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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

You never know tbf.

Don’t bother with him, Mock. He’s just trying to get one up on me and that’s all there is to it. Cue the abuse-card from him, feeling victimised just-because people have opinions he doesn’t like or vibe with. Ditto for his childish wannabe-mockery, trying so hard to make a sting. But what’s truly inexcusable is his behaviour in the last page, trying to minimise people’s cultural scope of experiences because he doesn’t have the range to understand them. And to then have the nerve to probably stand there and pretend he didn’t understand. That’s a new low, even for him, and he does understand what he’s doing, bold as brass. Shows how much integrity he has and respect for cultural layers beyond the indigenes of Greater Manchester.

That existential disrespect obviously won’t mean as much to the average TiBBer as it will to me but either way, it’s beyond defense and the boundaries of what’s okay. I wouldn’t want to see anyone make excuses for him there. He needs to take responsibility for something, as much as he prefers not to. It’s easy for him to say “I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about” but that’s not acceptable and it’s exactly the sort of thing I’m always talking about when it comes to his refusal to take accountability for anything he says, because he’d rather play victim instead. And some people buy into it and enable that pattern. Yes, the average demographic on here doesn’t always account for the kind of specific nuance I hint at or sometimes even say outright but even without that context, it’s not for others to allow him to keep evading, diminishing and side-stepping without ever admitting what he’s actually doing for fear that it might stress him out beyond what he can cope with; even in the face of his intentional ignorance. It’s not on.