Outdoor gear wank.

[icarus]

Apparently, there are also wanks in the Outdoor Gear world.

Some of you may recall that wildernesguru had a friend of four years who's a rather eccentric custom (mumble-mumble) maker. WG mentioned that he had reservations about something that was his special design, and the man just went off, digging up everything WG has ever done wrong, everything I've ever done wrong, everything his friends have ever done wrong -- and laid it at WG's door.

WG managed to patch up the friendship.

It blew up again (that old wound reopened) a month ago. The jerk turned around and cancelled my order in retaliation.

The Puppy said, "this guy's only your friend if you agree with him." The Puppy and I advised WG to let the man stew.

Unable to vent at WG directly, today, a month later, this jerk blasted WG publicly on an internet forum.

I have spent the day in battle.

Comments

[venivincere]

Win!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think I have. *whew* I'm exhausted though.

Icarus

[venivincere]

Go, you! *g*

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Rah, rah, rah! Go Icarus!

Hm, some people... I hope it doesn't bug either of you too much. Public slander (or is it libel on the net?) is never fun, but it's not worth spending too much time on morons.

[jaig.livejournal.com]

Well now. *offers battle cry and headgear*

[singtoangels.livejournal.com]

::loans you her Aries!battle helmet and war chant:: Do let me know if you need some drums to bang on as well.

That guy seriously needs to get over himself, babe. That goes to WG, too, if he's reading this. People like that are highly unstable and unhealthy. I mean, if he's still hanging onto that, and it took him this long to retaliate against the imagined hurt, then he's actually probably quite dangerous and you may both consider blocking him from your lives and computers. Just don't open any sort of email from him marked 'apology' without scanning it first or you may be opening up a lovely little 'present' in the form of a virus.

Stupid wanker.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

This made WG's morning. Really, he agrees with you, and is just stunned that the man turned out to be like this.

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

You realise my first thought was...

"the poor bastard" - few are well equiped to deal with your particular brand of twisted snark.

I hope you reamed him a good one. :)

Off to UK so kiss kiss if I dont talk to you before then :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't ream out.

I just stopped him in his tracks when he veered from the facts. At one point - and this is a 40-something-year-old man who owns his own company - he tried posing under a different name, to pretend that the person leveling nasty stuff at WG wasn't him.

Thing is, further up the thread, he'd reveal details from my packfitting at which only myself, him, and WG were present.

I asked him if this "other" person who was just posing as him knew this from FBI wiretaps and satellite photos.

I hate wanks, but this was a RL friend who was trying to dice and slice WG's reputation. *slays*

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

I heart you!

What a wanker - hug WG for me!

Back to the pigsty!

[abigail89.livejournal.com]

Ungh, for the big RL wank. It's just too bad.

WG is lucky to have you slicin'n'dicin' for him.

So what did he design?

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's exceedingly childish of him. *pets* Hope everything turns out ok.

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

people! oi vey... *sigh*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No kidding. This guy's a real nut-job.

Icarus