Things to remember in very hot weather

On 7/4/2008 8:01 PM Michael Ash ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

I've made all the points I wanted
to make, and unless he surprises me, he'll devolve into repetition now.

Actually, most of Anthony's posts in this thread have already devolved
into repetition. It's all the same familiar loser tripe he's posted
in other newsgroups: I'm unhappy because I'm poor, money is the source
of happiness, I don't want to leave Paris to improve my financial lot
elsewhere even though I can't do it here, blah blah blah. He's repeated
it over and over, and has been particularly notorious for it in, say,
rec.travel.europe (yes, Anthony attempts to participate in a newsgroup
about travel, but of course he hates to travel), but his style has
pretty much gotten the same reception in many of the other fora in which
he participates. The boy's denial mechanisms are tightly coiled and
eternally ready to engage.

And the responses, particularly from well-meaning types who try to offer
constructive criticism and advice, are also well-known and have been
seen elsewhere, so much so that it's almost like, well, maybe Anthony's
just trolling. But Anthony couldn't possibly be trolling, right? Just
because he will continue to participate in threads like this one, while
simultaneously claiming that he comes here to discuss aviation: not
trolling at all, right? But that's another unsurprising thing about
Anthony: he's a habitual liar, and he does that repetitiously - and,
let's face it, manipulatively - too.

Oh, and he's doing this for years and years. He never ever gets tired
of it. Given how few the boy's choices of pleasurable activities are,
this, too, should be unsurprising.

In rec.aviation.student yod-yog+ais wrote:
And the responses, particularly from well-meaning types who try to offer
constructive criticism and advice, are also well-known and have been
seen elsewhere, so much so that it's almost like, well, maybe Anthony's
just trolling. But Anthony couldn't possibly be trolling, right? Just
because he will continue to participate in threads like this one, while
simultaneously claiming that he comes here to discuss aviation: not
trolling at all, right? But that's another unsurprising thing about
Anthony: he's a habitual liar, and he does that repetitiously - and,
let's face it, manipulatively - too.

Oh, I don't think he's trolling. (Not intentionally, at least; I suppose
you could debate as to whether doing it unintetntionally is really
"trollign".) I think he just suffers from a weird combination of posting
style and inability to back down in any circumstances which makes him
inadvertently look much like a troll. The difference is pretty academic,
I'll freely admit.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Michael Ash wrote in
:

In rec.aviation.student yod-yog+ais
wrote:
And the responses, particularly from well-meaning types who try to
offer constructive criticism and advice, are also well-known and have
been seen elsewhere, so much so that it's almost like, well, maybe
Anthony's just trolling. But Anthony couldn't possibly be trolling,
right? Just because he will continue to participate in threads like
this one, while simultaneously claiming that he comes here to discuss
aviation: not trolling at all, right? But that's another
unsurprising thing about Anthony: he's a habitual liar, and he does
that repetitiously - and, let's face it, manipulatively - too.

Oh, I don't think he's trolling. (Not intentionally, at least; I
suppose you could debate as to whether doing it unintetntionally is
really "trollign".) I think he just suffers from a weird combination
of posting style and inability to back down in any circumstances which
makes him inadvertently look much like a troll. The difference is
pretty academic, I'll freely admit.


Well, only fromthe trollee's POV, I suppose.


Bertie