Re: Substitutes (att: Edna Pearl and NRT supporters)

"kestrel" <joyhton@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pity poor Burner Fan.

I do . . .

<He really does not understand that it is not
the nicotine in tobacco that kills people. <snip>

.. . . but that's not why I pity it. I pity and have compassion for anybody
who thinks the behavior of this type (trolling) is a way to spend ones
precious time. Think of all the good we have it in our power to do, both
here at as3 and out in the big wide world. And wankers like this sit in
front of their computers and giggle about how clever they are at annoying
good, well-intentioned people. It's so pathetic. Even if you aren't the
do-gooder type, it doesn't take much sense to see that there are a lot more
fun things to do in life than trolling.

(And don't kid yourself, kids. The likelihood that a troll actually
believes anything it says is pretty low.)

<I doubt if Burner Fan is even a smoker.>

I, too, would be not surprised to learn it had never smoked. Or I wouldn't
be at all surprised if it is a smoker currently. Smoking and quitting
obviously have nothing to do with its motivations here. Like any other
troll, it's here to indulge its personality disorder. Like you said, I feel
sorry for the poor runtbrain.

<I don't know why I am even wasting my time addressing him. I post
this because I want the newbies here to know that Burner Fan is
probably a troll and should be ignored. Which I will do from this
moment on.>

Unfortunately, this is a very valid reason for somebody to occasionally
point at a troll and say, "Troll!" -- so newbies won't get sucked in.
Trolls do indeed target newbies to try to get them to help start their
little playground fights. The trick is pointing out the troll without
"feeding" it. http://www.quitbuddies.org/Trolls.html Which I think you
have done quite nicely with this post, Joyce. Thank you, on behalf of the
group. :-)

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