--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > 3rd offense Lawson. I'm afraid this time you're out for > > three weeks. We'll miss you. Toodles. > > I just wanted to chime in and agree with Rick > that I will, in fact, miss Lawson during this > hiatus. I think his contributions here lately > have been valuable and measured and largely > free from the overthetopness of the past.
Barry approves of Lawson's latest stint here because Lawson spent much of it arguing with me. But > the bottom line is that Lawson was suckered > into an argument about elitism by the most > elitist person on this forum, and it obscured > his ability to keep track of the number of his > posts. Says Barry, the ultimate elitist of any forum. (Love to see how he'd respond to somebody trying to excuse me or raunchydog overposting by suggesting that our ability to keep track of the number of our posts was "obscured" by our having been "suckered into an argument"!) And of course Barry is fantasizing about Lawson having been suckered into an argument by me. In fact, Lawson intervened in two different discussions I was having with somebody *else* to challenge my statements, and then wouldn't or couldn't let go. If anybody got suckered into arguments, it was me, by Lawson. > What, after all, could *possibly* be more > elitist than the person whose position, essen- > tially, is "I am right and you are *all* WRONG?" > What could *possibly* be more elitist than > saying (let alone believing) that "I am smart > and you are *all* REEEELLY REEEELLY STOOOPID?" Actually, what's REEEEELY REEEEELY STOOOOPID is to make up elaborate fantasies about what someone else thinks and spend great amounts of time, effort, and spleen bashing that person on the basis of those fantasies--something that's been a staple of Barry's contributions to electronic forums ever since I've known him. And what's even STOOOOOOPIDER is to avoid reading what the bashee has said and then expend even more time and effort delivering what one perceives to be a stinging rebuttal to an argument the bashee never made, as Barry went on to do regarding elitism in the military. I've dealt with that in a separate post. <snip> And now Barry launches yet another desperate appeal to FFL participants to avoid reading posts by the two individuals (no coincidence that they're both women) whom he currently finds most threatening: > Hint: If you don't bother to read these two > dried-up old bitches' posts, and you completely > ignore their equally dried-up bitchy attempts > to lure you into an argument, they're not very > elite at all, are they? They're just dried-up > old crones so lonely and so unhappy that the > only joy they derive from life is arguing, > flapping their gums in front of more sensible > people who are ignoring them completely. > > When you come back, Lawson, I hope you learn > from this experience. Ignore their silly asses. > Let them live in their fantasy worlds all by > themselves. You've HEARD what they say here; > you KNOW what their biggest fear is. They say > it all the time, in slightly different words. > > Their biggest fear is that no one hears them, > and that nothing they say matters. > > Make it come true. Barry has made this same appeal concerning my posts over and over again, and it's a source of acute frustration to him that he never gets anywhere with it. His vain hope is that if people don't read my posts, he won't have to make any effort to have his own posts make sense; he'll be able to indulge his fantasies and bash those people and groups that threaten him without fear of substantive rebuttal, since I'm the only one here who appears to be willing to take on his vicious nonsense. He thinks that if he can get people not to read my posts, I'll get discouraged and shut up. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Barry, my friends, is insane.
