What's going on with the gullibility level here?

[Ripley]

Did I just make up that word or what?

Hi! My name is Ashley Sue, I live in Clanton Alabama and I've been a life-long Republican my whole 52 years of life. But I've been reading DU for a month and I'm converted!!! I told off my husband, my preacher, my Father and even my boss at the Save-a-lot. Then they started reading DU and they're here now too!!! We have all joined the Democrat Party and love it love it!

:hi: :grouphug:

[dogday]

1. Are you saying some posts are not what they appear to be?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. Let me be the first to Welcome you.

:rofl:

[returnable]

3. Hey, Ashley - back up your story with a link

:hi:

[Bluebear]

4. Welcome to DU Ashley Sue! Set a spell!

:rofl:

[IChing]

8. 1000 - 500 posts

is ok on reputation normally but ashley sue must be
16 years old after 52 years.

[Ripley]

11. Why thank you!

I especially love all of your pictures of President Bush and his administration and my Republican friends! They are so clever. How on Earth do you manage tofind the time to photofix all those pictures? I'm so happy to be on the winning team now! :loveya:

[IChing]

14. The photos are real and not photoshopped

ever single one of them.

[Ripley]

16. Well mercy me!

I had no idea Republicans were so ugly! Thank you so much for helping me understand. :hi: :) :)

[Ron Green]

18. Wecome to DU, Ashley Sue. What are you wearing right now?

[Ripley]

19. Um, oh my goodness gracious!

You people really are different aren't you?

I've got my pearls on. :blush:

[Bluebear]

22. The ones Jim Ray gave you on your anniversary?

Or the real ones you bought yourself?

[Ripley]

23. QVC all the way hon!

But don't let Jimmy hear that. *Snicker*

[fob]

5. Welcome aboard Ashley Sue!

I see becoming a Democrat has done wonders for your grammatical and spelling skills, or as is more commonly known, freeplish.

:evilgrin:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Please don't lock Ashley Sue's thread...

...the responses have been "very illuminating," and there are CLUES elsewhere on this message board about Ashley Sue!

:silly:

[Tesibria]

13. LOL . ........... nt

[blondeatlast]

20. Hah!

:rofl:

[MazeRat7]

7. LOL... yeah.. Maybe we can get a BullShit emoticon to save typing...(n/t)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

27. Maybe trolls can just have a "troll" icon...

...so they don't waste out FRIGGING TIME.

What a WASTE OF TIME.

I've put this BITCH on my "ignore" filter.

I HATE to do that.

But the person who WASTED OUR TIME and TREATED US LIKE FOOLS sucks ASS.

SERIOUSLY.

What a LOSER.

What a JERK.

What a FUCKING TROLL P.O.S.

:grr:

[SheepyMcSheepster]

9. Welcome to DU ashley!!

:hi:


i will continue to welcome any new DU'er posting. i was suspicious of the earlier repub conversion stories by new posters, but saying hi never hurt anything, we can't assume everyone is a troll, so i just say "hi and welcome", that is all.

[MARALE]

10. Who cares

Really, if they are not true why tell anyone? It gives people hope that what we are doing is worthwhile. I was a middle of the road independent, really, before I came here and this place did give me information that I did not get anywhere else. They may be true, how do you know? One may have started another, sometimes that happens.
Don't be so cynical.

[DrDebug]

12. Hi Ashley :)

Good to see that we finally converted you. It only took 7089 posts and 3 years, but we did it.

:toast:

And thanks to all the wonderful people who helped her during all those years :party:

[paula777]

15. nominated

just kidding

[question everything]

17. Wow! Reading DU for a month and already having 7000+ posts

That's, what - where is my abacus - more than 230 posts a day?

Must be a real convert, got the special water that DU has especially for converts...

Seriously - when someone with 10 posts starts a thread like that, like the New Yorker from yesterday, I will believe him.

But honey, try to be a bit more creative, OK?

Not even for Friday the 13th..

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. nice

:spray:

[jobycom]

24. How do you do that

Write with a southern accent? You sound just like Scarlet in my head.

[KittyWampus]

26. LOL! I Heard Truman Capote

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

25. Passing fad.

Idiots.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. Yeah...MAYBE...there are some VERY COOL PEOPLE here...

...and there are some COWARDS.

I think we all know where the author of the "illuminating" thread fits in.

I hope this person is VERY pleased with themselves as the result of their "satire."

I'm sure they ARE. That's the impression I got from their "I don;t know how to say this" WORTHLESS POS THREAD after the initial thread was LOCKED.

And if that person is READING this, I hit the "alert" button on you...TWICE...because you SUCK.

:grr:

[Karenina]

29. Somehow it's hard for me to imagine

anyone reading past the point "*was the only one who knew" without cracking up. Rather than blame the messenger, it is interesting to assess how FAR GONE our acceptance of NONSENSE has gone. :shrug:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

30. Yes, that's true...

...I just feel that DU is a very "welcoming" Web Site...far less rigid than FreeRepublic...and I'm not so much offended by the poster's "satire" as I am the fact that AFTER the thread was LOCKED, they posted an "I don't quite know how to say this...but my thread was SATIRE" post.

Does this person think they are a CELEBRITY, or a ROCK STAR, ow WHAT? What is their CRY for attention? Were they not breast fed by their MOMMY?

What the HELL is their problem?

That person was, and is, a COWARD.

That person betrayed the hospitality of DU.

That person, if he / she / it chooses to pull this kind of stunt in the future, will have a VERY SHORT tenure on DU.

In my humble opinion...which doesn't count for much, because I am not Skinner or Elad or EarlG, and this is not "MY" web site...

The POND SCUM COWARD who posted that "illuminating" thread earlier today should have been tombstoned.

They weren't.

C'est la vie. Life goes on.

[Karenina]

31. I'm familiar with the poster

and it is OBVIOUS that many missed the CLEAR SIGNALS that the post was a spoof. The sad thing is that our environs are so topsy-turvy these days that "The ONION" sounds TOTALLY LEGIT.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

32. In George W. Bush's "America"...

...there are times when "satire" and "illumination" are appropriate, and there are times when that kind of stunt will only piss people off.

The members of DU are not lab rats, and are not here for the entertainment and "illumination" of this poster.

My apologies if the person is someone you consider a friend. I consider them to be the only person currently on my "ignore" list.

TODAY, my feeling is that this stunt pissed people off. The repeated requests for verification, the self serving little "I don't quite know how to say this" post AFTER the thread had been locked...

Sorry, the whole thing was juvenile and it sucked. He / she clever, me dumb, ho ho ho.

This person isn't Bill Hicks or Lenny Bruce. They're a DU member who pulled a mid-afternoon stunt that SUCKED.

Maybe on a different day I would have been amused or entertained. Today, I just saw a stunt. There may have been obvious "signs" in "other threads," but I don't think anyone was interested in playing that game.

[tabasco]

33. Put it in the lounge.

After trashing up GD I woulda' tombstoned that ass.