OmahaBlueDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-17-11 05:50 AM
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Dear Conservative Cave Dwellers: The Car Thread? Seriously?
As you know, the folks over at Conservative Cave have set up a section called "The DUmpster." They copy links to DU threads, and snark at them. Now, I get that when one is talking about issue or candidate threads. But cars? I asked a question about my 2006 Taurus not starting.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,47297.0...
"primitive has problems with automobile battery"
I've got to say that I'm honored to be of interest, although I agree with their poster Franksolich that I'm no Omaha Steve (he sings Omaha Steve's praises in this thread http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=21705.0 ).
But these guys really started a thread over my car? In fact, their lives are so boring, that I got this blast of hot air from "PatriotGame."
"Douse your 'lack of scheduled maintenance' DUmmy-Mobile with gasoline, toss a lit match at it, and walk away.
You poison the environment enough just by existing. You don't deserve to own let alone drive a car. Be a good DUmmy and depend solely on public transportation, hypocrite."
:crazy:
So, by way of response
Dear Cave Dwellers:
1) When you need car repair advice over there, listen to JohnnyReb. JR said it was starter drag, and he was right. Of course, I could just be messing with your conservative heads, trying to get you to take bad advice. We Dems are sneaky that way. But no, really, it was the starter. The battery, in fact, still cranks strong, is showing no signs of sulfating, survived another Nebraska winter, and hasn't exploded.
2) My experience has been that on "maintenance free batteries", the covers over the cells (I still call them caps, but they are really covers) can generally be popped off. The cover generally goes over 4 cells, and can be lifted with a thin bladed screwdriver.
3) I have an Interstate Battery on my F-150, and it's survived Florida summers and Nebraska winters. Of course, once again, I could just be messing with you. Perhaps you'd prefer to pick up a battery at Wal-Mart...or maybe the dealer -- because the dealer, as you all know, always offers the best prices, and is completely truthful about your vehicle repair needs.
4) If you're going to represent a website by invoking the name of a Nebraska coach, use a good coach. Frank, change your screen name to TomOsborne or BobDeVaney. If you choose to keep that screen name, realize that you are doomed to do a good job, only to be replaced by a poster named BillCallahan.
5) I'm not complaining. Hell, most of the people on your site discussed the topic with some degree of seriousness. The only poster who was nasty was the one saying I should set my car on fire and that I didn't deserve to own a car. One other poster said I was too cheap to pay for dianostic tests, which is not true; I said up front the battery had been load tested.
What I don't understand is why a car thread on DU would be worth following? Didn't you guys have something better to do, like re-reading "Decision Points" or watching "The No-Spin Zone?"
Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-17-11 05:57 AM
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1. Why am I supposed to give a **** about what random morons think?
MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-17-11 01:00 PM
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2. You have to realize that those people are a bunch of obsessed wannabes without any real lives
Edited on Tue May-17-11 01:01 PM by MrScorpio
They all yearn to post here, but know full well that they's be TS'd in a heartbeat the second they'd start up with their shit.
They're pretty much nothing more than a bunch of pathetic, attention whoring losers.
Don't feed the trolls, Man.
Oh Yeah… IBTL!
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3. We've decided to lock this thread.
It does Democratic Underground no good to draw traffic to sites like Conservative Cave.
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1. Why am I supposed to give a **** about what random morons think?
Edited on Tue May-17-11 01:01 PM by MrScorpio:lmao: That's some funny shit right there
They all yearn to post here, but know full well that they's be TS'd in a heartbeat the second they'd start up with their shit.
They all yearn to post here, but know full well that they's be TS'd in a heartbeat the second they'd start up with their shit.
I post over there. ;)
It's funny how we are always "losers wasting our time on the internets" by posting on a message forum in the DUmmies' perception, but they are "handling important business" by doing the same f'ing thing at the DUmp.
It's funny how we are always "losers wasting our time on the internets" by posting on a message forum in the DUmmies' perception, but they are "handling important business" by doing the same f'ing thing at the DUmp.
The top poster here on conservativecave has 22,000 comments.
The second-top poster here has 21,000 comments.
The most-prolific poster here has an average of 18 comments per day.
That's at latest report; I haven't checked the past couple of weeks.
Anyway, that pales in comparison with the six-digit totals the primitives run up on Skins's island.
So.....who's spending all day on the internet?
They act like it takes four hours for us to read a DUmmy thread, repost it here and comment on it. Little do they know that one can scan DUmmyland, read their thread, and repost it here in about a minute.
Man, we are dealing with sheer geniuses, all of them. These "people" are sharp and really, really on the ball.
The Consevative Cave thread was on August 7, 2010 about a DUmp thread on August 2, 2010. :rotf:
Do you predict a continuation, or DefCon? I certainly hope it's the former. I love watching. :-)
The top poster here on conservativecave has 22,000 comments.
The second-top poster here has 21,000 comments.
The most-prolific poster here has an average of 18 comments per day.
That's at latest report; I haven't checked the past couple of weeks.
Anyway, that pales in comparison with the six-digit totals the primitives run up on Skins's island.
So.....who's spending all day on the internet?
As you know, the folks over at Conservative Cave have set up a section called "The DUmpster." They copy links to DU threads, and snark at them. Now, I get that when one is talking about issue or candidate threads. But cars? I asked a question about my 2006 Taurus not starting.
I've got to say that I'm honored to be of interest, although I agree with their poster Franksolich that I'm no Omaha Steve.....
When you need car repair advice over there, listen to JohnnyReb.....
If you're going to represent a website by invoking the name of a Nebraska coach.....
What I don't understand is why a car thread on DU would be worth following?
I'm glad that the primitives like us so much! :lmao:
If that had been a primitive whining about us, I wouldn't have wasted the wear-and-tear on the keyboard with such volume of wordage.Your fellow Nebraskans may not be primitives. They may get an exemption because you are, after all, the final arbiter on that.
But because it was a fellow Nebraskan, I extended a special courtesy.
But Nebraskans at the DUmp are full-fledged, bona fide, full-blooded DUmbasses.
Your fellow Nebraskans may not be primitives. They may get an exemption because you are, after all, the final arbiter on that.
But Nebraskans at the DUmp are full-fledged, bona fide, full-blooded DUmbasses.
Your fellow Nebraskans may not be primitives.
I post over there. ;)I don't know how you do it. I got TS'd after about 8 posts almost 3 years ago. I had never heard of the place (I was not too politically inclined prior), and I just assumed some of the threads and responses HAD to be parodies. People who walk upright just simply could not think as they do, I thought. Boy, was I wrong.
I don't know how you do it. I got TS'd after about 8 posts almost 3 years ago. I had never heard of the place (I was not too politically inclined prior), and I just assumed some of the threads and responses HAD to be parodies. People who walk upright just simply could not think as they do, I thought. Boy, was I wrong.
So, to you, I am not worthy. And converse to what someone downthread said, I could spend 15 mins on the Island, and 4 hours here dissecting them. Luckily my job (sorry Bobbolink) limits my internet time.
So, I honor you Evil_Conservative. :cheersmate:
C'aint fix 'em, c'aint drive 'em.
Yourself? DUmmies?I'z a fixer. :cheersmate:
I'z a fixer. :cheersmate:
Ditto. :cheersmate:Back atcha. :cheersmate:
Your fellow Nebraskans may not be primitives. They may get an exemption because you are, after all, the final arbiter on that.
But Nebraskans at the DUmp are full-fledged, bona fide, full-blooded DUmbasses.
I post over there. ;)
Hey Frank.
You've recently mentioned of several suspicious cars being pulled over in your corner of Nebraska. One wouldn't have been 2006 Taurus would it?
Same here. Oh, if they only knew.
No, but if it has Nebraska license-plates, I don't plan on losing any sleep over it, because in my biased perception (which I freely admit, remember), my fellow Nebraskans don't stoop to low, dirty, cheating tricks like primitives do.
I bitched a couple of years ago when "TwilightGardener," a transplant from Pennsylvania to southeastern Nebraska, a registered nurse, came up to bother and mess up this part of the state--the scenic Niobrara River, practically at my door-step--but now that she's been here in Nebraska for a while, I can tolerate her.
But as for Italian-looking people with Maryland license-plates, old hippies with Oklahoma license-plates and a big wood-axe in the trunk, tiny women with bumper-stickers enthusiastic about abortion, with Texas license-plates, or some stupid pompous jerk with Connecticut license-plates and a surfboard strapped to the top, I'm going to get as unreasonably paranoid as the primitives.
In answer to Omahabluedog's question, "A car thread, seriously?" He has no idea how precariously close each and every thread here can turn into a car thread. :-)
I can't say I feel the same way about fellow Tennesseans. I'd love to stuff TN_Socialist in a Mason jar. Fortunate for him TN. is a long state and he's over in Chris's neck of the woods.
Wow, they're getting bold over there. That's two shoutouts this week. Guess Skinner went back on vacation and left Elad in charge again.
some stupid pompous jerk with Connecticut license-plates and a surfboard strapped to the top, I'm going to get as unreasonably paranoid as the primitives.A surfboard is as useful in the Sandhills as it is in Connecticut. Like a tit on a boar hog, or a blank cartoon speech bubble.
3. We've decided to lock this thread.
It does Democratic Underground no good to draw traffic to sites like Conservative Cave.
Okay, I'm finally compelled to respond to my fellow Nebraskan, about points he made in his campfire...
A surfboard is as useful in the Sandhills as it is in Connecticut. Like a tit on a boar hog, or a blank cartoon speech bubble.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
:-)