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Is Ben Finegold as big a jerk as he seems in his videos?
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OMG. Can't you fart to feel better ? Finegold is who he is. If you don't like, don't watch, and then talk about the one you likes. Matters of taste, you know...
caetanootero wrote:
the guy who started this thread seems like a jerk
Knife f5. Truth hurts!
Nilocra the White wrote:
Sorry I didn't draw a picture and use shorter words for those of you who cannot understand analogies.
I had to cut and paste this reply by hand because you cannot quote correctly and your post is fubar now which is affecting the whole page 
...(see the weird window with the scrollbars in your last post? Yeah, that's from f'ing around with your quoted post in the editor without knowing what you are doing). It's always funny to see people insult others' intelligence while flopping like that.
It would be nice if chess.com did some work on their TinyMCE editor control, though...lots of glitches there that users should not be able to introduce knowingly or unknowingly...
Anyway...you seem meaner than your average wizard from Middle Earth. Gandalf the Grey and Radagast the Brown are way nicer.
Mar 20, 2020
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fischerman_bob wrote:
Not true that his jokes would be fine if his audience were adults? Or not true that the kids do not have a sophisticated sense of humor and so only hear him insulting them?
Not true on both counts. Aside from that, he is being doing this for YEARS. In this environment we lived in today with uber-sensitive personalities and PC is king, if this was an issue, he would've been shut down a LONG time ago. But, the kids are fine, the parents are fine. So, why are so many of you getting your panties in a bunch?
Mar 20, 2020
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#567
I wish this thread would die. Ben himself wondered why chess.com even allow a thread where certain d bags can come to slander someone. And not just anyone, but someone who does a lot for chess and the chess community.
Yup. Let the thread die. Soar people that really have nothing to do but spite on someone.
Ben Finegold is a phenomenal guy, very funny and cultured, and I learned a lot thanks to his videos. If you don't like, go watch someone else moron.
I find him extremely funny.....I guess you have to either get it or not.
Mar 20, 2020
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#570
ShelbyLohrman wrote:
Anyone who really knows ben will realize he is a nice guy with a twisted sense of humor. Personally, I equate him to the humor from Monty Python...Either you like it or you don't. I know the kids at his clubs love him.
Shelby Lohrman
American Chess Equipment
Having met Ben in real life, I can honestly say he is an irredeemable maggot.
"I can honestly say he is an irredeemable maggot."
I believe you are actually describing the kind of person who would make a post like yours. Nasty, stupid, cowardly, a real triple threat post
Having seen a video he made "Maggot" sounds right
The internet, natural home for the third-rate hater
depends on your sense of humor, I played him a few games over the board and we spent several games ripping on each other. funny guy.
Mar 22, 2020
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#575
Laskersnephew wrote:
"I can honestly say he is an irredeemable maggot."
I believe you are actually describing the kind of person who would make a post like yours. Nasty, stupid, cowardly, a real triple threat post
Say that when you've been in the same room with him.
How much credibility does a coward spewing insults from the safety of an internet chat deserve? My guess is none.
Mar 22, 2020
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#577
Laskersnephew wrote:
How much credibility does a coward spewing insults from the safety of an internet chat deserve? My guess is none.
True.
But we'll let you stick around, anyway.
Coward or no.
Now you're just being silly. We all get it--you don't like Ben Finegold. Get over it
Laskersnephew why don't you just quit you keep this going
Mar 22, 2020
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#580
ericthatwho wrote:
Laskersnephew why don't you just quit you keep this going
Because his mommy doesn't hug him enough.
Trolling is the only way he can get attention.
I guess next we will be saying that football coaches should be careful not to tell their players that they run like spastic wounded cattle because it is too insulting or that drill sergeants should quit yelling insults at trainees because it isn't nice. . A coach or a teacher needs to not be your parent and tell you that you are great no matter what. Instead, they need to tell you like it is, where you need to improve and that where you are totally deficient you need to get your act together and I mean now and quit whining. They need to know that if they don't bring something more than a thin skin to the party, then they just are not going to make it in life. If they don't want to learn chess, then that is different. Let them watch the Teletubbies where they will be safe from anyone goading them to improve, and keep them locked up in mother's chamber.
Well now we know your side of an argument that no one here is having. Thanks for blessing us with your wisdom anyway..
Sorry I didn't draw a picture and use shorter words for those of you who cannot understand analogies.