Two Minute Hate

Actually, this is more like the ending to "Frankenstein". The town folk (average Tuscl members), drive away the monster (Jerikson or Alucard), with torches and pitchforks, cuz they didn't like the inanities of said monster.

Another great analogy

^^^yes

A difference between "two minutes hate" and the Alucard/jerikson40 hate is that the former is top down whereas the latter is bottom up.

Alucard was a funny duck. I used to think he was trolling everybody. To some degree he was -- I'm sure he knew what his "ban all guns" posts would elicit. But there was also a sincerity about his posts. He was an incredibly "real" guy. A weirdo, but i like weirdos. We're all weird in our own way. I'm glad I apologized to him and we exchanged emails before he passed.

jerikson is opinionated, but I don't have any desire to throw hate his way. I may say shit about the brown eye when he goes on one of his "who would ever want anal" rants. But that's in good fun.

At a certain point if a person repeats shit that you don't like just put them on ignore or admit you like giving them shit. I respect the fact the people dig giving jerikson shit -- their prerogative -- but they should admit to themselves that they enjoy pokin' jerikson in the eye. Show the dude enough respect to attack him to his face.

There are only a few real psychos on this site. Troll Defense HQ was funny for 5 minutes but I put him on ignore when he posted some shit about Dougster. I wasn't offended by him attacking Dougster -- Dougster can talk care of himself -- but the post about Dougster sounded like TDHQ having a rape fantasy. That's when I was out of the game. BonesBrother's racism and Slaux_pas's repetitiveness got them spots on my ignore list. Other than that I don't ignore anybody right now.

Possible that TDHQ, Slaux_pas, and Bonesbrother are the same dude. If so my ignore list is only one.

The world would be an incredibly boring place if we all just got along. It would be like we were all Hare Krishnas chanting and playing tambourines all day. I'll take some conflict instead thank you very much.

However, I don't hate jerikson. To the contrary, I'm glad he's here because he makes the place much more entertaining and enlivening.

But if you are suggesting that we should respect jerikson, I could never do that. I can't respect a guy (ok I'll give him the benefit of the doubt just this once and call him a guy) who is so consistently whinny, cheap, illogical, and bizarre.

Citing 1984 seems like it should be even a step beyond losing by citing Nazis per Godwin's Law.

Well just as we have rickdugan who adds value by being a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder, we have jerikson40 who is classic passive-aggressive personality disorder. But we already had jestie214 for that, so I'm not sure having two textbook examples adds much value over just one.