# 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:** 518
**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, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10351 "2019-10-04T16:01:57Z")
> [@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**. Becoming a hermit would be a good start. ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10352 "2019-10-04T16:18:59Z")
> [@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. Of course. But he’s not even very good at it. He starts out with the “delicate” insult because people were offended by racism. OK, decent effort but “delicate” isn’t really that offensive. But he throws in “pussies” too so he can virtue-signal all his buddies that he’s misogynistic as well as racist. That redeems his slip-up with “delicate,” so a solid trolling effort so far. But then his major slip-up: he counters with “spineless.” How does that even make sense? Spineless implies his foes won’t take a stand, yet right before that he was complaining they took too much of a stand. Now we’re just confused, and a good troll **angers** his targets, not confuses them. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10353 "2019-10-04T18:42:32Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > I’m 100% dead serious. > > Reporting that post and crying racism is so far detached from reality it’s almost embarrassing. In this day and age you need to specify which reality you are referring to. Do you mean fact-based reality? Or one of many alt-right/alternative facts/cofeve realities? You right wing types use so many! I love the one with the sharpie tornados! The one where Mexico is paying for American infrastructural projects is fun as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10354 "2019-10-04T19:10:04Z")
> [@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). Yeah, not that I would ever want to seem to defend anything from **Northeast Russian** , but Ethiopia is my mental poster-child for an extremely impoverished country, no doubt because of all of the famine news from my formative years. ---
**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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10355 "2019-10-04T20:38:47Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Yeah, not that I would ever want to seem to defend anything from **Northeast Russian** , but Ethiopia is my mental poster-child for an extremely impoverished country, no doubt because of all of the famine news from my formative years. [Looks like things are still very bad there](https://www.usaid.gov/crisis/ethiopia). ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10356 "2019-10-04T20:54:35Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > In this day and age you need to specify which reality you are referring to. > > Do you mean fact-based reality? Or one of many alt-right/alternative facts/cofeve realities? > > You right wing types use so many! > > I love the one with the sharpie tornados! The one where Mexico is paying for American infrastructural projects is fun as well. Hey so a pen and a phone has evolved into a sharpie and a map. That’s progress! ---
**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, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10357 "2019-10-04T21:21:05Z")
> [@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. Please. This is a fact-free zone. The only fact that matters is that Ethiopian Airlines involves a lot of brown people, and some even darker, and many of them might even be Muslim. It’s therefore genuinely surprising that they have an airplane, or that they might be able to fly it (though according to **Magiver** , over at the MPSIMS thread on the Ethiopian 737 MAX accident, they actually can’t fly it, and it’s certainly not Boeing’s fault that the thing crashed. Why all the 737 MAXs around the world have been grounded since March remains a mystery, at least to **Magiver** , since the whole issue is simply that brown Ethiopian pilots are incompetent). ---
**Author:** ![Deltree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Deltree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deltree)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10358 "2019-10-05T03:16:40Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > On average, people only have one testicle. Actually, the average is slightly less than one. There are slightly more women than men in the world, and every man who loses one or both testicles to disease or misadventure also brings the average down. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10359 "2019-10-06T05:53:06Z")
Something about this post by LAZombie in the Amber Guyger thread really rubs me the wrong way. Its not that I can’t put it into words, it’s just that I’m not sure there’s a way to do it without violating board rules. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21900248&postcount=560](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21900248&postcount=560) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10360 "2019-10-07T00:25:27Z")
He and **Northeast** are sealioning hard in the Hunter Biden thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882803&page=3](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882803&page=3) And has anyone else noticed our newest trock, **[Fentoine Lum](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=16183701)**? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10361 "2019-10-07T01:48:35Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > He and **Northeast** are sealioning hard in the Hunter Biden thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882803&page=3](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=882803&page=3) > > And has anyone else noticed our newest trock, **[Fentoine Lum](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=16183701)**? They appear to be already gone. I can’t get anything from your link, though that may be a Tapatalk bug ---
**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 7, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10362 "2019-10-07T01:56:23Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > They appear to be already gone. I can’t get anything from your link, though that may be a Tapatalk bug The thread is there and unfortunately, so is the troll. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10363 "2019-10-07T03:20:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The thread is there and unfortunately, so is the troll. I meant Fentoine Lum, not the Refugee ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10364 "2019-10-07T04:31:39Z")
Well good. Good job, Mods. That was just a couple of hours since I reported him and he’s gone already. ---
**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 7, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10365 "2019-10-07T10:41:07Z")
Mr Lum racked up [one warning](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21901562&postcount=2013) pretty darn quick. Just on a hunch, I Googled him - he (or someone with that username) has been around on other similar messageboards and has been banned from at least one of them, so the signs aren’t great, but Dope springs eternal. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10366 "2019-10-07T13:31:05Z")
Aye; I see that he’s still with us, too. For now. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10367 "2019-10-07T21:30:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Mr Lum racked up [one warning](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21901562&postcount=2013) pretty darn quick. Just on a hunch, I Googled him - he (or someone with that username) has been around on other similar messageboards and has been banned from at least one of them, so the signs aren’t great, but Dope springs eternal. Gone. Three warnings in two days. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10368 "2019-10-08T01:02:19Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Just on a hunch, I Googled him Stalker. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10369 "2019-10-08T06:29:56Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Stalker. Jealous? ---
**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 8, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/10370 "2019-10-08T09:40:54Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Stalker. Not a bad film, but Solaris was better. Actually I was trying to see if his name was either a reference to something or an anagram of something. Didn’t find either of those, but I didn’t even have to leave the Google results page to see that he’d been banned from another board. We live in a world of wonders. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=517) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=519)