Nitrateville General Jackassery: Happy Anniversary Silent Comedy Mafia
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:22 pm
What a typical petty and cowardly act ol’ Mike Gebert pulled on nitwitvile today deleting the thread where one Jim Crane congratulated Silent Comedy Mafia on its tenth anniversary, praised my writing, and wished that I would return to nincompoop village to raise the IQ level of the place once again, amazing Gebert kept it up through the weekend, allowing one nameless something called “silents please” to show the true mental instability of the site in his answer that I’m a “miserable, narcissistic prick” then telling Mr. Crane to “troll elsewhere”.
So why did Gebert delete the thread, because somebody said nice things about us, or to hide the behavior of their own nameless one in need of medication, to whom Crane wittily replied, “Oh yes, we see that you’re too civilized for the likes of Richard M. Roberts”? Most likely the first, though he waited for some sort of scuffle to use as an excuse to lock the thread, before anyone else said nice things about me starting even more spit and dribble from the sadder NNN’s.
I mean, it really is getting pathetic and bordering on the pathological, let’s look at Mr. “silents please” just for a “for instance”, even with his nameless non de plume, we can determine from his posts that he lives in the Milwaukee area, and is old enough to have a kid in college at Cornell University. This is not a person I know or have ever met, I have only one fellow I know well in Milwaukee and it definitely isn’t he, yet it is someone of a mature enough age to be beyond this sort of immature, hyper-emotional language to use on a total stranger, he probably wouldn’t even recognize me if I were standing next to him in line at a film festival without a name tag, but the screaming voices in his head so compelled him to respond, even anonymously, with this sort of language and abuse and accuse another total stranger of impropriety in sending praise and congratulations to another site with no sign of malice or troublemaking.
Why say anything at all, what can I have possibly done to this stranger to drive him to this level of nasty nonsense? Reality-check folks, I’m actually very easy to avoid, my internet footprint basically consists of this site, I’m not, nor ever will be on Facebook, do not comment on many other chat groups or blogs, and no one is forcing this fellow to listen to my commentary tracks or read my books or articles, and, as far as I can determine, he has never had any one on one public or private disagreement with me of any kind, yet he feels strongly enough to call me a “miserable narcissistic prick” (and is that even possible? Surely, if one is in love with one’s self, that affection seldom goes unrequited).
Yes, I know, this is the craziness of the internet, but even cynical old me likes to think those who appreciate vintage film should be more well mannered and thoughtful than your average Youtube comments section, but unfortunately mental illness issues seem to pervade too much of this area of interest, much less ALL of the internet these days. I know there are a few, sad, lonely types still harboring grudges from decades ago when they were dropped from a film fest, or I cut off all personal communication with, or even were not allowed to join the mafia who will still try to spread bullshit about me when they think it’s safe and I’m not around to call them on it, but they are also basically such of their own reputations that they end up making me friends with other strangers who know them of old when they try to diss me. Mr. “silents please” is apparently someone who just read my words here on the mafia and gets so worked up that he must be sitting at home in the dark muttering “ Richard M Roberts---I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.”, or he’s one of this other strange small little group that seems to dislike me for just giving them what they want. In any event, my message to him is, he might want to look into getting some help.
Whatever, and so what, thank you Mr. Crane for your nice words and best wishes on Nitrateville, as long as they lasted, and sorry you got grief from the denizens, but it is what one can expect from that pitiful group, I noticed you had posted rarely in the six years or so since you had joined it, those sane enough to use their real names usually do not communicate with the place. More reason to appreciate the sanity we have here in our little clubhouse, even after a decade, where we happily remain, believe me, I wouldn’t return to Nitwitvile even if asked or on a dare, there is nobody who inhabits it really worth talking to, nameless or not.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
So why did Gebert delete the thread, because somebody said nice things about us, or to hide the behavior of their own nameless one in need of medication, to whom Crane wittily replied, “Oh yes, we see that you’re too civilized for the likes of Richard M. Roberts”? Most likely the first, though he waited for some sort of scuffle to use as an excuse to lock the thread, before anyone else said nice things about me starting even more spit and dribble from the sadder NNN’s.
I mean, it really is getting pathetic and bordering on the pathological, let’s look at Mr. “silents please” just for a “for instance”, even with his nameless non de plume, we can determine from his posts that he lives in the Milwaukee area, and is old enough to have a kid in college at Cornell University. This is not a person I know or have ever met, I have only one fellow I know well in Milwaukee and it definitely isn’t he, yet it is someone of a mature enough age to be beyond this sort of immature, hyper-emotional language to use on a total stranger, he probably wouldn’t even recognize me if I were standing next to him in line at a film festival without a name tag, but the screaming voices in his head so compelled him to respond, even anonymously, with this sort of language and abuse and accuse another total stranger of impropriety in sending praise and congratulations to another site with no sign of malice or troublemaking.
Why say anything at all, what can I have possibly done to this stranger to drive him to this level of nasty nonsense? Reality-check folks, I’m actually very easy to avoid, my internet footprint basically consists of this site, I’m not, nor ever will be on Facebook, do not comment on many other chat groups or blogs, and no one is forcing this fellow to listen to my commentary tracks or read my books or articles, and, as far as I can determine, he has never had any one on one public or private disagreement with me of any kind, yet he feels strongly enough to call me a “miserable narcissistic prick” (and is that even possible? Surely, if one is in love with one’s self, that affection seldom goes unrequited).
Yes, I know, this is the craziness of the internet, but even cynical old me likes to think those who appreciate vintage film should be more well mannered and thoughtful than your average Youtube comments section, but unfortunately mental illness issues seem to pervade too much of this area of interest, much less ALL of the internet these days. I know there are a few, sad, lonely types still harboring grudges from decades ago when they were dropped from a film fest, or I cut off all personal communication with, or even were not allowed to join the mafia who will still try to spread bullshit about me when they think it’s safe and I’m not around to call them on it, but they are also basically such of their own reputations that they end up making me friends with other strangers who know them of old when they try to diss me. Mr. “silents please” is apparently someone who just read my words here on the mafia and gets so worked up that he must be sitting at home in the dark muttering “ Richard M Roberts---I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.”, or he’s one of this other strange small little group that seems to dislike me for just giving them what they want. In any event, my message to him is, he might want to look into getting some help.
Whatever, and so what, thank you Mr. Crane for your nice words and best wishes on Nitrateville, as long as they lasted, and sorry you got grief from the denizens, but it is what one can expect from that pitiful group, I noticed you had posted rarely in the six years or so since you had joined it, those sane enough to use their real names usually do not communicate with the place. More reason to appreciate the sanity we have here in our little clubhouse, even after a decade, where we happily remain, believe me, I wouldn’t return to Nitwitvile even if asked or on a dare, there is nobody who inhabits it really worth talking to, nameless or not.
RICHARD M ROBERTS