Who will join me?
Nov. 16th, 2005 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusHowdy!
In the most recent Festival of Insufficient Heat (it wasn't a full up flame fest in my view) on the Rialto, Dennis O'Connor took to speaking of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad. He meant this, of course, as pejorative, but I've updated my .sig to include "Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad". After all, when someone goes about waving a brush-o-tar with glee and abandon, there is a need to clean up afterwards. Broken windows, and all that, you know.
He, playing the role of Phil, ran out of things to say, but not out of words to type, resorting to addressing me as "Mikey". I guess it was supposed to inflame me to intemperance. I think I resisted successfully. Of course, mentioning "skitakeldur" (from Geirr Bassi, meaning "one who shits in a keldur (well)", as allegorical for one who "poisons the well", rhetorically, seemed to evince a new paroxysm of elementary school playground name-calling. *sigh*
It's sad to see someone who used to be so skilled with words lose it like this.
yours,
Herveus
Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad.
In the most recent Festival of Insufficient Heat (it wasn't a full up flame fest in my view) on the Rialto, Dennis O'Connor took to speaking of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad. He meant this, of course, as pejorative, but I've updated my .sig to include "Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad". After all, when someone goes about waving a brush-o-tar with glee and abandon, there is a need to clean up afterwards. Broken windows, and all that, you know.
He, playing the role of Phil, ran out of things to say, but not out of words to type, resorting to addressing me as "Mikey". I guess it was supposed to inflame me to intemperance. I think I resisted successfully. Of course, mentioning "skitakeldur" (from Geirr Bassi, meaning "one who shits in a keldur (well)", as allegorical for one who "poisons the well", rhetorically, seemed to evince a new paroxysm of elementary school playground name-calling. *sigh*
It's sad to see someone who used to be so skilled with words lose it like this.
yours,
Herveus
Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad.
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Re: I admire your patience
Date: 2005-11-16 06:41 pm (UTC)From a less noble perspective, it's just too easy to set the troll off with plainly spoken disagreement. Dennis used to be a skilled debater and a formidible adversary with a low tolerance for lame reasoning and the like. Unfortunately, over the last few years, he's lost it, and acts like the people he'd tear to shreds in the past.