poll: does your attitude about individual primitives change over time?

[franksolich]

Does your attitude about individual primitives change over time?

For the primitives, first impressions are engraved in granite, no matter what subsequently happens.

For decent and civilized people, first impressions aren't even traced in the sand on the beach; one takes one's time as things happen, to uncover the true primitive.

I'm sure that for most here, which includes myself, over time one sees how the primitives are even worse than our first impressions of them led us to believe.

In my case, perhaps the best illustration of this is Ms. Hindenberg, the defrocked warped primitive, "Warpy."  Years and years ago, I used to admire Ms. Hindenberg--the archives, if one digs back far enough, show this--thinking she was just about the smartest, wisest, most competent primitive a primitive could be.

I was her number one fan.

But as time went on, I got to know her better, and see how mean, nasty, bitter, hate-filled, grouchy, spiteful, she is, and so my assessment of her got constantly downgraded; now it's to where Ms. Hindenberg rates, in my perception at least, in the bottom of the barrel.  She's a drek primitive, and the sooner she self-combusts in a frenzy of hate and rage, the better a place this world will be.

<<<impressions of primitives are always pretty fluid, in this mind.

It goes the other way, too--franksolich is if nothing else open-minded--and there have been instances where a primitive's been civil, if not downright cordial, about franksolich, and I've had to think more highly of the primitive than I did before, being much less caustic than I used to be.

However, in these sorts of cases I'm not going to name names.

[Carl]

My disgust for them grows daily.
It is one thing for them to be deranged idiots,it is another for them to demand more and more a dictatorial takeover of the country.

There may be those in power that think a population has their back on that and the result will be ugly and bloody.

Btw DUmbasses,you will lose if that is really what you think you want to have happen.

[GOBUCKS]

Does your attitude about individual primitives change over time?

It can't.

I wish them nothing but inconceivable suffering from the first day they log on.

By the way, DUmmy Elad better dust off the Dead DUmmy forum.

The Cleveland ward heeler will come slithering through its gates any day now.

[franksolich]

My disgust for them grows daily.

Yeah, that's the most common, and understandable, reaction among decent and civilized people, and the primitives usually warrant it.

But what I'm finding are some stray exceptions; for example, there's one POGP (primitive of great prominence, bigger than a mere POP) whom I used to make much merriment of, given all of her vanity and silly pretensions.

But after she was cordial to me on Discussionist, and then publicly mentioned it on Skins's island what a cordial guy franksolich is, suddenly it all changed.  It was a natural, not a conscious, change.

I used to refer to her by a different name, always appending the word "primitive."

But now I find myself referring to her simply by her self-chosen screen-name, and without the word "primitive."

For another example, there's another primitive, a middle-aged wishy-washy guy from down south, who said a couple of nice things about franksolich on Skins's island, and now good manners dictates that I call him only by his self-chosen screen-name, again without adding the descriptive "primitive" after it.

And in both cases, I no longer have the stomach to make merry of them; I'll quote them, but not taunt them.

<<<civility goes a long way with.

Of course, there's some primitives beyond redemption--in fact, the great majority of them--for one reason or another, usually because of their unrestrained hate and intolerance.

But it's not always because of their unrestrained hate that they're beyond redemption; I'm thinking here of Atman and Skippy, the NYC_SKP primitive, who even if they were nice guys (I know, it stretches the imagination to conceive such a thing), would still warrant mockery and ridicule because of their really crummy choices in haberdashery; it's as if they on purpose want to look like clowns.

[GOBUCKS]

Coach got the hots for the CalPig.

Probably has something to do with that gaping mouth.

[marv]

DUmmies are communal animals, they run in a herd. How can you tell one from another?

[DefiantSix]

My disgust for them grows daily.
It is one thing for them to be deranged idiots,it is another for them to demand more and more a dictatorial takeover of the country.

There may be those in power that think a population has their back on that and the result will be ugly and bloody.

Btw DUmbasses,you will lose if that is really what you think you want to have happen.

I'd intended to use the word 'loathing' in place of 'disgust', but this covers it pretty well.

[franksolich]

Coach got the hots for the CalPig.

Oh now, hardly.

But I will admit my attitude about her slightly shifted, because she didn't call me nasty names, which is the standard primitive behavior.

[franksolich]

I'd intended to use the word 'loathing' in place of 'disgust', but this covers it pretty well.

"Loathing" is my preferred word.

How else can one feel about uncouth barbarians who get orgasmic about murdering infants, who don't care about millions being ground under the heels of socialist tyrants, who whine because they can't have sirloin steak when tens, if not hundreds, of millions go hungry for even a crust of bread, and who have nothing but contempt for those of us (the taxpayers) that sustain their standard of living without any help from them?

[franksolich]

DUmmies are communal animals, they run in a herd. How can you tell one from another?

Usually one can't; I think it'd be fair to say that even among those of us who've long-termed observed and studied the primitives, 99.9% of them remain lumpenunterprimitiven, a faceles blob of a gigantic lynch mob.

[BlondeMoment]

A very few of them look like their might be a flicker of the light on somewhere. Most of them make such a bad impression, I just skip their posts after that- knowing what to expect.

@marv, cowards run in packs. Or in their case, bullies. These people are the epitome of the classic "go-ahead-crap-on-me, everyone-else-does", chip on their shoulder daring anyone to knock it off, drowning in self pity bullies. Ugh. They need to just FOAD

[franksolich]

A very few of them look like there might be a flicker of the light on somewhere.

It's unfortunate that while there's a few exceptions, the trend's nearly always downward.

I'm a very flexible person; I'm always willing to change my mind, either "up" or "down."

Perhaps the most drastic change in mind occurred the night of December 17, 2009, when the now-late Tangerine LaBamba showed up here, and began spilling the beans on the primitives.

She did some public posting, but I chatted with her nearly all the night long, behind the curtains.

She wasn't quite that easy, though; for example, she adamantly refused to say anything bad about the sparkling old dude--wouldn't even utter half a syllable against him--because they were old friends and pals, both of them being of Italianate derivation.

But all the other primitives, oh boy.....

I'm sure to this day it must've been a deathbed confession, making herself right with God, as she alas died (really) a few days later.

[Dori]

Can't say I dislike any of them anymore now than I did a year ago, except for maybe the Klams.  That's one bunch I'm on board with FOAD attitude.  There are a few of the more outcast ones that I feel somewhat sorry for.

[Ptarmigan]

Every time I think DUmmies hit a new low, they reach a much lower point. A clannish bunch.

[franksolich]

Can't say I dislike any of them anymore now than I did a year ago, except for maybe the Klams.  That's one bunch I'm on board with FOAD attitude.  There are a few of the more outcast ones that I feel somewhat sorry for.

As I mentioned, my feelings are fluid; I feel differently on Tuesday than I had on Monday, if a primitive's said or done something to justify changing the mind.

As for the unHoly Trinity of the screeching banshee she-women women's libbers on Skins's island, I never cared for the seabeyond bitch--not because of anything she's ever said, but simply because she's so incoherent, her postings so sloppy, she's so out of it, that one has no idea what she's saying.  A waste of time.

The redqueen's nothing but a ball-cutter, so one can guess what I think about her.

The BainsBane primitive is, currently, rather problematic.  Because she was so arrogant in her presumption that she's smart and we're stupid when she came here, the impression was wholly negative, a turn-off.

Well, she left here and tried dominating Skins's island, flapping her jugs around.

She's been brought down some notches--not enough, but some--on Skins's island, and maybe been humbled some.  So right now the impression of her's in a state of uncertainty; I'm hovering, waiting for the next thing she says or does, to figure out if she needs upgraded or further downgraded in my own estimation of her. 

[franksolich]

Every time I think DUmmies hit a new low, they reach a much lower point. A clannish bunch.

I tell you, sir, the biggest nose-dive occurred that memorable night, December 17, 2009.

If one checks my threads and comments dealing with the hippywife primitive prior to that date, one finds nothing but awed admiration for her; I thought she was the best thing since strawberries-and-cream.

But then Tangerine LaBamba illuminated me about the real hippywife.

I was blown away; hippywife had always seemed so nice, so homey, so pleasant, so chatty.

You're aware that the late Tangerine LaBamba showed up here that particular night because she'd just been kicked off of Skins's island.  The powerful hippywife-Warpy-grasswire cabal that ran the cooking and baking forum were jealous of her wit and warmth, and wanted rid of her.

Also, the Bostonian Drunkard had a long-standing grudge against her.

At the time, it was known that Tangerine LaBamba was seriously ill and dying (although no one expected her to leave this time and place as quickly as she did), and to me, that was the most craven act of cruelty perpetuated by primitives on one of their own; kicking off a sick and dying woman, driving her away from her fellow primitives into the embrace of their foes, who took better care of her than they ever did.

[Ptarmigan]

I tell you, sir, the biggest nose-dive occurred that memorable night, December 17, 2009.

If one checks my threads and comments dealing with the hippywife primitive prior to that date, one finds nothing but awed admiration for her; I thought she was the best thing since strawberries-and-cream.

But then Tangerine LaBamba illuminated me about the real hippywife.

I was blown away; hippywife had always seemed so nice, so homey, so pleasant, so chatty.

You're aware that the late Tangerine LaBamba showed up here that particular night because she'd just been kicked off of Skins's island.  The powerful hippywife-Warpy-grasswire cabal that ran the cooking and baking forum were jealous of her wit and warmth, and wanted rid of her.

Also, the Bostonian Drunkard had a long-standing grudge against her.

At the time, it was known that Tangerine LaBamba was seriously ill and dying (although no one expected her to leave this time and place as quickly as she did), and to me, that was the most craven act of cruelty perpetuated by primitives on one of their own; kicking off a sick and dying woman, driving her away from her fellow primitives into the embrace of their foes, who took better care of her than they ever did.

What a horrible bunch they are. Such self-absorbed bunch. We are talking about a dying person and they just cast her away. They would be more sympathetic as they are older crowd.

Than again, they do not grow up and act like overgrown adolescents.

No wonder why DUmmies are for death panels.

[freedumb2003b]

Does your attitude about individual primitives change over time?

For the primitives, first impressions are engraved in granite, no matter what subsequently happens.

For decent and civilized people, first impressions aren't even traced in the sand on the beach; one takes one's time as things happen, to uncover the true primitive.

I'm sure that for most here, which includes myself, over time one sees how the primitives are even worse than our first impressions of them led us to believe.

I am not so sure that axiom holds (although rigid thinking is a hallmark of primitives).

I like you from the beginning and I like you now and have no reason to change my opinion of you.

Unless you have been drowning puppies or something else of which I am unaware.

Damn you Frank!  Your drowning puppies messes up my image of you.  But not so much I will change my image of you!

Oh wait, that didn't happen.

(that latter part was an example of how the primitives keep attached to Teh Won in the face of facts and also how the MSM turns rumor into fact --I know in reality Frank loves puppies, kitties, butterflies, and most CCers...)

:)

[GOBUCKS]

TLB committed suicide, and not a minute too early.

Good riddance.

I remember how giddy, how happy she was, discussing the death of Barbara Olson on 9/11.

No matter how bad hippywife and the Klams may be, and they are contemptible, they can't hold a candle to the evil of TLB.

[freedumb2003b]

TLB committed suicide, and not a minute too early.

Good riddance.

I remember how giddy, how happy she was, discussing the death of Barbara Olson on 9/11.

No matter how bad hippywife and the Klams may be, and they are contemptible, they can't hold a candle to the evil of TLB.

Huh?



Suicide and evil?

DETAILS! DETAILS!!

[franksolich]

Oh now, people are always evolving, always changing, and so it's not good to keep a permanent impression of them.

I'm sure that franksolich before January 20, 2001 (the foundation of Skins's island) is a great deal different from franksolich since then.

For example, I used to be immediate and unconditional in accepting other people, no matter who and what they were; nowadays, I need to see their resume, their academic transcripts, their credit reports, their criminal records, their blood-alcohol-drug content, and learn their family history going back six generations, before I decide to accept and like them or not.

Some might consider that wise, being cautious; others might find the loss of trust disturbing.

[franksolich]

DETAILS! DETAILS!!

She had terminal cancer, a condition about which her detractors were fully aware.

It got too painful for her, and so she took an overdose of pharmaceuticals prescribed to help her deal with the pain.

[franksolich]

TLB committed suicide, and not a minute too early.

Good riddance.

I remember how giddy, how happy she was, discussing the death of Barbara Olson on 9/11.

No matter how bad hippywife and the Klams may be, and they are contemptible, they can't hold a candle to the evil of TLB.

Oh now.

I always considered the late Tangerine LaBamba a great deal like my good pal Manny, the "MannyGoldstein" primitive.

If one wants to get along with the primitives, one's compelled to make statements that earn the approval of the primitives, even though one doesn't really mean it.

[franksolich]

Judy grasswire must've been here, and reported back to her fellow primitives.

I swear, the whole cooking and baking forum from Skins's island has been here, reading this.

<<<hopes Judy's enjoying the story dedicated to her, too.

[GOBUCKS]

You may also recall TLB bragging about conspiring with a grocery clerk to shoplift cheese.

Of course DUmmies lie, all the time, but it's usually about doing something good.