# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 24, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4660 "2021-09-24T16:38:42Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > …perhaps due to James Randi retiring/dying. His topic ban might have had something to do with it too. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4661 "2021-09-24T17:03:31Z")
For the new kids, this, > [@Is this hate speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-hate-speech/543714): > > From the [registration agreement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423183) From the [FAQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697044#post7697044) Can we please have a ruling on a particular word. I think it counts as hate speech. The word is \*woo-woo \*(or woowoo, or just simply woo) as used twice in the OP of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12591166#post12591166). It’s a pretty vile term, in my opinion, and obviously designed to cause offense. I think that there is as much hatred packed into that word as there is in \*faggot \*or kike. It is used by the OP to denigrate anyone who doesn’t have the exact same set of beliefs that he ha… is Peter\_Morris. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4662 "2021-09-24T17:04:28Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > For the new kids, this, > … > is Peter\_Morris. Wow! Or woo-wow! ETA: And don’t miss > [@Is this hate speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-hate-speech/543714/38): > > woowoo means vagina. If you call someone a woowoo you are clearly calling him a cunt. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4663 "2021-09-24T17:12:23Z")
“And it sounds like ‘Wu’ which is a Chinese name, so you are also clearly calling him an oppressive Communist complicit in the Uyghur genocide. Well, you can do whatever you want to me, but I’m not going to sit here and listen to you advocate mass murder. Gentlemen!” ---
**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 24, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4664 "2021-09-24T17:17:52Z")
I am slightly curious about what it is that 50 scientists on other boards agree with him on, but at the same time, I’m afraid that I may find out. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4665 "2021-09-24T17:20:58Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > For the new kids, this, > [Is this hate speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-hate-speech/543714) > is Peter\_Morris. Woo-hoo! I was wondering why he was so inexplicably invested in the “two warnings vs one warning” issue. It appears that being a pointless shit-disturber has been **Peter\_Morris** ’s schtick for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4666 "2021-09-24T18:21:30Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Woo-hoo! Euphemism for sex in the Sims ~Max ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4667 "2021-09-25T11:30:05Z")
Crouching Magat, Hidden Jackin’ ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4668 "2021-09-26T23:35:09Z")
IIRC, Randi made some off-the-cuff comment about how you can dig pretty much anywhere and hit water if you dig deep enough, and therefore dowsing is silly. Randi meant it in the context of places that people would actually go dowsing, but Morris interpreted it hyperliterally, and then went on to say that Randi was declaring an ability to dig somewhere and _not_ hit water to be a paranormal ability. So if Morris _could_ dig somewhere and not hit water, he was entitled to the $10 million prize Randi had set aside for proof of paranormal abilities. He was super het up about this idea, and how Randi’s failure to accept it proved that Randi was a fraud, and posted so much and so impervious-to-reasonly about it that he earned a topic ban. My guess is that Morris found somewhere that scientists would agree that you couldn’t _literally_ dig anywhere and hit water and was obliquely referencing that. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4669 "2021-09-27T11:58:19Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > That **Somethingwitty** guy is not nearly as witty as he thinks he is in that “word for person with a vagina” thread in IMHO. Trolling? Maybe. Transphobe? Likely. I see the evil tree is there, too, of course. The way that thread has gone, it’s now pretty blatant trolling. “Am I a transphobe for asking a thoroughly creepy question about people’s genitals? Literally everyone here has called me a transphobe. Aren’t _you_ the real transphobe here?” One wonders if one of our recently-departed sisters is socking. ---
**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 27, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4670 "2021-09-27T13:12:50Z")
I thought that thread had died, but I guess not. Reading his not-so-witty recent posts, he’s just begging for someone to call him a transphobe. I’ll do that right here – **SomthingNotSoWitty1** is a transphobe. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4671 "2021-09-27T15:16:44Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I’ll do that right here – **SomthingNotSoWitty1** is a transphobe. Nonsense. He has been unfailingly polite and everyone else has been nothing but rude. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4672 "2021-09-27T15:36:36Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I’ll do that right here – **SomthingNotSoWitty1** is a transphobe. Well, they have good company in **Crane** , who’s [decided to go full transphobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-clarification-please/951378). ---
**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 27, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4673 "2021-09-27T15:48:25Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I’ll do that right here – **SomthingNotSoWitty1** is a transphobe. I don’t think that characterization is the least bit fair. …their appropriate _nom de troll_ should be **SoDimwitty1**. ETA: Fun fact, I just looked it up, the French word for troll is in fact “le troll.” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4674 "2021-09-27T15:49:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Nonsense. He has been unfailingly polite and everyone else has been nothing but rude. I see what you did there. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4675 "2021-09-27T15:53:23Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > ETA: Fun fact, I just looked it up, the French word for troll is in fact “le troll.” It’s not “Troll royale”? ---
**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 27, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4676 "2021-09-27T15:53:25Z")
Yeah, that remark by **Crane** came out of nowhere. Never pinged my asshole radar before. ---
**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 27, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4677 "2021-09-27T15:54:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s not “Troll royale”? More likely _troll chaussette_. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4678 "2021-09-27T15:57:46Z")
I honestly don’t get why suddenly so many people are determined to die on the hill of “But what should [X] be called?”. If you call people what they want to be called, how does this negatively impact your life? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/4679 "2021-09-27T16:16:19Z")
I don’t get why we keep having posters who want to die on the hill of defending transphobia. It’s not like Crane was just arguing that “male means biologically male.” He referred to a trans man as a “male impersonator,” and then doubled down on that after it was explained to him. I’m glad to know that 2 Warnings and 1 Warning aren’t really all that different, as I think he really deserved a Warning for that ATMB thread, too. He acknowledged it was against the rules but then did the exact same thing again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=11)