Thanks for being a reasonable human being; one who I can disagree with in a civil fashion. Of course you risk not being invited to sleep in Jumkie's rusty motorhome, but on the plus side, you haven't succumbed to Lord Of The Flies group-think, and can stand tall knowing you haven't abandoned your dignity or personal principles for the cheap price of entrance to the Mean Girls Club.
Classic Keshav. Does the forum need any more displays of the type of person you're interacting with? You've lost it Kesh, and the 'reasonable' people you speak of (Gekko being one of them) certainly see you for what you are, a pathetic sorry pitiful "man".
Incidentally, there is a post Keshav made challenging members with a promise, it was a "pledge" where he said if one member asked him kindly to stop his provocations and endless flame wars that he would honor their request (it was a couple years ago during another one of these flare ups, 2015 or so) of course he never did honor it; this exchange reminded me of yet one of his many promises that oddly he is compelled to make. You have lost all credibility over and over again, who is left to believe a word you say? (Rhetorical question, I know the answer.)
Gekko is a reasonable person for trying to help the forum avoid such disruptions, thank you Gekko, you certainly distinguish yourself in this positive way.
There is a bit of
backstory regarding
"rusty motorhome" comment that Keshav mocks, which highlights yet again his pathetic senseless trolling and provocation. I borrowed it from a friend who took my motorhome for the weekend, we exchanged RVs, why? Because his motorhome was
more spacious, though slightly older (mine did not have a
separate private bedroom, his did)
to accommodate Keshav's request. It turned out to cost me personally some money actually, something that I had not shared with Keshav previously, only a couple of close friends in the group were privy to it. (I didn't want anybody to feel unnecessary conscience thinking they were putting me out or something, as I wanted everyone to feel at ease as my guests. I felt a sense of responsibility to make everyone's stay comfortable, after all I had invited a large group and I was genuinely humbled by their trust in me. Think about it for a moment, people comming from very far away trusting that I wouldn't put them in a dusty plot of dirt. Not that we wouldn't have had fun anyway.) We ended up having several flat tires on the trip too, because I was towing a trailer (for more sleeping space and all our stuff) and it was a bit too much for the tires of this "rusty motorhome". The flats turned out to be rather a fun memory, despite the expense, because everyone rallied to poke fun at the setbacks.
This is yet
another example of the downward spiral Kesh has been on since his latest flare up (
which I'd like to repeat, started when I called him out during the Qatar thread for his relentless flame war against new members synn and Albert Tatlock, and his attacks on my friend Roger's reputation as he conjured wild theories of their identity. It had nothing to do with me until I did what Gekko and others have tried to do--get Kesh to stop destroying threads with his trolling).
I have the least inclination to interact with Kesh as I find him distrubing, but I will not stand by and let him say .... like this without a response. I would like to point out,
I had previously said there is not one single thing he could say negatively about the kindness for which he experienced as my guest, YET, as unbelievable as he is, here we see him mocking the very arrangements that were carefully planned for
his comfort in mind! Oh, I'm sure he will again employ the same pattern of deflection and manipulation that bullies use to fool some here: it was just a "lighthearted" tease, right? "Grow some skin", right? Hey, look everybody Jumkie and JPS ran off Kropo, right? Look at Synn, he is a awful troll, right? Jumkie is no saint he he things he owns this forum, this is not lord of the flies, right? It is fascinating to watch this play out. I said before, I had my doubts as to how
low Keshav could sink, then I saw his coded and subtle use of racist slurs,
Mexican Monkey, backed up with a picture of a monkey. It just seemed so benign, indirect, right,
plausible deniability. No different than his indirect provocation here, he even tried to conceal it from plain view of others by using it in a quote, within a quote to member 22. There is that element of
'cowardice', disguise, concealment.
Bullies are predictable! He knew I would notice it, of course, that was his aim, just like his use of racism, just like his mockery of the carefully planned accommodations in the "rusty motorhome".
Kesh argues he would never make such a
'precise' provocation, yet here on this thread he has made the same exact deflection, gaslighting all of us;
'no, it doesn't mean anything folks, no big deal folks'. He has a few members convinced (fooled or/and they're just like him) and that itself is fascinating. Just a little "slight" ... thrown in, Jumkie has "attention deficit" disorder, what's the big deal right folks?
Mexican Monkey, nah, I've never heard of such a thing, its nothing folks.
"Rusty motorhome", that is almost funny, right folks? Jumkie types too much (haha, its both a flaw and a gift, words come easy to me, and I type fast, what can I say). How about... 'Grow some skin Jumkie'.
Except, if any of you have kids, imagine as a family agreeing to forego their own comfort for daddy's guest to have a private place to sleep in this "rusty motorhome",
that changes the 'precision' of this attack, doesn't it? But it's nothing to most of you, this is why I take the time to respond. My family collectively agreed
as a ode to 'ME' to sleep on the couch, in the common area, so this stranger may feel the entire goodness of our family's ability to make him feel as a guest. That is who we are, that is whom I am, and they did this for me so that I may offer this wonderful experience to others. Now, that changes his mockery of this old "rusty motorhome" a bit, well if you (members reading this) have a heart or any sense of decency you get it. That is the Kesh that you are interacting with folks.
This isn't the worst Keshav has said, in the last flare up that I referred to above, as he does the
angrier he becomes the greater the lies, he accused me and my wife of being a bad parent in his
haste to disparage my friend Roger's reputation. My children were never out of mine or my wife's site (some of you have met her) and that was
vouched for by some members that spoke up at the time (I won't drag you in here by name).
It is NOT just Kesh's old conflict with Roger, Kesh has attacked me personally, and did so because I refused to be disloyal to Roger. Revist the Qatar thread, to the exact focal point of this latest flare up, I defended Roger's reputation and since then Keshav has reignited every tool in his book to attack me. So
NO, this isn't about some tangential "feud" Kesh had with another person (who incidentally he accused of bad parenting and worse) NO, it IS about his attacks on me,
my family, my reputation as a parent, my reputation as a host, and my integrity. This should give any of you pause, I recognize and accept for most of you it doesn't. Such is life, and it is fascinating frankly. As far as my reputation, sure I'm a blowhard about ........ trivial racing opinions, sure I say .... about racers and the racers you love that stings when you read it. But come to my house, come with me on an adventure, and I will put practically anything on the table for you. That it wasn't enough I accept, but you
go after my family's kindness, that really puts Kesh in a lower category than I thought not possible.