# 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:** 184
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3670 "2021-06-09T20:28:05Z")
I was one of the few responders in that thread who actually responded with an “entirely benign, appropriate thing” that people do. Most other responses are the usual stuff like “people who block the whole aisle with their cart at the grocery store,” “people who block the end of the escalator,” etc. that are neither benign nor appropriate. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3671 "2021-06-09T20:31:04Z")
Eh, I don’t think you were trolling or had any ill intent, but just consider that some people feel that ogling women (or men) is not entirely benign and appropriate. And even if undetected ogling is benign and harmless, informing everyone that you do this (and therefore putting them on notice that they are probably being objectified at the beach) is not. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3672 "2021-06-09T20:33:58Z")
Yes, that OP should have been sent here. Not giving one single reason, of which there were many according to him, was a dick move, trolling, something. Was he really wanting advice for handling black people/white people interactions? Or was he pulling some social experiment on us, to be revealed later? Jackass! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3673 "2021-06-09T20:39:35Z")
I was saying that the unattractive people were doing something entirely benign and appropriate by finding their spot, even if it worked to my disadvantage. I wasn’t claiming that I was entirely benign and appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3674 "2021-06-09T20:39:37Z")
I just noticed this from the share your covidiot stories thread. This was posted there, by the same OP as the Virtue Signaling or Cowardice thread: > [@](#): > > Took my cat the the vet, who has a socially distanced waiting room with signs on top of some of seats that ask the reader to not sit there to encourage such. > > A couple comes in with two dogs, and totally ignore the signs and sit, of course, right next to me. They then notice the signs and read one, and the guy shrugs his shoulders. > > I immediately get up and move to the other side of the waiting room where there is PLENTY of seating. > > I mean the counter where the reception is has plexiglass all over the place. What does this couple think the vet is doing here? Odd coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3675 "2021-06-09T20:42:31Z")
Well the woman was _definitely_ black, so I _definitely_ smelled something stinky. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3676 "2021-06-09T21:07:20Z")
Were the dogs definitely black labs? I think some parrots were snickering at them. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3677 "2021-06-09T21:16:11Z")
At the risk of giving an inappropriately serious response – it certainly shows why the reasons for and the wording of, the signs are germane. Back to silliness: maybe they were definitely Black Labs, but not apparently fairly healthy? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3678 "2021-06-09T21:43:42Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > At the risk of giving an inappropriately serious response – it certainly shows why the reasons for and the wording of, the signs are germane. Hey, that’s true. That troll has apparently been hoist by their own petard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3679 "2021-06-09T21:49:33Z")
That is odd. The vets we take our cats to haven’t been letting _anyone_ into the waiting room. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3680 "2021-06-09T21:52:51Z")
Okay, who summoned the “superstar”? ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3681 "2021-06-09T21:53:52Z")
Well maybe I should report you for trolling because one of the reasons the moderators shut down the thread was because of you and some of the other posters constant whining and badgering about why the signs were on the chairs in the first place. But thanks for taking the cowards way out. ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3682 "2021-06-09T21:58:28Z")
Here’s the difference. This was during the pandemic and I was not fully vaccinated. The office was trying to socially distance so their sitting where they did was creating a potential harmful health issue. It also was not my office and not my place to order people around. The lady at the display was not harming anyone, and was not in violation of any health code regulations, assuming she was vaccinated. ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3683 "2021-06-09T22:00:14Z")
Gee that’s so funny. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3684 "2021-06-09T22:12:01Z")
> [@stuccosuperstar2020](#): > > Well maybe I should report you for trolling A sarcastic response to _your_ deliberately provocative idiot act is not trolling. But report away, nobody else is the boss of your report button. You could get lucky - the mods might well feel that I would have been wiser to step back earlier from that ridiculous thread rather than continue to engage an obvious troll. > [@stuccosuperstar2020](#): > > But thanks for taking the cowards way out. Yeah, I’m afraid you’ll have to do better than calling me chicken to get me to call you what you are anywhere other than where the board rules allow me to. ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3685 "2021-06-09T22:26:20Z")
I just wish you would admit that anyone that refuses to answer your questions on this Board makes them a “troll”. I was not given any warning by the Moderators for being a troll which means they don’t agree with you so you ran here for protection. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3686 "2021-06-09T22:45:37Z")
Your obvious trolling makes you a troll. I laid out my reasons objectively earlier in this thread. Your ruse is failing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3687 "2021-06-09T22:46:26Z")
Oh, that’s the same jagoff who threw a hissyfit when his local team won the Stanley Cup, because…[reasons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465). (Where the hell do you live that they let you drink on the bus?) Dumbass can’t even get the name of the Cup straight. ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3688 "2021-06-09T22:48:15Z")
Well then you better report me. Let me know how it works out. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3689 "2021-06-09T22:49:18Z")
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