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| Below the Line with JimNolan: 'I'm here to teach, not to learn' | |
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| Welcome to the fourth edition of our new series, BTL, where we profile particularly delightful, prolific or controversial members of the Guardian comment community. Are you a Guardian commenter? Dare to step forward? Click here. Want to nominate someone? You can do that too – just email me. BTL is evolving. Feel free to give us feedback in the comments. See you next week! | Welcome to the fourth edition of our new series, BTL, where we profile particularly delightful, prolific or controversial members of the Guardian comment community. Are you a Guardian commenter? Dare to step forward? Click here. Want to nominate someone? You can do that too – just email me. BTL is evolving. Feel free to give us feedback in the comments. See you next week! |
| JimNolan – Need to know: | JimNolan – Need to know: |
| Joined: 5 May 2012 Comments to date: 6,216 total Upheld abuse reports: 96 Avatar changes: 0 | Joined: 5 May 2012 Comments to date: 6,216 total Upheld abuse reports: 96 Avatar changes: 0 |
| Tell us about your username. Who is JimNolan? | Tell us about your username. Who is JimNolan? |
| JimNolan is the bloke in my avatar. Still confused? Look here. | JimNolan is the bloke in my avatar. Still confused? Look here. |
| What stories do you comment on most? | What stories do you comment on most? |
| I don't throw stones in the dark; it mainly depends on what sort of comments the story has provoked. I find that the Malthusians are getting my goat lately, the lump-of-labour xenophobes and the world-turned-upside-down crowd (the white people facing racial prejudice, the men who are sexually harassed, etc). | I don't throw stones in the dark; it mainly depends on what sort of comments the story has provoked. I find that the Malthusians are getting my goat lately, the lump-of-labour xenophobes and the world-turned-upside-down crowd (the white people facing racial prejudice, the men who are sexually harassed, etc). |
| What's your definition of the term 'troll'? | What's your definition of the term 'troll'? |
| I understand that it's supposed to mean a person who says outrageous things purely for the sake of provoking outrage, but they've always got an agenda. | I understand that it's supposed to mean a person who says outrageous things purely for the sake of provoking outrage, but they've always got an agenda. |
| Share a comment (either yours or someone else's) that you think is particularly good: | Share a comment (either yours or someone else's) that you think is particularly good: |
| TheManFromNantucket is very good at what he does, but does submitting awesome posts make him an awesome poster? Discuss. | TheManFromNantucket is very good at what he does, but does submitting awesome posts make him an awesome poster? Discuss. |
| What kinds of comments annoy you? | What kinds of comments annoy you? |
| I get irked by people fighting a guerrilla action against an all-powerful political movement called 'the Guardian', and who greet any opinion piece with some variation of, 'so now the Guardianistas are telling us that…' | I get irked by people fighting a guerrilla action against an all-powerful political movement called 'the Guardian', and who greet any opinion piece with some variation of, 'so now the Guardianistas are telling us that…' |
| Tell us a secret: | Tell us a secret: |
| My father voted Tory. | My father voted Tory. |
| Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? | Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? |
| Seumas Milne. But I must also tell you that according to "Mrs Nolan", Hadley Freeman is, in some spiritual sense, my sister-in-law. | Seumas Milne. But I must also tell you that according to "Mrs Nolan", Hadley Freeman is, in some spiritual sense, my sister-in-law. |
| Have you learned anything about yourself (or changed in any particular way) since you started commenting on the Guardian? | Have you learned anything about yourself (or changed in any particular way) since you started commenting on the Guardian? |
| I'm here to teach, not to learn. | I'm here to teach, not to learn. |