Troll Needs Food

Most people on the thread are pissing about and ignoring you - who exactly has the "same stance" and would you care to summarise it?

Also at some point you ought to realise that saying "I've heard that argument before" isn't actually much of a reply.

So - what institutions specifically? The House of Lords? Oxford University? Eton College? Bolton Sixth Form College?

*Did anyone else watch How Not To Get On Big Brother last night and come away really despising the producers?

Or can we just put it down to the entirely apolitical complaint just about all educated people have -- that the culture and entertainment around them are aimed at a populous less educated than they are? This is a complaint that's rarely worth voicing beyond a grumble, unless you're okay with the idea of an elite cultural oligarchy whereby builders are left nothing to read on the toilet apart from the London Review of Books. The only way you'll clever people up is the blindingly obvious way: better education in better schools.

By the way I suspect you've misinterpreted my "Troll probably missed that" comment: I was referencing moderator typo-correction hijinks above, which you'd have had to look at the thread during a particular five-minute span to have caught.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036935/Sean-Duffy-Internet-troll-taunted-teenager-deaths-jailed-18-WEEKS.html

"sending malicious communications" - i wondered what they'd actually done him for. dunno how i feel about this, guy obviously has issues but otoh don't think i'm comfortable with magistrates drawing the line in future

Duffy's lawyer Lance Whiteford said he could offer no mitigation but that Asperger's and alcohol abuse went some way to explaining why he committed the offences.

(something about ilx etc)

proof of diagnosis or give him another 3 months imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14898564

Thinking about this, don't Littlejohn's "People's Prostitute" piece or Jan Moir's "Gately Died of Gay" meisterwerk leave themselves open to prosecution seeing as they're widely available on the internet?

they'd probably enjoy the 'persecution'

http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Sean_Duffy-1.jpg

WI Congressman and famed internet troll Sean Duffy

Dommy P better get himself a good lawyer

holy lol

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/14/troll-sean-duffy-internet/print

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141430/Pictured-The-internet-troll-threatened-kill-Tory-MP-Louise-Menschs-children.html

kind of offended that the Mail are confusing the noble art of trolling with "being a stalky psycho"

Internet troll: Frank Zimmerman, 60, of Gloucester, leaves Gloucester Magistrates Court, after his sentencing was delayed

Does an internet troll live under a network bridge?

Is there a link to that story not from the Mail?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/08/louise-mensch-troll-face-jail

he's still an idiot no matter who's reporting on it...

Well, the Mail are still fascists no matter what story they're reporting. Not giving them clicks.

But yeah, wow. Had heard about a vague upset with an internet nutbag, but this guy sounds like a proper psycho.

sophie's choice seems to have overtaken catch 22 in the overused literary allusion stakes

in fairness he was working to a closer def'n of its original meaning than 95% of ppl who invoke it

Addressing her as the "slut of Twitter", Zimmerman said: "We are Anonymous and we do not like rude cunts like you and your nouveau riche husband Peter Mensch. We are inside your computer, all your phones everywhere and inside your homes.