# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349 "2020-06-27T06:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 155
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3088 "2021-03-26T15:26:46Z")
Please do NOT not say that word a third time. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3089 "2021-03-26T15:48:46Z")
December! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3090 "2021-03-26T15:52:14Z")
[![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRf_tuCALSE/Vd7uwDfVjyI/AAAAAAAAA2g/mnlynYPlgwc/s640/NO-www-scarfolk-blogspot-com.jpg) ](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRf_tuCALSE/Vd7uwDfVjyI/AAAAAAAAA2g/mnlynYPlgwc/s640/NO-www-scarfolk-blogspot-com.jpg) ---
**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:** [March 26, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3091 "2021-03-26T17:30:25Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Who was last seen in December. It takes a lot to annoy a Buddhist monk enough beat someone that bad. He should be out of traction soon. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3092 "2021-03-26T18:33:29Z")
When you run across the internet troll in the road, kill him. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3093 "2021-03-26T18:56:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It takes a lot to annoy a Buddhist monk enough beat someone that bad. He should be out of traction soon. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” “Um, uh…” WHAM! ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3094 "2021-03-27T00:17:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > It takes a lot to annoy a Buddhist monk enough beat someone that bad. He should be out of traction soon. > > “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” > > “Um, uh…” > > WHAM! - That’s one hand _slapping._ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3095 "2021-03-27T03:12:33Z")
I’m afraid I’m not following the line of jokery between Mach… and kung fu-ish Buddhist monks. Perhaps something fun in the final thread before his departure? Or more likely some TV/literary allusion I’m clueless about. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3096 "2021-03-27T03:31:56Z")
IDK about the kung-fu, but he seemed really obsessed with Buddhism. That or it was just his favorite troll topic. He really blurred the line between trolling and stupidity, so I stopped reading his threads some time before he departed (apparently). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3097 "2021-03-27T04:25:14Z")
There was an inquiry about **Machinaforce** that I was going to ask about in ATMB, but what the hey since he’s being mentioned here… Maybe my favourite thread - I’m pretty sure it was about him. He had a propensity to come up with somewhat scatterbrained thread titles. So the thread was basically scatterbrained thread titles. My dope/google-fu went to all four corners of the world and still no sign of that thread. If anyone can dredge it up, I could really use a good, insalubrious, not-so-edifying dose of ass goblinage… ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3098 "2021-03-27T04:50:33Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > Machinaforce > > Who was last seen in December. Ah, so that’s why there’s been a shortage of threads along the lines of “Why do I exist?” The question of why machinaforce exists I could have answered for him: “because God is a prankster with a perverted sense of humour”, but he buggered off before I could. I don’t think he ever developed his inquiries to the point of asking the ultimate metaphysical question “_ **Should** _ I exist?”. Because there I have an irrefutably definite answer for him. I can’t really recall the specific titles of the various other threads machinaforce was able to upchuck, but they were pretty much all the same. Many were along the lines of “Is reality a delusion, or is delusion a reality?”. I must confess I don’t know the answer to that one. My advice to him would be to find a better LSD supplier. Or at least turn off his computer and leave us the fuck alone. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3099 "2021-03-27T08:05:17Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “_ **Should** _ I exist?” No, no, “_ **Do** _ I exist?” _That_ is the question. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3100 "2021-03-27T12:50:20Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > No, no, “ _ **Do** _ I exist?” _That_ is the question. You’re misunderstanding poor old **Machinaforce**. 😀 _He_ exists all right. What he wants to know is whether all we zombies exist, or whether we are all figments of his deluded imagination. But when he asks us and we say that we do exist, he can’t believe us, because that’s exactly what figments of his deluded imagination _would_ say. He’s not a troll, though, he’s a genuine psycho case. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3101 "2021-03-27T13:26:56Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I can’t really recall the specific titles of the various other threads machinaforce was able to upchuck, but they were pretty much all the same. A search for [{at-sign}Machinaforce in:first] produces a list of his 86 vital threadly contributions to our collective _oerve_. It amounts to a vacuous pile of nihilist navel-gazing if ever I saw one. Most with inadequate titles. He seems to have gone through the Buddhist phase while I was on sabbatical; so that explains my confusion. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3102 "2021-03-27T14:57:36Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > He seems to have gone through the Buddhist phase while I was on sabbatical; so that explains my confusion. And–more relevantly to my comment–he several times claimed to have asked many questions IRL at a local Buddhist Temple. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3103 "2021-03-27T15:02:12Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Maybe my favourite thread - I’m pretty sure it was about him. He had a propensity to come up with somewhat scatterbrained thread titles. So the thread was basically scatterbrained thread titles. My dope/google-fu went to all four corners of the world and still no sign of that thread. > If anyone can dredge it up, I could really use a good, insalubrious, not-so-edifying dose of ass goblinage… Was it [URL= [Help 'the dude" find his new thread titles. - #356 by gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-dude-find-his-new-thread-titles/789206/356)]this[/URL]? ---
**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:** [March 27, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3104 "2021-03-27T15:03:30Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > There was an inquiry about **Machinaforce** that I was going to ask about in ATMB, but what the hey since he’s being mentioned here… > > Maybe my favourite thread - I’m pretty sure it was about him. He had a propensity to come up with somewhat scatterbrained thread titles. So the thread was basically scatterbrained thread titles. My dope/google-fu went to all four corners of the world and still no sign of that thread. > If anyone can dredge it up, I could really use a good, insalubrious, not-so-edifying dose of ass goblinage You are giving Machinaforce way too much credit–that was dude\_robert, who sadly no longer abides. (He was mostly the fun kind of crazy. But a sock, I think.) > [@Help 'the dude" find his new thread titles.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-the-dude-find-his-new-thread-titles/789206): > > Title sort of says it all, help dude robert find new exciting things to discuss by offering thread titles for him to explore. So many things we haven’t discussed yet. A few examples: Would taking dehydrated water on a space mission save weight? What’s the best way to fold concrete? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3105 "2021-03-27T15:13:54Z")
Ah yes, thanks folks! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3106 "2021-03-27T16:32:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And–more relevantly to my comment–he several times claimed to have asked many questions IRL at a local Buddhist Temple. He also said he had a traumatic experience at a Buddhist temple, but it was really a passage from a website he misinterpreted wildly. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3107 "2021-03-27T19:11:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > He also said he had a traumatic experience at a Buddhist temple, but it was really a passage from a website he misinterpreted wildly. Did he offended Bruce Lee’s family and offended the Shaolin Temple? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=154) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=156)