# 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:** 292
**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:** [January 1, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5824 "2018-01-01T21:58:05Z")
Now, now, threads like that have great entertainment value. The OP expressed concern that he had damaged his DNA, which **Sicks Ate** identified as meaning “dick/nuts area”. That has to be a classic. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5825 "2018-01-02T02:15:54Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > more hero worship from the turdGuy. > > RE: the shagnutzy thread. I keep checking that thread, really hoping the two of them get into a pissing contest about who’s the most horrible human being (S’nasty has devolved into bragging about how shallow he is). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5826 "2018-01-02T02:25:08Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps. I’m still skeptical. For one thing, anytime a family member or I have an ongoing medical issue, we get really familiar with the correct medical terminology and are able to talk about it in more grown-up language than “my willy is broken”. The language was also what made me lean troll. Though I also tend to think people so desperate to ask us about medical problems (and not, say, a medical website) are already doubtful. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5827 "2018-01-02T02:57:53Z")
Watch out for those [4K TVs.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20692562&postcount=3) Who spends $4,000 on a TV these days!!?? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5828 "2018-01-02T03:31:21Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Now, now, threads like that have great entertainment value. The OP expressed concern that he had damaged his DNA, which **Sicks Ate** identified as meaning “dick/nuts area”. That has to be a classic. I hope to hell that’s a real acronym. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps. I’m still skeptical. For one thing, anytime a family member or I have an ongoing medical issue, we get really familiar with the correct medical terminology and are able to talk about it in more grown-up language than “my willy is broken”. Ok, valid point. I’m gullible. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5829 "2018-01-02T03:58:44Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I hope to hell that’s a real acronym. Well, of course it is. You know, just like that “perplexing minge stuff”. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5830 "2018-01-02T11:29:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Watch out for those [4K TVs.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20692562&postcount=3) Who spends $4,000 on a TV these days!!?? You _can_. [Here’s](https://newatlas.com/samsung-88-inch-qled-tv/50738/) an interesting one for $20,000. And [this](https://newatlas.com/c-seed-262-worlds-largest-uhd-led-tv/50006/) one for a tad more. Personally, I wonder how many people bought the first 42 inch flat panels when they were $15,000. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5831 "2018-01-02T15:39:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > You _can_. [Here’s](https://newatlas.com/samsung-88-inch-qled-tv/50738/) an interesting one for $20,000. And [this](https://newatlas.com/c-seed-262-worlds-largest-uhd-led-tv/50006/) one for a tad more. > > Personally, I wonder how many people bought the first 42 inch flat panels when they were $15,000. I remember seeing the first ones that were $15,000 and IIRC, they were 30". Made by Philips. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5832 "2018-01-02T16:39:02Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I remember seeing the first ones that were $15,000 and IIRC, they were 30". Made by Philips. Nope, [it was 42](http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-90-best-gadgets-of-the-90s/45). (At that price, they were _not_ the answer to life, the universe, and everything.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5833 "2018-01-02T16:49:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nope, [it was 42](http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-90-best-gadgets-of-the-90s/45). (At that price, they were _not_ the answer to life, the universe, and everything.) Well, I got the Philips part right! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5834 "2018-01-03T00:22:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > You _can_. [Here’s](https://newatlas.com/samsung-88-inch-qled-tv/50738/) an interesting one for $20,000. And [this](https://newatlas.com/c-seed-262-worlds-largest-uhd-led-tv/50006/) one for a tad more. > > Personally, I wonder how many people bought the first 42 inch flat panels when they were $15,000. I remember when Plasma TVs were bleeding edge, and went for $15k (which was the price of a really nice car back then). Had a friend who wouldn’t listen to his more budget-conscious friends and sunk a lot of his savings into his “up and coming tech” home theater system. \*\*t a n g e n t : \*\* That friend guessed wrong on every technology: he bad-mouthed VHS tapes and spent a _lot_ on a top-end Betamax player and tons of Beta movies, passed on DVDs and bought over a hundred LaserDisks, and even sneered at Blu-Rays as he stocked up on the red-packaged HD-DVDs instead. All of the above are unwatchable, except on his vintage machines, which have cost a fortune to keep working. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5835 "2018-01-03T11:18:09Z")
> [@digs](#): > > \*\*t a n g e n t : \*\* That friend guessed wrong on every technology: he bad-mouthed VHS tapes and spent a _lot_ on a top-end Betamax player and tons of Beta movies, passed on DVDs and bought over a hundred LaserDisks, and even sneered at Blu-Rays as he stocked up on the red-packaged HD-DVDs instead. All of those are valid [boners](https://www.google.com/search?q=joker+boner&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb67Dv1LvYAhUl8IMKHU_WAmEQsAQIKA) except for the LaserDisc one. LaserDisc predated DVD by 20 years–a bit long to wait for a competitor tech to show up. The real losing competition to LaserDisc was [RCA SelectaVision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc) (which is what I bugged my family into buying, instead of LaserDisc or VHS.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5836 "2018-01-03T14:25:04Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > All of those are valid [boners](https://www.google.com/search?q=joker+boner&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb67Dv1LvYAhUl8IMKHU_WAmEQsAQIKA) except for the LaserDisc one. LaserDisc predated DVD by 20 years–a bit long to wait for a competitor tech to show up. The real losing competition to LaserDisc was [RCA SelectaVision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc) (which is what I bugged my family into buying, instead of LaserDisc or VHS.) I’m so sorry. Hope they still trust your judgement. Did you buy a top-of-the-line Zune like my friend, and spend two weeks bragging about how it’ll bury the iPod? “And it comes in brown with a green coating!” He continued to guess wrong every single time… If that’s you, can you tell us your picks for NBA games and stocks you just know are going to tank? (Oh, that friend laughed at me when I bought a few shares of AAPL at $20)… Sorry, I usually hate tangents like this. Just biding my time til another troll shows up… ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5837 "2018-01-03T14:54:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I keep checking that thread, really hoping the two of them get into a pissing contest about who’s the most horrible human being (S’nasty has devolved into bragging about how shallow he is). I’m mostly avoiding that thread at this point, but it’s quickly turned into one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen here. I feel like that’s saying a lot. I joined in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5838 "2018-01-03T15:20:03Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Did you buy a top-of-the-line Zune like my friend, and spend two weeks bragging about how it’ll bury the iPod? “And it comes in brown with a green coating!” No, but I did have a Diamond Rio PHP-300 before the iPod came out. (I’d be able to honestly say that I’ve never owned an Apple product in my life if it wasn’t for once buying one of the old monochrome 1-piece early Macs at a flea market for $10.) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5839 "2018-01-03T19:50:30Z")
I would like to put forth **Steophan** as a genuine, persistent troll. He has made nearly 8% of the posts in the **Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians** thread, all of them very intransigent on the subject of it being ok for LEOs to shoot when they feel scared. That might be acceptable ( **Smapti** has made more posts in a similar vein) but for the fact that the thread is almost entirely US-centric, but **Steophan** lives in Britain. I mean, I am not quite sure what he is getting at, or even, really, how he thinks he has a proper perspective for making those inciteful comments. Maybe he is not so much a troll _per se_ but just an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5840 "2018-01-04T00:18:52Z")
If anyone wants the joy of being ignored by **SamuelA** , jump over to his [Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20700558#post20700558) and insult him. He’s handing out ignores like Oprah, but who knows how long this boon will last. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5841 "2018-01-04T00:38:46Z")
Bear in mind that being ignored by **SamuelA** doesn’t mean what you think it means. It means that he gets to say “you just Pitted yourself”, when he responds to your post after he ignores you. You do get the ineffable pleasure of watching him making a complete ass of himself. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5842 "2018-01-04T00:39:08Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > If anyone wants the joy of being ignored by **SamuelA** , jump over to his [Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20700558#post20700558) and insult him. He’s handing out ignores like Oprah, but who knows how long this boon will last. Yeah, the fuckferret ignored me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5843 "2018-01-04T15:49:14Z")
B-Rad [starts a thread about ga-hosts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846158), gets snippy when people don’t take it seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=291) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=293)