Les should first show what he meant by "egging on". I just laughed at the Rancidora comment. Still think it's somewhat amusing 
This really isn't as big of a deal as Les is making it out to be. A friend of his was insulted by proxy. Then that insult was made into a joke. Shit happens. If Les is trying to come across as a white knight of sorts, fair enough but this is getting ridiculous now.
By proxy? I would say directly.
If you mean the time I called her "rancid," then no. It was not a direct insult. It was aimed at Steve, and AFAIK it was Les who informed her of it.
If you mean the time she was called Rancidora, then yes, it was an insult, but one I have every right to make. She had already been on FB slagging us off. As soon as she done that, we all had every right to fight back, and also to insult her.
This is why ths is such bullshit. I, and everybody else involved, have done no more than mock and insult someone who has attacked us. The fact that she is Les' friend is not our problem.
It's one thing to ask people here not to attack your friend. It's another thing to demand that people here do not retaliate when provoked by your friend.
Of course it's a direct insult. Your argument is the equivalent of a soldier's who happened to shoot a civilian by being a little too trigger-happy and then saying that she shouldn't have been there to begin with; it was her own fault for being in a war zone.
That's just bullshit, Butterflies. Bullshit and bad form. What you are really saying is that you really don't care about collateral damage. The end justifies the means and all that. You've all but admitted that it's fair game. Sorry but I don't buy it. I think you went too far, repeatedly, and now you are trying to cover your ass by selectively looking back, trying to moving the goalposts weeks after the game ended.
Nowhere does anyone mention how you started threads about TCO's greatest hits, before "they" attacked you.
And I know you will protest, you will think I'm being unfair, and Bint and Scrap and possibly others will chime in, but so far every single reply has been either simply shifting the blame, trying to make it sound as if THEY started it, or how TCO is clearly <insert interwbz dx here> and it's ultimately Pandora's fault because she doesn't listen to you lot and leave him, etc ad nauseum.
