Come on, man, relax.
To be fair, there was an honest debate about whether to do it in its own separate thread, or in Gaytor Tears.
But still...don't give
@RVACane a hard time. I proposed the situation, to flush out one of those "man, if I ever had a chance to talk to those guys, I would destroy them" bravado-nonsense things.
And outside of a couple of early stray bullets from
@djnellz , I think we were all pretty fair and respectful, or certainly "no more insulting" than he was to us.
I mentioned this above. If you want to know your enemy, you have to confront your enemy, you need to engage with your enemy. Some people read this thread and think we make some of this stuff up, or at a bare minimum, we exaggerate it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Look, in honesty, I expected some of Northern's schtick for the first few hours, but I thought he would drop it and engage in something more closely approximating a factual/statistical debate. Instead, we got something different. I'm sure he will "claim victory" for being such a one-track poster who was never "tricked" into admitting an ounce of doubt, regret, or self-reflection, but that's pretty much what you get from Gaytor fans.
A false sense of superiority. Arrogance based on NOTHING of distinction or accomplishment. Sneering taunts about being "big brother" (as if anyone is really worried about allllll that Florida accomplished before UM was founded). Lots of false equivalencies and self-contradictory statements.
All in all, it was an excellent exercise. I have shared some of my secret agenda with RVA, no need to lay it all out here in public. Just think about the title of the great second album by The Clash, and you can see Step 1 of my 12-Step master plan.
Please don't give
@RVACane or
@IndayArtHauz or any other Maude/Mod a hard time about this. All is well.