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<blockquote data-quote="Frood" data-source="post: 736332" data-attributes="member: 37">Thing is.... flaming and trolling are culturally time sensitive. Take for instance the letters written to the British professional journals pre-1776 by both British academics and those backwoods colonial upstarts who if successful had their offspring studying in Europe but they themselves had no such windfall growing up themselves. As you could imagine, the colonials had some degree of position to write but were considered horribly ignorant and stupid by the British academics challenging them in the published journals. Fun and shitshows ensued. Both sides descended into things akin to your momma quips and slights on virility. But it was couched in innuendo and double entendre... in polite swipes which were vicious nevertheless. I like that about humans. As soon as we mastered language, we immediately started finding creative ways to use it to shut down adversaries or to just have fun after eating too many fermented fruits that dropped on the ground.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frood, post: 736332, member: 37"] Thing is.... flaming and trolling are culturally time sensitive. Take for instance the letters written to the British professional journals pre-1776 by both British academics and those backwoods colonial upstarts who if successful had their offspring studying in Europe but they themselves had no such windfall growing up themselves. As you could imagine, the colonials had some degree of position to write but were considered horribly ignorant and stupid by the British academics challenging them in the published journals. Fun and shitshows ensued. Both sides descended into things akin to your momma quips and slights on virility. But it was couched in innuendo and double entendre... in polite swipes which were vicious nevertheless. I like that about humans. As soon as we mastered language, we immediately started finding creative ways to use it to shut down adversaries or to just have fun after eating too many fermented fruits that dropped on the ground. [/QUOTE]

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