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  • Shameless!

    It mystifies me why he hasn't changed his on-screen name now that you've nailed his mendacity. Initially he posted as "no name given" and relentlessly cataloged his glorious life, what with those mansions in Newport Beach and statuesque, hairless bed partners who magically never needed to shave their pubes. He earned this charmed life by means of his imaginary 7-figure salary.

    Eventually he adopted the Ben Dover moniker. probably because someone like yourself called him on his lies.

    But why oh why is he sticking with Ben Dover in the face of all this shame?

    Maybe the idea of bending over turns him on?

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  • heh, I remember him as NNG

    Unfortunately, there were a lot of NNG at the time so I could not nail him on anything he said, but it was quite obvious by his vocabulary and his topics of choice that it was him. Hens, fatties, wash yourself with a rag on a stick, dumbass, etc. etc.

    And again, could not nail him down at that point, but he did totally lie right and left. He's dating a surgeon, women are all worthless bitches and there's no point in dating them, he has two kids (with full custody), he sensibly never married and only a fool would get married, yada yada. Oh, and in response to one poster he was trying to make a stupid point to, he became African-American! :-)

    Just come out with it, Ben. YOU DON"T HAVE AN MBA. It's okay. Lots of people don't have them.

  • sorry to take time out of your vacation :-)

    I should let you go now. Let's wait and see what the shameless loser comes back with--you can bet it will relate to body weight and not to fake MBAs.

  • Always fun to watch the

    fat, fugly, old women with their hag bags slapping each other silly.

  • They were right! (SHOCK)

    You didn't mention the MBAs!!!

  • by the way, Ben

    It is decidedly NOT always fun to watch people publicly humiliate you, unless you're a masochist. And yes, they are humiliating you, and if you're too dumb to see that, you should go off and kill yourself right now.

  • BMI and body fat

    Okay, here are the numbers.

    6'5" and 215 gives you a BMI of 25.5, aka overweight. However, you say you have a body fat percentage of 8.5. That is possible, but only if you're a full-time bodybuilder.

    Since I happen to know your hobby is trolling Salon, not bodybuilding, I respectfully decline to believe you.

    Didn't you say somewhere else that you are 61 years old? Or was that someone else?

  • No, he's more like 12.

    Or at least acts like it.

    I respect you for trying, Allie, but there's no way of being logical with the troll--he'll only come back with insults. You don't argue logically with someone who's been outed as a liar and still is shameless enough to keep posting here. Plus, it's sort of fun to bait him.

  • another thing (do I really need to point this out?)

    Men don't pay alimony because they're fools, they pay alimony because a judge told them to and they will be breaking the law if they don't. (Although in your case you're paying a shitload of alimony, you've said so yourself, if that wasn't another of your lies...so I guess you are a fool). And those "piece of shit" women you are always bitching about reaping all this money...well, the piece of shit guys could have worn a condom, or not fucked them in the first place, darling.

    But it's nice to know you have no intention of marrying again. Women of America can breathe a huge sigh of relief.

  • I am not worried that Benjy O'Minnow doesn't have a MBA and I don't care about his BMI.

    Here is what worries me about Ben:

    1. Hates women with breasts.

    2. Hates women with reasonable body fat.

    3. Hates women.

    4. Constantly defends sex offenders -- especially those who offend against people under 18.

    Now let us look at this picture. Ben says that when people defend people who are fat that means that they themselves must be fat.

    Following this logic: When Ben defends sex offenders, that means ____________________ .

    It doesn't take a genius to fill in the blank.

  • re: AKA Smith

    I'm not sure I agree. Ben defends all males against all females at all times, not sex offenders in particular. He'd be just as happy defending men who murder women.

    I thought I might have been onto something with the anorexia - it's typical of anorexics to make weight into an issue of virtue, so that they can feel more virtuous than others. But given the unlikelihood of Ben's self-reported stats, I suspect he's not anorexic, just lying.

    What I wonder is what he gets out of coming here. I find productive dialogue stimulating; I find being mean to people boring. If I were forced at gunpoint to spend several hours a day thinking up insults and posting them on the internet, I would find it pretty dull.

  • @Allie:

    He gets attention.

    Apparently he is so needy for it, that he does not even enjoy composing letters of any substance or building camaraderie or doing anything much other than spewing hatred and anger. He is the equivalent of a toddler throwing a tantrum in a grocery store aisle.

    About the characteristics I mentioned before: Another one is immaturity. Sociopathy and narcissism also figure in.

  • Ben as a sex offender...YES

    I could actually see that. He does have this total obsession with those Duke guys. (Hey, if anyone defending fat people. by your logic, is fat...)

    Or else he *just* wishes he could get away with raping women. Even more likely.

    I do also see him, probably more likely, as a sleazy, second-rate defense attorney, or defense attoroney wannabe (not his attempts at legalese when he discusses the case). I mean, it's altogether possible he's not actually living in his Mom's basement somewhere, but the whole Mr. Successful, high-powered businessman thing certainly ain't happening.

    So there are multiple reasons why he is TOTALLY, NUTTILY OBSESSED with jumping through 80 thousand hoops to defend Duke lacrosse players, as if that is the only miscarriage of justicee, or potential crime for that matter, that's ever been worth commenting on. Certainly when there's been some heinous incident involving a woman victim that ends up proven, he makes no effort to comment there.

    As for the MBA, I don't care either, but you know it bugs him (by the way he never owns up to it, and lashes back with irrelevant responses), whereas he is perfectly content to be a misogynist asshole. It bugs him to be called out as not being the "success" he thinks he is...he doesn't give a shit that people find him a general moron, strangely.