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Pretty funny reading the summary judgement of one's character and mental state based on some pretty selective and self-serving recollections of how things go down in here (over the space of a decade) by the self-same protagonists who are traditionally at the centre of whatever popcorn can be generated on any given day, every week of the year...

spells out exactly what the issue is: a clique of folk who hang out IRL and whose collective back catalogue includes trolling the depression thread, repeated and deliberate xenophobic jibes about "sweaty jocks", antisemitism, telling me I don't deserve to live because of complaining about ear-splitting noise ruining a family meal in a restaurant in the rant thread, subsequent deeply offensive comments about my mother, and the assertion that because I don't think parents have the unconditional right to dominate the entire public realm, I must hate all children, use prostitutes and be a misogynist.  But yeah, you're all so rational, proportionate and classy... 

Too bad other folk called it out at the time and it's a matter of record, so editing out posts after the fact, dismissing it as thin-skinned or making a derisory donation to charity doesn't act as a fig leaf for it unfortunately. 

as Branwen openly states, some folk don't like me and they've opted to bitch about it in private so there must be some kind of 'Schrodinger's Twat' here because others are simultaneously trying to accuse me of paranoia for saying the that this same thing's been made very obvious by the same people?  For my part Branwen, I can't say i appreciated anything about you either but never felt the need to profess this fact out loud, because as one of a forum of a few hundred thousand people I just opted to ignore you as best I could.
 
The fact that all the folk I'd expect to be here speaks for itself-with the exception of andyp who seems to be the only one out of you that's mastered this compulsion to try and put me in my place that the rest of you are still throbbing over even after I'm gone.

It's clear to me, if not others spectating on only isolated instances of this, that by calling you out on it at various points you've gotten sand up the collective micropenis, particularly after the IndyRef thread in 2014, and that everything since has played out in that fashion.  Maybe if I posted more humblebrag reacharounds in the 'Unconditional Love' thread, or bought shares in Microcosm things would all have been different, eh? 

That I've consciously avoided instigating any kind of contact with all of the folk who've been compelled to post here to laud my departure unless provoked (I've literally implored several to put me on ignore for the benefit of the wider forum too) speaks for itself, so your 'getting caught in the crosshairs' probably means you've being told to fuck off with your shenanigans when you've been out on yet another wind up. 

And yes, also my fault for rising to it, but we are what we are... but don't kid yourselves that there isn't a clear difference between rounding on folk for sport in a pack or getting in an argument as an individual; whether that's because I've taken exception to being sniffily told with a straight face my political views equate to Nazism because I think it would be nice to have meaningful democratic representation (at the same time the usual OG's are delighting in jingoistic put-downs about Scots/Irish/Welsh in the same page) or because people who seem to resent the limitations parenthood have placed on them get triggered by a post I wrote in the rant thread back in 2008, humiliated themselves and can't let it go.

As for my supposed bullying, the only persons I can think of that this might apply to is Winnifred, who for as long as I can remember spent his time on the forum vocally pursing his lips at my uncouth language or jokes he didn't like in the memes thread and acted as my own personal forum Vicar, folk like Lukas or Van Uden, who likewise loved to deliberately wind folk up then play the saint and got banned for it.  In my view it was trolling, and if I'm the massive bully you all claim I don't see why I wouldn't have been banned ages ago when there's supposedly so little love for me. I think maybe I used the term "window licker" once not appreciating it's origins and immediately retracted and apologised when it was pointed out?  Maybe I crossed a line at times in the heat of the moment, but still, the cognitive dissonance is real when you lot do so much aggressive cock-waving yourselves.

What I don't do is set out to troll and traduce people for the sake of it, be that the incidents above or casting aspersions about my character or mental health because I get frustrated after hours and days of pressure washing when literally unable to leave the house, then actually being sad and insecure enough to rig a straw poll to try and make it seem like the forum dislikes me as an individual.

And irony of ironies... to then be accused of constructing "sock puppets" and aliases because other forumengers seem to recognise and disagree with your group-pile ons too and resort to objecting anonymously-presumably to avoid the same treatment: VB has also certainly outed aliases before when it's suited him and operates his own opaque 'post-count' moderation policies depending how badly he wants to fit in with the lads on that particular day. For reference see Pistonator and all the horrid shit he instigated for years-in partnership with you guys baying for it then pleading his case to stop him getting banned, time and again.  It's all textbook playground shit and for anyone who cares to look it's been entirely unsolicited and ongoing for years.

Having lived in London I know and recognise the attitudes of many of the people I dislike on here in a subset of the populace from real life, so it doesn't surprise me to have this reciprocated. After all, something as seismic as Brexit doesn't happen in a vacuum, and many of you merry little Englanders aren't as tolerant or liberal as you'd like to imagine yourselves while wondering why the rest of the UK's actively trying to distance themselves from the xenophobia-fuelled, post-empiric bin fire that is your collective identity crisis.  Certainly, the degree of self-importance and arrogance that many of you demonstrate while trying to spin the narrative you're the good guys at the same time as revelling in the toxic reputation this forum has rings a fucking bell, doesn't it?  I'm a cunt, sure, but take a look in the fucking mirror and get a real sense of yourselves, eh?

I've also had PM's in the past pointing me to other instances of the same folk here doing similar group pile-ons with other people, so again, "paranoia" doesn't wash for me but whatever... that Mashton will sign off on a virtue-signalling statement putting me on ignore (and don't you guys love to openly discuss among yourselves how many people you're doing that to in every thread?) then use that to take another opportunity to punch downwards at Lynx also speaks for itself:

and on the subject-the routine baiting of him as a 'sex pest' by the so called 'OG's on here (based on what I understand stems from a text message sent to one person 10 years ago?) isn't just legally actionable but reeks of the same desperate need to shore up your own fragile egos through bullying that you're now trying to accuse me of.  But yeah, my paranoia imagines that too and you're all the bigger, kind, helpful people while loling about gassing jews? Maybe you should all use that ignore function you're always talking so loudly amongst yourselves about if you don't like him, eh?

So, minimise or dissimulate all you like-for people like Greenhell who loves to violently spaff their supposed socialist credentials at people from the actual deck of a rights abusing, massively polluting cruise ship or Danstuff giving the insightful advice that someone who dislikes relentless and unnecessary noise during lockdown (and whose house purchase fell through because of it) should 'just move to the country' while boasting about his detached house-I'd suggest there's a deficit of self-awareness that goes far beyond needing to rig online polls at 40 votes per minute to feel popular (which again, is an entirely predictable modus operandi for you 'OG' types).

So, from dealing with chronic illness to antisocial noise, there's hardly any topic that one of you hasn't felt entitled to interject with some half-formed ad-hominem. As Chainbreaker says, you probably don't even recognise you're doing it, so it's pretty tragic that you seem so eager to act the amateur psychologists on other people now to try and spare your collective blushes from any kind of self-reflection when someone takes a shit on your lawn for a change.

But on you go: select a .001% of my total posts on the forum from the rant thread and weave whatever tapestry you like out of it because you've been told to fuck off at some point by the 'uppity jock' and it's curdled your milk, but the fact is that the rest of the time I've been peaceably interacting with other more interesting people, and even when presented with testimony of that by posters here you can't bring yourselves to accept it.

TLDR: In short, you've simply achieved what Branwen states you wanted-to see me gone from here-and the entirely predictable roll call of posters here explicitly demonstrates that-so why not just own it for once? I'm away, and the dregs of the 'OG's still won't be able to stop themselves from fulminating over and baiting the next person they disagree with.

So 'Parklife' cunts, enjoy your forum.