Are you a troll on DU.....or fairly shady?

If you are trolling on DU, please step up
so that we can give you a proper welcome.
Don't be shy, we are a friendly bunch,
even if you ARE as suspicious as a
brown towel in a prison hospital. :)
If you would like to ask any questions about
the site or if you would like to tell us a little
about your nasty pathetic self, please do so.

Let me be the first to welcome you and I
hope to see you disrupting on the boards.

:hi:

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then you have to explain shrinkage. :)

we're all very nice.

:hi:

:loveya:

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You're wonderful. :hi: :loveya:

(making up for lost time in his subtle compliments of billy)

you're pretty stellar yourself. :hi:

the nearest I can think of would be the highest most sublime moments in music. :hi:

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I've been trolling for almost three years and have even went to meetups. I like to cause trouble in here and start flame wars. I like thunderstorms and a walk in the park at dawn.

My two questions for you are... Why do people spell "moron" as "moran"? And how do I post a post? :shrug:

Put a stamp on it after you bury it with this;



:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I made myself laugh!

"Why do people spell 'moron' as 'moran'? And how do I post a post?"

:rofl:

but I play one on TV. :evilgrin:

It is true that I am a Christian and get a little persnickety when Christianity is bashed. Ditto for whites or males. Plus I am from a red state. It is true that I am somewhat socially conservative, and am probably more anti-Republican than I am pro-Democrat, especially as more Democrats go DLC. Thus, I never liked Clinton, who was too economically conservative for me. I spent three years working as a temp in the Clinton economy so I thought that was over-blown too.

Anyway, here's my LTTE from October of 2000, which should establish me as a non-troll, and also as a prophet. A) I predicted the disappearance of the much ballyhooed 'surplus' and B) I said "quite frankly, a Bush presidency scares me."

I notice with some dismay that all the letters I have read have been pro-Bush. Are no Gore supporters writing, or are no Gore supporters being printed? Let me at least write for Gore and see if it is printed or suppressed.
First, I will give 520 billion reasons not to vote for Bush. That is the amount of money that the top 1% gets from the Bush tax cut. The public needs this money much worse than the millionaires who 'earn' it. Four percent of that tax cut goes to the bottom forty percent, compared to 40% to the top 1%. Such an unequal distribution is not inevitable in an income tax cut, but a result of Bush's
desire to cut the top rates which most Americans don't pay. Only a cut at the bottom is for all taxpayers.
One of the pro-Bush letters mentioned "It's a Wonderful Life" which is also my favorite metaphor because the Republican party is the party that serves the Potters of this world and tilts the field even more in their favor. Gore promises to fight for the George Baileys and the Ernies and Berts, and I trust him far more than I trust Bush's 'compassion'.
Bush promises to end partisan bickering, and I believe that because his own party will run everything. Unless the Democrats filibuster and appoint special prosecutors (and they probably can't as a minority) the Republicans will compromise with the Democrats by allowing the Democrats to do what the Republicans want - help the rich people and the corporations make things that much harder for ordinary working people. Their Iowa platform includes abolishing the minimum wage doesn't it?
Gore proposes to use the imaginary surplus to reduce the debt and shore up social security which is surely a much more noble plan than using it to line the pockets of the wealthy. Surely Bush's tax cut is the last thing we should do if there is no surplus, and I still think that most of the surplus comes from Social Security and needs to be saved for my imaginary retirement.
I have mostly spoken against Bush instead of for Gore, but it is usually easier to be sure of what you do not want. A Bush presidency quite frankly scares me, whereas I am sure that Gore will be safe based on the last eight years. Eight years ago I did not see that much difference between Bush and Clinton, but now there is enough between Bush-2 and Gore to go with Gore.

"Let ten thousand flowers bloom! Let one hundred schools of thought contend!"

but I was born with troll looks and ears....

any plastic surgeons in the house?

:applause:

Shhhhhhhhhh!! You will give away the secret.


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but my hair looks like those troll dolls and I pretty much have their figure, too. And I'm shortish and have googly eyes.

>:)

:hi:

till I reach the next shady tree ...


How's that?

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Sometimes the mods didn't catch them for 10-20 posts. Flaming, profanity, vulgar curse words, Sweet. I was a lurker then. By the time I signed up the mods had gotten really good at their jobs.

No I have no good picture to put up right now. Haven't got around to doing it yet.

I know what you're getting at by "troll". I guess I have never formally introduced myself anywhere at all at any stage. I hide nothing so here goes:

My name is Mark Wooldridge, I'm 31, married, with one son. I work full time for a major credit card company in the call centre, taking the "supervisor" calls and helping my peers out with difficult scenarios.

How did I begin? Well, I was born in Guildford, in England in 1974. For the most part of my life I lived in and around my home village of Cranleigh, which is known as being England's largest village. It is also the home of Ringo Starr; Phil Collins used to live nearby and Eric Clapton lives in the vicinity too.

I got politically active at a young age - before I was able to vote. I joined the Liberal Democrats - a third party in UK politics. In our local area it was a straight fight between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats - Labour didn't feature prominently because this was never an area where they were strong. I loathed the sleaze and the stuff that was coming out of John Major's Conservative government - the headlines was about some minister having sex with someone else - and it was a number of ministers, not just one or two. There was "Cash for Questions" scandal, where companies paid MP's to ask questions in the Commons, there were senior ministers convicted of crimes (Jeffrey Archer, now Lord Archer, was jailed for perjury). This was when the Conservative Party was elected and had a wafer-thin majority in the House of Commons. Fortunately in 1997, New Labour beat those bloody Tories into the ground with a majority of 179; i.e. they had won 64% of the seats (now that's what I call a mandate).

Now you might ask how I ended up here. I failed my degree course at the University of Dundee (depressed, grown disinterested, my fault - say what you will). I was killing a little time before I had to go home and face the music... and was writing to people via email penpal boards. There was this one person who described herself as a Military Brat, had a tongue-ring, was tattooed, and described herself as a wild child. We immediately clicked; I met her in Jan 1998 (she flew over to the UK), and a few days after meeting her I proposed. She said yes; we married in March 1999.

I admit that early on I was naieve about US politics and thought in 2000 that Bush would have been a good President (remember I had turned against the Tories in the UK due to their sleaze and sex scandals and I connected Gore with Clinton and didn't want to align myself to Gore due to Clinton's sex scandals and he was in the same party and appeared to me to represent the same values. Ok I'm wrong). Come 2004 I knew better and hoped that Kerry would win (anyone but Bush) but because I am not a citizen I can't vote (yet). However we learn that yep, the shrub grew out again and somehow got the keys to the White House again. (I'm not a fan of computer voting. If it was done Indian style then I'd be OK for it... the British manage to do fine with paper and pencil thank you very much and get a winner usually by 4-5am the next morning. In places where the Single Transferable Vote is in place (for Euro elections mainly) it takes a little longer but not much).

I notice that some people wear their faith on their sleeve but I generally don't. I am Church of England by persuasion (Anglican, Episcopalean). I used to go often to a Holiness church and teach Sunday School but after some time I felt unsupported and drifted away. I do consider myself a Christian but I don't align myself with any particular sect or denomination right now as I don't feel at home in the US Episcopal Church and the other churches round here seem a little different and a little "off". I don't shove my faith down other people's throats; I keep my faith private though that's probably a contradiction with what Jesus said though.

I guess if/when I gain citizenship I might become more activist but right now I won't be able to do a whole lot. I can share my experiences with you, and I can share my thoughts.

I know this is a little long winded but here I am.

Have a great day, y'all.

Mark Wooldridge.

:hi:

I hope you will like it here.

But I seem to get a lot of alerts on my posts. I love Johnny Cash, but I haven't been able to walk the line lately. :shrug:

But I'll still be here when the dust settles. :P