# Do NOT Feed The Troll **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838 "2013-02-19T22:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/501 "2013-02-27T03:46:23Z")
Ok, here’s a guessing game. Whom am I paraphrasing when I declare: _“Is there no-one who will rid us of this meddlesome JOSH?”_ ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/502 "2013-02-27T03:50:32Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Ok, here’s a guessing game. Whom am I paraphrasing when I declare: > > _“Is there no-one who will rid us of this meddlesome JOSH?”_ Even _I_ can find that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/503 "2013-02-27T04:00:23Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ I didn’t go looking for it. Someone that I look after just happened to share it a couple of hours ago. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly Just happened to. Mm-hmm. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/504 "2013-02-27T04:03:18Z")
The cry of "But I just _have_ to keep on posting to defend myself!\* sounds oddly familiar. Does it to anyone else? I’m having hilarious visions of someone whose name started with a D. Hmm. I wonder who that was? Until my memory is jogged, I propose we call this the JOSH show. Is that original (and accurate) enough? 😉 Obligatory “no it’s not” for the close. 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/505 "2013-02-27T04:03:57Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Just happened to. Mm-hmm. Check my Twitter page if you do not believe me. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/506 "2013-02-27T04:11:51Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > Even _I_ can find that. Well, I’d use a smiley face as the reply, but that would be icky. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/507 "2013-02-27T04:24:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, I’d use a smiley face as the reply, but that would be icky. Oh bless you sir. Shit. shit. shit. Now I have to go to agnostic confession. Deacon (a stochastic modeler substituting for the Rt. Honorable [Majorana Fermium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion) - our faith’s embodiment of indecisiveness): Alright asshole, I wouldn’t normally be this harsh, but having spent several hours of my time - linear time that I won’t get back mind you - reviewing your (_sub voce_ ‘criminal’) transgression, your penance is to communicate using nothing but the Carlin curse words at a decibel level of no less than 65 dba for the next 24 hours once you leave this either holy, unholy, both or neither holy and/or unholy place. Do you understand? Me: Yes Deacon Deacon: Go and be an asshole no more. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/508 "2013-02-27T04:31:04Z")
I formally retract my offer of marriage. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/509 "2013-02-27T06:00:12Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > What you believe is your choice. And for the record, I only spent $300 Which is $300 more than anyone supporting themselves on a McD’s paycheck would have. > [@](#): > > if you continue to think that I am lying to you, I don’t think it, I know it. The more you say, the more you prove it. May Basement Cat decorate your drawers. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/510 "2013-02-27T06:24:33Z")
I want me one of them burger-flipping jobs at Mickey D’s, so that I have enough money to support an invalid relative and buy laptops and enough free time to post my obsessions all day long. How do I get one of those jobs anyway? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/511 "2013-02-27T07:20:17Z")
Maybe she means a netbook? They only run 200-300. Otherwise…like someone else said upthread, how have I missed seeing this person for so long? I don’t think JOSH understands the first thing about true Christianity, and is merely putting on an act to be obnoxious and a weird glurgy troll. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/512 "2013-02-27T08:40:06Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I want me one of them burger-flipping jobs at Mickey D’s, so that I have enough money to support an invalid relative and buy laptops and enough free time to post my obsessions all day long. How do I get one of those jobs anyway? This isn’t really all that implausible. She’s living at home, it’s possible her mother owns the house outright, so no mortgage or rent (her mother would also get Social Security Disability Insurance or supplemental income, right?). So that puts costs at food, gas and assorted bills, with a weekly income of perhaps $175 (minimum wage \* 5 hours a day \* 5 days a week). Average monthly electricity bill in [Tennessee](http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table5.html) is $100, monthly shopping about $300, gas and water combined perhaps $100, taxes probably negligible. Assuming $50 for internet, television and phone and $100 for petrol that puts Holly $50~ in the clear at the end of the month for incidental expenses. Six months to save for the laptop. There’s also the fact that there’s a picture of an adult woman associated with her Twitter account posing with James Otto: if the proposed imposter just ripped it from google, surely someone would have noticed by now? If one is going to concoct an elaborate backstory as to posting hours, why claim to work in McDonalds to support an ailing mother? ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/513 "2013-02-27T13:04:25Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ I just happened to see that E.E. quote a few minutes ago at the Twitter website. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly > [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ I didn’t go looking for it. Someone that I look after just happened to share it a couple of hours ago. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly Minutes? Hours? Well, you just lied! First post it was minutes ago - Second post 15 minutes later, it’s hours! Which means, that you just lied - fact. God bless you!!! :):)🙂 Doughbag P.S.: Even though your lie, which is a SIN! ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/514 "2013-02-27T14:18:54Z")
I agree with **Smeghead**. It’s ironic that this thread has turned into exactly what it is trying to fight, “Feeding the troll.” When someone complemented **James Otto Sweet Heart** for finally not putting three smileys in front of her signature, she starts doing it again! It’s clear that she’s just trying to piss people off. Why bother at this point? You are just loving all this attention, aren’t you **James Otto Sweet Heart**? ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/515 "2013-02-27T15:27:58Z")
^^^ I just deal with both the good and bad as they come. > [@Doughbag](#): > > Minutes? Hours? Well, you just lied! > > First post it was minutes ago - Second post 15 minutes later, it’s hours! > > Which means, that you just lied - fact. > > God bless you!!! :):)🙂 > Doughbag > > P.S.: Even though your lie, which is a SIN! I didn’t find the quote until a couple of hours after it had been put up, but you go ahead and think whatever it is that y’all want to think. God knows me better than y’all ever will and he knows that I am not a liar like you people love to think. God bless you people always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/516 "2013-02-27T15:47:26Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ I just deal with both the good and bad as they come. > I didn’t find the quote until a couple of hours after it had been put up, but you go ahead and think whatever it is that y’all want to think. God knows me better than y’all ever will and he knows that I am not a liar like you people love to think. > > God bless you people always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly You have your believes and I have the truth, ah well….. God needs to bless you – always!!! :):)🙂 Doughbag P.S.: God just called me and told me, that he’s feeling sorry for your delusions and misguidance. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/517 "2013-02-27T16:08:50Z")
_“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”_ I care about other people’s feelings, if they’re hurt, it’s their problem. You choose to be offended, I didn’t offend you. I’m not changing until everyone else changes. What I believe is right, but you believe what you want, it’s still wrong. I’m new here, but I’ll do what I want. It doesn’t matter how everyone else behaves, I can do what I want. I believe what I believe. If what you believe is not the same as what I believe then you must be mistaken, that’s what I believe. :dubious: Huh…I must have missed all these sermons as a kid, cause I don’t remember any of this… This all seems more like a childish game of \*I’m rubber and you’re glue \*to me ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/518 "2013-02-27T16:53:21Z")
Since Trolly seems like a stray cat that has decided to intrude on another’s territory, I started thinking about this in terms of animal psych. It seems to me that the only time an animal deliberately goes into hostile territory is out of desperation. But even when desperate, there is always a rational motivation. IOW, you can watch what someone does and extrapolate motivations from their actions. If a stray cat comes into my yard to hunt, it does the minimum it has to find a meal and then it’s gone. It doesn’t parade to the middle of the yard, find a nice open spot and drop the biggest steaming pile it can squeeze out. That’s much more aggressive behavior that’s reserved for making a statement. That says: ‘This is mine. Stay away. I keeelll you.’ So if a strange animal comes into an existing territory and does precisely that, you’d pretty much have to assume it’s rabid. Which brings us to Trolly. There’s not much doubt that she’s desperate to prove something. Clearly not to any of us. We’re about as relevant to her as victims are to a serial killer. Yeah, he technically needs them, but when you get right down to it, they’re really not much more than props in some internal psycho-drama (not to deprecate the suffering that results to real people in the real world). I probably should have chosen a less grandiose analogy, but I think the psycho-drama part fits pretty well and the basic point is the same. Just like the cat example, if somebody comes into your home and shits in the middle of your living room and then acts like it’s your problem and not theirs, there really shouldn’t be any discussion at all about who has a problem. And that really should be the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/519 "2013-02-27T17:12:50Z")
I’ve said all that I have to say here. If you don’t like what comes from me or think that I am just making things up, that is all on you. Now if you’ll excuse me, there are other chats here that I am more interested in. God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838/520 "2013-02-27T18:03:50Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > I’ve said all that I have to say here. If you don’t like what comes from me or think that I am just making things up, that is all on you. Now if you’ll excuse me, there are other chats here that I am more interested in. God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly Sure, this cannot be all that you can come up with? Does this mean we are not important? Every soul is important. God needs to bless you 🙂 🙂 🙂 Doughbag P.S.: …. But apparently we are not worth your attention, since we are not interesting enough for you. P.P.S: Can this really be you have to say… there is nothing more between your ears? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-feed-the-troll/650838.md?page=27)