You mean this Rush Limbaugh?
You’ll note I’m not the only one who perceives you as a braggart. Not in this thread nor in the trainwrecks for which you are responsible. You may possibly believe you are relating past events in as neutral a way as possible, but I don’t think so. Everything in those stories is spun to make you look as blameless, clever, daring or fearless as possible.
I note that you are trolling another gun thread as we speak. In largely the same fashion as you did the others, too. What’s your motivation, jailbird? You live in a largely gun-free society, so why do you need to focus on gun threads as your trolling gounds of choice?
Stupid arguments do not equal trolling.
Why do you have such a burr up your ass about this guy?
I’d say that’s exactly what he meant, yes.
Come on now…he asked for it.
In slight defence of Ivan, the level of emotion that the gun debate engenders is something of a novelty to those of not from your shining shores.
If you are bored, sitting at home at your computer, there is almost a magnetic attraction to stick your oar in. The thought that anyone could think differently to us commie liberals in Europe and elsewhere, is too distracting and fascinating a possibility. And then when you make a point that every adult member of your nation / continent would unhesitatingly agree with, and it gets argued against vehemently, then the attraction just grows stronger. It’s like Alice going through the looking glass.
So whilst Ivan may be skirting trolldom in those threads (I really can’t be arsed to even begin to read them), I can understand how he might be sucked into the black hole.
I only know of three topics to which this applies - guns, abortion and Israel.
PM’s analysis is part-correct; this is a novelty to me. You guys may have rehashed these tired old points over and over, but does that mean I have to read every previous gun thread and only make observations that haven’t been made?
Crimoney, it’s like deja vu all over again. Some quotes from our career criminal and troll extrordinaire as he works toward making that another “all about ivan” thread:
Note the transition from generalized statements to “I” statements. Shortly the topic will have transitioned entirely from the OP to an ivan-centric discussion. One hopes the savvier participants in that thread will not suck in for the bait he’s laid out and will keep things on topic.
If my comments are meant to be so blatantly trollish, isn’t Scumpup insulting the reader’s intelligence by feeling the need to point it out?
That’s just it, shitbird. Your comments aren’t* meant *to be blatantly trollish. It’s just that you aren’t as subtle or clever as you believe you are. Before you trashed two gun threads in a row, I_like catsix_didn’t pay any particular attention to you. Now, I’ve had a chance to study your style in 3 threads and it isn’t difficult to see where things are going.
So, if you choose to get pissed off about my “posting style”, is that evidence of trolling or evidence of your intolerance?
Don’t worry. He’s on to a third gun thread in GD as we speak.
Deliberately derailing threads isn’t a “posting style,” you disingenuous asshole.
Sounds like Ivan’s ass took off… and left his brain behind! Oh, SNAP! AM I RIGHT, PEOPLE? Somebody HIGH-FIVE the TURNIP! BOO-yah! Game, set, and MATCH! <moonwalk>
Now that was funny, right there.
You described it as such yourself, here
Do keep up.
Are you in the right thread?
I guess you’re going to play the willfully obtuse card.
In post #110, the style I was referring to was your trolling style.
In post #111 you replied
Are you admitting that your “posting style” is, in fact, the same thing as your trolling style? Are you admitting that you did, in fact, deliberately derail those threads and were in the process of derailing a third?
Is that what you are admitting?
If not, then you must just be playing some shitty little semantics game where you pretend to believe that the word “style” referred to the same thing in the two posts where I used it.
So which is it, troll?
Do you admit you’re a troll?
Or do you admit you’re just playing shitty little games?
You’ve earned it - ^5
Actually, I never even claimed to have a style.
I just make my comments as and when they suit, without any real intent other than they express my thoughts at that moment, and are intelligible.