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poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« on: March 30, 2014, 03:04:50 AM »
Another one of those once-quarterly, now semi-annually, polls to gauge the effectiveness of the DUmpster; how well the DUmpster's doing in providing a public service for the Good of Humanity.

Why do you watch the primitives on Skins's island?


There seems to be three principal reasons one might come to the DUmpster:

(a) for amusement and entertainment, as if reading the comics in the daily newspaper; they're such funny little creatures, the primitives;

(b) for oppositional research; to find out what the other side's up to, their attitudes and strategies; or

(c) for anthropological enlightenment.

The first one is probably overwhelmingly the most popular reason decent and civilized people flock to the DUmpster, in pursuit of some humor and laughs.

The second one seems much less important than it used to be, as over time it's become obvious that professional Democrats and liberals don't take the primitives seriously; in fact, they probably laugh at the antics on Skins's island as much as we do.

The third one is rather esoteric, but it's the main reason franksolich has always watched the primitives, given my interest in anthropology and sociology.  Skins's island is a self-segregated community remote from any intercourse with the real world, uninfluenced and uncontaminated by other cultures.

The hierarchies, the castes, the fetishes, the taboos, the rituals and ceremonies, the practices, the gods and icons, of the primitives are fascinating, utterly intriguing, as if seeing a society from another universe.


And so the question.  Decent and civilized people in ever-increasing numbers flock to the DUmpster to read all about Skins's island and the primitives.  There's lots and lots of other sites watching the primitives, but as far as is known, the DUmpster boasts the largest collection of primitivia on the internet.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2014, 07:44:48 AM »
Voted Oppositional Research. In the sense that I need a lot of time to:

1.) Dig up the guns and ammo buried through out the countryside.
     1a.) dig up the portable wealth.
2.) Get more ammo.
3.) Loot from my list of desirable, absolute must have items and devices that I forgot to buy and preposition, including the    portable wealth.
4.) Get more ammo.
5.) Transport all of the above to my retreat in the Palouse Hills.
6.) Get more ammo
7.) Steal some gas, buy some smokes,
8.) Clean out the fighting holes
9.) Can't remember if I turned off the gas, put a hold on the mail, unplugged the iron, the TV.
10.) Drive back home, do #9.
11.) Steal more gas, drive back to Washington. Can't find the retreat. Realize it's in Washington State, not DC.
12.) Can't find gas to steal. Stuck in Bumf***, Ohio.
13.) Guns, Ammo and extra smokes are back in Idaho, nobody cares about the portable wealth (wish I had invested in diamonds, not old issues of Sports Illustrated!)
14.) Wake up. Realize it was all a dream. Wonder where all the magazines came from.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2014, 09:26:17 AM »
I watch so as to drive my blood pressure sky high because my doctor needs the money.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2014, 09:37:56 AM »
Other...to shed as much light as possible on the stupidity,hatred,vileness and flat out evil a leftist mind and soul contains.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2014, 12:09:54 PM »
Okay, Coach . . . where's the "JOOOOOOS" option? :???: :???: :???:






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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2014, 12:50:39 PM »
Other...to shed as much light as possible on the stupidity,hatred,vileness and flat out evil a leftist mind and soul contains.

That too, but I'm not sure how to list that as an option.

Decent and civilized people have a moral, spiritual, and patriotic obligation, I think, to expose villainies that threaten our lives, rights, and liberties, and I think that in doing that, the DUmpster provides a valuable public service, for the Good of Humanity.

In fact, that's the motto of the DUmpster, "a public service for the Good of Humanity."
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2014, 01:04:43 PM »
I'm torn between the first and third choice: amusement and anthropological. 

I voted for anthropological purposes, since threads that fall into that line are the ones I derive an immense amount of entertainment.

Think the cooking and baking threads, or how the primitives react to a situation differently than normal people. 

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2014, 01:12:38 PM »
I watch them for all of the above, then some, but if I had to pick just one it would be "for purposes of anthropology".

There are many species on the island.  i.e the Klams and the bullies. Two very diverse groups, yet they seem to always come together as intolerant antagonists towards each other and feed off of one another's perceived intolerance and victimhood.

Then there are the arsonists that seem to be there just to get a flurry of attention by torching the place and made to feel how much power they have watching the ensuing nonsensical arguments.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how they all came to being on the island.   Were they originally part of God's plan to destroy the evil on earth by the great flood, only to be washed ashore on a floating island?
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2014, 01:13:30 PM »
.....or how the primitives react to a situation differently than normal people. 

Yeah, both the humorous and the scientific aspect of it.

But primitive means of "problem solving" would be a great deal funnier if the consequences didn't fall on the shoulders of innocent decent and civilized people, too.

The primitive's idea of Utopia is a place where everybody just lays around copulating with everybody else, constantly screwing each other's brains out.  Clumps of heavy, sweating, greasy bodies squirming and squealing and grunting.

My idea of Utopia is a place where each person alone and solely is affected by the consequences of decisions he makes, conduct he does, not other people.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2014, 01:18:04 PM »
I watch them for all of the above, then some, but if I had to pick just one it would be "for purposes of anthropology".

There are many species on the island.  i.e the Klams and the bullies. Two very diverse groups, yet they seem to always come together as intolerant antagonists towards each other and feed off of one another's perceived intolerance and victimhood.

Watching the different groups is as entertaining to me as flipping through the pages of a Thor Heyerdahl book.


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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2014, 01:40:31 PM »
Watching the different groups is as entertaining to me as flipping through the pages of a Thor Heyerdahl book.

They also have some Jackie Collins novels unfolding.

The idiots who go from one bad situation to the next.  Always looked upon as victimized heroes and heroines by the DUmp denizens.     
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2014, 01:47:14 PM »
In Fatu Hiva, Thor wrote about a small group of estranged islanders living on one side of the island that would occasionally be attacked by a much larger group of islanders living on the other side of the island. 

The attacks were based on jealousy, greed, envy, and contempt for the other islanders who were only interested in doing their own thing without bothering the other islanders. 

If that's not Skin's Island, I don't know what is.   


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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2014, 01:57:02 PM »
I voted for Anthropological.  I really think some rich conservative should do a study.  Herd up some of the dummies and put them in their dream world.  A true commune.  On an island where there is plenty of wood for shelter, the land is arable, fresh water etc.  Then see how long it would take them to cast out the Loconuts, Lady Freedumb, UGP etc.  Hell even give them basic shelter and start the farm plots for them.  Within a week 99% will have appointed themselves the bong maker, doobie roller, artist, poet laureate, journalist, womyns historian or supervisor of the island.  I bet it would a reality television hit.  Tune in next week to watch the gungeon tribe wipe out the spiritual forum.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2014, 02:11:23 PM »
It's definitely entertainment.

Reading the DUmp is exactly the way it felt as a child, leaning against a fence at the zoo, watching all the antics on Monkey Island.

You could toss peanuts across the moat and then watch them scramble and scrap over the prize or wade delicately into the water
to retrieve the ones that fell short.

There was always something happening on Monkey Island.

It was the most entertaining part of a trip to the zoo.

The parallels with Skimmer's loony bin are astonishing.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2014, 02:15:30 PM »
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or how the primitives react to a situation differently than normal people

Case in point,room temperature thug Trayvons girlfriend Rachel.
The DUmbasses thought she was brilliant and a darling while the public saw an obnoxious,illiterate moron. 

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2014, 04:03:06 PM »
Mainly for amusement. I also want to stay up on the latest lib talking points. My mole tries to post there a couple times per week to get my numbers up. If after an election, if there is another forum-wide meltdown, I will have a viable account that will allow me to log in and have a look see.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2014, 04:17:09 PM »
Amusement.  Comedy gold.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2014, 06:23:21 PM »
I watch them for two reasons:

1. They provide more amusement than a TV sitcom.
2. Know the enemy.,, and make no mistake, they are the enemy.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2014, 07:48:49 PM »
I watch them for two reasons:

1. They provide more amusement than a TV sitcom.
2. Know the enemy.,, and make no mistake, they are the enemy.
same here plus...DU is my early warning system.

They are the fringe lunatics of the democrat party, but they can't keep their mouths shut. The Klu Klux Klams spilled the beans with sexism/rape culture is the same as racism. No one dares criticize Hillary, or the KKK will come down upon your head.

But I watch them for another reason: DU will telegraph when the rat party will go violent. We will know months ahead of time just by reading DU. The rats will not say anything out loud bit they will communicate to the masses their unspoken talking points. And we will read word for what word what they masters say.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2014, 08:04:26 PM »
same here plus...DU is my early warning system.

They are the fringe lunatics of the democrat party, but they can't keep their mouths shut. The Klu Klux Klams spilled the beans with sexism/rape culture is the same as racism. No one dares criticize Hillary, or the KKK will come down upon your head.

But I watch them for another reason: DU will telegraph when the rat party will go violent. We will know months ahead of time just by reading DU. The rats will not say anything out loud bit they will communicate to the masses their unspoken talking points. And we will read word for what word what they masters say.

Hmmm... never thought about that Mr. Mannn.  Good assessment.  :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2014, 10:45:00 PM »
Option 1 for me...however, the 'Amusement and entertainment' is not necessarily comedy, sometimes it's like a living documentary about the rise of Bolshevism or Mussolini's Fascisti, or the decline of Rome, or dystopian science fiction, or even occasionally a horror show.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2014, 04:24:36 AM »
same here plus...DU is my early warning system.

They are the fringe lunatics of the democrat party, but they can't keep their mouths shut. The Klu Klux Klams spilled the beans with sexism/rape culture is the same as racism. No one dares criticize Hillary, or the KKK will come down upon your head.

But I watch them for another reason: DU will telegraph when the rat party will go violent. We will know months ahead of time just by reading DU. The rats will not say anything out loud bit they will communicate to the masses their unspoken talking points. And we will read word for what word what they masters say.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2014, 08:31:47 AM »
I like IB Perky's term "early warning system."

I like to discuss politics with strangers.  DU gives me warning which talking points the libs will fall back on.  And, they get so upset about obscure issues, I would know of those in no other way.

The entertainment value is a bonus.

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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #23 on: March 31, 2014, 10:19:15 AM »
Fun and games. They're a laugh a day.
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Re: poll: why do you watch the primitives?
« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2014, 10:30:32 AM »
I voted other.

I suppose it's for the same reason people rubberneck at a bad car wreck. Or maybe why we watch horror movies.

Your not likely to see something good or uplifting but you just can't seem to turn away.
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