Merry Man Boobz Christmas and/or Happy Tuesday! (Also, nominate your favorite troll of 2012.)

Okay, I’m off to my sister’s for dinner. Catch you later!

Make sure you digest your dinner first.

Pell has my vote for troll of the year. Not being able to date your students is illegal, yanno.

Suz wins the Most Horrific Implications prize for her screed about her son.

On a more awesome note, from tomorrow I’ll be away on SummerHoliday! First is Gay Camp (seriously, google Vinegar Hill.) and then I’ll be tiki-touring around the North Island seeing family. Back on the 12th. Dont chew the trolls too hard…

Off, not pop. The poster campaign could also form part of the actual activism award

Bodsworth, are you forgetting Steele’s 10 pages about how misandry is totally a word?

Mum got my sister’s dog one of those hard chew-sticks that supposedly keep dogs happy for hours. He demolished it in about twenty minutes. We had a really nice night at my sister and BiL’s place, and had fun trying to take a group photo (they’re moving interstate in a month, we may not see them again). None of us is photogenic so the results were … interesting. Got a really good snap of my sister cuddling Mads, though – and Mads looks Totally. Pissed. Off.

Priceless 😀

Kittehs’ — lol, should just go for silliness when photogenic fails, everyone can manage silly (even the people who try doing grimpy cat just come out looking silly!)

I see I haven’t been mentioned yet so I nominate myself. I can motivate myself, but it is doubtful you’ll ever get or understand trolling.

(What is the Grand Prize anyway?)

Sorry Talacaris, you are not in the running, too many other trolls are so much more awful and more funny and more persistent than you.

Tom Martin for Worst Person ever, Steele for English Language desecration.

“What is the Grand Prize anyway?”

Having highlights of your trolling quoted, and being mocked. Then again, you seem to enjoy being mocked, so maybe that is a prize?

I know he hasn’t been around for a couple months now, but can I nominate NWO for Worst Math Skills?

This has been a “good year” for trolling, in that we’ve had a large number. Not many with real chops.. Bob was precious, but both a one-note symphony and a one thread wonder.

Otis had his moments, but lacked the stamina to make it out of the minor-leagues.

For serious consideration I think the real measure is steadfastness. Let’s look at the trolls (local definition is in use) of yesteryear; and what raised them above the rest.

Mr. Al. A persistent level of cluelessness, coupled to an earnestness which encouraged people to take him at either face value; or as one who merely needed a bit of direction. The last may have been true; save that one has to want to change. He didn’t really. What he wanted was someone to validate his opinions on the shallowness of women and coddle his insecurities about his looks.

Since his general attitude wasn’t as horrific as some; and generally less foul than the subject of the discussion he was taking part in, he was able to linger for some past his welcome. †

TS: Dogged. Able to twist anything which isn’t someone saying that he is completely right; or which is in any way at odds with his pet theory of how the world (and in particular feminism) works into that person personally attacking him. He will lie, misrepresent, distort and abuse any argument made directly to his theses. He has no qualms about using a separate platform to continue his campaign; in the sure and certain knowledge that the hatred of “feminists” will keep his followers from actually reading the parent posts. As a result we have had several “satellite trolls” come in from his blog to tell us how horrible we are for things we have never said.

Ruby Hypatia; Someone who is completely blind to her own hypocrisy, as well as clueless about the ways in which both the world of science works, and the dynamics of argument here; though she has been an habitu&eactute; of Manboobz for what… two years?

She is able to both praise the rape of prisoners (they deserve it, because they were convicted of something; and it pleases her to think about them being raped), and make smarmy comments about how evil rape is when it happens to people whom she doesn’t feel “deserve” it: and make those comments in a way which is so absolute that it contradicts her other praises of rape.

She also has that blindspot so many others§ have of conveniently forgetting that she is involved in a dispute in another thread, on the same topic, or that the demands made in other threads (re supporting evidence, coherence of argument, etc.) will be applied in the new thread.

Brandon: Probably, IMO, the most successful troll to ever come to Manboobz, His blasé surety of superiority, lack of concern for having ever said something else in the past; even so recent a past as five minutes before, the levels of self-revelatory blather he engaged in while attempting to display versimilitude (who can forget the, “Subtle Test for Feminism” he used?) and his pet theories on side-subjects which could always be exploited to derail him into looking foolish (I confess, I set him up a couple of times to go off about economics. I was bored; he was an easy target, and far more enjoyable to poke than Meller or NWO; because they were so earnest in the ways they came back to hating on women; no matter the subject).

And he was persistent. He probably put more words in several threads than Bob did (the “defend yourself from “false rape claims springs immediately to mind) as well as having an amazing consistent idea that women are both conniving, and stupid.

He was also steady. While he was allowed to be here, he was a regular.

He has also taken the show on the road; where he gets shorter shrift, in part because he was so effective a troll here that manboobzers who spot him in the wild slap him around and call him Sally when they see him; which acts as an antibody in other blogs (which are less prone to tolerate that sort of bullshit than Dave/we are).

We don’t really have any who are quite that class. The only real contenders (IMO) are Torvus, The Naïf, and, to a lesser degree, Tom, I blew £36,000 to bitch about hard chairs” Martin (his banning knocks him out of serious contention, in my book).

NWO has been phoning it in. Meller has become a craven skulker; haunting ancient threads in the hope HellKell, myself, or Ithiliana won’t notice, and both mock his arguments, while reminding the world he things women who are murdered by their partners 1: deserved it, and 2: were really using their wiles to commit suicide by DV.

Next year may bring a better crop, or perhaps some of the present day trolls playing in AAA will step up their game, and make the move to The Show.
† I would also argue his attempts to return are because he was welcomed, and then tolerated; with some friction, because he kept showing signs of redeemability. That’s because, at root, we are a pretty tolerant bunch, and we like kittens, puppies and other helpless, less than completely formed creatures.

§Steele, Diogenes etc.

In Terms of Christmas, I am enjoying mine (It’s a twelve day Feast, so for me it’s not over yet). I got a lot of fiber (about 2 lbs of alpaca, in various interesting colors). I’ll be spinning for a while with this. I need to find people to buy it.

I also have books on spinning/wheels/fiber so my theory ought to improve. Practice is all I can do to translate theory into working skills.

Merry Christmas, everybody 🙂