# 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:** 217
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4341 "2021-08-25T19:43:42Z")
So, possums are cheese weasels, like raccoons are trash pandas? ---
**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:** [August 25, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4342 "2021-08-25T20:21:21Z")
When I posted about cheese weasels it was a total stream of consciousness thing and I have no idea where I’d heard the term or even _if_ I’d heard it before. But it’s apparently a thing. > **[What’s Cheese Weasel Day? :: Cheese Weasel Day](http://cheeseweaselday.com/about-2/)** > > Summary: Cheese Weasel Day (CWD) is the only Internet holiday. Started around 1993, CWD is celebrated each April 3rd as a fun day dedicated to appreci Apparently the legend is someone saw some kind of weasel in a park running with a slice of American cheese. And it’s a “holiday” I’ve never heard of before that’s close to 30 years old that’s supposed to celebrate people like me. 🤷‍♂️ Who the fuck knew?! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4343 "2021-08-25T22:31:03Z")
I’ll be darned. I’ve never heard of it either. Now I wish to pester my friends with this - who doesn’t want American cheese under their keyboard? I’ll have to wait until next year… ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4344 "2021-08-25T22:38:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > When I posted about cheese weasels it was a total stream of consciousness thing and I have no idea where I’d heard the term or even _if_ I’d heard it before. But it’s apparently a thing. I like the way your stream runs! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4345 "2021-08-27T17:45:31Z")
Possible femmejean sighting in GQ (sedatives + alcohol) ---
**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:** [August 27, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4346 "2021-08-27T19:03:45Z")
Already suspended, most likely they are trying to determine if it’s a sock in which case that will become banned. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4347 "2021-08-27T19:41:22Z")
And now banned as a sock. j ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4348 "2021-08-27T20:51:32Z")
How on earth did you recognise from one post, not only that it was a sock, but exactly _which_ sock??? I am seriously impressed… Wait, this is the pit…fuck, fuck, fuck. That’s better… ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4349 "2021-08-27T22:08:15Z")
This particular trock is dedicated and persistent. After awhile, you learn to recognize the indicators. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4350 "2021-08-28T21:20:55Z")
Roger\_That is an asshat, and a troll. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4351 "2021-08-28T21:58:13Z")
Roger that. Uh, I mean…I’m with you on that. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4352 "2021-08-28T23:28:15Z")
yes he is ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4353 "2021-08-29T13:50:38Z")
In. Deed. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4354 "2021-08-29T14:43:24Z")
Oh, god–we’ve got a nutbag Young-Earther. > [@Someone explain Kent Hovind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-kent-hovind/543723/37): > > I am not sure if you are still interested to read this, but since your responders seem to be all anti-Kent Hovind and Creationism, I thought I would try to show his reasoning based on objective scientific evidence. In geology, much study has been done on rock erosion. For instance, University of Texas has a report from an analysis of 3,770 erosion-pin measurements between 1978 to 1983 which on average gave a net erosion rate of 0.14 cm (1.4mm) a year. Measurements of-course were taken of differ… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4355 "2021-08-29T15:08:28Z")
Again, the question comes up, is someone a troll if they truly believe what it is they are espousing? While this one dodges the questions put to them – “I haven’t time to answer all of your points” – I don’t see much evidence they showed up here to merely jerk our chains. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4356 "2021-08-29T15:45:59Z")
Troll or impenetrably stupid, either way I’ve got them on ignore. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4357 "2021-08-29T16:32:36Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Again, the question comes up, is someone a troll if they truly believe what it is they are espousing? As far as TPTB are concerned, sincerity and trolling are not mutually exclusive. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4358 "2021-08-29T16:34:45Z")
It hasn’t happened in a while but I think that we’re witnessing _witnessing_. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4359 "2021-08-29T17:29:43Z")
You misspelled “witlessing”. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4360 "2021-09-01T15:01:35Z")
Is everyone too busy taking the bait to post about this thread here? > [@Can I be the only person stunned at just how badly President Joe Biden is doing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-be-the-only-person-stunned-at-just-how-badly-president-joe-biden-is-doing/949851/): > > Well? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=216) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=218)