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Why can't Freepers post here?
« on: December 16, 2009, 08:05:40 PM »
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LoZoccolo   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-16-09 04:57 PM
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So tell me why we don't let FReepers post on this site?
I don't think it's because we are afraid that we'll be swayed by their arguments. I know there's a good reason; I think I know what it is, and I agree with it. I'm curious, though, what you think it is.
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ixion   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-16-09 04:59 PM
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2. personally, I don't have a problem with Freepers posting here
   
I was against the tightening of the rules when it came around.

We don't have a problem with DUmmies here if you can remain civil.

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Rhiannon12866   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-16-09 05:02 PM
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Good hunch, LOL.
   
We have enough trouble keeping things civil among ourselves... 

BTW, they don't let us, with our views, on their board, either... 

Wrong DUmmie, I'd bet that Skinner would ban one of you for posting here under your DUmp name before you'd get banned here. Provided you kept your discussions civil.

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Vinnie From Indy   (1000+ posts)           Wed Dec-16-09 05:02 PM
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7. I think your nuts if you think Freepers are not already here posting crap.
   
If your intention was to take a swipe at all the outraged folks in regard to health care, you have failed.

Good DUers never waver from worship of Dear Leader so anyone that does must be a troll, right.  Big open tent you have there.

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Rhiannon12866   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-16-09 05:07 PM
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17. It's well known that this board is heavily FReeped.
   
That's one of the reasons we need mods, for disruptors. And if you've ever looked at FR, there are a while lot of discussions about what's going on here. Same with CU. They seem to be totally preoccupied with what's going on here, unlike us, who rarely discuss them, present thread excepted. 

HEY!!  What about CC?  I'm hurt. :uhsure:

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19. Seems like ten or twelve of 'em have been 'stoned this week so far
   
n/t.

Hell , 90% plus of DUers are stoned daily.



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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 08:17:56 PM »
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17. It's well known that this board is heavily FReeped.
   
That's one of the reasons we need mods, for disruptors. And if you've ever looked at FR, there are a while lot of discussions about what's going on here. Same with CU. They seem to be totally preoccupied with what's going on here, unlike us, who rarely discuss them, present thread excepted.

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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 08:23:32 PM »
Why do they think freepers aren't posting? A lot of the best threads are freepers talking to freepers. If it were possible to remove all the freeper activity at the DUmp, Skammer could probably get by with those 1998 servers.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 08:24:16 PM »
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Cleita  (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-16-09 07:40 PM
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65. There was a time some of them were allowed to as long as they were civil
 but the DUers had such a great time making asses out of them because of their misinformation, lack of reasoning and bigotry that it was too much like using kittens for tennis balls. Administration felt that we should be spending our time on loftier debates.

Care to provide examples? Surely, those great works of political discourse upon the "ignorant" and "unilluminatated" are archived as if a holy shrine to the DUmpmonkies' intellectual fortitude, right?
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 09:36:53 PM »
And he went and tossed out his mole way to fast.  :thatsright:

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78. Because most of them are ignorant.
 Glenn Beck loving, Palin worshipping, teabagging Kool-aid drinkers! I hear enough right wingers at home and at work,I don't need to hear it here too!
 
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 09:44:35 PM »
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Cleita  (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-16-09 07:40 PM
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65. There was a time some of them were allowed to as long as they were civil
 but the DUers had such a great time making asses out of them because of their misinformation, lack of reasoning and bigotry that it was too much like using kittens for tennis balls. Administration felt that we should be spending our time on loftier debates.

Yeah right...and Santa Claus is coming to town.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2009, 07:23:36 AM »
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LoZoccolo   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-16-09 04:57 PM
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So tell me why we don't let FReepers post on this site?
I don't think it's because we are afraid that we'll be swayed by their arguments.

Someone's been lurking here reading about our proposal for a trade.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2009, 07:49:02 AM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on December 17, 2009, 07:23:36 AM
Someone's been lurking here reading about our proposal for a trade.

Tx, if the trade was twenty of them for one of us, it might be fair.  We'd still outgun them.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2009, 07:51:47 AM »
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Wrong DUmmie, I'd bet that Skinner would ban one of you for posting here under your DUmp name before you'd get banned here. Provided you kept your discussions civil.
Conservative boards I've been on don't ban folk for posting contrary opinions. Those libs and progs who have issues with that 5-letter "C" word are a different story.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2009, 08:18:09 AM »
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Cleita  (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-16-09 07:40 PM
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65. There was a time some of them were allowed to as long as they were civil
 but the DUers had such a great time making asses out of them because of their misinformation, lack of reasoning and bigotry that it was too much like using kittens for tennis balls. Administration felt that we should be spending our time on loftier debates.
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Can a jet fuel/hydrocarbon fire collapse a steel structure? An experiment.

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Can a jet fuel/hydrocarbon fire collapse a steel structure? An experiment.
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I set up the following experiment using steel rabbit fencing as the steel structure supporting a heavy cement block.

Note, this fencing is easily bendable, has no significant rigidity, and was not reinforced in any way. The fencing was bent into an outer square and an inner rectangle (the core):


Then I damaged the "columns" by cutting them with wire cutters:


Just inside where the gash was made in the outer wall, I placed a cup of kerosene (jet fuel), and there was newspaper around the bottom on the structure.



Then I put a heavy cement block on top, weighing about 15 pounds. I don't think the wire structure would hold more than three of these blocks, so the "safety factor" was not particularly high.



Then I tipped over the cup and lit the kerosene:



Then fire burned for about twenty minutes, and toward the end, I put my foot on the structure to see if it would extra weight. It still did:



After the fire was hot, the "columns" were not hot at all:



In a second experiment, I used the same wire fence and block set up, but increased the amount of "airplane damage", added in newspaper all around the inside of the structure, and soaked everything thoroughly with kerosene. In this expt, the fire was more intense and lasted significantly longer, but... the structure held up just fine. (Sorry no pictures of this one).

What I conclude is that a fairly flimsy steel structure does not distort and bend and collapse very easily from a simple hydrocarbon fire. And thus, it is not clear why the much stronger steel columns in the WTC towers weakened so much from fires that the towers underwent global collapse.

If kerosene/jet fuel/hydrocarbon fires can indeed cause steel structures to collapse, it should be quite simple to show this in an experiment-- right?



Ahem...


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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2009, 09:59:21 AM »
Cleita's "loftier debates" post needs to be archived as a stand-alone classic.  I burst in spontaneous laughter.  LoZo asked her "We're spending our what?" 

Maddezmom locked it.  She's always locking everything, the control freak. 

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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2009, 10:14:32 AM »
Quote from: Karin on December 17, 2009, 09:59:21 AM
Cleita's "loftier debates" post needs to be archived as a stand-alone classic.  I burst in spontaneous laughter. 

Maybe there should be "classic post" competition, like the Top Primitive festivities.
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It would be tough to choose between an "honest" greenbriar and DUmmy Cleita's "loftier debates". Both are hilarious concepts.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2009, 10:44:09 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on December 17, 2009, 10:14:32 AM
Maybe there should be "classic post" competition, like the Top Primitive festivities.

I'd be up for that.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2009, 10:52:54 AM »
The OP (LoSuckolo) has signed up at CU...

What up CU jerks?

Hey CU ****tards!

And they wonder why we don't like them?
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2009, 10:59:04 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on December 17, 2009, 10:52:54 AM
The OP (LoSuckolo) has signed up at CU...

What up CU jerks?

Hey CU ****tards!

And they wonder why we don't like them?

Yep, the sh*t flinging doesn't cease once they cross over the breakers of Skins' Island.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2009, 12:50:41 PM »
Quote from: BadCat on December 17, 2009, 10:52:54 AM
The OP (LoSuckolo) has signed up at CU...

What up CU jerks?

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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2009, 12:52:15 PM »
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That's one of the reasons we need mods, for disruptors. And if you've ever looked at FR, there are a while lot of discussions about what's going on here. Same with CU. They seem to be totally preoccupied with what's going on here, unlike us, who rarely discuss them, present thread excepted.

Of course we discuss what goes on at DU - we really love watching 'RAT fights!

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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2009, 06:52:59 PM »
Sock. It's trying to hard to get banned at DU via CU.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2009, 06:55:29 PM »
Quote from: Randy on December 17, 2009, 06:52:59 PM
Sock. It's trying to hard to get banned at DU via CU.

I wonder why either board would want someone like that.  Good riddance.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2009, 08:05:56 PM »
I was shocked he showed.  :loser2: :shortbus:
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2009, 10:17:13 PM »
Whatever happened to that forum called LibertyPost? Did it go Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul (or his nuttier followers) on us?
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #21 on: December 18, 2009, 07:01:06 AM »
Quote from: FGL on December 17, 2009, 10:17:13 PM
Whatever happened to that forum called LibertyPost? Did it go Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul (or his nuttier followers) on us?

That and it took in a bunch of the ClownPosse rejects.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2009, 08:04:14 AM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on December 18, 2009, 07:01:06 AM
That and it took in a bunch of the ClownPosse rejects.

I actually felt dirtier lurking a few times at ClownPosse then I do wandering the DUmp.
That place was almost pure evil no matter what political stripe they claimed to be from.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2009, 09:53:25 AM »
Quote from: Carl on December 18, 2009, 08:04:14 AM
I actually felt dirtier lurking a few times at ClownPosse then I do wandering the DUmp.
That place was almost pure evil no matter what political stripe they claimed to be from.

Yeah well just lurking there has nothing on actually being the target of their hate.  Trust me.

They've supposedly got their own sooper dooper secret website now.  That and they infested some silly Darwin website as well.

Good riddance to the lot of them.
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Re: Why can't Freepers post here?
« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2009, 10:09:54 AM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on December 18, 2009, 09:53:25 AM
Yeah well just lurking there has nothing on actually being the target of their hate.  Trust me.

They've supposedly got their own sooper dooper secret website now.  That and they infested some silly Darwin website as well.

Good riddance to the lot of them.

Darwin Central..started by former Freeper Patrick Henry who would obsessively post evolution threads daily and then ping in a army of minions to tell anyone that disagreed that they were "too stupid to understand" and so on.
I finally cornered the troll one time when someone asked his credentials for being such a scientific expert and he refused to answer.
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