Posted on 02/26/2005 10:13:36 AM PST by Mears
February 26, 2005
IT IS NOT surprising that dictatorial employers would fire workers for smoking even off the job (''Smoke screens," editorial, Feb. 20).
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During the last 20 years punitive and regressive taxes have been imposed on tobacco. Smoking, which is legal in the United States, has been outlawed in private businesses, and institutionalized scorn has been directed at smokers.
I attended a meeting at the Harvard School of Public Health where Howard Koh, then health commissioner, said he had considered asking that every pack of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts bear the phrase, ''You are the scum of the earth."
Society has always found cause to scapegoat particular groups based on race, religious, or political ideolology. In this case, it's public health.
S.H. Cambridge
Smokers tossing their butts drives me nuts as well. I am not anti-smoking, and in fact smoke cigars and the occasional cigarette, but I can't for the life of me understand why a lot of smokers are so inconsiderate as to toss their butts on the ground.
Apparently there is also some kind of prestige in mimicking caustic Nanny Staters when it comes to the subject of smoking.
Which of my statements do you object to?
Scum of the earth eh? Well, let them read THIS:
The Farking Troll
The Toque ^ | Feb.23,2005
Posted on 02/24/2005 2:44:06 AM EST by kingattax
IN THE FORUMS-- He lingers in the shadows like a Quake-playing camper, a witless coward waiting to shoot someone in the back with a half-conceived verbal sniper-shot. He hides behind ill-conceived pseudo-names, like W1NGNUT or LAM3R or PAUL, disguising his true identity in order to protect himself from the scorn of his Real Life peers. He roams from forum to forum looking for someone or something to denounce, because he's a bitter, frightened, nerd-of-the-ages. This creature is the farking troll.
Welcome to our continuing series on Internet Inhabitants. This week we look at the farking troll, a dimwitted loser that thrives on discord and discontent in online forums. fark troll flamer flamewar forum The farking troll tries to use his verbal diarrhea to impress other forum readers.
The farking troll is a less-than-fascinating creature, having nothing of value to contribute to society. Yet everywhere we surf, this vomit-writing forum-leecher is rampant, puking up words that add to the verbal sewage that purveys many online communities.
How does this bottom-dwelling scab-sucker thrive? His vocabulary and spelling are as weak as his under-developed muscles, and he thinks that "grammar" is the woman married to "grampar." It's surprising that this organic virus has enough brain power to maintain his own breathing.
Yet somehow, this bed-wetting boor consistently finds fodder upon which to feed on, and is able to spew out his dribble like a crack-induced soothsayer.
His critical attacks are simple but venomous, and his words are like a poisonous, hate-inducing propaganda, intended to disturb the shit upon which stands the frail structure of the online community. Too many times does the farking troll succeed in this, for his power grows from the ignorant, pre-teen community members who treat his ass-wiped, shit-smear postings like verses of gospel.
Never mind that the farking troll has absolutely nothing intelligent to say, and rarely knows anything about any of the subjects being discussed--those things matter not to the uneducated. His only goal is to insult, and then enjoy the attention he receives from his fatuous feedback, like the spoiled child who constantly yells "look at me!" to his tired mother.
Comment like "worst...link...ever" or "this sucks" or "where is the funny?" are the most common telling indicators of a farking troll. To him, these simple words are the throwing stones of a puerile youth who grew up in the school yards yelling out replies such as "oh yah?" and "I know you are, but what am I?"
But fear not, for these terse statements are about as inflammatory as the farking troll can get. Anything more spirited or preconceived would be beyond his comprehension. An when there is the rare example of a clever retort, it is usually found when the farking troll copies and pastes it from another forum member's valid critique.
These simplistic characteristics of the undersized brain of the farking troll are just its natural method of establishing a place within the forum hierarchy. This agonistic pattern of behavior is consistent with the farking troll's unsatisfactory sex-life (a direct result of his undersized genitalia), and mostly likely from childhood confusion arising from a long period of sexually satisfying his own step-father.
A problem with this sticks-and-stones behavior is that once the hierarchy is established, and an alpha farking troll is pronounced, immature challengers will learn to act imitate the leader using observational learning. They will copy and mimic the alpha farking troll by repeating his catch-phrases and posting their own foul fecal feedback. When the alpha puts down a particular comment, link, or story, the submissive forum posters will always follow, like ass-licking sycophants looking to impress their master.
We loathe the existence of the farking troll, but somehow we find a reason to pity this brain-damaged malcontent. Is it because this fat-fuck is only lashing out because his mother breast-fed him until he was nine, and now his misdirected anger is focused on the nameless, faceless individuals of the Internet who can't possibly fight back? Is he jealous of all others who can form complete sentences? Does he regret spending his teenage years playing Minesweeper and Tetris while his friends sought an education and pursued careers? Or is it because the farking troll cannot afford a decent computer, and is pounding away with his sweaty sausage-like fingers on the sticky keyboard of his pathetic Pentium-90 machine?
You can just imagine the farking troll in his own dirty environment, wallowing in his own sweat in a torn "Linux Sucks" t-shirt and soiled sweat pants, subsisting on a diet of Ding Dongs, Cheezies, and Red Bull. He probably hasn't seen an exercise bike in his life. It wouldn't be hard to conclude that he has never known the company of a woman, and the outside world frightens him like a child trying to cross the street for the first time. Of course he's unemployed, living off his parents' allowance or mooching off of his roommate. This unambitious financial freedom allows the farking troll those hours of extra time to post his empty opinions.
Should we condemn or pity the farking troll? Do we blame the mosquito for slowly sucking the life out of us, or do we just slap at it without giving it a second thought? Do we The farking troll deserves no more attention than the bubble gum that sticks to the bottom of your running shoe. But occasionally, that gum will get stuck in your hair and needs to be removed like a bad thread from a comfortable sweater.
(I have no fear of reprisal from this article, as it is unlikely the farking troll would have understood its retaliatory nature, and is probably still trying to figure what the word "fatuous" means--Ed)
Proud to be part of the scum of the earth!!!!!
Lure them into air-conditioned suicide parlors and then make them into food? I just want to be clear on this.
Ditto! Thanks for the ping, She Lion.
"I guess they just assume it is someone else's job in life to pick up their spit soaked, tar filled, lipstick covered pacifiers."
Not that I throw my butts aroud, but actually, that job is for someone else....and that someone else is called a prisoner.
You got it.
I wonder if the stupid SOB would have the courage to say it to MY face.
We've had that suggested on this forum also.
A profound statement to say the least.
A profound statement to say the least.
Lucky you!
Smokers driving SUV's while talking about helmet laws for organ donors on a cell phone and having a CHL bump to the top for the childreeeeeeen !!
Poop on your silly SUV. I drive a plow.
You got it ALL!
"Do you know what the man is saying? Do you? This is dialectics.
It's very simple dialectics. One through nine, no maybes, no
supposes, no fractions -- you can't travel in space, you can't go out
into space, you know, without, like, you know, with fractions -- what
are you going to land on, one quarter, three-eighths -- what are you
going to do when you go from here to Venus or something -- that's
dialectic physics, OK? Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you
either love somebody or you hate them."
LOL
Slap that sucker to death, for it is a carrier capable of destroying civilization if left unchecked.
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