i can't make sense of the whole debate now - don't have time to read it through. but as far as i understand it started with something on the PAM thread which i thought was directed at me but wasn't. oh well, i actually believed it was a bona fide reply to me and gav was making fun of my comments on his personal life. for the record, i didn't get offended.
as for the larocque/gtranq debate, of course i don't know nothing and i wasn't there evah, but i have wide experience with fakes, manipulations of the truth, unrequited love, bitterness descending from it, bitterness originating from being on its receiving end, people who say things that should make them appear wise and make them appear stupid, etc.
so my final verdict is: probably there's truth to both points of view. to be specific, dave seems to be clear on facts, while diana seems to be clear on feelings. the events were probably as dave relates them, but he doesn't seem to give a fuck about how diana feels/felt about him. well, we know:
there's nothing darker than love that's gone sour/satan's spit, even if it wasn't love of the romantic variety. so to me it is impossible to pick sides: her wish to interrupt communications should obviously have been respected, as one would expect from any civilized person, but maybe showing so much of yourself to someone you're not sure about is a sign of emotional unbalance as strong as... well... the rest.