Motor Mouth revealed

A person from India who revels in being as offensive as possible in Skypeland (see my blog article "Want a good argument?") gave an extended performance that I was witness to the other day. I listened closely, and developed a much deeper insight into his self-proclaimed and personally-vaunted powers of argumentation and discourse. Some observations:

*He claims to have a superior knowledge of English to all and sundry, and uses this as a platform from which to decry the mental abilities of all others. However, on close inspection, it is clear his own English is quite deficient, replete with grammatical mistakes and pronunciation errors of various sorts. His own verbal abilities are limited to extremely simple sentence structures and he possesses an extremely limited, juvenile and uneducated vocabulary in English. He covers this up by speaking extremely rapidly, however, so that this does not always register with his interlocutors.

*He declines to answer any questions and is a master of misdirection and obfuscation. However, I did hear his mother speaking to him. He is a child and lives at home with his mommy.

*He bullies others as naturally as he breathes, which he apparently is able to engage in simultaneously while producing copious volumes of verbal diarrhea. I witnessed him berating and chastising and mocking someone for feeling a bit melancholy because a close friend had died a few days previously. What a nice guy...

*He views conversation as a form of verbal combat. His abrasive and pugilistic style drives off others, so he can then try out his powers of seduction on any women remaining, alternating between insults and flirting.

*A common tactic is to answer any question with the claim that the interrogator "already knows the answer", and so should just search their mind. He delights in subtly implying that he is some form of thaumaturge, and making allusions to various evidence of the Vedic sciences.

*His ability to offend and insult is a matter of personal pride for him. I find it somewhat disappointing that he should be devoting so much energy to a shallow cowardly talent for intimidation, empty boasting and swaggering. Perhaps he will mature out of this stage, however.

*He makes wild claims for his own accomplishments, including being the author of several self-help books at the age of 21, and having tapped into some innate sapience for analysis of the human experience. However, there is no evidence that this is more than puffery or blatant braggadocio.

*When appropriately encouraged, he displays a deep animosity towards people from Pakistan, and will deride them quite enthusiastically and vigorously. He is a closet jingoist and racist! These are the very same traits he accuses others of harboring. He exhibits the same knee-jerk disdain for the Pakistani people as he does for the Americans. How predictable, immature, ignorant, unprofound...and ultimately, ennuyant and dégoûtant.