# 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:** 517
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10331 "2019-10-04T11:51:34Z")
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21896864&postcount=265](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21896864&postcount=265) Hey, at least he’s “honest”! LOL. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10332 "2019-10-04T11:59:18Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > He (or she, maybe) just dropped a racist comment…in a General Questions threads about airplanes! > > Dos vidanya… > > ETA: It’s a MPSIMS thread. Still. Yah, I noticed that and hit report earlier. He’ll claim it wasn’t racist, and the mods will let him skate. If you’re a “conservative”, you basically have to threaten someone, or directly insult others repeatedly outside of the Pit, to get so much as a suspension. Protected class. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10333 "2019-10-04T12:05:45Z")
True. I reported it, too, hoping at least the incontrovertible “threadshitting” aspect would be one data point in a surely larger set of board transgressions. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10334 "2019-10-04T14:43:31Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > He (or she, maybe) just dropped a racist comment…in a General Questions threads about airplanes Kind of a stretch to call that racism. I’d say for most anybody who is old enough to remember the 1980s, the first thing to go through their minds when they hear the word “Ethiopia” is [extreme poverty](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34776109/thirty-years-of-talking-about-famine-in-ethiopia---whys-nothing-changed). ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10335 "2019-10-04T14:57:58Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Kind of a stretch to call that racism. I’d say for most anybody who is old enough to remember the 1980s, the first thing to go through their minds when they hear the word “Ethiopia” is [extreme poverty](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34776109/thirty-years-of-talking-about-famine-in-ethiopia---whys-nothing-changed). I wouldn’t be surprised if there was racist intent behind it, but I would agree that it is not, in itself, overtly racist, and for the above reason. Pretty much everything else from that poster has been frothing right-wing idiocy, however. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10336 "2019-10-04T15:02:14Z")
I’m not inclined to try to guess whose sock it is, but it’s a very obvious sock. I reported the threadshit, too. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10337 "2019-10-04T15:03:12Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > He (or she, maybe) just dropped a racist comment…in a General Questions threads about airplanes! > > Dos vidanya… > > ETA: It’s a MPSIMS thread. Still. > [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Yah, I noticed that and hit report earlier. He’ll claim it wasn’t racist > [@JKellyMap](#): > > True. > I reported it, too > [@Gyrate](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if there was racist intent behind it Holy fuck you people are some super delicate little pussies. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10338 "2019-10-04T15:14:03Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Holy fuck you people are some super delicate little pussies. Nowhere near as delicate as The Howling Yam himself. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10339 "2019-10-04T15:23:31Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Holy fuck you people are some super delicate little pussies. Calm down. You get so upset over the slightest things. Why u so mad? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10340 "2019-10-04T15:27:30Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Holy fuck you people are some super delicate little pussies. It’s our bone spurs. They _really_ hurt. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10341 "2019-10-04T15:33:32Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Calm down. You get so upset over the slightest things. Why u so mad? He’s not mad, it’s performance art known as “trolling”. If I knew the troll was going to be around much longer I’d put it on ignore just for convenience. Still not convinced this one isn’t a sock, too. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10342 "2019-10-04T15:34:08Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Calm down. You get so upset over the slightest things. Why u so mad? The lack of anything even remotely resembling a spine within the rotten corpses you turds call a body should be aggravating to any human being with a pair of testicles. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10343 "2019-10-04T15:36:11Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21896864&postcount=265](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21896864&postcount=265) > > Hey, at least he’s “honest”! LOL. They may be honest, but they’re also unaware of Ethiopian Airlines, which is one of the [dominant carriers throughout Africa](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/ethiopian-airline-crash-school.html) and is a member of the Star Alliance, along with United, Lufthansa and El Al. It’s a respectable airline. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10344 "2019-10-04T15:36:18Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > The lack of anything even remotely resembling a spine within the rotten corpses you turds call a body should be aggravating to any human being with a pair of testicles. On average, people only have one testicle. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10345 "2019-10-04T15:41:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > They may be honest, but they’re also unaware of Ethiopian Airlines, which is one of the [dominant carriers throughout Africa](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/ethiopian-airline-crash-school.html) and is a member of the Star Alliance, along with United, Lufthansa and El Al. It’s a respectable airline. To be honest, I was in Germany in the 90’s and saw a Croatian Airlines plane in the Frankfurt airport. Right during their war with Serbia, et al. That was more surprising that an Ethiopian Airline would have been during communist rule. Nations have airlines, people. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10346 "2019-10-04T15:41:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > He’s not mad, it’s performance art known as “trolling”. If I knew the troll was going to be around much longer I’d put it on ignore just for convenience. Still not convinced this one isn’t a sock, too. I’m 100% dead serious. Reporting that post and crying racism is so far detached from reality it’s almost embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10347 "2019-10-04T15:45:33Z")
Well, at least you got the “embarrassing” part right. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10348 "2019-10-04T15:46:05Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > I’m 100% dead serious. > > Reporting that post and crying racism is so far detached from reality it’s almost embarrassing. Why? His disdainful shock at the idea that an African nation has a national airline carries baggage (pun not intended) no matter how much you try to handwave it away. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10349 "2019-10-04T15:51:53Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > I’m 100% dead serious. > > Reporting that post and crying racism is so far detached from reality it’s almost embarrassing. You are wasting your life being like this. Why don’t you do something productive, it might make you happier. Try to be a positive contribution to humanity, if you can. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10350 "2019-10-04T16:00:58Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > You are wasting your life being like this. Why don’t you do something productive, it might make you happier. Try to be a positive contribution to humanity, if you can. \< **Annoyed** as Richard Gere in _An Officer and a Gentleman_\> _I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO! I got nowhere else to g… I got nothin’ else._ \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=516) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=518)