Warning, genuine ED forumites please read

[muffintop]

Sorry, read in Gumtree on a post (few weeks ago) ("which forum shall we hijack next?") that there are a few unsavoury people who actually take pleasure in trying to hijack forums as group,although they pretend not to know eachother, just back up eachother's sick claims or beliefs, their rantings and ravings are of a particularly offensive nature and include topics such as racist views, sexist views etc. their whole purpose is to cause as much racial/any other offensive tension or upset people and offend people on forums. I have checked out a lot of the dates that some of the particularly nice "newbies" have joined, and surprise surprise quite a few of them are newly registered.

DO NOT GET DRAWN INTO THEIR DISCUSSIONS (Leave them to talk amongst themselves, they'll get bored and go away soon or if you do wish to interact, do so knowing they set out to inflame and offend.

[mockney piers]

We've seen off your common-or-garden trolls before, we'll see this lot off too.

Great thing about this forum is we have thick skins and a good sense of humour (well, I speak for others obviously, I'm a humourless t0sspot, but that's another matter entirely).

Or is this classic reverse psychology working here? You're one of them aren't you!!!!!!!

;-)

[muffintop]

Damn! I never thought of it that way, I could be couldn't I! Lol, but I wuv the ED Forum and most of the peeps on here ((((((((hugs))))))))

>:D<

[SeanMacGabhann]

* looks suspicioously at Tony form the 'burbs *

Cheers muffintop - good spot

[Ant]

You forgot to add how terribly touchy you are, Mockers. I reckon it's that Spanish temperament showing through.

'hem.

[bignumber5]

Think of arguing with such people as a reaffirmation of wooly liberal left wing faith ;-)

[Moos]

I don't think of myself as a much of woolly liberal, let alone a radical revolutionary, just don't fancy engaging in debate with a stranger who aggressively pigeon-holed me before I'd so much as stated a view. I use this forum to have discussions or chats with my neighbours, and to be part of a community. That said, there are plenty of members of the community whose bottoms aren't parked in SE London!

[mockney piers]

Here's something you can use whenever you've had enough of a troll

[mockney piers]

just post a link to this image :)

[Moos]

"WHO's That Trip-Trapping Over My Bridge?

It's only me, the littlest Billy-goat Gruff..."

Ah, happy thought. You'll hear those words ringing from the Moos household often and often, it's one of Moosling's favourites. I think he likes the troll more than the billygoats though, he loses interest after the troll Falls Off The Bridge and Into the Deep Water. "There was a mighty splash! and he did not come up again. So that was the end of the ugly troll. From that time on, people went over the bridge without fear..."

Sorry, I'll stop now.

(for the sake of niceness, I'll confirm that I really was happily quoting a children's story I often read to my son, and am not comparing any poster with the ugly drowned troll)

[Ant]

Top story that. Very popular with the Antlings too.

[annaj]

Oh Moos, thank you!

I mentioned the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff another lovely forumite over lunch the other day and she'd never heard of it. I was quiet surprised, I thought it was one of thoses stories that all children read and loved.

We used to play it on a foot bridge in near my Grandparents house with my Grandpa (after morning service still dressed in dog collar and sometimes even cassock) being the troll and me and my sisters being billy goats.

Happy memories and an altogether different kind of troll. :))

[Keef]

I loved that story!

With regards all these "trolls", lets just be aware that some people may come on here and genuinely have some different opinions to the norm, which is allowed!!!

I just don't want to get to the point where people are being run out of town for voicing an opinion that doesn't match those of the majority, when actually they are just local people using the forum.

[Administrator]

What Keef said.

Added: New people should not be put off expressing their views unless they are of course they are in breach of the rules. As always should you see anything that does break the rules please report them and we will deal with them as we see fit. This may involve setting the winged monkeys on them.

[edited once]

[muffintop]

Expressing a view is one thing, but being offensive with your views is another. No disrespect is intended to Mr Administrator but at what point would you actually step in and say, "calm it down a bit now folks, getting a bit offensive there"?

(oops, belatedly scurries off to read rules!) :-S

[????]

Gawd....isn't this a bit paranoid or have I missed something?....a bit of a "you're not from round 'ere" Slaugthered Lamb feel to this whole thread.......which, I tink this forum has a tendancy to in all honesty

[????]

To take Keef's point about Trolls - I genuienely got quite a lot of abuse for my first post on here for (provocatively admittetdly) pointing out that the feckless incapable idiots who cant manage their bank accounts properly had given the majority free banking for the past 10 years - which is now going to disappear thanks to the court action against banks. I've already seen some 'evidence' that a new poster on here is being identified as 'troll' 'cos he's not in the cozy club......I think as admin and Keef point to, the 'liberal' consensus on here isn't always that liberal about divergent views....but, hey, that's lefty liberals the world over.....;-)

[????]

PS Where's Seany when you need him?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Always here quids always here

[annaj]

Hhhhmmmm

Strangely sinister Mr MacGabhann...

[SeanMacGabhann]

....................

[annaj]

*looks around nervously like a dim girl in a scary film*

hello....

Is there someone there...?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My dear, you couldn't look dim after a frontal lobotomy. Just take care, there are some weirdos out there who want to be shot from cannons.

[mockney piers]

I'm a bit slaughtered lamb right now....jeeez, i can spell...just about.

Somewhere the point is, if you take part then such is. If you wilfully wish to make things bad then that's just not good, or right, or whatever the word need be. If you wish to partake, then marvellous, no one cares if you worhsip Satan, Mammon, Jesus, Mohammed or the Hurdy-Gurdy mushroom man, just be true to yourself.

[SteveT]

Moos wrote:It's only me, the littlest Billy-goat Gruff..."

I heard this on childrens hour at 9am on Saturday mornings on the 'light programme' now radio 2.

It takes me right back to the mid-fifties, and it was presented by some old codger called 'Uncle Mack'. I presume he was old because he died soon afterwards.

He would only play a portion of it spread over three weeks, because he thought it 'too long' for one show.

Inevitably I would miss one of the parts due to over sleeping, or being dragged out to the shops by my mother.

Another favourite was The runaway train, who went over the hill and he blewwwwwwww and the last I heard he was going still...............

Yes those were the days when trolls were mythical creatures crossing bridges not 'crossing us forumistas'.