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Xx: wow

Soup: ah, the Mexican place next to public house. Never been there, but your friend is right about the beer. Public house has way better beers than inside the stadium, so it's pretty standard for people to have some beers there before the game then get one last one to take in with them.

Yak, please stop defending NJ with your nonsensical keyboard aids. It's not a good look. Your thread cred is at an all time low.

All, When's tbab gonna post next? Before or after Soup ships him $$? NJ scams again.

For the record, I'm certain he is scared of another Hunchcap as deep down he knows he has no edge. This is why he doesn't want to compete. His delusional facade will be difficult to keep up if he loses again.

Not really, he'll just find some other way he was "cheated".

His ego maintenance depends on his delusional belief system, he's quite adept at finding ways to maintain it.

Saklad thats harsh man.

Solid point RJ.

Although, I still believe his motivation to pull out of the contest is bred more from intimidation rather than actually needing the money immediately.

Yak, that's real man.

Yak, serious question here. Have you or your keyboard been to West Africa any time in the last month or so?

Another tbab slank. Shocking.

The shocking thing is that there are people delusional enough to fall for his shtick and bail out his sorry arse to the tune of hundreds of dollars. Unbelievable.

The moral of the story is: if you're going to suck at life, don't do it halfway. Instead, suck so thoroughly that people without medical degrees diagnose you as mentally ill, and then reward you accordingly.

1) I'm not sure if it is a good thing or not, but I'd wager that most mentally ill people in the US are diagnosed by people without medical degrees. I'm certain that far more of them are diagnosed (and treated) by psychologists, counselors, nurses and nurse practitioners, behavior analysts and social workers. There are certainly other specialists that I'm forgetting as well. Most of them actually get far more formal education in psychiatry than what is taught in med school, although a psychiatrist gets pretty extensive training during their residency.

2) How do you know what degrees people have?

Obviously I don't, but the constant mental health diagnoses that go on here on the forums are obviously not all being done by qualified professionals who actually know what they're talking about, especially enough to diagnose someone online rather than in-person.

(Your point #1 is obviously correct, I sort of used "medical degrees" as a catch-all but yeah that's kind of sloppy.)

Glad to see Tbab's crying got him what he wanted again. His parents would approve.

Is nosoup Tbab's dad?

Diagnosing people with a disorder based on their posting on a poker forum is probably considered somewhat suboptimal by most medical professionals.

CNN seems to be able to find medical professionals to diagnose anyone in the news who's acted erratically without ever having interacted with them. Imagine what they could do having access to Tbab's 5,000 posts.

Didn't nosoup say he would do whatever the participants agreed to? And that he would only pay beast if they agreed he should pay him? Pretty sure the majority if not all of the participants are in favor of "forcing" beast to participate in the contest. He talked a lot, particularly to El D, its time for him to learn words matter.

I think that even without a degree it's pretty obvious that tbab has some sort of mental issues imo

I generally agree with you that it is a bad thing that lay people throw around labels of aspergers, OCD, schizophrenia and the like for a variety of reasons.

To the best of my knowledge, I am not. That would indeed be a remarkable turn of events. I probably qualify on age.

You'd be quite surprised at the flexibility in the ethical canons on this topic. It is surprisingly common for expert testimony to be admitted for the purposes of criminal prosecution or involuntary commitment from someone who has not actually examined the person in question, relying instead of reviewing video, audio or text transcripts. I am aware of at least one case where the expert based their testimony entirely on writings from the individual in question. I hope that the court gave appropriate weight to their opinion accordingly.

That is, in fact, not what I said. I was simply recognizing the reality that other people control the money tbab has already paid and they may or may not agree to allow me to buy him out or may find some reason not to return the money or donate it to charity. I have received certain assurances that are sufficient for me and I will now join the list of people who have trusted in the integrity of El Diablo and Alobar. Had I formed a different opinion of what they were likely to do when I paid the beast, I may or may not have chosen a different course of action. In all likelihood, I would have done the same thing but formed a different opinion about their character. We will never know.

So is a Beast still deciding? Or have you actually paid him and taken his spot?

If we're going to start Hunchcap II, we should get moving. I for one am not sure where all this stands. I know there were competing proposals floating around last night, and the general mood seems to be that everyone more or less wants to go with the will of the majority. After last night's idiocy from the Beast, my attitude towards him personally has hardened somewhat; at the same time, I respect both NS4U and El D, and I don't want my aggro position to get in the way of starting a new and amusing Hunchcap contest.

So, I still maintain my view that the escrow sticks and that the Beast should be unbanned to permit him to participate -- but that he is stricly subject to the general 2p2 rules and if he issues any threats or spouts otherwise bannable material, he should be banned; and if that happens, he then would not be able to pick. But if others want to buy him out and proceed on that basis, I won't object. We could also keep his escrow money and flip coins or otherwise make random picks on his behalf, then ship him the monies if he wins.

No matter what, let's get this Hunchcap on the road!

Tbab has advised me of his intention to accept a permanent ban. Accordingly I have shipped him his funds and Hunchcrap 1 can begin with a reduced list of participants whenever El Diablo is ready to proceed.

El Diablo,

Would you like to agree on the same charity or to both select one? I think your suggestion of a mental health one is an excellent idea and would be happy to suggest a few to choose from or would be happy to look at one you suggest. My only limitation is that I prefer not to support charities that I consider to be poorly run. A good proxy for that would be any charity that is rated less than three stars on charitynavigator.org although there are a few of the three stars that I also think suck.

Alobar,

Would you prefer to ship the escrow money for the $145 directly to the chosen charity yourself or would you be willing to transfer it to me? I'd prefer to pay it myself and get the money from you because then the various taxation authorities would pay half of it and it would only cost me $72.50, but I realize that the decision is yours to make. I would be happy to pay the charity first and I intend to post a redacted receipt to the forum once I have done so.

All,

Some friends have decided that a life of laying around in my PJs and scarfing pain meds is not what they have envisioned for me and they are bringing food and alcoholic beverages that I must try to sneak when MrsSoup is not paying close attention. I shall not return for at least four or so hours, but you are welcome to direct abuse at me anyhow which I will happily read at some future hour.

Only correct charity is something autism related. Please please please.

NoSoup, quit being a layabout you languorous lemming McDaniel