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[mrbigsteve]

I have to say that Mistress Malchia and her whatever the fuck he is have singlehandedly made me immensely proud to be anything *other* than a Concordian.

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[mrbigsteve.livejournal.com]

Since you're one of the folks who doesn't know the people involved, I'll do the detailed version for you :)

Short form: a self-important wanker decided to get even more self-important, thus furthering the already shitty opinion I already had of him and his companion (I want to say that *she* has had nothing to do with this particular situation herself, but in my experience, they're both just pretty rotten people. This does nothing to change that opinion.)

Geography: Concordia is the Albany area SCA group (as opposed to Anglespur, which is just Rensselaer county, and thus the Troy area group).

They held a demo last week that included fighting. A reporter took a picture of a combat that included one of our guys, Wulfstan the Unshod. Said picture made it onto the front page of the Schenectady Gazette. The link was passed on to the Concordia Yahoo group, saying "Look! Press coverage!"

Andre, the aforementioned whatever the fuck he is, decided to take umbrage with the fact that Mr. the Unshod was, in fact, unshod. Because it's against the rules, it is! And he sent off the fiery missive complaining about "the furtherance of local opinion on "geeks in cloaks"! "

So folks said things to the extent of "It's period" and "He won 75% of the fights that day..." and "Only one kid asked, but frankly the crowd loved it." In other words, the list uttered a collective "So what?"

Which led Andre to scream all the louder about how reprehensible this disregard of the law* is (bluster bluster) and how he personally removed Wolf from the field years ago (bluster bluster) and "as for his ability to kill you repeatedly, i would recommend that you practice a bit more rather than taking off your shoes." and how this is *gasp* setting a bad example.

We'll ignore the facts that...
1) Wulfstan has been fighting without shoes for close to 20 years.
2) Wulfstan will politely don shoes if a marshal tells him to do so.
3) Andre had to actually ask who it was in the picture that was fighting without shoes, something that tells me he hasn't bothered to show up to any local events for at least the past two years.

And frankly, a bunch of other wankery as well. The best part was when he ended his own participation, saying "thank you for offering a reasonable response, rather than kneejerk selfrighteous bluster."

To which I say the only bluster was, in fact, his own.

Looking back, I see that I have already given this wanker far more time and consideration than he deserves :)

* Really! His own words! Well, kind of. His exact quote was "it's unbelievable that there is no one else on this list who finds this reprehensible. at the very least the local knight marshalkl should be up in arms."

[emmy-lynn.livejournal.com]

Very happy I'm not on the Concordia list...I love my shire and my household...