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# Hang on a sec.
It sounds like you are (or have been) a respectable career soldier.

So why do you spend your time sitting at your computer at 4am on a 'funny pictures' website, threatening to kill people and telling random strangers you'll never meet how hard you are? Especially if you've got a child to raise?

Why bother? I don't understand at all.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:29, archived)
# It isn't any different to a successful ex-civil engineer telling strangers how to build a bridge
When you reach 40 you feel a need to tell the world your past glories.

I guess.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:34, archived)
# I'm retired, bored and probably alcoholic.
my wife works in London weekdays and my mother takes care of the majority of my son's needs whilst she is away.
I entertain myself on sites such as b3ta. Some nights I drink too much and stay up far too late talking bollocks with strangers because I don't sleep well. But I have always been very open about that.
I disappear when we can take the boat out but she's going to be in dry dock for most of this season so I am doubly bored.

Lots of people have odd lives. Just because they don't appear normal to others does not make them any less of a life.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:36, archived)
# Nice one. Ta for the honest response.
(It'd be nice for all if you could cut down on the threats, though. Shoot some pigeons or bats instead, perhaps?)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:40, archived)
# Ah I did not mean to be seen to threaten anyone.
I was just trying to have a laugh as usual. People take me too literally ( which drives me mad )
I'm not so childish as to threaten people on the internet. It's a pointless excercise.
If I have an issue with someone I'll attempt to deal with it in private and give them the opportunity to meet me.
The bash could turn out to be fun.

Edit:// oh and I've not fired a gun in over 18 months which is more evidence of my lethargy because I used to do a 60 bird ( skeet ) shoot every Sunday morning.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:44, archived)
# Some of the younger ones (not at this time of night) are/have been genuinely afraid of you, mate.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:50, archived)
# Then they are fools.
Unless of course they turn up in my driveway at stupid o' clock in the morning without an invitation.
I'm just a normal bloke who's a product of the military.

( Yes, I am quite bitter about the army these days )

Anyway. I'm done. Time for bed and a movie because I meant it when I said I don't sleep well.

edit:// I'm not as bad as I used to be ;)
www.flickr.com/photos/zootcadillac/sets/919487/?photo_deleted=41942002
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 12 May 2009, 4:56, archived)
# OH YOU'RE SO MANLY
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Tue 12 May 2009, 5:05, archived)
# Awww,
yr a big ol' teddy bear, really.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Tue 12 May 2009, 5:06, archived)