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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYahoo Comment Clowns: Our Hatred Burns Like An Eternal Flame, No Matter WHAT the Subject Is.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/love-won-t-keep-them-together-%E2%80%94-captain---tennille-are-divorcing-010913382.htmlUtterly amazing that, even on a story so apolitical as this one, the Yahoo Comment Clowns will come up with SOME creative way to get around saying "I hate (insert racial slur here)s, expeshially that (racial slur) in the White House!!1!!!"
What must it be like to live with such blatant contempt and hatred and willingly never change or turn it off for even a second?
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Yahoo Comment Clowns: Our Hatred Burns Like An Eternal Flame, No Matter WHAT the Subject Is. (Original Post)
HughBeaumont
Jan 2014
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RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)1. Comment Trolls
They love to stir up something to get people to notice them. It's all over Mediaite as well - especially the Facebook pages. People who make up names and post racist pictures as their profiles just love to be the biggest trolls as well!!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. I know, I see that all the time
It's crazy.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. The original meaning of Yahoo has stuck with me since I was a child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_%28Gulliver%27s_Travels%29
A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".
flvegan
(64,404 posts)4. In other news: Some people still use Yahoo!
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)6. It's likely where all the AOLosers migrated to.
"Stormfront's down . . . I need somewhere t'go!"
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)5. responding to such thugs is something of a hobby of mine
great fun
and such bullshit should never go unchallenged
Orrex
(63,170 posts)11. Hmm. "Thugs."
Must've missed that other thread...
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)7. I cut my teeth against the Yahoo comment trolls long ago
They're still quite sharp, by the way.
Rex
(65,616 posts)8. Haters gonna hate.
They have nothing else inside.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)9. Bottom of the barrel trolls.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)10. Someone is paying these comment clowns.
They troll Yahoo by the hundreds.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)12. It's just amazing when I see the usual sisterbanger dog whistles . . . .
. . . in response to a thread about Captain and Tennielle divorcing.
I mean, what's next? Hey, here's a picture of a small girl hugging a puppy . . .
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