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Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« on: March 02, 2012, 11:51:30 AM »
This isn't much of a thread. The half-dozen or so bitter-enders who rermain holed up at the old DUmp have become crashing, numbing bores.

I brought it over simply because the old DUmp is so easy to copy and paste, compared to the awkward, difficult format of DU3.

These last gasping holdouts hate the new DUmp no less than I do. 
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Junkdrawer  (1000+ posts)     Fri Mar-02-12 07:33 AM
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I gave DU3 a shot yesterday. This morning I saw an interesting (not mine) thread locked...
At the bottom of the OP I find:

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by SidDithers (a host of the General Discussion forum).

What would be the point of posting in a forum where, the minute you start swaying people to your point of view, the discussion can be shut down by an over-the-top troll like SidDithers?
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5. Because over the top ****ing trolls rule there
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 12:31:10 PM »
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Junkdrawer  (1000+ posts)     Fri Mar-02-12 07:33 AM
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I gave DU3 a shot yesterday. This morning I saw an interesting (not mine) thread locked...
At the bottom of the OP I find:

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by SidDithers (a host of the General Discussion forum).

What would be the point of posting in a forum where, the minute you start swaying people to your point of view, the discussion can be shut down by an over-the-top troll like SidDithers?

Oh for cripes sake! Yer just now figurin' out free speech is banned at any of the DU forums?

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 01:20:05 PM »
The old DU's like an island where once it was 4500 square feet above water.

Now it's submerged to where there's only circa 6 square feet above water.

Sinking.

I can hardly wait until the reactionary brain-damaged primitive who can't deal with change has to get with the program, and swim over to the new Skins's island.
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 01:23:15 PM »
The old DU's like an island where once it was 4500 square feet above water.

Now it's submerged to where there's only circa 6 square feet above water.

Sinking.

Like the Isle of Caprice, south of Biloxi.

...or, more interesting:

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 01:32:50 PM »
The old DU's like an island where once it was 4500 square feet above water.

Now it's submerged to where there's only circa 6 square feet above water.

Sinking.

I can hardly wait until the reactionary brain-damaged primitive who can't deal with change has to get with the program, and swim over to the new Skins's island.
Nearly every one of the old cowboy movies would have a scene where someone fell into quicksand.

I grew up thinking the American West was littered with patches of deadly, undetectable quicksand.

The unlucky victim, usually a villain, would suddenly be trapped to his knees, and then slowly, inexorably sink, while shouting for help, until all that was left was his floating black cowboy hat and a few bubbles.

White-hatted victims would always be discovered and thrown a lifesaving rope.

The lunatics remaining at the old DUmp are at about armpit level, and they all wear black hats.

 

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2012, 03:07:10 PM »
They's jus' haters.

Though I do slightly wonder how any OP can be 'Off topic' in General Discussion.  DU is just a strange place I guess.
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2012, 03:16:15 PM »
Why don't Dainbramaged and No Elephants get one of those old AOL private chatrooms?  It'd be the same thing.   

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2012, 03:20:10 PM »
Why don't Dainbramaged and No Elephants get one of those old AOL private chatrooms?  It'd be the same thing.   

That would work for them, but for us, they'd be out of sight.

I like having the primitives on the open public stage, for all to see.
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2012, 04:25:52 PM »
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What would be the point of posting in a forum where, the minute you start swaying people to your point of view
Then there's no point. I've been online from the first day we had access to AOL dialup, and so far I've seen not a single thread in any forum where even one person's opinion was changed. Zero.

People go to an online forum for information, or entertainment, or to simply state their opinion, but I've yet to see a debate where anyone changed their mind in the slightest way about anything.

Even among half-witted lunatics like the DUmpmonkeys, no one is ever persuaded to change.

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2012, 04:35:29 PM »
So does Skinner just plan on leaving it up forever? I guess it can become the new place for rejects now that Old Elm Tree isn't faring so well.

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2012, 04:42:19 PM »
So does Skinner just plan on leaving it up forever? I guess it can become the new place for rejects now that Old Elm Tree isn't faring so well.

OET isn't doing well? Crazy Andrea claims she's taken in sixty (yes, 60!) dollars in her latest fund raiser. That's about the best she's ever done.

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2012, 05:49:11 PM »
Then there's no point. I've been online from the first day we had access to AOL dialup, and so far I've seen not a single thread in any forum where even one person's opinion was changed. Zero.

People go to an online forum for information, or entertainment, or to simply state their opinion, but I've yet to see a debate where anyone changed their mind in the slightest way about anything.

Even among half-witted lunatics like the DUmpmonkeys, no one is ever persuaded to change.

What do ya expect? They're on AOL! I dropped that crap back in '93!

So does Skinner just plan on leaving it up forever? I guess it can become the new place for rejects now that Old Elm Tree isn't faring so well.

Cindie

I'm intrigued! 'Ol Elm Tree is hittin' the skidds? Guess I have been gon awhile!

Do tell, do tell!

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60 Bucks, huh? Boy What a gold mine!
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2012, 05:54:29 PM »
What do ya expect? Their on AOL!

I'm intrigued! 'Ol Elm Tree is hittin' the skidds? Guess I have been gon awhile!

Do tell, do tell!

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60 Bucks, huh? Boy What a gold mine!

I don't know for sure, I thought they were on the skids but maybe they've raised enough money. I don't know.

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2012, 06:32:21 PM »
I don't know for sure, I thought they were on the skids but maybe they've raised enough money. I don't know.

Cindie

$60????????? That wouldn't even pay my water bill for the house! Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Perhaps they have other backers that don't mind throwin' cash down a rat hole!
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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2012, 06:34:59 PM »
Sixty bucks should keep Crazy Andrea in business for six months.

She's not exactly a bandwidth hog.

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Re: Old DUmp Holdouts Lash Out From The Precipice
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2012, 06:36:55 PM »
They's jus' haters.

Though I do slightly wonder how any OP can be 'Off topic' in General Discussion.  DU is just a strange place I guess.
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