Fragile Male Ego

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John W Booth. It had nothing to do with you. It affected, after a fashion, two Debates Forum posters, I mentioned their names already.

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I am happy with this thread. I don't see why it would be deleted.

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John W Booth. generalissimo. utherpendragon. divegeester not involved. Debates Forum. Early 2010.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Didn't you once create a fake account and pretend to be someone else? Wasn't every post you made under that alias a deception, a lie?

Goodness me!

What’s worse then, in your opinion; to create a profile in order raise a few laughs, or to create a thread in a private forum to slander other members and to encourage the equivalent of a forum lynch mob to pile into and, in private, escalate a column of hatred and lies which drove and drives a level division among friends the like of which has not been seen in this forum.

Because your name was changed on a radio blog.

@divegeester said
Goodness me!

What’s worse then, in your opinion; to create a profile in order raise a few laughs, or to create a thread in a private forum to slander other members and to encourage the equivalent of a forum lynch mob to pile into and, in private, escalate a column of hatred and lies which drove and drives a level division among friends the like of which has not been seen in this forum.

Because your name was changed on a radio blog.

Rule 38 - Don't mess with the Ghost.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Rule 38 - Don't mess with the Ghost.

Exactly. Or else. And or else means rage, spite, revenge.

@divegeester said
Exactly. Or else. And or else means rage, spite, revenge.

However you want to package it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
However you want to package it.

I think I’ve been consistently explicit, succinct and truthful. If you choose to call that a packaging then I can totally see why.

@divegeester said
I think I’ve been consistently explicit, succinct and truthful. If you choose to call that a packaging then I can totally see why.

I think you behave in these forums in a distinctly inconsistent and flakey manner, and at times are a little bit odd.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think you behave in these forums in a distinctly inconsistent and flakey manner, and at times are a little bit odd.

I’m sure your little team will appreciate these fart-in-the-wind assertions by you. I think it is plainly obvious that I am in fact completely consistent.

@drewnogal said
Shocking story, just heard how a man held a female under the water in a swimming pool by her feet after she had repeatedly overtaken him during lane swimming.

Having been a regular swimmer in the past I’ve been subjected to aggressive male swimmers in pools who thunder down lanes with every intention of hitting you as they pass.

But you decided to use a sexist, male-ego-baiting phrase for the subject line because you like to poke the bear or kick the hornets' nest and then complain about the consequences?

I don't doubt your stories. I doubt your intentions.

@kevin-eleven said I doubt your intentions.

The irony.

@kevin-eleven said
But you decided to use a sexist, male-ego-baiting phrase for the subject line because you like to poke the bear or kick the hornets' nest and then complain about the consequences?

I don't doubt your stories. I doubt your intentions.

An untimely and regrettable title I must agree and foolish on my part. I picked it up on the radio with the story which really was of interest to me.

I’ve gave up on swimming in March 2020 after lockdown. At that time I was able to swim a mile. It had taken me ages, about 6 months to get there being 65. I had plans to return to open water swimming in the late spring. I have 2 fantastic swimming wetsuits, they cost £500. The winter one is particularly good as I don’t maintain much body heat in water having a BMI of 21. Anyway, to continue with my story ( still there? ) ..... it’s really frustrating when you work hard to build up a level of fitness and then see it disintegrate over the weeks. So, I knew I’d have to go through returning to months back at the swimming pool, developing my fitness before I could even get back into lane swimming! It had been my intention to solely pursue open water swimming and never, ever have to return to a horrible public pool again. I’d joined a few open water swim groups on facebook and they seemed to be a great group, passionate about very cold dips. Oh, and I also paid for 2 private swimming lessons to improve my freestyle stroke and it really did. I had the timing all wrong with my breathing you see; not having ever been professionally taught to swim. I couldn’t swim out of my depth until I was 17.

@drewnogal said
An untimely and regrettable title I must agree and foolish on my part.

Well, I dunno. At the very least, it allowed Duchess64 to draw me out into the open and "expose" me, apparently, as a butt-hurt hateful lying troll with a wounded "fragile male ego". I got thoroughly duffed up. So that'll be a "win" in some people's column.