actors are actors who happen to be tall. End of story! And stop begging for parts. The HBO people want a actor that is 7'5 and can be agile enough to bring this tall knight to life. Your not even 7 foot so get over it and move on!
Why can't I call myself Conan in the third person it worked for The Rock, anyway I prefer not saying me, me, me, I, I, I all the time it makes me sound self centered and childish. Also writting my name helps people find relevant articles when they use Google.
On top of that Me Vs Nathan Jones as a headline is not correct English grammar - by your one paragraph no structure block of email I can see you do not understand this concept.
How many lead actors are over 7 foot? Just being in a movie does not an actor make, and being an actor does not make an Action Hero. And the reason I market myself thus is covered here - Worlds Biggest Action Hero
Also Thailand is not the smoking hole in the ground you think it is Thailand Movie Industry Is Booming
There are similar points against everything else Richard has written.
But the big question is Why Is He Angry?
It seems that this person Richard, has skimmed over parts of my site and become very angry at something as he has obviously not read all my site otherwise he would have found the answers to most of his 'questions'.
I have encountered this sort of thing before in my birth city - Newcastle, Australia. It was a steel working and coal mining town until I was about 18 then it became a unemployment town as the industries computerised and staff cutbacks were made.
Anger and uselessness settled over the male population with no prospects for a better life. Fights became more frequent and the violence was often random. Decent people would not go out late on a Friday or Saturday night anymore. The place was downright ugly at times.
At one venue I worked at I saw one guy get in a verbal disagreement and leave. He went outside and sat in his car until the other guy left then ran him over at 60kpm and cracked his skull open killing him in front of about 2000 people. His girlfriend watched as his life slipped away while the ambulance was on its way, he did not even make it to the hospital. What a 'Richard' mentality.
Short Man Syndrome
At other times I would go out and have guys constantly starting fights with me, in fact every single night I did not go out with a large group of other Bouncers I would get some idiot try to start a fight.
It would start either verbally like this (which I heard MANY times);
Short Man Syndrome Idiot (a short 'tough' guy) walks up to me and starts the conversation with "So, you think you're big don't you?"
"I don't think I am big", I calmly reply, "I am 7 foot and 300lbs I am big, nothing much I can do about it sorry".
"If I was your size I would bash everyone" Short Man Syndrome Idiot surprisingly responds
"Yes well I do not have to do that, I have nothing to prove, anyway I am enjoying my night talking with these girls and having a quiet beer, so if you'll excuse me."
Indignant Short Man Syndrome idiot "What? I'm not good enough to talk to huh? Want to make something of it?"
I nervously eye the beer bottle he is holding, guys like this have tried to 'glass' me before (breaking a bottle or glass into someones face - permanent disfiguration with 100+ stitches).
I grab the Short Man Syndrome Idiots arm, spin him around lock his arm, put on a headlock, choke him saying "Drop the bottle, drop the bottle and I'll stop choking you", he drops the bottle and I carry him out to the front door by the head where the guys working take hold of him and put him outside and bar him from entering again.
What was in this guys mind to start a fight with me?
Another time a Short Man Syndrome Looser was sitting by himself with a drink, as I walked past he called me a "F#cking C#nt", I said sorry I didn't hear you well, can you repeat that, He did. I then laughed and asked him who he was with and looked around for one of my friends setting this up. No one.
This guy then looks at me and says "Who the f#ck do you think you are?"
Blankly I look at his face and see rage, I move to grab Short Man Syndrome Looser, he moves to shove the whisky glass in my face, luckily after years of door work I am aware of this tactic and on my toes, I dodge it wrench his wrist, he looses the glass, I grab his shoulder spin him and put him in a sleeper hold (now illegal in NSW) and carry the idiot outside as he tries to grab glasses and bottles from tables or the crowd on the way out.
I carry Short Man Syndrome Looser outside and throw him to the ground heavily.
Turns out he just got out of hospital for a major neck operation and he started on me, (and then when I went back inside he started a fight with the other doorman) I still have no idea who he was but I now have an idea as to why he started.
This is why these Idiots start fights with me and get angry...
They are jealous, angry and bitter. They feel their own lives are failures and they see me as being everything they want - tall, strong, maybe even good looking. And they get angry by it.
Commonly called short man syndrome. This is a very real phenomenom, ask any really tall guy you know - do people try to pick fights with him when he is out? The answer is always yes. I do not understand this as many of my very good friends are quiet short, but never go on like this.
Or maybe Richard is Australian and has what we call Tall Poppy Syndrome which is when people get their kicks in life seeing other people fall from positions of success into temporary defeat. They use these peoples failures to think and feel better about themselves. They like to see a tall poppy get cut down, it makes them feel justified in being nobody loosers.
Richard for example is angry and hates me but I have never communicated with him before, yet what sort of person trawls the web looking for a fight?
I have better things to do with my time, my life is fun, and interesting. I would rather do things that I enjoy than look for fights.
This is my reply to Richard:
You seem to have some issues with your life, I would suggest you spend
more time helping yourself rather than spreading your negativity elsewhere.
I am happy with my life, I am achieving and progressing - I wish you the
same.
If Richard was more receptive I would recommend some books for him to read to help change his viewpoint on the world and make himself a happier person.
Richard with his Short Man Syndrome is the sort of person that made me leave Newcastle and seek the more intelligent, more mature mentality of Sydney, in particular Bondi Beach as my new home 15 years ago. I can only imagine the fights that would have ensued if I had been living in Newcastle when I was working in the Ballet.
To those who say I could have walked away. The answer is no. These guys had targetted me, they were going to start, if I walked away I would have been attacked from behind - they saw it as I sign of weakness - I talk from experience. Also it is a little hard to walk away when I was at my place of employment and working, which begs the second question WTF were they doing picking a fight with the security guards?
Good luck Richard, you'll need it.
UPDATE: No news from Richard but I had another thought. Maybe Richard was not suffering from Short Man Syndrome but is in fact Homophobic and the pictures of me on my website turned him on, therefore he lashed out at the object of his forbidden desire.... maybe you need to seek professional help to come to terms with your life Richard, I promise you'll be much happier.
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