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>I doubt there is little you
>can agree with about any
>statement from anyone on this
>website besides yourself.
>Maybe you lack social skills from
>spending too much time in
>your shop.
>Or maybe your weak social skills
>have lead you to the
>career that you have so
>you don't have to deal
>with it?
>
I think we have winning post here with the "lack of" and "weak" social skills observations!
I don't know if there is any connection but Tristate's behavior reminds me a lot of my son-in-law's who has Asperger's Syndrome which is a mild form of Autism. And IMHO, it appears that Tri ISN'T ABLE to recognize, let alone, admit to his mistakes or show proper respect for others or change his opinion once he's formed one (among other things). It isn't a just a matter of not wanting to, HE CAN'T!
In our case, it's taken our family years to get my son-in-law to finally realize we don't hate him, which is what he thought when he first met my daughter. He's a great husband and father to my daughter and her kids from another marriage, but he didn't want anything to do with the rest of us. And it took lots of deeds, not words, to get him to come around. He even thanked us (more than we wanted) for installing a used fridge yesterday because he just got out of the hospital for a case of cellulitis.
Now, I've looked over the posts Tristate has made in the last while and not once have I seen him apologize for anything, change his opinion, praise anyone but himself for taxi work, congratulate someone else for a successful hunt or make a reply without some kind of dig. He appears to need his ego stroked to the point that if he can't get it out of us, he has to do it himself.
As a consequence, I've decided not to reply directly to him or his posts. To do so is not only detrimental to the discussion, it doesn't do him any good either. And we certainly can carry on a reasonable, enjoyable, productive discussion without him. I won't call him a troll, but I ain't gonna feed him for his own good. I wish there was a way of deleting his posts off of my personal computer, but until I find a way, if there is one, I'll just ignore them. I'd suggest ya'll do the same!