Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 2)

[Babale]

@puzzlegal

I have seen the LA River in person, and the parts i saw looked a lot like a culvert to me. Yes, a large culvert. But … That thing doesn’t read “river” to my East Coast eyes, at least, not the part that’s a concrete culvert, which is the part I’ve seen.

Yeah, I live near LA and I give you all permission to call the LA River a culvert (I call it a drainage ditch at times myself).

[Alessan]

@Great_Antibob

Which is vaguely interesting but still just goes to show the board is basically like a bunch of squirrels

You say that like it’s a bad thing. The digressions are what make this place.

[BigT]

@wolfpup

@Past_Paper

Many hotels in the Times Square area alone have a lobby computer and the like, no sign-in required

I continue to learn new things about the world. I’m fascinated to learn that the best hotels in Manhattan provide computers and free internet access to homeless bums who wander into their lobby.

What got me is just the way it is phrased. They specifically didn’t say they were using such, just that it’s a thing. Like someone who has to go look up an answer. And yet, if someone called them out on it (like you did), they can turn around and say they didn’t say they used it.

[Great_Antibob]

@Alessan

You say that like it’s a bad thing. The digressions are what make this place

Squirrels are entertaining sometimes

When a really obvious pied piper troll has them dancing to his tune? Less so

[ASL_v2.0]

@BigT

@wolfpup

@Past_Paper

Many hotels in the Times Square area alone have a lobby computer and the like, no sign-in required

I continue to learn new things about the world. I’m fascinated to learn that the best hotels in Manhattan provide computers and free internet access to homeless bums who wander into their lobby.

What got me is just the way it is phrased. They specifically didn’t say they were using such, just that it’s a thing. Like someone who has to go look up an answer. And yet, if someone called them out on it (like you did), they can turn around and say they didn’t say they used it.

An actual homeless person would have said they were posting through their “Obama phone.”

[Darren_Garrison]

@Great_Antibob

Which is vaguely interesting but still just goes to show the board is basically like a bunch of squirrels and all any troll has to do is toss something shiny at them every now and then and watch the ensuing scramble

I don’t think squirrels have any particular interest in shiny things. Are you sure you aren’t thinking about acorns?

[Maserschmidt]

Or magpies.

[Alessan]

I don’t think squirrels have any particular interest in magpies.

[Guest-starring_Id]

Quite the astute newbie to mention threadlocking.

[Great_Antibob]

I don’t think squirrels really understand the concept of consent. But that could just be their excuse

[LSLGuy]

ETA: @Guest-starring_Id two above me.

Eh. there are thousands of messageboards on dozens of platforms. Being able to lock a thread is hardly arcane SDMB-only knowledge.

A real insider would know we don’t generally lock threads on OP request.

[carrps]

I’m a native of L.A., and I’ve never once heard the phrase “L.A. culvert.” Yeah, it kinda looks like that, but parts have been encased in concrete for ages because of horrific flooding in the past. If it saves lives, I don’t care what you call it.

[Atamasama]

@carrps

Yeah, it kinda looks like that, but parts have been encased in concrete for ages because of horrific flooding in the past.

Correct; it was a natural river that was engineered over time to reduce flooding.

If a culvert is a robot, the L.A. River is a cyborg.

[ASL_v2.0]

All the objectionable things the troll dropped in that thread, and people are still going on about the LA river…

[What_Exit]

Odd, isn’t it?

[ricepad]

The Los Angeles River is not a culvert. It’s a concrete channel, at least in places. Culverts are covered.

[needscoffee]

I have a mentally ill nephew who sounds exactly like this guy. Exact same disordered thinking: “if only I do this one [completely unrealistic] thing, I’ll be able to accomplish all the things that’ll turn my life around” despite years of experience which say otherwise, would be homeless if not for parents who can afford a place for him to live, etc. I have no idea if this guy is trolling (most likely is), but he sure has the plot down.

[Czarcasm]

An actual homeless person would know that most (if not all) hotels require you to sign in and out, both to ensure that their own customers are the only ones using them, and to make sure that anything you do on that computer is secure from the prying eyes of the next person to use it.

[Atamasama]

Yes, it’s 100% what someone pretending to be a homeless person would make up as they try to imagine what it would be like.

[Great_Antibob]

Engaging with a troll’s obviously inflammatory comments earnestly is surely a better use of time than absolutely anything else…