Say it ain’t so…
Farewell then, Shot By Both Sides. For one of the best of us to go out like this is no justice:
For those of you who lied, twisted, cheated and bullied until the least worst choice available to me was to close the site, congratulations. You’ve won. I hope it was worth it. It would be ungracious of me to hope that bad things happen to you in return, so I’ll merely take solace in my knowledge that you have to go through life having a personality like that… Good work, fellas.
I just hope you shitweasels who made this happen have a glowing sense of well-being in your solitude this evening as you masturbate into your socks. As you catch your own eye in the mirror, you can congratulate yourself on a job well done.
All the best, John.
Posted on September 13th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
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Dare one ask what what it was that brought ‘John B’ down? Even a hint would help assuage my curiosity.
David, there’s been a number of roundups but Nosemonkey’s seem the most comprehensive. It’ll tell you all you want to know.
Well, I skim-read through ‘nosemonkey’s’ site which remains as mysteriously elliptical as everything else I’ve read.
Am I right to assume from the hints, that ‘John B’ wrote something derogatory concerning Jews, and one of them?, a group of them?, then threatened to report his words to his employers, etc?
If so, I would dearly like to know the nature of those words so that I can judge for myself.
I have had a similar discussion on my site when I took extreme exception to a blogger for what I considered to be an incitemnet to murder. Some-one pointed out that it was obviously ’satirical’ and not to be taken seriously. I demurred. The language was cool, exact and had a lip-smacking sense of anticipation. Exactly the opposite of one of ‘nosemonkey’s’ commenters reference to Swift’s famous cooking instructions for Irish babies.
I do not share the view that seems to pervade ‘Blogdom’ that somehow bloggers are above, beyond or outside the law, or, that mysterious boundary between what is acceptable to civilised people and what is not. I repeat, I do not know what ‘John B’ wrote, and nor do I know what his opponent(s) threatened in retaliation. I wish I did, then I could make a reasoned comment.
If anyone knows the details, I would be grateful to receive them with complete confidentiality by e-mail.
Sorry David, I ‘d got it into my head that Nosemonkey’s run down contained the quote.
It’s out there, no confidentiality, Backword Dave has it.
There certainly was no incitement of any kind or I guess the people who wanted to get John would have gone that route. For me, it was black humour and strong meat. Two of my favourite items on my shopping list.
Thanks, ‘ChickYog’, now I know what everyone is talking about. Needless to say, I do *not* go along with the consensus, but I need some time to put my thoughts in order, and I think I will set them down (for what they’re worth!) as a post on my site.