# 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:** 404
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12575 "2024-09-08T02:19:47Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > But you just did. According to the post that started this whole thing, just saying the word in _any_ context, even when quoting racists, is hate speech Maybe she didn’t read the post in question. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12576 "2024-09-08T02:20:44Z")
Thanks. That’s quite the clunky and quite offensive way of making their point. But I feel, had they put that entire phrase in quotation marks, the point would have been made without the ensuing dust-up. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12577 "2024-09-08T02:22:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > But I feel, had they put that entire phrase in quotation marks, the point would have been made without the ensuing dust-up. Only one person had an issue with it at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12578 "2024-09-08T02:23:26Z")
I never said I used that term. I said it was commonly known as that(around here). It’s in the friggin’ dictionary. Good grief. ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12579 "2024-09-08T04:21:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I never said I used that term. I said it was commonly known as that(around here). It’s in the friggin’ dictionary. Y’know what? When I don’t use a word, I do it by not actually using the word. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12580 "2024-09-08T05:18:51Z")
I was telling a fact of the matter that was asked. Just cause you wanna pretend it doesn’t exist doesn’t make it less true. I do not EVER call people nasty racist or filthy derisive terms. Not my family, not my friends, not my associates, not my pets. Is that plain enough? I’ve stated very clearly here, I was taught better than to call people ugly names, I don’t like it. I taught my kids not to do it. I don’t allow it in my home. It seems to me the internet and online sites have brought out the nasty side of humans, in this, in real life. People need to learn manners in a civil society. IMH fuckin’ O. (See you can still curse without calling a person a bad name) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12581 "2024-09-08T05:24:15Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I do not EVER call people nasty racist or filthy derisive terms. Not my family, not my friends, not my associates, not my pets. > > Is that plain enough? That’s not what he’s saying. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12582 "2024-09-08T05:26:55Z")
Well, sure it’s not. I thought I’d just spout off. I don’t use the n-word in most conversation. Or all really. The OP in that thread was asking for common names of plants. They are called that by some people. Decades ago. Not by me. I answered a question. Ill-advised, yeah. But I did it. I own it. ---
**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 8, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12583 "2024-09-08T09:25:35Z")
Jesus, is even this topic going to turn into another episode of Boring Self-absorbed Southern Lady Hour? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12584 "2024-09-08T09:33:27Z")
I didn’t bring it up. Put me on ignore if you hate me so much. I promise it won’t hurt my feelings. At all. In actual fact I’m kinda tired of your disparaging remarks into my character. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12585 "2024-09-08T09:36:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I thought I’d just spout off. Have you considered using this as your sig? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12586 "2024-09-08T09:38:27Z")
X Three? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12587 "2024-09-08T09:46:09Z")
I didn’t think the debate about the nuanced appropriateness of racial slurs in indirect contexts could be any stupider, but congratulations, additional stupidity has been achieved. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12588 "2024-09-08T15:16:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > They are called that by some people. Decades ago. If you mean decades ago not today, you probably shouldn’t use present tense verbs every time you mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12589 "2024-09-08T18:24:02Z")
Oh goody. Grammar class. 😑 ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12590 "2024-09-08T21:05:12Z")
I don’t know why anyone continued engaging Galactus the ostrich in the Gacy thread by @Two_Many_Cats2 when there’s a perfectly good cite to the contrary in post #8. Y’all could have simply directed it there and refused to engage further; 'course, now there’s no choice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12591 "2024-09-08T23:40:20Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > **MW\_Degen\_Gamblr** has been on my 'dar since his first post, what with his rambling style of discourse (as such) and often strange topic predilections, but I think his OP in IMHO this morning about an alleged Mormon sexual practice flips the Troll-O-Meter from “possible” to “highly likely.” > > I rather doubt he’s any sort of remotely successful gambler either. If I were a troll, I would be posting on the SDMB everyday. I have an addictive personality! Also, I dont understand how that thread was trollish. I did not attack anyone. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12592 "2024-09-08T23:53:23Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > **MW\_Degen\_Gamblr** has been on my 'dar since his first post, what with his rambling style of discourse (as such) and often strange topic predilections, but I think his OP in IMHO this morning about an alleged Mormon sexual practice flips the Troll-O-Meter from “possible” to “highly likely.” > > He’s strange, at a minimum. Given his willingness to start new threads from the get-go, I lean towards sock. Yes, I’m a bit strange. I’ll own that. I re-read the FAQs and the registration agreement. There wasn’t any mention of max thread amounts. If there was any mention elsewhere, I must have overlooked it. I’m comfortable starting new threads because i’m an elder millenial. I’m quite familiar with how message boards operate. Though I admit i’m new to discord. I’m more used to the vBulletin format. But I posted on many message boards in my early adulthood. Such as City Data, Quarterlife Crisis, Don Juan (pick up artists) message boards. I lost interest when Facebook started taking off. Now Facebook is starting to suck, and my interest in message boards are picking back up. I guess i’ve gone full circle. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12593 "2024-09-09T03:39:43Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I don’t know why anyone continued engaging Galactus the ostrich in the Gacy thread by @Two_Many_Cats2 when there’s a perfectly good cite to the contrary in post #8. That cite wouldn’t have made any difference. > [@](#): > > [A] common misconception is that he used this job to lure children, which was actually not true at all. > > While Gacy did perform as a clown on occasion, there’s no evidence to suggest that part of his life had anything to do with the darker side. He thinks that the clown victims just aren’t alive to confirm it. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absense, and all. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/12594 "2024-09-09T03:53:57Z")
Start as many threads as you like. You’ll outlast that. I’m living proof. Your other qualities? eh, whatever. You do you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=403) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=405)