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I saw this thread last week, was very funny then but it's developed into something really special. Well done. I'm the chap who's wife Thom insulted using one of his many anonymous Twitter account after I "insinuated he was a Nazi".
As anyone can see from this thread, Thom has an amazing sense of humour. His casual homophobia, misogyny and racism is just bantz, and if you don't get it then you're met-elite libtard snowflake scum. That sense of humour was sadly lacking when I suggested Mamnick should make a Sheffield steel dog whistle and made a joke about YOMPING and jackboots. He took that to mean I'd called him Nazi. It was almost like he'd had this sort of thing before and he was really sensitive about it.
The dialogue started when I tweeted him after seeing his dismal performance on C4 News. I said I wasn't buying his stuff any more. I'm fine with people having different opinions to me, but Thom puts himself at the heart of his brand and when you buy into a brand, you're aligning yourself with that brands values. With Mamnick, you're buying into Thom. I saw who he really was, and thought "absolutely fuck that into the centre of the sun".
He reacted aggressively to this, ending with him attacking me an my family on Twitter and Instagram. He claimed he'd stolen photos from my IG and was going to use them on his unhinged IG stories. He must have given my details to his EDL mates too, as I started getting abuse from other accounts that definitely weren't one of his many aliases. As has been said, he was trying to gaslight me. It didn't work so I blocked him and his scumbag mates and moved on, seeking pseudo-outdoor lifestyle hipster dad clobber elsewhere.
I was contacted on Twitter by several others who Thom had gaslighted and stalked online after calling him out, telling me what a nutter he is. This is not normal behaviour. A repeated pattern of stalking and harassing strangers online using multiple fake accounts - it's not right at all. The lad's got a personality disorder. As for the damage to his brand - He's going to find that the alt-right cycling bobble hat market is really quite small.
He pitches himself as some free-thought iconoclast but he's just a troll and a chancer. Aspray were making sterling silver chipfork in late 90s. The Mamnick logo is about as derivative as it gets for a company beginning with 'M', hence it's use by several other businesses.
Anyway, it's a shame I had to sign up to LFGSS because of this moron but I think I'll stick around as it has brand values I'm happy to align myself with. Also I need a new commuter and there's some sweet whips for sale on here.
Happy Sunday, all! Except Thom. I hope his Sunday roast is dry and overpriced, and his video doesn't record Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow.