. . . . poor. . . . .. very p. poor

Must admit, the standard of trolling these days is little short of a scandal.

Back in my day, any Apprentice Troll who could not get at least a dozen decent bites before being challenged was down for a public flogging. [iPour encourager les autres[/i. Hell, to progress just to Journeyman Troll you had to prove you had hidden yourself as a supposed responsible poster for at least six months (only "Punisher/SMFTS/TBATB/work it out for yourself on here" has managed that from most people these days, and even he lets it slip from time to time) and elevation to Master Troll was a real event that warranted a national holiday. I think the entity known as Walter Mitty was the last real Master Troll, although they had most of their fun on Substandard.

But nowdays they are letting any bloody riff-raff loose on the MBs. Talk about dumbing-down? Standards have gone down the toilet. Luke Leaner and Tony Fax and Hobson's Knees must be turning in their graves.

get him round to my house, the wife will get the clippers out and do it for nowt

I'm glad a sensible punishment was handed down. Hair pulling is not to be condonded but the threat of a 4 game ban? That's just crazy.
But there still seems to be the occasional idiot who will contest it and the way they carry on you'd think he pulled Crabtree's head off not just gave a tug on his stupid pony tail

Which is precisely what I said in "invisible ink" just below my post. Which said person actually includes in his quote while calling me the spoon. Irony overload.