tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309892.post-1162067591068803972006-10-28T21:33:00.000+01:002006-10-28T21:33:00.000+01:00WM,<BR/><BR/>Wow. I'm not really sure how to respond. This is probably only the second or so post or comment I've seen of yours that is truly serious. So I'll take it serious too.<BR/><BR/>First off the bat: I have *never* criticised your normal working aspirations. I think I used the term "square" on your blog, which I believe is often used, at least in pulp fiction terms, as a normal job vs a somewhat crooked/dodgy one. I also think its amusing that some of your fanboys believe the online persona more than the real truth, which is that you are allegedly respectable and will become even more so. Furthermore, as others would testify, I always have advocated having a real job as well as poker. So if in someway on this front I have offended you, then a wholeheartedly apologise.<BR/><BR/>On the other line though, I think you have lost your fucking mind. Do you remember what your posts were like on 2+2??? Not just the drunk, misogynist ones; your staple response on 2+2 would be all the adjectives you used to describe mine plus the creative use of pictures. I find the idea of you saying my posting style, is in effect rude, absolutely mind-boggling.<BR/><BR/>As to HSNL...do you go there often? Did you read the post which my comment was referring to? Gargantuan arrogance runs top to tail through that forum. As to these kids having no place else to turn, well clearly the folks on HSNL thought their Internet poker skills were absolutely transferable and so there will be no problem at all. Another example...they started posting PLO posts there because the "pee wee" folks in the PLO forum just wouldn't understand their rarefied plays. Yet when you see the PLO content being discussed, well, that is far from the truth.<BR/><BR/>Putting this all to one side, I don't ever recall "Your ridicule of their aspirations proved to be misguided and your predictions of their failure turned out to be flat wrong, and now your jealousy rears its ugly head when you finally get the opportunity to celebrate their stroke of bad luck." Criticise me for my attitude sure; pot-kettle-black permitting. But don't put meaningless words in my mouth. I have ridiculed their posturing, nativity and arrogance. I can't recall predicting anyone would go broke, except in the general sense that a % of people who are doing extremely well are riding more of the variance wave than they would ever imagine. But that is hardly news. Jealousy? C'mon. Don't you see that, avoiding the A word again, its normally those types of emotions that lead people to believe that all criticism has to be rooted in envy. <BR/><BR/>I really wonder where all this is coming from? Was it my bitch fight with Davebreal?<BR/><BR/>I can't really leave this without this last incredible point of yours: “but to laugh at the champions from the sidelines when the big game gets called on account of a technicality? That's just disgusting.” I hope you don't literally mean this. If this is your definition of disgusting then you need to get some sense of perspective. If they are you definitions of champions then, oh boy.<BR/><BR/>Gl<BR/><BR/>Dave DBig Dave Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09814552964722305717noreply@blogger.com