Did you think we’d forgotten the last time you posted this stuff, dude who wants his parents murdered for not finding him a girlfriend? Unfortunately you’re rather memorable.

(At least he’s not using someone else’s name this time, I guess that’s something.)

Or rather, sound like I’m channelling him.

Or rather, read like you’re channelling him.

I thought you meant DKM for a moment there, Cassandra!

Never mind, at least Gummint Girlfriends troll has inspired a Pierre thread. You could say his life has not been entirely in vain. :P

Lowquacks – you mean you don’t hear voices with Manboobz comments? Oh the technology! :D

No, but I do hear voices with Pierre comics. Do we have a Quebecois Boobzer or more? Black Bloc, I think? It’d be cool to have some acted out audiobook-style, I feel. I’d volunteer to read Redfield except my voice is somewhere between Hugo Weaving and Julian Assange, so probably both too posh and too mumbly. Apparently I also sound Kiwi or South African to a lot of people too?

I’m pretty sure that aworldanon and BlackBloc are both located in Quebec, but I’m not sure if either/both are Quebecois. My tragically plummy version of French wouldn’t work even if I could convincingly fake a male voice, which I can’t.

I’m trying to remember why GovernmentGirlfriends was banned. It can’t have been just for being fixated on the one thing or we’d have no trolls at all.

It would fit the First Nations thing…

I think it was something about true intimacy and love and blah blah, ie. just the sex isn’t enough. But keep in mind that I seem to only remember the funny parts of that conversation.

@Kim

There are several legal brothels in Nevada IIRC.

The little moron was on about how he didn’t know how to approach women so that he’d know within half an hour whether they wanted a relationship with him or not.

But since David had reason to believe he was trolling, there might have been no truth in any of his claims – I mean, apart from the BS he was spouting.

It is all very Al-ish in retrospect.

Big kitties are best kitties. The larger kitty Chez Quacks is 7-8kg and got a good brushing today because she’d been getting a bit matted, which she normally dislikes but was very good about it. She’s forgiven us because she got a bit of cold roast beef when she poked her head over the table at hooman dinner.

Anyway she now just looks like a big fluffy silky ball of kitteh and it’s very cute.

Sorry to go totally O/T but I need a wee rant. Big abortion debate going on in my homeland at the moment. This is a superb article on the matter, but I needed to vent about one thing – why do so many men assume that they know what is better for women than women do? How can they disregard the life of the woman so blatantly?

ARGH. Choice for Irish women, please!

Yep. Both the kitties Chez Quacks are very large and fluffy longhaired tabbies, but one’s a very lean sleek regal brown friendly tabby with a lot of Maine Coon in him and the other one’s a cute ditzy shy fatty grey tabby, so it’s confusing that so few people can tell them apart.

I can’t find any pictures that I could link to without mum-doxxing unfortunately.

deezers – I read some of those comments. At least there were as many men who did know their biology and grasped the idea that it’s not their business to tell women what to do with their bodies. The obtuseness of the “but it’s murder!” mob was not surprising. Same garbage as anti-abortionists here and in the US spout, too. And the same source: women are less than human and belong to men.

lolquacks, that’s a pity about the pics!

Maine Coons are such beautiful cats. I’d love to have one but between the expense and the amount of grooming needed, it ain’t gonna happen. All our kitties have been rescues, including Mr Hadji who was an alley cat – all of three weeks old when Mum found him.

Both of mine are RSPCA cats too! FWIW, Maine Coons who aren’t purebred/pedigree can groom themselves pretty well – my half-Main-Coon and a friend’s full Maine Coon have both gone their entire lives with the current owners without a single human-led bath and only occasional brushing, and they’re both very pleasant and clean kitties. And enormous kitties. And very fluffy kitties with very fluffy tails.

I think women have already been imprisoned for trial for having miscarriages in some states in the US. The Handmaid’s Tale is far less speculative fiction than one might think.

Our kitties were from various places – the RSPCA, the Lort Smith Animal Hospital, the Lost Dogs’ Home, the Australian Animal Protection Society, and a Carlton carpark. :)

That’s what I thought, deezers – something that makes stam’s presence worthwhile!

(Stam … looks like a typo for Spam. Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely Spam, wonderful Spaaam.)

Or just spam him with squillions of kitty videos. Who knows, he might get a mental hairball. It’d improve his thinking.

Probably one of those plus you’re communist scum.

BUT WOMEN CAN’T DO SPATIAL ROTATION THINKING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT LITERALLY ONLY MEN CAN DO

I almost wish that particular troll hadn’t been banned. He was sort of entertaining in his own demented way, at least when he wasn’t talking about murdering his parents.

I can understand why David banned him – using someone else’s name to peddle your own mega-creepy and paranoid fantasies is several degrees of moral wrongitude – but he was certainly one of the more original trolls we’ve had lately.

I was reminded of him when I read Varpole’s response to his Troll of the Year award – Stam popped up at the bottom to complain about him being banned. In fact, to save you following the link, his exact words were:

[David] did a similar thing to me back in August. I was posting under a name of a person who was defamed on the Internet (but with no links to blogs defaming him and talking about something completely different) and he immediately said I was using his blog to defame that person so he banned me. What a lying scumbag. When I sent him a very long e-mail explaining the situation he just said he didn’t read it and that I’m acting shady and entitled. My attempt to come back to Manboobz under a different nickname also ended in a ban because “I said my parents deserve to be killed”. Which is true, but I gave good and sound reason. Lying fat idiot.

Out of morbid curiosity, I followed the link he supplied to his own blog, which turned out to be to this intriguing piece titled ‘David Futrelle – a liar supporting murder while engaging in censorship’. Intriguingly, he links to his original appearance on Manboobz in the context of creating the impression that he was the reasonable one and everyone else (full disclosure: including me) was “intolerant commentators most of who have reading comprehension of 7-year-olds”.

This is a guy who, in the thread that he himself linked to (so he’s presumably stands by what he said), thinks that:

• the government should pimp women, not as prostitutes (perish the thought), but “willing partners”;
• such a service would not be available for women, because they wouldn’t need to apply (presumably because they can get sex with a mere snap of the fingers);
• his parents deserve to be killed for failing to fix him up with a girlfriend (though this isn’t a death threat);
• rape is less traumatic than celibacy (apparently you can just “get over” rape);
• Norwegian rape apologist and Anders Breivik fan Eivind Berge is one of the great thinkers of our time;
• if you don’t know within half an hour of meeting someone whether they’re a potential life partner, there’s no point even thinking about taking the relationship further;
• he took people’s advice to get therapy, but his therapist refused to fuck him, even outside office hours when it would apparently have been OK;
• he got laid twice in 2012, despite apparently being “incel”;
• his lack of success with various girlfriends is mostly their fault;

Oh, and inevitably:

• the word ‘creepy’ “is one of those feminist buzzwords usually used by ultra-PC people against anybody they dislike.”

I spin words for a living, and I can’t think of any word that describes Stam’s posts that’s quite as apposite as “creepy”. Unless he’d prefer “skin-crawlingly repulsive”, but that’s merely a less efficient way of saying the same thing.

And I’m normally very sympathetic indeed towards genuinely decent human beings who have difficulty hooking up with romantic partners.

Thinking about it a bit more, the reason I find Stam more amusing and less disturbing than some of the other trolls is that the shit he’s peddling is so absurd that there’s no chance of mainstream society taking it seriously. No modern government is going to agree to provide comfort women for citizens who aren’t very good at dating. That is not a thing that is going to happen. The only time that anything vaguely similar has ever happened was a. during a war and b. confined to the military, and even though the nation responsible still refuses to apologize, it’s rightly seen as a war crime by everyone else. So Stam’s flailing, though horrifying on many levels, isn’t scary in the way that some of the other trolls can sometimes be, because nobody is going to take him seriously.

I completely agree. He’s creepy as hell (the mere fact that he clearly doesn’t have the remotest clue how creepy he comes across to a typical reader is evidence of that), but he’s not remotely threatening, as his ideas are so unworkably ludicrous.

Even his many references to violence seem to revolve around him committing suicide and others (such as his parents) then getting blamed for his “murder”. A worrying attitude, certainly, but one that affects him more than anybody else. I’m even pretty unfazed about his comments about rape versus celibacy, because they’re more stupid and ignorant than actively malevolent.

The silly thing is, despite his endless whining about how lonely he is, it’s never been easier than now to get a sympathetic hearing about almost any subject, even if it’s only online. As he himself demonstrated: after all, during his recent visit, he got to chat to several real live women… and proceeded to alienate and repulse them pretty much from the off. But that was his decision.

I am failing to see the reason for using the word ‘factotum’ there…

I have, sort of, fiber paralysis… I see nice roving and I want to spin it. That and various tools… ooh Shiny! and I’m lost looking them over for hours.

As I recall it was because he was impersonating someone else with his rants about how he needed to have the gov’t force women to fuck him.

The way in which he was doing it was worse than just, “real persons name attached to ridiculous theory on forcing women to fuck, “incels” (and yes, is was force, if a woman went on too many dates without putting out she was punished), it’s that he was alleging this person had committed crimes (rape, IIRC).

He also sent me a long e-mail trying to elaborate his thesis.

He’s more than deserving of being banned, and he’s creepy as all fuck.

The taking on someone else’s name part screams Poe, but I can’t figure out WHY anyone would want to do that. Especially since he seems to believe most of the crap he spouts.