
Originally Posted by
Markintime
… forgotten your desperate need to reply to each and every post.
So you joined ARRSE about two and a half years after me, yet you’ve about 1,500 posts more. Now what was that you were saying about a “desperate need to reply”?
I have a desperate need to comment if I feel I have something to say. ;)

Originally Posted by
Markintime
…if the indifference that I and many other members feel towards you and the pure dislike that others display is preferable to reality then you are more to be pitted than pilloried for you are a victim of your own existence.
If you and many other members feel so "indifferent", why bother to respond to my posts? Do I detect some sort of contradiction there?
I respond very little to your posts to be honest because, unless you divert a thread I'm interested in, I learned a while ago to avoid your own, rather self-serving posts.

Originally Posted by
Markintime
To you the Internet isn't real, have you, perhaps, taken a moment or two to consider that the Internet isn't real to you because you don't post honestly? You don't speak from your own experience and post with your own emotions and sentiment so it cannot be real for you, how could it be?
(See my bold in your quote) You know this how? But it’s true that I don't regard the internet as “real" – seemingly in contrast to you. If you want confirmation of that, just see the segment of your post above this one: "pure dislike"? Now where did that come from and why? It's the internet, innit?
I too wondered how someone posting on the Internet could gather so much dislike around him. Perhaps it's the manner in which you post? I believe that many people on the internet are fairly honest about where they're coming from. I haven't met many people on the Internet who will claim that their family have been annihilated by the Army. Clearly though, there are liars on the internet, so you are not alone in that.

Originally Posted by
Markintime
You will continue to post on here Bugsy because you just can't accept the truth; you have no friends here and your continued presence is, at best, tolerated. It's a cold, lonely and friendless world where you are Bugsy. A lonely Christmas if the best you can do is join your 'friends' on ARRSE because I wouldn't hold out too much hope for invitations to Christmas dinner from any friends or family if I were you.
All wishful thinking, “mucker”. If I happen to irritate you, then you should be asking yourself why. It’s called self-reflection. All you want to do is agree with the others who brand me a “know-it-all”, a “pseudo-intellectual”, a “moron”, a “buffoon” and all the rest of the infantile names you think up. I've never said that I’m some sort of brains-whizz, but if I can make that much of an impression with my average level of intelligence, then it doesn't say much for the intelligence of those who've decided that they don't like me, does it?
You don't irritate me Bugsy, far from it, if I were to be honest I pity you and your need to come on here to prove, what? I'm not sure I know really. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I feel no compunction to run with the crowd. I have my opinion and will generally stick to it unless persuaded otherwise by good, reasoned, argument and debate.
I don't recall having called you any names, certainly not pseudo-intellectual or know-it-all. As you yourself have stated you're of roughly average intelligence; this is clearly evidenced by your posts and the manner in which you post. Perhaps if you were a tad more intellectual you could come up with a convincing argument once in a while rather than the heavily sarcastic attempts at putting others down that is your normal approach.
I find it strange but not unexpected that you believe that anyone who dislikes you lacks intelligence. They are merely reacting to how you are, have a think about that, is it they who are at fault and causing unrest or is it you? You have this need to call people mucker as if we're all friends together, ever wondered why you feel the need to do that? I have no objection to befriending you but you're not my type, you're neither honest nor stimulating nor have much of a contribution to make.
What you and a lot of others are doing is blaming me for your own ostensible failings and/or weaknesses. It doesn't bother me, since it's a normal part of human nature, but I'd have expected folks who profess to be "mature" to have at least a rudimentary understanding of their own motivations. It makes life a whole lot easier, y'know?
One thing I'm very aware of is my own shortcomings, of which there are many. I don't blame you for any of them. You had no part in my upbringing nor education so why should I try to blame you for anything? I'm surprised that you feel it a normal part of human nature for others to blame you for their shortcomings. Could it be that you place far too great a significance on your own place in the great scheme of things? Perhaps it's your own inability to empathise or comprehend the motivations of the posters on here that puts you so at odds with the mainstream? Perhaps you should take time out for a period of self-reflection? We shall miss you but not so much that you should feel inclined to return from the wilderness too soon.
....And, just for you...... "mucker". There, you can tell the local Priest you have at least one guy on the internet who calls you mucker. ;)
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