Just a bit of self-imposed nostalgia. I penned this ages ago in net-time. Every once in awhile I feel an uncontrollable urge to post it again. (To the tune of "I Love Trash," as sung by Oscar the Grouch.) Enjoy !
Oh, I love trolls
Anyone sexist, rude and patronizing
Anyone spamming porn or advertising
Yes, I love trolls !!
I have here a troll with a rank song and dance
Its brains are located way down in its pants
I’ve read better prose in a Cartland romance
I love it ’cause it’s a troll !!
Oh, I love trolls
Anyone fighting the war from his armchair
Anyone clueless on choice or on childcare
Yes, I love trolls !
Now trolls are diverse
They have rich, varied lives
Be they gun-nuts or Rand freaks or “surrendered wives”
Any feminist thought makes ‘em drop dead from hives
I love ‘em because they’re trolls !
Oh, I love trolls
Any triathlete of hate, greed and misquotes
Any ass blaming the world’s ills on my votes
Yes, I love trolls !!
So it’s evil to feed ‘em and pointless to vent
Sure, it drags down our discourse 100%
Still, if you can’t shell out for both cable AND rent
You’ll love ‘em because they’re trolls !!
(last chorus same as the first)
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MoBettaMeta
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Since the trend of rooting about for gems from the past was established well before this thread, I'll add another:
...What’s convinced me to discard the robes of political radicalism is not the fear of defending what’s right in a world where you’re rewarded for doing wrong, but the fear of living in such a world at all. For to let the Right claim the very mantle of “mainstream” for themselves, as they have increasingly tended to do, to let them spin off basic values like social equality, human rights, religious tolerance, and peace as the byproducts of a bygone era of amoral “radical” hippies, would be a total catastrophe.
The simple fact of the matter is that the causes and beliefs we advocate are not “radical” in the commonly understood sense of the word, but rather, moderate, sensible, and fair. Conversely, it is the political mainstream that is antithetical to basic human values, serving up indigestible rationalizations for all kinds of cruelties inflicted upon people on a daily basis, fostering cynicism and frustration.
So the way I see it, if we are to be real radicals, we need stop acting like our agenda is, well, radical. We need to focus on the fact that even though our aims have been depicted in such distorted ways that they are not even popular among our target audience -- ordinary people -- we are not just standing up for unpopular justice. Rather, we are standing up for justice that has been unpopularized, because the Right has popularized injustice...
-- From M Junaid Alam's Why I'm No Longer A Radical, published in the Summer of '05.
That's an excellent quote, ms x, and a catchy troll tune. ;) (not that I "love" them...)
catnip, I've been told that it's a love not unlike that felt by people who deliberately buy shoes a size too small- just so they can feel relief at the end of the day while removing said shoes.
[shrug.]
Yeah, I like Alam. How come I couldn't be that smart at 22 ? It's so unfair !! [sulk]
22? Ummm...what was I doing again at 22? It's been so long...
it's a love not unlike that felt by people who deliberately buy shoes a size too small- just so they can feel relief at the end of the day while removing said shoes.
fashionistas = troll lovers
I'm neither. I like comfy shoes.
DTF was quite the expert on fashion.
Heh. I don't think that shoes need to be gorgeous and stylish to be uncomfortable. I mean, Birks are some of the ugliest shoes ever made and they still hurt my feet.
I've never owned Birks, but I'm surprised they're uncomfortable. I get by with my $2 black cloth runners. It's not like I'm running around in ball gowns every day - or any day for that matter. ;)
I'm like the "before" pic on those fashion makeover shows. Works for me!
catnip, I have the worst feet in recorded history, which is why nearly all summer shoes are uncomfortable. I tend to stay in my Red Wing (work) boots even when the temperature is up past the 80s (F). Gotta' have that ankle support and space for my orthotics (fake arches) or I just can't get around.
What I learned from Miss D's. shoe link at Mcat's page a week or so ago was what I already knew: Most women's shoes are better as wall hangings or art installations than as footwear.
Oh, and thanks for the DF link. 8)
DB,
I've already posted the documentation at the Blogging Curmudgeon. But you continue to ignore facts.
Here it is again.
Gender Pay Gaps
Courtesy of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, via the AFL-CIO, a workers organization. Not a women workers or men workers org, a workers org. See, even the U.S. govt. acknowledges the truth, in this instance anyway. But you go on moving the goal posts.
super, I have to agree with arcturus' comments from a couple of weeks back. If Yahweh (or whomever) had meant for us to engage in endless troll wars, He would not have given us the scroll bar.
King of Swamp Castle: One day, lad, all this will be yours.
Prince Herbert: What, the curtains?
catnip, if you have a computer AND woman-parts, you are all-powerful. I mean, like Death the Shatterer of Worlds and shit. Just turn towards the nearest penis-person, point your finger, and he'll disintegrate in a puff of lilac-scented smoke. You know it's true. So just shut up. I mean, last week I disintegrated my former cube-neighbor at my old office, and Jimmy Kimmel AND the jerk down the block who throws his empties on my lawn at night. What's YOUR problem exactly, catnip ?
Oh, and I think the bobble in the new thread is fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up.
great, my comments don't go throuhg... I'm being oppressed for sniping at david byron! or maybe for ignoring him too much!
no! stop repressing me!
or maybe I didn't hit submit.
Oh, and when you're disintegrating penis-people for fun and profit, don't forget to shout, "BEGONE !!"
See, I forgot that with pyrrho, which is why it totally didn't work !
See, I forgot that with pyrrho, which is why it totally didn't work !
Don't forget to wave that wand of yours too. It's all in the wrist action.
True, true. Half the fun of tyrannizing every male on the planet is showing them just how much bigger my magic wand is than theirs in that final moment before their well-deserved demise. :p
Aghhhh... no, spare me, not the magic wand. Lucky I only have to press 'publish' rather than 'submit'!
Just popping my head up out of the rabbit hole to say Hey to everyone. I see you women are misbehaving again. For shame. You must be "tools of the devil" too, just like me!
Fun, huh?
Now back to my rabbit hole. :)
Scribe wants some deviltry, eh ?
I'll show ya' deviltry !! Ha !!
Oh, and one for catnip, too. She knows why.
:D
lol...purrrfect
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