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I have discovered that I am the ultimate troll.
Last night, a bunch of idiot kids decided to keep phoning the office to prank call us, giving us such delightful and well-thought out witticisms as "you're a nigger," "You're all sluts" and "I'm going to stab you." Well, while my colleagues kept having to hang up on them, I can now claim to be so annoying, that prank callers hang up on me. Taking charge of the conversation, after I noted I was impressed they took the cock out of their mouths long enough to keep calling and applauded their ability to say a word with three syllables in it, I asked what they thought of the American recession and then refused to talk to them about anything other than the Democratic presidential candidates, forcing them to choose between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Eventually they chose Hilary and when I asked why they liked her policies all they could struggle to say was "It is nice." As I continued talking about American politics they eventually lost their temper and started demanding I shut up so they could call me gay, and got so angry they hung up. I am quite proud of myself. Of course, as luck would have it, they got through to me a second time so I said "I'm afraid you're through to me, the one you had to hang up on. So, let's kick off where we left off -- 70's prog rock, who's your favorite?" I can confirm I have never said "What's your favorite Jethro Tull album?" so many times and in such quick succession to any other stranger on the phone. They hung up again. I am the anti-prankster. Bow before me.
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Jim, you are a true pro. (and a troll and you have wrong opinions etc.)
C HOW I USED NEECHEE TO POINT OUT THAT YOU ARE A TROLL LIKE YOU SAID YOU ARE.
LOL PHILOSOPHY!
Well played sir, well played. The prog rock was an especially nice touch :D
In Junior High I fought of some bored, wanna-be Nazi with hugs and the Hammer dance. The couldn't attack what they could understand.
I had big hair back then.
I've a bit of experience from the other end, call up the lesser internets and the person who wrote the shite ends up a stammering idiot who hangs up.
Also, Jethro Tull!
Jim FTW :-)
I am the winged scourge that pecks at your nightmares,
I am JIM STERLING!
...He'll get dangerous. Watch out!
i had a similar incident only ended up in me forming a posse and actually threatening to lynch the kids... i got together with some friends and i ended up getting calls back from kids crying. All we did was hang around and have a few drinks.... just the thought of a posse after them..... scary.
but you sir, a one man army!
WIN! ;OD
The heaviest burdens of racism in the country have fallen upon Native Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans and some other immigrant groups and their descendants. Racist attitudes, or prejudice, are still held by moderate portions of the U.S population. Members of every American ethnic group have perceived racism in their dealings with other groups."
Contemporary issues
Black-White segregation is declining fairly consistently for most metropolitan areas and cities. Despite these pervasive patterns, many changes for individual areas are small. Thirty years after the civil rights era, the United States remains a residentially segregated society in which Blacks and Whites inhabit different neighborhoods of vastly different quality.
Some researchers suggest that racial segregation may lead to disparities in health and mortality. Thomas LaVeis (1989; 1993) tested the hypothesis that segregation would aid in explaining race differences in infant mortality rates across cities. Analyzing 176 large and midsized cities, LaVeist found support for the hypothesis. Since LaVeist's studies, segregation has received increased attention as a determinant of race disparities in mortality. Studies have shown that mortality rates for male and female African Americans are lower in areas with lower levels of residential segregation. Mortality for male and female Whites was not associated in either direction with residential segregation.
Researchers Sharon A. Jackson, Roger T. Anderson, Norman J. Johnson and Paul D. Sorlie found that, after adjustment for family income, mortality risk increased with increasing minority residential segregation among Blacks aged 25 to 44 years and non-Blacks aged 45 to 64 years. In most age/race/gender groups, the highest and lowest mortality risks occurred in the highest and lowest categories of residential segregation, respectively. These results suggest that minority residential segregation may influence mortality risk and underscore the traditional emphasis on the social underpinnings of disease and death. Rates of heart disease among African Americans are associated with the segregation patterns in the neighborhoods where they live (Fang et al. 1998). Stephanie A. Bond Huie writes that neighborhoods affect health and mortality outcomes primarily in an indirect fashion through environmental factors such as smoking, diet, exercise, stress, and access to health insurance and medical providers. Moreover, segregation strongly influences premature mortality in the US.
Just tell them that^ the next time they call.
JIMPRESSIVE
/fixed
lol @ Wardrox too.
2) Open mouth; ready for disk insertion
3) ????
4) Profit!!
I hate prank calls unless they're to gamestop :P
They hang up oh so quickly.
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
No.
*continues blowing*
Also fuck you Jim Stirling, I will tell you a tale of such utter personal stupidity that you will have no choice but to laugh at me. I spent no less than 30 minutes in a book store today trying to find a book by that author Jim Stirling because he co-authored a book with one of my favorite authors Bill Gibson. And I heard he was another founder of cyber-punk.
After this time was up I realized that Jim Stirling was in fact none other than yours truly and was probably pushing kids down and playgrounds when cyber-punk was being dreamed up. So screw you for taking advantage of my inferior memory to insert yourself like so many lolcats and banana-phones.
Also it is another stirling, but I couldn't figure out who so I gave up and went home =(
+1,000,000 (thats over 9000!)
Sitting on the park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent