re: Childish Irresponsible Unworthy

Ok, I think I've pretty much gotten the gist here. Last month you discovered that pretty much everyone on tRant is a piece of shite lowlife and that led you to a particularly autistic epiphany:

Rather than logging out and never coming the frick back to a place so obviously below your standards, you decided that instead you'd post a bunch of links and quotes and, every time someone makes fun of how out of touch you come across as, you'd simply requote yourself to them over and over, ad infinitum.

LINK form, to make you feel comfortable.

You seem like a bitch, Walt

I'm always on your mind. It's disturbing yo.

What would the founding fathers say if they saw this thread?






Walt should know.

I think Walt is an alter.

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I'm a little bit mystified that this forum doesn't seem to have a PM function? Or if it does, I am completely missing its location on someone's profile page. Because I would have rather just PM'd this to you, WhiskeyPapa, but I guess I'll just air it out in public and face the incoming downvotes.

Yes, the SEC Rant is a very rough place on the Internet. But with over 700 posts here, I would think you'd have realized that by now? Message boards vary throughout the Internet and they all sort of evolve their own culture and standard operating procedure. This one contains a large amount of smack-talking. Others maybe don't, but this is the Rant's place.

I'm sorry that it apparently truly upsets you. I don't necessarily want to justify it because I'm someone who's not really a smack-talker myself and, as you can tell from my post count, I don't speak up here very often. But I'm pretty sure trying to run a one-man crusade to try and change the culture of a long-established forum is just going to frustrate you in the end.

Sadly, a lot of the Internet is rough. But it's just the way it is largely due to the anonymity people are afforded. It's easy to bark when you're not at risk of having your face slapped. However, finger-wagging threads - or even passionate pleas for civility - are probably not the best way to go here. It's only going to end badly. At the end of the day, the only person you can control is yourself... so be the change you want to see. Post politely and respectfully and don't rise to the bait. That's basically how I conduct myself everywhere. Sometimes it can influence others, sometimes it doesn't.

At any rate, I tend to lurk more than anything else and I do often get a chuckle at watching the drama between folks here. But I wanted to say something to you because it's almost like watching my Dad posting in here - I really don't want you getting personally upset by how people act on the Internet. The majority of this on here, I view as tailgate smack-talking that is mostly tongue-in-cheek at the end of the day. Harmless stuff compared to real world problems.

For what it's worth, I know the University of Tennessee has done good things. So has Florida. Most the kids who are Volunteers are probably good kids. Same for Florida. I'm pretty sure most here would largely agree, but the general nature of the board is a place to smack-talk and so that's what dominates. Know the forest that you walk in.

Respect aside, I do hope we beat you again. But I also acknowledge that neither of our teams has really played anyone of note and we both have some pretty key players out due to injury, so the reality is this game is a toss-up. Largely like it has been the past few years. And I think it'll be another nailbiter like it was last year, where I was in the stands in person after having a lovely tailgate with some Vol fans.

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And Whiskey Papa"s response to anything about UF and the current 11 game win streak? "Yeah, but the 1984 Gators cheated and got put on probation and the SEC championship was taken away from them, cheaters never prosper." What does this show about your upbringing?