Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by The Boz View Post
I for one hope Max and Rob set something up to meet. It might not prove much gambling wise but would show that both are regular people and regardless of all the back and forth, can be civil to each other.

In terms of evaluating a person, I don't see how six hours spent in someone's company would much soften 10,000 forum posts over 10 years. Or are expectations these days that everyone plays make believe when they're online for hours on end but are "their real selves" when they get to meet somebody face to face? Seems to me, it's more likely the other way around. It's easy to suck it up and pretend you're on Broadway when in someone's company for a few hours. Harder to reign in who you are over years and thousands of posts.

I don't even see how you can make a case for online personas "not being real." If a person spends thousands of hours posting as such-and-such, that's who they are. If you're an online pedophile, you're a pedophile. If you're an online liar, you're a liar.

Thinking that you "know the real person" after spending a little time with them face to face is the height of arrogance. It suggests that you have some godlike ability to "see the true person" in a couple of hours. You may as well claim you can read the other person's mind, because that's pretty much what you're claiming.
After reading yet another of your raps purporting to "really know a person's character because of how they act and react with mostly anonymous people in online forums that are known for being places of entertainment and guilty pleasures for the vast majority of posters"--and where you've talked yourself into believing I am some wicked, hateful, lying personality in real life---then explain how that squares with my being very happily married to the same woman for nearly 44 years, my having had two extremely successful working careers prior to also being successful in video poker, and having wonderful children and grandchildren -- a few of which you claim I "live off of"? And if I were as insulting and hateful in real life as you seem to want to believe I am, how in the world did I survive all those face-to-face meetings I've had in virtually every country on earth?

Boz, regarding how a meet-up would go with max, I do believe what you're saying because you've met us both. I expect he has the ability to understand when and why to antagonize on forums--like most people try to do tho not as successfully as him--but unlike someone like kew for example, he also has the sense to realize what exactly he's talking to in a face-to-face scenario. Kew is just too weak and lacking-in-confidence a person, and for some reason is hell-bent on his mission to discredit anyone he feels has him pegged. IE, he's a lost cause.

We're taking off now in this beautiful weather that we miss when we're away from Az. and Nv. and after LV we're again headed to the upper mid-west. Won't be much time to entertainingly bitch slap anyone, but I'll eventually be back.

Are you beginning to wonder what's going on with the sniff test?
I do believe the BTK killer was married with children too. Held down a job as well.