real-life trolls

There are people at the fringe of most political or philosophical or intellectual movements who see it as their bounden duty to free the world of error (defined as disagreement with any view held by themselves). Such people can loosely be called 'fundamentalists'. Whether Christian, Marxist, Thatcherist, chauvinist, feminist, leftist, rightist or any combination or all or none of the above, they are all equally arrogant, narrow-minded, bloody-minded, self-righteous, self-delighted, precious, obsessive and boring and to be beaten off with water-cannon if they approach you. They should never under any circumstances be allowed to run any organisation, including (especially) a country.

Warning office workers! - This link will play a fantastic song...
http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/bill_goats_gruff.htm

You philistine motherfuckers!

People who start a serious argument, then lose it and pretend they were just kidding around.

Arrrgghhh...

my senior watch officer is totally trolling the rest of the office with some kind of Tuomas act re: Tupac, pretending to confuse him with Sting

ladies and gentlemen... the department of homeland security!

ha!

xp

good effort that didn't pay off xp

All me and my brothers and sisters did growing up was poke each others' Achilles heels bcz we lived out in the country and had nothing else to do but argue about who got to play Dragon Warrior next and for how long.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7351320.stm

Simple but effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031VHnUD0aw

I wish the sound on my laptop worked.

Believe me, if it did, you'd be wishing it didn't.

Yeah, kinda had that afterthought once I posted.

Real-life trolling = used to happen to me often with the son of Robert Lowell, who appears to mostly hang out in bars and try to argue with people about socialism (he once called me a racist for saying that, while I admired a lot of Scandinavian social-democrat type governments, they did seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to immigration)

^^ that was kind of idiotic, really, in that I said "yeah, the one thing that suddenly makes their commitment waver is immigration," so Lowell goes "oh, see, so you're just a racist then." !!

wtf at that Pledge of Allegiance heckler.
lol mericans

oh dear god not The Pledge!

tl;dw -- anything choice in it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_Hoax

oh, great

http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trolls-just-want-to-have-fun.pdf

abstract
In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of
their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online comment-
ing frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the
measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of
personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both
enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust
associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment
of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling
appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism.

irl band of 4chanesque losers causing havoc, impersonating music journos & pepperspraying ppl in denver diy music scene :(

http://www.westword.com/music/is-this-the-most-hated-band-in-colorado-8111362