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sure, Imperium, I am pretty familiar with it. We all used to be members of a site at Cracker, which was a fairfax group politics forum. Grendel used to post their a LOT, and was a pretty huge One Nation supporter. He held an almost proprietry attitude to those boards and was sometimes jokingly referred to as the King of Cracker.
He always stated that he was left wing leaning in his political views, and then proceeded to post cut and paste examples of mainly ultra right wing commentators like Piers Akerman, and Andrew Bolt, which drew much derision from true left wingers like myself and Skippy. He was very free flowing with his insults, as the boards were totally unmoderated, and all who disagreed were morons, idiots etc.
I laughed these off, as ego has never been a problem I have struggled with, lol, whereas Skippy was more likely to respond in kind, and so the anymosity developed. Grendel told Skippy not to reply to his posts, as if he had any right to do that, and then when Skippy responded he started calling him a Troll, who was haunting him, to which, Skippy obviously knew he had him well and truly hooked, and it just escalated from there.
I have seen amazingly good posts from both of them, and some pretty appalling ones too, but if I had to make a judgement I would say that Grendel instigated the feud, and perhaps even to say he invited it, may not be too strong.
Now in this forum, Skippy has been far more reasoned, and reasonable in his posts, as he shows a respect for the style of this forum more than Grendel does, because the guy who started this forum, Freediver, always bested Grendel in arguments by employing sound logic, and impartial reasoning, which infuriated Grendel to the point where he openly disliked, and disrespected Freediver as well, so he has treated this place with a degree of contempt, because unlike at cracker, he has never been allowed to rule the roost here as he has tried to do elsewhere.
The funny thing is he has some excellent ideas and quite unique insights on a lot of subjects, but he gets a little over zealous on how he conveys his thoughts at times, and if he were to use a more measured approach, he would actually win more people over to his arguments than he currently does with his combative, insulting style.
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