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sorry to hear that bobby. It sucks losing a parent and it really sucks losing pictures of your kid when they're young. That wasn't a cool thing to do but drifter's always seemed like a good guy and I doubt he realized the consequences when he posted that. Really sorry to hear how things worked out and im sorry you're in and thinking about it on a friday night.

 
Sucks bro. I have a suspicion that I got passed over for an interview i was excited about recently because my mug shot is easy to find online and anyone with a brain can find me here. Im sorry you've had to deal with that.

 
I'm halfway through writing up Super Bowl Sunday on my coshole novella. Hoping to stay up a bit longer to get it finished

 
Pretty sure Drifter had no idea that you weren't the owner of that Picasa account. I had my run-ins with the guy in the past, but I've been to the guy's house, he's a generous, nice, helpful dude. Pretty sure there's no way he'd screw with someone's real life on purpose. Also, in the future you probably should get your own picasa/photobucket/etc account to share pictures with on the internet so you can guarantee you don't have this sort of situation come up ever again.

 
'BobbyLayne said:
I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.I kind of forgot about the argument.Found this today.Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family. You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move
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Odd thing. I'm sitting here at home hanging with the family and I decide to pull out my phone and check out the GMTAN - something I typically don't do (on the phone at home). Low and behold this is the most recent post.Let me say one thing first. I am truly sorry about your current situation with your kids. That sucks and I empathize.Now, let me continue on and put the brakes on a bit.Let's put things in context here. You were an enormous ####### in that Lindsey Vonn thread. You bagged on her. You bragged about how your standards with women would never allow you to deign to so much as grant her or anyone else who wasn't staggeringly hot, a pity date. I responded with that thread.I in now way intentionally ####ed with your personal life. Your issues with your wife were not caused by me and I don't think you are insinuating so here, but I certainly made no effort to bring that thread to your wife's attention. The reality is you post on a board publicly and if people want to find out about you, they'll find out.Years ago, I had a girlfriend who found out that I was going to break up with her because I posted that I was thinking about doing so here. Nobody's fault but my own for bringing that up on a public forum.Again, I apologize about your current situation and I apologize that I took offense to your condescension in the aforementioned thread and called you to task for it. At the time I thought you would see it more in the moment and not years later and never thought much about it again. I should not have dragged your wife into it as she didn't deserve it and for that, too, I apologize. I also did not call her ugly, I honestly meant to point out that she was not hot to the standards you were boasting about in that thread. However, I in no way intentionally reached into your personal life and ####ed it up. I will take a lesson from this that I should be more mindful of hurting the innocent and truly, had I known that someone could backtrack through Picassa as you say I would have been more mindful, not for you, but for her. Again, I've learned a lesson and I feel true sorrow at the pain I caused your ex wife because it was truly unfair to her but I will insist that you also are not purely innocent in the discussion as it was your braggadocio and condescension that put the ill conceived idea in my head at the time.
 
Well, thanks K4.Just to be clear, I got no beef with Drifter, then or now. I put him ignore because he insulted my mom when we our slap fight here (about 3 months before Big A breathed her last); I just got a bad vibe about him, no knowledge at the time of what he post:e:d, and I let it go. I have no doubt he probably is a good guy, the d-bagery above notwithstanding.Today my daughter's mom picked a fight over something trivial and thew a bunch of stuff in my face from over the years (she's kind of a typical batshiat crazy cat lady at this stage of her miserable life). One thing she brought up was me posting pics that people on the internet were mocking. I had made a half-hearted attempt to find the thread three years ago, never did, and then today I found it right after I logged in there.I was pretty upset earlier today. Did some linkage and digging, put two and two together from mutual acquaintences, figured out Drifter's name, addy and work place. But then I was like, for what? Life's too damn short to hold a grudge. Whateva.But it reminded me of this place in the pre- nameless, faceless mod days, and somebody from the FFA called up that mod's school. It's fun to #### off all day here and ther:e:, but damn, don't #### with people in personal way that impacts their life in a negative way. Not cool.

 
Any dope who posts anything on the internet assuming nobody will ever see it is a dope (as I think I mentioned). I both talk about how my wife is insane and hot, and I fully expect her to one day find all these posts and completely agree. I'm drunk. Did this make sense? I hope that made sense. The moral is don't post #### on the internet you dont' want people to ever ever see.

 
'Drifter said:
'BobbyLayne said:
I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.I kind of forgot about the argument.Found this today.Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family. You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move
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Odd thing. I'm sitting here at home hanging with the family and I decide to pull out my phone and check out the GMTAN - something I typically don't do (on the phone at home). Low and behold this is the most recent post.Let me say one thing first. I am truly sorry about your current situation with your kids. That sucks and I empathize.Now, let me continue on and put the brakes on a bit.Let's put things in context here. You were an enormous ####### in that Lindsey Vonn thread. You bagged on her. You bragged about how your standards with women would never allow you to deign to so much as grant her or anyone else who wasn't staggeringly hot, a pity date. I responded with that thread.I in now way intentionally ####ed with your personal life. Your issues with your wife were not caused by me and I don't think you are insinuating so here, but I certainly made no effort to bring that thread to your wife's attention. The reality is you post on a board publicly and if people want to find out about you, they'll find out.Years ago, I had a girlfriend who found out that I was going to break up with her because I posted that I was thinking about doing so here. Nobody's fault but my own for bringing that up on a public forum.Again, I apologize about your current situation and I apologize that I took offense to your condescension in the aforementioned thread and called you to task for it. At the time I thought you would see it more in the moment and not years later and never thought much about it again. I should not have dragged your wife into it as she didn't deserve it and for that, too, I apologize. I also did not call her ugly, I honestly meant to point out that she was not hot to the standards you were boasting about in that thread. However, I in no way intentionally reached into your personal life and ####ed it up. I will take a lesson from this that I should be more mindful of hurting the innocent and truly, had I known that someone could backtrack through Picassa as you say I would have been more mindful, not for you, but for her. Again, I've learned a lesson and I feel true sorrow at the pain I caused your ex wife because it was truly unfair to her but I will insist that you also are not purely innocent in the discussion as it was your braggadocio and condescension that put the ill conceived idea in my head at the time.
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Just one thing - I can't keep track of who is who, so if you got any pull with Truck or whoever runs that place, I'd appreciate if you get that thread deleted out of the Graveyard.Otherwise, water under the bridge. We never know which day will be our last, and I'm not burning another calorie on this with you.Thanks.
 
I think if there's one thing that can bridge this gap and bring us all together, it's admitting that Lido Shuffle is a truly abhorrent song. Yes?

 
'bostonfred said:
Things that don't make sense to me: harlem shakes, shamrock shakes, the mcrib, how people still start smoking cigarettes, scotch, people who have ice cream every day, jeans that cost more than a hundred dollars a pair, cars that cost more than fifty grand, cameras that use film, people who still have ipods, people who steal music and movies off the internet, mayonnaise, micro usb vs mini usb vs usb, light colored carpet, yellow cheese, rye bread, and cats. there's probably more, but that's a good start.
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I'm with most of these but I still have an iPod because I get crappy cell service in the sticks, and while I am a dog person, cats are so rahtarded that they are funny.
 
FTR, that's my daughter's mother. She was never my wife. Not that it matters.But, yeah, Frosty is right, I got nobody to blame but myself, I was the dope who posted the link back to the Picassa account.Gawdamn I got a horrible migraine. This stuff has been tearing me up all day.G'nite GMTAN.

 
But it reminded me of this place in the pre- nameless, faceless mod days, and somebody from the FFA called up that mod's school. It's fun to #### off all day here and ther:e:, but damn, don't #### with people in personal way that impacts their life in a negative way. Not cool.
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Most people know why I'm Abraham here but ill tell it again. Once upon a time I started a software business that was a great idea with a crummy team. We worked for almost three years building a product that should have taken six weeks. I shut it down, costing about 12 people (including family members of mine) a combined 150 grand. Not Rick uncles mind you, but people in their twenties that believed in our team, mostly because I was damn good at selling them on us even though I knew we had problems. So I shut down the business and assumed it was over. Three months later an attorney contacted me on behalf of one of the partners claiming fraud and breach of contract. He was only suing me for the right to keep his software (that sucked and didn't work) but his "evidence" was hundreds of pages printed out of posts id made here about everything from the hot chick on rescue me to questions I asked about business. I won't compare it to how rape must feel for a woman, but I was literally sick to my stomach for weeks over how violated I felt. I had started a thread years earlier trying to get his girlfriend votes for a "hottest bartender" contest for maxim and he had come back to the FFA to gather personal things on me. Truly awful. So, yes, the Internet is fun. But it's not private at all and any belief that it is is foolish.
 
'Gadzooks said:
'General Malaise said:
'phishphan said:
'General Malaise said:
'Josie Maran said:
I really am mildly in love with Zooks.
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I think the next Cornhole involving GMTAN needs to be an idea that Ditkaless Wonder once came up with: A Road Trip. Originally, he thought me and Evilgrin72 would make for a good roadtripping. And that's true. But my god...could you IMAGINE what would come of a road trip with you, Zooks, Guster, Stu and a number of other GMTAN folks? Reality TV would be turned up on its rabbit ears. :thumbup:
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I see jail time involved.
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Yeah, early on, too. We'll need a driver. YSR will hopefully be pregnant.
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Huh, I read that wrong. You meant she can be the designated driver? The way I read that would probably make Romo mad.
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:lmao: If it doesn't happen in the next three months, then it's likely that Baby Girl YSR will be with me. In which case, Homer can't come.

 
I think any number of people here can kill that thread and will do so with your request. No need for mine. In general, the people there, and many of the people in this thread are good people. Occasionally, we are juvenile, misanthropic, mysoginistic and even occasionally unintentionally malicious. People often say that the people say things on the internet that they wouldnt' say in real life. I actually don't think that's entirely true. I think people would often say similar things in real life but because their words blow away in the wind, they don't realize that, on the internet, they get written in stone for others to discover.As I said, I learned that lesson the hard way. More often than not, I like to think I'm more a voice of reason and kindness in these parts and in this case, I clearly was not. I still think you were a #### in the Vonn thread and I still maintain that I didn't really insult your mother - you just took it that way. Much the way, I felt your Vonn thread was insulting.I can't undo the past and there's probably not much I can do for you otherwise, but for what it's worth, you can count on the fact that I will not do something akin to this in the future and if I ever there is an opportunity to make things right with you, somehow, let me know.

 
'BobbyLayne said:
'Drifter said:
'BobbyLayne said:
I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.I kind of forgot about the argument.Found this today.Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family. You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move
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Odd thing. I'm sitting here at home hanging with the family and I decide to pull out my phone and check out the GMTAN - something I typically don't do (on the phone at home). Low and behold this is the most recent post.Let me say one thing first. I am truly sorry about your current situation with your kids. That sucks and I empathize.Now, let me continue on and put the brakes on a bit.Let's put things in context here. You were an enormous ####### in that Lindsey Vonn thread. You bagged on her. You bragged about how your standards with women would never allow you to deign to so much as grant her or anyone else who wasn't staggeringly hot, a pity date. I responded with that thread.I in now way intentionally ####ed with your personal life. Your issues with your wife were not caused by me and I don't think you are insinuating so here, but I certainly made no effort to bring that thread to your wife's attention. The reality is you post on a board publicly and if people want to find out about you, they'll find out.Years ago, I had a girlfriend who found out that I was going to break up with her because I posted that I was thinking about doing so here. Nobody's fault but my own for bringing that up on a public forum.Again, I apologize about your current situation and I apologize that I took offense to your condescension in the aforementioned thread and called you to task for it. At the time I thought you would see it more in the moment and not years later and never thought much about it again. I should not have dragged your wife into it as she didn't deserve it and for that, too, I apologize. I also did not call her ugly, I honestly meant to point out that she was not hot to the standards you were boasting about in that thread. However, I in no way intentionally reached into your personal life and ####ed it up. I will take a lesson from this that I should be more mindful of hurting the innocent and truly, had I known that someone could backtrack through Picassa as you say I would have been more mindful, not for you, but for her. Again, I've learned a lesson and I feel true sorrow at the pain I caused your ex wife because it was truly unfair to her but I will insist that you also are not purely innocent in the discussion as it was your braggadocio and condescension that put the ill conceived idea in my head at the time.
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Just one thing - I can't keep track of who is who, so if you got any pull with Truck or whoever runs that place, I'd appreciate if you get that thread deleted out of the Graveyard.Otherwise, water under the bridge. We never know which day will be our last, and I'm not burning another calorie on this with you.Thanks.
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If truck doesn't and I can remember to tomorrow when I get on a desktop PC, l'll kill it.
 
'proninja said:
Pretty sure Drifter had no idea that you weren't the owner of that Picasa account. I had my run-ins with the guy in the past, but I've been to the guy's house, he's a generous, nice, helpful dude. Pretty sure there's no way he'd screw with someone's real life on purpose.

Also, in the future you probably should get your own picasa/photobucket/etc account to share pictures with on the internet so you can guarantee you don't have this sort of situation come up ever again.
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Agree wholeheartedly FWIW.
 
'Abraham said:
But it reminded me of this place in the pre- nameless, faceless mod days, and somebody from the FFA called up that mod's school. It's fun to #### off all day here and ther:e:, but damn, don't #### with people in personal way that impacts their life in a negative way. Not cool.
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Most people know why I'm Abraham here but ill tell it again. Once upon a time I started a software business that was a great idea with a crummy team. We worked for almost three years building a product that should have taken six weeks. I shut it down, costing about 12 people (including family members of mine) a combined 150 grand. Not Rick uncles mind you, but people in their twenties that believed in our team, mostly because I was damn good at selling them on us even though I knew we had problems. So I shut down the business and assumed it was over. Three months later an attorney contacted me on behalf of one of the partners claiming fraud and breach of contract. He was only suing me for the right to keep his software (that sucked and didn't work) but his "evidence" was hundreds of pages printed out of posts id made here about everything from the hot chick on rescue me to questions I asked about business. I won't compare it to how rape must feel for a woman, but I was literally sick to my stomach for weeks over how violated I felt. I had started a thread years earlier trying to get his girlfriend votes for a "hottest bartender" contest for maxim and he had come back to the FFA to gather personal things on me. Truly awful. So, yes, the Internet is fun. But it's not private at all and any belief that it is is foolish.
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Sucks. It's not even in the same realm as what you and BL went through/are going through, but I had my original username (which was all of about 6 months old) killed by Aaron back in 2008 because I stupidly put my AIM name in my FBG profile, was unaware that an ex-boyfriend used to routinely search the Internet for said username, but then learned that my FBG profile showed up on page 1 of those Google results. I don't even think I had posted anything scandalous or embarrassing, but I remember feeling really helpless and kind of violated.
 
'phishphan said:
'BobbyLayne said:
'Drifter said:
'BobbyLayne said:
I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.I kind of forgot about the argument.Found this today.Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family. You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move
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Odd thing. I'm sitting here at home hanging with the family and I decide to pull out my phone and check out the GMTAN - something I typically don't do (on the phone at home). Low and behold this is the most recent post.Let me say one thing first. I am truly sorry about your current situation with your kids. That sucks and I empathize.Now, let me continue on and put the brakes on a bit.Let's put things in context here. You were an enormous ####### in that Lindsey Vonn thread. You bagged on her. You bragged about how your standards with women would never allow you to deign to so much as grant her or anyone else who wasn't staggeringly hot, a pity date. I responded with that thread.I in now way intentionally ####ed with your personal life. Your issues with your wife were not caused by me and I don't think you are insinuating so here, but I certainly made no effort to bring that thread to your wife's attention. The reality is you post on a board publicly and if people want to find out about you, they'll find out.Years ago, I had a girlfriend who found out that I was going to break up with her because I posted that I was thinking about doing so here. Nobody's fault but my own for bringing that up on a public forum.Again, I apologize about your current situation and I apologize that I took offense to your condescension in the aforementioned thread and called you to task for it. At the time I thought you would see it more in the moment and not years later and never thought much about it again. I should not have dragged your wife into it as she didn't deserve it and for that, too, I apologize. I also did not call her ugly, I honestly meant to point out that she was not hot to the standards you were boasting about in that thread. However, I in no way intentionally reached into your personal life and ####ed it up. I will take a lesson from this that I should be more mindful of hurting the innocent and truly, had I known that someone could backtrack through Picassa as you say I would have been more mindful, not for you, but for her. Again, I've learned a lesson and I feel true sorrow at the pain I caused your ex wife because it was truly unfair to her but I will insist that you also are not purely innocent in the discussion as it was your braggadocio and condescension that put the ill conceived idea in my head at the time.
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Just one thing - I can't keep track of who is who, so if you got any pull with Truck or whoever runs that place, I'd appreciate if you get that thread deleted out of the Graveyard.Otherwise, water under the bridge. We never know which day will be our last, and I'm not burning another calorie on this with you.Thanks.
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If truck doesn't and I can remember to tomorrow when I get on a desktop PC, l'll kill it.
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Should be gone now. Didn't realized I could do it from my phone
 
'phishphan said:
'phishphan said:
'BobbyLayne said:
'Drifter said:
'BobbyLayne said:
I don't have such a great love life. Divorced and moved to NYC around the millenium, was lucky enough to fall in love again. But she called off the wedding six weeks before the big day. That was expensive (lost deposits, wasted $$ on invitations, dresses, $16K ring, et al), but it's just money, you can always make more. Pretty tough on a personal level, though, and to be honest I was never the same.5-6 years ago - about a year or two after I got dumped - I was banging this average looking broad just because it was convenient, didn't take much effort, she was way more into me than I was to her, etc. Then I got sick - not life threatening sick, but it was a debilitating illness. Knocked me out of work for several months, and I spent six months in physical therapy learning how to walk again. That average looking gal came over often, brought me food, medicine, whatever I needed. It didn't make me fall in love with her, but I was grateful.Well, sheeet, one time after she made me chicken noodle soup we had teh seks. I was pretty much fatigued all the time at that point - too damn tired to get up and walk across the room to grab a condom, and so few things were working on my body I think I kind of figured I must be shooting blanks, nothing else was working the way it should. Of all the dumb luck - she was supposed to be on the pill, I never went bareback except that one time. Whatevs. She didn't tell me about it, but a few months later I heard she was preggo. So I did the right thing and told her I would be supportive and stick with her.Most of my friends were telling the opposite - GTFO, she's a lunatic, and they were right. But I could never do that. My daughter, now 4-1/2, she's amazing. Couple of you are friends with me on FB and you know how much I adore her. It never quite worked out between me and her mom, but that's alright, no regrets - I'm constantly humbled and amazed to be her poppa. I've got a boy who is 10 years older, and those two are the best things that ever happened to me.Her mom and I tried to make it work for awhile, but we're oil and water, I never got over the old fiancé, and I was never really into her. But I tried. One of the last major blowouts we had (3 years ago) before we called it quits, she was ragging on me about posting her pictures online. Now, I only posted pics of my toddler/princess...but it was on her Picassa account, and I guess she had the view settings to public. So if someone looked at that picture of my daughter, they could snoop around the folders and see what other pics were there.I kind of forgot about the argument.Found this today.Amazing, huh? I go to that place about once a year. The guy who started that thread, I think I've interacted with him once in the 7-8 years I've been here (in GMTAN, a few years back, philosophical disagreement about alimony - and that was a good 18 months AFTER he post:e:d that). So I just had an epiphany...dug around the innerwebs, found out you used to not be able to know who was looking at your Picassa page, but then they changed it so you could see if someone linked to your pics. When we had that big blowout 3 years ago, Shirley (daughter's mother) was in tears because people on the internet were making fun of her.Now I don't give two sheeets about what morons have to say about me or my daughter's mother. Her reaction to me - whatever, it wasn't the tipping point, it was just another dot on the continuum, we were never going to make it. But you know what else she did, besides pick a fight with me? She stopped sending pictures of my daughter back to my family. You guys might remember when my mom passed in October, 2011. I posted about it here in GMTAN.So the last 20 months my mother was alive, she missed seeing hundreds of photos and videos of my daughter. Oh, I would take a few and send them to her, but prior to being cutoff, my daughter's mom would post like 60 photos and a half dozen videos on her Picassa album every couple weeks. All that stopped cold because of that thread I linked above.It takes a special kind of internet ##### to #### with somebody's personal life in a devastating manner. Congrats, Drifter, you got that going for ya.ETA: advised bypassing the language filter is not a wise move
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Odd thing. I'm sitting here at home hanging with the family and I decide to pull out my phone and check out the GMTAN - something I typically don't do (on the phone at home). Low and behold this is the most recent post.Let me say one thing first. I am truly sorry about your current situation with your kids. That sucks and I empathize.Now, let me continue on and put the brakes on a bit.Let's put things in context here. You were an enormous ####### in that Lindsey Vonn thread. You bagged on her. You bragged about how your standards with women would never allow you to deign to so much as grant her or anyone else who wasn't staggeringly hot, a pity date. I responded with that thread.I in now way intentionally ####ed with your personal life. Your issues with your wife were not caused by me and I don't think you are insinuating so here, but I certainly made no effort to bring that thread to your wife's attention. The reality is you post on a board publicly and if people want to find out about you, they'll find out.Years ago, I had a girlfriend who found out that I was going to break up with her because I posted that I was thinking about doing so here. Nobody's fault but my own for bringing that up on a public forum.Again, I apologize about your current situation and I apologize that I took offense to your condescension in the aforementioned thread and called you to task for it. At the time I thought you would see it more in the moment and not years later and never thought much about it again. I should not have dragged your wife into it as she didn't deserve it and for that, too, I apologize. I also did not call her ugly, I honestly meant to point out that she was not hot to the standards you were boasting about in that thread. However, I in no way intentionally reached into your personal life and ####ed it up. I will take a lesson from this that I should be more mindful of hurting the innocent and truly, had I known that someone could backtrack through Picassa as you say I would have been more mindful, not for you, but for her. Again, I've learned a lesson and I feel true sorrow at the pain I caused your ex wife because it was truly unfair to her but I will insist that you also are not purely innocent in the discussion as it was your braggadocio and condescension that put the ill conceived idea in my head at the time.
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Just one thing - I can't keep track of who is who, so if you got any pull with Truck or whoever runs that place, I'd appreciate if you get that thread deleted out of the Graveyard.Otherwise, water under the bridge. We never know which day will be our last, and I'm not burning another calorie on this with you.Thanks.
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If truck doesn't and I can remember to tomorrow when I get on a desktop PC, l'll kill it.
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Should be gone now. Didn't realized I could do it from my phone
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:hifive: ? I'm assuming one of us got it right.
 
Rude getting a litte snippy up in here. I'd like to add that I don't think drifter knew what was going to come of making that thread. He doesn't seem to be a guy who would screw with real life stuff like that.

 
Drifter is a good dude in my book. Sucks what happened but I think most of us have said or done things we'd regret later.

 
Just reading the update while I cab it home. Thanks to whoever deleted the thread.Drifter, I don't think I'll be sending you a holiday card anytime soon, but I appreciate you being a standup guy in your responses.Now for last time - 160 pounds is way too much for any woman. ####### internerds.

 
This is going to seem weird but I'm reposting for BL because he told me he wished he had quoted it. I deleted as I thought it too sappy and sentimental. Here you go, buddy. :)

Hi friend. You know I adore you, so I am just about in tears about your missing the opportunity to share the pics with your Mom, who I know was such an inspiration to you (and to many others...I remember rooting for the damn Tigers, as a White Sox fan, just to send her off appropriately).I can't get in the middle of this as Drifter has been a guy that was a great source of help to me when he didn't need to be. We all have our good moments and our ####ty moments. And some of us have evolved a lot through the process of being here, and especially being in this thread where generally strength and kindness are celebrated and ####tiness is not tolerated.The internet is a fun and ultimately screwy place. We act in ways we never would in real life, but increasingly the internet IS a big part of real life, and so we are constantly making adjustments and understanding who we are as people and how it relates to who we are as iPeople, and those lines get more and more blurred.So hell, I'm not saying anything helpful, except I want you to know you're my dear friend and someone about whom I care a lot, whether a "real" friend or an iFriend, which is increasingly becoming more and more blended with "real" anyway. I actually somehow missed the issues with your wife, but there is no way I could miss knowing how much your incredibly beautiful and brilliant daughter means to you. I feel horrible that you and your family have had this pain, but please know how much many of us care, truly.
 
'krista4 said:
This is going to seem weird but I'm reposting for BL because he told me he wished he had quoted it. I deleted as I thought it too sappy and sentimental. Here you go, buddy. :)

Hi friend. You know I adore you, so I am just about in tears about your missing the opportunity to share the pics with your Mom, who I know was such an inspiration to you (and to many others...I remember rooting for the damn Tigers, as a White Sox fan, just to send her off appropriately).I can't get in the middle of this as Drifter has been a guy that was a great source of help to me when he didn't need to be. We all have our good moments and our ####ty moments. And some of us have evolved a lot through the process of being here, and especially being in this thread where generally strength and kindness are celebrated and ####tiness is not tolerated.The internet is a fun and ultimately screwy place. We act in ways we never would in real life, but increasingly the internet IS a big part of real life, and so we are constantly making adjustments and understanding who we are as people and how it relates to who we are as iPeople, and those lines get more and more blurred.So hell, I'm not saying anything helpful, except I want you to know you're my dear friend and someone about whom I care a lot, whether a "real" friend or an iFriend, which is increasingly becoming more and more blended with "real" anyway. I actually somehow missed the issues with your wife, but there is no way I could miss knowing how much your incredibly beautiful and brilliant daughter means to you. I feel horrible that you and your family have had this pain, but please know how much many of us care, truly.
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Just quoting it in case you have second thoughts.:lol:ETA: damn phone
 
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'proninja said:
'Mr. Pickles said:
I'm obviously way behind here, but I think we can all agree that you do NOT mess with Lindsey Vonn.
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:lmao: that some pudgy white desk jockey (I'm taking an educated guess here) thinks that an uber hot olympic athlete is too big for him
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You're not a jerk. Don't be a jerk. :(Also, Lindsey Vonn is extremely hot. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd do her, but I also won't say I wouldn't.
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Alright, so I have my moments. But Lindsey Vonn is hot. And not too big.
 
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