guide to observing the primitives

[franksolich]

I am stickying this in the DUmpster for a couple of days, after which I'll unsticky it; please refer to my most-recent comment.

I'm about done compiling a history of Skins's island, which will be added to DU for guests, which is stickied in the DUmping Ground.

Probably by the time I ever get done with it, DU for guests will cover about as much area as the Great Plains, but nothing can be done about it.  One accepts, adapts, and moves on.

Anyway, while tying up the loose ends of the history, I've already started compiling a bunch of helpful hints for one to use when observing the primitives.....well, actually, I've thought of two, so far.

If anybody's got any suggestions for more helpful hints, I'd like to hear them.

The first is:

DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

After which follows an explanation of why this is helpful to remember when observing the primitives on Skins's island.

The second is:

None of the primitives are important enough, relevant enough, to be "in" on anything; to be "connected" to "sources," or in a position to have "inside information" on anybody or anything.

After which follows an explanation of why this is helpful to remember when observing the DUmmies in DUmmieland.

[DumbAss Tanker]

"Consistency is the bugaboo of small minds, smaller anyway than those of the intellectual elite at DU."  It is, for instance, simultaneously possible for the (Republican) President to be too stupid and incompetent to be in office while at the same time orchestrating conspiracies extenidng over tens of decades and around the globe, all without detection.

[JohnnyReb]

"Consistency is the bugaboo of small minds, smaller anyway than those of the intellectual elite at DU."  It is, for instance, simultaneously possible for the (Republican) President to be too stupid and incompetent to be in office while at the same time orchestrating conspiracies extenidng over tens of decades and around the globe, all without detection.

DAMN! He's good....ain't he?

You know how it goes, "You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool....."

[BlueStateSaint]

Coach, why don't you sticky this?

[USA4ME]

Not prepared to word it just yet (certainly open for someone else to do so), but some reference to how they continually practice the "politics of personal destruction" towards those whom they disagree.  They can't win discussing the issues, so they have to go personal.  We've had more than enough evidence of that being the case over the past several years.

Also their hypocracy in condemning Republican/conservatives for the very things that when Democrats/liberals do the exact same thing they find ways of which to justify.

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[Donpeyote]

 IBFL ../

[delilahmused]

I'm about done compiling a history of Skins's island, which will be added to DU for guests, which is stickied in the DUmping Ground.

Probably by the time I ever get done with it, DU for guests will cover about as much area as the Great Plains, but nothing can be done about it.  One accepts, adapts, and moves on.

Anyway, while tying up the loose ends of the history, I've already started compiling a bunch of helpful hints for one to use when observing the primitives.....well, actually, I've thought of two, so far.

If anybody's got any suggestions for more helpful hints, I'd like to hear them.

The first is:

DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

After which follows an explanation of why this is helpful to remember when observing the primitives on Skins's island.

The second is:

None of the primitives are important enough, relevant enough, to be "in" on anything; to be "connected" to "sources," or in a position to have "inside information" on anybody or anything.

After which follows an explanation of why this is helpful to remember when observing the DUmmies in DUmmieland.

Wow frank, you've amazed me once again. I swear if I wasn't married I'd move to Nebraska and stalk you.

Cindie

[franksolich]

Wow frank, you've amazed me once again. I swear if I wasn't married I'd move to Nebraska and stalk you.

Cindie

One of these days, my lovely, when I finally get around to winning the Powerball lottery, you and I are going to sit out on the roof of a Tudor mansion out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, admiring the broad vista of bison peacefully ambling across the plains.

And the cats romping atop the William Rivers Pitt.

Your husband, too; myself being a gentleman, I don't intrude on other people's people.

I owe it to you, madam; my debt to you being incalculable, of course.

[Chris]

Wow frank, you've amazed me once again. I swear if I wasn't married I'd move to Nebraska and stalk you.

Cindie

Just look for the famhouse surrounded by a dozen or more cats. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Wow frank, you've amazed me once again. I swear if I wasn't married I'd move to Nebraska and stalk you.

Cindie

Just look for the famhouse surrounded by a dozen or more cats. 

That's a lot less distinctive than you might think!

[Carl]

There has to be something about what you discovered regarding their source links and the accuracy of.
The circular part...lefty blog to lefty website to lefty blog and back as well.

[franksolich]

There has to be something about what you discovered regarding their source links and the accuracy of.
The circular part...lefty blog to lefty website to lefty blog and back as well.

I'm still trying to think of snappy one-liners to explain Tanker's and USA4ME's suggestions.

Yours is good, too.

I assume you're referring to when a primitive posts a link to some story, and at the same time tells the other primitives what the story's about.....the result being the primitives don't check the link.....and oftentimes what the primitive's told the other primitives the story says, isn't true.

Like that really stupid Patrick Buchanan thing, about how Patrick Buchanan said slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks in America, whereas when one checked the link, it turned out Patrick Buchanan had said no such thing, not even anything close to that.

Is that what you're getting at, sir?

[Carl]

There has to be something about what you discovered regarding their source links and the accuracy of.
The circular part...lefty blog to lefty website to lefty blog and back as well.

I'm still trying to think of snappy one-liners to explain Tanker's and USA4ME's suggestions.

Yours is good, too.

I assume you're referring to when a primitive posts a link to some story, and at the same time tells the other primitives what the story's about.....the result being the primitives don't check the link.....and oftentimes what the primitive's told the other primitives the story says, isn't true.

Like that really stupid Patrick Buchanan thing, about how Patrick Buchanan said slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks in America, whereas when one checked the link, it turned out Patrick Buchanan had said no such thing, not even anything close to that.

Is that what you're getting at, sir?

Yes,that was the original you found and since then have discovered there are lots of links to left wing personal blogs where stories are told without any validating source.

These are linked and cross linked to give the appearance of an "official" news or government source when all they are is any joe putting their opinion on their own blog site.

[comradebillyboy]

Geeze, before I left the Island, I would have sworn that at least 30-40 of the most prolific and obnoxious posters were Bambi factotums. Then again, one has to be more than a campaign gofer trolling the blogs to be considered 'connected'. A few years ago DUmmies were just liberals bitching about the republican administration and congress. In the last year or so they have become completely unhinged and driven most of the sane people away.

[thundley4]

Yes,that was the original you found and since then have discovered there are lots of links to left wing personal blogs where stories are told without any validating source.

These are linked and cross linked to give the appearance of an "official" news or government source when all they are is any joe putting their opinion on their own blog site.

I remember several years ago on the old Yahoo Ann Coulter board, that the lefties use to attribute this quote to Ann.  I searched and found nothing but lefty blogs, but finally one linked to some online mag, but the quote wasn't on the site.  I'll bet the DUmp Monkees do the same thing with their smears.

The "Quote"

"Soldiers are just cowards with their backs against the wall. The lowest
IQ men in our society, those incapable of normal careers, enlist. Their
choice in life: prison or the military.
Some will have to die in the support of our cause."

[franksolich]

Okay, I'm still working on this, but it seems to be evolving a little bit differently than what I had planned, but that's okay.  Natural evolution is always better than artificial evolution.

Essentially, I want to substantially revise DU for guests (in the DUmping Ground here), along these lines;

(a) introduction to DUmmieland, or Skins's island
(b) explanation of terminology
(c) history of Skins's island
(d) discombobulations on Skins's island
(e) observing the primitives
(f) primitive rituals
(g) what to learn from observing the primitives

It appears that when I originally posted the question, I was perhaps thinking more of primitive rituals, than characteristics of the primitives.

Now, I'm thinking of both; rituals and characteristics.

Last night, I came up with three new ones, three characteristics.

One is that the primitives observe the Cult of the Personality more so than decent and civilized people do; the primitives are prone to both deification of those the primitives like, and demonization of those the primitives Hate.

Another is that despite appearances, the primitives don't get along with each other; any given primitive would probably get along better with a decent and civilized person than with another primitive.

The third is that the primitives are reactionary in nature, deathly afraid of anything new or innovative; the primitives are unable to think outside the box, or off Skins's island.

(This was most recently illustrated by the primitives protesting at my fellow alum's new rating system for bonfires, a substantial improvement over the old system, but no, the primitives didn't want something new and better.)

The neighbor thinks that sooner or later I should make up a free-standing web-site, much like what Skinner did with that web-site about how to successfully mole, but of course much longer, a textbook on Skins's island and observing the primitives.

Not a discussion board or anything, just a straightforward textbook for others to consult when watching the primitives.

Well, I'm going to keep messing with this, stirring it around, until a complete textbook evolves in reasonable shape.

And no better time than right now; it's been boring, going over to Skins's island, what with all the moles there now, and Primitives of Prominence being more hesitant about posting, than they used to be.

Take Pedro Picasso, for example, who got yelled at by his boss, because he's not paid to watch CNN and hang around Skins's island; he's paid to stuff those envelopes, and those envelopes need stuffing.

[Donpeyote]

 Primitive Women will steal each others women/men  with impunity !

[Zeus]

[ReardenSteel]

I'm still trying to think of snappy one-liners to explain Tanker's and USA4ME's suggestions.

Yours is good, too.

I assume you're referring to when a primitive posts a link to some story, and at the same time tells the other primitives what the story's about.....the result being the primitives don't check the link.....and oftentimes what the primitive's told the other primitives the story says, isn't true.

Like that really stupid Patrick Buchanan thing, about how Patrick Buchanan said slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks in America, whereas when one checked the link, it turned out Patrick Buchanan had said no such thing, not even anything close to that.

Is that what you're getting at, sir?

"Round and round we go and where we stop, everyone knows."

Not prepared to word it just yet (certainly open for someone else to do so), but some reference to how they continually practice the "politics of personal destruction" towards those whom they disagree.  They can't win discussing the issues, so they have to go personal.  We've had more than enough evidence of that being the case over the past several years.

"I'm rubber, your glue, whatever you say your a scumbag!"

Also their hypocracy in condemning Republican/conservatives for the very things that when Democrats/liberals do the exact same thing they find ways of which to justify.

"I know you are, but what am I? Iknowyouare,butwhatamI?"

Just my two cents.