[FeliciaLee]

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"So basically it comes down to Matt makes fun of 2+2'ers as a joke,"

The amount of vitrol involved makes it seem non-joke like and really petty. If it's just a joke, its a pretty bad one.

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I don't think it's a joke as much as it's to get a rise out of people. Hey, is that still a common saying? I haven't heard that one in a while.

Like you know that someone is always looking at shadows, kind of creeping around because they scare easily. So you constantly hide behind things and jump out at them when they pass. It's no fun to do that to someone who doesn't scare easily, but that guy who will jump three feet in the air, or the cat is just gonna get naturally exploited if you know that is their weakness. You almost can't help yourself, it's like they are begging for it, lol.

I remember when I first met Matt and found out how he likes to trash talk. I wasn't going for that at all, it's not my idea of good poker (yeah, call me Mr. McManus, I don't care, you gotta respect the game, lol). I told him he'd better never do that in RL, or he'd likely get popped. He said he'd never go that far IRL, he just does it to get under their skin, and it works.

It's like he's picking at scabs. My outlet is my journal, I really get under the skin of a lot of people. I get hate mail and have even gotten a death threat. I know, people on the Internet like to parade around like they are tough, but at first I was truly scared. Since I figured out that they are basically FOS, I opened my journal back up to the public again. It's strange how people can take things so personally. You'd think every ill in the world was some kind of direct insult to them. I believe probably these people suffer from lack of self-esteem, so they see themselves in every post, and decide that you are singling them out and picking on them. I'll write a post and get 50 e-mails from people, all of them claiming I'm writing about THEM. It's bizarre.

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]