# gms453 is a troll. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116 "2012-10-08T18:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/141 "2012-11-10T04:10:05Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > You’re missing the second order signifiers of bemused. No, I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/142 "2012-11-10T04:13:12Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Why did you kick this smoldering turd back up to the top of the pile? > > Shit! Now I did it. > > and it won’t come off my shoe either How charming. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/143 "2012-11-10T16:00:42Z")
> [@gms453](#): > > No, I’m not. Perhaps it’s a stretch, but bemuse is defined as “to make confused” by Merriam Webster online. To be confused is to be “perplexed or disconcerted”. The third definition of fret as an intransitive verb gives “vexed or worried”. The word “bemused” has taken on connotations of “wry or tolerant amusement”, which may have been the sense you were aiming for, but that was far from clear in context. ---
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/144 "2012-11-10T18:05:11Z")
Good point. “Wry or tolerant amusement” is what I intended. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/145 "2012-11-11T13:35:37Z")
Ok, thanks for the clarification. I was far from clear myself. Kind of a meta-error on my part: if I’d actually asked for your intentions without trying to play “gotcha” or assuming that you were doing the same, we’d have reached an understanding quite a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/146 "2012-11-11T15:42:22Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > …You sir are on the same level as so many others. I wasn’t shocked to learn that, I admitted to not knowing it, and once I checked around some, I believed it. FAR more than most in here will do. Plus, during my checking about I discovered that most people my age or older didn’t know it either. Like me, they had assumed that there had been far more immigration than there had been, and it wasn’t something that we learned in school way back when. It’s still a big so what tho. > > Which of course is immaterial to this or any discussion. Same question to you as to **kambuckta**. I’m betting there is no answer other than you are just a jerk. I know I’ve answered your first point before. Nope. Most people your age or older know damn well how the African ancestors of our African-Americans got here. Even in Texas Public Schools, we learned that history–I’m pretty sure I’m in the right age range. Of course, we didn’t get the _full_ story Which is why any intelligent person continues educating themselves for the rest of their life. What am I saying? You’re also the one who bitches that she never learned how to cook And, now, it’s obviously too late! (Is there something about this pitting that has attracted Former Pittees? Are they envious or feeling neglected?) ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/147 "2012-11-11T23:09:01Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I know I’ve answered your first point before. Nope. Most people your age or older know damn well how the African ancestors of our African-Americans got here. If you did respond before (and why the hell are you now so long after my post?), I’d have told you that you have no way of knowing what the people I checked with did or did not know. Bully for you for having gone to a school that taught you that, tho all you say is you think you are in the right age range - given you didn’t get anything else right, I wonder. > [@](#): > > Which is why any intelligent person continues educating themselves for the rest of their life. Which, if you’d read the post, I said I did. But it’s much more fun to come in a month later and point fingers, eh? Also, despite how important you may feel you are, not everyone has the same interests that you do. To vilify someone just because they didn’t question something they thought they knew about history is pretty idiotic. There will be subjects that I will know far more about than you, but I am intelligent enough to not think less of you for it. Acting like a complete jackass on the other hand… > [@](#): > > What am I saying? You’re also the one who bitches that she never learned how to cook And, now, it’s obviously too late! I have never bitched about not learning how to cook. I state it, but I do not bitch about it because it doesn’t make any difference to me. Want to try again and see if you get anything right? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/148 "2012-11-13T22:11:14Z")
Give gms453 a break. Okay, he said one offensive thing (it actually made me laugh), but as soon as a moderator asked him to stop, he did. I don’t see what the problem is or why this is being pitted. I’m completely on gms453’s defense on this one. ---
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/149 "2012-11-14T01:14:27Z")
Thanks, Mom. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/150 "2012-11-14T01:58:01Z")
> [@gms453](#): > > Thanks, Mom. Mom? ---
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/151 "2012-11-14T02:17:21Z")
Dad? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/152 "2012-11-14T02:35:08Z")
> [@gms453](#): > > Dad? What is going here? Why are you calling me a parent? ---
**Author:** ![gms453](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@gms453](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gms453)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/153 "2012-11-14T11:15:57Z")
Just kiddin’ around. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116/154 "2012-11-14T18:04:30Z")
I wonder what would have happened if the bum won American idol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gms453-is-a-troll/637116.md?page=7)