1. Good, I’m glad they are gone.
2. The latest bannee, “Jude” managed to get me to respond to a couple of unauthorized comments post-banning. (This is because he wasn’t around long enough for me to remember his name.) In the unauthorized comments, since sent to spam hell, he illustrated the basis for his banishment by stating, with absolute certainly, that the experience I described here was triggered by a scam, and that I made a dumb mistake by calling both the collection agency (a law firm) and the company that had mistakenly charged me. I had been phished, Jude the Obscure Asshole insisted. No, I replied, I had not been phished, and I have sufficient experience with such things to have checked. Jude just arrogantly insisted that he was right and I was wrong, without any of the information I had that he did not.
I just received an email from AfterPay USA. It reads,
“Hi Jack, Thank you for your patience regarding your ID Theft Claim – Disputed Liability with respect to Afterpay account 10082791185.
Afterpay has concluded our investigation and your ID Theft claim has been accepted. You will not be held liable for Afterpay account 10082791185 or any debt incurred from this account.
What does this mean?
- Afterpay Account 10082791185 has now been closed.
Thank you,
Vivien
Global Fraud Senior Specialist
I was right. Jude was wrong. So Jude can bite me.
Ethics Alarms 
Wouldn’t copy/pasting stuff in his place be more time-consuming than deleting the comment? And isn’t there a way to block banned users from commenting at all?
You should understand me better by now.
If it amuses me, it’s worth the time.
Excerpts from the speeches of US Presidents sounds great, and if you identify which President’s speech each one was from, they’d even count as educational. Some of the individuals who are obsessive emailers to the law firm I work at I sometimes wish we could do the same to, but they’re either our clients (and it’s the attorney’s call on when to withdraw representation) or the opposing side in litigation (so the staff all roll their eyes and the attorneys respond as needed).
Excerpts from presidents’ speeches are good, but without attribution. The commenters who wish to engage can attempt to identify the president quoted. A contest where the “prize” is nothing by bragging rights.
I like that Idea! And it would increase the challenge level (or motivate commenters to do some serious Googling before posting an answer).
I would recommend you have AI rewrite his comments in the style of well-known characters like Foghorn Leghorn or the Swedish Chef.
Kamala Harris? Though that might blow up an AI bot…so “Kamala Harris” it is!!
Ag gernesh berndy New York Times…!
Taken under advisement…
“Ah say, ah say . . .” or “That boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball.”
A personal favorite is from “O Brother, Where Art Thou” which is, “Is you is, or is you ain’t, my constituency?” followed closely by “You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.”
jvb
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-Jut
My high school Latin teacher, who justifiably hated me, would be shocked that I even receivd such a comment. My answer: “Oh yeah?”
It’s dummy text, kind of like A Friend’s comments.
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I thought you were aware of this.
-Jut
My preferred ipsum: https://baconipsum.com/
As a person who has been squatting in your proverbial home with full tenant rights the past two decades or so…I demand due process.
🙂
Glad you were able to get it straightened out so quickly. I felt your pain, having dealt with, at various times. the IRS, bogus credit card charges, credit bureau info, etc. With all of them, I was in the right, the proper information was verifiable, but they dragged out for months. Credit bureau: After going in catch-22 circles online and by phone with India or wherever, I finally got a number for the company president’s executive secretary at Equifax, and she politely and competently fixed the credit info issue in about two minutes.
A hacker (or a grumpy pro se opponent in one of our law firm’s cases) hacked our Best Buy account last year to buy a video game console (a type we’ve never owned, at a Best Buy location we’ve never been to). It took a few months to convince Best Buy that it was a fraudulent transaction, and our credit limit still got reduced to at best 1/3 of what it had been pre-hacking. We haven’t made a major purchase from Best Buy since then, largely because the new credit limit is so small that it’s insufficient for replacing computers at our home or business.
How about quotes from Lewis Carroll: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”
Excellent option.
My favourite is a Foghorn Leghorn line that is, sadly, not canon:
“Boy, I say boy, you are about to exceed the limits of my medication.”