It has been a week and you haven’t been seen back at your thread. A couple of people have thrown jokes around about this in other threads, but you still continue to avoid the issue.
What is it, then? Are you a liar, a thief, both of the above, none of the above?
I just find it in poor form to start a thread about such a hot topic and then just vanish. So here is hoping that you will make an appearance either here or there and explain what happened.
Not going to let him slink away, eh?
Maybe someone can come by with a character reference for him.
Is post #9 not good enough? Is this a request for an aftermath post?
He’s not coming back to that thread. Why would he come here?
Excuse me while I get back to the Red Sox.
What? You’ve been here long enough that you have to have gotten to “know” Otto a bit. Come on, does he really strike you as the lying, thieving type? Or if it comes to that, the stupid type? (who would steal, and then lie about it and then come to a message board and “fess up” ?).
sheesh
Well, to be fair, I’m sure Otto strikes everyone here who knows him as the “gambling” type. When things go bad, it’s not hard for them to turn into the stupid/thief type. Despite the fact that I think he’s a generally decent guy, that drunken “joke” doesn’t bode well for his future personality.
Hmmm…Well, I have to admit, I generally see him most in the Pit, so maybe I’m being a bit naive. But based upon his office gripes, I have a bit of a hard time seeing him as either dishonest or thieving. Dumb move on his part…uh yeah. But doesn’t he pretty much admit that in the other thread?
Oh well. The OP just had me curious, I saw the heading and had to click thinking “why would someone pit Otto”?
Now I know.
Maybe people will shit on me for saying this but: guys who are in love with poker just might piss an inordinate amount of money away, compared to other hobbies.
Like I say, I think Otto’s generally decent guy and I don’t think he meant to steal, per se. However, even the original drunken “joke” intrinsically included a 20 dollar loan to himself for an indeterminate length of time.
I think Otto is a decent guy, but is addicted to gambling and just flat out stole the twenty bucks, turning to the dope to somehow internally rationalize his stealing.
I don’t know if Otto is a decent guy or not or about a gambling addiction but the feel I got from that thread was that he just plain out stole the money.
How does anyone over the age of six think that taking cash from someone elses home is anything but stealing. I got no feel from his post that he really thought it was a practical joke. I got the feeling he was seeing how other posters would have responded to a friend doing the same to thing to them.
And since he was called on it by his friend he should have spoke up right then and tried play it off as the joke he says it was.
I like jokes as much as the next guy but I would have not found that funny if it was done to me. Even if the person returned the cash and played it off as a joke I would have let them know it was not funny and would hide any cash from then on if they were around.
I don’t get it. How did this topic get blown out of proportion? After all, Otto’s a long-standing member of this community, who’s only recently revealed himself as a lying, thieving, backstabbing punk who steals money from his closest friends and then tries to cover it up with some half-assed lie about a “practical joke”…oh wait, now I get it.
I got the answer I was looking for (the joke was lame, which I pretty much already knew, and not salvageable) and acknowledged it and chose not to dignify the nonsensical accusations with a response. I’m rather surprised that the thread keeps popping up and rather disappointed in those of my fellow Dopers whose opinion of me is so low.
Feel free to continue to talk amongst yourselves, here, in the other thread or both. I’ve said all on the subject that I intend to.
Except we never got any resolution.
What happened? Do you still have the money? Did you return it? Did you fess up?
I’ll admit that my interest is entirely prurient, but I really want to know how the story ends. I could always just kill a cat, I suppose, but I’d liek to know.
What nonsensical accusations? That your joke much more closely resembled stealing? That your failure to come clean when your friend asked you about it betrays a guilty conscience and is not consistent with a joke? This ain’t exactly the time to pretend you are on the high road and are above responding.
Look, you brought the story up. You should have been open to opinions, including those you were uncomfortable with, particularly given what you say you have done.
Really? You are kidding, right? You are the one who turned it into a cliff hanger. Last we knew, you had denied having the money, though you still had it, and your poor friend was left wondering which of her ‘friends’ had misused her in this way and shouldn’t be trusted.
It takes some nerve to be the thread starter, leave it at that point, and then look down on anyone wanting to know how the story ended.
How noble of you. You don’t need a character reference. You character is showing through just fine.
Jesus. Leave him alone. He’s got no obligation to come back and tell you media whores what the deal is. He got his answer, he’ll resolve it in his own way, and he doesn’t have any reason to tell us. The majority of you have already decided he was a lying thief anyway. With that kind of reputation waiting for me I sure as hell wouldn’t come back either.
We always like to see people fall and then kick their corpses when they’re down, don’t we?
We’re media whores! That is sweet ass. I just want to know if he confessed like an idiot. Talk about mindsets I don’t understand- self-incrimination. If there is a way to worm out of something, you must try. I’m still actively denying HARD my moms accusations that I stole all of her post-neck surgery pain meds when I was 16. I have instilled reasonable doubt. I had a few parties when my mom was out of town that I got in trouble for and any one of my delinquent friends could have taken them. It was totally me though. (this was long after her surgery and she refuses to take pain pills in the first place)
Exactly. The only answer anyone is entitled to is “None of your fucking business.”
Good idea. Let’s trim this down to one very short forum, TTAYFBWIWTA. Things That Aren’t Your Fucking Business Which I Won’t Talk About.
…or maybe people can post what they want, but understand that there will be opinions and requests for updates to stories left unfinished. EVEN THEN people can refuse to respond if they want to be disingenuous, but the opinions and requests are understandable.
You bet! But it’s even better when they’re not quite dead. The screams of agony as I land each successive blow—pure melodious bliss.
Yeah, I can’t believe the crassness of the tabloid-reporter scum who stooped to publishing embarrassing details of Otto’s private life in a public forum. Is there no decency left in the world?