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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!194.25.134.126.MISMATCH!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Totally OT : The thread "Nominations invited for new moderators" Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:50:32 +0100 References:  <2449072b-fd77-4451-937f-150b0d389430@j30g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>    <_oKdnVdQapaaVA7RnZ2dnUVZ8ridnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>   Lines: 40 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: f9175e8b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=55Sk\AEl_6NZO_j0cEnok4Z\, ian@astounding.org.uk says... > > Look, here's interesting - if you put 'sociopathic' into google, and > ignore the wikipedia, the next highest link is > http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html. > > Which contains (among other stuff) the following headline traits of > sociopathy: > > "Manipulative and Conning" > > "They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving > behaviors as permissible." > > "Grandiose Sense of Self" > > "Pathological Lying" > > "Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt" > > Of everyone I know, and of whose character I have formed an opinion, > there is one person who matches those characteristics much more > closely than anyone else. Fortunately, I have absolutely no > professional expertise in personality disorders, so I can disregard > all that by assuming I must have misunderstood it.

Just a wonderfully insightful, incredibly accurate observation about Chapman once again from Ian. Hand on heart, I too cannot think of anyone else I know either online or offline whose characteristics match the above *anywhere near* as well as Chapman's.

It's heartwarming that not everyone around here is so blinkered (either wilfully or otherwise) to Chapman's glaring faults. So many seem to take the attitude that "Chapman agrees with me on transport policy and has done much for the anti-motorist 'cause' and therefore can do no wrong"; it's a credit to Ian that despite usually agreeing with Chapman on cycling-related matters, he is still able to see and point out the numerous ways in which he's a horrible, nasty, reprehensible piece of...work.