Love Letter

[Goldentony]

[Neil]

Baffled by the insomnia non-sequitur, frankly.  'Haha your sleep pattern is occasionsly erratic, bro!' - yeah, thanks for sparing me from such a mauling.

Neil, this conversation has been the shittest thing I've done all month and I'm disappointed in myself for even getting involved. I certainly do feel bad about this now. I thought it might be a good idea to share some good habits I've enjoyed since leaving, not to make anyone feel bad, quite the opposite, in fact. I wanted other people on here to enjoy these same things. I thought it might be comforting or motivating.

Blah blah blah.  NOONE resents you for trying to be a happier person, and EVERYONE has congratulated you, but you will never give up this illusory comfort blanket.  I feel compelled to stand up to people who habitually pull the status of others down in order to feel better about themselves, because they are unpleasant, manipulative bullies.  Perhaps you should reread the first post in the thread, with specific reference to the bit where you admit I was right about you being a complete dick to people because you couldn't let go. You didn't actually share any good habits, either, in contrast to what you say - read back - all you did was come back to save face, and then snipe at people.  It's your own over-sensitivity that caused things to turn.

It's this, actually, that was the problem:

FM, I hope you've had as good a month as I have!

There must be plenty more opportunities for you out there to do new things.

Consider this a thirty-second favour to you, a gentle reminder of how you spend your time, just have a little think.

Best of luck!

Again, I think it's better to have made mistakes again and again and consistently pushed myself out of my comfort zone in almost every sphere of my life than to sit dwelling on what might not work out, in other people's eyes. Again, this does annoy some people - though not many people who live according to similar principles, I've noticed. They tend to be supportive.

Only the perennial miserable sods have any problem with it, it seems.

I don't mind upsetting them. It's tough love!

They're not bad guys, they just forgot there's anything better to do. Or they gave up.

This place is full of guys wasting away.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

It's just socialising with people who share their experiences and knowledge and strange, funny, humbling shit with you.

I appreciate leaving to give yourself time to do things you want to, but any other justification is over-thinking it, and any attempt to mark yourself as better through doing it is improper and foolish, particularly doing so publically.

Today as a result of discussions on the forum I've been reading into Bobby Kennedy and wondering how we got to a situation where if anyone stood up and said half the things he did, they would be lambasted as a clueless hippy. That's typical of here.

[Thursday]

hey, you guys, I have found that life is more varied and rewarding when you do more varied and rewarding things'

FUCKING REVELATION LADS!

[Rev]

Minor shit, I know:

I think you've got the wrong person, Rev, unless you mean 'ten years ago'. Check when I joined this forum.

We had the ability to change our screen names for a while, too.  I might have the wrong person, but if that's the case then there are two people using the same syntax and projecting the same kind of superiority onto people they view as addicts, struggling to leave a forum that they can't leave themselves.  This is not the future I was promised.  Let's stick Blade Runner on instead.

[Desi Dubs Dallas]

He's made a mockery of leaving a comedy website. It's like when Bobby stepped out of the shower in 'Dallas' all over again. But worse. It's like Bobby stepping out the shower dressed as a Transformer.

Its worse than that, what if at the end of The Usual Suspects Kevin Spacey had elected to make his escape bid by hiding in a cupboard and emerging dressed as a transformer?

[phantom_power]

I might have the wrong person, but if that's the case then there are two people using the same syntax and projecting the same kind of superiority onto people they view as addicts, struggling to leave a forum that they can't leave themselves.

I don't particularly agree with how he has handled all this but I do think he has been at pains to point out that he is not saying that. If you ignore the flippancy he seems to be saying that this is a choice that has worked for him, maybe it will work for you.

Saying people are wasting their talent spending too much time on here may be a backhanded compliment but it is a compliment nonetheless

I am sure there are a lot of people here (including myself) who could be doing something more productive than spending the amount of time they do on here (here being the internet as a whole as well as this site). There is a lot of insightful, engaging and funny stuff that goes on but there is also a lot of nitpicking, petty squabbles and bickering. This is no different from any other forum I take part in so I am not singling it out. Spending less time on here could make people appreciate the former and not indulge so much in the latter.

[Neil]

But it's a compliment he largely used as a weapon, to FM, then to me, and anyone else who got in his way. "I'm dead happy, honest, but I reckon you're utterly miserable and unfulfilled, so I'm going to rub your fucking nose in it in front of everyone...that'll teach you to say 'oh, are you still here then?'"

Those are "compliments" we can do without from Teacher Crab, the Forum Scab.

[WesterlyWinds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k

[Buelligan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mux93MqA45w&ob=av3n (Sorry Blodders).

[Dead kate moss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_7P9Ce9Uc

[phantom_power]

But it's a compliment he largely used as a weapon, to FM, then to me, and anyone else who got in his way. "I'm dead happy, honest, but I reckon you're utterly miserable and unfulfilled, so I'm going to rub your fucking nose in it in front of everyone...that'll teach you to say 'oh, are you still here then?'"

Those are "compliments" we can do without from Teacher Crab, the Forum Scab.

I think you need to sort the wheat from the chaff, the honest comments from the flippant or deliberately inflammatory for a joke. I'm not entirely sure you have the perspective to see this in a more objective way

[RickyGerbail]

i think he was at his most funny when he joked about Neils alleged chronic sleeping problems and alcoholism.

[Neil]

Heh, God exists within him.

[phantom_power]

i think he was at his most funny when he joked about Neils alleged chronic sleeping problems and alcoholism.

and of course all of that was just one-way traffic.

As I say, I don't think he has handled the whole thing particularly well, and he isn't alone in that, but I agree with his general viewpoint and don't see him coming back occassionally as contradictory to his initial statements. I'm not even sure why I am continuing to defend him, it doesn't make any difference and I doubt he needs it. So I won't any more

[dr beat]

There is a lot of insightful, engaging and funny stuff that goes on but there is also a lot of nitpicking, petty squabbles and bickering.

Society, there. 

or

'Why I stopped worrying and liked being on here'.