Something in the water over there, of late?
Awww.. the word 'taunts' is sufficient to pierce your thin skin, izzat it? Right through the armor plate donned for each judgmental sermon. One-way armor, what a concept.

'Gramps' too, is it sonny? Cluck. Cluck.
Hmmm.. now if I had some monstrous affliction, why I could count on a nick like Crip, too. Such a banal formula. Do you lately find yourself fondly remembering the days of toilet jokes, too?

Despite all those months you surely spent as acolyte at alt.flame, I believe I have heard most of your repertoire or seen it on kiddie boards of the past, and there haven't been any originals for a long while. Seems you're losing it, sonny.

Your 'gramps'-fixation was last trotted out for a pedantically excessive rip-job on an associate of long tenure here: at least as long as yours. He chose to disappear not long after, perhaps because nobody else chimed in to smack-down the Master of snap-judgments? (Must be a coincidence though, as I doubt he feerd your practised automatic screeds any more than do I.)

I had no dog in that fight, but later regretted that I left your manic savagery unsavaged. My error - it wasn't an aberration: you appear to be stuck in that rut. I know that I preferred hearing some of Doug's lore quite more than watching replays of your argghorithm. In any event, my truculence filter works reliably better than your generator, short-in-tooth amateur.

As to present gratuitous vivisection of Owl and her milieu, methinks the smug nastiness is overdone. Yet again. Entirely irrelevant, what You Think ought to be the social compact twixt these two (were they merely Half as Brilliant as Thee\ufffd) - hers was a simple request for info about fixing a fucking car part, not for illumination about rebuilding their personalities in your image.

And if her SO doesn't know shit about cars.. well, most here don't know shit about electronics either, despite the fact of all your daily drudgery running on it. Which makes you, lately -

A Remora with delusions of psychotherapist cum oracle: still, standards being what they are in the USA - you could get your own AM radio show here (too repetitive to reach the bloviation level required for an FM slot, but practise.. practise..)


HTH,


Gramps

We could strive for an even more retro waste of mouth noises -
My Daddy had a better insurance policy than your Daddy.
And, Your Momma -

Nope - gratuitous rehash re Owlet. Can't tie it to any of my sins of omission or commission; you're just playing shrink again. Deny meaning 'a taunt' all you wish, you still grabbed a convenient excuse to rehash way-past psych judgments.

My simple little mind figures that, Owlet has survived the initial gantlet (in which I also participated) and that ordeal earns her a certain Right not be re-ridiculed casually, for possessing so few of the magniloquent 'talents' of this odd-lot group of sometimes Prima donnas.

That's where you and I disagree - if its simple you're really after.

So make your mind up: Am I the big bad \ufffdber-flamer who scared away Doug, or am I an "acolyte of kiddie boards" who is "losing it"? Explain in simple words -- if you know any -- how I can be both.

I shouldn't be surprised that you cannot imagine how (say..) you might be both toothless and also a litmus of sorts. But since I didn't ask Doug directly his reasons for seceding, and our conversations are rarely about IWE topics, anyway: I can only infer that it mattered to him that, nobody else troubled to interrupt your gramps-tirade, either sanely or sarcastically.

Tacit can seem to signal agreement, and that's why I regret not responding to gut instinct immediately, even if butting-in. You want it in simple words, do you? This is as 'simple' as it gets concerning other people's jelloware. Now parse that to meaninglessness, why not?

As to shut-the-fuck-up: you could do with some practice, just before you're contemplating stuffing someone into another nice simple logical pigeonhole. I sometimes wonder if you actually imagine that human 'reason' is reducible to some fucking logical table; I had thought that you were smarter than that. But then, you're getting older; good reminder for me to watch someday for symptoms like .. oversimplification, too.

But even if you're an aging crank, I still love you. Agap\ufffdistically speaking.:-)