1. I'd be willing to bet that if Smurfco and I had a band together based on a common interest/passion, that we would get along quite swimmingly.
2. I don't just walk around all day verbally assaulting people. It's actually exceptionally rare for me to even engage or say a word. I'm 100x more likely to keep my mouth shut and walk away than anything else.
3. When I do engage, it is because someone has either been hurt, cheated, taken advantage of, or treated in a particularly egregious way. Or, if someone who is wilfully ignorant makes it a point to have an argument won't take "no" for an answer.
4. For as "gifted" as I may be in the art of verbal evisceration, I rarely if ever enjoy it or feel good about it afterwards. Even when "The Full OGG" is well justified, I feel like shit, lose sleep, and mentally torture myself for days, weeks or longer for having gone there.
Here's a good example right before our very eyes. A thread having nothing whatsoever to do with me in anyway, but still somehow invokes my name in a very unflattering context. My knee-jerk reaction in my head was "fuck you!". But since I'm not a complete fucking douchebag, I chose to refrain from uttering what I was thinking.
Just remember, you're making uncalled for jokes about a guy who aside from being an inordinately nice, generous and caring person, he is also someone who has battled a lifetime of non-stop, 24/7 Acute Chronic Major Depressive Disorder, an anxiety level off the charts, severe ADD/ADHD, an ungodly amount of physical trauma and personal tragedy and is right now (and for over a week) completely OFF his meds in order for them to clear his system so he and his doctor can start a whole new cocktail of shit that probably won't work any better than previous ridiculous list of cocktails. A guy dancing on the edge of a full blown fucking breakdown, who refuses to allow as much for the sake of his wife and children. A guy who despite all of that, never quits, never gives in no matter how deep and dark the hole consuming him becomes.
Yet, you don't get "The Full OGG". You don't even get a taste, because this not my circus and these are not my monkeys. And because I'm not fodder for stupid fucking jokes, nor will I offer myself up as such.
Sorry Smurfco, sounds like an absolute shitshow you went through. Kudos for hanging in there and not just walking off the stage.
While it isn't unusual for my attempts at humor to fail, it is unusual for them to fail this spectacularly. My intent was to make a joke along the lines of that given your past experience with drawing flaky band mates, and now Smurfco's experience drawing flaky band mates, if you both formed a band, which of you would turn into the flake?
The post started out much longer, but humor tends to favor brevity, so I edited it down. I realize now that the actual humorous point was lost in the editing.
I am sorry. I was in no way trying to insult you (or Smurfco for that matter). It was not intended to be a criticism of either of you. In fact, I was working off the notion that you've both been decent guys trying to make good music with people who don't seem to be capable of living up to the responsibility of being in a band.