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I’m Sorry. So very sorry. Its just been too hard to resist. When I was a merciless 10 year old without a conscience, the height of fun at my all boys school would be to pick on the ’special’ kid till he threw a wobbler, involving a lot of self directed violence and at least one bodily discharge. What a cruelly delicious treat for a bunch of prepubescent bastards.
It seems we’ve been doing that again, and this time I’ve been at the back of the line not getting any of the action; a fine tag team sport; creeping up behind your victim who invariably has a line of snot running down one side of his chin, kicking him in the pants and running really fast, while the next in line crept up behind ‘hotu bottuwa’ for his turn. Visually it’s quite impressive, its exactly the same way a pack of crows attack if you are 10 years old and have no damn sense and think you can take on the crows of Mount Lavinia Hotel’s Terrace with a stone.
Gladly some things have changed in the last twenty-something years. Mount Lavinia Hotel’s Terrace is now so damned expensive, i haven’t had a chance to see if the crows recognise me still. It’s also been a while since I’ve played ‘tag the bastard’ (local rules), mostly because the shifting sands of boyhood alliances resulted finally in my fellows deciding that for one day I should be ’piggy in the middle’, too.
Waving your arms about manically, making outrageous threats at everyone while bawling your eyes out with twin trails of snot, all the while smelling more and more of shit is truly juvenile. But so is ‘tag the bastard’ as played with any rules, if the result is more or the same.
I suppose it’s not a game I’ve entirely outgrown, either…
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hahah.. accurate to say the least. but nw most of the mess has been cleared up and the jeering-behind-retreating back is taking place. Its like the kid stepped into a juvie camp. never knew what hit him
Comment by TheWhacksteR April 27, 2009 @ 12:07 pmLOL….! I appreciate the comparisons, but in this case the ’special kid’ sorta asked for it!
Comment by thekillromeoproject April 27, 2009 @ 12:35 pmHi just to set one thing straight. Sometime or another we all have fights online, on our blogs for the world to see, and read. The distinction is that there are untruths and completely blatant untruths. Everyone though not discussed more or less follow simple rule where humanity and a degree of decency rules the norm, not as an exception.
Comment by DD April 27, 2009 @ 5:47 pmIf you so blatantly lie about everything, even to the extent of who you are and where people genuinely think you need professional help and then as far as I am concerned break the basic principal of blogging, announcing and breaking another bloggers anonymity obviously you will have most decent people object.
To be fair some of us ventured and volunteered genuine support which was more or less ignored or not understood. If someone wants to party, drop pills, do russkies and write about it that’s cool. But when someone insults a fundamentally decent person or persons that not fair. Online or offline.
Edmund Burke in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
What is sad is no one really even knows if this person exists or if this was all done by an enemy of this person. No one honestly doesn’t care. They care about their friends who were insulted, but not about this person.
The damage done to this person’s name is irreparable, especially in Colombo as its such a small place.
I don’t think this person quite realised the real borders of kottu, and still doesn’t. Thats bloody sad.
If all this was real and true and this person does exist, the damage done on the www will live for ever. Even after all of us are gone from this world.
That is scary.
If this person is real, it’s more scary, as they definitely need professional help. Seriously.
I don’t think your analogy is correct, this was more a case of a school bully who moved to a new school and to his surprise found that his tactics in the previous school did not work in this school as everyone stood up to him.
Money doesn’t buy you happiness, loyalty, power or friends. Money buys you things that can make you happy, but if you have no idea on how to spend it you will never have loyalty, friends or power, even briefly.
I really don’t think this person has any of that, including money, so the sooner they get help I think the better for them.
They just don’t understand that everyone’s knows what a fake and liar they are. This requires proper qualified help and treatment.
Sorry for the long comment and thanks.
Thanks for the long comment. This post is my mea culpa for not being able to rise above shamelessly using a popular topic guaranteed to up my blog stats.
I’m really not with you on not lying and insulting people on the web. Till I was 14 I thought the web was actually made for insulting people i’d never met, lying about myself and low resolution porn. Mostly porn, mind you, but there was a good deal of lying and insulting going on.
In the absence of methods of enforcing the truth and fairness you seek on the web without becoming heavy-handed those concepts dont really exist there. What you and I are left with is credibility and behaviour limits. The former is self regulated and in the self interest of the individual while the latter is kept at such a low barrier it’s almost impossible to violate without being a full-on sociopath. It seems to me, this works as a system. I’m just glad it’s entertaining, you know?
Comment by aasvogel April 28, 2009 @ 8:19 amNot sure if you know the full story. The person in question first emailed the blogger whose anonymity was revealed innocently. Even using words such as ‘Aiya’. Subsequently the wronged person wrote back and his email sign-off had his company details and obviously the real name. That my friend is not cricket.
Comment by DD April 29, 2009 @ 6:06 amNow the person who did wrong, keeps emailing everyone trying his best to get them to email him back, obviously for the purpose of obtaining IP addy’s.
Obviously everyone is now wiser!
Finally while the www was used to heap insults upon other – I don’t quite think so, but what it ensures mostly is CHOICE. The freedom to keep your anonymity. That’s one of the main reasons blogging is so popular.
My thoughts anyway. Cheers.
PS: The wronged person was also nice enough to not publish those emails. That is cricket!
Comment by DD April 29, 2009 @ 6:07 am