I can see the validity of that criticism... I guess I did come on pretty strong right from the start...
As the kids today say, that's the way I roll... though I might have been a newbie in here, I was hardly a newbie when it came to message boards... been around that sort of forum a looooong time, and I'm pretty much the same wherever I go (except that I can get a bit more vulgar on boards that don't worry about that sort of thing too much)...
You should know the REAL troublemaker was LaTunaNostra... she was the one who started nagging me to come over here and start posting, she caught my act over on the Ranch... said this board needed a "gunslinger"... so I was just trying to give the lady what she asked for... yeah, that's the ticket, let's all blame LTN for this mess... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,,,
Now this IS gonna come off as arrogant, but I don't know any other way to say it-- it is the curse of a charismatic personality... every board I wander into, I quickly make some enemies, and I quickly win some admirers... just like our beloved Boys, nobody seems to be neutral about me-- you either like your friendly local Bear, or you strongly dislike him... but as I'm fond of saying, a man's actions have consequences, and one of the consequences of acting the way I do online is that you step on some toes... so I think it would be pretty weak of me to whine that I annoy people, when I could if I chose modify the behavior that annoys them...
I don't LIKE that some people dislike me with a certain intensity, I'd actually prefer it if everybody thought I was a good ol' boy... I'd like to be as universally liked as an AdamJT13, for example... but in the immortal words of that noted sage and philosopher Popeye, I yam what I yam.. I have more than my fair share of opinions, more than my fair share of attitude, and I'm not real bashful about expressing both...
I guess what I'm saying is I understand completely why some folks don't like me... my only consolation is that there are a few folks on each of the boards I haunt who really do like me... so instead of dwelling on those who don't, I prefer to focus on the friends I've made along the way...
Yeah, I think you hit that one on the head... then again, if I'm in a forum dominated by right-leaning political thought, and I start spouting anti-right rhetoric, I AM a troublemaker... LOL...
Like I said, I'm not real big on trying to duck responsibility for my own actions... if you don't want to get ganged up on, don't go pissin' off the gang... I knew what I was doing, and I knew that it would provoke a strong reaction... well, I didn't know it would get QUITE as ugly as it did... and when it did, I decided that it was time for me to stop playing the agent provocateur... given how deeply I crave getting the last word, you've gotta know that walking away from that one came kinda hard to me...
