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Your score and you avatar are both horrible for me ! 
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So, I just found out that you are leaving the site...or least that is what your post says and you haven't been active for 5+ days.
I actually joined this site 7 years ago under a different alias. I took a break for 2 years and came back as Slacker007. I was glad that you were still around when I came back.
I say this to you as a member and a comrade...take a breather and think about why you really belong here. Pete was right when he said that you have been fixated on your rep score. I find it funny that the long time leader doesn't even come to this site anymore and the man that wanted to take his place has now "left the building".
Once you stop caring about your rep then the downvotes will stop....I promise.
Hope to see you back after your vacation. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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I figured I'd give everyone a sounding board for saying why they don't like me since it is quite often discussed in the other Lounge and in the soapbox. Please feel free to use whatever foreign language in which you are fluent, but keep in mind that if I can't read it, I can't become despondant and suicidal over whatever you submit. Besides, foreign languages are simply a crutch for people too lazy to learn proper English.
Also, anytime you see fit, you may retract your statements posted in response to this thread when you realize that I'm just a big lovable ol' teddy bear. There certainly won't be any shame in admitting that you were wrong about me being whatever you thought I was.
Lastly, please stay on topic, and don't ruin everyone else's fun by also listing things you like about me. I've given you a place to do that too.
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You asked so I’ll tell. These are not with regard to your humourous piss taking actions, these are about the serious ones with real people involved:
- I don’t like that you acknowledge no responsibility for your statements yet expect others to acknowledge their own.
- I don't like that at times you intentionally push people too far and get off on causing them hurt and anguish.
- I don’t like that you play with people’s emotions as if they mean nothing, preying on weak characters like a schoolyard bully.
- I don’t like that you personally harass and disrespect some members of this community outside of anything based on jest or humour as if you hold some personal vendetta against them.
- I don’t like that you purposely disregard the rules of this community that the rest of us at least try to abide by, frequently to above-excessive levels.
And worst of all:
- I don’t like that you’ve long since lost the personality that used to make me think “this John guy, now there’s a cool character”.
David Wulff
"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."
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David Wulff wrote:
And worst of all:
- I don’t like that you’ve long since lost the personality that used to make me think “this John guy, now there’s a cool character”.
I think you've just become too cynical in your own old age David. Despite your constant (and in my view, unreasonable) anti-American attitude, I still think you'r a bit of okay.
And, believe it or not, I don't carry on vendettas - I simply respond to the material posted. I am curious though - against whom am I carrying on a vendetta?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Despite your constant (and in my view, unreasonable) anti-American attitude
Ah, AAA, that would be like the KKK, right? Oh come on, please! I don't think I've even participated in a serious discussion about any aspects of the US culture and policies I dislike in over a year, and I don't need to make the jokes anymore because people - Americans no less - frequently beat me to it. If your fellow countrymen can learn the art of piss taking, then my job is already done and shelved. Hell, I even see Americans discussing their country’s policies around here nowadays – there is no need for me to stick my head up and start things going anymore, you are actually seeing them for yourselves.
Don't mistake my views on the war with Iraq as AAA - it may have escaped your attention but my government was just as behind it as yours, as were my countries offensive forces just as responsible for the ensuing mess as your own.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I still think you'r a bit of okay
Maybe that means something different over there, but I wouldn't go round saying that too to many British guys unless you plan on showing them a good night, and I'm not talking shots of Tequilla. 
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I don't carry on vendettas - I simply respond to the material posted
You frequently bring up from a number of topics when no one else is discussing them, just to rehash your bigotry and disrespect of other people's feelings. It hasn't affected me directly, so far, (I've dealt with far more pungent fish in my short life), but I honestly do not believe you understand just how much damage you continue to do to a number of members in this community; members who cannot speak out publicly for many reasons (and that covers lots of issues, not just the one discussed today). These are actions of vendetta against the respective parties - it’s gotten too far now for them to be merely coincidental.
The views I’ve shared in this thread are not entirely my own, indeed some are the result of quite lengthy discussions with other members (which I’m sure pleases you no end  ).
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I think you've just become too cynical in your own old age David
Cynical, sadly, is about as far from what I am as one could get. It's an opposite.
David Wulff
"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."
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You can add to your list that the old John would have had enough self-confidence not to need to start threads about himself.
J
"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
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I simply wanted to give people a place that they feel they could say what they want. I certainly won't be holding it against anyone that participates in this thread.
Besides, it keeps the noise level to a minimum in the other forums, and there won't be any need for post voting here. I figured with so much of that kind of thing going on, there must be a reason, and I want to find out what those reasons are, because I think I'm a fairly likable guy.
Look at it as a vain attempt at self improvement.
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You'd better not look in my profile then... 
David Wulff
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You were my inspiration here David.
I figured it made sense to give people a place to tear me down when they felt like it.
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You haven't quite got the hang of it yet... notice how I only have a "good things about me" thread, not a "bad things" one.
David Wulff
"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."
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Well, there's so much to dislike about me, I wanted to give everyone a chance to put in their 2 cents worth. It's part of my self-deprecating nature...
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notice how I only have a "good things about me" thread, not a "bad things" one
You still haven't found the whole forum devoted to Why We Don't Like David Wulff?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
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i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
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http://www.wehatedavidwulff.com[^]? I've been a member for eighteen months. 
David Wulff
"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."
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You're a snob, and your disclaimer is way too long.
Shog9
So much he don't understand,
Just might never make it to a man...
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Shog9 wrote:
disclaimer is way too long.
Some things just have to be said. You can blame today's litigious society for the length (it was much longer, but there's an arbitrarily small limitation on how much text that can be included in a bio).
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
but there's an arbitrarily small limitation on how much text that can be included in a bio).
not to mention how much anyone's even going to read. You with attention spans on the decline, and all....
BW
Eschew Obfuscation
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I'm sorry, could you please repeat yourself? I lost it right after the word "how"...
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Sorry, bad connection..
I said:
not to mention how much little anyone is even going to read [your bio]. You [know,] with attention spans on the decline, and all.
can you hear me now? 
BW
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Damnit, you made me read the damned thing now. I noticed an inconsistency in it though.
"... or as-yet-to-bedetermined employers. Further, ... ... mineral, or as yet to be determined types of ..."
Does that make it null and void, or is he just covering all bases?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
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I think the disclaimer pretty much absolves me from responsibility for everything except that small conflagration in Rome. Even then, I think anyone alive today would be hard-pressed to present any concrete evidence that actually places me at the scene...
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Sometimes you go too far John - you cross a line between funny and hurtful, and you end up making yourself look like an ignorant bigot. It really winds me up when you rip into Anna, because it is obvious that you are causing hurt - no worse than a schoolyard bully to be honest. And despite your claim to be "saying what others wouldn't dare" I think you come out of episodes like that looking like a twat.
Basically, most of the time, you make me laugh, but occasionally you make my blood boil.
Not sure about your "outlaw programmer" moniker either!  (tongue-firmly-in-cheek).
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
It really winds me up when you rip into Anna, because it is obvious that you are causing hurt
Well, if you go back in the archives, you'll find that I generally avoid responding to Andy's posts, responding only when he a) responds to or comments on one of mine, or b) makes a remark or comment that is wholly unjustified or baseless given his current situation (admittedly only happened once that I can recall). The recent exhange between us was of his own invention, not mine.
Call it boorish, self-righteousness, completely tasteless, or lacking anything even closely resembling patience or acceptance, but at least he knows where I stand, and that's better treatment than he's getting from people (closer to him) that are not as forthcoming in their own opinions or beliefs.
As long as he doesn't continue to throw it in my face, I'm equally pleased that I don't have to talk about it myself.
I'm glad I can make a few people laugh, but I'd be really worried if I didn't piss people off once in a while... 
[EDIT] I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to come up with an excuse for any of that, but I won't change my belief system simply for the sake of "blending in" or "not rocking the boat". As you already know, that's not my style.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I'd be really worried if I didn't piss people off once in a while...
All joking asside, do you realise just how much hurt you continue to cause a fair moinority of our fellow members? I'm not talking pissing people off here and shouting a few names, I'm talking people who go home and cry themselves to sleep or at worst commit to self harm because of your actions. I'm glad you find it so easy to live with that; I wouldn't be able to, and a number of the people I have talked to who have been deeply hurt by some of your non-jest comments also find it hard to. -- And they may not have even been targetted directly by your words - that is an important point to realise. 
David Wulff
"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."
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Well, I'll admit that I'm a little surprised that I cause people to cry themselves to sleep, especially when they fall into the category of collateral injuries, but I can't honestly say that it bothers me enough to change my evil ways.
It's unfortunate, but an inevitable byproduct, especially since we have over 430,000 people in the group.
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