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Originally Posted by DtheP47

I’m not the forum spelling nazi.

David Hulme once asked the question “Would any man who is walking alone, tread as willingly on another’s gouty toes, whom he has no quarrel with, as on the hard and flinty pavement.
Put another way by Virginia Heffernan “Would any other solitary human being be cruel to a sick or weak person when he stood to gain nothing?”

And as far as egrets, as Burt Lancaster says in Frankenheimer’s classic film “ I’ve had a few”
Ditto threats.

Well I am one of the forum's spelling Nazis, and if you are going to quote a philosopher then at least you could get his name right. It's Hume not Hulme.

And what a pity you didn't go on to quote the rest of Heffernan's article:

Internet trolls regularly tread on gouty toes. They trick vulnerable people with whom they have no quarrel; they upset those people; they humiliate them; they break their hearts; they mess with them. They do it for something Hume didn’t perfectly name: the lulz — the spiteful high.

So do you troll? Trolls occasionally use hacking or identity-thieving skills, but you don’t have to have special skills to become a troll — just a cast of mind. Theirs is not a federal offence. It’s rarely even actionable. But, holy, is it mean. Stomp, stomp, stomp-on the parents of a young man who committed suicide. On a sweet girl looking for love on MySpace. On light-sensitive epileptics looking for information on a health site.
Then, when the ouch comes, or worse — gouty toes are supremely tender — trolls get their lulz.

Ring any bells?

As for the egrets, is that another lapse in concentration or your feeble attempt at a joke? (yawn).