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When I first joined I found him to be occasionally annoying and provocational to the point of exasperation.
At his worst, prickly--but never hostile.
But once I had him figured out, I learned to have fun with it.
I didn't find him to be abusive, per se.
There are still others here that could more accurately be labelled as such, but they are just better at flying it under the radar.
Good points oct. I think Bruce's blunt replies were probabably taken the wrong way by too many. He never shirked from ribbing people or calling something out but sometimes the tone of the written word loses its meaning/humour/tongue in cheek. He also suffered because he didnt use emojis very well, eg using angry ones when he shouldve used smileys.
He and i gave each other dogs abuse but it was just amusing banter. He had this with a few other posters too. However, where i think he probably endangered himself more was by wandering to the edge of the cliff on politics far far too often.
I will espec miss his contribution to Python subjects and morricone/leone stuff.
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Only thing I got from that is that this one guy appears to approve of people dying of AIDS.
How so?
Be specific. Give examples.
Wow, really? You're going to play dumb about what you said above?
You wrote: "According to them, Reagan was to blame for disease taking out those who were too fucking stupid to keep their pants up and their mouths shut."
Clearly, you are saying that these victims of AIDS ("those" in your sentence) "were too fucking stupid to keep their pants up and their mouths shut", with the CLEAR implication that THEY are to blame for their deaths.
Apart from bringing politics into discussion here by invoking Reagan (expressly forbidden in the board rules, so I won't get into his policies on this matter), let me just say that THIS wins the award for the most DISGUSTING, TOXIC, and highly offensive thing I have EVER read here on the forum. So congratulations. I hope a hateful bigot like you is banned post-haste. What you wrote is certainly far more offensive than anything Bruce ever posted, as incredibly obnoxious as he could be.
Yavar
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I remember the 'red days'! Good times! (although we had our own 'toxic members' to deal with at the time, like Latham Conger III).
Ah, the "red days"... there were days where you did not even have to register on this forum, you could just stop by and start posting (under any identity). I remember I always posted as myself anyway, but nowadays, this board would probably be really toxic if it were the same as back then. The Internet was much smaller then... But the Usenet was still thriving... there were groups like rec.music.classical and rec.music.movies (both of which I subscribed to) tons of unmoderated discussions that -- at least for more or less the most part -- remained on topic. ah, the old days. 
Having said that, I don't have anyone on my ignore list and don't find this forum particularly toxic, but I don't read every thread (in fact, I only read a very few threads... I just don't have the time) and just skip over the stuff I don't like or care for.
Perhaps the most central FSM forum rule to me seems to be: "you don’t have to be Pollyanna but don’t be a jerk, please?", which is more or less the number one rule I impose on myself when posting stuff.
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Tom Maguire
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I remember the 'red days'! Good times! (although we had our own 'toxic members' to deal with at the time, like Latham Conger III).
Ah, the "red days"... there were days where you did not even have to register on this forum, you could just stop by and start posting (under any identity). I remember I always posted as myself anyway, but nowadays, this board would probably be really toxic if it were the same as back then. The Internet was much smaller then... But the Usenet was still thriving... there were groups like rec.music.classical and rec.music.movies (both of which I subscribed to) tons of unmoderated discussions that -- at least for more or less the most part -- remained on topic. ah, the old days.
Having said that, I don't have anyone on my ignore list and don't find this forum particularly toxic, but I don't read every thread (in fact, I only read a very few threads... I just don't have the time) and just skip over the stuff I don't like or care for.
Perhaps the most central FSM forum rule to me seems to be: "you don’t have to be Pollyanna but don’t be a jerk, please?", which is more or less the number one rule I impose on myself when posting stuff.
Have a walk down memory lane.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!forum/rec.music.movies
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WHOA. Goodbye thread.
lk
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