BEg2 chapter 13 different types of standoff

[Michael Bailey]

Ice:
“The shviger—how much do you think it would cost me to get her to lay off?
Just a ballpark estimate.”

 Maxine:
        “Somehow, like, I get this dim feeling, March doesn’t have a price.”

  Ice:
       “Yeah, yeah, maybe you could ask anyway? I’d be really, really
grateful.”

  Maxine:
     “She’s got you that worried? Come on, it’s only a Weblog, how many
people even read it?”

     Ice:
         “One is too many, if it’s the wrong one.”

   Pynchon:
      Bringing them to a standoff, ethnicity of your choice.

Mexican is the default, of course.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/58cqkk/if_a_mexican_standoff_is_three_people_pointing/

Canadian standoff: Two guys trying to hold the door for each other.

American standoff: an unarmed man, with a cop waiting for a reason to shoot
him

Japanese standoff. An octopus monster holding 8 guns towards 8 guys, shoots
said guys and sticks its tentacles in them.

Russian Standoff: Someone hits you in the head from behind with a crowbar.
It is snowing.

German standoff: Same as a Mexican standoff but everyone is wearing kinky
leather stuff and they are on time.

English standoff: Everyone queues up.

Italian standoff: it would be like the mexican one, except one guy is late
because he had to have lunch with his mum, one because he decided to stop
for a coffee on the way to the location and the other one just decided to
stay inside because there's Roma-Juventus that night, so nothing happens
until they all meet at the bar the day later and laugh about it; then they
start arguing and set a new time and place for a standoff. Repeat.

The Brazilian standoff, where you kinda just get shot by some guy on the
back of a motorcycle

Finnish standoff: three people standing three meters away from each other,
staring at the ground in silence. And all of them are holding bottles of
vodka. Occasionally one mutters "perkele".

Irish standoff - Two guys walk up to a bartender at the same time, who gets
to order drinks first?


South Korean standoff: Two guys zerg rushing each other

(Might mean something to gamers but why South Korea?)