- Joined
- Jan 25, 2018
That's the problem in a nutshell here. He probably was bullied at some point, but it is impossible to believe him because of his history of blatantly lying. It's especially worse in this case because of his tone on the subject.Eh. Weird kids get picked on all the time, and sometimes quite cruelly. And I have no doubt Bob was a weird kid. There's a grain of truth in his story, although it's swathed in the usual grandiose lies about how secretly awesome he turned out to be. (And how horridly subhuman everyone who ever took a dislike to him is.)
One of the things I have recently started to notice with him after all these years of observing him is that he only seems to tell the truth when he is in a genuine state of defeat. I bring up his reaction to the Russ Pitts firing a lot, but it's because it was one of the few times he came off as genuinely vulnerable and in state of hurt. He was still his angry and miserable self, but it was different from his usual insane rantings. He revealed just how much of a sham his ego is, and how much he knows it is.
I have trouble believing his bullying stories because he puts on the same facade of false bravado and "everyone else is a piece of shit but me" that he does with everything else. If he talked about in that rare state of defeat and borderline reflection I would be more inclined to believe him.