Does my friend suck at the Internet?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Over the past few years, my friend B has slowly proven himself to be a dumbass. Here’s what he’s done:

May 2000: Emailed rape threats to JW, and tried to pin it on me, and another kid named E.

August 2000: On my vacation to Alaska, B’s Internet access is canceled and his computers are taken by the police.

October 2000: I am confronted by CC, a vengeful student who implicates me for it. He would continue to harrass me for over a year. The same month, B also got obsessed with the catchphrase “Homosexuals are gay”. This is significant simply because of the catchphrase’s sheer stupidity.

Janurary 2001: B inspires C to harass me again. Were it not for this, I’d never have to deal with C again.

October 2001: B nearly gets my Internet account canceled by spamming chillicothe.com. My ISP kicked me offline for the weekend, and nearly permanently.

December 2001: B installs The Sims, a game which requires 225 MHz to run, on a 70 MHz computer, which his dad rented from a co-worker.

Janurary 2002: B is found guilty of rape threats and is sentenced to probation, several months without the Internet, and 40 hours of community service. The same month, he becomes obsessed with the catchphrase “d00d there r jews in here i smell gassssssss”. Yes, that is a real catchphrase, and I am aware of it’s utter stupidity.

My question is, should I get rid of this kid? I really think he’s a good kid, and he’s learned his lesson, but I’m really not sure?

Do I have a dumbass for a friend?
Names deleted to protect the innocent . . . and not so innocent. - ub

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You are either a saint or a doormat. I would have disavowed all knowledge of this guy back in May 2000.

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Dumbass at the internet? Nah, not really. Just a dumbass in general.

How old is this guy? 12?

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Your friend tried to blame a crime on you. :frowning: In your own words he has proven himself to be a dumbass. Get away from this person. He seems hell bent on destroying his own life and he doesn’t seem to have any problems taking you with him.

my $0.02

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Dumbass? More like a psychopath which starts with a P that rhymes with T that stands for Trouble, which this guy clearly is.

If he’s trying to pin his crimes on you, he’s an enemy, not a friend.

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quote:

Originally posted by gobear
If he’s trying to pin his crimes on you, he’s an enemy, not a friend.

I agree wholeheartedly on this one! Obviously, he hasn’t learned to grow up and accept the blame and responsibility for HIS wrongdoings! Yes, it’s hard sometimes, I admit… but I manage to do it most of the time! Personally, I think you’d be MUCH better off without him! Let us know how it goes…

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Well it sounds like your friend just SUCKS :mad:

I’d loose him in a heartbeat.

You have to make your own decision on what to do. Best of luck.

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This guy is your friend how? Nope, don’t see it anywhere…did he like, save your life when you were seven or something?

Ditch him, man. Ditch him before you go to take him to a party someplace and discover it’s a cross-burning. Or something comparably immature and disgusting.

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Friend?
You what? He tried to pin a crime on you! That’s hurting you! He used your account to spam! That’s hurting you!

Besides that:
• He emailed rape threats to someone, which is a damn nasty, evil, shitty thing to do. (Is that her real name? Cos maybe posting her real name isn’t cool, no matter what a common name it may be)
• He thinks the Holocaust is funny. That’s a sign of either evil or serious immaturity and stupidity.

Bin him. Ditch him. Shun him. Have no more to do with him. Let him ruin his life. Do not let him ruin yours. Do you want to be looking back on years and years of hassle and court cases, saying “I sat back like a doormat and let this happen to me”? Do you want to be the sort of person who calls a dangerous, twisted, backstabbing person a friend?

Surely you have enough belief in yourself (yes YOU, the person who lost his internet access, could have been charged with making rape threats, and got harassed) to realise that you can get better friends?

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Yea, he’s trying to blame CRIMES on you. That’s not a happy little prank like filling someone’s door with popcorn or even a nasty little prank, that’s dangerous for you.

Run. Run now. Run fast. Run far, far away.

Unless you have the ways and means to get him into therapy and he wants help to become a worthy human being you should lose the loser.

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And this shows he’s “learned his lesson” how? Your friend isn’t “bad at the Internet,” he’s bad at being human. Fuck him.

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Bump.

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Well, your friend sounds like a psychopath if he is really responsible for what you say.

Something about your post makes me a little uncertain about your actual involvement in it, though. Especially the part about your “friend” inspiring someone else to harass you about it, yet here you sit, asking if you should ditch him or not, when the answer would be obvious to most. Sounds fishy to me.

Just MHO.

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Well, I wasn’t going to say anything, since others have nailed it, but since you bumnped this I’m guessing that you want more input.

I think your friend is sick. Mentally ill in a literal sense.

Internet and computers are just incidental to it. They’re just the instruments he uses (ineptly) to incite people.

And that seems to be his main goal in life - pissing people off. Either through rape threats, bashing gays,or racist statements. I don’t think he’s racist in the sense that he believes that Jews are inferior or evil or leading a conspiracy. He just uses racist “catchphrases” that are designed to enrage.

And the fact that he tries to pin things on you and others would seem to indicate that he either doesn’t care about friends or that he just can’t help himself.

You may be enough of a saint to forgive him, but for his sake, don’t do anything to help or encourage his sociopathic behavior.

He needs treatment.

(OK, upon re-reading, I need to add “IMHO” tags around my whole post. After all, I’m just playing armchair shrink based on your post.)

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Any asshole that goes around uttering that “cathphrase” about “smelling gas” IS NOT a good kid.

He is just an asshole.

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not to cast aspertions or anything, but why do you still call him a friend after he tried to pin Rape Threats on you?

I would have walked away from him then and there. Why did you sticlk around? Why did you tolerate his bullshit for almost 2 years?

walk. walk now. leave his care up to professionals, as sticking with him for 2 years dosent seem to have changed him much.
BTW, how old is this guy?

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Encourage him to get help (maybe go to his parents?), then get rid. ASAP.

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There’s the cons… where are the pros?

Ditch him.

Rape threats? Spamming? Utter stupidity? There’s nothing here that even suggests why you might consider being friendly with this guy.

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A few things make this even more complicated.

1)He’s got a lot of problems right now. His mom is terminally ill, and the rape threats thing left him without the Internet so his mom can’t work. With the exception of his mom’s illness, this is all his fault, granted, but the last thing this kid (he’s only 15, so am I) needs is his only real friend killing all ties with him.

2)He’s one of two friends I have. The other is a sensible kid named M. I don’t want to dump out dirty water until I have clean.

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Until you get rid of the dirty water you will never get clean. Mix dirty water and clean water and what do you get? Slightly diluted dirty water. Seriously, if you want to find good friends you’re going to have more luck if you’re not associated with a bad person. IMHO