I believe the moral of the story, red, is that Alan is a tad bit brighter than you. He knows me, he knows how much I enjoy riling up people like mickey, james, RS__, etc. with both insults and esp. by continually tooting my own horn right into their forever-jealous ears. And to make matters even WORSE for these poor souls, nothing about me is anonymous....while they sit there and worry how other readers see them as cowards. I win in every which way
I also know Alan knows how it's a requirement of an intelligent online troll to have the unique skill of being able to rattle the idiots--and simultaneously coerce them into believing I'm rotten to the core by denigrating my forum friend right in front of them!
You'd find yourself not fighting perceived etiquette about me so often if you grasped onto the image of this being nothing but an internet forum filled with anonymous bs-spewing "brutes"....and then there's me--someone just too real for these jokers to be able to accept. You think they like hearing about my VP success and 8 yrs. touting it in GT as well as exposing vp-AP's as frauds? You think they enjoy it when I explain how a successful & happy long-term marriage with wonderful children and grandchildren really does count when building the foundation of a true professional gambler? You think they even understand the how and why of having the advanced education I have, followed up by a working career and salary that's a million miles away from even their wettest of dreams? And do you think they like hearing about how I live in retirement better than they ever did or will do in the prime of their lives?
It's all about punching these clowns out red, and how much fun it is to get a reaction out of them. And Alan? He's smart enough to know the in's & out's of all this stuff, because he knows that I know how important it is to him what he's now doing--and why. And WE WILL be having dinner sooner than later. On me, which I owe him of course.
The rest of the goofy crew here needs to wise up.