I have a hard time letting things go and I can be extremely petty when I want to be. I'd have done it.
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Totally up to you if you want to reply. Depends on what you are looking to get out of it.
On the one hand, a lot of jackholes continue to be jackholes because few people call them out on their s%*t. We all have met people that are unpleasant or rude, but continue to get away with it because people don't want to bother confronting them, or think it is easier to let it slide than get into an argument.
Best case, this guy did learn some humility and respect over the years and maybe is a decent person. Maybe you guys wind up being band mates and are the missing links to blazing the music scene. There have been stranger stories on E! behind the music. Lol.
Worst case is he still is a jackhole and bombards you with vitriol. (I assume you are not giving him any personal info, so he cannot personally meet you.)
Bottom line, it is up to you whether it is worth your time and effort. Taunting generally never ends well. But, sincere inquiry often is fine. If you do contact, keep us posted. I know a bunch of readers are interested...
You can't fix stupid. There's no glory in trying to insult another human being. What glory did he get?
Even if they fully deserve it and they insulted you first, the best case scenerio is that you lower yourself to their level to give other people a brief laugh.
You can be better than that.
Even if they fully deserve it and they insulted you first, the best case scenerio is that you lower yourself to their level to give other people a brief laugh.
You can be better than that.
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Pretend you never had any correspondence with him (assuming he doesn't know what you look like).
Get in touch with him. Infiltrate what ever band he is in and become the bass player.
Get along with them. Hang out with them. Then, ever so slowly unravel the whole thing from the inside out. Chances are it would happen anyway.
Why not speed the process up?
Drop subtle hints. Inside hints that only he will get. Get him thinking. Make him question his own beliefs and abilities as a musician.
Then you become the BL.
It's your show then.
Mahahahahah! ( evil laugh)
Get in touch with him. Infiltrate what ever band he is in and become the bass player.
Get along with them. Hang out with them. Then, ever so slowly unravel the whole thing from the inside out. Chances are it would happen anyway.
Why not speed the process up?
Drop subtle hints. Inside hints that only he will get. Get him thinking. Make him question his own beliefs and abilities as a musician.
Then you become the BL.
It's your show then.
Mahahahahah! ( evil laugh)
Probably best to let it go.
But, just suppose ya didn't...
How best to get even, what would our best comedy movie ideas be?
But, just suppose ya didn't...
How best to get even, what would our best comedy movie ideas be?
I like your plan but think it a tad ambitious. The lazy man's play would be for OP to introduce himself via email as representing a boutique record label interested
in reissuing the old TELL catalogue. Keep it going for weeks and months, and oblige the dude to source all the old masters so that you can cut the fat check.
Keep it going till the tears run down your cheeks.
At its best, vengeance is not petty but sublime.
15 years is perfect for a cold dishing-out.
See, I knew there were evil f***s around here, I love it!
That would be nice as well.
Expanding on my original idea, I could volunteer myself to go in your place.
Once I become the BL I inform him I was sent by my. "employer" to destroy the band.
I then elaborately, painfully, go through a rather large and complex story on how, through my skills in espionage and subterfuge I gained all rights to his mediocre, yet large library of original music for my employer.
The internet never forgets. NEVER.
Most of my old enemies have long since forgot why we were enemies in the first place. Old age does that you know........
Totally get that you'd want to respond, even now. But my personal experience is that it's usually better to let these things go. My rule in cases like this, when I manage to follow it, is: Does it make the world a better place if I do this? If the answer is "no", leave it, and move on.
PS - unless I missed it, can someone post the link to this guys FB page. Or PM me some info on him. I am just too curious now.
The essential thing is to remember that you hate them. Why is secondary.
This diabolical plan is almost perfect! The only thing missing is to take a page from the movie Tin Men and sleep with his wife. That'll fix 'im!
