# 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:** 471
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9409 "2019-02-26T04:43:53Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Because a degree of trolling is permitted in the Pit. Fair enough. Thanks for all you do. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9410 "2019-02-26T04:46:51Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Fair enough. Thanks for all you do. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9411 "2019-02-26T04:48:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You’re welcome. Meeeeehhhhhh… you just wanted the first post on the page, din’tcha? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9412 "2019-02-26T04:56:45Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Because a degree of trolling is permitted in the Pit. But octopus has a degree _in_ trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9413 "2019-02-26T05:07:48Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > However, he seems to think that rather than this being a thread to identify trolls, this is a place for trolls like himself to post. Not content to troll every other thread in the Pit, he has to infest this one as well. He simply can’t get enough negative attention. That’s why I mentioned pages ago that it’s very meta for that particular poster to post in this thread. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9414 "2019-02-26T05:19:22Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Meeeeehhhhhh… you just wanted the first post on the page, din’tcha? 😉 It’s not first on my page. It depends on your page view setting. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9415 "2019-02-26T05:45:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s not first on my page. It depends on your page view setting. You don’t have it set at 9350 posts per page like most people? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9416 "2019-02-26T05:50:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That’s why I mentioned pages ago that it’s very meta for that particular poster to post in this thread. It does seem like it’s his very favoritist thread. I did a little spot-checking, and it seems he has far more posts in this thread than the other major Pit threads on the first page. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9417 "2019-02-26T06:26:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It does seem like it’s his very favoritist thread. I did a little spot-checking, and it seems he has far more posts in this thread than the other major Pit threads on the first page. That’s because the targets in the other massive threads are off board people and they usually skip around from one item to the next, making it difficult to situate himself the center of attention. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9418 "2019-02-26T14:35:06Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > That’s because the targets in the other massive threads are off board people and they usually skip around from one item to the next, making it difficult to situate himself the center of attention. Absolutely right. His main objective is to make every thread about him, and what better venue than a thread about trolls? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9419 "2019-02-26T20:06:13Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How did a dishonest fool like you ever get a position of authority? The Electoral College? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9420 "2019-02-26T22:34:38Z")
[More deep thoughts from **Kamaski**.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871502) The general themes from this illustrious contributor seem to vary between “we’re being invaded by aliens” (of the extraterrestrial kind) to “some sort of God-like aliens are controlling our reality”. He might be right, of course, but Occam’s Razor would suggest a chemical imbalance in **Kamaski** ’s brain that might respond to psychopharmaceutical therapy. And evidence would suggest that the need for such therapy is fairly urgent. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9421 "2019-03-03T16:52:37Z")
Two posters, including a very recent joiner, link up to spout nonsense about how smoking doesn’t give you lung cancer? Could be coincidence, but it seems suspicious. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687) ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9422 "2019-03-03T17:27:44Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Two posters, including a very recent joiner I don’t see any very recent joiners in that thread. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9423 "2019-03-03T17:28:10Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Two posters, including a very recent joiner, link up to spout nonsense about how smoking doesn’t give you lung cancer? Could be coincidence, but it seems suspicious. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687) This can only turn out well, > [@smoking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking/830431/11): > > > [@smoking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking/830431/9): > > > > So, you are “citing” something that purportedly comes from Sloan-Kettering that conveniently doesn’t exist any longer? > > > > This is complete nonsense. > > Fuck you, it was there. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9424 "2019-03-03T17:30:19Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > I don’t see any very recent joiners in that thread. Ah, 2018 not 2019 you are right. Both with around 100 posts. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9425 "2019-03-03T18:04:42Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Two posters, including a very recent joiner, link up to spout nonsense about how smoking doesn’t give you lung cancer? Could be coincidence, but it seems suspicious. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687) Sweet, now I can go back to smoking now that my concerns about the health effects have been dismissed. Oddly, and must be by pure coincidence, even though I’m 6 years older than when I quit, I’m more able to go up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath. Maybe just my imagination. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9426 "2019-03-03T18:05:25Z")
It was an amusing little thread anyway. **fedman** was flying his idiot flag proudly. Good lord man. If you want to smoke, go ahead and do it. Trying to rules lawyer the consequences isn’t going to work, however. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9427 "2019-03-03T18:19:16Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > It was an amusing little thread anyway. **fedman** was flying his idiot flag proudly. Good lord man. If you want to smoke, go ahead and do it. Trying to rules lawyer the consequences isn’t going to work, however. Heh, I remember always asking for the cigarettes with the warning about low fetal weight, as those wouldn’t harm me as much as the ones that caused emphysema. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/9428 "2019-03-03T18:26:53Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Heh, I remember always asking for the cigarettes with the warning about low fetal weight, as those wouldn’t harm me as much as the ones that caused emphysema. There’s a story (possibly apocryphal) about some Third World country passing legislation to add gruesome pictures of diseased lungs etc to cigarette packets… with subsequent uproar from the citizenry, who wanted their _old_ cigarettes back - the ones that don’t give you all these horrific diseases. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=470) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=472)