# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 257
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5124 "2017-12-04T00:29:46Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Roderick, point well taken — but I, for one, find it hard to acknowlege even 50% responsibility when feeling righteously indignant (in my case, more often IRL than on these boards). Baby steps. 🙂 Also a fair point, perhaps, as long as one isn’t congratulating one’s own maturity for those baby steps. (Apologies for using “one” in this context but I was too lazy to try to rewrite the sentence without it.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5125 "2017-12-04T00:56:24Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Yes, because “that’s racist” you politically correct asshole. Smart people are less violent. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, most smart kids are white or asian. Maybe it isn’t genetics and maybe black people can perform in the right 1% of the bell curve…but they are vanishingly rare. But yeah I shouldn’t have mentioned race…though if I had left the words “white and asian” out of that sentence, it would work out to be the same damn thing in reality. All that time, and **that’s** what you came up with? The generic “you’re just calling me racist because you’re politically correct” followed by an admission that what you said was racist? And an incredibly stupid rehash of an desperately flawed argument to boot? Are you sure you wouldn’t like to take a few more months to come up with something less idiotic and clichéd? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5126 "2017-12-04T03:14:35Z")
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**Author:** ![AI\_Proofreader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@AI\_Proofreader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AI_Proofreader)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5127 "2017-12-04T06:40:22Z")
[HurricaneDitka posting obvious trolling in a safe space again](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843519) His persecution complex and baiting tactics were worthy of a response: > [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Are there any conservative posters that post on a regular basis that have not had a BBQ Pit thread about them? > [@AI Proofreader](#): > > This raises an interesting question… at what point does it become clear that the singling-out of your ideological peers as being particularly reprehensible is less a matter of persecution, but rather an indicator that, perhaps, the ideology you hold is reprehensible when taken at face value, and tends to attract horrible people? Can’t imagine how HD could have figured that question belonged in About This Message Board and not in the Pit. Not saying he’s a coward who didn’t want honest responses such as above, but the only other option I can see is misguided delusion. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5128 "2017-12-04T07:41:17Z")
**AI Proofreader** based just upon that post above your response seems unnecessarily hostile. I for one do not believe all conservatives are the same and certainly not all like the jackass we have for president. Just my opinion, YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5129 "2017-12-04T10:10:38Z")
**zoid** - the Nazis weren’t just the ones shoving people into ovens. The ones standing around saying, “Now, now, there’s some very fine people on both sides” are also Nazis. As long as Conservatives embrace the jackass we have as president, they don’t get to pretend that they’re better than he is. If they want to post about their support for his irrational jackassery on this messageboard, the rest of us aren’t obligated to pretend that they’re just good people. We’re especially not obligated to pretend that rank ignorance is just a harmless difference of opinion. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5130 "2017-12-04T11:25:30Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > **zoid** - the Nazis weren’t just the ones shoving people into ovens. The ones standing around saying, “Now, now, there’s some very fine people on both sides” are also Nazis. Thank you for making my point. This type of hyperbolic nonsense degrades our ability to talk. As a liberal I find it truly disturbing you would resort to the false tactics Trump uses to paint anyone who disagrees with you as evil incarnate. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5131 "2017-12-04T12:45:01Z")
> [@AI\_Proofreader](#): > > Can’t imagine how HD could have figured that question belonged in About This Message Board and not in the Pit. Not saying he’s a coward who didn’t want honest responses such as above, but the only other option I can see is misguided delusion. A mod moved it there. He started it in GQ. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20637917&postcount=7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20637917&postcount=7) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5132 "2017-12-04T13:14:02Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > **AI Proofreader** based just upon that post above your response seems unnecessarily hostile. I for one do not believe all conservatives are the same and certainly not all like the jackass we have for president. True, they are not. **HurricaneDitka** , however, is a shameless, Trumpfluffing JAQrabbit who’s been polluting the board with regurgitated factional pablum for years, earning him a standing invitation to nosh at VT’s Rusty Ring Cafe. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5133 "2017-12-04T13:20:21Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Thank you for making my point. This type of hyperbolic nonsense degrades our ability to talk. As a liberal I find it truly disturbing you would resort to the false tactics Trump uses to paint anyone who disagrees with you as evil incarnate. Hey, [I made a thread about this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=834183). Is **CrazyTiger** new? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5134 "2017-12-04T14:46:52Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > **AI Proofreader** based just upon that post above your response seems unnecessarily hostile. I for one do not believe all conservatives are the same and certainly not all like the jackass we have for president. > > Just my opinion, YMMV \*\*HurricaneDitzy \*\*is very trollish. He’ll squeeze in a relevantly post on occasion, but he still trolls the board like \*\*Shagnasty \*\*trolls women. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5135 "2017-12-04T15:54:41Z")
What about [this new guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843750)? He posits that getting a college degree is nothing to be proud of. His OP is full of gems like: > [@](#): > > Several months ago, a user named blockhalf created a thread on why having a Bachelor’s Degree was something to be proud of. They claimed that it was because the majority of people in the country didn’t have one. Now if that were true, having a Bachelor’s Degree would be something to be proud, but their only piece of evidence was this link, [https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/...t13\_104.20.asp](https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/...t13_104.20.asp), which is probably very outdated and, like many statistical studies, incorrect. He gives the game away in that last bit. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5136 "2017-12-04T16:09:21Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > What about [this new guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843750)? He posits that getting a college degree is nothing to be proud of. His OP is full of gems like: > > He gives the game away in that last bit. I saw that. His first thread was about finding a college where he fit in at his age, the second thread was about how worthless degrees are. Now, it’s December, the semester is about over. Finals are upon him. He’s in panic mode. And he wants us to agree that a degree is a waste of time. I wonder why? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5137 "2017-12-04T16:12:49Z")
When you put it that way, I kind of feel sorry for him. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5138 "2017-12-04T16:26:14Z")
As so often, there’s a kernel of truth in the center of a great snowball of bullshit. A bachelor’s degree used to be an all-but guaranteed ticket to the upper part of the middle class. And did not require mortgaging your, or your parent’s, future to obtain. Both those are much less true today than they were. One hell of a lot of people, myself included, have lived the disappointment of learning the hard way that the economic situation of 1945-1965 is not in fact a permanent birthright of all Americans for all time. OTOH, to only just now be getting that memo seems kinda lame on his part. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5139 "2017-12-04T16:29:39Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > When you put it that way, I kind of feel sorry for him. Speaking from experience: if you had to grade the finals of self-important undergraduates who greatly overestimate their own abilities, you wouldn’t.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5140 "2017-12-04T17:12:47Z")
You mean the term “sophomore” has some basis in fact? Say it ain’t so, Joe. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5141 "2017-12-04T17:15:38Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Is **CrazyTiger** new? Perhaps. > [@](#): > > Join Date > 12-04-2017 > Total Posts > 2 You know, you can click on the username and “View Public Profile” to obtain this information. Or, glance quickly at the upper right of one of their posts. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5142 "2017-12-04T19:33:42Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Speaking from experience: if you had to grade the finals of self-important undergraduates who greatly overestimate their own abilities, you wouldn’t.🙂 Our little friend is gone. Off to the cornfield, to share his wisdom with the countless others who have gone before. I was a TA in graduate school. I have no idea how some of those kids even got into college. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5143 "2017-12-04T19:43:07Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Our little friend is gone. … The good news is that he’ll have plenty of time to study for finals now, unless he found the Shagnasty thread, in which case, not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=256) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=258)