Poor Turq, I give some attention to do.r and suddenly he has to put me down to get me to attend to him instead.
Post something with content willya? We're all slavering here for your next description of a Spanish town wherein you're hiding in plain sight. If I win the lottery, I promise I'll hire detectives to suss out who the fuck Barry really has been and why he runs from country to country. I figures he's on the run from fathers -- very angry fathers. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > I'm not here to perform for anyone, Mr Edg, especially > > manic, mentally unstable weirdos like you. > > Right on, do. To put things in the terms of the > vampire metaphor in vogue recently :-), there are > fictional vampires and there are real vampires. > > The fictional ones suck blood. You deal with them > by waving crosses and wearing garlic. > > The real vampires suck attention. Truth be known, > they are far hungrier and far more needy than the > fictional vampires. You deal with them by...duh... > withdrawing your attention from them. > > Try it, and watch what happens. > > What happens is what Edg has been doing today, > being so obviously *needy* and hungry for attention > that he's made panicky post after panicky post after > panicky post all day, trolling for attention. *Any* > attention will do. If he can't get someone to praise > him for his flaccid writing, he'll try buttering > up a newb and trying to get them to think he's nice. > When that doesn't work (for obvious reasons), he'll > try to appear intellectual, and as you so rightly > sussed out, *that* is so laughable as to have pred- > ictable results. So then he resorts to trying to > insult or taunt someone into arguing with him about > something so petty that only he would think it worth > arguing about. And when that doesn't work? Well, > insult them again and try to spin the fact that > the intended victim didn't consider him worth pissing > on, much less wasting time on, as something else. > > Sound familiar? It should. You've correctly identified > the same tendencies in another poster here, who runs > *exactly* the same number on FFL on a weekly basis. > You see it in the way she responds to Ruth or Sal > writing her off as not worth their time by asking > the person who just wrote them off a bunch of direct > questions, to try to lure them back in. If that doesn't > work, she goes for insults, again to lure them back in. > So far, Ruth, Sal, and a few others have been the most > successful at treating these nonentities like the > nonentities they are. > > Their success has reinspired me to do the same thing. > My theory is that the best way to deal with the atten- > tion vampires is not to give them any. Let them go > hungry for a while and then just sit back and watch > what they DO. > > They always DO the same things. It's the same thing > that old impotent fictional vampires do when they've > gotten too feeble to catch their prey. They howl. >
