Dr. Shades wrote:The reason I didn't doubt Mr. Coffee isn't because of a lack of critical thinking, it's because it's my policy to take someone at face value unless there's a reason to do otherwise.
Simply put, if I was to do detective work on every single poster who shows up here, I wouldn't have any time to moderate the board, much less use & enjoy it myself.
Well since he threatened to kill one of your posters you might want to rethink that policy.
Secondly, how could Coffee possibly be real? Look at what the freakshow writes? Does ANYONE really exist like that? He is such a caricature that he had to be fake.
Everything he did was exaggerated to make him look like what he considers macho, the macho mentality itself being a caricature of masculinity. If he had a car, it was the baddest on the road. If he had a motorcycle it was the baddest on the road. If he had a gun, it was the baddest on the block. What do you honestly think it would say if asked to explain his…ahem…anatomy? I'd bet your life he'd claim he was a stunt double for Ron Jeremy.
Consider his $60k bike. It is entirely possible that someone could buy a used bike like that for MUCH less than $60k, but Coffee is the type of guy who would claim he bought it new because no butt but his would ever touch his bike!!! I can see him say it.
He was WAY too over the top, WAY too tough, and WAY too Coffee. You've got no obligation to perform a background investigation on him, but you fell for his crap as much as everyone else here did. You even had a hint…
http://mormondiscussions.com/discuss/vi ... ea9c1dd63b
…you recognized the inconsistencies in his story. You ran with it because he said he was drunk. This is the same thing I saw that made me think he was full of crap. You had all the evidence you needed.