Post by: Ptarmigan on June 29, 2015, 10:24:17 PM
If so, I wondered if DU had many young people. Than over time, they got all pushed away by the older DUmmies as we know DU today.
Post by: I_B_Perky on June 29, 2015, 10:56:07 PM
Anyone here seen DU when it first started in 2001?
If so, I wondered if DU had many young people. Than over time, they got all pushed away by the older DUmmies as we know DU today.
I stumbled onto DU back in 2003. First thing I thought was: "My god, these people are insane.... and they vote!"
They did have a higher level of dumbass back then. More entertaining. Not sure about the age ratio.
Post by: Fourwinds on June 29, 2015, 11:14:44 PM
Post by: txradioguy on June 29, 2015, 11:55:16 PM
You know...the base of the Dem party.
Post by: BannedFromDU on June 30, 2015, 12:24:47 AM
Anyone here seen DU when it first started in 2001?
If so, I wondered if DU had many young people. Than over time, they got all pushed away by the older DUmmies as we know DU today.
I caught it right after 9/11. It was pretty middle aged and older then...Bartcop and so forth.
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on June 30, 2015, 02:03:52 AM
I stumbled onto DU back in 2003. First thing I thought was: "My god, these people are insane.... and they vote!"
Precisely my first experience with the (D)Ump. It was mid-2004, I think.
Post by: franksolich on June 30, 2015, 02:04:12 AM
Originally, way back when, it seemed to me the primitives were all kids just out of junior high school, based upon the sentiments they expressed, and their general knowledge of things.
It took a while, but I finally realized.....wow, despite their immaturity, these people were older than I was (am), having reached ostensible adulthood during the 1960s.....which was a very long time ago.
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on June 30, 2015, 09:07:35 AM
I had always assumed these people were in their 20s-30s who were students for a living and was shocked to learn differently.
Post by: Rebel on June 30, 2015, 09:58:48 AM
I stumbled onto DU back in 2003. First thing I thought was: "My god, these people are insane.... and they vote!"
Fast forward 12 years and the thought I get is, "My God, these people are insane.... and they vote!"
Post by: miskie on June 30, 2015, 10:05:17 AM
Anyone here seen DU when it first started in 2001?
If so, I wondered if DU had many young people. Than over time, they got all pushed away by the older DUmmies as we know DU today.
I have -
It was somewhat different then. - but the members were mostly the same types & ages as the people who post now. The only real difference is that conservatives were permitted, - but they were kept in one forum on DU. I don't think that lasted a year. They also fancied themselves as bloggers and journalists. - DU wanted regular writers to pen columns. They had top 10 conservative idiots by Plaid Adder, Ask Auntie Pinko, a movie reviewer and a couple of other regular features. It all collapsed other than Top 10 - which still appears fairly regularly.
Post by: Duke Nukum on June 30, 2015, 12:23:51 PM
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 30, 2015, 07:11:02 PM
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 30, 2015, 07:11:50 PM
I caught it right after 9/11. It was pretty middle aged and older then...Bartcop and so forth.
DU after 9/11. I could never go there that time.
Post by: I_B_Perky on June 30, 2015, 07:16:46 PM
Fast forward 12 years and the thought I get is, "My God, these people are insane.... and they vote!"
They are still insane... except the level of raging insanity was flat out mind numbing back then because Bush was president. The 2004 election was a hoot! Then you had Bouncy Ball in full story telling mode, the Scamdal, the Diebold black box conspiracy, the Sniffa dummie taking a piss off his balcony that (I think) landed on his landlord and relating all the details. Plenty more like that to keep sane people entertained.
Everyday was like Christmas back then. There were several people at work that would go there first thing in the morning for a chuckle. I'd love nothing more than to see say Scott Walker get elected. That would stoke the rage. Dummie heads a-splodin all over the place. Better than anything on TV. :cheersmate:
Post by: miskie on June 30, 2015, 08:38:04 PM
I didn't even know it existed until I found this forum. First time I tried to take a look over there I didn't last a minute. Their format is as insane as their worldview.
The format is old USENET threaded view, I'm not a fan of it, but I have little problem navigating it as I used to taunt primitives before DU existed via USENET under the handle NOSOUP4U.
I have been watching them since the beginning, and they still have yet to ban me.. assuming I have an account to ban at all there is :D
Post by: Mr Mannn on June 30, 2015, 10:17:03 PM
A bunch of atheists were making Christian jokes. So I made an atheist joke and I was banned the very next minute.
This is the terrible joke:
A) Whats the difference between a porcupine and a busload of atheists?
B) The porcupine has the pricks on the outside.
That was it. They screamed bloody murder. DUers can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Then I sound CU and later CC. I founds it was more fun to mole for quotes than to troll. More people can laugh at DU via a good mole than just with links.
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 30, 2015, 10:22:10 PM
They are still insane... except the level of raging insanity was flat out mind numbing back then because Bush was president. The 2004 election was a hoot! Then you had Bouncy Ball in full story telling mode, the Scamdal, the Diebold black box conspiracy, the Sniffa dummie taking a piss off his balcony that (I think) landed on his landlord and relating all the details. Plenty more like that to keep sane people entertained.
Everyday was like Christmas back then. There were several people at work that would go there first thing in the morning for a chuckle. I'd love nothing more than to see say Scott Walker get elected. That would stoke the rage. Dummie heads a-splodin all over the place. Better than anything on TV. :cheersmate:
Going to DU makes me laugh. They are trainwrecks and nobody bothered to clear the wreckage. :lmao:
Post by: Fourwinds on June 30, 2015, 10:35:38 PM
Going to DU makes me laugh. They are trainwrecks and nobody bothered to clear the wreckage. :lmao:
I used to laugh, then these lunatics started succeeding at wrecking the nation. I find little to laugh at these days when it comes to liberals.
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 30, 2015, 10:50:37 PM
I used to laugh, then these lunatics started succeeding at wrecking the nation. I find little to laugh at these days when it comes to liberals.
Seeing them in power is scary.
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on July 01, 2015, 12:31:38 AM
Good times at CU. Still a great place, and have been a moderator there for years now. Great people, here & there still. Have had the pleasure to actually meet a few folks in real life, and am Facebook friends with lots of you now.
Anyway, those are Ralphie's memories. DU can piss off. That site alternatively makes me angry or just laugh. I prefer the latter.
Post by: BannedFromDU on July 01, 2015, 02:56:07 PM
Most of you know this already, but I discovered DU early in 2004 because Rush Limbaugh mentioned it several times. That goofball DUmmy "Supercrash" referenced Conservative Underground, joined there n the memorable class of April 2004. Ptarmigan (I think) Jendf, Hook Em Horns, (RIP to her), and multiple others all got in that around then.
Good times at CU. Still a great place, and have been a moderator there for years now. Great people, here & there still. Have had the pleasure to actually meet a few folks in real life, and am Facebook friends with lots of you now.
Anyway, those are Ralphie's memories. DU can piss off. That site alternatively makes me angry or just laugh. I prefer the latter.
I am super proud to have been BFDU on CU and on CC, and I regret the great divide. Maybe I should mosey over to Cu to see what trouble I can cause.
Post by: txradioguy on July 02, 2015, 05:15:19 AM
C'mon over...my arms are tired from stirring the pot all by myself
I am super proud to have been BFDU on CU and on CC, and I regret the great divide. Maybe I should mosey over to Cu to see what trouble I can cause.
Post by: obumazombie on July 02, 2015, 08:22:30 AM
I was on a site called NetFriction, and was getting tired of beating my head against the granite skulled libs there.
Most of you know this already, but I discovered DU early in 2004 because Rush Limbaugh mentioned it several times. That goofball DUmmy "Supercrash" referenced Conservative Underground, joined there n the memorable class of April 2004. Ptarmigan (I think) Jendf, Hook Em Horns, (RIP to her), and multiple others all got in that around then.
Good times at CU. Still a great place, and have been a moderator there for years now. Great people, here & there still. Have had the pleasure to actually meet a few folks in real life, and am Facebook friends with lots of you now.
Anyway, those are Ralphie's memories. DU can piss off. That site alternatively makes me angry or just laugh. I prefer the latter.
I am taken aback that I missed that.
Or, possibly I heard Rush talk it and it didn't register.