Hi ya Darryl! How’s it going kiddo? Glad to see you’re still around and that your command of the English language is a poor as it ever was though your usage has, marginally, improved.

Nice to see your definition of ad hominim. I never would have known, otherwise. Even if I can’t spell it. Pardon my poor Latin. But until OOTB started to use it as an all purpose defence/insult I didn’t need to. So I don’t really care. Blue’s fits here do read as more schizoid and anything else so I’ll just leave it at that while you wander off and have one of your own. Seriously, I don’t mind. After all I do volunteer work at the regional detox so nothing you do could bother me or be unexpected. Just go for it and them we’ll find someone to tuck you in.

Yeah, political religion. Politics become that way when, like modern logical/scientific atheism they adopt an orthodoxy, pledge allegiance and worship to a single figure, declare all those who don’t agree with the current orthodoxy to be heretics or worse. Adopt a Satan figure or belief, for example socialism for Republicans most of whom haven’t the faintest idea what it is or that it’s not the form of communism adopted by Lenin, Stalin, Mao and company.
The Democrats are no better. By the way, Ronald Regan would be horrified at what is being done in his name if interviews with the man and his speeches are anything to go by.

Dunno about you but we’ve been fighting the “good” fight while you’ve been off whacking moles. How’d that go? Do they taste good?

In terms of the basics of web site design this one is very well designed for a site based on WordPress. If you want to see a bad one look up Creative America (aka “the enemy”) dropping so much flash on their home page that it almost overwhelms a browser and then sits there and does nothing. No bouncing boobies that I could find. Not yet, but this is a Hollywood site there will be some shortly, don’t fret. Meanwhile they’re taking tips of the design and structure of web sites from Big Porn. So the bouncing boobies gotta come, right?

Back to the design. It does what it’s supposed to, nothing more, nothing less and that’s what good web site design is all about. Not how many gizmos you can slap onto it and how many 3000bpi photos you slap on it.

Yes, we’ve forgiven DH for his occasional forays into the literary interstellar regions of taste but I see you aren’t interested in doing penance for that as much much worse.

More to the point the biggest thief of the past is Disney surrounding folk and fairy tales with walls of gleefully over enforced copyright claims. Nothing at all creative there but I know you just love it. Oh yeah, and sanitizing them to the point where the lessons they were supposed to teach are lost just so Disney can find a place for Tinkerbell ™ to soar off when the happy ending comes. They were better off in the public domain.

I’ll also suggest to you that the only one dealing in fear and cowering today is YOU. Nothing new there which is why I’m so pleased you’ve returned. Makes it all feel like old home week somehow. Comfy and warm, in it’s own special way.

And what’s wrong with 7 year olds that you have to drag them into this? I’m reasonably certain that I can find a 7 year old that can whip up a usable, efficient, well laid out web site in no time at all. Actually I know I can. She’s doing it right now for her elementary school.

As for DH’s crap, it’s well written, well reasoned crap. Kinda special really. And it’s compostable after use so it can be used for fertilizer while your post would poison ground water so we can’t use it for that.

Actually this site has accomplished a fair bit after piercing through the white noise raised around a number of issues. And like most people who don’t like the place you seem to confuse usefulness, progress and creation with money. The former and latter are not mutually exclusive. Never have been never will be and if THAT message gets through to one more person I have to say the site is a success.

Ohhhhhh, and we are intimately familiar with the species known as internetus trolline. They are most comfortable under bridges in the darkest spots possible popping up now and then to threaten people by promising to make a meal of them or take their wonderful selves off to another web site to try it there. They don’t accomplish much of either, though like Vampires they avoid direct sunlight and dislike warmth.

Simply not agreeing with the devil Masnick is not enough to be accused of being a troll. First one has to display the other behavioural patterns such as popping up when least welcome and least wanted or invited such as you have here.

Nor do they attack any issue that can be refuted with, too often, there are already mountains of but that they won’t look at. Not anyone’s fault here. Though they will whinge on about some imaginary $100 million movie or something similar from time to time frequently making no sense other than displaying a clinical allergy to actually working or simply accepting that no unknown ever has or ever will get anyone to invest that kind of coin in them. Just an example, really.

All that keeps Blue, for example, from being classed a troll is the startling reality that he actually addresses issues thoughtfully, intelligently and is prepared to discuss them in a most untrollish way until his next bout occurs. When that happens, agree or not with Mike, he’s a pleasure to have around.

The same dynamic is at work with Average Joe. Disargeeing, after all, is one of the best ways humans find to learn. It’s absent in internetus trolline who would rather threaten, rant and rave then not listen all the while complaining that no one listens to them. Could it be because we’ve heard it all before, refuted it so often that we do it in our sleep now and we’d rather be left alone?

“And use your little soap box to play a nasty, purile little shit throwing against another commenter of the site.” I think I know what you mean there but the sentence still doesn’t make sense so you’ve just earned yourself a FAIL for grammar and will have to stay after class.

Well, actually, we’d prefer if you returned to your hidey hole underneath the bridge if it comes to that. I understand it’s winter down there and a touch cold but trolls have lots of hair and fur and are quite capable of keeping warm in arctic cold and it’s not THAT cold down there.

Thing is, Darryl, that you ARE a troll, as you’ve just proven. Again. You must be as you display the behaviours and attitude of the species. Don’t be too upset, you’ve found your self a home. It’s actually quite nice under our bridge and you’re welcome to stay there for as long as you wish.

And that’s why I’m so pleased to see you’ve returned. Not only does it confirm my long held opinion that, in all reality, the more things change the more they stay the same and that, at this dark, cold time of year is nice to have confirmed.

Should you want to eat me or call me nasty names do so by all means. First, though, you have to eat a whole haggis while listening to someone play the highland bagpipes poorly and retaining whatever passes for sanity in you.

Then you really must learn the basics of a civilized conversation. Until you do you won’t be able to have one.

Finally, as you act like a troll, speak like troll, make as little sense as a troll and spout tantrums like a troll you are, ergo, a troll. Really simple, isn’t it.

As I said, be pleased that you’ve actually found out what you really are and revel in it. We are here to help, above all.

Nitey nite.