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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on August 19, 2018, 08:47:28 AM

Title: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Mr Mannn on August 19, 2018, 08:47:28 AM
We here at the cave love to post silly DUmmy quotes. That cannot do the same to us because we don't say the stupid sh!t that they do. This is as close as Shoe can get.

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TheShoe (7,667 posts)

Wow, cave dwelling primitives
Hide in their cave and make fun of others. That is what primitives do.

https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=118713.0
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Da Mannn (20,662 posts)
2. Ah yes. I just LOVE DUmmy posts like that!

That's why we post your quotes...because you amuse us so!
Your stupid conspiracies make us laugh. You tears taste so sweet.

unrepentant Caver here!
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TheShoe (7,667 posts)
3. Primitives are scared folks

Hang in a cave safely protected from others. Scared, emotional folks actually.
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Da Mannn (20,662 posts)
7. Most of us post here as well.

We're not cowering or afraid. I'm not afraid of talking to a DUmmy like you.
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TheShoe (7,671 posts)
11. When you act like a cave dweller here, you risk getting called out

Hang in your safe place cave, you can really let out your feelings.

Hmmm...better there than on the street I guess.


Hey guys, how about dusting off the old DI access and saying, "Hi!"

Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: TheShoe on August 19, 2018, 09:12:43 AM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: freedumb2003b on August 19, 2018, 09:18:28 AM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.

Welcome.

Please remember we have some decorum here and do not suffer fools lightly.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: TheShoe on August 19, 2018, 09:20:52 AM
No worries, I know this is not my home turf and will behave accordingly.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 19, 2018, 09:26:19 AM
No worries, I know this is not my home turf and will behave accordingly.

Read my latest response at DU jr.  Think you simply don't know why we occasionally ridicule the left.  It is not an obsession.  Just fun.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Happy Fun Ball on August 19, 2018, 09:42:51 AM
And as for "hiding in their cave", well we can't very well go over to DU and have any kind of debate or discussion. Anyone who is even remotely conservative gets alerted by a bunch of pod people, banned, and their posts erased like the deplorable unpersons they think we are.

Exhibit A (https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=19685)
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 19, 2018, 09:45:20 AM
Cowering?  It's DU that tombstones members for ideological impurity, here you have to actually act like a dick to get banned.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Mr Mannn on August 19, 2018, 10:08:29 AM
Shoe you came here. That is farther than most of your brethren. welcome.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: TheShoe on August 19, 2018, 10:12:19 AM
I try to practice what I preach. Never a back bencher.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Mary Ann on August 19, 2018, 10:55:49 AM
Hi Shoe. What do you want to talk about?
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Mr Mannn on August 19, 2018, 11:16:53 AM
If I am reading Shoe right, he/she/whatever doesn't understand that we laugh at DUmmies.
Shoe thinks we are enraged by Lefty posts.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Old n Grumpy on August 19, 2018, 11:28:16 AM
No worries, I know this is not my home turf and will behave accordingly.

This is not an echo chamber like the dump, we are more open minded than you think.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: TheShoe on August 19, 2018, 11:29:11 AM
Hi Shoe. What do you want to talk about?

How the packers will finish in third this year....

Wishful thinking, eh?

See you in the politics forum.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on August 19, 2018, 11:34:21 AM
How the packers will finish in third this year....

Wishful thinking, eh?


See you in the politics forum.

It could be worse . . . You could be a Jets' fan . . . :runaway:
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Mary Ann on August 19, 2018, 11:58:25 AM
How the packers will finish in third this year....

Wishful thinking, eh?

See you in the politics forum.
We always have high hopes. Last season would have been much better, if not what that a-hole on the Vikes did to Rodgers so early in the season.

I will be at the Packers/Vikings game in September.

Go Pack!
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Maverick1987 on August 19, 2018, 12:01:31 PM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.

Sez the guy who throws stones from afar.

I think you're here to disrupt, but hope* you prove me wrong.

*not really, but kind of...just a little bit
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Old n Grumpy on August 19, 2018, 12:05:02 PM
Sez the guy who throws stones from afar.

I think you're here to disrupt, but hope* you prove me wrong.

*not really, but kind of...just a little bit

Give him a chance, before we flog him with reality! :-) :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Maverick1987 on August 19, 2018, 12:21:14 PM
Give him a chance, before we flog him with reality! :-) :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

I read his nonsense every day on DI.  There's no attempt at reasonable discourse there, so I don't see why we should believe he's going to do so here. 
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: bluetoo on August 19, 2018, 02:02:25 PM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.

Don't most of the posters from the CC post at DI? I see several familiar names. They don't seem to be hiding out here if they post there. 

DU SHOULD be mocked. It isn't healthy to have a board such as that, thinking that is the normal way of  thinking. Since conservatives/republicans are immediately banned from there, it is only natural that they respond in other ways.

This board acts as a service to counteract that line of thinking.

DU isn't unique in its mindset. They may be a little more extreme and unhinged, but you gotta know the enemy, so to speak.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 19, 2018, 02:22:45 PM
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Thank you.

Once in a while we receive a complaint from a primitive about being quoted here.

If a primitive doesn't want to be in the DUmpster, well then, there's an easy solution.

Don't say anything stupid, and one won't get featured in here.

It's as simple as that.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: zeitgeist on August 19, 2018, 04:02:09 PM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.

Welcome to the Jungle.  You will find spirited conversation.  And yes, we do laugh at the antics of some liberals who want to believe they have free discussions where only 'one' side of a conversation is allowed.  Feel free to post whatever you like but be prepared to be challenged.  Support your opinion with facts and your facts with sources that are recognized beyond the echo chamber.  Remember. if everyone thinks alike, some are just not thinking. :whistling:
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 19, 2018, 04:39:07 PM
Don't most of the posters from the CC post at DI? I see several familiar names. They don't seem to be hiding out here if they post there. 

DU SHOULD be mocked. It isn't healthy to have a board such as that, thinking that is the normal way of  thinking. Since conservatives/republicans are immediately banned from there, it is only natural that they respond in other ways.

This board acts as a service to counteract that line of thinking.

DU isn't unique in its mindset. They may be a little more extreme and unhinged, but you gotta know the enemy, so to speak.

Some of us certainly do use the same or similar screen names at both.  Nothing to hide if DI folks try to follow my posts here or at Conservative Underground.  My opinions don't change.

At least at DU jr., we don't have to be afraid of an instant ban hammer for being conservative.  Unlike the hive that is DU.

Welcome to the site, we have fun here.  That's what its all about. :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Karin on August 19, 2018, 06:45:36 PM
We don't cower here.  We're all over the internet.  It's the DUmmies who cower, can only go there, at DU, where anyone who has an opinion that goes against the grain is banned immediately because they just can't take it.

Example:  A gay guy at DU was wondering why a group who wanted to kill him (Muslims), was venerated and protected.  He was promptly tombstoned. 

Welcome, and enjoy the discussion. 

Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Movie buff- The Sequel on August 19, 2018, 07:25:19 PM
Welcome, Shoe!
As others have said, the DUmmies are he ones who have a hive mentality and cower on their forum to avoid confronting those who disagree with them. Any expression of conservative sentiment on any issue gets a person banned there. Here, you have to be a SERIOUS d- bag to get banned (i.e. The faux- Muslim troll turd last year).
If you can be civil to us here and at least respect/ tolerate our beliefs if not share them, there'll always be a place for you here.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: fatboy on August 19, 2018, 08:35:54 PM
Don't most of the posters from the CC post at DI? I see several familiar names. They don't seem to be hiding out here if they post there. ……….

I don't post at DI but maintain a bogus account with a fairly high post count at zee DUmp. Reasoning with the primitives is a fools errand but once in a while one of my posts turns out the be a thread ender. :-)
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: I_B_Perky on August 19, 2018, 09:39:44 PM
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TheShoe (7,667 posts)

Wow, cave dwelling primitives
Hide in their cave and make fun of others. That is what primitives do.

https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=118713.0

Wanna know why we call you primitives? 

I don't post at DI but maintain a bogus account with a fairly high post count at zee DUmp. Reasoning with the primitives is a fools errand but once in a while one of my posts turns out the be a thread ender. :-)

That is why. We can actually act like you dummies... savages... and blend in. In the 9 years I have been here the reverse has never happened.  We have had a few like yourself, never stay long because... well because your type cannot handle being challenged, logically, in your worldview.  Last one was buzzclick.  He chided everyone here one day about not caring for some poor pitiful DU fool who had fallen on hard times... that is until someone asked him why HE had not donated HIS money.

Last we saw of him.

You are welcome here and you will be challenged in your worldview.  You will also find that we are not the ogres you think we are. We can actually agree to disagree.  We are decent and civilized folk from across this great nation that gather together to point and laugh at the morons that inhabit the dump. In the 15 yrs I have been watching the dump I have come to one inescapable conclusion:  They are all bat shit barking moonbat crazy... and the laziest, greediest folks that inhabit the earth. The sane and semi sane ones leave or get banned over some dumb shit.  The greedy try to scam the mentally challenged out of their money. The mentally challenged hoot and holler about whatever the DNC tells them to while the real nuts used to hang out in the mental health forum in between stays in the funny farm.   Believe me, don't believe me... I speak the truth.

Having said all that, my question is thus:  Are you one of the sane ones? If so, watch your ass over there.  The DU Borg will assimilate you or kick you out. If not, you will fit right in over there. If you are greedy, you might make some coin over there with some sob stories as long as you don't stray to far from the collective.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 19, 2018, 10:03:00 PM
My question is thus:  Are you one of the sane ones? If so, watch your ass over there.  The DU Borg will assimilate you or kick you out. If not, you will fit right in over there.

I guess I'd consider the footwear primitive a sane one, although his posting betrays that he allows someone to bully him in real life; it could be his wife, his girlfriend, a sibling, a parent, a teacher, a boss, a co-worker.  It's obvious he's pushed around a lot.

Which is too bad, because the footwear primitive is the second-smartest of the lorgnette-and pearls crowd over there, the primitives who snobbishly and disdainfully look down upon, and sneer at, we simple folk.

I suspect the rampart primitive, the boss of the atheists over there, is the most intelligent, followed by the bullied one, and the third one, in a nerdish way, is Welles, the orson primitive.  After that, it's a long long long drop down, nearly into negative IQ territory, for the rest of them.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: I_B_Perky on August 19, 2018, 10:09:50 PM
I guess I'd consider the footwear primitive a sane one, although his posting betrays that he allows someone to bully him in real life; it could be his wife, his girlfriend, a sibling, a parent, a teacher, a boss, a co-worker.  It's obvious he's pushed around a lot.

Which is too bad, because the footwear primitive is the second-smartest of the lorgnette-and pearls crowd over there, the primitives who snobbishly and disdainfully look down upon, and sneer at, we simple folk.

I suspect the rampart primitive, the boss of the atheists over there, is the most intelligent, followed by the bullied one, and the third one, in a nerdish way, is Welles, the orson primitive.  After that, it's a long long long drop down to the rest of them.

I would submit to you Coach that sanity and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand.   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 19, 2018, 10:34:08 PM
I would submit to you Coach that sanity and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand.   :cheersmate:

No, they don't necessarily go together, sanity and intelligence, any more than intelligence is a sign of moral superiority, as many primitives seem to believe.

I think the footwear guy has a grip on reality, although his judgement is clouded by his snobbish disdain for decent and civilized people.

And of course the four-eyes Welles primitive, who as a kid had playing cards clothes-pinned to the spokes of his bicycle and tassels flowing from the handlebars, and who in high school wore a calculator strapped to his belt and could use a slide-rule--and wore white shirts with ink-stained pocket protectors.  He's also nearly a life-long subscriber to Popular Mechanics and Popular Science* since he was an adolescent.  Probably built his first computer with odds-and-ends from Radio Shack.....ten years before anybody else had a personal computer.

*Nothing against, or sarcastic about, the two aforementioned magazines.  As a one-time collector of ancient magazines, I found Popular Mechanics, especially those from 1939 and earlier to be well worth one's while reading from front cover to back cover.....and even those 1940 or later were good reading, just not quite as interesting.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: USA4ME on August 19, 2018, 10:55:48 PM
Though I don't care to revisit all the discussion surrounding how DUers obtained the name "primitives", it was a complicated and in-depth analysis of the works of Margaret Mead (specifically "Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)" and "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)"), and drawing the various parallels and comparisons between the primitive cultures of the South Pacific and the modern-day American political left (and DU more directly), that lead to DUers being properly called primitives.

The things we discussed were way to deep for modern-day liberals to even begin to comprehend, so to even try and recreate our conversations for them would be a waste of time since they couldn't understand it anyway. Besides, it was for our benefit, not theirs, and we all gleaned the knowledge gained and have moved on. When our CC site had difficulties a year or so ago, those threads were lost to history, but the accurate description of liberals as primitives remains.

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Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 19, 2018, 11:23:40 PM
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It was in 2006, autumn I think, that I invented the term.  Most of us here were at the time members of our old home, conservativeunderground, which used to give Skins's island the collywobbles.  At the time, the popular slang name was either "DUmmie," which I thought unflattering, or "DUer," which I thought looked silly; the word looks like an elephant with a limp trunk.

One Sunday afternoon--I recall very well it was a Sunday afternoon--I came across a thread in which DUmmies or DUers were discussing the impeachment of then-vice-president Richard Cheney.  I wish I could remember who all was there--there were about eight or ten of them--but the only one I remember in particular was Raven, the Bostonian Drunkard's mother.

I grew up without television, and early on when learning to read, I "saw" not only words, but also images, as I read.

In this case, it was as if I were an explorer in a dense dark jungle who suddenly stumbled upon a bunch of sinister-looking people sitting cross-legged around a campfire, in a clearing.  They looked as one would imagine them to look, with tattoos, body mutilations, piercings, excessive cosmetictry, women with really big thighs wearing shorts a few sizes too small to accommodate their expansive backsides, pot-bellied guys either thin-haired or already bald, big holes in their earlobes, an other-worldly stare in their eyes.  And since this was Skins's island, these were 97.8% white folk.

They were passing around voodoo dolls [the comments they were making] to each other for grunting-and-gooing examination and approval.  Once in a while one of them, when looking at a really impressive voodoo doll, jumped up onto his feet, wiggle-waggled his armpits at the others, and ran around in a circle a few times.

So help me God, that is the exact and vivid image that popped into my head when reading the thread.

Later on, I began reading books by the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead, and discerned that not only did these people look like primitives, but also like primitives, they had their own special customs, taboos, hierarchy, fetishes, practices, dances and sports, and adoration of false gods.

I wrote a lot about the anthropological aspects of Skins's island, but as our good friend USA4ME has pointed out, much of that illumation evaporated during a couple of crashes of conservativecave, and I never bothered to rewrite it because there was too much to rewrite.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: jb2u11 on August 20, 2018, 01:33:32 PM
You all are welcome. Let's engage.  Maybe we can learn from each other instead of throwing stones from afar.

Welcome Shoe, I hope you stick around.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: Wineslob on August 20, 2018, 02:11:33 PM
Thank you.

Once in a while we receive a complaint from a primitive about being quoted here.

If a primitive doesn't want to be in the DUmpster, well then, there's an easy solution.

Don't say anything stupid, and one won't get featured in here.

It's as simple as that.
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You ask much.


 :-)
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: DLR Pyro on August 20, 2018, 02:31:47 PM
If I am reading Shoe right, he/she/whatever doesn't understand that we laugh at DUmmies.
Shoe thinks we are enraged by Lefty posts.

enraged?  No.

Amused?  absolutely
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: txradioguy on August 20, 2018, 04:43:32 PM
Shoe you came here. That is farther than most of your brethren. welcome.

Yeah I saw his post over at DU, jr and invited him to come over.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on August 20, 2018, 07:03:19 PM
Yeah I saw his post over at DU, jr and invited him to come over.That's
So it's safe to consider you his sponsor?
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: txradioguy on August 21, 2018, 05:41:32 AM
So it's safe to consider you his sponsor?

Yeah. If he implodes it’s on me. I’ll grab the mop and clean up the mess.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 21, 2018, 05:54:40 AM
Yeah. If he implodes it’s on me. I’ll grab the mop and clean up the mess.

Oh, I'm pretty confident the footwear guy won't blow up.

He's from the elite of Colorado; he's known to have a Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2, which ain't no Ford Pinto.

He came over here out of curiosity--for which he needs lauded; curiosity is good--but he's gonna get bored pretty soon, and just walk away without saying anything.

That's the way people from the upper classes of Colorado treat Nebraska, so it's all very predictable.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: freedumb2003b on August 21, 2018, 07:27:25 AM
How the packers will finish in third this year....

Wishful thinking, eh?

See you in the politics forum.

If you want a political discussion that we can keep civil, we can start with I am one of the new never-NFL'ers after their craven disrespect of my flag and through that, me.

I have been a HUGE fan of the NFL since 1969.  Being from Los Angeles until a few years ago, I didn't even have a favorite team. 

I used to look forward to NFL season (even "preseason" [aka "exhibition season"]).  The saddest day of the year was Super Bowl Sunday since it meant the end of NFL for 7 months.

You have never spoken to a bigger fan of the NFL, I 100% assure you.

Then, the overpaid, selfish, spoiled brats decided they are SJWs.  And decided to use their employer's time and money -- AND MINE -- to protest imagined "injustices" and to insult their fan base.

Well, I had no choice but to say goodbye.  Even now, that decision is physically painful.  It is like finding the woman you deeply love is cheating on you and has no intention of stopping.

When I see coverage in restaurants and bars it hurts like seeing that woman on the arm of someone else.

So what say you, Sr. Zapato?
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: wasp69 on August 21, 2018, 07:59:03 AM
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TheShoe (7,667 posts)

Wow, cave dwelling primitives
Hide in their cave and make fun of others. That is what primitives do.

Hello, Shoe.  If the time comes where you question the purpose of DUmmie watching, allow me to share with you some insight as to one of the reasons why The DUmpster exists:

Listen up, DUmmies, I'm going to give you some wisdom:  ...The good moles, the really good ones, don't continuously provoke or stray too far from the hive mind.  The really good moles know how to move among you, stir you up, and move away while you tear each other apart...  You're in a circular firing squad, shooting wildly at each other, and celebrating when you take down innocent bystanders.

I know we're in your heads, driving you like a rented Malibu, laughing as you, the smarterest people on the internet, jump and dance at shadows.  You fire blindly into the dark while we chuckle.  Your own fall to the floor, by your hand, and we smile while we get ready for you to chain drag the next DUmmie through the gravel.

Welcome to The Cave...
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: txradioguy on August 21, 2018, 08:28:08 AM
Oh, I'm pretty confident the footwear guy won't blow up.

He's from the elite of Colorado; he's known to have a Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2, which ain't no Ford Pinto.

He came over here out of curiosity--for which he needs lauded; curiosity is good--but he's gonna get bored pretty soon, and just walk away without saying anything.

That's the way people from the upper classes of Colorado treat Nebraska, so it's all very predictable.

Between TheShoe and kentuck...Colorado is gonna be a fun adventure for me.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 21, 2018, 08:38:30 AM
Between TheShoe and kentuck...Colorado is gonna be a fun adventure for me.

Well, with all due respect to the decent and civilized people of the state, an ever-diminishing number as Colorado slowly turns more and more blue, there isn't much west of Fort Morgan, excepting roads that are treacherous during winter.

<<<been to Colorado more times than been to any other state not my own.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: BadCat on August 21, 2018, 08:51:23 AM
I didn't converse with him over there, see not much reason to converse with him here.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: freedumb2003b on August 21, 2018, 09:12:04 AM
Between TheShoe and kentuck...Colorado is gonna be a fun adventure for me.

I hear Colorado welcomes you with open arms.
Title: Re: Shoe calls us out, says we cower at the cave. Want to prove Shoe wrong?
Post by: franksolich on August 21, 2018, 09:15:42 AM
I didn't converse with him over there, see not much reason to converse with him here.

I ignore the footwear guy over there, but only because I'm doing an experiment.

I don't mean I have him on "ignore," I mean that I don't respond to his comments, no matter how provocative or how chomping-at-the-bit I want to.

When I first went back to DU Jr., I tried figuring out how to get along with the lorgnette-and-pearls crowd there, primitives, who disdainfully look down upon us common folk.  I divided the primitives in half.  Half of them, I'd respond, or react, to their comments.  The other half of them, I'd read their comments but refrain from saying anything, good or bad.

To see if acknowledging them, or ignoring their existence; which one was the best for getting along with these hostile people?

The footwear guy was in the second category.  I still haven't discerned whether it bothers him or not.

Just a casual, friendly, informal sociological exercise. 

Although I wouldn't have to do it if they were as open-minded, as tolerant, as accepting of "diversity" as they claim to be, receptive to different people from different backgrounds with different characteristics who think differently than they do.