But, Cinn woulda made a friend.
I am fairly confident that the similarity to my real name, as slight as it was, was nothing more than a coincidence.
And I never thought for a minute that this was Umkay reborn. His/her manner of discussing their spinal cord injury was very telling, IMO. It sounded like exactly what it was: a naïve person with no actual real-world experience with SCI just trying to bs a bunch of anonymous people online with a thin cover-story.
I’m a little sad that it ended so quickly, however. 
T’was fun.
Ahh - so your problem is that you are a nice guy. Man, are YOU fucked! 
Not to know your mindset better than you, but sometimes I find it worse if I feel my “position” - rather than me personally - is being attacked.
Can’t think of a good example right now, but I remember instances where I would make a limited statement, maybe about only one facet of some wider discussion. And I would think my limited statement has some merit, or was not adequately being considered. I may not have really cared one way or the other when I made that statement, but if my statement is either ignored, misconstrued, or dismissed, I have found myself getting more invested in defending that position - far more invested in it than I was when I made it. Kind of a shift in my focus.
Does that make any sense?
In any event - quit dumping your introspection and desire for possible personal growth on this marvelously trashy thread. It really would be a shame for this trainwreck to result in something positive! 
Wasn’t a “bruised spinal cord” the war injury the guy from Downton Abbey miraculously recovered from (before dying in a car crash)? And Downton Abbey did have an episode or 2 in Scotland…
I actually think he might’ve known your name and then used it by accident. Cryptomnesia.
I’m up for that, date allowing.
I really am sigh
Ah, the old “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Oddly enough, I like the sweet cinnamon variety from Tesco 
There was evidence, you just didn’t recognise it. Trust me. The language mistakes and inconsistences, the fact there are no separate colleges equivalent to the English 6th form here, the lack of anyone with the surname existing, I wasn’t *just * witch-hunting jaymie for the sake of it.
Oh, I had real doubt this morning when s/he called my bluff and actually agreed to meet. You have no idea how relieved I was to get there and see a near deserted coffee shop.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Doing it after a 5k wasn’t my best idea either!
I wonder too - hey, etv78, is there?
If she’d really looked like the peroxide duck-face in the selfie, we would *not *have been friends.
Marley, I read your posts just fine. You did encourage everyone to weigh the evidence on their own and come to their own conclusions, and you expressed reservations about calling out the troll so early. If that’s not championing to give umkay 2.0 a chance to you then fine, but to me that’s exactly what I thought was so hilarious. I thought it was funny that you posted what you did, instead of something hilariously snarky like miller did with the “practice” comment in the other thread. Because that’s all obvious trolls deserve is snark, not some noble post about how we should all weigh evidence ourselves and that it isn’t a good idea to just call out an obvious troll early.
“You stupid flooring! You’ll never amount to anything! What a waste of perfectly good trees you are!”
“You fat, you ugly, ain’t no house ever gonna love you!”
It’s not, but only because that’s not what I said or did. Then again it also wasn’t worth my getting on Bob Ducca or Giraffe’s case about.
At the Tesco in Rutherglen, I presume?
I have a question for all our Scots compatriots on this board. Can I be Scottish too? I have a really boring accent and I want a cool one like yours. I know I’ll have to end my relationship with Siri, because she doesn’t understand Scots, but lately we’ve been growing apart anyway.
I once brought a box of porridge with dried fruit and maple syrup in it to work with me in Dundee. Loads of faces pulled.
: You’re so obviously American.
: Why? Because I know what fruit is?
Bummer. Banninated. Fun while we had it, though. This is why we can’t have nice things.
It’s kind of an exclusive club. Do you like Buckfast?
4chan, perhaps?
While not mutually exclusive, you can’t have either one to near exclusion without risking a little collateral damage in the other. It’s a personal choice how much of #1 you are willing to accept to avoid committing #2.
The posters that raised the flag early, clearly have a very low tolerance for #1 and are less risk averse to #2 than you.