Dancing James – a lurker speaks

I understand people going on about his sometimes overly aggressive manner with...Object...

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Frankly, James is my friend.

We converse through the forum, over email, on the phone and even face to face. This is the case with many forum members and I have many friends on here whom I also converse with outside of the Lfgss domain.

James, occasionally, runs certain things by me and I've calmed him in some circumstances and told him to let rip in others. He is very aware of how quickly he can rile certain types of people. Whether he does it for sport, or with malice is anyone's guess, I would personally think it to be more of the former but some of the vitriolic diatribes that he's capable of definitely contain some venom.

Alongside the social interaction shared by so many forum members who ride together, drink together and talk shit with each other. James and I (Along with Pigfarmer and Dropout) had the very real responsibilityhonour of looking after a dear friend of ours during the closing weeks of his life.

Sitting alongside a hospital bed for an extended time, helplessly watching as the friend under the sheets losses the struggle of their life, spending every waking moment trying to make their life as enjoyable and comfortable as possible will provide a great sense of camaraderie between the people involved. It is for this reason that James and I interact in the way that we do, both on and offline.

James can be a chore at times, an outright bore at others. And I, along with many people, can become frustrated with his perpetual bating of people. Say what you will about James but have the common decency to do it to his face. He is no saint but I, for one, am proud to call him my friend as I have seen humility in him which his biggest detractors are unlikely to be able to match.

Emilié Object.