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adaptive adroit who's major vice is enjoying the trolling of fussy people.

What you want to believe:
You: cunning logical knots
Me: waaaaahhhh

What actually happens:

You: ill-informed opinion
Me: no that's stupid
You: lol i trol u lolololololol

In other words, you're this guy:

http://lol.i.trollyou.com/

I mean don't get me wrong, if it entertains you to be be ignorant and base your opinions on that, go nuts. Oh! Ans speaking of which:

A measurement that is so awkward that it is now measured by an absurd fraction of the arbitrary length of time based on oscillations of a cesium isotope atom, that fraction measuring the distance light travels in a vacuum over the fraction of a second.

Huh so it turns out you don't know much abut metric, imperial OR metrology. Caesium atom hyperfine transitions and the speed of light are the most accurate ways we can measure time and distance with current technology. Whatever our choice os units, we'd represent them in those terms at our current tech level.

But I guess that ignorance is just trolling, right? Sure thing buddy!

But I answered the question of acres, and it is even yummier than I thought https://www.onthemarket.com/de... It is hectares, followed by acres in paren.

Yummy? You have quite peculiar tastes, I must say. It's kind of cute you think you've found a deep truth. The UK is definitely a split country in this regard. Our transition to metric started more recently than the continent and we have many vestiges remaining, which are unlikely to change soon.

Day to day (and ignoring cases where you're following something old with imperial measurements), people talk about weight of humans in pounds and stone and most other things in metric, except cooking for some older people. Long distances are in miles, height of people in feet and inches and everything else in a bizarre mix. No one uses yards any more. Anything further than about 20 feet is generally metric. Anything below half an inch is in milimeters. No one uses thous which are mils over and anyway milimeters has stolen that name.

People talk about cars in horsepower but no one really has any idea what one is, and power of just about everything else is in Watts. I've seen things with BTU/Hr measurements on them but I've literally never heard anyone use the phrase.

Few younger than my parents generation uses Farenheit. Land area is almost always acres for some reason though few people have any intuitive idea how large an acre is. When it gets really big it's measured in Wales'. No one has any idea how big that is either.

Pressure is all over the place. Blood pressure is still mm/Hg and is unlikely to change. Plenty of doctors still have mercury filled U-tubes. Br is pretty common. I think some people still use lbf/in^2. Weather is usually in mb.

Everything technical is in metric. Construction is in mm. I've not heard even old builders use imperial in years.

Cricket pitches are and always be one chain long. No one seems to care how wide they are but you can be bloody well sure they're a chain long.

We by our beer in pints (568ml, not 473ml). And milk about half the time I gather, though I don't buy milk.

So I troll the lost causes into even more incoherent impotent rage.

Well, you like to think you do at any rate. In reality, you're more like this guy:

http://lol.i.trollyou.com/

ROFL!!!! Are you still taking this seriously?

You are literally the embodiment of http://lol.i.trollyou.com/

Lurching from ill thought out, ill informed opinions to simply flat-out making up lies about someone does not make you great troll, or a master flame-bater. Drop the "flame", and the description fits perfectly, though.

invested interest in the topic.

It's curious that despite your claims of trolling

and rich people who can get a sex change seriously

Civilised countries make sex change availble to all regardless of wealth.

I think someone wrote a web comic about you:

http://lol.i.trollyou.com/

Oh I sere, you're the guy with tears of joy streaming down his face at the end typing "lol i trol u lolololol", right?

http://lol.i.trollyou.com/

LOL I TROLL U

Ah, and now you've taken the really quite obvious bait.

No, you're just backpedalling in the classical Internet style.

Your point, when we boil right down to it, is that in the Western world, anyone can just leave their job at any time if they disagree with what's happening there (or for any reason) and be just fine and dandy.

Actually, I said nothing of the sort. What I said was that your employer does not make you do stuff, nor do you need a job to survive. I made a careful point through a careful choice of vocabulary which certainly does not necessarily lead to an assertion that things are "just fine and dandy" if you leave your job.

Workers should stop regarding themselves as helpless pawns and understand that they have a gamut of choices available to them which, while in some cases leading to short term hardship, may in the long term benefit them and others. Everyone has the choice to discuss with their workmates, to bargain collectively, to whistleblow, to strike, to walk out, etc. The consequences are usually painful and sometimes untenable, but if the number of people who could afford long term to exercise them did exercise them then life would be much easier for the average human.

I'm not expecting everyone to have the courage to do this. Maybe you don't, and I accept that. But you're doing something worse: you are standing up for cowardice by painting a false dichotomy.

As it happens I have an excellent relationship with both of my parents

Your obsessive critique of the stereotypical basement dweller followed by an overcompensating announcement of the "excellent relationship" you have with your parents suggests otherwise.

Anyway, we're all human, love ya really. :-)

Right, you intentionally used an archaic word that nobody uses in that sense and which only definition comes from the Webster of 1913 and that most dictionaries don't even list. Even the Meriam-Webster doesn't list it anymore. Not to mention that the definition you found doesn't make any sense for the word in the sentence you said.

Good trolling, but here's what really happened : http://lol.i.trollyou.com/LOL-I-TROLL-YOU.png

Or to put it into words, you said idiocracy when you meant idiocy because of the movie, I laughed at you, so you went looking for a rare and obscure definition that would make you look less like a moron, you had a good laugh thinking you'd get away with it. Yeah, nice try, honestly, but you're still the moron who confuses such a common word as idiocy with a neologism from a movie.