Online vs. Offline

Originally posted by FMF
Many people here are a bit rude to others at times, you and me included. Being rude is not what I see as making someone an 'internet tough guy'. It's all about alluding to ~ or insinuating ~ violent retribution or boasting about having the skills to use violence to seek retribution or 'settle' disputes with violence in 'real life'.

When I first started using ...[text shortened]... ite skills to kill or hurt me if they were ever to meet me.

These are 'internet tough guys'.

You initiate rudeness more than respond to it.
I am not ex-Marine; I am ex-Army.
Despite the service otherwise, as a group, they are not universally feared.
My testing has come from nearly forty years of sometimes violently physical give and take, and nearly nothing to do with whatever I picked up in the services.
I don't claim to be a trained killer, nor do I immediately react with violence to the slightest provocation.
But I'm no stranger to violence in forms either eloquent or barbaric, nor am I the least bit hesitant to employing them when necessary.

People like me recognize the appropriate times as well as the other players.
People like you mimic the speech patterns without obtaining the requisite support to balance the act.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH

You initiate rudeness more than respond to it.

I don't think this is true. I think I rub some people up the wrong way sometimes with the substance of what I say and not with rudeness.

I am not ex-Marine; I am ex-Army.

Despite the service otherwise, as a group, they are not universally feared.
My testing has come from nearly forty years of sometimes violently physical give and take, and nearly nothing to do with whatever I picked up in the services.

I don't claim to be a trained killer, nor do I immediately react with violence to the slightest provocation.

But I'm no stranger to violence in forms either eloquent or barbaric, nor am I the least bit hesitant to employing them when necessary.

I have no comment whatsoever about my ability, or any lack of ability there may be, to handle myself in violent situations or about my willingness or unwillingness to use violence or to respond to violence with violence. Why would I want to talk about such things?

I have no comment whatsoever about your claims about your ability to handle yourself in violent situations nor the fact that you claim to be not "the least bit hesitant about employing [violence]", except to ask why on earth do you feel the need to make these claims on an internet forum and in a discussion like this?

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
People like you mimic the speech patterns without obtaining the requisite support to balance the act.

What "support" do you think I need in order to use the "speech patterns" that I do in my contributions to this community?

Originally posted by FMF
What "support" do you think I need in order to use the "speech patterns" that I do in my contributions to this community?

Sorry to leave you in midair, but a RL emergency has popped up. My hometown was just kit with an earthquake.
Later on, and God bless.
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Originally posted by FMF
Quite so. But if you start making claims about how 'expert' you are in bed it will be an online claim that belongs in the same wretched part of the Venn diagram that you put 'internet tough guy' bravado.

Are you asking for my advice? There's not much I can tell you here in a public forum without getting myself deleted or banned, so all I will say here is that you should relax. Take your time and just be yourself. But if you're feeling desperate to get the deed done, then don't be yourself... be someone else.

Originally posted by lemon lime
Are you asking for my advice? There's not much I can tell you here in a public forum without getting myself deleted or banned, so all I will say here is that you should relax. Take your time and just be yourself. But if you're feeling desperate to get the deed done, then don't be yourself... be someone else.

No. Not looking for advice. I am comparing people professing a prowess for sexual intercourse online to people professing a prowess for violence online. I think these two areas of boasting are linked.

Now, I haven't seen much boasting about sexual intercourse "expertise" on this forum, but we do have at least two posters boasting ~ on this thread ~ about their willingness to use violence in connection with what they see as "rudeness" or "behaviour" on this forum ~ indeed, in one case, violence specifically in response to my "behaviour" on this thread.

Don't you also see their 'bravado' as being a bit peculiar and inappropriate in this community?

Originally posted by FMF
No. Not looking for advice. I am comparing people professing a prowess for sexual intercourse online to people professing a prowess for violence online. I think these two areas of boasting are linked.

Now, I haven't seen much boasting about sexual intercourse "expertise" on this forum, but we do have at least two posters boasting ~ on this thread ~ about the ...[text shortened]...
Don't you also see their 'bravado' as being a bit peculiar and inappropriate in this community?

I never said that. You must be a functional illiterate. I wouldn't need violence to deal with you. If I met you at a party, I would throw popcorn and spill drinks on you until you left, got mad, or just kept being humiliated. You see, I am a real life prick, plain and clear. 😕
Not your behaviour so much as all the questions. Questions irritate me like a burlap jock strap, and I don't put up with it.

BTW the quake was mild, 3 point something. We will rebuild!!

Originally posted by FMF
No. Not looking for advice. I am comparing people professing a prowess for sexual intercourse online to people professing a prowess for violence online. I think these two areas of boasting are linked.

Now, I haven't seen much boasting about sexual intercourse "expertise" on this forum, but we do have at least two posters boasting ~ on this thread ~ about the ...[text shortened]...
Don't you also see their 'bravado' as being a bit peculiar and inappropriate in this community?

Unless someone is literally able to reach out through your screen and grab a hold of you, I don't believe you have anything to worry about. That's the way I look at it. I can quickly disarm someone by simply ignoring them.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I wouldn't need violence to deal with you. If I met you at a party, I would throw popcorn and spill drinks on you until you left, got mad, or just kept being humiliated. You see, I am a real life prick, plain and clear.

Wouldn't the party's hosts just ask you to leave if you treated one of their guests like that? You said "I would make you run away crying for mommy" but surely it would be you who had to leave the party for your behaviour and not me?

Originally posted by FMF
Wouldn't the party's hosts just ask you to leave if you treated one of their guests like that? You said "I would make you run away crying for mommy" but surely it would be you who had to leave the party for your behaviour and not me?

LOL
Oh come on now, who would invite me in the first place. 😕 It would have to be at my place. 🙂

Originally posted by lemon lime
Unless someone is literally able to reach out through your screen and grab a hold of you, I don't believe you have anything to worry about. That's the way I look at it. I can quickly disarm someone by simply ignoring them.

I don't "worry" about it. And I am not talking about needing to "disarm" anyone. I see their 'bravado' as being a bit peculiar and inappropriate ~ in this community in particular. But you seemingly don't want to express an opinion on it.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
LOL
Oh come on now, who would invite me in the first place. 😕 It would have to be at my place. 🙂

You mentioned a party. And you claimed you "would make [me] run away crying [my] mommy" but now there is no party or you're not there... or it's at your place? Why would you have invited me?

Originally posted by FMF
I don't "worry" about it. And I am not talking about needing to "disarm" anyone. I see their 'bravado' as being a bit peculiar and inappropriate ~ in this community in particular. But you seemingly don't want to express an opinion on it.

Well, here is something I think is a bit peculiar and inappropriate. One of your responses to me looked like this:

Originally posted by lemon lime
Henpecked males are those who have different political views from me regarding women.

"So let me get a better handle on your mindset. What attempt-at-being-pejorative adjective would you use for males who have different political views from you regarding men or human rights in general?"


You took what I said out of context so that it seemed as though it was something I believed. I was simply repeating your question back to you and pretending to agree with it. Did you really not know I was joking, or did you intentionally take what I said out of context in order to make it mean what you wanted it to mean? If you consistenly did this in a public setting (not online but in real life) to people sitting next to you, how do suppose they might react?

By the way, I know you weren't asking for advice. You really need to lighten up and recognise humor when you see it.

Originally posted by lemon lime
You took what I said out of context so that it seemed as though it was something I believed.

It appeared to me to be pretty much the same as what you'd said earlier ~ this in fact:

lemon lime: "And [by calling him "henpecked"] I wasn't suggesting he has some sort of interpersonal problem with women, I was suggesting he's bought into everything he's heard from women about the women's movement."

I don't really see how I can be said to have taken it out of context.

Originally posted by lemon lime
By the way, I know you weren't asking for advice. You really need to lighten up and recognise humor when you see it.

I will be the first to recognize your efforts at good humour when I encounter them. 😀