As far as I can tell, our new esteemed poster has done nothing but start threads regarding: that guy who hit on me sucks, tests suck, my dad sucks, and everybody here sucks.
I, for one, don’t care so much about her grammar, it’s just that there’s a reason I don’t friend teenagers on Facebook – and this is it.
This is The Straight Dope not Dear Judy Blume.
Unless I’m going to live to be 112, I am not even middle-aged.
Now get off my lawn.
Regards,
Shodan
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Even if you’re not interested in the subject matter, it’s not like she posted with ellipses or unnecessary "OK, so"s.
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Ellipses are bad?
Huh.
Ellipses aren’t bad per se. People who don’t know what the fuck ellipses are for but still stick them everyfuckingwhere… because they think it makes you sound…deep and mysterious…or thoughtful…are Hitler. All of them, just pure Hitler.
See, I did it right there just the once, and I already feel like invading Poland a little.
I’m stealing that. Thought you’d want to know.
Think I’ll find an opportunity to use it on Facebook.
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Hot ratz! IT WORKED! 
Me too! But I’m stealing all your …
… ellipses!
Although they’re less elliptical than round, so I’m calling them …
… wait for it …
… circlees!
Hey, maybe we should just turn The Pit into our own little Dopebook, with status updates* and pics of ourselves taken in the bathroom mirror.
*Status: Ed Z. is such a douche – just zapped mah lolcat with some sort of Death Ray …
With all of our bathroom pictures taken with duckface.
That street sucks, right by the railroad tracks. The residents think they’re lower-middle class and upcoming, but their community center is full of pushers and whores and that big parking lot up a few blocks over is a homeless shanty-town.
In conclusion, there’s literally zero reason to conclude she’s a troll beyond the fact that a bunch of (supposed) adults here freaked out at her post. But since normal people wouldn’t freak out over hearing stuff like this – rather, they’d close the tab and go do something else rather than witness facebook drama unfold – it seems unfair to call her a troll on this basis.
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Did you even read the thread that got all this started?
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I read both threads, before this one got posted. They were some kid having kid dramas that may seem irrelevant to adults but seemed totally relevant to us when we were that age, and included one description of an attempted pickup that was totally inappropriate if not literally illegal. Yes, I’m familiar with the story, SeaDragonTattoo. It wasn’t that complicated.
IDK what you people think “troll” means, but it doesn’t mean “poster whom I think does not meet our community’s august standards.”
Especially when the standards are low enough that you end up yelling insults at a kid for not wanting to be offered money for companionship.
Pretty sure both are reasons to take offense actually.
Not being that many years out from that, I can safely say, yeah, you do.
Not sure how long it’s been for you, grandma, but we did in fact refer to each other as “kids” at times.
Maybe not a troll, but possibly not entirely on the level either. In one post she talked about her mother’s abusive boyfriends. In another she said the reason she was creeped out about being hit on was because she’s from a sheltered environment. That’s confusing.
And I really don’t see that someone close to your own age, who you know, suggesting “lay your head on my shoulder” is all that creepy. The “kid” who made the offer might be just as socially clueless as the OP and deserving of just as much understanding.
Did St. Jimmy expand on the offer of money? (I haven’t read all her posts.) Did he offer her money for sex or was it “here’s $5 for a grande latte if you need it”?
Is that what the kids are calling it, now?
Without getting into unnecessary specifics, I’m not sure how you got this idea, because it’s definitely not true that households with child abuse are not also households that are “sheltered”. In fact, it’s common for them to be extremely “sheltered”. So, no, that’s not confusing at all. And if she is in fact a kid from an abusive environment, it’s pretty understandable why she might not be entirely capable of handling contact that is abusive, or that even just seems to her to be similar to abusive contact that she’s received, without freaking out.
If the kid had a girlfriend, as the story indicated, it’s obviously not the norm. I mean perhaps she’s just not clued into this college dude’s (definitely not a kid!) polygamy scene but IDK it’s hard for me to fault someone for being creeped out by being hit on by someone who’s already in a relationship.
Well, it’s hard to say, but I would definitely suggest not offering money while you are hitting on underage kids who are aware that you are already in a relationship. It may creep them out, and then some website may get all aflutter because they post about it. Think about the damage you might cause.
All of us isn’t.
-Ch2, ‘Be As You Are, The Teachings Of Sri Ramana Maharshi’
Thank you for this welcome reality check and sensible dose of sanity!
So someone is gong to get thrown down a bottomless pit and/or quarry?
Keep me posted.
And what style of Death Ray was that in the Emperor’s laundry chute?
Fucking kids and their Starbucks. In my day we called it a “large latte”.
This made me laugh.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
(waking up)
( How do I address someone younger than my daughters? Honey? Dear?)
Miss Jimmy, I might think that a poll of Dopers, like a poll of Real Teens, would find they went through much the same shit. We, as a group, got over it, though it sometimes took time. Give it that time. See how it tempers the initial experiences. Because there will come a time when someone flirting with you will start feeling pretty nice.
Life without a chip on your shoulder can also be nice.