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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Date: 2005-11-16 08:54 pm (UTC)(My computer froze on the last reply.)
Dennis alleges a great deal, seems especially fond of this sort of accusation, and rarely backs it up, apart from "I said it, so it really happened" (hence the bonkers-Scientologist comment, a la Koos Trenite). Everyone who disagrees with him is involved in whitewashing a situation, and his knee-jerk-reaction to anyone not him in authority (you should see some of his posts in the gun rights fora - and that's on an issue that I basically agree with him about) automatically places those "higher up on the pole" who disagree with him in cahoots with those obviously covering up the $crime.
The pitiful irony here is his evident behavior outside textual fora. He's supposed to be a nice, polite guy. I find that deeply, deeply disturbing. Combined with the thought patterns he has exhibited online, his evident high intelligence, my admittedly amateur psychological knowledge, and my studies and observations of human behavior, I think that when he called himself a sociopath he hit the nail on the head.