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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 12, 2016, 06:25:25 PM

Title: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2016, 06:25:25 PM
You know, instead of all the complaining about Skins's island not being up and running, perhaps we should instead be expressing our heartfelt gratitude to Skins.

Skins's island will be up and running sometime, so that shouldn't be a concern.

Since we're decent and civilized people, and especially with Thanksgiving coming up, it's a good time for all decent and civilized people to say "thank you" to the Founder and Maintainer of Skins's island.

One reason would be that, by the mere existence of Skins's island, primitives are drawn to it like iron fillings to a magnet, collecting them all into one place, making them easier to find.

Another reason is the illumination and entertainment the primitives provide us in an other bleak world (well, it was bleak the past eight years, although morning's coming again); giving us much laughter and chortle.

And now we have this, where Skins's island is down, causing many decent and civilized people much vexation, because we can't jig and jostle and poke and probe and jab the primitives during their hours of wretched misery.

However, there's an upside to that.

As vexed as we are, think of how many orders of magnitude vexed are the primitives themselves, as they've got no place to go to vent their spleen, their hate, their rage, their angry impotence.  I suspect many of them are by now true basket cases; maybe during this interregnum, there's been some spouse beatings, some temper-tantrumming resulting in the breakage of valuable personal possessions, some bodily injuries inflicted, maybe a murder or two, and one hopes at least six or half a dozen suicides.

Without actually seeing it, one knows the primitives are in agony.

That should warm the heart, hearten the soul; they're getting what they deserve, the swine.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: DUmpDiver on November 12, 2016, 06:56:12 PM
I just wish that the hacker had waited until Wednesday morning.  Watching them melt down as the Trump EVs rolled in on Tuesday night would've been PRICELESS.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: DUmpsterDiver on November 12, 2016, 06:56:30 PM
The DUmp has always been miserable, it's just better to see them in misery.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on November 12, 2016, 06:57:42 PM
Not to mention, the year end DUmmy awards are still on schedule!!!  Whether the site re-emerges or not.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: Ptarmigan on November 12, 2016, 07:13:31 PM
Not to mention, the year end DUmmy awards are still on schedule!!!  Whether the site re-emerges or not.

DOTY will be too close to call this year.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on November 12, 2016, 07:42:47 PM
I wonder if it will be back.  This is a very long time, even considering the petulant infants they are.
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: Karin on November 12, 2016, 09:32:55 PM
Frank I just thought that post was artful. 
Title: Re: our gratitude to Skins
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 13, 2016, 04:46:49 AM
I just wish that the hacker had waited until Wednesday morning.  Watching them melt down as the Trump EVs rolled in on Tuesday night would've been PRICELESS.

Look at it from a pragmatic point of view.  Skins has probably been visited by the Secret Service so many times over the past 16 years that the agents' kids know him by first name.  They've probably hinted at various violations of the United States Code that the site has had by its' members, and how Skins would be vulnerable to some sort of complicity charge, in addition to the actual charges themselves.  You don't get through Yale by being stupid.  Skins did what any reasonable and prudent internet host would do, and reduced his liability to said charges by taking the whole thing offline.  He claimed that the site had been hacked, knowing that the herd that posts there would believe him.  He comes out looking like some 'warrior of the Internet,' whatever that is.