Fuck, this is going to make three posts in a row (there's the end of that leash), but this has to be said:
Hi, Pickle. What you've described differs from my recollection. Yes we talked on the phone a couple times. I enjoyed speaking with you. You didn't agree with anything I had to say (which actually doesn't make you any different from anyone else here I've spoken with). The insightful was a nice touch, though. That's different. Thank you. The couple times was enough for you, and I respected that.
We did not use YIM to read the trolls together while simultaneously instant messaging each other for hours at a time. As I remember, you entered into IMing tentatively, and you got weirded out about it because I asked about you. That, and I thought I bored you to tears IMing. I remember there was even a way to personalize one's IM screens -- and you shut your version down. Ha. You were trolling, except when you weren't. In thinking about it, I guess it's like mixing business and personal, bad things happen when folks do. As for the other, as some folks here are aware of, I suffer from writer's block and have for slightly over a decade now. For a while it was depressingly debilitating. Right now, it doesn't matter. I did do those things -- 'in my country, that's how we say hello'. Again, remember, 'depressingly debilitating' so nothing further. If you have logs though, pass them on! it should be a good chuckle, and refresh my memory about a lot of things.
You claim it's human compassion now, but earlier when I was read-only you said it was three separate things -- two of which I will not repeat publically. The third was 'insanity'. I don't know what that means, but I trust it over 'compassion', because you wrote it unguarded. I do believe you do have a heart; but it's not for this board, and it certainly isn't for an anonymous name from the board. I still hope you are doing well, because whether or not you see me as a human being, I do see you as a human being. I wish things could be different for you (the real person, not the troll, or the troll handlers). That's all I wanted to say off-hand.
Oh, and for Tarkus: nothing much, Type II.
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I hope you and the wife and the kids are doing well, and the band is continuing to enjoy success.
on a short leash, apparently.