# DNFTMFT, KTHX **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164 "2005-11-21T23:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/41 "2005-11-22T08:10:53Z")
> [@The Surb](#): > > What if I said a certain person was a trollop? How close to the line is that? One toke over? Trollop is fine. TrollOP is marginal. Troll OP is over the line. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/42 "2005-11-22T08:20:46Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > I find it utterly amazing that “troll” has become such an inflammatory word. At least relatively speaking. I can call someone a misanthropic, knuckle-dragging cocksucker…yet to imply that another person is a troll is strictly taboo. > It’s magnificent how arbitrary our language really is. I disagree. Not that language is arbitrary, your spot on on that 🙂 . But this isn’t about some arbitrary insult. It that that particular word (ok, somewhat arbitrarily although it’s fitting) has been choosen for a particular bannable offense. And I would disagree with Smeghead, it’s not board history, it’s board policy. You might MEAN when you call someone a troll that they are short and nasty and live under a bridge. But according to current nomenclature you’re saying they are violating board rules and deserve banning. It may be an arbitrary word choice, and might be difficult if you really want to tell someone you think they gnaw bones and are bug eyed…but to call them that here means something else. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/43 "2005-11-22T11:07:13Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > Trollop is fine. TrollOP is marginal. Troll OP is over the line. Trobriand Islander? ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/44 "2005-11-22T11:33:05Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > I’m going to go ahead and guess that he’s inferring that myself and **Andrew85** are the same, or that one of us is a sock of the other or whatever. Go ahead, say it - and get banned for doing so. If he really thought that, all he’d have to do is email a mod, and you’d never even see that part of it. Besides, just because you’re a douchebag and the other guy’s a fucking dimwit doesn’t mean you’re the same person. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/45 "2005-11-22T13:15:26Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > No, the extra “k” is necessary to establish your coolness. See, when you need to respond to something with “ok,” it’s too much effort to move your fingers to both letters. So you just hit “kk.” kkthxbye means, “OK, thank you and good bye.” I mean, what’s a single “k” supposed to mean? That’s just silly. I ran this by my daughter and she concurs. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/46 "2005-11-22T13:24:03Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I ran this by my daughter and she concurs. Is she tied up in a vaguely sexual kind of way? (18 or over and consensual, of course…) [game show host voice] The safeword is… “TROLL”… [/gshv] ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/47 "2005-11-22T13:24:05Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > You may provide links/examples of people you believe to be idiots, hopeless, not worth one’s attention, etc. so long as you don’t call them trolls. **VCO3** , I’m not going to imply, infer, incur or impel… **Giraffe** ’s statement fits you like a glove _(If the gloves don’t fit, you must aquit. You’re going to maximum security)_. I don’t believe I’ve crossed a single post of yours that has been worth the zeroes and ones wasted and the calories expended to scroll past it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/48 "2005-11-22T13:27:32Z")
I’ve found **VC03** to be quite entertaining. Of course, he may take that to be an insult, considering the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/49 "2005-11-22T13:50:26Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Is she tied up in a vaguely sexual kind of way? > > (18 or over and consensual, of course…) > > [game show host voice] The safeword is… “TROLL”… [/gshv] Down boy. She’s under 18. And I’m shopping for shotguns. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/50 "2005-11-22T13:57:06Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Down boy. She’s under 18. And I’m shopping for shotguns. Run **NCB** , run for your life! I’ll distract **D\_Odds** for you … _:: ahem ::_ Hello, sir, I’d like to talk to you about Jesus … ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/51 "2005-11-22T13:59:09Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Run **NCB** , run for your life! I’ll distract **D\_Odds** for you … > > _:: ahem ::_ > > Hello, sir, I’d like to talk to you about Jesus … Add to list…wide spray pellet shot. I love twofers. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/52 "2005-11-22T14:25:35Z")
Uh oh … before you shoot, **D\_Odds** , you’ll give me the chance to tell my wife I love her, right? Heh, heh. Wait until he finds out I’m not married! ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/53 "2005-11-22T14:53:12Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Is she tied up in a vaguely sexual kind of way? > > (18 or over and consensual, of course…) > > [game show host voice] The safeword is… “TROLL”… [/gshv] Today’s fill in for **Evil Captor** will be **NoClueBoy** … ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/54 "2005-11-22T21:17:42Z")
I am enlightened. Kkthxbye. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/55 "2005-11-23T00:03:37Z")
> [@Coin](#): > > Exactly. And if it takes you more than 5 seconds to figure out for yourself who I’m talking about, you’re probably not one of the people I was talking to and I apologize for wasting your time. … and if it takes us less then 5 seconds to figure out who you’re talking about, why on god’s earth do you need to tell us about it? it takes longer than that to open the thread. So, what we have here is an extremely ironimical situation… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/56 "2005-11-23T01:02:29Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Uh oh … before you shoot, **D\_Odds** , you’ll give me the chance to tell my wife I love her, right? No worries, he tells your wife he loves her all the time. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/57 "2005-11-23T02:20:04Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Trobriand Islander? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/58 "2005-11-23T03:57:19Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > I don’t get it. Im assuming it abreviates to Tro. Il ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/59 "2005-11-23T04:59:19Z")
> [@WilhelmGefallen](#): > > Im assuming it abreviates to Tro. Il Oh, I see. I don’t think I would have gotten that, thanks ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164/60 "2005-11-24T02:47:07Z")
I think DNFTT is a good rule. And in my lucid moments, I think ignoring the idiots is a good rule too. Unfortunately, I (and, I think, many others) find it hard to ignore the idiots. There’s that banner up at the top of every page reminding me that fighting ignorance is a good thing, and I keep thinking that maybe, just maybe, this time it’ll sink in. Plus, sometimes there’s good entertainment to be had watching them be verbally disemboweled. And there are so many flavors of idiot to wonder at: New Iskander. Updike. VCO3. Andrewdt85. Much like the “secret ingredient” of an Iron Chef battle, each one brings something unique to the table. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnftmft-kthx/332164.md?page=2)