For those who don’t understand what 88 means, it’s code for HH which signifies that the person is a massive fan of Hogan’s Heroes.
I know some of you will give me grief for calling this trolling, but I can’t see any other motivation:
Newsflash, Paul. Some of the parents on this board actually love their children. And thus don’t “politely” hang out with those who want to hurt them.
He has always been a transphobic bigoted asshole with a giant stick up his ass and, yes, a troll. All of those years living in an uptight repressive regime has rotted his brain and we have to suffer what’s left of it.
Hence why he has his own long Pit thread going back a few years:
And he has come up before in this thread here too.
And I dug up this gem from over 20 years ago:
Heck, I blamed his antics in the last few years on senility/dementia, but this shows that he’s always been this way…
Paul has no problem hanging out with bigots and Trumpers because he’d agree with them. He’s a homophobic asshole.
You left out misogynistic homophobic asshole.
That’s not how piano fan goes.
Even in the late 90s/2000s “Orientals” was like - huh? (ref.: P-I-S)
@hajario et al
Are y’all agreeing with me that this is trolling? Because I’m getting a different response elsewhere. I tend to like to float the idea of trolls here before going any further.
I fully expected y’all to all say “it’s not really trolling, but it is bad.”
His disgusting beliefs are legitimately his own but since he knows that it riles us up I vote for trolling.
Right. Trolling and sincerity are not mutually exclusive.
As above. It’s not the beliefs but the use of deliberately inflammatory wording and responses to elicit a desired reaction that makes it trolling.
See, I agree it is inflammatory wording…
Anyways, my brain is weird since I messed up my medicine yesterday, so I may wait a bit. I’m debating trying a new, supposedly more convincing way of writing, or just being my usual straightforward (if wordy) self.
Less wordy would be good if you can pull it off. Your last post is a good example of less wordy and to the point.
Ah, so not the style I was going to use. Maybe I can pull in my Twitter skills instead.
The style I was going to use involves storytelling and evoking emotions rather than dry facts and arguments.
(How’s that for Twitter style? 
Replying to a post because I left out info.)
Oof. Maybe for in-person conversations or a longer opinion piece. Definitely not on a message board.
My constant battle is that when I have an important point, I feel like I need a few sentences to emphasize it. But more text just masks it. Short and sweet wins.
Usually quite true. I have a tendency to be verbose myself, and I think that’s because it’s easier to write rambling train-of-thought posts than short pithy ones. Good writers know that a short narrative that expresses an idea well is usually the result of discipline and often a lot of editing.
“Omit needless words” remains the single best piece of writing advice ever put to paper.
Succinct writing, especially in a format like this, shows respect for both the craft and for the audience. Dropping a thousand words into the middle of a conversation shows precisely the opposite.