Beckett Grading Ordeal continues, what to do?

ccouch (Chad) said:

He's been dead for five years. You don't have to kiss his ass any longer.

"Nice and generous once you got to know him" is code for "Nice and generous when it bought him favor and built his little legion of ass-kissers." Like I said, the revisionist history that has been written about his guy is unreal. The message board "persona" was hardly an act. He was a hatemonger. It really is a shame that the old BMB isn't archived and we could kill this little charade about Rich being a cool dude.

And give it a rest with the whole "let the guy rest in peace" crap. He's dead. And when he was alive, he lived how he lived. Nothing that anybody says about him now is going to change any of that. Why is that nobody can be honest about a guy after he is gone.

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Austin said:

Again, did you personally know Rich? Outside of what you read on the Beckett board?
Because I did know Rich, and he even told me that much of what he wrote was an act.
Rich could indeed be a royal dick to some people and was extremely stubborn. But the tough guy "my way or the highway" ranting was often just a way for him to amuse himself.
I understand why you call him a hatemonger (in many ways he was and I don't respect that part of him), but it's also ironic that you hardly ever post on here anymore, yet you re-immerge to go on a hate-filled rant about the very person you say was so hateful.

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rum151man said:

I don't know the guy & I don't really know any of you on here, but I think its totally disrespectful and a chicken XXXX move to talk about someone who is no longer here to defend themselves regardless of how they were. Have a little class & show some respect even if its respecting yourself.

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ccouch (Chad) said:

Meh. Under that logic, one can't speak poorly of dead genocidal despots. Rich G. himself would call you an idiot for that.

All I did was respond to the platitudes that get thrown around by the same 4-5 people every time Rich's name comes up. If you think that's classless, fine. I couldn't care less. I'll rest easily knowing that a ton of people that I respect a lot more than you agree 100% with what I say.

And that will be it for me in this abortion of a thread.

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ThoseBackPages said:

Rich was a *****. he would be the first to admit it.

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rum151man said:

Not on a public forum when they are unable to defend themselves. If someone dies and they were not a good person then that should be the end of it. Why continue to bash someone when they are no longer around? Like I said I didn't know this person either and I think it's disrespectful.

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rum151man said:

I may be more sensitive to this type of thing because I just went to a friends funeral who passed at 29 of a heart attack yesterday, and lost one of my best friends at 29 last year of cancer. I just think you should show more respect wether a person was supposedly a good or bad person, they are dead....... If I ever heard anyone talking bad about either one of my friends they would be in for a good fight I'll tell you that much right now.

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ThoseBackPages said:

i hear you, but where do we "draw the line"? What about ******? he's dead, can't defend himself

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