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(...) You're right. It sucks. It's the easiest subject to fall into debating because there's always a good supply of whackos with way-out ideas to fire things up. Plus no-one's actually going to listen and change their views, and no-one's got any (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well-put. I couldn't have trolled any better myself! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "trolled", "strawman" - what language are you half-cut bunch of muppets using here anyway? So if you really want to make a good point in a debate, that no one can argue with, you just make up your own language to do it in - is that it? j450n (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right. Thanks. Is that 'common' as in 'used by the common folk?' by the way? No, must stop it. :) (...) I learned something today. Marvellous. Anyway, I just wanted to change the subject as I'm sick of this whole religion/flat earth/new (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The reference is to maritime trolling -- the act of fishing by dropping your baited lines in the water and ignoring them for a few hours while you steer the boat. The idea is to let the fish do most of the work -- biting the hook and tiring (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Trolling is what you attempted immediately above: trolling for reactions on the internet rather than trolling for fish in a lake. A "strawman" is not a made-up term: from Encarta Dictionary, "unimportant issue or person: an issue or person of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right, now I know what you're on about (thanks Dave) I can comment. That isn't meant to incite an argument, the other bit is. That's meant to point out the futility of the previous debate so no one gives a monkey's when I try to change the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories)
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(...) Lying on the shore with your hook in the water is the laziest. I've had the most success catching fish by trolling. Fly-fishing is the best fishing, except when the fish bother you by getting caught on your hook. The (2nd) bravest fishing I've (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, no hard feelings, I grok you, I thought it was a pretty good try. :-, Most people, when they want a new discussion, tend to start a whole new thread, as it more or less completely separates the new discussion from the old. But the new (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And they say that understated humour is lost on the Internet...;) (...) I'm not sure what's patriotic or not patriotic about any of that. Partisan, perhaps, and occasionally pedestrian. ;) best Lindsay (Besides, you can just look at the old (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories)
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(...) Boy, shows how much *you* know about effortless fishing. The laziest method, of course, involves TNT. The shockwave does the work.[1] (...) A well-placed depth charge could have solved that whole problem. (Okay, you might not have ended up (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What does successfully catching fish have to do with fishing? No, no, too much effort to lob that TNT. Wakes you up, too. Bruce (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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