A campfire from Skins's island brought over here by our esteemed colleague Freeper prompted this question.
To be bluntly honest, I myself don't know.
I mean, just because something is invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I suspect "no," however, because the primitives are starkly reminiscent of the busybody Puritans of 18th-century Massachusetts, or the sour dour 20th-century Prohibitionists; the sorts of people who think they know what's best for everybody else, and that everybody else is just stupid (or recently, racist).
People Who Know Best rarely, if ever, have a sense of humor.
The first requirement of having a healthy sense of humor is that of having a sense of humor about oneself.
After which all the rest comes easy.
But one has to first have a sense of humor about oneself.
One searches in vain on Skins's island, overturning every single grain of sand to see underneath, for any example of self-deprecating humor among the primitives.
The primitives take themselves too seriously; they really believe they count.
Ha ha.
ROTFLMAO.
As far as I know, the only primitive--in ten years of Skins's island, remember--who displayed a sense of humor about himself was the cboy4 primitive. Well, the cboy4 primitive got chased off Skins's island, mostly by the insufferably boring truemud primitive, who doesn't know a damned thing about sports (or anything else); the primitive who's nice to his mother only because she's ancient, and he wants to inherit her money the minute the old lady kicks off (for the record, the insufferably boring truemud primitive actually said that).
I suggest that if the primitives want to prove they have a sense of humor, they start a mirror-reverse of P-J Comix's most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies--"Freeper Follies" perhaps?--or of our old home's Best/Worst of DU--"Best/Worst of CU," perhaps.
Decent and civilized people have a healthy sense of humor--which begins with themselves--and I'm sure we'd all have great fun reading "Freeper Follies" or "Best/Worst of CU." In fact, such features would increase traffic to Skins's island, decent and civilized people chuckling at themselves, and seeing what miserable failures the primitives are, at trying to ape their betters.
