Creepy people

[j4]

Okay, now, I'm used to people indulging in flirtatious (and at times obscene) banter on newsgroups. I don't mind people making comments about bits of my body, items of my underwear, and so on, particularly if those comments are funny. If the wordplay's good, anything goes.

But there's one person on uk.misc who is pissing me off. He's clearly only about 18 so I suppose he'll grow out of it, but he's made a couple of comments about removing my knickers and "rummaging around in my bra" which just make me feel really uncomfortable. I think if I got on with him in other threads -- if I felt he was a friend, or at least a generally decent person -- then I wouldn't object, though I still wouldn't think he was being particularly funny. But he's certainly not a friend (I've already got into one argument with him about cars -- he believes cars should be as fast as possible; he believes that he should be allowed to pay only one lot of road tax for 2 cars; he also believes that the size/power of the car has no effect on the cost of insurance) and when he's not shouting about how big his cock^H^H^H^Hcar is, he's quoting 20-page posts and only adding "ROTFPMSL!!!!" at the end. In other words, he's a wanker.

The problem is, I don't feel I can object on the group (and I certainly don't feel I can respond the way I want to, i.e. something along the lines of "fuck off, you top-posting wankfisted teenage sleazemonkey") without everybody else calling me a hypocrite, and/or telling me that if I can't take the good-natured banter I should get out of the group.

I don't like killfiling individuals but I suspect it's the only thing to do; but it makes me feel as though I've failed -- I don't want to react to something so stupid, something that basically amounts to a small boy sniggering at rude words. But I still feel uncomfortable with it.

Maybe I'm just overreacting.

Comments

[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

I've only kept him out of my killfile so far because some of the other guy's are giving him the benefit of the doubt. That buys him an extra week, then he gets dropped for a couple of months. If he's still irritating by the end of that, he goes for good.

Anything else would be a waste of my life.

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

Having finally finished caught up with the weekend postings, I'm with Perdita on this one. He'd be in my killfile if the others weren't replying, but it's only for context to their replies that he remains.

I expect they'll get bored of replying, then he'll get bored of not ever getting any replies, and then he'll piss off. Or he'll stop being a prat, and their benefit-of-the-doubt will pay off, but that seems less likely.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Phucker is a prat. He's absolutely different to you, imo, so no need to get paranoid. He doesn't bother at all about what other people might think of him, for starters.

And Secondly, I am fairly certain that he came in intending to wind people up. i.e. determined to do things to irritate people and end up trolling mightily. Which is why both Tone and me went "Aha!" when he made the comment about not believing in FAQs. Play along with him, kill file him, whatever you want, you don't need anyone's permission. He's not a nice person, imo.

[deadpidge.livejournal.com]

He's a tosser.