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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:27 PM
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has anyone else noticed lots of trolls recently?
Yikes! It is tough navigating the DU waters tonight. I think I will rest in the lounge. I would like to order a nice glass of wine please...ah what the hell: give me a double shot of tequila--gold please. Hold the lime.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:28 PM
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1. Coming right up.
Redstone
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:33 PM
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2. thank you!
it will take the edge off.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:34 PM
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3. I've noticed a lot all week
Most of them are picking fights about really odd stuff.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:35 PM
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4. And they are not very discrete about it.
Low post count, "it's Clinton's fault." You know...the usual.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:37 PM
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5. Come on, I know you really feel sorry for the necrophelia kids...
;)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:39 PM
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7. They should eat more horse.
:D
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:41 PM
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8. Yeah, if we don't start adding more horse to our diets...
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 10:42 PM by haruka3_2000
there are going to be homeless horses running around with the stray dogs & cats.

Next time I go terrorist and steal an abused animal, it'll be a horse.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:44 PM
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12. 9 months from now somebody will kick this thread to tell you that's a bad
idea. It happened with a mostly-joking thread about liberating a cow. :rofl:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:48 PM
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14. WTF?
Insanity, I tell you.

So far I've only been called a terrorist for stealing a cat, who had to be put down anyway. At least she didn't have to suffer any longer.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:51 PM
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16. It's not stealing, because animals aren't property
Oh sorry, I started cribbing somebody else's lecture. I'll go get the link and PM you, it's funny as hell.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:13 PM
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36. I remember that too.
I spend too much time here, for a troll. :)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:36 PM
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40. It was wierd seeing that thread kicked, the lady who started it is not
on DU anymore. It was a funny thread, as was the pic thread spun off of it. Well worth tracking down, just for the really goofy (cute, but goofy) pic of my sweetie and a cow.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:38 PM
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6. Ugh...I even had one PMing me this morning.
He's still trolling around too...
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:42 PM
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10. what was the PM for?
I have not had that happen yet. I noticed to that some are double teaming.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:44 PM
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11. I'm a delusional paranoid conspiracy theorist living in fear because
I believe in the connections between the BFEE, using such controversial sources as Reuters, AP, WP, NYT, etc...
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:47 PM
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13. yeah...my troll also resorted to name calling
it was enough to send me to the lounge for a drink!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:49 PM
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15. I've having some Gumdale Merlot 2004 currently.
LBN drove me to this. It wasn't via a troll though, just regular DUers who don't believe in the right of self-defense.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:53 PM
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18. I saw that!
The world is topsy turvy! Is it a full-moon? I actually made my self a margarita--blended.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:57 PM
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21. I think last night or the night before was the full moon.
I think the highlight was when the people siding with the mugged woman were referred to as "Limbaugh listeners" and "John Wayne wannabe cowboys."

I guess that's an even higher honor than when I was informed I wasn't a liberal because I own a Jeep (my car died, Jeep was free...you'd take it too, right?) and my family owns several motorboats, which I use regularly...and naturally, those motors run on gasoline. Apparently, that negates the rest of my political beliefs and activism efforts (including a protest arrest).
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:57 PM
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23. you mean me? Misunderstood Memememememe?
:toast: misunderstandings abound. Having a Hornsby's Hard Cider. :toast:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:59 PM
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26. Yep, I'm talking about you. nt
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:03 PM
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28. misunderstood while trying to say 1 thing. sigh.
Am here in lounge for same reason, drove here by that. Cheers to you anyways.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:08 PM
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32. Cheers!
:toast:

I'm usually found in the lounge anyway, and trust me, I'm not a gun nut at all. Hell, I actually officially learned handgun safety from...get this...a theatre job I had. I was weapons captain and had to fire off a beretta with blanks backstage for the ending of "Of Mice & Men." That is how I officially learned guns.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:10 PM
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33. I like to shoot them at cans when I am frustrated with ex.
makes a loud noise, instant gratification. My father is a lefty, was in WW2, learned to shoot lefty which is good since that is my good eye, so he taught me how to handle/shoot leftywise. I can see the appeal in all ways, just chose otherwise for myself.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:12 PM
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34. Oh, hey, I did see that
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 11:25 PM by mycritters2
Decided it was one thread I wasn't even dipping my toe in. But if I had, I would have been on your side. I might have felt differently if the guy had been killed, but "shoot to wound" seemed perfectly appropriate, imo.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:24 PM
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38. The motto in my dojo is...
"Better to be judged by twelve, than carried out by six."

Personally, I like to shoot guns, but I don't feel they're necessary for personal protection for myself. I've been studying the martial arts for 13 years and my senseis and I agree that I am 105lbs of someone you don't want to fuck with. I actually prefer larger opponents because I'm very effective at infighting (too close for a larger opponent to be effective) and using my low center of gravity.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:54 PM
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19. I've often said so :) nt
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:03 PM
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29. Yep, huge conspiracy theorist here...
me getting all those crazy ideas from the MSM.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:42 PM
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9. It's part of the midterm election offensive
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 10:42 PM by rocknation
Trying to burrow from within while "just being honest" like that Simon guy on American Idol. The 9/11 crock-u-drama, the RNC plan to spend millions on negative Dem campaign ads, the war on Net neutrality--why wouldn't they send in mole freep operatives into the largest liberal web sites? It's political genocide, pure and simple. They have to convince us we're weak and powerless and helpless so we'll stay home on election day. But with the Path to 9/11, I think they've overplayed their hand.

:headbang:
rocknation
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:55 PM
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20. Well, they are thorough--I will say that for them
attack from all angles.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:52 PM
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17. I've been called a troll this week, and a freeper
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 10:53 PM by mycritters2
I'm a lot of things, but neither of these.
4400+ posts, but I'm a troll. I argue that the Dems need to move left constantly, but I'm a freeper. What's a body to do?

I've learned to use the "hide thread" button.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:57 PM
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22. I never call them freepers to their face...
...I just come to the lounge and complain!

Seriously tho, the ones I am referring to have few posts and are blaming Clinton and defending ABC and calling me names...I have to check to make sure I have not accidentally ended up in the wrong address.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:59 PM
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25. I had one claim he knew i was a troll because of my
"low post count". I have over 4000 posts!!

Yeah, a lot of weirdness lately. Sorry you got caught in it.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 10:58 PM
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24. You've pissed me off before, but I never thought you were a freeper or
a troll, just prejudiced against a certain type of dog.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:02 PM
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27. I know there are people who disagree with me about that
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 11:05 PM by mycritters2
and other things (imagine!). But I always find myself agreeing with them in another thread. Oftentimes defending them where some other issue is concerned. People are multifaceted. As a wise man once said "It's a gift...and a curse".

One guy had me so upset I wasn't going to post anymore. Then I thought, if I've done something so bad I shouldn't post, the mods will let me know. They get to make that call, not some schlub with an axe to grind. So I started posting again.

I like you--but disagree with you about one thing. I disagree with most people about something.

And I'm not a Freeper!!
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:05 PM
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30. Indeed.
cheers
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:07 PM
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31. Thanks!
:hi:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:13 PM
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35. Yep
It's probably because of the new movie coming up. Stuff like that tends to bring the slime out of the woodwork.

There was one in GD a few nights ago reminding us how "vicious" and "barbaric" Muslims are, blah blah blah. You know, the usual garbage those types spew until they get their granite chiclet.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:14 PM
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37. less than 60 days to elections...expect far more in the run-up...
:thumbsdown: or if the numbers get any worse for republicans, which is likely :thumbsup:
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hickman Donating Member (904 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:28 PM
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39. No. But I haven't been here since Feburary
when I crashed my computer. I do remember that 2 years ago people didn't start yelling "troll" at newbies. DU used to give them enough rope.
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 11:48 PM
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41. You're just noticing this NOW???
love ya and all, but it's been bad since about....Feb I think. Right after that report came out about paid trolls. I'm completely serious. I stay in here and in my groups for the most part now.....
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