From the ET Classic, Tactics of the Troll, by Rearden Metal: Another key troll tactic is the practice of winning by losing. While the victim is trying to put forward solid and convincing facts to prove his position, the troll's only goal is to infuriate its prey. The troll takes (what it knows to be) a badly flawed, wholly illogical argument, and then vigorously defends it while mocking and insulting its prey. The troll looks like a complete idiot, but this is all part of the plan. The victim becomes noticeably angry by trying to repeatedly explain the flaws of the troll's argument. Provoking this anger was the troll's one and only goal from the very beginning. You lost in this thread. You were accused of being a hypocrite and responded with colored text, afraid to request proof. Of course you're afraid because you know the proof is everywhere in the archives. You lose, which means... You win!! Congratulations, you are a winner. You are the Uber-Troll.
owned again, and as it always is with you, trivially easy By the way... There something wrong with your post counter. It shows you as having 139,970 posts since 2004, for an average of 160 posts per day. Why do you spend so much time posting here?
October 20, 2006 Putinâs Flippant Comments on Israeli Scandal Are Heard By STEVEN LEE MYERS MOSCOW, Oct. 19 â President Vladimir V. Putin has a penchant for making pithy, acerbic, sometimes coarse comments. On Wednesday, a microphone inadvertently left on during a brief appearance with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel captured his views on the sex scandal involving Israelâs president. According to journalists and officials in the room and published accounts by Agence France-Presse late Wednesday and Kommersant and The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Mr. Putin was heard saying, âSay hello to your president,â to Mr. Olmert, referring to President Moshe Katsav, who could face criminal charges that he raped and assaulted two former employees. Mr. Putin added, âHe really surprised us.â The microphone was quickly turned off as reporters were ushered from the room, but the news organizations reported that Mr. Putin went on. âWe did not know he could deal with 10 women,â he said, according to those in the room and the Post and Agence France-Presse accounts, apparently referring to the complaints by several women that Mr. Katsav harassed them or worse. Kommersantâs version â citing the remarks in Russian â was cruder. âHe turned out to be quite a powerful man,â the paperâs reporter in the official Kremlin pool, Andrei Kolesnikov, quoted Mr. Putin as saying. âHe raped 10 women. I never expected it from him. He surprised all of us. We all envy him.â The accounts suggested that Mr. Putinâs remarks prompted laughter from the Russian and Israeli diplomats inside the Kremlin, where the two leaders went on to discuss Middle East policy and other issues for two and a half hours. According to those present, Mr. Olmert responded by saying, âI wouldnât be jealous of him.â The episode was picked up by other Israeli news media on Thursday, though it did not stir any real debate. Some people who had heard the remarks but who did not want to be identified as commenting on them publicly said that they thought the remarks were insensitive and inappropriate. Israeli officials declined to comment. âIâll be frank with you,â a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said in a telephone interview. âI heard some jokes were made when the press was leaving. I was not there, and I cannot comment on what was reported.â http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/w...&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
No, I'm serious. Putin made a joke about the charges being faced by the Israeli President. Yes... so? The point of my post is I don't understand why you made the post you did - what is the relevance of it? That Putin isn't a nice guy?