# 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:** 299
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5964 "2018-01-08T23:16:13Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And I assume you looked at those words before you hit Post. Did it never occur to you that anyone here could fact-check you? Did you check yourself first? > > Even if you actually believed that you’d read that he’d said that, wouldn’t you still stop and say “Wait, am I being irrational here?” > > Why would Wolff tell people his book was bullshit? Does it make sense that here’s the one author out of millions that doesn’t want people to buy his book?\* (“Uh, oh, my book is flying off the shelves. No one wants that to happen, what can I do to stop it?”)\* > > It makes NO sense that Wolff would ever say that, and posting it as the truth only tanks your credibility here. > Or did you give up on that years ago? [It’s from a site so far to the right that it makes Fox News look like HuffPo.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20711252#post20711252) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5965 "2018-01-08T23:29:00Z")
[Related thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=304135) on the pronunciation of _femme_. I concur that “fam” as in family (at least the way I pronounce it) is a reasonable approximation. ---
**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 9, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5966 "2018-01-09T00:29:39Z")
> [@SaneBill](#): > > Sigh. No, I [wasn’t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIxFaV_tRMU) joking. Something between “fam” and “fem” is closer. The “um” sound isn’t there. I do agree it’s further back in your throat than Americans are used to. The link you posted is helpful for those who are not familiar with non-french speakers. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5967 "2018-01-09T01:27:25Z")
Fi fi fo femme… ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5968 "2018-01-09T02:27:23Z")
[No love for **BlueMerle**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846477)? Serial sock #8 going back to 2016 I’d suspect (if someone can be arsed we should probably list all of the socks out here). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5969 "2018-01-09T03:07:10Z")
“Read everything I told you to read or you’re not qualified to discuss this” :rolleyes: You know, because it isn’t possible that some of us actually have some amount of knowledge of the subject that isn’t dependent upon your biased citations. ---
**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 9, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5970 "2018-01-09T04:27:24Z")
Agreed. Trock. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5971 "2018-01-09T04:46:36Z")
In a thread about **alphaboi867’s** dog, which is having life-threatening health problems, **Gatopescado** leaps in with one of his patented drive-by threadshits as the first reply: > [@I had a doctor's appointment this morning; my dog had a vet appointment this afternoon.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-doctors-appointment-this-morning-my-dog-had-a-vet-appointment-this-afternoon/806200/2): > > How did your dog get his cholesterol under control? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20712254#post20712254](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20712254#post20712254) ---
**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 9, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5972 "2018-01-09T05:38:28Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > “Read everything I told you to read or you’re not qualified to discuss this” > > :rolleyes: > > You know, because it isn’t possible that some of us actually have some amount of knowledge of the subject that isn’t dependent upon your biased citations. We had a guy here once who wanted everyone to watch a 90 minute interview with Charles Murray, the Bell Curve guy, before he would entertain any discussion about the relative intellectual capacity of black people. That went about as well as you might think. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5973 "2018-01-09T06:18:56Z")
Like a fart in a diving helmet? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5974 "2018-01-09T11:44:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Do you pronounce bomb as “bem”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1pV3P_Ycc)? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GLDvtpSC_98/hqdefault.jpg "Special Delivery, it's a Beumb! - Pink Panther (Peter Sellers)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLDvtpSC_98&t=1m21s) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5975 "2018-01-09T12:17:10Z")
La prononciation du mot femme par une femme canadienne-française: [How to Pronounce: FEMME | #frenchbites - YouTube](https://youtu.be/4fi7z8bK7v4). Click the speaker icon in Google Translate to listen to a reading of the text. Click it a second time for a slower reading: [https://translate.google.ca/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/fr/The%20pronunciation%20of%20the%20word%20woman %20by%20a%20female%20French%20Canadian](https://translate.google.ca/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/fr/The%20pronunciation%20of%20the%20word%20woman%0A%20by%20a%20female%20French%20Canadian). (Of course this does not always work well, but in this instance it does.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5976 "2018-01-09T13:32:02Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Agreed. Trock. My favorite trock quote from that thread. He’s responding to Bone. > [@Bloomberg anti-gun lies dealt another blow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloomberg-anti-gun-lies-dealt-another-blow/806155/79): > > By evidence based arguments do you mean those that have called me a troll or an idiot or a retard? > > Do you have any control over that? > > Just curious. > > TIA The pit is a dangerous and lonely place sometimes. ---
**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 9, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5977 "2018-01-09T19:05:16Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > We had a guy here once who wanted everyone to watch a 90 minute interview with Charles Murray, the Bell Curve guy, before he would entertain any discussion about the relative intellectual capacity of black people. That went about as well as you might think. We had someone not too long ago who kept saying, “just google it”, as if we should make his argument. Failure to google and produce the evidence of his argument proved that we were not good debaters, and we “lost”. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5978 "2018-01-09T19:10:40Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > We had a guy here once who wanted everyone to watch a 90 minute interview with Charles Murray, the Bell Curve guy, before he would entertain any discussion about the relative intellectual capacity of black people. That went about as well as you might think. Far as I know, we still have that guy. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5979 "2018-01-09T23:18:42Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > We had someone not too long ago who kept saying, “just google it”, as if we should make his argument. Failure to google and produce the evidence of his argument proved that we were not good debaters, and we “lost”. I think that was that 9/11 truther. ---
**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 10, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5980 "2018-01-10T00:06:46Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Far as I know, we still have that guy. It’s not even the worst of his opinions, IMO. ---
**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 10, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5981 "2018-01-10T01:04:52Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I think that was that 9/11 truther. I think he’s a personal fav. He was ridiculous. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5982 "2018-01-10T12:14:07Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Why would Wolff tell people his book was bullshit? Does it make sense that here’s the one author out of millions that doesn’t want people to buy his book?\* (“Uh, oh, my book is flying off the shelves. No one wants that to happen, what can I do to stop it?”)\*? Maybe Michael Wolff is secretly [Gerald Ratner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner)? ---
**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 10, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5983 "2018-01-10T13:57:30Z")
Not a troll, but breakneck is an interesting case. Asks a question about dinosaurs (along with some Not Even Wrong ideas) in 2013, bumps the thread today. I see that he has made only a few posts–among them is another thread started in 2013 and bumped in 2016. And he makes the bump posts as if the conversation is continuing normally with no multi-year gap in between. My guess is that he has some sort of rare disorder that causes him to leap forward in time. From his POV, the threads are proceeding rapidly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=298) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=300)