when you engage with the trolls

[MitchiestInge]

. . . is it a personal thing (actually engaging emotionally) or are you communicating with a wider, more silent audience or are there other motivations?

I can't work out why more people don't ignore them, but every now and then the exchanges are unintentionally funny or interesting - although mostly it gets very dull very quickly. Wondering what's in it for them too.

Why, yes it is.
I'm well-hard

(in my dreams)

oh, what spoons said!

A re-phrasing option would be very good!

Yes, the person DontCallMeFrothyDragon, told to fuck off was me, I didn't report it in the interests of free speech and all that. I will say, however, that it is a bit rich when she announces that people should apologise for the way they have spoken to other posters. .

not that you hold a grudge or anything Wamster.

No I don't but perhaps people should apologise to others for the verbal abuse they have dished out to them before they start asking other posters to apologise to other posters. Just a thought.

Wamster, drop it. I am sorry to have referred to it now. Nobody mentioned you by name, fgs.

FWIW, another poster told someone to fuck off last night and it still stands (among a sea of deleted nonsense)

AnyFucker, you didn't have to mention it by name. I remembered it myself, OK? I didn't report it and I let it go, but then to be told by the same person that others should apologise is a bit rich. If they hadn't said that, I wouldn't be saying anything now.

My philosophy is that people can tell people to fuck off if they want, but that they should be prepared to take abuse back and certainly not demand for others to apologise for their behaviour.

I will drop the subject now, though. Ta very much.

by name ? wamster ?

that would mean linking to it, or publishing the specific thread serial number

There are probably loads of standing posts where one poster tells another exactly what to do with themselves.

I am glad you are dropping it, though, because I can't face another pointless row tonight. I don't think I have ever even spoken to you before, actually so I really need to have a fucking word with myself. Or stop posting. Whichever comes first. < sigh >

meanwhile back on topic I haven't drunk Irn Bru for, ooooh, about 35 years

is it still the same pissy colour ?

Pissy colour?

pissy colour!

No, it's bright orange, same as it's always been.
Phenomenal :)

Irn Bru will be our main reason for moving back to Scotland, when we do.

Fuck French wine and sun and that. Geeez some bru.

It is not a pissy colour . It is a perfectly natural and quite stunning shade of orange. Even if you ate a ton of carrots your piss could never achieve that hue.

Thank god you're here FromGirders. You are proving to be an asset to the feminist forum already.

Pissy colour! What next I ask you.

Ahem.

Firstly, Wamster, I apologise for telling you to "Fuck Off". It's not something that happens often, however, and I had my reasons at the time... In fact, I believe it was after you'd been spouting anti-feminist clap trap. Again.

However, I am still willing to take abuse. Flaw in the personality I suspect. The reason I suggested certain members apologised to dittany was because I didn't like the way she'd been singled out as the scapegoat by those who wanted to claim feminists were man haters. I may not always agree with dittany, and vice versa, but I respect her, and seeing her words twisted, and her being accused of saying things she hadn't, etc... that made me very uncomfortable. Reminded me a lot of bully tactics I saw and experienced throughout high school and my last serious relationship. I don't like seeing what I deem bullying going unchallenged. Hence why I said I felt some posters owed dittany an apology.

I remember it as pissy

I shall have to nip to the offy and buy some forthwith

Well, I would if I weren't in my jimjams, but anyway

Is it wrong that I've never tried Irn Bru? I feel like I'm missing a major part of life, here...

Sorry, frothy, I shouldn't have brought up your post

It was done in a lighthearted way though, as everyone else but wamster understood to be the case at the time... a light joshing of frothy as being "Teflon coated" etc

However, I also apologise to wamster, as it is actually clear when you do a search on frothy's name the "fuck off" to her is the only one

Please can we keep this thread non-confrontational now ? There are not many posts to go. Let's keep it respectful, even if we can't manage nice

Or else I really will have to go to the offy in my jimjams, and that is sooooo not the done thing around here.

frothy...have you seen the last post on the "Feminists don't hate men" thread ?

it's a classic

DontCallMeFrothyDragon, I accept your apology, I thought the reasons you said what you did owed to the subject of something that happened in your past-which is for everybody to read here but I won't go into it here on this thread as such- and perhaps I had hit a nerve. I let it go because I thought that you were experiencing bad feelings about that event.

I think I apologised for that, too, and I hope you realise that I appreciate that what happened to you was appalling and that was very wrong- well I said it in the other thread.

AF, as soon as I read that "Paaaaaaaaarp" was the last post on that thread I laughed spat beetroot at my laptop screen and have spent a distinctly shitworky time cleaning it off again.

Irn Bru tastes like licking batteries, doesn't it? Not that I'm saying this is a bad thing. After all, I'm Irish, and we drink Lucozade as if twere mother's milk. [shudder]

I laughed so hard I spat beetroot Lordy, forget about the "ignore STD" button, I want an "edit" button. For my braaaaaain.

I don't think I have, but I'll take a look...

Wamster, apology accepted (I somehow missed it in the other thread but just reading through, it was there). It is a complex situation, dealing with those feelings.

Now, we'll put this behind us. Clean slate?

P.S. It's worth adding, when I joined originally, I was very misguided about some things. We don't always get it right, we don't always see eye to eye, but the genuine posters with whatever views do make this topic VERY interesting, and has taught me a lot the past few months.

PPS. I can defiinitely manage nice. It's usually my default setting.

Brilliant timing innit

Just seen the parp. THIS is why I love the feminists section.