Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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The misappropriation of the verb "troll"In the good old days this term encapsulated the wind-up work that went on in rousing the passions of those who were easily wound up. Now this noble endeavour has been besmirched by the incorrect use of the term by journalists, who lack the intelligence to properly research or understand it.
Yes, yes, I know that language is fluid and words are always being re-defined, but it still galls me that a word (and its subsequent implications) can be so abused in such a short space of time. "Trolling" now seems to describe the action of any sort of online abuse, and today I saw it used to describe some people who were simply criticising something via the internet! Since when did trolling mean offering criticism?! Argh!
You know what's worse? I feel like I've been trolled by the media.
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Yo 'Ho of Charlie mass-market saucetrepreneur, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 10:19,
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I love under a bridge, and collect unofficial tolls.
'Internet' bah.
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Bit of a Freudian Clit there, I think...(, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 11:26, closed)
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