Political cartoons and memes

[Barbara]

OH ! Thank you, eish. You are helping to survive on social media. The glossary of terms people is mind-boggling for me.

I guess most people today grow up with this, so these words sound normal.
You can be SURE that I'll never use any of these words myself
But just to understand other people's posts, it helps tremendously. Thanks.

I probably have a few more too about which to ask.

To me, a troll is only ONE thing [below].

But when i look up the pics right now, i see all have colored hair ! Goodness !!!



Oh PS, I just remembered that i DID grow up also with Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, in which Peer Gynt gets captured by -- trolls. I guess THAT is the origin of the term ?

"In the Hall of the Mountain King", which is the troll king
Played here by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra [3 min only] :

[eish]

Keep in mind that, historically, a “troll” in Swedish was not a monster but a rural pagan. There's a famous medieval Swedish song Herr Mannelig, or “Sir Manly.” It's about a “trolla,” i.e. pagan woman, who wants Sir Manly the knight to marry her but he rebukes her because he is a Christian and will not simp for a pagan.

So if you look it up in Youtube, you will find various musical groups who perform the song dressed up in generic Hollywood-style “medieval” outfits (i.e. grey and looking nothing like medieval garb). That's where it gets sad but hilarious. Check the comments. They're full of pagan-larpers who don't know what the song means but feel the need to comment about how this is Trve Evropean Cvltvre before the naughty Christians came and ruined it. Retards.

PS: The two terms are unrelated. “Trolling” to get a rise out of someone comes from a type of fishing, not like the monster adapted from Swedish folklore.

A meme for your time.

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