# Bridget Burke **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448 "2007-07-19T21:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/101 "2007-07-21T14:41:33Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] According to Wikipedia, a troll is “someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding.” [/QUOTE] \*underlining is mine [QUOTE= also by Small British Shop Owner in response to why he has shot (and presumably killed) endangered species] It was the polite thing to do at the time. [/quote] and [QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] Because it was the socially acceptable thing to do. [/quote] and [QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] Come on, everything’s “endangered” these days. [/quote] If you are not a troll, you might want to modify your behavior, because this certainly looks trollish by the definition you provided. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/102 "2007-07-21T14:46:10Z")
[QUOTE=FaerieBeth] If you are not a troll, you might want to modify your behavior, because this certainly looks trollish by the definition you provided. [/QUOTE] Actually that last comment was a bit “trollish” by that definition (although it contained more than a grain of truth). I was just getting rather irritated by holier-than-thou-chowder, and I apoligise for the way I put it. The other two comments were not “trollish” though - in the situation that I was in it really was the right thing to be doing. Just like I’d never give a Chinese person white flowers, or shake with my left hand in Saudi Arabia, I do try to be culturally sensitive whereever I go. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/103 "2007-07-21T14:49:04Z")
Well try to be culturally sensitive while on this board. Holier than thou…moi? I just cannot stand jerks like you ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/104 "2007-07-21T15:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] I fucking genuinely didn’t fucking realise this, fucking thanks for the fucking heads up, you wanker. (To readers apart from stretch: The above may not seem like conventional English, but I have had to insert profanity so he understands it. I will put a bit more effort into monitoring my posts now, but there _is_ a reasonable limit). [/QUOTE] Yes, there is a reasonable limit. The reasonable limit is to not post more than you can keep up with. Apparenty you are having difficulty with that–please post less or, as previously requested, fuck off. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/105 "2007-07-21T15:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=stretch] Yes, there is a reasonable limit. The reasonable limit is to not post more than you can keep up with. [/QUOTE] That wouldn’t work. No one would be able to post in more than fifty threads, ever, as they would be spending their entire time religiously checking those threads. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/106 "2007-07-21T15:26:21Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] The other two comments were not “trollish” though - in the situation that I was in it really was the right thing to be doing. Just like I’d never give a Chinese person white flowers, or shake with my left hand in Saudi Arabia, I do try to be culturally sensitive whereever I go. [/QUOTE] But hunting is just a pastime. And those are points of etiquette. Things that you do not to offend people–oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/107 "2007-07-21T15:34:44Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] The other two comments were not “trollish” though - in the situation that I was in it really was the right thing to be doing. Just like I’d never give a Chinese person white flowers, or shake with my left hand in Saudi Arabia, I do try to be culturally sensitive whereever I go. [/QUOTE] Once you had provided context, the trollishness was definitely mitigated, however; Your initial response of “It was the polite thing to do at the time” was offered without context, and therefore seemed to be merely an attempt at goading **chowder**. Especially considering you knew he was waiting for an answer due to your interactions in this thread. I make no accusations, I am simply trying to illustrate to you, without vitriol, why you may be earning the label “troll” or “jerk”. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/108 "2007-07-21T15:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] That wouldn’t work. No one would be able to post in more than fifty threads, ever, as they would be spending their entire time religiously checking those threads. [/QUOTE] Stretch said DON’T-POST-IN-MORE-THAN-YOU-CAN-KEEP-UP-WITH. Christ on a pogo stick, it isn’t difficult to understand ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/109 "2007-07-21T15:56:56Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Stretch said DON’T-POST-IN-MORE-THAN-YOU-CAN-KEEP-UP-WITH. Christ on a pogo stick, it isn’t difficult to understand [/QUOTE] If everyone followed those rules religiously, then we would end up with precisely fifty threads on the board. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/110 "2007-07-21T15:59:36Z")
Oh fuck off, you’re getting on my tit now. Go play with the bacon slicer ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/111 "2007-07-21T16:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] If everyone followed those rules religiously, then we would end up with precisely fifty threads on the board. [/QUOTE] I have no dog in this fight, but I don’t even get this comment. It’s pretty simple, you post in threads of interest, check back later to see if you’ve a reply or there is more discussion of interest. Other threads get read without posting to them. Everyone gets to choose what threads they post to, so there might be hundreds of threads going of which each person only posts to a few. I know it drives me insane when someone starts an OP or a discussion that I post to then never shows up again. It’s just bad form. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/112 "2007-07-21T16:13:31Z")
Which is something that SBSO can’t seem to fathom out ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/113 "2007-07-21T16:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Which is something that SBSO can’t seem to fathom out [/QUOTE] That’s what the User CP is for- set your profile to automatically subscribe to threads you post in and then periodically click the CP- you see what threads have action. You don’t have go digging around for the threads! I thought the SBSO was pretty clever when he first came, but this thread… sheesh (walks away shaking head…) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/114 "2007-07-21T16:47:23Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] I have no dog in this fight, but I don’t even get this comment. It’s pretty simple, you post in threads of interest, check back later to see if you’ve a reply or there is more discussion of interest. Other threads get read without posting to them. Everyone gets to choose what threads they post to, so there might be hundreds of threads going of which each person only posts to a few. I know it drives me insane when someone starts an OP or a discussion that I post to then never shows up again. It’s just bad form. [/QUOTE] Actually the assumptions behind my model were wrong, so scratch that. Other threads over the fifty will be created - but it seems impossible to reasonably monitor all of ones threads. At least without the subscription feature which you’ve now mentioned, which I wasn’t aware of. So I was completely wrong about that… I’ll pay more attention now! ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/115 "2007-07-22T13:29:42Z")
Or, you could just check your history and look back in on topics you visited and replied to. Also, you could write down the thread titles you post a reply in. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/116 "2007-07-22T13:54:48Z")
The OP helps explain why Britannia don’t rule no more. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/117 "2007-07-22T14:34:00Z")
Can someone please explain to me why the phrase “beyond the pale” would be offensive to the Irish? It isn’t to me and in all my 36 years have never heard anyone take offense because of it. It’s used over here as well. We can be a very grumpy group of feckers and are quick to take offense sometimes but that phrase doesn’t do it. As to the rest of this bollocks? Well, IMO the OP is a very obvious troll. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/118 "2007-07-22T17:20:05Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] Or, you could just check your history and look back in on topics you visited and replied to. [/QUOTE] How do I do that? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/119 "2007-07-22T23:03:06Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] How do I do that? [/QUOTE] Scroll down on [this](http://www.un.org/events/workshop/dpi-unitar/2003/browsers/browsers2.html) page for a how-to. Perhaps you should reconsider the idea of sneering at anyone here next time, since you aren’t showing yourself to be more knowledgeable than “us”? ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/120 "2007-07-23T00:07:47Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] > [@Heffalump and Roo](#): > > If you want people to think you’re not a troll, pony up your $14.95, post a few thousand posts to let people get to know you and then come back to this. We might have a different impression then. Or maybe not. **That** idea is utterly ridiculous. If we say five minutes to write a post, that’s almost four entire days of non-stop posting, no stopping for food, drinks, having a life, letting real people “get to know me”, etc. Nuts. I am presenting a real side of me. It would be a waste of everyone’s time and it _would_ clog up the boards if I were to present every other side of me on these boards in a proportionally balanced manner. I’m not even sure that it would be possible. [/QUOTE] Or you could. . . you know. . . spread the posts over a few weeks or even _gasp_ a few months’ time. At your current rate of inanity that you’re spewing out, which is 250 posts in 2 weeks’ time, you’d get that done in 14 more weeks. So what’s the rush? Do you think that your topic would change in 14 weeks? Do you think that someone else is crazy enough to steal your topic in the next 14 weeks? Or do you just want to post it before your guest membership expires since you figure that if they ban you, you want them to do it before you give up your $14.95. If that’s the case, don’t expect anyone to take you very seriously. . . not that they do now anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448.md?page=7)