I've finally figured out why the pollies/trolls come here

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They MUST believe that Y2K is going to be a non-event because to believe otherwise would mean they would have to get off their duffs & actually do something, like prepare (which is hard work)!! Don't you see how most pollies/trolls are vociferously beligerent (not to mention, they swear an awful lot) in their comments? "Dost thou protest too much?" Do they really think that by insulting us they are going to change our minds???? I mean, my goodness, who would they come to for beans & rice, water, etc. come 2000 if we all thought the way they do??? Repent ye pollies/trolls before it's too late!!!

-- Deb (darnold38@hotmail.com), August 01, 1999

Answers

Image that came to me while cleaning out the barn today: teasers.

They come here to tease us, like boys in third grade teasing girls with snakes and spiders.

We sound scared of something -- "like girls" -- and they are playing the rough and tumble boys, who "ain't scared of nothin'", mostly for each other's observation to rise in the group's estimation.

Scared little boys playing at big tough men.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), August 01, 1999.


Actually I think of them more as the spinster's sewing group. Gossiping about how those awful "Y2K Prepers" are not "fitting in" and how "somebody should do something" to "stop their foolish behavior".

Then again, maybe they are just jack-asses.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), August 01, 1999.


Ever dated a stripper?..... Sorry wrong subject....Havin' a bad night.

Trolls and pollies are DWGI's. But not really. They DO get it but prefere to "whistle past the grave yard" so to speak.

Making fun of "doomers" is their way of coping with reality.

-- MidWestMike_ (MidWestMike_@hotmail.com), August 01, 1999.


What are pollies, trollies, and DWGIs?

-- tommygunns (tommygunns@yahoo.com), August 01, 1999.

Trolls? What trolls? I don't see any trolls. Anybody see any trolls?

(man, was that hard to do...)

<:)=

PS - "we don't need no stinkin' TROLLS"

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 01, 1999.



They come in flavors. jor-el's perfectly depicted *teasers* are some. Some just enjoy starting a fight from the safety of their keyboard and would do so on any forum on any subject. A few that have been tabbed polys seem honest and inquiring, if not of us at least of y2k.

There is, I've come to belive, a dangerous few. Even on the prep forum seemingly innocent questions seem to have been posted to try to elicit what might be considered a *radical* response. I don't mean the Andy Ray "does Doomer=..." type stuff, rather, the subtle. Mutha Nachu said on another forum that anyone who doesn't think that posts here are not being logged, IP'ed and filed is naive. I belive him.

What I hate most is having become so jaded. If that was their intent guess I've become a poster boy.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), August 01, 1999.


Anyone remember the "Hell's Grannies" Python skit? There are several gum flappers here who would fit in beautifully with that gang.

-- Raymond Luxury-Yacht (Meaning of life@the.end), August 01, 1999.

and yet,it's better to be a big boy than a little man

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), August 01, 1999.

The Pollies are just little men trying to make themsevles big men by making big men look like little men. Except the pollies are actually closet doomers, which in reality makes them big men trying to make themselves look like little men by making big men look like little men. Except the doomers are actually closet pollies, which mean that the pollies are actually big men trying to make themselves look like little men by making little men who pretend to be big men look like little men (which they actually are, but fool the world into thinking they aren't).

-- Little Big Man (little@big.man), August 01, 1999.

To explain pollys/trolls -

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping, and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat."

"The True Believer." Eric Hoffer, 1951

-- Let's (Learn@from.history), August 01, 1999.



Guess who doesn't post anymore. Doomers Suck. That's because he GIed. Now he probably wants to forget the whole thing. Some day, if I survive the coming disasters, I'm going to write a novel and call it Doomers Suck.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), August 01, 1999.

No, he's experimenting with better behavior.

-- h (h@h.h), August 01, 1999.

Doomers Suck is not reformed or dead, merely sleeping. The trolls take it in turns to launch major disruptions. When Doomers Suck bowed out, Andy Ray came in again. Are they one and the same or just two of the heads of a large body? Patience, Doomers Sucks will return when it is its turn again.

-- Charon (here@the.boat), August 01, 1999.

Some of the polly trolls remind me of a phenomenon I observed on Internet Relay Chat [IRC], while working on a help channel for a popular chat client (software for talking on the internet). There are certain self-righteous evangelical vigilantes that actually believe they are being heroic when they attack people who they believe are wrong. We would often get pleas for help from gay channels, atheists, and others who were frequent targets of folks who thought they were doing good by harassing "sinners." The vigilantes think they're protecting society by doing anything they can to prevent people from hearing whatever the "bad people" may have to say. They don't believe that people have an ability to seek out various points of view and make up their own minds. A censor is someone who thinks they know more than you ought to know.

Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage.neener.autospammers--regrets.greenspun), August 01, 1999.


Amen Dancr.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), August 01, 1999.


Polly Trolls want you to sleep while they buy beans and rice and villas in Spain. They want to get their stocks warm and the money flowing as long as possible so they can be more prepared. Or they are just really stupid.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), August 01, 1999.

I guarantee that all pollies have these things in common.

1) They are stingy.

2) They are self-centered.

3) They are egotistical.

4) They are self-seeking.

5) Many are alcoholic.

6) Most of all, THEY ARE STINGY !!

-- hi there (gotumfigered@pollies.com), August 01, 1999.


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