primitives discuss the population of Skins's island; the cousin gets upset

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024668990

Oh my.

JanMichael (21,590 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 02:59 PM

DU has almost 213,000 users now. The size of a smallish city.

So, when folks post their vanity "I am outta here!" threads- that's probably 212,500 people or so that just really....
 
don't care. At all.

I do like to see our "obituaries," particularly if they were longtime members.

But, the people leaving these days? Never even heard of them- It's like saying, "hey! Do you know Steven Jones? He lives in Baltimore too!"

nadinbrzezinski (131,198 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:01 PM

1. Well, you might not care

but some of them are long time posters, (like today)... and friends.

JanMichael (21,590 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:05 PM

4. oh come on

you have been here long enough to know the "old time" DUers get mad every now and then and "leave." I am not breaking the rules here by naming anyone, but the most melodramatic "I am leaving FOREVER!" poster (who "left" a few times) is one of the most recognized names here.

^^^might, or might not, be referring to the dorkangel primitive.

I dunno.

nadinbrzezinski (131,198 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:06 PM

5. And you are angry about that how

look, if people chose to say goodbye it is their business.

Reason umpty squat these days to question motives.

By the way, if you are going to go there, I am going to go there too. This OP of yours is just as look at me, as anything else.
 
Thread trashed.

1000words (2,336 posts)       Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:03 PM

2. Not really

I believe that is the total number of registrations since launch.

Yeah, it is.

Here on conservativecave however, our number excludes those who've been banned; it's a more honest number.

morningfog (7,164 posts)   Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:04 PM

3. THat is total registrations, not users. I think the number of unique users is

somewhere in the 1,000-2,000 range.

nadinbrzezinski (131,198 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:06 PM

6. I think you are correct

1000words (2,336 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:09 PM

7. Included in that is a few dozen socks ...

but I'd say your estimate is correct.

LittleBlue (5,286 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:31 PM

10. That's about right

1k-2k sounds about right when you look at the most recced threads.

Actually, no.

<<<knows.

It varies of course, but usually generally most of the time it's between 3,000 and 4,000.

But even with this larger number, one wonders why the primitives don't understand why they don't count with the professional Democrats and liberals; "between 3,000 and 4,000" isn't even a dent in the 120,000,000+ voting electorate.

If dear old sweet Lu got off her ass and got involved with her own forum, membership would skyrocket.

2pooped2pop (2,795 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:30 PM

9. wonder how many are still here and post though

I mean, couldn't that number include all of the people who ever registered even if they haven't been here for years?

yorgatron (2,247 posts)    Sat Mar 15, 2014, 03:33 PM

11. some of us have been here since the first day.

some of us just happen to prefer reading to posting.

[USA4ME]

nadinbrzezinski

5. And you are angry about that how look

Professional journo speak.

.

[Skul]

Poor Jan gets the umpty squat plonk. 

[GOBUCKS]

If dear old sweet Lu got off her ass and got involved with her own forum, membership would skyrocket.

Coach is still intrigued by DUmmy Lu's ass.

[GOBUCKS]

dear old sweet Lu, who thought that as hostess, all she had to do was sit on her ass all day long

More on DUmmy Lu's sweet ass.

[Carl]

If you take our moles out of the equation the DUmps numbers decrease by probably half.

[franksolich]

More on DUmmy Lu's sweet ass.

Oh now.

Dear old sweet Lu is a senior citizen who presumes herself an elegant lady because she uses the tres chic "dinner" rather than the plebian "supper."

She's got grey hair and ties it up in a knot on top of her head, with a net around it.

She wears gingham dresses.

Dear old sweet Lu's the sort that, on her, one would call it a derriere.

[EagleKeeper]

That's odd, nadin insists she trashed the thread but is still responding in it?!?

Nadin lies, all the time nadin lies.

You got that bullies?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually, no.

<<<knows.

It varies of course, but usually generally most of the time it's between 3,000 and 4,000.

Once you take out the moles and VRWC agents, of course, her number really isn't that far off...

 

[Splashdown]

Once you take out the moles and VRWC agents, of course, her number really isn't that far off...

 

Not to mention the requisite NSA and Secret Service agents required to log on.

[franksolich]

Once you take out the moles and VRWC agents, of course, her number really isn't that far off...

 

Well, yeah, that, but as long as one doesn't know who the moles and Secret Service agents are, one just automatically counts them as primitives.

[dutch508]

Whatever happened to the DUmptracker© that we used to have? Tracked numbers of real DUers and such...

[miskie]

"umpty squat" - I can't seem to locate this phrase in the Oxford American Nadinlish Dictionary.

It almost sounds like it could be an unreleased track from Digital Underground, -authors of The Humpty Dance. 

[franksolich]

Whatever happened to the DUmptracker© that we used to have? Tracked numbers of real DUers and such...

That was BadCat's invention.

It has to be exactly superimposed over Skins's island, and since the elusive enigmatic Elad is always making changes, it had to be adjusteded just about every time BadCat ran it.  It wasn't an easy or quick job.

[BlueStateSaint]

Whatever happened to the DUmptracker© that we used to have? Tracked numbers of real DUers and such...

BadCat's DumpDiver, IIRC.

Sorry for the reshoot of the fire mission.

[GOBUCKS]

"umpty squat" - I can't seem to locate this phrase in the Oxford American Nadinlish Dictionary.

It's a pure nadinism. We're sorely remiss in not having maintained a compilation of her unique contributions to the language.

You'd think it would be a priority to do that, but au cntrainere, it is not.

People should be upset that so many gems have been lost. They should be angry enough to start a big kerfunkle.

[redwhit]

Whatever happened to the DUmptracker© that we used to have? Tracked numbers of real DUers and such...

I have some vague memory of BadCat tweaking it for DU3 but things weren't worth the effort or something like that? 

Can't remember so here's some bacon pie.

[franksolich]

I have some vague memory of BadCat tweaking it for DU3 but things weren't worth the effort or something like that?

Yeah.

I felt badly for BadCat, who's one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet, because every time he issued new numbers, other people kept asking him, "well, run the program on this site or that site or the other site, too."

They didn't understand he couldn't do it; it was specific to Skins's island, and every time the elusive enigmatic Elad pushed an "enter" button for the least slightest little change, the whole program had to be remodeled.

What BadCat does as a public service for the Good of Humanity isn't as easy as it looks, even for BadCat.

[dane]

nadinbrzezinski (131,215 posts)

5. And you are angry about that how

look, if people chose to say goodbye it is their business.

Reason umpty squat these days to question motives.

By the way, if you are going to go there, I am going to go there too. This OP of yours is just as look at me, as anything else.
 
Thread trashed.

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And, as one of the bullies recalls, gNads herself has had several goodbye songs


Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 15, 2014, 05:49 PM

 pintobean (11,634 posts)

15. How many times have you said goodbye

over the years?

[Splashdown]

It's a pure nadinism. We're sorely remiss in not having maintained a compilation of her unique contributions to the language.

You'd think it would be a priority to do that, but au cntrainere, it is not.

People should be upset that so many gems have been lost. They should be angry enough to start a big kerfunkle.

All we need to do is go through her posts, and walla! You find them.

[obumazombie]

I'll have some plonk salad dressing on that big word salad.

[dane]

"umpty squat" - I can't seem to locate this phrase in the Oxford American Nadinlish Dictionary.

It almost sounds like it could be an unreleased track from Digital Underground, -authors of The Humpty Dance. 

From the Urban Dictionary

umptysquat

adj.

1. Amounting to or consisting of a number.

n. (used with a pl. verb)

1. An undetermined amount.
2. The amount of the people.

pron. (used with a pl. verb)

1. A number of persons or things.

There was umptysquat people here today.
A umptysquat number of the workers had the flu.
I have umptysquat signed up today.

[Big Dog]

From the Urban Dictionary

1. An undetermined amount.

So, it would be correct to say "Umpty squat people are enrolled and paying premiums under Obamacare."

[obumazombie]

So, it would be correct to say "Umpty squat people are enrolled and paying premiums under Obamacare."

Ah, the owbamacare salad. You get to order it, then not pay for it. Plonk !

[JakeStyle]

Has there been a recent rash of prominent DUmmies leaving the hive?  DUmbass tatertots was the last one I noticed, and I believe he mostly posted goofy stuff in the lounge.