Dummy AndyA posts his lame bouncy lie, and as always, virtually 100% of the DUmp believes the story. That is one predictable reaction to a bouncy lie. The other predictable reaction is that if the bouncy gets enough attention, in this case over 130 replies, other DUmmies will be triggered to chime in with really lame mini-bouncies. These mini-bouncies are made up on the fly, and as a result are even lamer than the original post, which was probably edited, rewritten, and honed for days before posting.
Aside from their astonishly poor quality, bouncies and mini-bouncies are especially pathetic because of why they are written. DUmmies, almost without exception, are transparently desperate for approval from other DUmmies. Everyone appreciates the support of their peers, but DUmmies are in a different situation from normal people. Nearly all of them are the product of broken families, and have gone on to fail at building a family of their own. Most of them were clearly less intelligent, less balanced, less accepted than most of their peers. They were almost surely bullied and rejected at every turn as children. The journey into adulthood has been an unending chain of disappointments, rejections, and humiliations, due to their lack of ability and unwillingness to work. So, for many of them, maybe most, their "community", their "society", their "circle of friends" is a cybercommunity of misfits and idiots like themselves. Their only path to self-respect, laughable as it may be to normal people, is to pander to the DUmp with these silly lies. It's pathetic, really.
On the other hand, many, many bouncies are the work product of moles, and that's just good clean fun!
aggiesal (606 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 03:10 PM
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89. I said the same thing to a lady in line at the store today ...
She wouldn't buy it, until I mention that in 1999 in
a partisan vote 54-44, the Republicans stripped any
regulations that were placed on the financial institutions
calling it, modernizing the financial institutions bill.
Sen. Byron Dorgan stood up in 1999, and said that this bill
will increase the chance that taxpayers will have to bail
the financial institutions out in 10 years.
He lied. It only took 9 years!!!
Then she said, "We need to drill for more oil. Haven't
you heard about supply and demand?"
I told her, it doesn't matter how many oil wells are drilled
there are only a limited number of refineries, that they
can't produce anymore gasoline. Beside, the oil companies
already have thousands of oil wells capped that they're not
using. Why do they need more?
She walked out of the store!
progressivebydesign (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 08:16 PM
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14. Good for you. You sounded as though you did it with respect.
I can tell because they were conversing with you.. not scurrying out as fast as they can!
today in a very liberal bookstore, one of the clerks was talking about how "someone told me the other day that scientists are working on a big new theory on global warming, and that humans couldn't have caused it, cuz we're too small!!" and that she "didn't know what to believe anymore" After my jaw came back from the floor, I told her that the person who gave her that info also believed that if they drove past Russia they'd fall off the face of the earth.. a "flat earther" I educated her on the 90% + scientists who agree Man is doing this.. and the handful of others have been paid for by the Oil industry. Luckily the other clerk chimed in to back me up on that. Scary shit when people are so uninformed.
WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 08:39 AM
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56. Last election I was on a Casino bus to AC. Old guy starts loudly praising Dubya. I was NOT
going to sit for 3 hours listening to THAT.
So I turned and said, "9/11 was on BUSH'S WATCH!"
End of his noise.
polichick (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 11:55 AM
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62. Good for you! I've started telling people they'd have to be brain dead to vote...
...for those criminals again ~ that gets their attention.
felinetta (31 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 03:18 PM
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94. I Can Relate
I know I'm thoroughly disgusted with Republican crap and when I hear anyone try to defend anything any Republican says, I snap at them. I'm even shocked at how fast I answer back. I don't t give them a chance to say anything because I know it will all be poison and garbage. Enough!
AZBlue (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 04:38 PM
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107. I went off on a couple in the grocery store last week.
The woman picked up a copy of a magazine (can't remember which one) that had a picture of Palin on it and the headline, "What's She Hiding?" She repeated the headline, tilted the magazine cover toward me and laughed a little, so I figured she was no Palin fan. I responded, "With her? Quite a lot, I'm sure."
To my surprise she answered, "Oh no, not her. She's such a straight-shooter!"
To which I couldn't hold back: "Well, I'm sure she and McCain would like to hide the fact that she billed her state for 312 nights when she didn't travel any more than from her home to her office. And I'm sure they'd like to hide the fact that she abused her power repeatedly as mayor and then as governor. And they'd probably like to hide her support of aerial shooting of wolves, a practice 99% of hunters would like to see outlawed. And they probably don't want you to know that she actually did support the bridge to nowhere and is lying when she says she didn't. And that's just for starters."
Their jaws dropped and I went on with my shopping, feeling pretty satisfied.
Hestia (516 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 05:00 PM
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114. I just went off on somebody here at work too - he's been trying to get me to rent his house
a dump, and have been telling him no thanks, but he still drops by to say hi. I was watching the stream of Obama in NM, and this guy says, man the country will be totally off track if Obama gets elected. I practically shouted "HOW?" He said the military will stand down if he is elected and Obama will totally desert them... I said since the repug's have totally trashed this country, what we need is a 180, not more of the same; a totally different direction!!! He backed out of the door and said bye!
Man, I have started really correcting everybody, I don't care where I am! Enough of the nonsense!
WatchWhatISay (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 06:19 PM
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125. I had a little tiff of my own today with one of those knuckledraggers
Ike burned out our refrigerator thermostat, so we had a repairman in to fix it. I was watching Obama speak while he was fixing it. We'd had an earlier conversation about Italian ovens, which he advised against, so my husband and I figured he was probably a redneck, judging by his comments. When he went outside to get a part, my husband asked me to not get into politics, and I said I had no intention of it based on his attitude - it probably wouldn't do any good.
But then he said he didn't know why I was wasting my time listening to the stuff on TV (Obama's speech), I said "Why, don't you like Obama?". He said no, and then started off on some right wing rant right out of Limbaughland. I interrupted him and said, "Well, then you just need to keep it to yourself", but he didn't. So I repeated myself loudly and firmly. Finally he shut up, and I said "We dont have to put up with that sort of crap anymore."
After he left I realized that he surely saw my Obama poster on the refrigerator door, and he must have known better. I really felt invaded and offended to have someone spouting that crap off in my own kitchen. That's the last time I call that company.
Only one DUmmy is even remotely honest:
Geek_Girl (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 08:26 AM
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48. It sounds like you did a great job schooling them
I usually just loose my cool and end up sounding like an idiot.
