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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 04, 2013, 08:36:48 AM
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I was thinking about something yesterday (Sunday), when reviewing how my pal Manny on Skins's island manages to take a little itty-bitty campfire and turn it into a blazing bonfire.
I've known my pal Manny since before Skins's island; he's always been like this.
Of course, how he does it is obvious--once he lights a campfire, he stays around and engages with the audience in a robust, lively manner.
Unlike other primitives who need not be named, who just post something and then run away, never reacting to the reactions of their fellow primitives at the campfire.
Hell, I'll name two of them anyway; the rich bitch kpete primitive and the big guy in Bellevue.
Of course what happens is that while my pal Manny garners hundreds of primitive views and scores of primitive comments, making for very long threads, post-and-run primitives are lucky to get more than a feeble response.....and then they wonder why so few primitives bother coming to their campfires.
This, from yesterday (Sunday), is a good example of what happens:
Lucinda (16,555 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:52 PM
What's for Dinner ~ Sunday March 3rd
http://www.democraticunderground.com/115722851
Dear old sweet Lu is the host of the cooking and baking forum, and apparently she thinks that if she posts this original topic every day, her work is all done; that's all she needs to do.
This particular campfire turned out a very large one--but not because of dear old sweet Lu, who didn't hang around to engage the audience.
The cbayer primitive rescued this campfire from oblivion when, for whatever reasons, she chose to get engaged with the audience herself, perking up interest and inspiring primitive comments.
That this campfire blazed so mightily is due to the cbayer primitive, not to dear old sweet lazy Lu, even though dear old sweet lazy Lu is the one who lit it.
I dunno what dear old sweet Lu's problem is, why she posts-and-runs. After all, it's not as if she's real busy.
Dear old sweet Lu is fringing upon retirement age, a stout matronly grey-haired woman who wears a Mother Hubbard and lays oilcloth on the kitchen table as she bustles around cooking. She and her husband Bill live somewhere down in the southern half of the Appalachian Mountains, maybe in North Carolina, I dunno. Every day, dear old sweet Lu carefully wraps liverwurst sandwiches in waxed paper and puts them in an old Karo syrup bucket, for Bill to take for lunch at work. Bill is a bewhiskered old guy who wears bib overalls and walks with a slight limp.
It seems to me that if dear old sweet Lu lights a campfire, she should hang around and interact with the primitives who show up at it.
I think it's rude when someone starts a topic, and then walks away--it needs pointed out even the Bostonian Drunkard, arguably the most aloof and vain and snobbish primitive on Skins's island, doesn't just toss out a topic and go away. Well, he does, but less than half the time; more than half the time, he hangs around, to chitchat with other primitives drawn to his campfire.
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Doesn't matter. They're all filthy assed savages that have no idea how to live like civilized people so standards of behavior sail straight over their pointy heads.
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Agreed, wasp. It doesn't matter--they're all rude. I know that the moles do it deliberately and aren't rude IRL.
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Yes. But then, you can't really expect much in the way of manners from people who were apparently raised by 'possums and vultures.
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you can't really expect much in the way of manners from people who were apparently raised by 'possums and vultures.
But can they play banjos?
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Doesn't matter. They're all filthy assed savages that have no idea how to live like civilized people so standards of behavior sail straight over their pointy heads.
:yeahthat: :werd:
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I voted yes, because I think it's high-handed. Look, I've been good enough to give you a topic of conversation. What more could you possibly ask of me?
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I voted yes, because I think it's high-handed. Look, I've been good enough to give you a topic of conversation. What more could you possibly ask of me?
Uh huh; the seems exactly the attitude of post-and-run primitives.
Even Atman, arguably the rudest primitive ever, would post something, and then hang around for comments, responding to those comments, and he managed to build up reasonably big campfires (not all the time, but more than half the time) which blazed gloriously until he insulted somebody.
Compare dear old sweet Lu with other hosts of other forums on Skins's island, and with the moderators here in the DUmpster. It's very rare that any of the latter two don't come back to something they started, to read and respond to comments.
By the way, on an unrelated matter, did anyone who examined that campfire in the cooking and baking forum notice that the cbayer primitive's in an isolated remote area now, where the weather's cold? And that she seems to be getting tired of living on a boat?
One wonders what's up with that.
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I too went with "it doesn't matter" because rude is one of their natural states. They are just being themselves.
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But can they play banjos?
They think so. But like almost all of their other endeavors, others think they are vastly overestimating their abilities when they try.
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Agreed, wasp. It doesn't matter--they're all rude. I know that the moles do it deliberately and aren't rude IRL.
This reminds me of when conservativecave was still pretty new--maybe about six months old--and a member "resigned" from the site, and wanted his stuff deleted.
When asked what was up, he said nobody ever responded to his posts.
When his posts were checked into, they were all original topics, vague headlines, and a link. Nothing else.
Well, who the Hell's going to bother clicking on a link if the original poster didn't at least spend a little bit of time and trouble explaining what all the hubbub is about? I know I never have, and I suspect most others here don't do it either.
And further, this resigned member--this was s-o-o-o-o-o long ago--never commented on other members' threads. All he ever did was original-post links.
No wonder nobody ever responded to him.
As a subsidiary issue, I've always wondered about the influence of the ego, when it comes to posting original topics or making comments on others' threads. I know that among the primitives, their egos are very much involved; they'd rather start a new thread even if there's six or sixty other campfires burning on Skins's island dealing with the exact same issue.
It seems as if they "only" comment--and at some other primitive's campfire--nobody'll notice them.
It seems the primitives have this "look at me, look at me" mentality.
I suppose I don't need to say the fat short bald dwarf is a prime example.
(Some might point out that franksolich with about 8100 topics posted, more than the second- and third-top-ranked members put together, with some borrowed from the fourth-ranked too, might have an ego problem himself--this "look at me, look at me" thing--but I beg to differ. On the Head of St. John the Baptist, I swear the ego has nothing to do with it; it's just my own frantic, desperate, frenzied attempt to constantly replenish the inventory here, lest others stop coming because there's nothing new to see.)
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I think it is rude of them. Yet, they cannot see that part.