This is goodbye, at least for now. Almost everyone who reads this means too much to me for me to just fuck off without saying something. So I'm saying something.
The story is pretty much there in the Tim_Leigh thread in RMDC for anyone who's interested. Long story long: The other day, squidrabies (whom I've admired as probably the most consistently funny and valuable contributor here) logged on drunk and revived Tim's thread by flaming me and Ivy by name, specifically and exclusively, for "shitting in (Tim's) mouth" and for generally making Stripcreator an intolerable place to be, what with our nastiness to newbies and our inane jokes. The odd thing is that Ivy and I were not nasty to this newbie. We were friends with him.
Some had severely criticized Tim, but Ivy and I were not among them. And everyone (except one person) had long since made up anyway. I was actually friends with the guy, and it was obvious, right there in the thread. (Go see, if you're interested.) Pointing this out didn't discourage squidrabies. He flamed us some more, saying some extremely nasty, false, personal things-- all, he said, in the name of making SC a nicer place.
Yes, squid was flaming the shit out of us to tell us we should make kinder, more intelligent contributions to the forum community. Among his methods were such charming tactics as insulting Ivy's breasts. It was Inflatable Man all over again.
Crabby took the opportunity to pile on and publicly rehash a six-week-old incident wherein he had heaped the most vicious personal abuse on Ivy in the chatroom, then "apologized," then immediately did it again. He had called her a fat, ugly internet whore who should kill herself, called her spouse (me) old and creepy and disgusting, and much much more. On and on. The sort of things that if you said it to a couple in person, the guy would see to it that you would not walk or eat solid food again for some time. Sadly, I was not in a position to effect such an outcome, but I can only hope that crabby mouths off like this to a couple in person someday. I know he won't, because he's nothing but a dope-addled chickenshit who likes to hurt women's feelings while hiding behind a computer screen. There are few forms of life lower than crabby, and I mean that sincerely.
Anyway, he brought all this up again, off-topic and six weeks out of context, repeated many of the insults, insisted they were true, and moaned about the quite natural consequence that we loathed the fucker. This he called an apology. Not "I was wrong, and I won't do it again." No, it was more like, "you're ugly, you're lame, I'm sorry that upsets you, and I'm tired of walking on eggshells." This, of course, is the kind of "apology" anyone with an ounce of sense would tell you to shove up your ass. But you'd have a hard time hearing him over the noise of your head being pounded against the floor.
All this, crabby tells us, in the name of putting the past behind us.
Attacking people with false accusations and insults-- in the name of making SC a nicer, smarter place. Reiterating the most vitriolic personal attack I have ever heard-- in the name of putting the past behind us. It's all there if you don't believe me, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't. Go see it. It's fucking crazy. I mean it's knee-crawling, wall-biting, shit-smearing mad.
Yeah, squid complains that I often post nonsense, which is true. I think it's fun. On the obnoxiousness scale, I don't think that's even in the same universe as what squidrabies and crabby have subjected us to. I mean, talk about ruining the fucking community. Just fucking nuts.
Ivy's already decided it's more than she can stand.
I was in denial, myself. I said a couple of intoxicated fuck knuckles like squidrabies and crabby were not going to ruin my favorite place with my favorite people in it. But the truth is, they already have. It is beyond my power to log on here, see shit like this directed at me and my wife, and remain in a good mood. Maybe some of you are that tough, but I'm not. Try it sometime. It's not fun. Sure, almost everyone here is great, and it's the smartest, funniest, most interesting group I've known in over 20 years online. But it's no fun to swim in a pool with a turd in it. One or two assholes, if they're obnoxious enough, can ruin the place.
I'm not going to act invulnerable and cynical here. We are sad enough about this that it has kept us up nights. It's a hell of a thing when you visit your favorite place on Earth with a feeling of dread, thinking my God, what next? It is a loss, and we're grieving.
But speaking for myself, it's better to leave and forget about it than to hang around anyplace that has a lowlife like crabby in it. Seeing that sadistic prick invite people to contribute to his "love fest" has to be the most nauseating spectacle I have ever had the privilege of witnessing up close. This is a guy who enjoys making girls cry on the internet. He thinks nothing of telling them the most hurtful things he can think of. Go ahead and ask him-- he'll tell you. Read the thread. Then sign up for his fucking "love fest." Crabby is scum.
And I certainly don't want to be subject to yet another random, insane, squid/inflatable-style tirade anytime soon. What makes it worse is that we counted these people friends. We tried to be people here. In retrospect, that was great for relating to the 99% of you who are decent, but it made us vulnerable to the kind of parasite that gets off on attacking people for things like their appearance. TMI was supposed to be a joke-- haha, gross, spare us the details. But it turns out it really was TMI. People like squidrabies and crabby will come back to flog you with your personal information out of sheer malice. Just a word to the wise.
Just to set the record straight: Ivy often donates money on behalf of newbs to make them donors. I was friends with the newb that squidrabies got so riled up about. There is no clique, and there is no "in group," and there was no attack led by me and Ivy to make ourselves feel cool. That is a figment of squidrabies's drunken imagination. Not one quote was given in support of this accusation because no such quote exists. See for yourself. It's bullshit.
But I'm tired of saying it's bullshit, and I'm tired of hearing what ugly losers my wife and I are. It's really annoying. All the people I started here with made the choice to wander off a long time ago, and I guess it's my turn. And I'm not promising I won't be back. Anyway, so long, love you guys, and I hope to see you someplace else.
