# 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:** 391
**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:** [April 29, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7804 "2018-04-29T03:21:28Z")
Geez, quit replying to this ass. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7805 "2018-04-29T04:33:32Z")
Yes, obvious troll is obvious. Always remember that trolls are lonely, sad individuals whose lives are worthless, and they can only get pleasure out of doing things like this. That way, when they post, you just feel sorry for them, not angry. I mean, look at this guy! You mention him, and he jumps right in. He was actually waiting for a response. Can you imagine how sad that is? People say “don’t feed the troll.” I say, go ahead, and make their miserable lives a bit happier. Why not? It’s not like they’ll every amount to anything anyways. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7806 "2018-04-29T14:30:02Z")
Okay, quick–somebody mention Ruggero Oddi in mrka’s [new thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=853922). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7807 "2018-04-29T23:17:56Z")
DavidwithanAR15 is back… > [@Goyim as slaves.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goyim-as-slaves/813308/23): > > I can certainly imagine that (due to being prohibited from owning land or doing certain other things) Jewish people became stereotypically prominent in businesses where you could make good money without owning any land or “crossing a line” in other ways. Not a majority necessarily, but enough to form a stereotype in people’s minds. > > In addition, certain doctrinaire Christians apparently refused to enter the loan business, so there was an opportunity. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7808 "2018-04-29T23:54:28Z")
**Ravid** is an odd duck. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7809 "2018-04-30T01:03:53Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > DavidwithanAR15 is back… Well, that’s why so many Medieval Jews were moneylenders, right? Because the Christians in charge didn’t let us make a living in too many other ways. That’s just how it was. (Then the Christians started hating on those “greedy Jews” that they had forced into the business in the first place, because logic was not these people’s strong point…) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7810 "2018-04-30T01:20:10Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Well, that’s why so many Medieval Jews were moneylenders, right? Because the Christians in charge didn’t let us make a living in too many other ways. That’s just how it was. (Then the Christians started hating on those “greedy Jews” that they had forced into the business in the first place, because logic was not these people’s strong point…) If I recall my history correctly, Christians couldn’t go into money lending because charging interest of any kind on a loan was usury and sinful. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the periodic large scale attacks on Jewish enclaves was because certain upright men of the town were feeling a pinch in their purses. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7811 "2018-04-30T01:33:57Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > If I recall my history correctly, Christians couldn’t go into money lending because charging interest of any kind on a loan was usury and sinful. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the periodic large scale attacks on Jewish enclaves was because certain upright men of the town were feeling a pinch in their purses. \*\*Exodus 22:25 –\*\*_If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;_ If you were not aware, Exodus is part of the Torah. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7812 "2018-04-30T01:46:25Z")
\*\*Exodus 25:39 \*\* - \*if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife. \* I learned that one in church before I graduated. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7813 "2018-04-30T01:50:08Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > \*\*Exodus 25:39 \*\* - \*if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife. \* > > I learned that one in church before I graduated. A good songwriter could make a fortune with that line. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 30, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7814 "2018-04-30T02:03:34Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > \*\*Exodus 25:39 \*\* - \*if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife. \* > > I learned that one in church before I graduated. Are you married? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7815 "2018-04-30T04:10:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Are you married? Let’s take it slower please. At least offer dinner. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7816 "2018-04-30T05:34:16Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Let’s take it slower please. At least offer dinner. Trust me, you _do **not** _ want to watch me eat (the sound-effects alone might be more than you can handle). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7817 "2018-04-30T06:10:35Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > If I recall my history correctly, Christians couldn’t go into money lending because charging interest of any kind on a loan was usury and sinful. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the periodic large scale attacks on Jewish enclaves was because certain upright men of the town were feeling a pinch in their purses. Read up on a kid called “Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln” some time (a blood libel-related UL that provided a legal fig leaf for the dispossession of quite a few Jews in the region). ---
**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:** [April 30, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7818 "2018-04-30T20:25:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > \*\*Exodus 22:25 –\*\*_If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;_ > > If you were not aware, Exodus is part of the Torah. The rabbis tended to interpret phrases like “My people” as referring to Jews only. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7819 "2018-04-30T21:06:35Z")
I guess it also depends on how you define Usury. As; 1. The charging of interest, or 2. noun the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest. archaic interest at unreasonably high rates. Unless “Usury” originally meant ‘charging any amount of interest’, then there’s no biblical provision against being a banker or charging interest. The bible addresses what we in this day and age would consider things like high interest credit cards, payday and title loans, and fucking [Western Sky](https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2013/08/13/western-sky-predatory-loan-new-york-lawsuit/20693654/). ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7820 "2018-05-01T04:46:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Unless “Usury” originally meant ‘charging any amount of interest’, then there’s no biblical provision against being a banker or charging interest. The bible addresses what we in this day and age would consider things like high interest credit cards, payday and title loans, and fucking [Western Sky](https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2013/08/13/western-sky-predatory-loan-new-york-lawsuit/20693654/). What matters is the original language, not English, though. Anybody who speaks Hebrew know more about that? And while I do consider **Dravid** odd and sometimes frustrating, he is describing what is a common theory about what happened. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7821 "2018-05-01T13:03:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > What matters is the original language, not English, though. Anybody who speaks Hebrew know more about that? I’m not very good with Hebrew (despite all those years of yeshiva education :(), but Jewish law has traditionally understood it as referring to charging _any_ interest, even non-monetary situations. That’s why banks in Israel use some sort of complicated legal fiction so that they’re not _technically_ charging interest even when they are. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7822 "2018-05-03T00:40:04Z")
It appears this one has caught you napping **Czarcasm.** [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854103](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854103) Get on it… 😉 ---
**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:** [May 3, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/7823 "2018-05-03T04:16:38Z")
Oh look, **Delicious** is back, with a [lovely little thread about slavery](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854097). No, I’m not cutting him any slack after his recent behavior. Slimebucket is a troll. He can go sit next to Kanye and think about what he’s done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=390) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=392)