the characteristic barty move is to try and undermine thirds aesthetics/politics/identity (dungeons and dragons. Middle class. Robocock. Student) .
third and, sadly, luke seem to have got the impression that I’m disingenuous, passive aggressive and do lots of cryptic things to upset or provoke you third. it’d be nice if people could take the things i say a bit more at face value instead of trying to read maliciousness into them. for example i thought what i wrote earlier was innocuous, but it elicited an incredibly severe reaction (which i'd much rather be deleted by the way).
to clear these things up:
1) "Dungeons and dragons": in the post where i wrote this i referred to my own taste in music as “thomas cook minstrel show”, so any ribbing i gave you in this context was met with self-deprication on my part. i called a poem corpsey liked a "hunk of shit”, i said terrible things about roc marciano and headie one (both favourites of trilliam), called bowie (who lots of posters like) “timmy mallet for pretentious people”, said that joni mitchell’s blue was awful, etc. i trash things lots of different poster admire and, as far as i know, they don’t take it personally. i’m not solely focussed on attacking your taste.
2) “middle class”: as far as i can remember i only bring it up to defend corpse. he’ll often write something and you’ll call him bourgeois . i really like having corpse around and don’t want him to feel like he’ll get a bollocking for everything he says so i defend him. not just against you. when luke criticised him on the framework thread i defended corpse. when crowl attacked him on the r kelly thread i did the same. when blissblog wasn’t wholly positive about nomos’ book i took the piss there too. so again third it’s nothing personal, i do the exact same to other posters.
3) “Robocock": I remember third enjoying this when I wrote it and it actually being one of our first jokes we had together. I didn’t know it was perceived as a bad thing. i use it endearingly
4) “student”: i may well have said this, but don’t remember doing so.
hopefully this shows i’m not “trying to undermine” you third. my posts aren’t subtle insults or evil codes to decipher. they’re just normal posts like anyone else’s. i’m not some evil genius coming up with word algebra to have a pop at you. i’m a bloke who likes dancehall and doesn’t like techno, that shouldn’t be a problem in the slightest.
i do lots to make you happy third. islamic in-jokes, saying you’re amazing all the time, chatting with you, etc. i don’t know where anyone’s got the impression i’m at all antagonistic towards you.
can we finally put the tom and jerry stuff to bed now? if you read a post and think i’m having a dig try to assume i'm not and if you can’t dm me.
hope this all makes sense and we can just have some fun.
apologies to the rest of dissensus.