# I've been called a troll... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689 "2008-11-14T09:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/61 "2008-11-14T20:51:43Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > bolding mine. > > Don’t do that. You’re not British or Aussie or a pirate. How do you know I’m not a pirate?! Anyway, ‘wtf mate’ is an affectation I’ve picked up that is a reference to [this flash animation.](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end) Don’t like it? With all due respect, tough titties. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/62 "2008-11-14T20:56:32Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > How do you know I’m not a pirate?! You don’t have a parrot. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/63 "2008-11-14T21:00:32Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > You don’t have a parrot. Probably just walks around squinting one eye saying, ARRRRR! ARRRRR! Same difference. Hell, maybe he rides a crappy boat around Somalia trying to capture freighters with a knock off AK 47. Maybe an occasional scurvy dog, avast. You get the picture. Either way, when he didn’t answer the hair color question, I had my doubts. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/64 "2008-11-14T21:10:34Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Don’t do that. You’re not British or Aussie or a pirate. Actually, he might be having kitchen sex with **Marley23** , in which case “mate” would be totally appropriate. Anyway, this explains **EpicNonsense** ’s positively monastic brevity of speech. He didn’t want to expose speech patterns that other people would pick up as belonging to (whoever he was before). ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/65 "2008-11-14T21:21:21Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Either way, when he didn’t answer the hair color question, I had my doubts. Are we talking about **Autolycus** or the banned OP? They’re not the same. > [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Anyway, this explains **EpicNonsense** ’s positively monastic brevity of speech. He didn’t want to expose speech patterns that other people would pick up as belonging to (whoever he was before). Whaaa??? 😕 Monastic brevity of speech? Here’s a [piece of verbal diarrhea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=490786) that was definitely not monastic nor brief. (Caution: do not try to read this at once; gives headaches.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/66 "2008-11-14T21:30:34Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Actually, he might be having kitchen sex with **Marley23** …with the whatnow? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/67 "2008-11-14T21:33:45Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > …with the whatnow? Whatnow? is that a new brand of condoms? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/68 "2008-11-14T21:39:08Z")
Oh my. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/69 "2008-11-14T22:10:08Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Saying what one believes, if done simply to illicit a negative reaction, is also considered trolling. Eh? Since when? I like Dick Cheney, and wish he would have been president. Eat me, **Lute**. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/70 "2008-11-14T22:29:55Z")
Huh. You can buy socks online. That never occurred to me before. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/71 "2008-11-14T22:36:11Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > But how is him linking to that other board being a troll? Just for the sake of clarity, when I made that post my intended meaning was that the other thread was trolling (starting a fake thread with your “girlfriend” in it just to get people to be mean to some girl and to get attention). I then said I thought it was the same person posting here. I wasn’t saying that their behavior _here_ was necessarily trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/72 "2008-11-14T23:31:12Z")
[QUOTE=Roo] > [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Anyway, this explains **EpicNonsense** ’s positively monastic brevity of speech. He didn’t want to expose speech patterns that other people would pick up as belonging to (whoever he was before) Whaaa??? 😕 Monastic brevity of speech? Here’s a piece of verbal diarrhea that was definitely not monastic nor brief. (Caution: do not try to read this at once; gives headaches.) [/quote] I thought about it more and now think you’re right. He probably stole the OPs from other message boards, explaining why they could be so long, but the responses were very short and/or non-responsive. I don’t think he was trying to hide. I just think he wasn’t very creative. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/73 "2008-11-14T23:53:05Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > Are we talking about **Autolycus** or the banned OP? They’re not the same. > Whaaa??? 😕 **Autolycus**? Nah. He’s a skinny white guy with brown hair. What kind of pirate has blue or pink hair? ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/74 "2008-11-15T00:15:01Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > **Autolycus**? Nah. He’s a skinny white guy with brown hair. What kind of pirate has blue or pink hair? That be the one. But **Autolycus** is the one who was claiming to be a pir. . . Oh, never mind. He’s off having kitchen sex with **Marley23** now. It’s so hard to keep up around here. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/75 "2008-11-15T00:25:38Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > Oh, never mind. He’s off having kitchen sex with **Marley23** now. It’s so hard to keep up around here. That’s what the Viagra is for. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/76 "2008-11-15T01:03:51Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > …with the whatnow? With the ladle, of course. > [@Heffalump and Roo](#): > > I thought about it more and now think you’re right. He probably stole the OPs from other message boards, explaining why they could be so long, but the responses were very short and/or non-responsive. I don’t think he was trying to hide. I just think he wasn’t very creative. There’s that, but I’ll have to take your word for it; I was just talking about the thread in question. I hadn’t taken any particular notice to him before that. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/77 "2008-11-15T01:21:53Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > **Autolycus**? Nah. He’s a skinny white guy with brown hair. What kind of pirate has blue or pink hair? Yarrrrr, if ye can give me five minutes I’ll show ya. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/78 "2008-11-15T01:38:12Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Yarrrrr, if ye can give me five minutes I’ll show ya. Avast there matey! You’re totally shivering me timbers. I think it be time for ye to be swabbin’ the poop deck! And keep your one eye off me parrot. You’ll be gettin to walk the plank later. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/79 "2008-11-15T02:25:02Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Avast there matey! You’re totally shivering me timbers. I think it be time for ye to be swabbin’ the poop deck! And keep your one eye off me parrot. You’ll be gettin to walk the plank later. I choose to interpret all of that as salacious sexual innuendo. The part about my ‘one-eye’ was particularly gratuitous. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/80 "2008-11-15T02:27:50Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > I choose to interpret all of that as salacious sexual innuendo. The part about my ‘one-eye’ was particularly gratuitous. Just be thankful he’s into swabbing the poop deck first. Trust me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689.md?page=5)