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Mac

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:48 pm
by Jeff
Just gave him a week off.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2010 9:47 pm
by barracuda
I am, as you might expect, completely supportive of that move, in my own sophisticated fashion.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2010 10:45 pm
by barracuda
But I'd like to hear, if I could, just what straw did the back-breaking.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2010 11:54 pm
by Jeff
Ah, the straw. I got this tonight:

MacCruiskeen wrote:
" sometimes we'd like suspected trolls to keep talking for a while. Not only to give them enough rope, but to see if they give away who they are and if they've been here before under other usernames."


How are you getting on with that project, Jeff? Because it's now been 25 days since you sent me that PM. For twenty-five days we've all been enduring your crafty secret experiment, as well as putting up with innumerable jesuitically "bipartisan" and tut-tuttingly moralising PMs and stern public admonishments against us alone from you and barracuda.

Not funny indeed. What's going on?


To which I replied:

Jeff wrote:Did I guarantee a postive? No trolling found. That's how it's going. Get over it.


Mac answered:

MacCruiskeen wrote:May I quote you on that? I'd like to post the whole exchange, verbatim.

I am seriously wondering if you might be being blackmailed.


Said I:

Jeff wrote:Private messages should remain such. But then, you've already violated that trust on the board.

Blackmailed? Christ, no. Fed up with you? Fuck yes.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:36 am
by barracuda
Yeah, I guess that would do it. There you have it - straight from the camel's mouth.

You've been putting up with shit like this for a long time, dude. My hat's off to you.

Thanks.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:50 am
by barracuda
Have you heard any word from this nerd?

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2010 11:48 am
by Jeff
No, he must still be licking his wounds. I emailed him on Sunday.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:29 pm
by barracuda
I guess he wearied of wound-licking, 'cause he's back and angry as ever, I'm ever so glad to see. Really, I didn't want him to stay away, even if he hates me. Perverse perhaps, but there it is.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 12:54 am
by Jeff
Haven't seen his post yet, but I'll be glad to see him. As much as he can be a pain in the ass he's an asset to the board, and even when he's wrong he's usually wrong for the right reasons.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:15 pm
by barracuda
Mac is on suspension. It's up to you if you want him to return.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:34 pm
by Jeff
Thanks. No telling what he'd do tonight.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:15 am
by barracuda
Be warned, dude: I only gave him a day's time out. And I have no idea what to do with him on his return. You may have noticed he wasn't very happy with me this evening.

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:27 am
by Jeff
Oh, I've already received an email:


Rename it "Rigorous Arselicking"‏


I have no desire to associate any further with cowards, liars, petty
bullies, preening poseurs and enablers of fascism.

- The post I tried to post:

__________________________________

barracuda wrote:What in the name of Pete are you on about Mac? I
didn't intervene in any way, shape or form on that thread.

You're all perfectly capable of beginning new threads on whatever
subjects you desire, either with new information or by borrowing
subject matter from the old thread.


barracuda wrote:What in the name of Pete are you on about Mac? I
didn't intervene in any way, shape or form on that
thread.


Of course you intervened, and in a deeply stupid and supercilious and
counter-productive manner.

Don't deny it, barracuda. Seek & find your own first (two-line)
contribution to that 30-page thread, and then post it here. You know
exactly what it was.

Because seeking that post is work, and I don't see why I should
do that work for you, boss , at 5:00 a.m.,
because we haven't yet discussed my wages and you haven't yet offered
me a contract

But maybe you'll use your elegant silk overseer's whip with exquisite
mastery and force me to do that work for you. After all, you're in
charge now.


Glad you didn't, but I wouldn't have faulted you for tossing your badge back in my face tonight.

Jeff

Re: Mac

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:36 am
by barracuda
Are you kidding? I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I love nothing more than the epic journey of discovering whether or not I'm full of shit.

Just for the record, my first post on the thread is this one:

viewtopic.php?p=339305#p339305

which, at the time, I considered to be about as cynical a statement as I could make about the whole mess. I guess it could have been misconstrued as something other than rhetorical, but that's the breaks.

I think I'm going to bed now. Let me know by pm if the world ends.