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Umm...criticisms such as "your weblog sucks and you're really ugly"? Both matters of personal taste, and neither interesting nor profitable to engage with. What, we're going to post pictures and let our peers decide who is prettiest? Hardly.
Arrogant - yup, I can see that could be a valid criticism. But there is the old saw "Not better than everyone. Just better than *you*". And one could argue that blithely refusing to countenance that you could possibly have misunderstood a) William Blake and b) the idea of "Eords creating reality" (which I think was a bit deeper than "if I use words to invite a friend to the pub, I have created a reality in which we go to the pub"), choosing instead to defecate in your hand and throw it in time-honoured Barbefashion.
Unpleasant - well, yes. That's part of the point of the Haus suit.
Obsessive - regrettably so. Am very bad at leaving the sandpit, even after the special boys (that's you, just so you follow the metaphor) have fairly comprehensively crapped in it.
A bully - that's a tricky one. I think probably more a check on hubris. However, if sufficiently pursued and pissed off (and you may have noticed that, unable to respond meaningfully to the refutation of your original argument, you have deployed and repeated your entire stock of adjectives in personal abuse), particularly by people who flout basic etiquette by, for example, using our given names (which says "stalker" in my book, sweetie), I can certainly oversnark. It was wrong of me to drive through three states wearing your head as a hat. I'm sorry.
As for circumlocut*o*ry argument (where was that MA (Hons) in English Language from? The University of Cornflakes?), uhhh...you have been desperately twisting on the hook trying to justify your numpty-heided initial statements. So, I should admit that I am wrong more often and more gracefully, sure - I think many people could say that about themselves if they were being honest. I think it's unlikely that it is likely to be as a result of your actions, though.
As for making people feel unhappy, the nice guys liking me...every so often I put the Haus suit up for execution, and the general consensus seems to be that it is a useful thing. I make a small number of people who take themselves far too seriously and have issues with various things about me unhappy. Everyone else seems to be rubbing along just fine. And you know, Sherman, I think they were pretty unhappy to begin with.
Verbosity I will totally cop to - but touch typing and reasonably quick wits mean I spend far less time here than you seem to (hunt and peck, hunt and peck. Pause for thought. Goddim on the ropes now, Sam. Hup. Yup) think. And I *do* like Grant Morrison, I do I do I do. Not that Barbelith was a Grant Morrison discussion board anymore by the time I encountered it, or indeed long before. Your arguments are getting a bit ragged and desperate here, Sherman. Did I just say "getting"? Looks like I'm a lot nicer than I thought.
Now, this is one reason why you don't "engage with" abuse. Because it's abuse. Its intention is to offend and shout down. And I have to say, you seem to be getting very upset over there (please, take this as an observation from genuine concern, rather than an invitation to make a series of utterly unprovable accusations of crying over the keyboard). And now I feel bad about a) letting you annoy me and thus getting dragged into this in the first place and b) upsetting you with my book-larned ways. So, guilt.
And self-doubt. But, you know, not as a result of this level of crude, sophomoric abuse.
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