# They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Rondembo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 6, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990 "2011-05-06T18:37:29Z")
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/1 "2011-05-06T18:37:29Z")
I feel like a bit of a pillock for putting this in the pit, because I know thats exactly what the silly little munchkin wants. Its not often that anybody masturbates to one of my posts, but I have no doubt that **Rondembo** will fap himself silly if he ever reads this.
Sadly, I cant call anybody a troll in any of the other forums so the pit it is.
I just have a question for the mods. We are currently enjoying the company of one of the most blatant trolls I have seen in my time here, little **Rondembo**. I shant bother with a list of examples, anybody who has read the threads below knows what he is up to. So do the mods actually intend to do anything about this arsehole, or will he be allowed to carry on his blatant baiting of those in the game room?
> **[Why do you think America dominates the sports world?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607344)**
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> One thing is undeniable, we have the greatest athletes on the planet. From LeBron James to Peyton Manning to Alex Rodriguez, no other country can offer so many elite athletes. We dominate the Olympics (the only relevant inter-country sports...
> **[Soccer vs. Football: Which one will comet dominate as the biggest spectator...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607306)**
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> This debate isn’t about which one you like more personally, obviously every American will say football and every non-American will say soccer, its more about the future of the two sports and which one will be more successful over the next say 100...
> **[Who would you say are the top 5 most famous sports teams in the world.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607307)**
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> I think the #1 spot is obviously the Yankees, and Id say Lakers are second. What do you think of this top 5: Yankees Lakers Cowboys Steelers Red Sox
> **[Why do you think people in every other country prefer to watch soccer over...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607305)**
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> I know you can,t account for taste, but this one has always bothered me. Soccer is boring to watch, there is no scoring and almost nothing happens most of the game. Football on the other hand has so much action, hitting and most importantly SCORING! ...
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### Author:  [@Rondembo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rondembo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/2 "2011-05-06T18:53:23Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> I feel like a bit of a pillock for putting this in the pit, because I know thats exactly what the silly little munchkin wants. Its not often that anybody masturbates to one of my posts, but I have no doubt that **Rondembo** will fap himself silly if he ever reads this.
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> Sadly, I cant call anybody a troll in any of the other forums so the pit it is.
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> I just have a question for the mods. We are currently enjoying the company of one of the most blatant trolls I have seen in my time here, little **Rondembo**. I shant bother with a list of examples, anybody who has read the threads below knows what he is up to. So do the mods actually intend to do anything about this arsehole, or will he be allowed to carry on his blatant baiting of those in the game room?
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> [Why do you think America dominates the sports world? - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607344)
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> [Soccer vs. Football: Which one will comet dominate as the biggest spectator sport? - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607306)
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> [Who would you say are the top 5 most famous sports teams in the world. - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607307)
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> [Why do you think people in every other country prefer to watch soccer over football it's boring? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607305)
How is it trolling to not like soccer? This is why soccer will never be accepted in America, soccer fans are so jumpy at any criticism of their sport, we can’t even say soccer is boring without people telling us “you don’t understand the intrincities”.
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/3 "2011-05-06T18:56:43Z")
Is he trolling? Trolling implies intent. He just seems single-minded and quite a stupid patriotic-type (see: failure to recognize that other countries are actually better at things than the US).
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/4 "2011-05-06T19:00:24Z")
> [@Rondembo](#):
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> …we can’t even say soccer is boring without people telling us “you don’t understand the intrincities”.
Well, to be fair, it is the intrincities that make all the difference.
Whatever intrincities are.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/5 "2011-05-06T19:09:25Z")
There are two possibilities:
(1) **Rondembo** is a troll;
(2) **Rondembo** is an American.
I’m leaning to the second, myself: he doesn’t seem sophisticated enough to be the first.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/6 "2011-05-06T19:09:46Z")
It’s a portmanteau! Intrinsic intricacies = intrincities. 😃
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/7 "2011-05-06T19:12:08Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> I shant bother with a list of examples, anybody who has read the threads below knows what he is up to.
No, please, bother. Because I skimmed through those threads and I only see someone who is kind of an idiot holding a strong opinion about one sport being better than another. Given that this describes quite a few people (e.g. anyone who thinks baseball is better than watching paint dry), it’s not immediately obvious to me how **Rondembo** is a master troll. Just loud and dumb.
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/8 "2011-05-06T19:23:57Z")
Americocentric? Yes
One trick pony? Yes
Troll? No
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/9 "2011-05-06T19:29:36Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#):
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> Is he trolling? Trolling implies intent. He just seems single-minded and quite a stupid patriotic-type (see: failure to recognize that other countries are actually better at things than the US).
Actually, I shouldnt be pitting Um bongo up there, I should be pitting all the people who cant tell when they are being baited, and who continue to try and change such opinions as:
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> Americans simply aren’t impressed by soccer players, and the fact they’re also pretty boys who spend too much on hair product doesn’t help.
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> Soccer is a Panini sandwich - mostly foreign and slightly effeminate, liked primarily by liberal cosmopolitan euro-wannabes in cities like Seattle, skinny and small men eat this in order to fit into their european metrosexual clothes
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> no ways something as ridiculously named as Real Madrid (as opposed to some other team named Fake Madrid?) more famous than the Cowboys or Lakers which are both household names worldwide.
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> Basketball is the most watched sport in the world
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> they also say that the world cup has an “estimated” viewership of a billion viewers, when its been proven to actually be 250 million. If you seriously think 330 million watch soccer, let alone a single soccer team then you are delusional.
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> you Brits are so jelous of our dominance in sports that soccer is the only thing you have, yet we still tied you (sorry drawed you) in the game. So our 4th string athletes are as good as your 1st string. Most our our soccer team is made up of scrubs that couldn’t make it into better, higher paying sports like the NFL or MLB, they’re the guys that had no date for Prom because all the chicks wanted to go with the football quarterback, not some little skinny soccer player. I bet if we sent our NFL and NBA players to the world cup, we’d clean house and win 1st place every time. You already know this, so you should be happy we don’t care about soccer, because its the only thing you have left and we’d win that too.
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> the Super Bowl has biggest global ratings then the World Cup, even though other countries don’t play football because they can’t afford it.
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> NFL football is taking over England, it will likely take over Europe as well. Its just too high production and too impressive as a spectacle to ignore. Soccer just doesn’t compare, its just boring to watch that big field with little guys running around kicking a ball, there’s nothing spectacular or impressive.
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> Please, a NFL game is infinitely more exciting to watch than soccer. Soccer is basically a bunch of skinny guys most Americans have never heard of kicking a ball and running around for 90 minutes while the fans riot out of boredom and in the end the game ends 0-0. How can anyone watch a sport in which no one scores and a game ends in a tie?
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> No, my question isn,t why Americans think soccer is boring, the answer is obvious because soccer has no action and no scoring, we like excitement in our sports. What I want to know is why non-Americans think soccer isn’t boring and why they get excited by soccer. Do they like low action no scoring sports and why?
A new poster starts four threads in two days, each one a sounding box to casually insult soccer fans, each one filled choc full of declarative pronouncements that even Diogenes would be proud of, each one ignoring each and every counterpoint put to him, and you think he is just a misguided young American that needs his horizons broadened?
Give me a fucking break.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/10 "2011-05-06T19:34:01Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> A new poster starts four threads in two days, each one a sounding box to casually insult soccer fans, each one filled choc full of declarative pronouncements that even Diogenes would be proud of, each one ignoring each and every counterpoint put to him, and you think he is just a misguided young American that needs his horizons broadened?
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> Give me a fucking break.
Yeah, clearly trolling. No other reasonable interpretation.
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### Author:  [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/11 "2011-05-06T19:36:25Z")
The best part is that his user name sounds like a soccer player. I mean, isn’t there a defensive midfielder for the Brazil U-18 team named **Rondembo**?
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/12 "2011-05-06T19:39:46Z")
bahahaha, if you’d quoted all of those snippets in the original post I think I would have agreed with you at the outset (the “hair product” line, in particular, is comedy uranium).
Having not read the entire threads in question that you linked, though (just his original posts), they don’t START OUT looking trollish. But they certainly seem to end up that way.
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/13 "2011-05-06T19:41:42Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> Actually, I shouldnt be pitting Um bongo up there, I should be pitting all the people who cant tell when they are being baited, and who continue to try and change such opinions as:
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> _:snip:_
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> Give me a fucking break.
Give us all a fucking break, and grow some skin. I’ve had worse things said about me by total strangers just for owning a gun. Just read/listen to what the average politician or political pundit says about their opposition on any given day.
The shit you posted is weak tea at best.
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/14 "2011-05-06T19:44:03Z")
> [@ExTank](#):
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> Give us all a fucking break, and grow some skin. I’ve had worse things said about me by total strangers just for owning a gun. Just read/listen to what the average politician or political pundit says about their opposition on any given day.
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> The shit you posted is weak tea at best.
Wait, you think I am actually insulted by all that? Like, personally or something?
Dont be stupid.
I do think he is baiting people like a motherfucker though, it seems obvious to me.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/15 "2011-05-06T19:45:03Z")
**bucketybuck** , have you ever had a thread go well? Ever?
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/16 "2011-05-06T19:46:39Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> **bucketybuck** , have you ever had a thread go well? Ever?
I once sewed a hole in some trousers, does that count?
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/17 "2011-05-06T19:48:06Z")
And now he’s banned.
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/18 "2011-05-06T19:52:17Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> And now he’s banned.
Ha. Obviously a sock then.
That went well. 😉
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/19 "2011-05-06T19:54:29Z")
And a great cry of relief passed over the land.
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### Author:  [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-all-prefer-the-sunny-funny-one-they-call-rondembo/580990/20 "2011-05-06T19:56:08Z")
Looks like _someone’s_ a soccer fan…
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