Sometimes, you just meet people you want to argue with.

I don't dislike him at all. I just wish he'd fucking engage with us on equal terms. Have a conversation. He certainly seems (potentially) interesting. But while he's monologuing it's all just potential.

I agree. And I don't think he's in the same league as Trig at all.

Not saying I dislike him as such, just wish he'd join in and respond normally when people try to engage him

and I never understood why people hated Trig so much, he was no more annoying than this one

He was more offensive, especially to some of the younger members.

 

And he was a twat.

Trig was belligerent, but yeah I never really disliked him as such. He was too dumb to dislike.

I'm still not convinced it wasn't a joke by one of us.

 

(I'm even less convinced it wasn't you, actually!)

(haha, I would not have the patience to sustain it so long. Also I have too much ego not to own up)

But then... that's what you /would/ say :C

</mandy rice-davies>

Every day's a school day.

At least Trig was a genuine troll, and everything he said and did was a deliberate attempt to annoy people for his own personal amusement. This guy's just a loony.

But Trig wasn't always quite that.

 

The time he posted a photo of his computer and of himself changed my view of him quite a lot.

 

He gave us an insight into his world that he hadn't ever done before. He became less of a troll and more human.

 

His presence alone promoted discussion amongst the rest of us on the topic of how he should be dealt with. To me, that alone meant he was a good thing.

w3rd.

Also want to reiterate/reinforce to 53North that I've got nowt against him (anti-semitism aside, but we can discuss that (cheer)). He seems interesting. I just want him to actually engage in conversation properly. I certainly don't want him to leave or post less.

Exactly, if he was willing to discuss his views (away from his "predictions") that would be great. It could be a slightly interesting discussion, or end up just being an anti-semitic rant (not necessarily a bad thing from a discussion point-of-view), but it would at least be slightly engaging. If he would go into detail about his predictions that would be even better. That's what I've wanted him to do since day 1, I'm genuinely interested in knowing why he's saying the things he is, where he's got his info, what is actually happening with the plates and volcanoes.

 

I tend to think we're a very odd lot. In one thread we can be throwing abuse at each other (as nasty as we can manage, which isn't very nasty at all :$ ) and in another thread at the same time we're agreeing and friendly.

 

This is the only forum I post on for discussion, but any others I've come across don't seem to manage the discussion/argument whilst also being friendly at the same time.

Fucking ///w3rd///.



I absolutely love that about this place.

Me too

 

I particularly like when someone is pretty much calling someone a cunt in one thread then offering to help them in some way in another thread.

 

That might be stating the obvious of how we work on here but I like it. I'm not sure I've ever seen any people being able to separate one from the other in such close timescales. I know I personally hold grudges in the real world pretty easily. If someone annoys me I'm far less inclined to help them in any way, that doesn't seem to happen on here with me.

Aye it's really nice. Pisses me off generally when people aren't able to distinguish between a disagreement about something and a personal attack.

You two are such a couple of arseholes.

I think that may just mean we're all slightly unbalanced.