# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/101 "2008-11-15T16:53:04Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Don’t know about **Aji** , but **magellan01** , despite being a total jerk, a hypocrite, an asshole, and wrong about just about everything, he is neither a sock nor a true troll. > While I think he enjoys the outrage provoked when he shows Dopers his alternative viewpoint, he’s more of an ignorant and belligerent devil’s advocate than an imbecile hitting a beehive with a stick. And really, we do need devil’s advocates around here. If we only had a teeming mass of liberal idealists who all agreed with one another, not only would it be boring but we’d all develop very skewed views of the world. Far better to get a dose of reality every now and again: There are people who don’t support SSM. _There are a lot of them._ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/102 "2008-11-15T17:15:38Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > it’s like trying to teach algebra to a cat, all you’re doing is annoying the cat. Did you just make this up? This is beautiful! ---
**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 15, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/103 "2008-11-15T20:09:09Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > Does this mean we can start referring to Marley23 as the Ladle-Mod? I’d be disappointed if we didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/104 "2008-11-15T22:17:43Z")
Inigo, I had help with this idea from the kitties sleeping on my desk. They like books best when they can be slept upon. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/105 "2008-11-15T22:36:17Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou View Post] Huh. You can buy socks online. That never occurred to me before. [/QUOTE] Oh man are you ever missing out. [http://www.joyofsocks.com/](http://www.joyofsocks.com/) I could easily spend hundreds of dollars there, if I had the money. (Check out pages 2 and 3 on the tights page!) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/106 "2008-11-15T22:39:43Z")
Here’s my favorite sock site: [Little Miss Matched](http://www.littlemissmatched.com) I only wish she had more women’s knee socks. Fortunately, I already have a drawer full from previous collections. ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/107 "2008-11-15T22:53:32Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > On a less silly note, I still dont understand what prompted your original comment HD. “wtf **mate** ” > [@Bootis](#): > > Yeah yeah, I know. but A ‘full time slacker’ ripping me for wasting time? Actually, I’m making progress toward a degree at a prestigious college, but my point was that message board sleuthing is juvenile and silly and often results in more trouble than it’s worth. Publishing personal details you found out illicitly about other posters is a bannable offense, one which has led to very, very ugly drama on this board. It’s moot now, since you didn’t seem to find any personal details and the guy is gone anyway, but I don’t think you have much appreciation for the shit that’s gone down here in the past when a busybody has taken it upon him/herself to find out personal details about other posters. > [@anya marie](#): > > it’s like trying to teach algebra to a cat, all you’re doing is annoying the cat. Well said! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/108 "2008-11-15T22:55:55Z")
My cats can multiply polynomials. We’re working on factoring next week. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/109 "2008-11-15T23:04:14Z")
My cats are very interested in string theory. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/110 "2008-11-16T00:11:45Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > My cats can multiply polynomials. Wow, that’s even harder than math: you’ve taught them not to go after the parrot! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/111 "2008-11-16T01:27:10Z")
My friend’s cats can multiply polydactyls. But you need a male cat and a female cat for that. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/112 "2008-11-16T03:42:04Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > My cats are very interested in string theory. Your cats are better students than mine, then. My cat just regurgitates whatever he takes in. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/113 "2008-11-16T03:45:52Z")
Oh my cats are very industrious students. They will really go out of their way to investigate when it comes to string theory, and they will perform paws-on experimentation whenever possible, not relying just on book learning or lectures. In fact, they sometimes seem to entirely ignore the lecture material to pursue what seem to me to be highly questionable experimental theories… ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/114 "2008-11-16T04:25:14Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > I don’t think you have much appreciation for the shit that’s gone down here in the past when a busybody has taken it upon him/herself to find out personal details about other posters. I don’t, I never noticed it, but then I haven’t been around here that long. Posting personal details would be slimy, but I think that’s different from looking for similarities between 2 posters after it becomes widely speculated and coyly anti-denied. Maybe it’s juvenile, but it was a pretty juvenile thread anyway. (The full time slacker thing was a joke based on that being your listed occupation) ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/115 "2008-11-16T04:37:19Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Your cats are better students than mine, then. My cat just regurgitates whatever he takes in. I have nothing constructive to add to this, other than to say that I love you all. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/116 "2008-11-16T05:45:05Z")
My cats also like sleeping on computer monitors… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/117 "2008-11-16T08:02:17Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > “wtf **mate** ” So, what you’re saying is that anytime I post something stupid people can make fun of my ladle incident? That hardly seems fair, but I guess them’s the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/118 "2008-11-16T09:01:41Z")
I feel for you Auto there… It’s sort of like Hal and the Sheep. Or like a few other posters who when mentioned have less than steller associations with them due to their viewpoints or personalities. As far as doper associations go, the Ladle’s kinda breaking even. It’s not the best thing sure, but it’s certainly far from the worst associations of trollishness or sockery or jerkitude etc… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/119 "2008-11-16T21:14:50Z")
[My cat prefers to study geometry.](http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2178607460000735275MSJynZ) ---
**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 17, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689/120 "2008-11-17T08:45:21Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > So, what you’re saying is that anytime I post something stupid people can make fun of my ladle incident? That hardly seems fair, but I guess them’s the breaks. Do you know the other meaning of the word “mate”? It was a joke, jeez. Seeing the occasional reference to your “ladle incident” is not going to kill you. Just ask **Hal Briston**. Anyway, much worse things have been said and implied about me here and on other boards and I’ve never cried myself to sleep over it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-called-a-troll/472689.md?page=7)