# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5120 "2021-12-13T22:39:40Z")
The reason I’m unsure about trock is that I would expect a trock to stink up more than one thread (well, again, dropped turds in 2 others but hasn’t bothered anything else) and likely shown up here as well. But absolute refusal to actually argue his own points (or cites) and making vague comments and accusations with buzzwords? Troll. And the pattern of acting innocent at first and then going at it with all guns blazing is indeed trocky. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5121 "2021-12-13T22:41:37Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And the pattern of acting innocent at first and then going at it with all guns blazing is indeed trocky. Also, sticking to the Pit once the gloves came off, like someone pretty familiar with the board. That’s what made me think sock rather than true newbie troll. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5122 "2021-12-14T06:08:04Z")
Any troll that shows up and posts in the pit is a trock. Any troll that shows up but refrains from posting in the pit… is a well-disciplined trock. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5123 "2021-12-14T06:55:36Z")
**Poster** : How can you ban trolls and trocks? **Mod** : Easy… you don’t lead 'em so much. Ain’t posting hell? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5124 "2021-12-16T13:59:49Z")
> [@The Rittenhouse trial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rittenhouse-trial/953798/1652): > > The Mayor of Chicago stated yeaterday that it is the merchants who are to blame for the lootings and burnings for “failure to provide adequate security.” Thing is, the Chicago PD will not enter into South Chicago after 5:00 PM. In a kind of warped sequence of reasoning, she’s right. No cops after 5? (In south Chicago, whatever the fuck that means.) New troll, when you’re complaint requires a blatant fucking lie, then you have no complaint. Fucking liar. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5125 "2021-12-16T14:21:55Z")
It’s terrible how he thinks the police are all cowards that are terrible at their jobs. **#BacktheBlue** ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5126 "2021-12-16T14:26:52Z")
Also, your, not you’re. I was in a hurry. New troll is still a fucking liar who has to make up things to be outraged about. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5127 "2021-12-16T16:31:41Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > No cops after 5? (In south Chicago, whatever the fuck that means.) > New troll, when you’re complaint requires a blatant fucking lie, then you have no complaint. Fucking liar. To be fair, the south side of Chicago _is_ the baddest part of town. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5128 "2021-12-16T16:38:14Z")
Yeah, a man named Leroy Brown rules that part of town. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5129 "2021-12-16T16:45:21Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Yeah, a man named Leroy Brown rules that part of town. - Looks like that childhood detective agency paid off. He _knows_ things. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5130 "2021-12-16T16:55:30Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > To be fair, the south side of Chicago _is_ the baddest part of town. Are there some tracks that you can be on the other side of? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5131 "2021-12-16T17:13:05Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Are there some tracks that you can be on the other side of? Sort of. The Chicago River @ Roosevelt Road is commonly used as the northwestern boundary corner and there have been tracks just south of the river for over 100 years. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5132 "2021-12-16T17:24:19Z")
Also, CPD headquarters is on the south side. But I guess the cops didn’t go there after 5pm. What a fucking shitbag new troll is. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5133 "2021-12-16T17:24:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He _knows_ things. But does he drink? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5134 "2021-12-16T17:29:38Z")
I glanced at his comment in the linked thread (I have long ago put that giant Troll-face on ignore) and it looks like he’s doing the same thing he did early in the Flynn thread. He’s acting like a concerned conservative, without being an obvious troll, but in the process of scaling up. Admittedly, he’s not in the pit this time, but I still expect him to escalate right to borders of the forum. Which is increasing the Trock coefficient in his judgement considerably. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5135 "2021-12-16T22:04:40Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Are there some tracks that you can be on the other side of? Wait, that’s a thing? I recently visited Houston, TX and thought the joke was particular to that city. ~Max ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5136 "2021-12-16T22:08:27Z")
It’s a widely used expression for the bad part of town, now often metaphorical. I guess it’s a natural phenomenon when a town grows around a railroad with limited crossing points that the tracks tend to demarcate different neighborhoods. > **[the wrong/other side of the tracks](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/wrong-other-side-of-the-tracks)** > > 1. a part of a town that is considered poor and dangerous: 2. a part of a town… ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5137 "2021-12-16T22:09:31Z")
You learn something new every day… ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5138 "2021-12-16T22:53:20Z")
Guessing you aren’t American then. Yes, there are thousands of towns in the US where the poorer and socially less desirable (and also…let’s say darker…) folks were ‘encouraged’ to live on literally one side of the railroad tracks once upon a time. Those divisions still exist today, sometimes more or less deliberately and sometimes because once things get ingrained, it’s difficult to change them even if you want to. ETA: And yes, the ‘wrong’ side was also usually the side that was more typically downwind of the trains or less desirable for other reasons - say more prone to flooding or exposed to some undesirable geographic feature ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5139 "2021-12-16T23:08:25Z")
The railroad tracks I’m familiar with are 1. a passenger train running through the middle of town (no discernable difference in affluence on either side) that carries people to the city and back 2. the East coast railway that runs along the entire Florida Eastern seaboard, which separates multimillion dollar condominiums from multimillion dollar beach houses ~Max [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=34)