Oh Cool. This thread has come alive again.

I miss the scouts though. I really was left hanging about scoutmaster and scout-master. Or was it scout master.

Robert,

Fractelle's never going to give you the approval that you so desire. BTW, that fence must be real tired from you sitting on it all the time.

TPP,

Man I always get labelled as abusive, a psychopath no less, but I didn't even get on the list. I'll double my efforts!

Antiseptic is like a Palestinian settlement, but the others are like Israel.

'I would have preferred an explanation from the idiot-magnet Anti calls his ex-wife.'
Oooooh! You back from your meeting? How did it go? Hey, how do you know his ex-wife didn't 'make' him like The Joker made Batman? Oh, sorry that was wasted, you didn't even get my star wars quote on the other thread.

benk,

I have similar ideas. People who want to be offended often are. Cold and Callous etc have no meaning on an anonymous forum. Less so when talking about people you've never met. If anti disputes a statistic about rape or something, people think that's offensive. It's a bloody number man!

eg. He questions when someone says they were raped, whether they are lying. Very offensive if you know the person, and you say *to* them 'I wonder whether you are telling the truth'. Not offensive at all when it's someone you don't know and you've heard about it on the news and your discussing a topic and questioning all the assumptions therein.

MaryE,

'I've now read about 80% of this entire topic'
What on earth would you do that for? Hey there's some paint drying at my house. Wanna look? Sadist

Your whole synopsis falls down as antiseptic never complains about what people say to him except in response to all the people constantly saying he's out of line. He is deliberately abrasive as he likes the attention and conflict, but he's happy to cop what he dishes out. It's the hypocrisy of people then turning around and saying he's out of line when they've been just as bad. As to who starts it that's irrelevant really. If you're going to want to police manners, you'd better be a bloody polite person.

So when you say he starts it, well, yes and no. Most of the time it goes like this...

anti: maybe she was asking for it?
(Cleverly put with a question, so those so inclined have the opportunity to be offended.)
other: You misogynist pr$ck.
(Cleverly for anti, that's the first abuse! Open slather now for anti)
anti: Something about sniffing grandmas crotches.
(Others now have further proof of the vile antiseptic)
other others: Na ni na ni na na. antiseptic is a loser.

So really when you look at it, anti is the one being bullied, as there's one of him and lots of 'nice' kids. You see, what he really wants is attention, and that's the way he gets it.

I think if you've been around long enough on here you'd have to admit that his reputation precedes him, and people are looking to be offended. That's what amazes me so much, is that people act as if he's so offensive, but seem to enjoy winding him up.

It's like pulling a tigers tail and being all upset about being bitten. I think what they really enjoy is someone to tut tut, and castigate. People love someone to feel better than. Why do you think the biggest loser, super-nanny, Jerry Springer rate so well. People love to think smugly to themselves... Yep, I'm better than them.

All:"antiseptic, antiseptic, ANTISEPTIC, antiseptic"

Oh dear...

You Loooove it!

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

I think we just saw the textual climax of all that one-handed typing.

At least it was a post where he didn't abuse anybody but himself ;)

I’ll refrain from commenting on the single-handed typing other than to observe that this would make him Ambi.

Houellebecq: “Oh Cool. This thread has come alive again.

I miss the scouts though. I really was left hanging about scoutmaster and scout-master. Or was it scout master.”

Houellebecq: “MaryE,

'I've now read about 80% of this entire topic'
What on earth would you do that for? Hey there's some paint drying at my house. Wanna look? Sadist”

I missed Master for a couple of days too, but then noticed that MaryE popped up out of nowhere the day after Master’s mysterious disappearance. I wonder how much she knows about scoutmastering and whether she read 80% of the topic before, or after 5/8/09. Hmmm?