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Are we going to hear some more about the insect party? I want pictures!
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Oh dear, lol!
Boom.
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WUM = trolling
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The first rule of the internet when someone does a stupid is to quote the stupid to avoid future deletion by the OP.
GD, why you make me sad?
GD, why you make me sad?
In fairness, it wasn't intended as a practical joke but as a deliberate attempt to incite rage rather than humour for the perp. We've been calling this trolling for years, it's the principle of fishing for a specific response. Honestly cannot believe so many people think it is an internet phenomenon.
The speed of Google's webcache frightens me somewhat.
In fairness, it wasn't intended as a practical joke but as a deliberate attempt to incite rage rather than humour for the perp. We've been calling this trolling for years, it's the principle of fishing for a specific response. Honestly cannot believe so many people think it is an internet phenomenon.
The speed of Google's webcache frightens me somewhat.
No one's going on about it being an internet phenomenon, but rather what you think is trolling, isn't trolling, and it's not even funny.
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Heh, marvellous!Dear OcUK Residents,
Some of you may remember my last troll, the trolling of my parents. Well, unsatisfied with such irregular opportunities to feed the inner voice that whispers "u mad bro?" in my ear, I leapt at my latest opportunity. I think this one may even be better than the last.
First though, a little background. Since my first year at university I've been part of a rather large friendship group that came together as part of rather rubbish circumstances and we've all been the best of friends ever since. However, there is one individual in the group who fancies himself something of an alpha troll; let's call him Terry. Well over the years, Terry has pulled off many trolls, some good, some rubbish. For example, earlier this year he made a cake for somebody's birthday and had used his disco stick as a wooden spoon to stir the cake mix, something he neglected to mention until most of the party's attendees had eaten some (this is probably the only time my rule of not eating sweet food has paid off).
Last week, at another 21st birthday that specified an 'inappropriate' theme, he decided that his contribution to the theme would be to urinate in the salad bowl in front of everybody. No alcohol was involved, which makes it even more worrying. Last year, he managed to hijack a Lady GaGa themed birthday party by getting a group of people to dress up as rabbits and proceeded to troll an individual at the party who'd received a pet rabbit as a Valentine's gift by singing them a song in front of everybody there.
Other notable trolls have included stealing all the forks from our house (a surprisingly good one, I thought) one night. There was also an incident when he took the tool required to shut off a fire alarm in another house after they had complained about their fire alarm being set off by steam in the kitchen, but not smoke. So when an unsuspecting house member drained their pasta a few days later they were forced to listen to the fire alarm for two hours solid before they realised that the key had been taken.
Make no mistake, I think I'm punching above my weight with this one. My father was great in the Parental Troll, but this is a breed that follows one mantra and only that one: live free, troll hard.
Ladies and gentlemen, cue my opportunity. His 21st birthday party is planned for 28th May with the theme to be 'Insection.' He has assigned us all insect names based upon our real names, for example, my name 'Alexander Boni' has become 'Alexandung Beetle.' Aside from the fact that this theme is a poor effort (humans cannot dress like insects) and he is billing it as the fancy dress event of the year, it has struck me that this is the perfect opportunity to retaliate. He's going with Inception, I'm going with Total Recall, or Operation: Total ReTroll as I have dubbed it.
Essentially, I'm secretly rounding up all of our friends to dress as trolls-cum-parodies of Terry. So blue skin, t-shirts featuring a custom design that incorporates him and the trollface.jpg in some way. One of those mentioned earlier (the cake a la wang victim) will be making a cake fart cake (NSFW, do not Google this unless you are sure you will NOT be disturbed or found out) and others are coming up with retaliatory trolls to the ones they have suffered. Ultimately, we'll all show up together on the night and he will rageface everywhere.
So, aside from including you all in the troll, of which I intend to provide full video documentation of the lead-up and the climax of the troll, I'm looking for some input GD. I need to know that I have covered all my bases and that I'm not totally out of line for trolling up his 21st birthday (some have stated that this is a really mean thing to do, I disagree vehemently). Also, additional ideas to fight troll with troll are, as always, massively appreciated. So let me have it, what'chu got?
Please bear in mind that this is not dead cert to go ahead yet. Due to the collectivist nature of the troll we need everybody (or a sizeable number, at the very least) to participate, so I'm leaning on people at the minute to get involved. So don't berate me and call for my banning (ok, well I can accept the latter) if nothing comes of this. However, I want to be prepared. At the moment it looks like it will go through as the numbers in support are growing, but not guaranteed. If this does go ahead, I guarantee I will provide evidence for you all to enjoy. My word is good, I have delivered before and this will not become another ASDA checkout girl thread where I desert it if it doesn't go ahead. You will all be kept in the loop.
For now, there is a Facebook group set to 'private' so it is inaccessible to anybody but those I have invited. I've excluded anybody I consider to be a risk to the success of the plan. A couple of t-shirt designs I have come up with:
A rework of the 'Total Recall' movie poster:
A remake of the 'Inception' movie poster:
A remake of similar:
The following is a picture of Terry we used to mock relentlessly in first year and to this day, we still have a running in joke about how he only ever wore green t-shirts in first year. I have amended it accordingly:
And finally, the inevitable exploitable starring Terry and the girl who is planning this troll with me. Though I figure this is a little large for a t-shirt design...
Have at thee OcUK!
It's a crime not to share this!Trololo
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In fairness, it wasn't intended as a practical joke but as a deliberate attempt to incite rage rather than humour for the perp. We've been calling this trolling for years, it's the principle of fishing for a specific response. Honestly cannot believe so many people think it is an internet phenomenon.
The speed of Google's webcache frightens me somewhat.
Practical jokes are not necessarily humourous, often they are cruel, intentionally so.
Fishing for a specific response such as anger, embarassment or humour from the recipient is the idea of practical jokes.
As for the term 'Trolling' in reference to an internet forum, the definition is clear.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
What you are proposing in your OP is not trolling, it is a practical joke.
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damnit..after the last thread, kinda wanted to see how it turned out
Well that was the idea, I made an error of judgement here though clearly! Insulting the grammatical sensibilities of some members and inciting moronic debate on terminology was not my intention, sadly that seems to be the outcome.
Just thought it might be a cheap laugh to share and enjoy, didn't expect it to end up descending into a slew of thinly veiled insults and general sniping. We all deal with enough crap on a day-to-day basis without wilfully subjecting ourselves to more, unnecessarily, from strangers on the internet.
Mods, please lock. Nothing of any value to anybody will be added to this thread, besides reposts of the above.
I think you're massively missing the point. You've been calling the disgusting acts of your friend "trolling" when it's not, he's just being disgusting and deserves a punch for it to be honest.
It's not really an insult to point out the lack of humour and how it's disgusting and completely unfunny, it's just that. It's not really a case of "everyone else reacting badly", it's just an indication of how rubbish and unfunny your idea of "trolling" (practical jokes) are.
Plus, as I said, you're in your 20s, this kinda stuff is funny to kids in primary school (just about) not adults.
It's not really an insult to point out the lack of humour and how it's disgusting and completely unfunny, it's just that. It's not really a case of "everyone else reacting badly", it's just an indication of how rubbish and unfunny your idea of "trolling" (practical jokes) are.
Plus, as I said, you're in your 20s, this kinda stuff is funny to kids in primary school (just about) not adults.