i say ALL PIC JANUARY tbqh

COSIGN

Heck Yes.

I’m going down the pub now. Bye all—have a lovely Christmas! (I may return later and post while inebriated)

i think you mean

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MAH BALLS

ooh please do!

*rubs hands at prospect of merry CJ*

CJ, please set fire to stuff again.

(and Merry Christmas!)

behave

well do you? I’m not so sure.
I’d probably think “Who is this?”
“Why are they doing it?”
“Is it a mate trying to be funny?”
“Is it a mate whose drunk?”
“Whose voice does that sound like?”
“What have I done recently that might have offended someone?”

yeah, you go through all those thoughts, then, it’s like, well, i dunno who it is, or what it’s for, so, erm, i’ll think about it next time when they try harder.

I’m not a troll

Can we have All Misogyny February as a tribute to my posting style?

MAH BALLS

— teh_kit (kittenslikemil...), December 21st, 2006. (g-kit)

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ooh please do!

ken c isn’t a troll, he just has a sense of humour.

OTM

I am uncategorizablez.

You are a kitten of the genus Panthera

Is it me or has kate done nothing but troll on this thread?

I have to agree with this a bit but a thread like this is very personal! There’s a difference between stating something dispassionately than getting the dig in! That said I can see she has suffered more from trolls than most people on ILX so I’d give her a break and allow the spleen to be vented rather than rekindle past history as some people on this thread seem determined to do.

i want hen fap

i want ken fap

I sense there’s an undercurrent of people feeling what they feel about each other, but restraining themselves from actually kicking off.

The fact that they have managed this is a credit to you all.

(I’m making myself poorly now.)

RJG, our mutual friend says you are very nice IRL and nothing like your online persona.

I sense there’s an undercurrent of people feeling what they feel about each other, but restraining themselves from actually kicking off.

lol you’re new here

i was trolling, w/r/t rjg.

I feel this thread ending with a “God bless us, every one” vibe.

I’ve never found Dom to be misogynistic. I think Kate’s “I think a lot of people don’t quite catch his playfulness” (re. The Lex) could equally well apply to Dom, RJG and whoever, FWIW.

teh_kit, I have met you IRL, but I was very drunk so in no way qualified to pass comment. You don’t seem terribly different to how you do on here (this is a Good Thing, btw).

I’m a cantankerous old git in real life, so I think I pretty much come across here as an honest representation of reality.

i see it ending more like

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I feel this thread ending with a “Matt DC locking it” vibe.

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yeah but you hate christmas, ya miserable cnut.

This thread *is* the Peanuts Christmas Special of ILX.

I see this thread ending with Tubgirl.

If it were up to you, every thread would end with tubgirl.

.. doing the Janet Ellis speech from “Morecambe and Wise”

100 posts and no reference to hitler yet!

oh oops

Janet Webb, I mean.

teh_kit, our mutual friend has never ever mentioned you to me

“I want to thank you for coming to my little show tonight, and if you’ve enjoyed it then it’s all been worthwhile. So, until we meet again, goodnight... and I LOVE YOU ALL!”

Where is that godawful sci-fi computer-rendered graphic from? I lol everytime I see it.

most people are okay. most people.

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gis for wasteland, i think.

ding

would it be wrong in saying that the americans dont really have the ‘you act different in real life’ problem?

apparently hstencil is different in real life. this is what i have been told

would it be wrong in saying that the americans dont really have the ‘you act different in real life’ problem?

Americans are generally superior to us in every single way. Esp. after kicking our asses in the war.

‘us’ being non-Americans

does chaki mean ‘because they are geographically widely dispersed’ or ‘because they don’t have lame hang-ups’?

Americans are too American for us.

he means because they are rude IRL lol amirite?

In ur thread etc.

Bah.

hey guys lets talk about JONTHAN WILLLIMS ADN HIS NOIZZE BORD!

He’s stuck at number nine, he’s Stuck On You, he’s Huey Lewis...andtheNoos!

started off well but tailed off midway

Yeah, when all those trolls started trying it.

sad to hear that the americans act the same in real life.

Patrick Kidd on Shane Warne in the Times today: “He looked like a troll when we first saw him.”

wait, ken c is a troll ?!

Stuck with You, Marcello, ffs.

Yes, but the Ginger Prince always announced it as Stuck On You.

No one remembers Radio TipTop except me :-(

Strong link detected between hating fun and thinking ken c is a troll.

ste i think most people on this thread don’t really understand what a troll is, but blabber on about it cluelessly as usual.

give us a clue then.

lionel blair or liza goddard?

It’s simple!

ILX definition of troll = someone on ILX you don’t like.

No but Kate Bush.

?

No butt kate bush.

Tell that to Bertie.

v. tr.

1.
1. To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
2. To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
3. To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
4. To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example).
5. To sing heartily: troll a carol.
2. Slang To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: “[Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways” (Pete Axthelm).
3. Music
1. To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example).
2. To sing heartily: troll a carol.
4. To roll or revolve.

ken-grout-teh_kit is not a troll.

“to roll or revolve”...makes me visualise a TV studio full of ILxors in perms, frilly shirts and tight trousers spinning plates...

That definition’s pretty good actually.

they don’t sing heartily enough (xpost)

we’re the trolly trinity

akin to those supermarket trolleys with only 3 working wheels

and then we all lez up?

which of you is the squeakiest?

“depends which of us is with yr mom @ the time” new answers plz

i don’t get it

The guys gets shirts.

I don’t get it.

I have nothing to add to this thread ^___^

We’re not gonna be as strong as our weakest link.

(Except that saying everyone is either one of nine personality types is pretty dumb, tbqh.)

We know that, but choose not to feed the careerist troll in question.

there are identifiable behavioural modes that people operate in but the point is that they can easily switch between them (esp. on the internet)

Before I read this thread I would just like to say that whoever is behind the toynbee tiles is the greatest real life “troll” of modern times.

I feel this thread ending with a “Matt DC locking it” vibe.

This thread is far too boring and tedious for so great an end.

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huh? i tried to img-spam, to make the funneh :(

We know that, but choose not to feed the careerist troll in question.

Ouch.

dammit where is that ‘fat bees’ pic?

Sometimes I think ILX — especially ILM — consists of trolling in reverse: instead of a troll starting an snide, mocking thread and then everyone earnestly complaining, we get people starting earnest threads and then everyone posting snide, mocking responses. (I doubt this makes ILM different from any number of boards out there.)

The easiest way for me to imagine a troll mentality is to imagine myself posting to some forum I felt really contemptuous of, like conservative message boards or Hipinion — the style would come pretty naturally, I think. The question becomes why anyone would want to devote lots of time and energy to winding up and messing with people on boards he felt contemtpuous of, rather than finding one he liked. And I can imagine a few pretty juvenile reasons: (a) still thinking you’re so clever that anyone who disagrees with you is amusingly dumb, (b) thinking of other figures on the internet as amusing playtoys and not actual people out there somewhere, (c) having some big single-issue resentment where you feel like someone else’s orthodoxy or privilege is keeping you down, or wanting to take revenge over the feeling that you’ve been barred from someone else’s discourse (just like you were once ostracized in the middle-school cafeteria)*, or, yeah, (d) just being the kind of person who’s frustrated or angry or drawn to that kind of conflict.

(* Ultimate in real-life trolling = school shootings??)

That last sentence is one of the stupidest ever posted on ILx.

BOLD STATEMENT

always focussing on the negative...

Alas, “ringing up Selfridges and asking if they sell fridges” is the ultimate in real-life trolling.

Ha, as an example of (c), Calum’s first few posts to ILM were actually about music. Unfortunately, they were so ridiculous — mostly claiming that forgotten Britpop bands were the peak of recorded music, and defending that position solely by noting that American bands suck (by which he meant Weezer and Red Hot Chili Peppers) — that he was basically laughed off. It was at some point during or after those arguments that he turned into a real troll.

Marcello, please elaborate; I’d think the analogy is pretty straightforward. Feeling barred from discourse —> taking grandiose revenge on participants in discourse = kind of a similar dynamic.

were you born in the UK phil?

No, but I wanted to refrain from using a vulgar American example.

did you ever live in the UK?

Calum’s first few posts to ILM were actually about music. Unfortunately, they were so ridiculous — mostly claiming that forgotten Britpop bands were the peak of recorded music, and defending that position solely by noting that American bands suck (by which he meant Weezer and Red Hot Chili Peppers) — that he was basically laughed off. It was at some point during or after those arguments that he turned into a real troll.

hasn’t ILM always been the sort of place where naive, cliched or somehow ‘conventional’ opinions would be mocked in this way tho? in my personal experience, ILM’s cynical reputation always preceded itself. But this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.