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Haus, you can all me any username you like. Really. Just so long as you call me.
It wasn't so much that I was running away from the whole name-gate episode in the Mathlete/SJJ banning thread, rather that I went on holiday. Much as I might of liked to continue the conversation, the rude stable in which I spent an invigorating vacation was not equipped with broadband (there were, though, plenty of high horses, and I spent many an instructive hour getting down from them - perhaps you'd like the address, it's a very relaxing place?). On my return, I realised it was best not to revisit the thread, not least because the still non-banned Mathlete/SJJ was now lying low, and any resurrection of it might have caused him to pop his head above the parapets, with possibly unpleasant consequences for the board / him. On reflection, though, I should have done you the courtesy of sending you a brief PM apologising for over-interpreting your use of my old screen name. Not to do so seems an especially bad call now that you've told me you felt bullied by my over-interpretation. Please consider that PM sent.
It'd be great if you could demonstrate my attempts to reboot every banning thread as if it only started when [I] got involved. I could be wrong of course, but IIRC I've only ever contributed to three banning threads. One was Epop's, which anybody would be hard pressed to argue that I attempted to reboot, although at the time I got a mild, almost avuncular ticking off from you, Haus, for attempting to prove that Epop was Alan Moore, and, in a more real way, Al Gore. The second was DeDI's. In that case, I created a new thread in which various complaints against DeDI across a number of threads and forums could, if posters felt it was useful, be collated. When the mods felt that it'd be better to carry out the discussion in one of the original threads, this was my response. Notice that I'm not exactly gnashing my teeth in frustration that my attempted 'reboot' failed to catch fire. A third thread was Mathlete's/SSJ's, where I made a suggestion that he shout ''You're not my real Dad!' at you, put you on ignore for a bit, and start a thread on Iron John. The point at which you got upset with me was when I quoted one of your own typos back at you. Following that, as anyone who's read further will see, you started to accuse me of a desire to reset the Matrix(!), and wipe the fact that several board members had called for Mathlete/SJJ's banning from our collective memories. I pointed out that I didn't feel it necessary to mention that several people have moved for a ban, because to my mind that much was already clear from the thread, which would have already been read in its entirety by any resposible reader before they arrived at my postings. After that meat, it was all name-gate gravy, and nothing to do with 'rebooting' the ban thread (or not) whatsoever. Not that that figures now, really, what with me saying you can call me by any ficsuit monicker you like, just so long as I'm the object of your ever lovin' attention.
Like I said, if there were any other banning threads that I contributed to, it'd be great if you could point them out to me. Maybe there'll be some evidence of my apparently reboot-happy ways there.
I will happily take on board any suggestions you might have to help you not to feel bullied by me.
Very kind of you. Avoiding the negative behaviours on my checklist upthread covers much of this ground. Please let me know which, if any of them, you would be willing to avoid in future, if indeed you feel you exhibit any of them now.
One last thing: you reaching for the word douche as a term of abuse with which to describe me. My understanding is that a douche is a device used to introduce water into the vagina for the purposes of hygiene, contraception, or to treat an infection. As your use of the word was perjorative, this seems to indicate a possible aversion on your behalf to A) vaginal hygiene, B) pregnancy, C) vaginal health, D) the thought of the insertion of an object into the vagina, or E) the vagina itself. Another possibility is that you, along with large number of gynaecologists outside the US, consider the douche to be a device that is inimical to vaginal health, upsetting as it does the pH of the vagina and, the anti-douche lobby maintain, putting the user at risk of yeast infections. If this is the case, might I suggest that you could replace the perhaps hot-button word 'douche' in your arsenal of put downs with 'nylon underwear' or 'very tight jeans'. You could also compliment somebody by calling them 'yoghurt'.
Your position vis-a-vis the douche debate notwithstanding, please tell me why you feel the need to employ a word so closely associated with the vagina as a term of abuse. Also, can I expect you to call me (or indeed any other poster you wish to insult), say, a tampon?
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