I would say this ‘I know this comic strip is about 40 years old but it sure does read like the DNC and Biden over the past four years.’ and ‘But we got the white house, senate, AND house, so say what you want, loser.’ are covered by the term Troll. Nothing to do with the ’toon or the comments, designed to get a reaction. Which I did not give.
And no, never on AOL – I am a Brit – but I was an admin in Second Life, running a help region for newbies and fighting trolls, abusers and the just plain weird. And the very unplain weird.
Plus economics, packing people in like cattle to wide body subsonic jets was always going to pay better than getting a few rich people cross the Atlantic in half the time. An that was obvious when they were building it.
While I agree, a British conservative Education Secretary once said it was a disgrace that half of British school children were below average in reading. The mean point can be raised to that the average reading age is closer to 18 by good education and high expectations from parents.
In fact, in many British schools, the distribution is a camel’s back shape. Those who are just below the expected standard receive extra attention, shifting the distribution upwards for them. Those poor sods below are abandoned, creating a second, lower peak. In every leadership position I had in education I resisted doing this as much as I could, but such ‘business driven’ models were sponsored from the top.
That, sir, is an insult to pond scum! ;-)