Going on a journey, without actually gping anywhere.
Cascade this through your team. How exactl theres no fountain in this office
I thought a troll was a being from Nordic folklore.
language changes. have you been living under a bridge for the past 20 years?
Which was very obviously my point. Or are you trolling?
I honestly can’t grasp why “reach out” makes any bodies toes curl.
TBF, it makes them tap if it's the Four Tops doing it.
Troll – used to be someone who started/contributed a thread on an internet forum in a “devil’s advocate” style to generate debate/flush out people who held outrageous prejudices.
Now – someone who sends vile abuse on twitter.
What forums were you on? Meant the same thing to me for the past 25-odd years.
Wiring a plug? Are you here from the 1980s?
I wired one with my daughter just the other day.
it makes them tap if it’s the Four Tops doing it.
chapeau!
"Hack" for simple tips that have been known about for ages
It is actually the attempts by some to redefine "engineer" as an exclusive job description that is new, it used to be quite a broad term.
Trolling used to be an art form of winding people up on the internet without them being aware that you were doing it. Sort of the internet equivalent of starting a barroom brawl in a western and then just sitting back and watching it unfold. Now it’s just dickheads picking on people.
I think it was the popular tabloids that redefined the art of trolling.
I'm not an engineer either, but it's surprising how often i've been put in charge of heavy/dangerous machinery, just by demonstrating an enthusiasm for it.
'Reach out' is actually quite old (AT&T ad from 1984). It's more of an import from the USA.
Antisocial Media. Redefined from what it should have been to what it is now; a wart on the arse of modern humanity.
TBF, it makes them tap if it’s the Four Tops doing it.
That doesn't cut it for me in this thread, you're clearly over-reaching.
Trolling used to be an art form of winding people up on the internet without them being aware that you were doing it. Sort of the internet equivalent of starting a barroom brawl in a western and then just sitting back and watching it unfold. Now it’s just dickheads picking on people.
I miss Davidtaylforth
I can’t believe no one has said “awesome” yet.
i was going to, but had to water the lettuce in the school garden. this is not a euphemism, by the way.
i used to work with a “older” and rather posh gentleman. he was very pleased with himself when he managed to use “awesome” into a conversation. in his previous job he was a jesuit-educated latin teacher. he was a lot of fun.
anyway, awesome: to inspire awe. sounds a bit over the top when used to describe a tick tock account.
I miss Davidtaylforth
He was a great troll in the original internet version of the word. I hope he’s active on another forum or Facebook, Twitter etc. Just winding people up and giggling to himself.
"taking a deep dive"... yeah, hopefully into a 1inch pool of water 🙂
Bespoke.
Bespoke IT Solutions?
Bespoke Plumbing Services?
Trolling of course is actually related to fishing - casting a lure and waiting for bites ie trolling. Its nothing to do with Scandinavian trolls who are nice cuddly creatures and I have a load of them to talk to. None of mine live under bridges anyway. They watch over me.
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Which was very obviously my point. Or are you trolling?
big no, i’m just being silly. no offence intended.
👏👏👏
thank you.
i loved those trolls. my sister had one with glass eyes that we would pop out and play marbles with.
I honestly can’t grasp why “reach out” makes any bodies toes curl.
"any bodies" makes my toes curl.
Wiring a plug? Are you here from the 1980s?
I wired one with my daughter just the other day.
Weird, I normally just use cable.
big no, i’m just being silly. no offence intended.
Sorry my 'are you trolling?' wasn't intended to sound quite as serious as it possibly did - it was supposed to be an acknowledgement that the word has indeed changed its meaning!
I have no idea why TJ believes that it is connected to fishing though. I suspect that he is trolling ....in the post-nordic pre-tabloid sense of the term.
i loved those trolls. my sister had one with glass eyes that we would pop out and play marbles with.
Should've seen that coming really.
Thats the derivation Ernie. Or are you now trolling me in a meta sort of way that has left me confused?
https://www.thomasvan.com/random-philosophy/internet-slang-where-did-the-word-troll-come-from
Thats the derivation Ernie.
Conflicting opinion TJ:
https://www.howtogeek.com/465416/what-is-an-internet-troll-and-how-to-handle-trolls/
Trolls have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed.
'Get in the sea' used to mean 'go for a swim' but now it means 'stop annoying a middle-aged man'.
Are you two both unironically trolling each other over what "trolling" means?
Super instead of very.
(HR) Business Partners - are they director level captains of industry making shrewd decisions or HR advisors?
Uber instead of very!
HR - is that what used to be Personnel? Well, it's People & Culture now.
I can’t believe no one has said “awesome” yet.
I was going to mention this. When I think of awesome I think of the first (and only time) I went skydiving. Just the sheer scale of the Earth slowly rising to meet me was genuinely awe inspiring.
I've truly embraced the new meaning now though. Every time someone says or does something even vaguely positive at work I refer to as awesome. Normally delivered in a completely deadpan tone.
'I fixed that typo in the presentation'
'Awesome.'
I thought this was going to be about Uxbridge English, seems not. But I'll post the link anyway, as it's good fun.
http://www.alspcs.com/main.html
So glad that others are wound up by 'deep dive'. It always means shallow rather than deep these days. Same with 'legendary', always means something you have never heard of before. It's like there was a lazy marketing course 5 years ago and the graduates are now being let free on their own. There will be another batch of phrases coming through in a couple of years to replace them.
Are you two both unironically trolling each other over what “trolling” means?
Surely not....😎
Can we drill down into the whys of our collective irk for these words and phrases?
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
I have no idea why TJ believes that it is connected to fishing though.
Reading his link, someone seams to have confused trolling with trawling, it is unclear if deliberately or not.
Trawling is dragging a net. trolling is dragging a line
Trolling as in fishing is the derivation orgionally - as in " got a bite", "Hooked one" "got one on the line
Its been forgotting tho by many
Anyway - my pet peve is people calling dogs " fur babies"
I used to run a warranty department for a cycle company and would groan every time someone used the words, ‘Well, I’m an engineer…’
For various reasons that are too dull to go into, a couple of blokes on the patient group that I tolerate under sufferance at the GP practice I run have started to fixate about the heath benefits, to an absurdly evangelical degree, of low-carb diets on our practice FB page, I had to have words about it with them, one of them started to defend himself with "Well, I'm an engineer by trade..." It took very nearly all my self restraint to not self harm
Talking of dogs, is there such thing as a mongrel anymore?
This is a conversation we really needed to have...
"Smart" used to mean
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
No that's a grampsillion.
chapeau!
It means hat.
Nothing else, especially not an exclamation of salute.
Tj is absolutely correct, trollimg is dragging a lure behind a boat. Usually at a set depth, for pike mostly.
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
Milliard?
