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Iain Hall

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Lookin' good in sunny Queensland, ps: fuck the homos

Iain Hall (or Iain; Hall as he is sometimes known) is a cry baby unemployed Australian blogger known for his try-hard right-wing views, attention seeking trolling, and frequent online stalking of those with whom he disagrees. He is in his early 50's and lives in Mount Mee, Queensland with his wife and two children.

Iain is a rabid devotee of Melbourne's Andrew Bolt, a right-wing newspaper columnist and blogger, who himself is known as the "thinking man's Iain Hall"[2]. Unemployed, and possibly unemployable, Iain Hall spends his days picking internet arguments with other bloggers in a futile attempt to attract visitors to his website.

At the beginning of his blogging career Iain Hall refused to disclose his real name and sex, instead going by the pseudonym of "Niceperson" and pretending to be a woman. This continued until The Editor at GrodsCorp exposed his real name [3] and since then Iain has attacked bloggers who wish to remain anonymous, calling them "cowards."[4]

Iain has gained a large level of noteriety for stalking blogs, Twitter accounts and online photo albums, for attempted blackmailings, making legal threats and spamming blog comment threads all the while denying that he has done anything wrong. Iain is known for lecturing on internet ettiquette which makes his two faced hypocritical behaviour even more amusing.

Iain has created over forty fake blogs to try and personally harm his opponents by calling them "stinking pieces of shit" and "lesbian nazis". He has also been caught out sending out bounties of scotch for the identities of bloggers whose only crime is being more intelligent and articulate than he could ever wish to be.

Iain also enjoys gassing puppies[5].

Contents

His Blog

Iain fails at painting a picture of himself failing.
Iain fails at painting a picture of himself failing.
 
 
"This is a blog, an ongoing opinion piece that documents how I, as its author, think and feel about the events that I see happening in the world."
 

 

—Iain Hall

In reality Iain's blogs are a lame attempt to portray himself as a conservative commentator, when all he does is regurgitate news with a badly spelled, poorly constructed opinions rabidly tapped below. He routinely boasts about the quantity of traffic and the number of visitors to his site, ignoring the fact that most come from trolls, sockpuppets or people who hate him. But bad attention is attention nevertheless and Iain soaks up all he can get.


Literacy

 
 
"My grasp of the English language is probably better than most people."[6]
 

 

—Iain Hall, Meaning to say "... most people's"

Why Iain is really unemployed
Why Iain is really unemployed

Iain Hall's grasp of the English language is tenuous and he is slowly learning that spellcheck features in Microsoft Word and Firefox cannot long strings of random words into functioning clauses. Iain particularly struggles with the spelling of headlines, since Firefox can only spellcheck posts. All up, Iain's spelling and grammar are at grade six level.

One example:

 
 
"To be analogous and equally funny Bolts book would have to be placed in say the Marxism or Nazi section putting it in the “humour” section is by no stretch of the imagination in the same league as the placement of Flannery’s book in mythology/religion section. There is no relationship to a previous classification claim that is hotly denied by Bolt or his supporters, only those who are into cheap name calling and shallow derision would think that by simply claiming that Bolt’s work should be seen as a joke would think that suggesting it is by placing in under that category actually makes it so."[7]


 


 

—Iain Hall, on properly using commas as sentence breaks, ....what

Iain has refused to take direct responsibility for the above quote, instead skirting around the issue and blaming it on the ignorance of youth. He claims to have seen "far worse than this..." and says he has improved[8]. He hasn't[9].

  • Classic examples have included "furfilled"[10], "looser"[11][12], "loosing"[13] and memorably "bloggosphere"[14][15] - a word he wrongly claimed had no set spelling.
Toaf wins.
Toaf wins.

Iain also once famously misspelled the name of a fail troll blog - "Carry On Bloging" - a misdeamour that, to his shame, has not been forgotten.

  • While he has always over-used commas, he has recently taken to using semi-colons in a haphazard fashion, merely dotting them in random fashion over a page with no thought to where they actually belong.[16] [17] [18] This has given him the nickname "Iain; Hall."


Style of arguing

"The thinking man's Iain Hall"
"The thinking man's Iain Hall"

Iain Hall's style of arguing is the stuff of internet myth.

Godwin's Law: Iain will often compare the subject matter to the Nazis, thereby invoking Godwin's Law and automatically losing [19]. Interestingly, of late he has been accusing others of breaking Godwin's Law, despite the fact that he does it daily.

Pro-homosexual/gay: In debates pertaining to sexual orientation, Iain will often refer to the other side, puzzlingly, as "pro-homosexual", thereby clearly labeling himself "anti-homosexual" by default, a charge he intriguingly denies [20].

Parroting Bolt: Watch in awe as he uses Bolt's buzzwords and catchphrases[21], but continues to claim he can think for himself [22].

Comprehension: Hall frequently accuses people of not understanding, or missing, his point. This is fair enough, as his point is usually so convoluted that it's impossible to follow.[23] He will often follow up a post with dozens on "clarification" comments that still fail to make clear what he meant in the first place.

Nothing original: Most of Hall's posts contain a long slab of text lifted from a news site, accompanied with a couple of lines of his poorly-spelled commentary underneath. This allows him to fill his blog without having any original ideas of his own. In fact, Iain is so insecure about his own beliefs that he'll reprint an article and enthusiastically endorse it, even if it goes against something he's said in the past. Favourite sources of political discourse include the Daily Mail and Abby Winters.

Hotlinking: Hall adorns his blog with photographs, cartoons and animated GIFs, of which he is particularly fond.[24] However, these are always hotlinked, exposing Hall as a bandwidth thief of significant proportions. Coming in 2011 - a guestbook. Iain has also recently discovered the YouTube "embed" function, and fills his posts with pointless, unamusing videos.

Never wrong: No matter how wrong he is, Iain cannot and will not admit when he has made a mistake. He will argue himself into a corner rather than admit he was incorrect, nor will he apologise for his mistakes or transgressions. Iain instead resorts to labelling his critics as "bullies". An example of Iain's pigheaded stubborn refusal to admit a mistake was the 'Fine Cotton' affair of 2008:

 
 
"Yeah it’s great… or it would be, if your farmers in the south-east [of Queensland] weren’t diverting and pilfering the water that flows into the Murray-Darling system and using it for high-consumption industries like cotton!"
 

 

—'MarkL'

 
 
"Another fail for you in geography Mark... we do not grow any cotton in the the south east of the state, for that you need to go to the south west."
 

 

—Iain

 
 
http://www.cottoncrc.org.au/files/9694d129-e3c3-4d47-8018-9a4f00ff9809/all_statesCotton%20NRM.gif (produces map of cotton catchments - including three significant areas in south-east Queensland)
 

 

—'MarkL'

 
 
"You know what Mark in a technical sense you are right there is some cotton grown in the south east of Queensland , however what I understand the south east to be is that area of Queensland that is to the east of the great dividing range. Crow as much as you like but you are on your last warning"
 

 

—Iain

Deviant Behaviour

A message from the Australian Federal Government
A message from the Australian Federal Government

Iain Hall first came to prominence under the pseudonym 'niceperson', with which he stalked prominent left-wing idiot Jeremy Sear[25] (who was himself known pseudonymously as "MrLefty"). Hall's blog Boltwatch-Watch started as a counter point to Sear's own BoltWatch [26]. Unable to actually articulate why Sear annoyed him so much, or hold his own in an argument, Boltwatch-watch quickly degenerated into personal attacks...

 
 
"Walter Jeremy Sear is trying again to spin the fact that he has been absolutely named in public he gives the TSSH and Tim Blair a gurnsey for the effort but he churlishly ignores me ;( http://iambeingnice.blogspot.com/ oh well It is just another way that he makes everyone laugh .

In the last few months I have documented his follies in trying to not deny the thruth of his name , his respone at AL ? posts another Kitten picture , Nice that he should have so many pictures of his master .
 


 

—Iain Hall

 
 
"Can i be so bold as to sugest that you include a link to my blog where I have a photo of him that he just tried to claim copyright on !!

And I think you will find that he wont ACTUALLY deny it because that would be a public lie ,oh so naughty for a barrister Herer is my blog address http://iambeingnice.blogspot.com/ and this links direct to the photo http://iambeingnice.blogspot.com/2006/01/who-is-this-young-chap-and-why-does.html The photo is public domain so feel free to repost at the Spin Starts here :o)"
 


 

—Iain Hall

Hall has also tried unsuccessfully to recruit a minor to locate personal information on another blogger named Bruce[27], by trying to get a minor to stalk him. He even went as far as asking her to take pictures of Bruce for his website. Another Hall attempt to locate personal details, this time about 'Bridget Gread', went horribly wrong after he believed his victim to be a Melbourne TV journalist. Hall e-mailed several news outlets and wrote a lengthy attack on this individual, only to withdraw it after 24 hours due to defamation fears.[28]

Iain Hall regularly floods the comments sections on blogs that criticise him.

Twitter stalking

Iain denies having a Twitter account, yet his email account shows up on their database.
Iain denies having a Twitter account, yet his email account shows up on their database.

Desperate for attention, Iain has taken to stalking the locked Twitter accounts of his enemies under the psydenoum PeterSam040. Stupidly, he decided to blog about it[29] and instantly found himself in a dilema.

Instead of taking the honourable way out and admitting he made a mistake, Iain instead denied that he had created a Twitter account and boasted that locked Twitter accounts could be viewed through someone else's stream. This is patent nonesense, and as the screenshot on the right shows, Iain's secret email account for his porn has registered an account.

 
 
You guys just don’t understand the characteristics of the medium that you have all embraced so warmly do the same as I suggested to Dave and you will see precisely what I mean.
 

 

—Iain, deluded as usual[30]

After being relentlessly hammered in the comments, Iain finally backed down and admitted he made a mistake, but only after he received a password reset email (triggered by persons unknown) did he admit any wrongdoing. In typical Iain fashion, though, he edited comments and denied that he ever denied making a Twitter account.

 
 
I want to make a correction here because I was actually wrong in my belief about the way that Twitter operates, and yes I have created an account to follow certain Twits, What I did not realise is that when reading particular streams that my PC was logging me in to the service so I made an incorrect conclusion about the system works. I apologise for making that error.
 

 

—Iain, wrong again[31]

He then went on to blame everyone else for his woes. That's our Iain!

Flickr/Photobucket Stalking

When Iain isn't browsing Twitter looking for cheap takedowns, you can find him browsing Flickr or Photobucket accounts looking for photos of innocent friends to publish as retribution for you being smarter than him[32].

ScotchGate

Let us pause for a moment as a tell you a tale that will form images as clear as photographs in your head...

Iain Hall has long been hounded by expert troll THR who pwned him on a regular basis. This angered Iain, and he offered a bottle of Scotch as bounty for THR's identity.

 
 
"You will be pursued wherever you go using this blogging identity

and when your real identity is discovered, as it will be, you will be named and shamed"
 


 

—Iain

 
 
" ... I offer a bottle of Scotch to anyone who can name the scrote." [33]
 

 

—Iain, more sarcasm

Naturally, when called on this Iain reverted back to his usual excuse and claimed that he was being sarcastic.

Incensed by Iain's lies, someone took up the challenge and Iain was duly duped into sending the scotch to his worst enemy.

Read it all here[34]

Noddy Car

Here comes Noddy
Here comes Noddy

In lieu of any form of gainful employment, Iain instead builds cars with taxpayer's money. His first car, completed in 2008, is widely known across the Internet as the "Noddy Car". Iain documented this build on one of his thousand blogs; he also uploaded videos of the car being built and tested to YouTube [35].

Being safety conscious, Iain placed labels all over his "Noddy Car". One of the more prominent labels is under the stereo and says:

  • EYE PROTECTION MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES[36]

Iain affixed this because he forgot (or couldn't afford) to install a windscreen.

This one would not be necessary had I decided to fit a windscreen. But if you fit a windscreen you also need wipers and a demister, so instead I got out my old motorcycle helmet that has a drop down Visor and treated it to a coat of the same red paint that I used on the nose cone of the car. Mostly I expect to use either Sunglasses or Safety Glasses now If I can just find a hat that will stay on at speed I will be stoked.[37]

One can only imagine how amused other drivers would be at seeing such a sight as they overtake Iain. Luckily for all concerned, Iain finally got his hands on a windscreen sans the wipers and demister.

A further example Iain's love of labels taken from other cars and placed on his own is this:

  • This vehicle is a high performance specialized sports car.[38]

Anyone else would think this was Iain's attempt at humour. However, Iain is deadly serious.

Iain seems unaware that disabling embedding is useless because it can just be reuploaded with hilarious, and fitting, music:

In early 2009 Iain decided that despite his many months ferking about with the "Noddy car", he was going to rebuild it in order to fine-tune his construction methods, adding optional extras like a steering wheel and a gearbox.


Views

Iain is well known for taking whatever fashionable conservative viewpoint that arises, usually without thinking about it. This gets him into trouble when he is forced to defend those views.

Compassion

Hall is notorious for his lack of compassion. When a blogger [39] suffering from depression quit blogging, Iain (using the bloggers illness as ammunition) put on his kind hat and responded:

"Some how (sic) I don't think that you are going to be missed that much at all...but one thing that is certain is that you do seem rather desperate for some afirmation (sic); which is a bit sad.Keep taking the pills and cheer up; life is worth living even for sad lefties like yourself."[40]

In a post titled "Children are our future", Iain gives his opinion on the death of three Aboriginal children killed by a train:

"While I feel the pain of the parents at loosing (sic) their children I wonder how any one could let their children under ten wander the streets with out (sic) supervision. The total cynic in me thinks that this is the way that the gene pool is purged , ..."[41]


Attitude towards women

Even though Iain's wife is the main bread-winner in the family, Iain has nothing but contempt for women:

  • "However if some nutter were to pop the bitch I think that the average intelligences of Australian Journalists would certainly rise by significant amount."[42]
  • "Women who goad, nag and belittle their partners must accept some responsibility for the consequences of their actions."[43]
  • "Do you get it ? You can choose, but choose wisely it is decision that you will have to live with for the rest of your life and those around you who may or may not have a vested interest in your life are not obliged to just meekly approve your actions because you are a woman."[44]
  • "As a younger man I embraced the idea that women would see sex in the same way that we mere males do, a physical pleasure somewhat akin to having a drink. [D]espite being a red blooded bloke who still appreciates the sight of a beautiful woman… [i]t seem to me that more women are waking up to the fact that casual sex for its own sake is not that satisfying."[45]
  • "Natasha Stott Despoya (sic) her hair tied back in a severe style, no doubt to make her look more serious and less blonde, made a big play on the word “desperate”."[46]
  • "Bearing false witness is right up there with Rape [sic] itself and should actually carry an equally harsh penalty"[47]
  • Iain enthusiastically supports "neutering" women who have more than one abortion[48].
  • Iain is a staunch defender of his employment status (or lack thereof). He initially claimed that he was working as a stay-at-home dad, however both his children are now of school age, leaving Iain with ample time to take a real job. Iain now just repeats his work-to-live-not-live-to-work mantra, as he spends hours a day updating his blogs and infesting a dozen others.

Choice Quotes

Please note: The spelling and grammar below is original and completely unedited.

Iain (who is an immigrant and does not work) on asylum seekers:

"If they are seeking to come here for purely economic reasons then by any measure they are not “Refugee’s” nor are the “asylum seekers ” they re illegal; immigrants pure and simple."[49]

Iain wonders if lost shopping might vote Green:

"You never know if we don’t keep a lid on these wayward shopping trolleys they may think they are almost human and try to vote “Green” or they could just get religion and instead of groceries start delivering ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel…"[50]

On homosexuality, and whether he'd become gay if his child did:

"Personally I have a live and let live attitude to anyone who bats for the other team .Not my cup of tea but in a diverse world ect (sic)… but knowing that for many gay women and men a life of distrust and exclusion will be their lot.. Makes me wonder if one of my children were to be gay and it were possible to would I make that change for them ?"[51]

Mrs Hallfire
Mrs Hallfire


On a foster child being taken away from a Christian couple who refused to educate the child about homosexuality:

"Really it seems like the ideologues in power in the UK won’t be happy until “Buggery 101” is a compulsory subject in all of the schools."[52]

On war:

"Regardless of the progress of the war in Iraq I have long thought that for the west there is some value in the focus of the war on terror being over there rather than here"[53]

On why bicycle riders must be run down:

"It is usually when one is acending (sic) the mountian (sic) that they are most annoying , like sheep they are a herd animal ,and you may encounter mobs of them panting as they pedal furiously to try to conquer the force of gravity .Now this is not such a big deal most of the time but fate being what it is the day you get caught behind a herd of them will be the day that you are in a hurry to meet the school bus and on days like that I tend to think that perhaps their numbers should be reduced by some judicious culling."[54]

On Britons drinking UHT milk:

"This is a woeful idea , mainly because UHT milk always tastes so bad. Not it is impossible to drink this stuff bad, but burnt and very processed bad."[55]

On Doctor Who:

"I have been I lifelong fan of the Doctor Who series. In fact one of the anecdotes that I like to tell about my childhood concerns the time, when I was nine, that I had an appendicitis, ."[56]

"UHT milk tastes very burnt bad..."
"UHT milk tastes very burnt bad..."

On "Silicone tits":

"However breast enhancements are very low on my list of worthwhile procedures... My opinion on this issue was made even more certain when I acquired a load of silicone implants courtesy of a retired plastic surgeon.The implants are rather nasty pieces of kit actually, and a lot more fragile than you would expect, why any one would want to pay to have such things implanted ion (sic) their bodies is entirely beyond me, but the (sic) do make excellent ice packs after being chilled in the freezer."[57]

Attempting to quote Sir Winston Churchill:

"Winston Churchill is famously quoted as saying, that those of us who do not study history are doomed to repeat it’s mistakes, is just as true now as it was when he enunciated it during the second world war."[58]

Iain Hall on the McMuffin

"Mark the fact of the matter is that before 1972 no body did think of doing this and it is on a Muffin not a roll :) You elitist lefties now if it had some quaint ethnic origin (focarccia anyone?) you lot would be singing it’s praises, and given the gentleman was an American from California he was of course not eligible for a knighthood."[59]

Iain having a whinge about this page

"Lets be honest here shall we? This article is full of bullshit and lies about Iain Hall... So who is it that gets to judge what it is that constitutes 'vandalism' on this site? And what is the point of allowing anyone to edit this page if they are banned whenever they do so?"[60]

Iain on knowing very well how much:

"We all know very well how much hatred and contempt that the left have for the Jews in general"[61]

Battles with trolls

The "Black Wednesday" Saga

Guess who?
Guess who?

To read the entire "Black Wednesday" saga click here.

On the 29th of August, someone who seemed to be one of Iain's most loyal supporters, Fang, turned against him [62], admitting that he only felt sorry for him. Iain immediately deleted many of the comments from his blog.

 
 
"I gave you the benefit of the doubt for a long while because I felt sorry for you and stuck up for you even when it made me look like an idiot. However, you can’t even use a spell check. Get a job, and stop using my money to fund your noddy car."
 

 

—Fang, turning on Iain


Iain Hall cameos

Iain Hall has starred in two episodes of GrodsCorp's series "Lachlan Connor Independent". An open secret in the blogging community, Iain has apparently only just found out claiming that his name has been taken in vain [63]. That's right, he thinks he's God now.


Iain's blogs

Troll blogs

A rare family photo of Iain
A rare family photo of Iain

Iain has created many, many blogs for the sole purpose of trolling. Here is a selected rundown:

  • Troll tales and true[64] (Dole Tales and Tripe): Iain revealed this blog in October 2007. It contains a copy of everything that has ever been written about him. Iain claims it's proof of a left-wing conspiracy, but the only thing it's really proof of is that Iain is paranoid beyond belief.
  • ScroteWatch[65]: Yet another trolling blog, created not long after claiming that "Now I have a tacit agreement with Jeremy that I will not drag up our battles past (or continue them) and I stick to my agreements, even tacit ones. And as I have said many many times I am rather bored with the subject of Jeremy Sear and Boltwatch."[66].
  • Bridgit Gread[67]: If it wasn't clear that Iain already hated smart women, this blog proves it. Iain attempts what he describes as "cruel satire" by calling Bridgit Gread as a "lesbian nazi", proving that he doesn't know what satire actually is. Iain linked to the page knowing full well that Bridgit didn't write it, and also refused to disclose that fact, instead gloating around the internet boasting that you "can't defame an anonymous person".
When you come in here and you hear me typing or whether you DON'T hear me typing, or whatever the FUCK you hear me doing; when I'm in here, it means that I am working, THAT means don't come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?
When you come in here and you hear me typing or whether you DON'T hear me typing, or whatever the FUCK you hear me doing; when I'm in here, it means that I am working, THAT means don't come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?


Complete list of blogs

Iain Hall is often ridiculed for creating an endless stream of pointless blogs before moving on to "clean the slate". As of September 2009 he has created a total of forty(!) blogs. And they're only the ones we know of!

Currently he only has two blogs open to the public, after he realised that creating multiple attack blogs still didn't make him any friends.


Active blogs:

Iain Hall - His main blog since January 2007.

Iain's Seven - The sad tale of the Noddy Car Iain is building with tax-payers money.


Locked Blogs

Troll Tales & True - a.k.a Tripe Tales/Dole Tales/Tall Tales. Like a psychopath who collects press clippings of his crimes, this is Iain's "narcissistic, paranoid, histrionic and sometimes schizotypal"[68] blog. He continues to update it even though it is locked.

I Am Being nice - The original and the worst. Also the first vehicle for Iain's Sear stalking. Now unlocked for some reason.

Being Nice - The updated and modified version of "I Am Being Nice" that Iain moved to Wordpress.

Scrote Watch - Not content with having four blogs about Jeremy Sear, Iain has started a new one.

Hallwatch - Another fake blog by Iain who distorts the words of Bourbon Boy.

Iain Hall Blog - As opposed to Iain Hall.

Iain Hall Dot Com - He wishes he owned this domain name.

Carry On Bloging (sic) - A blog showing 13 of Iain's 9000 blogs. Some are locked. Some are not. It is a cry for help.

Being Nice - Originally at Blogger, now at Wordpress.

Building Eight Of Nine - Later Marley's Ghost. Was his main site until September 2006.

Boltwatch-Watch - Later renamed The Blowtorch and then Iain Hall, Hetrodox Man. This became his main blog until January 2007. Originally set up to watch BoltWatch. Did a terrible job and he stopped.

Flame War Chronicle - a.k.a Fuckwit Chronicle. A journal of the flamewar with HallWatch blogger Bourbon Boy. Currently locked for the precise fact it made Iain look like a fuckwit.

Flame War Chronicle - The same blog as above, but at Wordpress.

Iain's Seven - The sad tale of the Noddy Car Iain is building with tax-payers money. Moved to Wordpress.

Janine Aussie - Freddy fuck knows why Iain made this one.

Alex Galea - Iain hasn't deleted this blog for some reason.

Catweezle (sic) - Iain sticks it to the lovable TV wizard.

Nice Person 709 - Yes, it's going further downhill.

Nice Person 907 - A play on numbers.

Iain Halls - Play on words of Iain's Balls, we suspect.

The Iain Hall - Die Iain Die is German for The Iain, The.

The True Meaning Of Blogging - Huh?

ScroteWatchWatchWatch - Iain watches himself watching himself stalking.

Jack Diamond - WTF?

Carbon Credits AU - WFT? x2

Mount Mee - No, I'd rather not mount you, Iain.


Deleted Blogs

WJS - Another blog about Sear.

Anonymous Lefie (sic) - You guessed it. Another blog about Sear.

Random Braiinwave (sic) - Iain tries to pwn John Surname and fails.

Ant Rogenious (sic) - Yes, Iain does need help.

Nasty Person - For the love of god.

The Happy Revolutionary - Not Matthew French, as Iain was lead to believe.

I Am Being Nasty - How good of him to admit it.

Hall Iain - For Hebrew readers.

Iain Hall Dot Com - @ Wordpress. And he still doesn't have the domain.

Drum Counsellor - Yet he still kept Alex Galea.

Bridgit Gread @ blogspot Iain's 3rd known attempt at making a fake blog about Bridgit. Was deleted by the Blogger team for a terms of service breach. Later moved to Wordpress.

Bridgit Gread @ wordpress - Iain collated some of Bridgit Gread's posts from Grodscorp and also added his own worrying posts trying to pass them off as Bridgit's work. Deleted by Wordpress because it contravened their terms of service.

Trivia

"An example of the Latte Left."[1]
"An example of the Latte Left."[1]
  • Iain Hall holds a distinguishing record - 90% of visitors to his blog despise him.
  • He calls McDonald's the "Fine Scottish Restaurant". He thinks this is a joke, but no-one is laughing.[69]
  • Uses the term "Latte Left" frequently, as he mistakes it for a valid putdown.[70] Detractors claims he is of the 'Nescafe Right'.[71]
  • He describes himself as an existential atheist, which he surprisingly spells correctly.[72]
  • Once used a picture of a cappuccino to highlight a post about the "Latte Left".[73]
  • Once claimed to have taken part in anti-Vietnam protests when he was in Uni. Except, the Vietnam war ended when he was 9 years old[74]. Has been twice caught lying about his age.
  • Has claimed to have once worked in a fast food shop (probably true as nobody would make that up) [75]
  • Claims to be a "respected conservative commentator", but the only ones who respect him are the most extremist of right wingers. Everyone to the left of Hitler simply think he is mad.
  • Iain likes to ban people from his blog, and frequently erase the past, but he has NEVER ONCE been banned from the blogs of anyone he banned.
  • Iain likes to threaten meaningless lawsuits [76], once even emailing blogger John Surname with the rather startling admission that he wouldn't be using a lawyer, as he would rather service John himself.
  • Whilst many know Hall for his uncompromising approach to internet stalking, few are aware of his achievements. For instance, in 2007, Hall was nominated under several categories for the Australian Weblog Awards. His nominations included, Best Illiterate Blog, Best Try-Hard Blog, Best Comment-Free Blog, Best Performance by an Internet Stalker (twice), Best Dial-up-from-a-Queensland-cow-farm Blog. [77]
  • In 2003 Iain found his first Packard 386 at the tip. It came with a 2.8kps modem, and thus, Iain joined the cyberage at Yahoo Groups[78], spouting surprisingly socialist views.
  • Such is his mythical status on the internet, Hall is the subject of much song and verse.[79][80][81] Like Diana, Princess of Wales, or Marilyn Monroe, Hall has been the recipient of a tribute song by Elton John.[82]

What Others Think About Iain

Iain Hall thinks that his critics are all a cadre of leftists who have joined together to attack him. Granted, some are left-wing, however, there are equally as many, if not more, people from right-wing websites who understand what type of a person Iain Hall is. The Spin Starts Here (TSSH) was a blog that did not take a liking to Jeremy Sear (the person Iain stalks). Many posts there criticised Sear. However, when Iain tried to attack Jeremy at TSSH with his own brand of stalking and harassment, the members of the site told him exactly what they thought.

  • "I think Iain deserves a special prize. To come across as a bigger cunt than lefty in this thread is a spectacular achievement." (johnboy, TSSH)
  • "He's been caught out as a liar, a hypocrite and a stalker and now he's destroying the evidence." (Janine, TWLOTB)
  • "My eyes are bleeding after viewing Iain's blog..." (chunu, TSSH)
  • "What the fuck are you on, Iain?" (puss, TSSH)
  • "YOU, sirrah, are acting like a premier grade cock-biter ... Get off the one-trick pony, quit begging for attention, and chill the fuck out." (TJ, TSSH)
  • "Stalk[ing] and follow[ing] around the net - a pretty accurate description from what I can gather." (Jacki, Tim Blair)
  • "I don't suppose you could learn about fucking punctuation while you're here? Jesus Fucking Christ, how about capitalisation? Grammar? Correct spelling? Does any of this enter your fucking skull, Iain?" (TarredByAssociation, TSSH)
  • "[Not] able to argue honestly and relies on strawmen to give the impression of not admitting defeat. Iain has been caught editing posts to make himself look less foolish." (confudeforeigner, Seeking Utopia)
  • "Iain, you remind me of my neighbour's Jack Russell that will not stop humping my ankle." (Dee Bliss, TSSH)
  • "Iain, your sole purpose here seems to be to say 'ooh! ooh! Look at my blog! I hate Lefty too! Look! At my blog!!' You're harshing my mellow. Fuck off." (Desci, TSSH)
  • "Iain, still blogging about AL and Bolt. If you were a girl, I'm sure you'd get accused of having a thing for Bolt." (Darlene, Darlene Taylor)
  • "Iain Hall is behaving like the one who sucks up constantly to maintain his tenuous position in the group and the one who invariably takes it too far." (Bruce, TSSH)

Iain on Iain

Based on his attempted edits to this page as user "Mars Rover"

  • "Iain Hall's style of arguing should not be underestimated, he is sarcastic, tenacious and persistent but he is also generous and affable to those he debates. He exhibits a marked preference for debating the issues rather than engaging in personal attacks. " (Iain Hall on himself, lying through his teeth)
  • "He updates his blog daily drawing on news sources from around the world, his love of nature and an inquiring mind to write thoughtful, sometimes sarcastic, pieces that reflect his unique worldview." (Iain Hall on himself)
  • "The quote below demonstrates Hall’s .. somewhat wicked sense of humour." (Iain Hall up himself)
  • "Iain responded with his unique brand of insightfulness" (Iain Hall deluding himself)
  • "Iain Hall is so unpopular with the left because he is such a tenacious blogger [83], debater [84], fighter for the truth and justice. [85], thinker[86], human being[87]....the list goes on. He succeeds more often than he fails at almost any endeavour, and yet is too humble enough to admit that made a mistake. Essentially, the site is very expansive including emails and posts from all critics that he could find" (Iain Hall deeply in love with himself)


See Also

The "Black Wednesday" Saga Email transcripts of Iain Hall

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