mopinko, dear; we have to have a talk.
I promise I’ll be gentle and soothing.
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Earlier this week on Skins’s island, you posted a thread about having to give up a pet dog of yours; apparently the pet’s been very important for you for a long time.
In General Discussion, you posted this:
mopinko (43,540 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2015, 11:15 AM
well, I am giving up the dog after all.
after which the details.
(dear cave dwellers- have a good time w this news, you scum suckers.)
And then a few days later, you cross-posted the same topic in the mental health forum on Skins’s island, commenting this:
mopinko (43,540 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2015, 12:18 PM
i kinda didnt want to post this for my fan club in the cave, but....
Mo, dear, I am shocked beyond words.
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Whatever in the world prompted you to suppose that decent and civilized people would stoop to making light of, making a mockery of, what was obviously a heartbreaking thing for you?
We all love pets, just as much if not more so than, the primitives on Skins’s island. And probably all of us have lost a cherished pet at least once in our lives, so we understand.
This tragedy for you is not anything the DUmpster would make merry of.
There’s a problem in your perception of us, Mo, dear, and it’d be good if you corrected it.
Decent and civilized people use the gift of judgement that God gives us all, to differentiate between what’s really important, and what’s laughable.
I’m sure that if you checked the archives of the DUmpster, you’d see that the topics have always been restricted to what’s laughable, what’s silly, what’s trite, what’s stupid, what’s downright evil.
I doubt you’ll find a single thread where something that was truly important, was mocked here.
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The DUmpster’s always been very sensitive to primitives whenever they’ve shown the human, and not the primitive, side, of their natures.
The problem is, primitives show the human side of themselves so rarely that side of them’s almost imperceptible. Usually it’s all just anger, greed, sloth, arrogance, hate, envy, and gluttony.
But those once-in-a-blue-moon times when a primitive describes something that reveals his humanity, the topic’s not for bringing over to the DUmpster for mockery and ridicule.
There’s lots and lots of examples of such caring, considerate, sensitive omissions—where a primitive thread was deemed too serious to be mockable, and wasn’t brought to the DUmpster.
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I cite for you the example of your good friend Skippy, the NYC_SKP primitive, who a few years ago wrote a tear-jerking account of his meeting his ancient father for the first time in his life.
It was a great story, a wonderful story, an uplifting story.
And obviously not being anything mockable, it never appeared in the pages of the DUmpster.
I also cite for you the example of the now-returned hippywife primitive, Mrs. Alfred Packer, who a few years before Skippy’s story, described the death of her mother.
Wet grew the eyes, damp got the handkerchief, and sniffled the nose, as one read what she wrote; it was a literary piece comparable to Charles Dickens’ the death of Little Nell or Harriet Beecher Stowe’s the death of Little Eva.
It was awesome, and not being anything mock-worthy, it never came over to the DUmpster.
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You really need to use your judgement, Mo, dear, and I’m confident you’ll see that the DUmpster laughs at only the trite, the silly, the stupid, the downright evil, that emanates from Skins’s island, never those things that betray the human side of the primitives.