why does one suppose the primitives leave Skins's island?

[franksolich]

I'm not talking here about primitives who get thrown off, banned, but about primitives who just go away.

Of course, there's probably many different reasons primitives go away, such as circumstances in real life that make hanging around Skins's island less convenient than it had been--such as, for example, a primitive who used to post only at work, only on company time, and then lost his job; his own time's too valuable to waste engaging with the other primitives.

Or perhaps marital difficulties that make one less enthusiastic about Skins's island.

I've been mystified at the disappearance of the dropsical LynneSin primitive and her boyfriend the pederast ThomCat primitive this past year, the one who was trying to get aboard the disability gravy train because he was "too tired" to work.

In case one's forgotten, early this year Pamela went away too, probably at the encouragement of her husband and the school district.

Proud2BLibKansan, Atman, the cousin nadin, the sparkling old dude, have made sporadic--but very rare--appearances; one wonders what's going on in their lives to make it so.

Sarah Ibarruri; maybe she finally kept a promise she made back in 2004, that she'd leave the United States if George Bush were re-elected; it took her long enough.

undergroundpanther appears to be gone because her two loving caring sisters did the dirty job her mother couldn't do, getting the subway cat into a place where one can't have access to the internet (which is a good thing).  It's possible the same thing happened to Den-Den, Dennis the Menace.

symbolman--who remembers him any more, other than us (once in a very great while)?

Nance Gregg is somewhere, but she's not on Skins's island, as her good pal dear old sweet Lu from the cooking and baking forum copied-and-pasted a couple of her screeds for General Discussion.

Poor stupid Beth, hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer, LadyHawk, StellaBlue, the list is endless, of primitives who just went away without saying why.

[marv]

Maybe they felt themselves becoming unbalanced because they held such mutually exclusive concepts about the world of politics. Maybe it's because CC pointed these conflicts out so often in The DUmpster.

Whatever........what difference does it make now?

[Splashdown]

Let's not forget Bobbolink. Where has the homeless one gone to?

[USA4ME]

I have to believe a lot of it has to do with how much recognition and praise they receive from others. Each primitive views themself as highly intelligent and the smartest person in the room. As long as they are receiving praise from others they view as being almost as intelligent as they are, then all is good. Should that not materialize on the island the way they think it should, then they'll seek it elsewhere. Some may go the victim route. Others jump to similar forums seeking a smaller pond in which to be noticed. Others, OTOH, may have received the admiration they believe they deserved, figured they conquered that territory, and have moved on to greener pastures to gain new praise.

Let us not forget all we have learned from Margaret Mead, continually recognizing they are, after all, primitives.

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[longview]

Let's not forget Bobbolink. Where has the homeless one gone to?

Team Bobbolink is alive and well putting their degrees to work for the betterment of those who avail themselves to the opportunities offered.  To those who spurn improving their situation, the Team is well able to, and may, offer suggestions of living successfully in the alleys, flop houses, and shelters of the Mile High City.

[DumbAss Tanker]

People fall in and out of forums, often for no particular reason except being involved in something else that consumes the time they previously devoted to it.  There's a couple of military forums I used to frequent all the time, for several years, but I more or less fell out of them due to events including overseas deployments a few years back, and just never got back to them.  It's just the nature of internet forums, really.

Now, not to say that some excellent reasons haven't been advanced above concerning DU in particular - incarceration, lack of sufficient ego-stroking, obtaining some sort of actual employment through some horrible mischance that doesn't involve sitting on the ass in front of a computer with internet access and lots of unsupervised free time, that sort of thing.

[Chris_]

sitting on the ass in front of a computer with internet access and lots of unsupervised free time

That sounds like my job.

[98ZJUSMC]

primitives who just go away

I prefer death.  

Un-natural, horribly painful and, preferably, topped off with a "Come to Jesus" moment within an hour or so of time of death.

Death, being the only real event I care about.  They need to die.

lack of sufficient ego-stroking

[DumbAss Tanker]

That sounds like my job.

Yeah, but you're not a Liberal, so you probably actually use that work computer to do work.

[franksolich]

Well, after the absence of nearly a year, the LynneSin primitive out of the blue showed up in the Lounge last night.  Just one single stupid comment, not worth bringing over here, but it was nice to see she's still in this time and place, after one'd feared she may have succumbed to terminal dropsy brought about by the promiscuous overuse of pharmaceuticals. 

[Skul]

LFR has been absent for the last few weeks.
Perhaps the coyotes finally finished her off.

[franksolich]

LFR has been absent for the last few weeks.
Perhaps the coyotes finally finished her off.

Yeah.  After I wrote the original post and posted it, it occurred to me I'd forgotten to mention her absence, too.

Too many primitives, too little storage-space in the brain.

[Chris_]

LFR has been absent for the last few weeks.
Perhaps the coyotes finally finished her off.

I wonder of she's been rendered into cooking oil by Whitecloud and his family.

Mm, fry bread.

[Splashdown]

If Skinner would get off his ass and do the missing DUers section like he promised, it would make things easier...

[Skul]

I wonder of she's been rendered into cooking oil by Whitecloud and his family.

Mm, fry bread.

Which of course, brings this new CC thread to mind. 
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,93248.0.html

[franksolich]

If Skinner would get off his ass and do the missing DUers section like he promised, it would make things easier...

You know, something else that would simplify life greatly is if the front page of Skins's island listed all the members currently on-line, as we do here; information freely available to even lurkers.

That way--just as lurkers can do here--one could see if a particular primitive's on board, and not waste time looking for him if he's not.

Why are we so open and generous, and they aren't over there?

[Chris_]

You know, something else that would simplify life greatly is if the front page of Skins's island listed all the members currently on-line, as we do here; information freely available to even lurkers.

That way--just as lurkers can do here--one could see if a particular primitive's on board, and not waste time looking for him if he's not.

Why are we so open and generous, and they aren't over there?

That's a question that answers itself when you look at their politics.

[Skul]

You know, something else that would simplify life greatly is if the front page of Skins's island listed all the members currently on-line, as we do here; information freely available to even lurkers.

That way--just as lurkers can do here--one could see if a particular primitive's on board, and not waste time looking for him if he's not.

Why are we so open and generous, and they aren't over there?

We do it for free.
Skimmer wants them to pay for the privilege.

[franksolich]

That's a question that answers itself when you look at their politics.

You're right.

The open-ness of this place is blindingly bright, while theirs is dark as midnight.

What do they fear, about being open?

[Carl]

Most lefties I have met are so self assured they know everything that they quit learning years and years ago.
Once a DUmbass becomes well known and their inane gibberish mocked for the idiocy it is they skulk off into the shadows to lick their wounds.

[GOBUCKS]

Far more DUmmies than we know disappear due to premature death.

Overdoses, drug deals gone bad, cirrhosis, AIDS, hepatitis, fatal domestic violence, and suicide are all common among liberal democrats.

Since Skimmer has not honored his word to the CalPig to establish a dead DUmmy forum, there is no way to document these happy events.

[franksolich]

Far more DUmmies than we know disappear due to premature death.

Overdoses, drug deals gone bad, cirrhosis, AIDS, hepatitis, fatal domestic violence, and suicide are all common among liberal democrats.

Since Skimmer has not honored his word to the CalPig to establish a dead DUmmy forum, there is no way to document these happy events.

I'm beginning to think the job's not done not because of laziness, but given the utter self-absorption in which the primitives live, oblvious to the existence of their fellow primitives, the primitives just don't care if one of their numbers keels over.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Because the others fail to acknowledge their brilliance.

[DefiantSix]

I'm beginning to think the job's not done not because of laziness, but given the utter self-absorption in which the primitives live, oblvious to the existence of their fellow primitives, the primitives just don't care if one of their numbers keels over.

Much like any other flock of sheep, they're just happy it's not them whenever the wolves drag another of their number to the ground.

[jukin]

I think that the actual liberals (small l) people eventually get disgusted at the latest hive think. I also believe this is due in no small way from the moles bringing out the DUchebags inner hate.

there are also the purges. The Hillary Dumbasses had to die for the magic negro to win and a good many were pizzaed but others not so zealous saw what was happening and woke up. Others just wake up to the echo chamber. I give you OldLefty Lawyer who knew that pittstain's lie of Rove being "Frog Marched" and the ridiculous 24 business hours giving rational and logical arguments were shouted down and left. Others semi rational DUchebags looked at that and realized that the DUmp was not anything other than a kooky ranch of the first order.

others I suppose just have their ability to use a computer taken away from them by the kind people in white clothes.

In the end it will be the truly insane and moles. I strongly suspect that a tipping point was reached about 12 months ago.