Originally Posted by echappist

Steak knives? If so, congrats

It seems that you are playing favorites here as i believe you've met Jancouver in person, and i have no doubt that Jancouver is an upstanding person. That said, there were few saints in that thread, and everyone (yours truly included) exhibited the ugliness that sometimes comes with the assumed anonymity of the internet

I think we can all understand why Jancouver snapped that photo in the first place, and i'd bet many of us might also have thought it looked a bit ridiculous. We may even post about it on in a thread where we know everyone and laugh about it, but to start a thread with the expectation that others to sing along with you was uncool.

The slowtwitch crowd, well, let's just say that they much prefer the "eye for an eye" method rather than taking a higher road. Calling someone a dirtbag for snapping a photo, posting it online, and ridicule the person in the photo would be justified, but apparently mob justice demands that the same treatment get imposed on the offender.

The person in that photo is obviously justified to punch back as the slowtwitch thread really came from left field, but decided to take the low road with the line "my son won his AG, what did your son win?" Not that i agree with his repartee, but at first I thought his son won at least a competitive age group, but it turns out to be the under 10 age group, which just reminds me of the kid showing up to a fun race with Lightweight wheels. Of course, the slowtwitch choir brown-noses the preacher and calls the kid the next Sergio Jr, an accomplished time trialist who represented Mexico in the U-19 UCI TT championships in Denmark.

I believe people would have qualms about any sort of the things mentioned above in real life (other than the secret smirks amongst like-minded people) when they have to do things face-to-face, but anonymity (or perceived anonymity) really brings out the worst of people.