BS: Troll spotting

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Once Famous
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 11:55 PM

If you want to be facetious, then someone will call you a fascist.

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Alba
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 12:06 AM

A bit of trivia.
Sure to bore the ass of you all but hey even in doing that I am being useful.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic.

Night All:)
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Ron Davies
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:00 AM

"Martin"--

Congratulations on discovering the dictionary. Now if you can only stay out of the gutter, things will improve around here.

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 12:48 PM

If you are implying that the word facetious has a shared linguistic root with the word fascist you're wrong.
G.
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fa·ce·tious    Pronunciation Key (f-sshs)
adj.

    Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.


[French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin factia, from factus, witty.]
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fas·cist    Pronunciation Key (fshst)
n.

   1. often Fascist An advocate or adherent of fascism.
   2. A reactionary or dictatorial person.


adj.

   1. often Fascist Of, advocating, or practicing fascism.
   2. Fascist Of or relating to the regime of the Fascisti.


[Italian fascista, from fascio, group. See fascism.]fas·cistic (f-shstk) adj.

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: harmony
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:09 PM

Without wanting to sound too unpopular this hannam fellow, i mean, i don't like anything he has said and i suspect him of racism. but like someone mentioned on another post he hasn't actually said anything racist. he might mean to be racist and cleverly hide it, but then i suppose we start guessing at motives?

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 08:29 AM

Mea culpa. I was only complimenting "Martin" on spelling "facetious" right. I should have seen he just copied it from the post before. His jape was rather feeble. Far be it from me to compliment "Martin" without justification. I'd never live that down.

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: LilyFestre
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 04:27 PM

Hey Alba...

    Neat information...gonna save that for my teaching days.....

Michelle

PS. Hi Martin! LTNS!

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Once Famous
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 08:36 AM

Hey Ron, it's just so fun and easy to offend you. Weren't you abused by a priest or something you are not telling everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 03:57 AM

Roger,

You are as entitled as any other member to express your opinions on this, or indeed on any, forum.

Thank you........

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:11 AM

"Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T - PM
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 06:00 PM

Roger,

You are as entitled as any other member to express your opinions on this, or indeed on any, forum.

But, and it is a big but, on this according to you over censored forum you have been allowed by your "anonymous fellow posters" (i.e. Joe and the clones) to subvert many threads to your pet campaign.

True, there have been some alterations, but on many other sites all of your posts made on threads where they were not germane to the thread subject would have been immediately deleted.

This hardly supports your view of our moderators as interfering nannies trying to curtail your right to free speech.

Your missionary zeal in continuing to try to convert all members to your own POV is reminiscent of the attempts of the Catholic church to bring the whole of Africa and Asia into the fold.

With all their resources they failed dismally, so what makes you think you might succeed.

When you stop evangelising and concentrate on the actual thread subject your posts do have considerable merit.

This is not intended as a judgement of you, nor as an attack. It is just something that you might like to think about. Where else do you suppose you might have as much freedom as here on Mudcat?

Don T."

Kind of alters the meaning when it's put in its proper context, doesn't it Roger. Kindly remember that quoting out of context to change apparent meaning weakens your argument.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:36 AM

Quoting out of context ought to be seen as a form of censorship in its own right.
"Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord." distorts the meaning of "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,I shall repay.
"Money is the root of all evil." is a deliberate misrepresentation of "For the love of money is the root of all evil."

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:37 AM

Thank you Don.

You are of course welcome to post what you wish

But why would think that I or any other poster would be interested in reading your judgement of another poster?

Subject: RE: BS: Troll spotting
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 09:00 AM

Hee hee, sounds like you hit the spot there Don, good shot!
G. ☺