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How to pick a troll?
- Thread starter BAG
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??? Are they hard to find now days? I honestly haven't looked into buying a fender in a long time. Or am I missing some inside joke...You forgot to say you did a search and couldn't find anything.
'Twas brillig ,and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves , and the mome raths outgrabe.
One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack,He left it dead, and with its head.He went galumphing back....
I assume everyone is a troll these days... the odds are high on TB.
A Few Clowns Short of a Circus
A Few Fries Short of a Happy Meal
An Experiment in Artificial Stupidity
A Few Peas Short of a Casserole
Doesn't Have All Her Cornflakes in One Box
The Wheel's Spinning, But the Hamsters Dead
One Fruit Loop Shy of a Full Bowl
All Foam, No Beer
The Cheese Slid Off Her Cracker
Couldn't Pour Water Out of a Boot With Instructions on the Heel
He Fell Out of the Stupid Tree and Hit Every Branch on the Way Down
An Intellect Rivaled Only by Garden Tools
As Smart as Bait
Chimney's Clogged
Doesn't Have All His Dogs on One Leash
Elevator Doesn't Go All the Way to the Top Floor
Her Sewing Machine's Out of Thread
His Antenna Doesn't Pick Up All the Channels
His Belt Doesn't Go Through All the Loops
Missing a Few Buttons on His Remote Control
No Grain in the Silo
Proof That Evolution Can Go in Reverse
Receiver is off the Hook
Skylight Leaks a Little
Slinky's Kinked
Surfing in Nebraska
Too Much Yardage Between the Goal Posts
Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer
The Lights are on, but Nobody's Home
A Few Clowns Short of a Circus
A Few Fries Short of a Happy Meal
An Experiment in Artificial Stupidity
A Few Peas Short of a Casserole
Doesn't Have All Her Cornflakes in One Box
The Wheel's Spinning, But the Hamsters Dead
One Fruit Loop Shy of a Full Bowl
All Foam, No Beer
The Cheese Slid Off Her Cracker
Couldn't Pour Water Out of a Boot With Instructions on the Heel
He Fell Out of the Stupid Tree and Hit Every Branch on the Way Down
An Intellect Rivaled Only by Garden Tools
As Smart as Bait
Chimney's Clogged
Doesn't Have All His Dogs on One Leash
Elevator Doesn't Go All the Way to the Top Floor
Her Sewing Machine's Out of Thread
His Antenna Doesn't Pick Up All the Channels
His Belt Doesn't Go Through All the Loops
Missing a Few Buttons on His Remote Control
No Grain in the Silo
Proof That Evolution Can Go in Reverse
Receiver is off the Hook
Skylight Leaks a Little
Slinky's Kinked
Surfing in Nebraska
Too Much Yardage Between the Goal Posts
Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer
The Lights are on, but Nobody's Home
A troll is soneone who posts comments that are designed solely to annoy others.
Posts that might be ignorant, provocative, or disrespectful may not be trolling, assuming the comments were not intended to be obnoxious for the sake of it.
There is an automotive forum that I've been active on since 2007 and one member there is a troll that racks up as many as 1000 posts per month of nothing but crapping on the posts of other participants in the OT section.
It doesn't matter what the topic is. Virtually every post by anyone is quoted by him, along with some form of sneering dismissal of their idea. Often in the form of a link to a rude or vulgar graphic or video internet meme. He could be 100% wrong and his comments obviously just plain stupid, but he's impervious to criticism.
The thing is, most everyone there, including me, has him on ignore, but he posts so much that it's impossible to filter all of it out. There are a few members who insist on arguing with him and will quote him in their posts.
For some reason, the owners of the site won't ban him, despite the fact that his trolling has made an otherwise decent site into an embarrassing spectacle of stupidity. Large numbers of thoughtful members have abandoned the forum in the past few years, citing his obnoxious posts as the primary reason.
If an adult person acted the way in real life to their friends, family, coworkers, and others, the same way they acted while trolling on the internet, they'd get the tar beat out of them several times a week. But for some reason its ok to purposely be vulgar and disrespectful to strangers online because you think it's funny.
Posts that might be ignorant, provocative, or disrespectful may not be trolling, assuming the comments were not intended to be obnoxious for the sake of it.
There is an automotive forum that I've been active on since 2007 and one member there is a troll that racks up as many as 1000 posts per month of nothing but crapping on the posts of other participants in the OT section.
It doesn't matter what the topic is. Virtually every post by anyone is quoted by him, along with some form of sneering dismissal of their idea. Often in the form of a link to a rude or vulgar graphic or video internet meme. He could be 100% wrong and his comments obviously just plain stupid, but he's impervious to criticism.
The thing is, most everyone there, including me, has him on ignore, but he posts so much that it's impossible to filter all of it out. There are a few members who insist on arguing with him and will quote him in their posts.
For some reason, the owners of the site won't ban him, despite the fact that his trolling has made an otherwise decent site into an embarrassing spectacle of stupidity. Large numbers of thoughtful members have abandoned the forum in the past few years, citing his obnoxious posts as the primary reason.
If an adult person acted the way in real life to their friends, family, coworkers, and others, the same way they acted while trolling on the internet, they'd get the tar beat out of them several times a week. But for some reason its ok to purposely be vulgar and disrespectful to strangers online because you think it's funny.
I joined Facebook to promote my instruments. It has resulted in some repairs, at least, and maybe some sales.
Pretty cheap advertising, and I don’t read all the blathering offered there, anymore than I do here.
That depends on how valuable you consider your privacy.Facebook openly admits to data mining accounts, and selling/sharing your info with pretty much anyone.so, is your privacy worth a few repairs and a sale or two? I got out when Facebook DEMANDED I show 2 forms of government identification to verify the name I used in my profile.they saw through the photo shopped issue I made with the profile name and for months (even after I took down all my pics/ posts and everything else I could) were sending me emails saying they HAD to verify my identity.
There is no free lunch. Facebook makes its money by selling our info to the highest( or, well any) bidder.just because they don't ding your credit card doesn't mean your not trading something off for their service.
I'm not trying to get everyone to like boycott them or anything. But I think people should know what they are getting involved in.if your cool with them doing what they do then you are agreeable to the terms of their contract...more power to you. I value my privacy( and that of my family and friends) more than my need to be a member of Facebook.
If you read my previous post I don't. "really" hate fender. I just wish they get it together. I did LOVE my first jazz bass. It was my first "real" bass guitar. And it could do almost anything. But slowly the company has lost touch with what it makes.after buying that 98 jazz bass I started looking into other offerings, first by fender(I did eventually go back to a precision with pj pickups) then by gibson,ibanez,Warwick, carvin,ECT.( I had a Dano for a bit...god that thing looked bad and sounded worse) but I couldn't find what Fender had.If anything I feel like a battered wife.I love the way they were, I want them to change back to what they were when we first met.
The reason I prefer squire to Fender is that the diminishing returns on fender products. Out of the box "most" squiers are decent enough to get by.and again most have the fender sound and with the money you save you can easily upgrade a squire into an awesome instrument, that WILL out preform a fender.at best I see the same problems on the American made $1500 bass as the $400 Indonesian squiers. At worst the fender line seems more worried about it being verified as a "real" fender than how it sounds or plays.
And if you really want to get anecdotal, the "vintage vibe"p bass line squire made have the best 4 string neck I've ever played. I'm sure it's a copy of something fender made years ago that's lost to the ages. It's narrower at the nut than a typical p bass but . wider than a jazz.not by much, but just enough.the taper is also slower and the "c shape" is just a hair flatter. I doubt this is all really intentional, but it's just such a good neck. I've tried ordering a similar replacement from warmoth, but it's cheaper to buy the squiers and you get a complete bass in the package.
