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which is where hugs gets it wrong. Hugs calls anyone who disagrees with him a troll.  maybe sometimes they are but a lot of the time they just disagree !  it is still allowed to voice an opinion in disagreement, just,  though with so many snowflakes nowadays, feeling it is their job to feel outraged and offended on ‘behalf’ of others  I don’t thi…[Read more]

I guess so,  my take on it is they will just take the opposite view to anything you type in order to provoke or prolong a disagreement. Or they can just target someone and be vile and bullying for no other reason than they get a kick out of it. I’m sure others can define it better than me

I guess so   like you saying the sky is blue, a troll will say ” no its green and you have a big nose ”    a bit OTT  but you get the drift lol

Some do it in a very ‘polite’ manner …  they are still trolls though. I do believe one such as this has had yet another identity banned

Well I’ll assume you meant the ‘internet’ version of trolling and not the fishing one.

Trolling – (verb), as it relates to internet, is the deliberate act, (by a Troll – noun or adjective), of making random unsolicited and/or controversial comments on various internet forums with the intent to provoke an emotional knee jerk reaction from uns…[Read more]

If memory serves me correctly she ( Sophie) had to choose between her son or her daughter to be sent to the gas chamber or they would both be killed, she chose her daughter to be gassed. Could humans be more cruel ?  When people say ” they are behaving like animals”, they do animals a disservice. Animals are never so utterly cruel….. and no…[Read more]

” Don’t act like an innocent victim here being abused as you do with Ge, you are passively aggressive and condescending constantly and anyone who reads these boards can see it, so acting all holier than thou won’t wash in my opinion.”

which is why you have very , very , very few likes…. as you seem to count them and they mean so much to you.…[Read more]

Martin please remove this thread. although well intentioned it has become monopolised once again and any good intention removed, I take responsibility in part for responding. Someone else start a similar thread, we may actually get further. Thanks .

*swats gnat*

This is my last post on the matter. It is childish in my opinion, I stated I started the Book thread to get away from the constant lectures over Brexit and Trump. I stopped posting on those threads. I had hoped to divert thinking and try something fresh. You immediately posted in a patronising manner ( IN MY OPINION ). I ask you to not direct any…[Read more]

How childish. I asked you politely to stop addressing me or discussing me. A simple request.

It would seem there is no escape … sigh. Fine do as you wish, I shall endeavor to ignore.

Thanks for the suggestions Jane xx

yes ! exactly right actually. I stopped posting on the other threads. Or am I a liar too now ? Just please leave me be and stop talking to or about me please.

I actually started this thread to get away from your all encompassing monologues and maybe get a few suggestions from other chatters, yet here we are again….  with you telling me I’m touchy and ready to strike, although only you seem to think that. Its a thread about books, not me. I would have said ” Have you read The Magic Mountain by Thomas…[Read more]

Lol @ if you dare, typical, more assumptions.  To everyone else….  I’ve read’The Magic Mountain’ I remember my Eng Lit tutor suggesting / insisting I did , mind it was many moons ago. Having said that it is regarded as a classic so most ‘readers’ will have either read it or know about it, obviously.  I’m really enjoying George Saunders ‘Li…[Read more]

JN    I wish you’d change your pic,,,,  it gives me the willies, not sure why ….

For the record, also expecting criticism of ‘popular novels ‘   yawn….

yea I read Girl on a train about 2 years before they made a film of it, decent novel,  films are never as good as the original book, with maybe ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird ‘ one exception,  because, obviously ones own imagination is far clearer than someone else’

I get the feeling not many ‘readers’ here then ….

Fifty shades of Grey …..   I’d rather eat my own foot, thanks anyway….