OK, so what's trolling??

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God, I'm so unhip....

I keep seeing this word on t'interweb, is it just a poor spelling of trawling that's stuck? Or does it mean something else to the kids of today??
 
Ah I see, an a**hole

But the plentyoffish ad on the site mentions trolling supermarkets for a partner - I can't see that pulling anyone any time soon!
 
God, I'm so unhip....

I keep seeing this word on t'interweb, is it just a poor spelling of trawling that's stuck? Or does it mean something else to the kids of today??

You don't know what trolling is? you must a christian or something
 
Which is kind of what this tread is. LOL

JR
 
Not likely my friend, I could have spent days arguing with people in that theology discussion thread..... I'm just 30, and in internet terms, past it
 
Which is kind of what this tread is. LOL
Que? Or, if you prefer, hva, hvilken, hvilke, det som, hvor, hvorfor

Take your pick :)
 
Not likely my friend, I could have spent days arguing with people in that theology discussion thread..... I'm just 30, and in internet terms, past it

Ahh you must be a bnp voter then
 
Lib Dem old son, we've got a foot in the door now - Jeez, 2 insults in 2 posts, good thing I'm ginger and used to it :)
 
Que? Or, if you prefer, hva, hvilken, hvilke, det som, hvor, hvorfor

Take your pick :)

The most likely derivation of the word troll can be found in the phrase "trolling for newbies", popularized in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU).[8][9] Commonly, what is meant is a relatively gentle inside joke by veteran users, presenting questions or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond to them earnestly. For example, a veteran of the group might make a post on the common misconception that glass flows over time. Long-time readers would both recognize the poster's name and know that the topic had been done to death already, but new subscribers to the group would not realize, and would thus respond.

How about this one :p

JR
 
Hmm, clear as muddy mud. I guess plentyoffish just made a typo.....

And thanks to babel fish for the comprehensive translation of "what"
 
Nope, I never heard of trolling before I came here. Does that make me uncool? Have I been pwned?? (Another new one - what's wrong with bloody English that's what I say)
 
There's a wikipedia page.... "fascinating"
 
There's a wikipedia page.... "fascinating"

I think I can safely erase pwned from the memory banks then, along with anything else an online Vicky Pollard may say.

Trolling in the supermarket is a little confusing, in Tesco I always point out loudly the chickens with the filed off knees. Maybe thats trolling or maybe thats pointing out the chicken, thats collapsed in its own excrement before, being killed, tarted up (filed) and put on the shelf.
 
That's what I thought when trolling was first explained to me! You've seen the plentyoffish ad yeah? I doubt chicken trolling (although that does sound like specialist porn) is going to get you any skirt. Unless it's a eco-chicken activist of some sort.... takes all types like
 
Seen the ad, non the wiser.

An eco chicken activist? My local Tesco is full of students - you should see the dilema they face - over buying the badly treated chicken - or buying the more expensive one - and spending the money budgeted for a Wednesday afternoon beer.
 

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