Martin54, shove it

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  • mousethief wrote: »
    Anybody notice how he's taking over the boards? Or is it just in the few threads I follow that fully 1/4 of the posts are by Martin54?

    Yes, it's beginning to look as though he is indeed Taking Over™.

    Perhaps we should be Afraid. Very Afraid...

    ...or just scroll...

  • The problem is that discussions don't scroll, they flow. Or at least they do if they work. Discussions formed by scrolling are disjointed and ineffective.
  • sionisais wrote: »
    sionisais wrote: »
    Martin, you’ll do far better playing video games on your own rather than winding people up online.

    Arguably he could do both. There are a number of MMOs that are popular with those that subscribe to trolling culture. Just go to the Something Awful forums, scroll down to the forums on games and pick your poison.

    If the outcome is that the trolls eat themselves, I'm happy.

    Why does Martin, as the largest of the trolls, not simply eat the other trolls? /futurama
  • If you care to glance at the 'atoning/not atoning' thread over in Purgatory, you'll notice that he's apparently seen off the OPer, by bludgeoning him to death with words...

    ...under the circumstances, no mean feat, IMHO.
    :flushed:
  • And I think for that alone he deserves our respect.
  • I admit I did feel some sneaking admiration for What He Did There...

    Perhaps he's a sort of carrion bird, clearing up, and devouring, the roadkill?
    :wink:
  • He's like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, to be generally avoided, but handy when velociraptors are closing in.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Anybody notice how he's taking over the boards? Or is it just in the few threads I follow that fully 1/4 of the posts are by Martin54?

    He is Legion.
  • .Martin54 - a secret. We're all actually AI created fictitious people created here for your amusement.

    Or, come to think of it, we're all real and you're the A(un)I.

    It's your decision which one, because it is all about you.

    Being a solipsist, I know that don't I? Like Kierkegaard, I have to argue with myself.
  • Emphasis on the 'pist part of that. You might do with a good Freudian two-flusher. No doubt you were spanked during toilet training. Need to really own that shit and ain't going to give it up into potty.
  • Mumm-mum-mummmmmy was cruel but fair.
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    If you care to glance at the 'atoning/not atoning' thread over in Purgatory, you'll notice that he's apparently seen off the OPer, by bludgeoning him to death with words...

    ...under the circumstances, no mean feat, IMHO.
    :flushed:

    Just when you thought it was safe. He's back. We're going to need a bigger boat. You see, it were nowt ter do wi' me. As Jack says to Marlon in The Missouri Breaks after shooting him in the bath and missing, "You're not even there". That's me. Tee-hee. It's ALL me. YOU'RE all me. God I bore me.
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Maybe Martin is actually just a lovable crank who’s frequently annoying. Who else would come up with those last three statements?
  • Damn your eyes man. Now you're just being vulnerably nice. What's your angle eh? Bastard.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Damn your eyes man. Now you're just being vulnerably nice. What's your angle eh? Bastard.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9DiIoPJhcU

  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Ross you’re an absolute fiend. How delightful.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Thank you, Craig.
  • Feed your horse on Dobbyroids! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The first ten hours were the worst! Then the next.... now... it's always with me. Will it turn me in to a nice person?

    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids and he'll grow fit and strong
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids and he'll grow fit and strong
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids and he'll grow fit and strong
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids, Dobbyroids
    Feed your horse on Dobbyroids and he'll grow fit and strong
    F...

    Trollists!
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Anybody notice how he's taking over the boards? Or is it just in the few threads I follow that fully 1/4 of the posts are by Martin54?

    It's all right, I'm not after your title. I'm just feeling so girly, so dizzy, breathless that you even speak about me in the third person.
  • He's like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, to be generally avoided, but handy when velociraptors are closing in.

    You've got the teeth
    Of the Hydra upon you
  • Emphasis on the 'pist part of that. You might do with a good Freudian two-flusher. No doubt you were spanked during toilet training. Need to really own that shit and ain't going to give it up into potty.

    Sober as a judge. There again all the judges I've ever known have been pissed as newts.
  • Don't feed the troll kiddies.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Anybody notice how he's taking over the boards? Or is it just in the few threads I follow that fully 1/4 of the posts are by Martin54?

    Yes, it's beginning to look as though he is indeed Taking Over™.

    Perhaps we should be Afraid. Very Afraid...

    ...or just scroll...

    At last I've got the corner seat in office. And can do this while watching my boss watch the cricket.
  • Boogie wrote: »
    Martin, you don’t wind me up at all.

    When you are incomprehensible I scroll past and when you are rude/unpleasant/cheeky/in wind up mode I also scroll on past.

    It seems that you want to be seen as a deeply humble Christian christian and mess with people’s minds at the same time.

    You have the occasional interesting, thought provoking insight, almost poetic post, so it’s worth checking if it’s a ‘scroll’ post or a ‘read’ post.

    I bet you are nothing like this in real life. I bet this is an outlet to escape from all sorts of normality.

    I think @sionisais is right - video games would suit your needs better.

    All sorts. This too will pass. That second sentence cuts to the marrow.
  • Seven - yes, seven - consecutive posts in just a few minutes.

    @Martin54 , IANAD, but I really think you might need help.
  • Excessive multiposting has historically been deemed to count as jerkdom and thus be a bannable offence. Just sayin'.
  • SirPalomidesSirPalomides Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    It’s a thread specifically about him, so I think he’s entitled to some shitposting.
  • Dobbyroids! Dobbyroids!
    Duddle-udder-duddle-udder-duddle-udder-dumb!
  • Just sing along. To the Greig. You see utter crazy might just be utterly verbatim from an actually related context. Or I just might be utterly batshit fucken crazy...
  • It’s a thread specifically about him, so I think he’s entitled to some shitposting.

    Since that's all he does anyway.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    It’s a thread specifically about him, so I think he’s entitled to some shitposting.

    Since that's all he does anyway.

    Ooooooooooooh. He likes me.

  • Martin54 wrote: »
    mousethief wrote: »
    It’s a thread specifically about him, so I think he’s entitled to some shitposting.

    Since that's all he does anyway.

    Ooooooooooooh. He likes me.

    FFS have you not sobered up yet?
  • I don't think he ever does...
    :grimace:
  • I don't think he ever does...
    :grimace:

    If one is going to be drunk all the time, one should at least have the decency to be Winston Churchill or Ulysses S Grant.
  • I don't think he ever does...
    :grimace:

    In a sense not. Except when one does. Proverbs 26:5, 4.
  • This is getting boring. Can't you quote from a novel, or something?
    :wink:
  • This is getting boring. Can't you quote from a novel, or something?
    :wink:

    All I got memorized is the opening to The Golden Journey to Samarkand. And some Spike.
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    edited August 2019
    mousethief wrote: »

    It's the getting or rather the going to get. Otherwise why wake up?
  • What kind of fool am I? I can't apologise regardless? Regardless of how right I am in my own eyes? How misunderstood? How foolish?

    So @Rossweisse, @Lamb Chopped, @ECraigR, @Nick Tamen at least, my belated and unconditional apologies.
  • FWIW, I think Martin does often contribute to the Ship interesting ideas, poetic wording, and humor. Not saying it's always understandable. But I think removing him would, overall, be a loss to the Ship.

    {Goes back to bed, equipped with Disc World books, hot chocolate, and stuffed animals. Saturday morning. ;) }
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    Thanks, Martin. No hard feelings!
  • roybartroybart Shipmate
    Whatever Martin is doing, or thinks he is doing, it seems to work everytime. Some posters cannot control the urge to engage with him. So he wins. Interspersed with cryptic apologies, these thwarted (often hijacked) discussions go on and on and on. I think of him as a discussion killer and find myself avoiding threads on which he is active.
  • Martin is a tedious shit. (Presumably there's no argument except from the accused.)

    Good forum behaviour would be respecting others and the topic and the Ship by posting clearly what he means but he's never done that. He used to post (for several years) cryptically, making no effort to engage with others in the spirit of a discussion board, and mostly does the same now, still expecting everyone else to make the effort to understand him.

    He's not a fool, just an attention-seeker. His posts are rarely worth the effort of reading so it's quicker to scroll past and not respond to him.


  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I don't think he ever does...
    :grimace:

    If one is going to be drunk all the time, one should at least have the decency to be Winston Churchill or Ulysses S Grant.

    What's decent about being Churchill?
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    roybart wrote: »
    Whatever Martin is doing, or thinks he is doing, it seems to work everytime. Some posters cannot control the urge to engage with him. So he wins. Interspersed with cryptic apologies, these thwarted (often hijacked) discussions go on and on and on. I think of him as a discussion killer and find myself avoiding threads on which he is active.

    Do you think he causes pointless tangents?

  • roybartroybart Shipmate
    I don't know if it deserves a respectable word like "tangent." He often derails a topic by calling attention to himself. The are often phrased in an opaque manner. Others can't resist joining in. The result: long breaks in a thread that are essentially about Martin. I know nothing about his motives or the possible causes (and frankly I don't care).
  • roybartroybart Shipmate
    I missed the edit window but wanted to add that I have enjoyed and learned much from the discussions on SofF, even though I rarely post. I have come to care about so many posters and to feel that in some weird but real way that I know many personally. (Boogie, you are definitely in that category.) Maybe that is why I am getting so fed up with the inordinate attention paid to Martin and a few others like him.
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