UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

Psychedelic perhaps.

Have you been playing with tie-dye?

No, that was Sandra! (Will will understand that.)

Will will?

Don't talk about psychotic elephants!

(You'll remind me of my ex)

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Perhaps it's not the elephant that was the problem, Will.

According to one zoo troll apparently we're infested by sycophants in our group...

Are they like wooly mammoths?"

That's probably one of the guys I fell out with on Amazon, then. They don't like it when authors and readers are nice to each other...

No I don't think so, Will.

That troll has been posting nastiness over there for a couple years.

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "No I don't think so, Will.

That troll has been posting nastiness over there for a couple years."

Imagine, if their life is so empty that trolling is the only way to fill it, it must have been a grim couple of years

Yes. It makes me sad.

It's much more fun to tell a few jokes and have a laugh.

They despise us for enjoying ourselves and for loving books. How sad's that?

It is sad.

They'd be much better off joining us.

I suspect they would see this as 'selling out'.

I don't think they've realised how blurred the line is between author and reader now

No I think it's more fundamental than that, Jim.

I'm afraid it's more a case of 'I'll reject you before I'll allow you to reject me'

If only they realised that we're all a bunch of bonkers rejects. :D

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote:

If only they realised that we're all a bunch of bonkers reject..."

Excuse me? I thought I was normal!

Will wrote: "Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote:

If only they realised that we're all a bunch of bonkers reject..."

Excuse me? I thought I was normal!"

Well that statement just proved my point. ;)

Oh.

I prefer W.

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "No I think it's more fundamental than that, Jim.

I'm afraid it's more a case of 'I'll reject you before I'll allow you to reject me'

If only they realised that we're all a bunch of bonkers reject..."

I first came across Trolls on usenet back in the mid 1990s. Picking up on your comment, which makes a lot of sense when I look back at my own experience, I wonder if the net has merely let emotionally maimed people out to play. The electronic equivilent of 'care in the community' where there is no care and the community is expected to cope with them.
There have been one or two interesting articles in the press recently where people have tracked down their trolls and discovered them to be the most unlikely people

Yay
The Vampire Mechanic has landed!

Cor, that took it's time! Monday, first class I sent it.

Well the pigeon collapsed, knackered, on the step

*Memo to self. Write smaller books...*

Maybe not.

Will wrote: "*Memo to self. Write smaller books...*

Maybe not."

That would really hack them off on .com

I seem to find it easy to annoy people on dot com, just by cracking jokes.

Must be a gift.

Will wrote: "I seem to find it easy to annoy people on dot com, just by cracking jokes.

Must be a gift."

It is a gift I suspect I have, but I felt that I just didn't have time to exercise it

You could get a lead, and ask someone to take it out for you?

Jim wrote: "Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "No I think it's more fundamental than that, Jim.

I'm afraid it's more a case of 'I'll reject you before I'll allow you to reject me'

If only they realised that w..."

Sorry Jim. Been teaching all day so missed this. Probably shouldn't hijack Will's author thread. I do find it a fascinating topic though. :)

Will wrote: "You could get a lead, and ask someone to take it out for you?"

nah, they'd race it and it'd come back knackered

You have to lead into it first...

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: Sorry Jim. Been teaching all day so missed this. Probably shouldn't hijack Will's author thread. I do find it a fascinating topic though. :) ..."

Teaching is my families 'other' profession. My mother, sister and numerous cousins are teachers. So I know where you're coming from with missing things :-)
Well if we don't hijack Wills author thread, he'd only plug his books or something
Move it to my author thread if you like :-)

Doesn't make a difference to me. My stuff is so full of holes that plugging them is a life's work.

Chat on, Patti, it's fine by me.

My father was a teacher. he told me that if i went into teaching, he'd disown me.

Mind you, he'd always wanted to be a librarian.

Sigh.

Wish I was clever enough to be a troll.

*throws random bits of cork at Will*

...bet he accuses me of constipating his creative flow....

Patti, the only time I have a creative flow is when I've been on the curry....

Are you on the merlot too tonight then? Don't yu dare get cork in my glass!

No. I'm on 'wow, this place is empty and I'm waiting to hear from Dave.'

Sad, aren't I?

Could I please have a wee Pinot Grigio?

Or a very large scotch?

*throws damp cotton balls at Will. Giggles at where they stick*

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "No. I'm on 'wow, this place is empty and I'm waiting to hear from Dave.'

Sad, aren't I?

Could I please have a wee Pinot Grigio?

Or a very large scotch?

*throws damp cotton balls at Will. Giggl..."


Amazing how empty a house can get isn't it?
You can sit with us and keep bad company :-)

Patti, you are welcome to some of the teenagers invading my house at the moment.

Five of them have just been failing (badly) to sing 'Sloop John B'. Teenagers. aren't they supposed to be rapping or something?

Good lord
That's the number one song for my little sister (whose oldest child is twenty Something)

Tell your teenagers that and see if they shrivel with embarassment.

My teenagers? MY TEENAGERS????

They aren't mine. Thank Buddah. And in half an hour, I can get rid of them.

Is the Buddah particularly good at removing teenagers? Or does he merely age them more rapidly?
Too much enlightenment probably does that to someone

Teenagers were disaapointing ruly.

They even tidied up all the cans and bottles.

I fear for the younger generation.

What? no mayhem? Police not called?

It's the standard teenage thing, to rebel you've got to do the exact opposite, do the things your parents daren't do.
Tidying up after themselves probably counts, it's reduced at least one parent to shock, what more could they hope for?

I think I should go to the next party myself, to inject some life!

Hooray, as Banned book 4 goes into Beta reading, and i can have a week off!

Or maybe not, actually...

Will wrote: "I think I should go to the next party myself, to inject some life!"

It's certainly guarantee she doesn't speak to you for a while

Good job Will.

Am busy on Book 5 I'm plotting the downfall of the UK Economy. Mwahahahahahahah.

Oh wait, someone else has done it first...

I was just about to say, isn't that a documentary.

You could do one about the irish economy..