Amstel postponed, so I have time. Let's add some stuff here. Blame Luques if you don't like it
But praise him too, at c4f Coronavirus postponements are only 1 hour.
Expressed feelings in the general chat and possibly unexpressed ones on the Big Donkey-Idéfix affair seem to be: They are both to blame. Both should stop.
I absolutely reject this equivalence. Our history, that is becoming long, keeps repeating itself. Idéfix starts, I react.
First problem: Before that we had little contact and 0 problems.
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Short version for those that don't want to read the whole thread.
Long time before that, Idéfix and Donkey same race, escape, Donkey doesn't want to chase despite good chances. Not sure why. I suspect there was a co-favorite ahead in the group that had less chances there than in the back and I preferred having him lose there than bringing his leaders to the front. But not sure, don't remember, and it's actually irrelevant.. Idéfix rides, his right. I don't, my right. He asks me if I join lots of times, all ok. After I refuse each time, in the end he calls me free teams brother. Which I made clear that I don't appreciate, since I regard that as an insult. And he meant it as one, since his love for free team was well known. After he refuses to apologize I retaliate by calling him ulta-nationalist. Marine Le Pen fan etc. Which in connection with his name is certainly appropriate. If not Asterix, Obelix and Idéfix, who is a nationalist? But well, guess you need a sense of humor to get that. Anyway, I retaliate like this and keep doing that when I meet him in races and he starts talking to me. As said in the thread, that was few races, certainly less than 10, Idéf himself guessed 5-6. And claims 10 "insults" per race, that means me calling him ultra-nationalist etc. In the chat he posted it's 3... which sounds about right for all our races together.
So that's how it started, he insults, I retaliate.
And while Idéf keeps claiming that I was fined for this, I wasn't. That should make clear how trustworthy his claims in general are.
Second problem: See here. Idéfix complains about me, wants a fine, when challenged he admits that he indeed started by taking a shot at me. Which I gave back, although we only see my comeback in this exchange.
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Second problem b) Had forgotten that, found it looking for problem 3 which I can't find somehow.
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Pokemon fined, Idéfix comes to the defence, indirectly insults me, I open a fairness thread, he clarifies, even if I don't see to be the only one in the thread thinking it's more of a talking himself out of it defence.
Idéfix ends up with a warning and a small fine, but don't think directly from this, if I remember correctly was more for "fuelling the fire" in general.
Third problem: Can't find it. Found it! Here
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Same as usual, I was happily ignoring Idéfix, playing with SWE it seems, he decided to take a shot at me again. And I reacted again, this time indeed with something that could have been fined, wasn't, good, the FPC seems to have recognized that Idéf keeps asking for it.
Fourth problem recently, see my post about it here:
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So, 4 cases, 4 times Idéfix starts. After the third time I actually planned to retaliate and let me be the one starting the next round, but I probably forgot it. Or maybe I did post a few lines in the general chat shortly after case 3 and he didn't bite, can't remember. Both is possible.
But what we have here is a pattern. Idéf provoking, Idéf blowing a fuse when I dare to react. After the first problem, THREE times Idéf started a fight. It needs 2, right, I do react and provoke back, but at some point maybe it's time to face reality and see who starts shit again and again. Idéfix.
Here see the last case, Idéfix starts with calling me a dictator, later age insult, then no brain here. No "idiots", "assholes" etc yes, but it is possible to insult without those words. And Idéfix is doing that. More than enough in the last case.
He now claims he doesn't want to talk to me. I have no problem with that at all
The problem is he keeps writing to me that I he doesn't want to talk to me. And seems to think he can decide who I talk with... Demands I don't answer to any of his posts. Not going to happen, when I see something he writes and I want to answer I will. If he doesn't want to answer to me, his decision, who I answer to is mine. If there are insults there, by all means report me, if not, deal with the insult of getting addressed by me. Or be mentioned by me.
4 times is enough. Well, restarting 3 times. I have proven that I can ignore Idéfix. Hadn't mentioned him for months I guess before he started. Again. He hasn't proven that he can ignore me. I hope the FPC realizes that letting him get away with his provocations and insults each time is unlikely to work in the future, since it hasn't worked so far. Time for a fine for Idéfix. High time. And the insulting parts are here, see watermelon as a head, bugged only in your brain, dictator, and if somebody has the sadistic streak to reread Idéfix' prose, there's lots of other attacks on my character there. While my "retaliation" is much less voluminous than his and not insulting. Or definitely less insulting.