Ian H
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Common decency? Just as you would in real life?
Though, to be fair, I'm sure Mr Trumpet can blow his own.*
*Trumpet, for avoidance of doubt.
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Common decency? Just as you would in real life?
Though, to be fair, I'm sure Mr Trumpet can blow his own.*
*Trumpet, for avoidance of doubt.
midlandsgrimpeur
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My friend's six year old daughter is basically Karen. He got her a laptop for xmas and she is only allowed the email address of family members. A few weeks back he was having a bit of a stress with her. She disappeared into the playroom and five minutes later he received an email from her just saying "calm down" 😄
BoldonLad
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I will have to remember that “common decency” is a desirable trait on here 😊
Rusty Nails
Country Member
When my daughter was around three and was having a bit of a tantrum I told her to calm down. It didn't help...she just shouted back "me no calm down, me calm up"
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briantrumpet
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First Aspect
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It's really a thread about psychology, isn't it. Which in itself is quite interesting.
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briantrumpet
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Yes. It's fascinating to watch.
Over on BR there was an infamous troll called Manc33 who was a combination of nuts and a really clever troll - he'd get really clever people trying to persuade him that his statements that the earth was flat and that "the laws of physics are different in outer space" weren't true, and they thought that *just one more* post rebutting his insanity would put him right.
Actually, part of me wondered if Manc33 was an academic physicist, as it took a unique insight to know how to draw proper scientific people into debating his mad universe. It was so brilliant it was funny, and there wasn't any malice or name calling, IIRC.
First Aspect
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I don't think he was a physicist, and I'd say cunning rather than clever. In the sense that he had an instinct for what it takes to catch prey. And yes, it was quite amusing. Some people actually enjoy engaging, which I have no problem with and have done from time to time.
If trolling is dull and repetitive it is more problematic. A bit like spam.
If trolling is dull and repetitive it is more problematic. A bit like spam.
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briantrumpet
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Agree with all of that (though I still like my image of some professor in his office thinking up the maddest things that intelligent people would feel they had to engage with). As I say, I did enjoy manc33, as it wasn't toxic, unlike the CC resident.
I interpret this thread as a cry for help. Most participants here make interesting points, challenge existing viewpoints, present helpful facts. But troll is destroying many of these interesting discussions and driving contributors away. I'm close to going as interesting discussions are just destroyed by endless Twitter posts presenting untrue conspiracy theories from gawd knows who.
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Ian H
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They are dead easy just to ignore. I haven't even used the ignore button; they don't really register any more.
orraloon
You wot?
Tapped this before, think was on the death throes threads of BR, that manc33 is/was active on the CyclingUK forum, was posting similar BS years back when he got booted off BR, but I saw less BS later on so stopped searching for him/her/it. Maybe he grew up and got a job / life / wife?
midlandsgrimpeur
New Member
Your first paragraph is basically just describing Stevo when he goes on about Brexit!
dutchguylivingintheuk
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or he was the reason the train was delayed that day..
