Originally Posted by Garnabby View Post
Nowadays, and for some time, every play is tracked automatically (by computers). Anyone with profitable play is just thrown out. I mean, it was, always, darn near obvious, anyway, to even the other players at the blackjack tables. If the casinos allow KJ to play, there must be some other reason.

Again, I seriously tried, a few years ago, to get to the bottom of the KJ thing, but, there's a point at which it became going in circles. KJ is one motherfucker asshole.

Still waiting to hear, from Red, how it's so bad for everyone else than the AP's here to go anonymous. Honestly, Red, if KJ goes anonymous, then it's all baloney, anyway.

On an other note, kudos to old Red for again getting banned from the Wizard's. But, why bother with all the dancing around?

Garnabby, let me know if I got anything wrong with my "Who's on First" WoV homage.

I thought it was funny. You might have written it, actually.

The gist is, "What kind of site has rules and regs that allow everyone to lie as much as they want, but doesn't allow you to call anyone a liar?"

LOL. That does get to the heart of the matter.

With rules like that, a site can go in just one direction. And it isn't towards truth, justice, and the American way.

And finally, I'm on record multiple times as saying this whole anonymity thing is for kids at recess wearing Halloween masks. If APs are so concerned with anonymity, they should just create their own private chat clubs isolated from the real world. When the APs retire, they can join the real world. Like 00-spies.

Anyone else online should suck it up and stick their names on what they have to say. It wasn't too many years ago that people put their names in phone books and handed out business cards with real names on them, and sometimes real addresses.

I think part of the reticence to be real is due to consumerism. It's a bedrock of consumer culture for ads to try to create a gap between people's ideal selves and how they perceive themselves. Drives sales of goods and services. In the last 40 years, we've had two generations bombarded by record numbers of ads daily. Everyone perceives themselves as not what they should be, so they hide behind anonymity because who they are or what they've accomplished doesn't put enough gravitas behind what they want to say.

Garnabby, you're a bright lad. Why be anonymous? You buy into the whole fear schtick?