It’s hard to know how old Internet trolls are. The conventional wisdom is most of them are young, but with unemployment up at ten percent, we can safely assume some trolls, at least, are pushing up into the senior realms.
Well, good news for them because, brainless as their contributions often may be, their brains themselves are being improved by their endless midnight ramblings: “Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.
The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults.”
Well, trolls clearly can’t be classified as people with “little Internet experience,” but just as increased cardio exercise has been shown to be good for brain function, it may be that the more time you spend on the Internet, the sharper you are. Of course, this remains to be researched (could be the reverse or could be the equivalent of too many glasses of red wine). But, for now, good news for trolls indeed!
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13 Comments
1. Gary Ogletree:It’s not yet proven science but there is a brand new theory that reading Roger L. Simon adds 20% or more to your internet IQ. I have been wrong in the past, but that was before I started reading Roger L. Simon.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:10 pm 2. Roger L Simon:Yes, this is true. But I’m afraid to say it may simultaneously subtract from mine.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:11 pm 3. Delia:ROTFL!
Roger, you rawk!
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:21 pm 4. Delia:Who knows? Maybe some of the habitual PJM trolls might even turn Conservative given enough time and gray matter workouts.
How great would that be?!
Dreaming?
Yeah. I’m not buying that either.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:31 pm 5. moderato:An “internet troll” is a “brainless” individual who blogs? Sounds like Delia.
Oct 20, 2009 - 4:51 pm 6. cfbleachers:It’s like a frog in Biology 101. Touching live wires to a neuropathway that has long since died…gives off false positives.
Leftist trolls have very large portions of their brain, yet unused. The neuropathways are fresh and clean…free from clutter and debris…places, you know…where things like original thought, fairness, honor, decency reside.
It’s not an increase in brain activity…it’s the contact for the first time with sentient beings that makes the “dead frog” experiment seem alive.
Life in an echo chamber, chanting “the message” long ago killed off any live brain cells.
Reading “Blacklisting Myself” is the only known cure for reversing brain dead leftism.
Oct 20, 2009 - 5:20 pm 7. cfbleachers:Now why in the world did THAT post get spam filtered????
Oct 20, 2009 - 5:23 pm 8. cfbleachers:Hmmm…ok, never mind. It disappeared for some reason, now it’s back!
Oct 20, 2009 - 5:24 pm 9. Delia:Moderato,
ZOMG! You love me! You realllllllly love me!
lmfao
Oct 20, 2009 - 6:31 pm 10. Delia:6. cfbleachers,
Excellent analysis, CF.
The oddity being, when you have a troll who is a ‘regular’ it gets creepy, stalker weird.
Either these leftist windbags are being paid to troll PJM or they have an innate malfunction that is so desperate for attention that they look to the exact opposite of a place to post their drivel that would ‘normally’ be accepted and ditto-’d.
Either way…creepy.
Oct 20, 2009 - 6:57 pm 11. Delia:Don’t even get me started on “Faulty Towers”…good grief…
I own the collector’s edition.
haha
Oct 20, 2009 - 9:23 pm 12. Dred Scott:Wuh?
Oct 21, 2009 - 4:38 am 13. MDr:ROTFLMAO and spewing thru my nose onto my monitor.
Rather than a tingly feeling up my leg, I got a warm, wet one down my leg (when you’ve lost all control, laughing, urine will do that).
Oct 21, 2009 - 1:45 pm