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Going away for a while and returning under a new i.d has been happening for years, and it?s quite fun when the new name gets gently ?outed?. The EDF has a great history of this, long may it reign.


Even the baddies trying to make a return are quite funny, Steve Taylor being one, and Trolley. And many on here may remember the funny/clinically insane Big Bad Wolf still brings a cold sweat to many, yet somehow the is it, isn?t it is just as fun.


But to have a multiple identity portfolio, and then use it across the forum is bordering on weird/deceptive, specially posting or housekeeping your own threads in each ?ego? is weird weird. Like who?s getting the kick here?


Even shadier is saving one ?ego? for supposedly funny stuff and the other for the more unsavoury political musings is worryingly odd. Just be you out-best-self why not?

JohnL Wrote:

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> I wonder who runs the Larry the Cat account

> (@number10cat) - some people are asking questions

> about his fame ;)

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> https://twitter.com/cneedham53/status/136144599429

> 0888704



Dammit....you got me JohnL......

Seabag Wrote:

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> Even shadier is saving one ?ego? for supposedly

> funny stuff and the other for the more unsavoury

> political musings is worryingly odd. Just be you

> out-best-self why not?


Agree broadly with this SB...particularly if one (or is it two?) is a more regular poster in some of the more heated Lounge area threads, where everyone can sometimes get a little frustrated/stressed/emotional at the views of others that we may or may not like.


Of course, it must be said though, I can sometimes see the temptation to manufacture fake support for a potentially controversial position. As one (yes, just one) who has sometimes put forth views counter to the general EDF consensus, it does sometimes happen that the 'opposition' can gang up on opposing views, which occasionally verges on bullying....and while I have never done it myself, I can see that perhaps how having a fake friend to lend some support might be appealing!

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