poll: do we affect the primitives on Skins's island

[BattleHymn]

Whoa.

Wait.

What?

We got a shout-out last night, and nobody posted it?

One's supposed to post shout-outs; it's almost a mandatory requirement of the DUmpster.

Myself, I was logged on last night, but when seeing a woman, got involved in an argument and was so shaken by it I forgot to log out before going to bed.

Well, I know I was traversing the DUmp until right past ~3am.  If there was one, I didn't catch it in time. 

Maybe Skul was talking about the guest total here?  If not, he'll have to plead the 5th. 

[franksolich]

Well, I know I was traversing the DUmp until right past ~3am.  If there was one, I didn't catch it in time. 

Maybe Skul was talking about the guest total here?  If not, he'll have to plead the 5th. 

Okay, I'm slow this morning.  It happens; sometimes the cerebral cells move at the speed of a glacier.

"BH" is you, sir.  I thought it was a primitive, and took out the boat and rowed over to Skins's island to see if I could find a "BH" primitive (*"BH" being an acronym), and no luck.

Now you know why I despise acronyms.

For some reason, the brain's r-e-a-l slow this morning.  It reminds me of the time I was the weekend manager of a small liquor store in Lincoln, and the clerk was in the restroom, meaning I had to man the cash-register for the moment.  A guy came in, laid a gun on the counter (but without taking his hand off of it).  I looked at him with a bored, stony glaze in the eyes and said, "Get the **** out of here."

For whatever reason, he did, and as he was going out the door, I said "Thank you, come again."

(The rest of the story is, yes, he got caught some minutes later, and did some time.)

I think it's stress; sometimes the brain just stalls.

[USA4ME]

Yes, and it's a bad thing

I'd prefer they didn't know we exist.  As Skin's has commanded them, they need to just do their thing and  forget we're here.  They're on an island, they need to act like it.

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[franksolich]

Yes, and it's a bad thing

I'd prefer they didn't know we exist.  As Skin's has commanded them, they need to just do their thing and  forget we're here.  They're on an island, they need to act like it.

I agree wholeheartedly, sir; I wish the primitives didn't even know we existed.

As already mentioned, the sparkling husband dude used to be funny, when he wasn't aware he was being observed.  Well, alas, that's no longer the case, the sparkling husband dude being as boring as a dead nail.

And the hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer stocked the shelves here with comedic goods, until she learned we exist.  And so now hippywife's gone, although there's a chance hippyhubby Wild Bill actually ate her, rather than she going away in embarrassment.

But.....to be nadinesque here, the cat's already out of the box, the Pandora's bag's been opened, and so what can one do?

[franksolich]

I gave the first "not sure" vote.  Some we do, some we don't.  Some modify their behavior because of the attention that we give them (both ways).  Some don't care.  Some show the pathetic existence they have (Stinky, I'm looking at you! ) and the fact that they will never improve their lives; some seem to ramp up their vitriol (Taverner); some disappear off the face of the Earth (Pammy!  Where'd ya go?); and some just exist.  It's similar to nailing Jello to a wall, in trying to figure that group out.

I'm sure we do have an influence on the primitives, no matter how much I wish we didn't, and my heart bleeds for my fellow alum Skins, who feels the same way about the matter as I do.  Many have been the nights I've tossed and turned in anxiety for Skins, who has this rule and the primitives don't follow it.

To me, that shows a lack of respect for my fellow alum, and I don't like it.

I do have an idea, though; something Skins or the elusive enigmatic Elad could probably invent, and sell (Lord Marblehead EarlG couldn't invent a Tinker toy) as a requirement of being on Skins's island.

Some sort of computer gizmo, a "DUmpster blocker" I guess, that's permanently on a primitive's computer, even when the primitive's not hanging around Skins's island, even when the primitive's computer's shut off, denying the primitive access to here.

And I repeat, it being a requirement that such be installed before one can land ashore Skins's island to hang around.  And I repeat, it working for the whole computer of the primitive, not just when the primitive's romping and playing on Skins's real estate.

Skins and Elad could probably sell these "DUmpster blocker"s at, say, twenty-five bucks a shot, and loll in the bed of cash.

[GOBUCKS]

But.....to be nadinesque here, the cat's already out of the box, the Pandora's bag's been opened, and so what can one do?

Now that's interesting. A list of nadinisms could be as comical as her resume.
A stitch in time is over the dam.

[franksolich]

Yes, and it's a really bad thing.

Picture threads are thing of the past, since they became embarrassed at our enjoyment of them.

The CalPig has ceased plopping out her execrable poetry, having apparently ingested a barrel of Pepto-Bismol.

Bouncy tales have dried up to the tiniest trickle.

Coach shut down the hateful old crones in the baking group.

Pam Dawson left, since some pricks were stalking her (and you know who you are).

The Las Vegas Lardass now only posts rarely on his cult doctor site, and very rarely at the DUmp.

Since winning DOTY, DUmmy proud2BeDUmb has limited herself to kpete-ish copy-and-paste crap.

Nutcase nadin, determined to be 2011's Top DUmmy, has transformed herself from a run-of-the-mill wacko into the
most bizarrely offensive, condescending, arrogant, googling ass the DUmp has ever seen.

Distraught at losing DOTY to Pammie, the detestable TLB actually killed herself.

So, yeah, the DUmbasses do change their behavior due to their awareness of how they amuse decent and civilized people.

I need to have this repeated.

Thanks, GOBUCKS, sir.