@u[sic]m: so, is that what it takes to make you step out of character for thirty seconds? couldn't you do it just one post before, and for once reply on topic when i asked you to please stop joking all the fucking time?
name-calling is ok with me if it's ok with your moral standards: i didn't have banned ppl who repeatedly called me a bastard, although "disrespecting a moderator" seems to be worth 8 or 9 warning points out of the 20something needed to be out of um for good. so if you feel like insulting me go ahead: there'll be no consequences apart from those your own self-esteem might choose to unleash on you.
as for your statement about reaction, in all honesty to me it's a wagonload of sophisticated bullshit to persuade the uneducated. if i were to come to your homeland and burn the city to the ground, relatives and loved ones included, you'd probably come after me with the best weapon you can find (hopefully one a little more efficient than your sharpened tongue
) and i don't think saying that "the way you react has nothing to do with my actions" would be a valid saving grace for me. on a smaller scale, it's not other ppl's fault if they should tell you to bugger off after you've played the provoker. and that's what i meant, you know, not that you want to solicit
any reaction (as in, have ppl replying to you, which is ok), but that you try to obtain
specific reactions. also, it doesn't seem to me that you do it because you're expressing what you feel/think. you do it because you're playing a part.
i'm willing to tolerate this, although i think it's trite and sad, but with the limit of you not repeatedly bashing ppl just because it fits your dastardly cunning trolling plans.
i think it'd be preferrable, however - and that's the last time i go through this, you got it the first time anyway - that you drop the pose a little more often to participate in discussions and have a laugh
with the others here, not privately and at them. this wouldn't hinder your being as ironic/sarcastic as you wish, but at least everyone would know you're not on some ego-trip.
that's the extent of my opinion, and, if you wish, of my arrogance. rest assured that if i'll ever want you to take me more seriously than this you'll be the first to notice.
rahvin.