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No disrespect to those taking on skibum609, but I hope skibum609 doesn't become

By that I mean a target, not that skibum609 is particularly similar to either.

There are no doubts that rickdugan is full of himself and does come across kind of d-baggy. He also says a lot of stuff that translates naturally into jokes at his expense. I don't know how much, if any, of what he says is true (you could say the same thing about everybody). I feel guilty admitting that I find a lot of the jokes at his expense are kind of funny. But they are also a bit much at times.

san_jose_guy is different and clearly rubs some people the wrong way. But he's always been nice to me and to many on the board. He is a bit long winded and I don't read everything he posts, but he's enjoying himself by sharing what he thinks. Nobody is holding a gun to anybody's head forcing them to read san_jose_guy posts. Just as with rickdugan, I'm not going to defend things he says. That's his job if he want it. But sometimes parsing every word someone says and ripping on them for it seems a bit excessive for a goofy discussion board.

Now don't get me wrong. I think a lot of the conspiracy theory nonsense that skibum609 appears to believe is nuts. He can come across as unhinged and he does tend to throw insults around, including some that he claims he doesn't use (more accurately, he throws around insults that he claims only liberal use, but he vehemently denies being a liberal so I simply went to the logical conclusion).

But he is far from the most hostile poster on here and part of TUSCL appears to be ripping on each other. Somebody says I'm a wiener dog obsessed Down syndrome sufferer. We laugh at the joke and move on. That's the brilliant way!

But, no disrespect to the more obsessive posters, the repetition gets to be a bit much. twentyfive, you seem like a nice guy. Don't get into a repetitive rut battling skibum609. skibum609 does have a point that he gets called skifag a lot, although I don't think you've ever do that. skibum609 is wrong that he's called skibum exclusively by liberals. Dougster is the primary source of the insult and, in his serious posts, Dougster seems to be a political moderate.

That said, I don't think Dougster is a homophobe or a closeted gay man. He just likes to get a rise out of people. I'm not going to delve into that any more than I just did. He posts what he wants to post. I read the posts of his that I find potentially interesting and skip those I'm not interested in. Just like I do with everybody. Again, that's the brilliant way! ;)

Just my 2 cents. TUSCL already has enough targets. Too many really. I've now said my piece so peace to all! ;)