A Room with a View

[Paddy]

With a very very busy Gramps means not many items in the room

[Grandpa Troll]

A Room With A View Chapter Eleven

It is now Grandpa Troll’s visit to the Kitchen. Today from A Room with a View, we cast our eyes upon not so mystery meat simply known as SPAM. That’s right, most if not all have come to love it. It is spread thick and it is spread thin. It comes from deep within or grown on your sleeve. Tell it in any country, language or viewpoint, Spam is and always will be much ado about tidbits pressed into a food group all of its own.

We could, I believe have our very own Iron Chef or Spammers Lot contest but then again we all know it happens as we speak. Subtle or not so subtle, SPAM happens and it happens frequently.

Why from posting a hearty “LOL” to an icon featuring thumbs up, not very deep intellectual prose is being formed there.

Some folks say Spam comes in the form of turn sent, perhaps but perhaps not.

Spam may even come from an encouragement like “Hang in there” or “cheers” or even “Party Hard mate”

Maybe we have come to embrace this special treat as anything not pertaining to earth shattering insight?

Maybe SPAM is bad or maybe as I recently read by a few lighthearted Mod responses. Spam is when a Mod determines it so. Kind of like when I was a Lawman, speeding is speeding unless I was focusing on a heavy speeder, then some things simply were allowed to pass off as acceptable when in fact they were not.

I myself enjoy some SPAM while others do not, unless that is; they prepared it themselves, which always amuses me.

SPAM will probably be around for a long time. The problem with Spam is it is good when fresh. After awhile though Spam gets old, that’s when we evolve from a Spammer to a Threadjacker. This is quite annoying unless the so-called threadjack takes a life of its own and we all learn and accept where the new direction takes us. After all, is a threadjack nothing more than we would have at a party or social gathering when someone pops into your conversation and rattles on with what they felt was important?

I mean, two or three are talking about the weather and a person pops in to state they saw a Jackelope in the front yard; of course everyone now wants to see this animal.


My point would be not all seemingly useless information is SPAM; some of it is well, just passing the time away, such as what I am doing. Typing away on a Saturday morning, sharing what is on my mind and nothing I am typing will make a profound change in our World’s eco system, world peace or even cure health ills.

It will however, inevitably provide a small amount of reading material for a few.

I stand looking out the kitchen window, pondering if my new recipe will bake and provide some nourishment for those whom read.

I am Grandpa Troll

Standing in A Room with a View.

[Paddy]

Happy Birthday Gramps

The time of the Trolls Birthday, come join Gramps Birthday party at the Tullamore Dew Tavern

[Rasputin]

another birthday, damn these old people seem to get older quicker than everyone else...

[Hueij]

A little bump perhaps to this great thread? Maybe to just remind Grandpa T that we want to read more of his epic? And no, his celebrating his birthday (btw, a late happy birthday Grandpa ) is no excuse, I mean, how long does a hangover stay?

Over to you, Grandpa T.

[Jon Shafer]

Good thread GT.

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks all
Been like da Beatles Hard Daze night, working like a dawg

But in a few days will do some more

I am glad you are enjoying

Back to work

we are so darned busy and understaffed but working on that

Gramps

[Grandpa Troll]

A Room With A View Chapter Twelve

The Tenants of Apolyton and the Tenets of Apolyton: Where do you reside and where do you stand?

Ok I now stand back, turn the dimmer switch low and open the curtains on the community courtyard below. I stand back, just in the shadows watching the various scurrying of the body politic known as the Tenants of Apolyton.


You know them, some reside in the big palatial estate known as Mod Towers. No, don’t go wishing you lived there, lots ado about much we know nothing about.

They have a code of their own which cast amongst the masses is passed along as Tenets, that being An opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization.

Ok maybe we all don’t hold them as true but we as members of this site have to most certainly embrace them now don’t we?

Maybe embrace is not quite correct, maybe more walk alongside, often skirting close to running aground and failing miserable even?

I was very active in Tae Kwon Do in mid 80’s and we held Tenets very close to our training.

C.I.P.S.I. was my moniker to help me remember them. There was Courtesy, Integrity, Perserverance, Self Control and Indomitable Spirit.

Each time I advanced thru a tip, which was an intermediate between ranking system of belt or degrees of efficiency or degree of competency this, was part of my oral exam.

I wonder what would each small forum or tenement building we have from Alpha Centaurai Central to CIV IV Tower of Babel call as there own Tenets?

I would say with each community we have some certain criteria within the overall Housing Authority headed by Mark and Dan, that policies itself. Sure the Poleizei or official State Security Forces come and go, but for real, I don’t see and serious breaches of journalistic freedom that one would think or by listening to a few whom claim they have been victims under the same oppressive misfortune as Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Well, I been to Solver Hall and Mingapulco and while we jest, I assure you no Gulag Archipelago are they!

Now, whereas I wanted to be in Tae Kwon Do and some want to be here, we most assuredly need some order in our forums, we don’t need Mark and Dan to come straighten us out. We don’t need or want the Mods to have to come down on us.
I somehow feel that we often however have a Tenants guide to the Tenets of Trolling and that shall be a next project of how to be a successful Troll!

I do hope this will not be taken as license to abuse but more license to thrill or excite well, maybe not that much as snicker a little at just how silly to user and usee can be when it comes to trolling.

For now, we will leave; contemplating just what code we can and should live by here at Apolyton. Indeed we have rules but rules are like laws and a Tenet is something more along the guise of a hearts desire to live a certain way.

I am, Grandpa Troll, in awe of an overwhelmingly enjoyable community here at Apolyton, standing just in the shadows of,

A Room With A View

Gramps

[Grandpa Troll]

A Room With A View: Chapter Thirteen

Here I am. Grandpa Troll. Troll. Now what is a Troll exactly? We can look upon mythical times and history remembrances of trolls gone past. They are the ugly outcasts. They live under bridges, under cottages and under castles. They live, according to legend, to accost innocent people whom are merely passing by!

So what does a so-called Internet or more directly a forum troll do or what makes a troll tick?

This is where a troll has to have a large cache of not only innovative but also thought provoking verbiage. Yes my good people, barbs, some small, some out right directly pointed at an individual. But the best are those thrown from a far distance and taking out as many innocents as possible.

I spoke of Verbiage. To me, and I just love in real life as well as here at Apolyton, one must treat the art of trolling akin to that of leading a cute and cuddly puppy home to your house. It takes being kind to the unsuspecting critter and I clearly state that I am an animal lover so no animals are harmed during this installment here, merely some wounded souls for those that get caught up in following a troll down the path into the trap!

You just sit and wait, read and then, a simple little post jumps out, the so called “cute little puppy” and while a puppy is neat, a crowd is nice to have, gathering and then you of course need to give them something to do.

First you need identify the thin-skinned, the easily riled. Save them to help stoke your fire. One must remember they are a given, like a duck in a barrel, no need to shoot them, at least not now. No, you need to snipe at the crowd gathering, notice who is in a serious mode or in a grumpy mood then simply lay out a semi-truth of what they are speaking of. But say it with a certain amount of conviction. Some vague scuttlebutt and then watch the sidebar grow with folks coming to defend this person and shoot you down. Oh, subtle at first but you will see whom is whom quickly.

Ok, trolling is an art form, and while art can make one ponder by staring at a simple shape, some art that jumps out at you really draws a crowd and yes some time one must B!TcH Slap a person to get things aroused. Forgive my language, I am attempting to emphasize and identify the two necessary components to get a donnybrook going in a thread. A donnybrook and a real big fight, and sometimes you simply must light two fires, one on one strong willed side and the other on a weak minded, easy to be riled side.

Remember the duck in a barrel I spoke of earlier?

Now, load your barrel and fire away. Nice to see two sides have at it and a small skirmish light up, like popcorn and candy at the movies.

Now, who is at fault here? Sure, blame the Troll. But really, did he twist anyone’s arm? Did he put a gun to anyone’s head? No, yet many folks say a troll is a person whom has the inability to function face to face with the real world. ~Pift~ I say the best trolls can do either.

Does disrupting a thread mean the end all of that conversation?

No, for I have seen many conversations simply without rhyme or reason go off the beaten path and away we go chasing rabbits.

I think trolling is healthy to some extent, as long as it is not malicious and the intent to rile up is not a personal flame but more an opinion flames, i.e. the reason social status is biased: Then this is easy to bait someone. I would never get into, intentionally, attack an individual but sometimes in the heat of the moment, my spears also get thrown.

We shall continue at another time, but for now, in the big scheme of things, why do we post? To allow the world to see we have an opinion, correct? Opinion, because folks there are a multitude of them and very many correct opinions, and that’s why we have forums to express them, so please, next time ya smell a troll or see a glimpse of one, don’t freak out, most times, he or she will simply go away. Most I say, some of us want you to relax. This is when we can study a better course of action.

For now, however, I am…

Standing in my Room With A View

Grandpa Troll

[Paddy]

Looking forward to your further updates old chap

[Datajack Franit]

er, what's the purpose of this thread exactly?

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
er, what's the purpose of this thread exactly?

to look into your soul and reveal all

[Grandpa Troll]

that looks scarey Paddy!

and exactly as Paddy stated..a look into ones soul from Grandpa Troll's Room with a view
kinda like reflection for thou to ponder

[Datajack Franit]

Oh so you don't mind the +1

[Addled Platypus]

The Tenants of Apolyton and the Tenets of Apolyton: Where do you reside and where do you stand?


should be a thread in it self, required by all to post

da** it GT now I have to think and reflect

Simply Outstanding


Would it be so bad to have this topped?