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Title: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 03, 2011, 09:53:24 PM
Okay, okay.  Here it is, the fourth "do we intimidate the primitives" poll of the year, taken about once every three months to gauge the influence of the DUmpster.  This is the beginning of September; there won't be any chance during the autumn to take the fourth poll, because as the leaves begin to fall from the trees, all attention's turned to the upcoming election of the top DUmmies.

November and December, it gets wild around here, like a department store the day after Thanksgiving.

With only two cashiers managing check-out lines.

Does the DUmpster influence the primitives on Skins's island?--in some manner?

Compelling the primitives to better manners, encouraging the primitives to change their ways, illuminating the primitives.....making the primitives act even more primitively.....or what; do we encourage or discourage particular behaviors of the primitives by publicizing, mocking, deriding, and laughing at them?

Surely we must have some effect, good or bad.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: diesel driver on September 03, 2011, 09:58:08 PM
Yes, and it's a bad thing, because it lets them know just how crazy, abnormal, and what pathetic losers they are. 

We are a daily reminder to them of their lunacy, backwardness, stupidity, and all around genetic inferiority.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: Evil_Conservative on September 03, 2011, 10:03:17 PM
Yes and it's a good thing.  :)
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: longview on September 03, 2011, 10:04:09 PM
With few exceptions I don't think we do.  I think they largely type what they really believe and are largely unaware of direct criticism.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 03, 2011, 10:04:37 PM
Yes and it's a good thing.  :)

Of course.

All for the betterment of humanity.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: RonBush on September 03, 2011, 10:09:48 PM
I don't know the code words here.  What are primitives and what is Skin's island?
I do know what DUmpster is.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: tanstaafl on September 03, 2011, 10:10:26 PM
Do we? And how.

Watching the implosion when the Husker ParGen gets left on for extended periods is a hoot. I'm keeping a close Eye on Stinky the Clueless DUde as he continues to harrass Skinner. Might get to see a rare sight, DUmmie getting a granite pizza shove up his patoot and physically thrown off the Skin's Island of Refugees from the Sixties.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: Skul on September 03, 2011, 10:11:09 PM
Bad, bad, bad.
They change their behavior in order to placate CC.
Much like watching rats in a maze.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: GOBUCKS on September 03, 2011, 10:13:55 PM
Yes, and it's a really bad thing.

Picture threads are thing of the past, since they became embarrassed at our enjoyment of them.

The CalPig has ceased plopping out her execrable poetry, having apparently ingested a barrel of Pepto-Bismol.

Bouncy tales have dried up to the tiniest trickle.

Coach shut down the hateful old crones in the baking group.

Pam Dawson left, since some pricks were stalking her (and you know who you are).

The Las Vegas Lardass now only posts rarely on his cult doctor site, and very rarely at the DUmp.

Since winning DOTY, DUmmy proud2BeDUmb has limited herself to kpete-ish copy-and-paste crap.

Nutcase nadin, determined to be 2011's Top DUmmy, has transformed herself from a run-of-the-mill wacko into the
most bizarrely offensive, condescending, arrogant, googling ass the DUmp has ever seen.

Distraught at losing DOTY to Pammie, the detestable TLB actually killed herself.

So, yeah, the DUmbasses do change their behavior due to their awareness of how they amuse decent and civilized people.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 03, 2011, 10:17:18 PM
Quote
Since winning DOTY, DUmmy proud2BeDUmb has limited herself to kpete-ish copy-and-paste crap.

Haven't most of the DOTY winners ceased to post altogether, or slow to hardly any posts, after winning?
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 03, 2011, 10:18:12 PM
Haven't most of the DOTY winners ceased to post altogether, or slow to hardly any posts, after winning?

Yep, excepting for the Bostonian Drunkard, who continues shitt--er, putting out the same old stuff.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: FlippyDoo on September 03, 2011, 10:29:46 PM
I think the existence of CC, CU, and the DUmmie Funnies do affect them and the resulting effect is bad.

I think GOBUCKS touched on the reason why it is bad. I'm sure that there are some posters over there that are oblivious to our existence, but those are generally the ones who aren't entertaining to begin with.

I often miss the good old days when they didn't know we existed and constantly posted their full lunacy in all its glory with no hesitation.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 03, 2011, 10:31:04 PM
I often miss the good old days when they didn't know we existed and constantly posted their full lunacy in all its glory with no hesitation.

Uh huh.

For those of us with long memories, there was a time the sparkling husband dude was really funny, for example.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 03, 2011, 10:37:27 PM
Has there ever been any thought towards what affect, if any, closing the DUmpster from public view for a length of time would have on the primitives?   
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 03, 2011, 10:44:56 PM
Has there ever been any thought towards what affect, if any, closing the DUmpster from public view for a length of time would have on the primitives?

I've been sort of for that idea for a long time now, ever since the primitives started distorting my scientific anthropological research on them, by acting for us, rather than acting naturally.

But that idea's never going to fly any more than an anvil.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: longview on September 03, 2011, 10:55:49 PM
You guys made good arguments and I stand corrected. 
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: Skul on September 03, 2011, 10:55:59 PM
I've been sort of for that idea for a long time now, ever since the primitives started distorting my scientific anthropological research on them, by acting for us, rather than acting naturally.

But that idea's never going to fly any more than an anvil.
With enough black-powder, even anvils, fly. :rotf:
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 03, 2011, 11:01:57 PM
I've been sort of for that idea for a long time now, ever since the primitives started distorting my scientific anthropological research on them, by acting for us, rather than acting naturally.

But that idea's never going to fly any more than an anvil.

Well, I'd certainly be in favor of it, at the very least for a short period of time, to see how they react.  :popcorn:
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: beefeater on September 03, 2011, 11:15:26 PM
I've been sort of for that idea for a long time now, ever since the primitives started distorting my scientific anthropological research on them, by acting for us, rather than acting naturally.

But that idea's never going to fly any more than an anvil.

Ohh, an OET like "private forum" that they would actually have to register for to see. Now that would be fun. Make the DUmpster hidden for a while, do some IP tracking.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: Skul on September 04, 2011, 01:05:37 AM
Ohh, an OET like "private forum" that they would actually have to register for to see. Now that would be fun. Make the DUmpster hidden for a while, do some IP tracking.
Nah.
Prefer that comments are left out in the open.
As tempting as your thought may be, it's better to be up front and honest.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 04, 2011, 01:20:44 AM
Nah.
Prefer that comments are left out in the open.
As tempting as your thought may be, it's better to be up front and honest.


I wouldn't be in favor of scrubbing any threads from the DUmpster.  If it were two weeks, for example, the DUmpster would be closed, but then reopened, nothing scrubbed, everything back exactly as it was.  Imagine the number of guests you would generate on that day.   :lmao:   

I have a feeling  whatever threads we pack up and row over here are affected greatly, just by the nature of being over here.  It would be interesting to see what happened during that time period, is all.  :popcorn:
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: Skul on September 04, 2011, 01:36:08 AM
Aww, crap.
Franksolich gave BH, the ParGen switch.
Brown-noser!!!
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 04, 2011, 01:38:46 AM
Aww, crap.
Franksolich gave BH, the ParGen switch.
Brown-noser!!!

Yes, and I'm pounding on the button like a monkey beating an engine with a hammer.  :-)
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 04, 2011, 06:16:01 AM
I gave the first "not sure" vote.  Some we do, some we don't.  Some modify their behavior because of the attention that we give them (both ways).  Some don't care.  Some show the pathetic existence they have (Stinky, I'm looking at you! :evilbird: ) and the fact that they will never improve their lives; some seem to ramp up their vitriol (Taverner); some disappear off the face of the Earth (Pammy!  Where'd ya go?); and some just exist.  It's similar to nailing Jello to a wall, in trying to figure that group out.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 04, 2011, 07:56:36 AM
Yes, and I'm pounding on the button like a monkey beating an engine with a hammer.  :-)

Whoa.

Wait.

What?

We got a shout-out last night, and nobody posted it?

One's supposed to post shout-outs; it's almost a mandatory requirement of the DUmpster.

Myself, I was logged on last night, but when seeing a woman, got involved in an argument and was so shaken by it I forgot to log out before going to bed.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: BattleHymn on September 04, 2011, 09:09:11 AM
Whoa.

Wait.

What?

We got a shout-out last night, and nobody posted it?

One's supposed to post shout-outs; it's almost a mandatory requirement of the DUmpster.

Myself, I was logged on last night, but when seeing a woman, got involved in an argument and was so shaken by it I forgot to log out before going to bed.

Well, I know I was traversing the DUmp until right past ~3am.  If there was one, I didn't catch it in time. 

Maybe Skul was talking about the guest total here?  If not, he'll have to plead the 5th.  :-)
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 04, 2011, 09:20:57 AM
Well, I know I was traversing the DUmp until right past ~3am.  If there was one, I didn't catch it in time. 

Maybe Skul was talking about the guest total here?  If not, he'll have to plead the 5th.  :-)

Okay, I'm slow this morning.  It happens; sometimes the cerebral cells move at the speed of a glacier.

"BH" is you, sir.  I thought it was a primitive, and took out the boat and rowed over to Skins's island to see if I could find a "BH" primitive (*"BH" being an acronym), and no luck.

Now you know why I despise acronyms.

For some reason, the brain's r-e-a-l slow this morning.  It reminds me of the time I was the weekend manager of a small liquor store in Lincoln, and the clerk was in the restroom, meaning I had to man the cash-register for the moment.  A guy came in, laid a gun on the counter (but without taking his hand off of it).  I looked at him with a bored, stony glaze in the eyes and said, "Get the **** out of here."

For whatever reason, he did, and as he was going out the door, I said "Thank you, come again."

(The rest of the story is, yes, he got caught some minutes later, and did some time.)

I think it's stress; sometimes the brain just stalls.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: USA4ME on September 04, 2011, 10:37:42 AM
Yes, and it's a bad thing

I'd prefer they didn't know we exist.  As Skin's has commanded them, they need to just do their thing and  forget we're here.  They're on an island, they need to act like it.

.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 04, 2011, 11:22:29 AM
Yes, and it's a bad thing

I'd prefer they didn't know we exist.  As Skin's has commanded them, they need to just do their thing and  forget we're here.  They're on an island, they need to act like it.

I agree wholeheartedly, sir; I wish the primitives didn't even know we existed.

As already mentioned, the sparkling husband dude used to be funny, when he wasn't aware he was being observed.  Well, alas, that's no longer the case, the sparkling husband dude being as boring as a dead nail.

And the hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer stocked the shelves here with comedic goods, until she learned we exist.  And so now hippywife's gone, although there's a chance hippyhubby Wild Bill actually ate her, rather than she going away in embarrassment.

But.....to be nadinesque here, the cat's already out of the box, the Pandora's bag's been opened, and so what can one do?
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 04, 2011, 11:32:58 AM
I gave the first "not sure" vote.  Some we do, some we don't.  Some modify their behavior because of the attention that we give them (both ways).  Some don't care.  Some show the pathetic existence they have (Stinky, I'm looking at you! :evilbird: ) and the fact that they will never improve their lives; some seem to ramp up their vitriol (Taverner); some disappear off the face of the Earth (Pammy!  Where'd ya go?); and some just exist.  It's similar to nailing Jello to a wall, in trying to figure that group out.

I'm sure we do have an influence on the primitives, no matter how much I wish we didn't, and my heart bleeds for my fellow alum Skins, who feels the same way about the matter as I do.  Many have been the nights I've tossed and turned in anxiety for Skins, who has this rule and the primitives don't follow it.

To me, that shows a lack of respect for my fellow alum, and I don't like it.

I do have an idea, though; something Skins or the elusive enigmatic Elad could probably invent, and sell (Lord Marblehead EarlG couldn't invent a Tinker toy) as a requirement of being on Skins's island.

Some sort of computer gizmo, a "DUmpster blocker" I guess, that's permanently on a primitive's computer, even when the primitive's not hanging around Skins's island, even when the primitive's computer's shut off, denying the primitive access to here.

And I repeat, it being a requirement that such be installed before one can land ashore Skins's island to hang around.  And I repeat, it working for the whole computer of the primitive, not just when the primitive's romping and playing on Skins's real estate.

Skins and Elad could probably sell these "DUmpster blocker"s at, say, twenty-five bucks a shot, and loll in the bed of cash.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: GOBUCKS on September 04, 2011, 11:33:39 AM
But.....to be nadinesque here, the cat's already out of the box, the Pandora's bag's been opened, and so what can one do?
Now that's interesting. A list of nadinisms could be as comical as her resume.
A stitch in time is over the dam.
Title: Re: poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island
Post by: franksolich on September 04, 2011, 11:36:19 AM
Yes, and it's a really bad thing.

Picture threads are thing of the past, since they became embarrassed at our enjoyment of them.

The CalPig has ceased plopping out her execrable poetry, having apparently ingested a barrel of Pepto-Bismol.

Bouncy tales have dried up to the tiniest trickle.

Coach shut down the hateful old crones in the baking group.

Pam Dawson left, since some pricks were stalking her (and you know who you are).

The Las Vegas Lardass now only posts rarely on his cult doctor site, and very rarely at the DUmp.

Since winning DOTY, DUmmy proud2BeDUmb has limited herself to kpete-ish copy-and-paste crap.

Nutcase nadin, determined to be 2011's Top DUmmy, has transformed herself from a run-of-the-mill wacko into the
most bizarrely offensive, condescending, arrogant, googling ass the DUmp has ever seen.

Distraught at losing DOTY to Pammie, the detestable TLB actually killed herself.

So, yeah, the DUmbasses do change their behavior due to their awareness of how they amuse decent and civilized people.

I need to have this repeated.

Thanks, GOBUCKS, sir.