― Andrew L, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
*Did anyone else watch How Not To Get On Big Brother last night and come away really despising the producers?
― Billygoat, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― nabisco%%, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036935/Sean-Duffy-Internet-troll-taunted-teenager-deaths-jailed-18-WEEKS.html
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
proof of diagnosis or give him another 3 months imo
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4
― am0n, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14898564
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
they'd probably enjoy the 'persecution'
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Dommy P better get himself a good lawyer
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
holy lol
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/14/troll-sean-duffy-internet/print
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141430/Pictured-The-internet-troll-threatened-kill-Tory-MP-Louise-Menschs-children.html
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
kind of offended that the Mail are confusing the noble art of trolling with "being a stalky psycho"
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 07:39 (eleven years ago) link
Internet troll: Frank Zimmerman, 60, of Gloucester, leaves Gloucester Magistrates Court, after his sentencing was delayed
― buzza, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
Does an internet troll live under a network bridge?
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a link to that story not from the Mail?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
sophie's choice seems to have overtaken catch 22 in the overused literary allusion stakes
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
in fairness he was working to a closer def'n of its original meaning than 95% of ppl who invoke it
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link