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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: 27 Feb 2025 21:26:38 GMT
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:29:07 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/27/2025 5:22 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> 
>>> Krygowski picked a fight with me and now, when he realizes that he's
>>> in over his head, he's running away. That's an act of a coward.
>> I said if you lacked the courage or minimal competence to ride roads and 
>> so restricted yourself to a flat back and forth bike path, that was 
>> fine, but it would be too boring for me.
>> 
>> That triggered you into schoolgirl attacks. I think it ruined your "guts 
>> and muscle" self image.
>> 
>> Whatever. Yap on.
> 
> It was a nonsense insult that did me no harm, but an insult just the
> same. 
> 
This is clearly not true, Frank clearly hit a nerve, not particularly sure
he intended it to have such an impact.

> It was a clear attempt to start a fight. I recognised it as such and
> accepted the challenge. I quickly recognised your weakness and used it
> against you. Like I said, you can't handle the truith so you run and
> hide from me like the wussy coward you are. 
> 
Not replying is only “wussy” in your head, on socials it’s generally a sign
that someone has decided to drop the argument/discussion as one party or
more are Trolling and while the desire to correct “someone wrong on the
internet” walking away is a saner way, hence most platforms/software will
allow folks to mute posts to a thread or someone and so on.

> I laugh off your nonsense insults and you think it triggered me
> because you can't undertand how my self image is imune to such things.
> 
> Truth is that I'm not the least bit ashamed of my bicycling, my gun,
> my physical abilities/disabilities, etc. Fact is, I'm not ashamed of
> anything. 
> 
Your behaviour suggests otherwise. Or you’d not follow Frank around!

> Don't you wish you could say that and believe it?
> 
I suspect that Frank is quite comfortable in his own skin, much like Andrew
and so on, I see no evidence that he isn’t.
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman
> 

Roger Merriman