Okay, so maybe I'm an asshole.

[sorcyress]

Look! I'm responding to trolls!

So, this kid on Facebook who I have never heard of and who has utterly no connection to me has sent me a lovely little message:

"whats lesley? lol did u just like make that up? hahaha"

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Unfortunately, it's early in the morning*, where I'm at my least silly and presumably most bitchy. So, I just *had* to write him a reply.

"Wow. I'm being insulted by someone who actually uses the acronym "lol" in a non-jesting manner, and who can't be bothered to do a simple google search in order to answer questions, instead choosing to belittle people they don't even know simply to get their jollies.

I ask this question quite sincirely: Are you drunk? Or do you just have so little web-sense that you don't realize that the best way to answer a generalized question like whether or not a college exists is to do a quick search. In the ten seconds it has taken me to type the word "Lesley" into the google and yahoo search bars, I have found that, in both search browsers, the answer you are looking for is the first thing to pop up.

To answer your question, Lesley University is a smallish teachers college, up in Boston. I am going to be attending it next fall. I'd be quite suprised if it turned out to be "made up" especially as I visited it last October.

Have a nice day!"

Yes yes. I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes it's really hard not to. And come on! he gave me an excuse to try and use all my big words!

~Sor
MOOP!

*Disclaimer: Early in the morning = I only just woke up within the last two hours.

Comments

[ksatyr.livejournal.com]

*is most amused*

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Ah, but imaginary colleges are the most interesting ones! If you made Lesley up, who knows, it might be like going to Unseen or Miskatonic U, or something! (And who knows what your school will turn out to be after that September meet-up. The proximity is too much of a coincidence, you know.)

[thestoryiswrong.livejournal.com]

Lesly is not made up! who would think such a thing?

i kind of almost applied there. The Art Institue of Boston uses Lesley to house their students. The AIB was one of the schools on my list to visit.

but HORRAY FOR YOU BEING IN BOSTON SOON!!!!! we need to visit like woah.

-Mell

[thorog.livejournal.com]

Tch. You can't respond to trolls with reason. You respond with over-the-top comments that have nothing to do with the original post. You have to remember, these people are folk like engineers. Reasoned comments don't work on them. By showing that you're pissed at them, you're feeding them. What you need to do is confuse them. Make them think that there's something there. Even when there isn't.

Dammit, I don't know how to work this weird social network. Why do I even have an account on there? I can't remember.

[harena.livejournal.com]

*confuses the nice orc by patpatting him on the head & feeding him a cookie*

[thorog.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! Cookie!