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101 Things to do instead of feeding the troll

 
 
HCE
03:12 / 29.05.05
I know. I know how it makes you feel when you see a troll thread. It's full of typos, and at least half of it makes no sense. You wouldn't take typos like that off a Respected Member, much less some limp turd who's soiled your favorite forum. Perhaps there are a few tepid insults in it, and you'd like to show the little fucker how it's really done. It's like talking to a snotty tween, though, and you know it -- the response is going to be more of the same, plus a choice bit of eyeball-rolling, and you know what? The troll wins, no matter what you say. The only pain the troll is capable of experiencing is the agony of seeing its threads sink into oblivion.

When the urge to give a troll a little taste of your superiority overwhelms you, take a breath, and do something else instead:

1. Read a nauseous personal on nerve and feel immediately better. Yes, you are being trolled. At least you are not trying to decide what is sexy, and what is sexier.

2. Go see a movie. Count the number of amputations that occur, if any, and PM the result to David "Papi" Ortiz.

3. Do a google image search for a type of baby animal not yet pictured in the 'pictures for haus' thread.

4. Make a postcard and ask bitchikittie if you can still join the postcard club.

5. Eat chocolate, unless you're allergic to chocolate.

6. Listen to Schubert's 'Winterreise'. Hasn't it been too long since you've heard that lovely piece?

7. Head over to the Books forum and poke it with a stick. Then come back here and let us know if it's dead yet, or what.

8. Look out of a window. Make up a story about what you see.

9. Brush and floss your teeth. Can't hurt, unless you've just had gum surgery or a ... gum piercing, I suppose.

10. Check in a mirror to see from which angles, if any, you look good. Take a photo of yourself and post it to the PICS thread.

I can think of more, but I don't want to take up the whole list by myself.
 
 
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05:07 / 29.05.05
The only pain the troll is capable of experiencing is the agony of seeing its threads sink into oblivion.

Good advice. The trolls have been taking the piss lately, and the more of us who do one of the things on your list (or just not post in the threads) instead of feeding them, the quicker this forum will have the crap cleared out of it.

I've been posting too damn much in those threads, and META twat keeps getting his garbage threads sent into here, which is making it worse, but if they sink faster I suppose it's ok.
 
 
Grey Area
06:41 / 29.05.05
11. Join a rousing game of Mornington Crescent in the Creation. If a game's not running, start one!

12. Go to your kitchen. Open a cupboard at random. Find something way at the back that you've been meaning to throw out for months, possibly years. Throw it out. Consider the metaphoric implications of this action as related to not having posted in a troll-thread.

13. Think about that creative project you've been toying with. Find someone in the Creation who will work on it with you.

14. Wash your car. Better yet, get two or three good friends and wash your car (and theirs) together. Throw water at each other, tell jokes, fuss over getting algae out of crevices, enjoy the sunshine, listen to music.

15. Cook something. If you can't think of something to cook, consider finding a recipe for that dish you routinely pay the Chinese Takeaway £8 to cook and try making that.

16. Restart that old thread about your favourite author that totally failed to make some valid and thought-out points. Take care in crafting a post which will reflect the depth of feeling you have for this person's work and will stimulate discussion.

17. Tidy your desk.

18. Make that phone call you've been meaning to make for weeks now. If that means disconnecting from the internet, so much the better. You are trying to avoid feeding a troll after all.

19. If your S.O. is sitting in the same room, get up and give him/her a hug.

20. Consider your posture when sitting at your computer. Hunched over? Tightness in your shoulders? Crmping feeling in your lower arms/wrists? Google some stretches you can do to alleviate the problem, print them out, perform them every half hour.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
08:58 / 29.05.05
But on the other hand, if he's expending all his effort on a thread that has been moved to the playground anyway, then he's not soiling the other fora.
 
 
Spaniel
09:01 / 29.05.05
Doesn't make it any less tedious.

21. Eat breakfast/brunch/lunch/high tea/dinner/midnight feast.
 
 
alejandrodelloco
12:12 / 29.05.05
21. Dance naked through the woods.

22. Or not.
 
 
Ganesh
13:23 / 29.05.05
23. Post on the Big Brother thread instead, and help me maintain some shreds of dignity by facilitating the self-belief that I'm not already the most suckered-in person here.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
23:34 / 29.05.05
Ain't no doubt about that, mio tesoro.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:48 / 30.05.05
24. Go tell the Spartans.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
09:24 / 30.05.05
25. Go fuck yourself.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
10:01 / 30.05.05
(ha ha ha ha ha)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:40 / 30.05.05
26. Fight manfully with the temptation to go and post a bunch of passive-aggressive shit over in the Urgh Fuck thread.
 
 
electric monk
17:32 / 30.05.05
26) Start a USEFUL AND INTERESTING Temple thread.

27) Huggle a muggle, my nuggle.
 
 
electric monk
17:33 / 30.05.05
28) Learn to count.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:20 / 30.05.05
29) Develop a crush on a Barbelith poster. Follow them around the board flirting openly and inappropriately.
 
 
Shrug
19:30 / 30.05.05
30) Make a collage out of all the things on your bedroom floor.

31) Customise your shoes.

32) Write an incendiary poem about a flatmate/work colleague/family member and tack it to their back.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
20:57 / 30.05.05
Tee hee! Flyboy, you're so funny!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:55 / 30.05.05
*Ruffles Flyboy's hair playfully*
 
 
fuckbaked
01:53 / 31.05.05
33. Pee in a measuring device, and post how much you can pee in this thread.

34. download some bizarre porn and/or masturbate (I know Fite already sort of mentioned this, but it's so important that I thought it needed 2 numbers. and I thought of it first, dammit. I just didn't post it first...)

35. If you live near Santa Cruz, and you have weed, pm me and offer to smoke me out, then make good on that promise.
 
 
HCE
02:20 / 31.05.05
Define "near Santa Cruz."
 
 
astrojax69
04:39 / 31.05.05
36) paint your nails a nice shade of purple


37) walk outside, sit on the grass and meditate on trolls, and gnomes and dwarves and goblins...
 
 
fuckbaked
05:06 / 31.05.05
"Define 'near Santa Cruz.'"

Well, Los Angeles isn't near enough to Santa Cruz, unfortunately. How near is near enough depends on how busy I am and the like. Right now I'd be willing to travel 2 hours or maybe more.
 
 
HCE
03:13 / 01.06.05
Done:

dishes
laundry (eight loads)
washed car
cleaned kitchen
planted seedling tomatoes
finished V for Vendetta
watched Central Station, Coffee & Cigarettes, Being There, Life Aquatic -- forgot to count the amputations
abandoned Number9Dream
ate dried apples
called best friend
listened to schubert
posted to gardening thread
wrote two letters
 
 
Slim
04:27 / 01.06.05
I just read issues 1-26 of Animal Man. I think my brain is fried.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
07:00 / 01.06.05
Well, for god's sake stay away from Doom Patrol or the Invisibles then.
 
 
Papess
08:18 / 01.06.05
I go to work. (No internet there.)

Sometimes, I go to the playground with my boy.

Sometimes, we play video games together.
 
 
Slim
12:08 / 01.06.05
Well, for god's sake stay away from Doom Patrol or the Invisibles then.

I think the problem is that I did it all in one sitting. That's a bit much for any comic series, let alone Animal Man.
 
 
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06:30 / 02.06.05
38) Laugh, because you're an internet user!!!111
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:24 / 15.06.05
39. Jump on furniture and wil' out and shit.



YEAH!
 
 
Katherine
11:39 / 15.06.05
Make a cup of tea for yourself and while you're up offer someone else a cup.
 
 
Chiropteran
12:40 / 15.06.05
arch', you just want someone to get you some tea, admit it.
 
 
Triplets
12:59 / 15.06.05
Does anyone want a cup of tea?
 
 
Katherine
13:21 / 15.06.05
See...... it worked though!
 
 
juan de marcos
17:10 / 15.06.05
40) Google for a squidhead picture and post a sequiter on the instead thread
 
  
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