# 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:** 49
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/966 "2020-09-21T03:31:41Z")
Thanks, discobot! ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/967 "2020-09-21T12:57:51Z")
Can this thread get any more surreal? @discobot fortune ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/968 "2020-09-21T12:57:53Z")
> šŸ”® As I see it, yes ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/969 "2020-09-21T12:59:04Z")
Okay then! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/970 "2020-09-21T13:04:15Z")
@discobot quote ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/971 "2020-09-21T13:04:17Z")
> šŸ—Ø _Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them._ ā€” Orison Marden ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/972 "2020-09-21T13:05:00Z")
Walking through obstacles is pretty surreal. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/973 "2020-09-21T13:53:52Z")
Like brick walls, large holes and supervisors? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/974 "2020-09-21T18:12:30Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Yes, yes. Take him away! I want him fighting wabid wild wobots within a week! ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/975 "2020-09-21T18:35:49Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Walking through obstacles is pretty surreal. Congratulations! Not just walking through, but theyā€™re melting. Not unlike a certain well-known surrealist painting: > **[The Persistence of Memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory)** > > The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistĆØncia de la memĆ²ria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador DalĆ­ and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "Melti Th... @discobot is becoming self-aware. Iā€™d really hate to be @kaylasdad99 right about now ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/976 "2020-09-21T18:38:38Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I want him fighting wabid wild wobots within a week! He has a wife you know. Do you know what her name is? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/977 "2020-09-21T19:46:41Z")
Incontinentiaā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/978 "2020-09-21T19:56:49Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Iā€™d really hate to be @kaylasdad99 right about now But WHY? Then you could know American Sign Language AND Braille! ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/979 "2020-09-21T20:14:44Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > He has a wife you know. Do you know what her name is? DubstepaBotā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/980 "2020-09-21T21:33:30Z")
No he isnā€™t. He can be grumpy, but no more than many other posters. And he usually knows what heā€™s talking about. Do you have any examples of him being a ā€œpiece of shit?ā€ Because otherwise Iā€™m guessing that he schooled you on something and you just resent it. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/981 "2020-09-21T23:15:51Z")
Say what you want about Discourse, but one thing it does better is searches like this. Itā€™s pretty easy to find posts where one poster is quoting another. So here are my guesses for how **mhendo** ended up on **Samā€™s** shit list (yes, Iā€™m procrastinating other work). - [mhendo complains about pointless posts from Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster-a-question-on-a-closed-thread/520073/4) - [mhendo gets cranky about Sam repeating himself and others](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-there-be-experience-requirements-and-max-age-cut-off-for-us-president/763054/51) - [mhendo insults the pigeons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thought-with-absolutely-no-respect-your-decision-is-ridiculous/737430/34) - the most likely candidate: [mhendo suggests Thailandā€™s government might not be heaven when it comes to religion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-have-to-put-up-with-religious-people/917474/383) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/982 "2020-09-22T18:43:33Z")
Wow! I didnā€™t realize that I was being discussed in this thread! I guess thereā€™s a certain pride to be taken in learning that youā€™re on someoneā€™s shitlist, but that pride is sort of dampened when you learn that the person in question is someone of basically no consequence in your board experience, someone who you never even think about unless youā€™re directly replying to one of his posts. I might be a lot of things, but Iā€™m definitely not a troll. Look through my thousands of long and rigorously-argue posts on this board and that will become clear to anyone with more then three functioning neurons. Iā€™d be quite interested to know exactly which post/s put me over the edge and onto his list. I mean, of the first three instances quoted by TroutMan, the most recent one is four years old, and the oldest was more than a decade ago. As for the most recent one, if someone is going to take offense at the suggestion that Thailand is a bit lacking when it comes to religious and political freedom, then thatā€™s probably someone Iā€™m happy to be ignored by. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/983 "2020-09-22T20:51:05Z")
Nah, nobodyā€™s calling you a troll; itā€™s just this one guy that you donā€™t get along with. (btw, are you still in California? I was wondering if youā€™d be weighing in on the ballot propositions this year. Iā€™ve already got my list of Ys and Ns made up, but Iā€™ve always valued your analyses. But ISTR that youā€™ve accepted a position elsewhere) ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/984 "2020-09-22T20:54:51Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I might be a lot of things, but Iā€™m definitely not a troll. Thatā€™s just what a troll would say. šŸ˜‰ ---
**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:** [September 22, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/985 "2020-09-22T21:00:16Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I might be a lot of things, but Iā€™m definitely not a troll. Look through my thousands of long and rigorously-argue posts on this board and that will become clear to anyone with more then three functioning neurons. Nobody cares about ā€œthousands of long and rigorously-argue postsā€. All it takes is for someone to accuse you of being a goat-fucker and youā€™ll be denying it for the rest of your days. Thatā€™s not me saying it, son. I only know what I heard. šŸ˜‰ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=50)