Trolling is fun

Sometimes its obvious when people are trolling. For example, when this dude made a mask of himself not wearing a mask properly, he was obviously doing it to deviously troll people.

Mask troll.

Other times, though, trolling can be more subtle and not so obvious. For me, the perfect troll is when you are left wondering, are they actually trolling or are they genuinely that stupid?

So this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog puts trolling under the microscope. Have a read of the following examples and see if you can decide whether it's a troll cleverly winding people up, or whether they genuinely are that stupid...

1) Flying Carp

Wow! What a rare sight! A bird hitching a ride on a flying carp!

"You can clearly see the bird riding on his back mid-air."

"Wow, I cannot believe you think the fish (who are known for swimming under water) is giving a piggy back ride to the bird (who are known for flying)! I am sad for humanity."

Trolling or stupid?

Cool words from around the world (part 2)

It's been several years since I last featured cool words from around the world on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, but finally the wait is over! That's a long-winded and overly dramatic way of saying that this week's blog post is once again on the theme of cool words from around the world.

Mmm, strawberries.

1) Earth berries

In Norwegian, strawberries are known as 'jordebær' which literally translates as 'earth berry'. Although it's a cool name for strawberries, it's also a weird name, because unlike root crops like carrots, beetroot, turnip, etc, strawberries don't actually grow directly in the ground.

That said, strawberries have no connection to straw, so I suppose the English word is just as weird!

Random movie silliness!

It's the Oscars this weekend, an annual celebration where the phonies of Hollywood come together to pat themselves on the back for all their services towards hypocrisy and dishonesty.

If the smug arrogance of the Oscars leaves you feeling nauseated, then as a movie related alternative, this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog features random movie silliness!

1) This is how Mr Miagi eats his Babybel cheese.

"Wax on. Wax off."

"Either you eat Babybel "yes" or eat Babybel "no". You eat Babybel "guess so", get squished just like grape.”

They did the math(s)

This week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at a few examples of 'they did the maths'.*

* Or 'they did the math' for the benefit of American readers.

However, unlike the legacy media who like to tell their readers what to think, I prefer to make my readers think. So, as I often like to do, I've turned it into a true or false quiz! After all, just because 'they did the maths', that doesn't necessarily mean that they did the maths correctly.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
...which is good news for this proboscis monkey!

So take a look at the following examples and try to decide whether the math(s) backs up the claims, or whether the statements are inaccurate.

1) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

If 99% of people find you unattractive, then there are still approximately 80 million people on Earth who find you attractive!

True or false?