By spanking your monkey

No, I'm not. It's just that some members are like the kid on the playground that everyone picks on. I've seen really inane, dumb threads that other members start(ed) that everyone seems to like for whatever reason, but because that particular member started the thread, the thread all of a sudden becomes not so inane. And what I don't get is if you think the thread is inane, why even post on it? Just because certain members think a thread is inane, doesn't mean it's inane to others.

Wow, I just read the thread about that crazy guy posting who turned out to be the anthrax killer. How creepy is that?!?

It makes me wonder how often one is innocently posting on a website and conversing with some nut job!!!

Many years ago I was working out at a gym (it had to be MANY years ago - no more gyms for me!) and I was on a treadmill next to this guy and we started up a conversation. He seemed nice enough, friendly and not creepy at all. So fast forward a year or so and he is on the front page of the paper for killing his family and trying to burn the house down to cover it up. I needed a bleach bath after that!!!

Goes to show that it's hard to get a true read on people through just a conversation. Over the internet, it would be even trickier, although the guy's posts scream, "I'm CRAZY!!"

You're the best, giving the post number and everything.

HAAAA. This cracked me up.

I think because I can totally relate. To feeling like you need a bleach bath, not to getting chatted up by a murderer/arsonist.