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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:14 PM
Original message
Sick of farewell posts.
Edited on Sat Sep-17-05 02:43 PM by Buddyblazon
Who are these people? I could understand if someone had 5000+ posts. But this is a community of more than 70k.

It's a bummer that you folks have decided not to partake in the largest progressive cyber think tank. But what kind of drama queens do you have to be to make your grand exits announcing to everyone on the board?

It's just weird to me. I am seeing these on a daily basis and just think it's rather egotistical and a scream for attention. "PLEASE SOMEONE NOTICE ME. TELL ME NOT TO GO. ASK ME WHY. AND BEG ME NOT TO LEAVE."

I say don't flatter yourselves. Sorry that you couldn't get along with other posters. But this is cyber world. Not the PHYSICAL world. I can't imagine what your "walking on eggshells" existence must be like for your acquaintances.

For god sakes man...thicken up that hide! Get a grip. You can just go. And don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.


On edit...have provided my own sample farewell post.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4804938
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:15 PM
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1. Goodbye. nt.
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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. Goodbye to whom?
Me?

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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 04:07 PM
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56. I was just exampling how simple and easy it is to leave. It doesn't
have to be some long Shakespearian type eulogy explaining deep feelings of disillusionment or despair. In fact, it can be a happy thing... perhaps like the "second line" in NO after a funeral. Perhaps like the party they throw instead of a solemn funeral in some cultures. I have heard that in some cultures there is crying when a baby is born and laughter and cheer when someone departs.

Anyhoo, I was pretending that I was leaving... and I was showing just about how I would do it.... Now who could hate a departure thread built like that??? Simply.... "goodbye".

Hello, I must be going by Phil Collins creeps in right about now......

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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:16 PM
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2. Did you ever see Master and Commander, when the young boy
they wanted to make an officer couldn't handle the position, and ended up taking a leap off the side of the ship but not before telling at least one person why...

Well, this is the Bullhorn version of such an incident.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #2
8. Ooooh
good one.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:52 PM
Response to Reply #2
49. Hard truths must be told.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:16 PM
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3. Hee Hee Hee
You're so cranky and self-involved, you don't understand real pain or how some people think this place is actually REAL LIFE.

Just for that, I think you should announce that you're leaving DU. And you should do it RIGHT NOW.

While we're at it, why do you hate America, hmmmmm?
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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. I'm not cranky at all.
And I love this place.

I read exponentially more than I post. This is the first place I go when I go online.

I just don't get all the farewell posts that have been popping up all of a sudden.

As for me? You'd have to pry me away from DU with a crowbar.

;)
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #6
9. I know, I know
I was yanking your chain, ya doof........... :woohoo:

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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. Well, now I"M the thinskinned one.
*smacks self squarely in the forehead.

Hee hee.
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mongo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:29 PM
Response to Reply #13
20. WELL THAT'S IT!
I'm sick and tired of all the petty bickering.

Screw you guys, I'm going home....

:sarcasm:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:17 PM
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5. It's an epidemic of biblical proportions here.
Either someone is leaving or someone is being flamed.

DU is NOT for sissies.
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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:21 PM
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7. That's right an epidemic of biblical proportions ......
"Let My People Go" Moses exclaimed !!!!!! See ya !!!!! :rofl: funny thread .... gotta laugh just gotta ........ Peace. :)
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #5
14. I'm happy to see
you still have your duck. I never did find the shirt online. I still have mine and would be willing to part with it except it has a great big hole in it because it has always been one of my barn shirts. I kept an old barn together for years with duct tape, the reason my friend gave me the shirt.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:31 PM
Response to Reply #14
21. I dig holey shirts. No one would recognize me with an unholey shirt.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:32 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. If you can wear
a womans small it is yours.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:34 PM
Response to Reply #23
28. I can wear small women.
Sure, send it. It will complete my identity. PM me. Or is it more proper for me to PM you?
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #28
35. I just PMed you. n/t
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hardrainfallin Donating Member (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:36 PM
Response to Reply #21
31. That duck reminds me of the Dave Letterman velcro stunt
anyone remember that?

Too funny.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:22 PM
Response to Reply #31
53. Everytime I see that bit, I crack up.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:27 PM
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No, it isn't for sissies
First few posts I answered I got flamed for being a freeper. I wasn't even sure what a freeper was.

Then I felt guilty because I HAVE read that site (it's funny) but God knows I sure never posted there!

If I have any complaint about DU at all it is that it is SO huge it is sometimes hard to get a conversation going. It moved fast.
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:35 PM
Response to Original message
29. I posted on that site once
and I do LITERALLY mean once! Got kicked out the one and only time I posted there - can't imagine why :shrug:

:evilgrin:
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #29
36. oops - that was suppose to be a reply to
Tallahassee
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:54 PM
Response to Reply #29
50. Actually it is kind of
boring. Very homogeneous.

DU has a wider variety of opinion, which probably explains the problem the party has settling on candidates and issues.

But WAY more interesting.
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hardrainfallin Donating Member (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:37 PM
Response to Original message
33. Hi granny!
:pals: ??
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:55 PM
Response to Reply #33
51. Hey Hard Rain! n/t
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:22 PM
Response to Original message
10. Please someone notice me. Tell me not to go.
Ask me why. Beg me not to leave.

Testing. . .

I will be back later to check.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:25 PM
Response to Reply #10
15. Don't Go! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeese!
Why are you leaving!? You shouldn't go! :cry: No!!! Don't go! Nooooooooo!

(there, are you happy? :evilgrin:)
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #15
41. phew
Thanks, crispini.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:33 PM
Response to Reply #10
25. and make sure you check your posts to be sure your ass is being
kissed, wuza wuza.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #25
43. And would my ass need to be
naked or clothed?

hmmm

Decisions, decisions. . . .
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:23 PM
Response to Reply #43
54. Doesn't matter coz no one will kiss it anyhow
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #54
55. Now my feewings are hurt
Edited on Sat Sep-17-05 03:27 PM by proud2Blib
:cry:
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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:22 PM
Response to Original message
11. I hope I didn't come off as saying that I was leaving....
because I'm not. And if I was...I sure as hell wouldn't announce it. "I'm ready for my close up Mr Demille."

I'm like a foot fungus that you spend months trying to get rid of. I may be quiet for awhile...but you'll never truly make me disappear.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:26 PM
Response to Reply #11
16. I knew what you were saying but I've noticed a few of the "Goodbye,
Cruel DU" threads lately.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:36 PM
Response to Reply #11
30. I'm with you..I am more like a fungus also...I do not try to be popular
I only love to read and find out what the 'majority' of liberals think...not the 'fringe'...To read news and anti-bush editorials. I post only occasionaly when I feel compelled! I read the "Woah is me, I am leaving DU", only to find out if it a long time poster with issues or just some freeper who was outted.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:22 PM
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12. I'm sick of them, too! I'm leaving! Farewell!
Okay, not really.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:27 PM
Response to Reply #12
18. Good idea. I'm sick of the goodbye DU threads so I'm out of here.
Naawwww! No way.
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Buddyblazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:26 PM
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17. All I know is that they must have some seriously lonely lives.
I get wrapped up in the things that go on here too. I'm just as pissed off as the rest of the posters here. But I would be embarassed to set up a lighting rig, massive PA system and pyrotechnics when I decide to leave.

This ain't a KISS tour. You can't have a farewell tour for 10 frickin' years. Just go already.
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Big Kahuna Donating Member (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:29 PM
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19. That's the last straw! I'm outta here!
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:32 PM
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22. hmmmm.....not seen these "goodbye posts" you are talking about except
the one last weekend that ended up with a "Tombstone."

hmmmmm......yours sound kind of similar to that one.
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:32 PM
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24. Did I do that? I don't think I did, when I took off.
I've got over 4000 posts in, but when I got fed up I didn't make a big deal over it. (Did I? No.)
Nobody misses me or gives a damn why I left. :) And that's as it should be.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:33 PM
Response to Original message
26. In about five minutes I'm going to have to go take a leak, does
that count?
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #26
34. Make sure you ask the Secretary of State first!
:rofl:
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:50 PM
Response to Reply #34
47. I didn't have to. I was SURE and didn't use a question mark. n/t
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:33 PM
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27. I think the best thing to do with the "drama queens" is to ignore them.
It's a pretty obvious attempt for attention. It's passive-aggressive manipulation.



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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:37 PM
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32. Cripes, I quit this hellhole at least 5 times a day.
I just don't say thing here. I slam my head into a cement floor, then I come back here for more. I'm like HERPES!!!
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hardrainfallin Donating Member (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #32
37. the gift that keeps on giving. I quit smoking 5 X a day, too. n/t
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #37
39. I quit smoking
for 2 hours once
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 04:21 PM
Response to Reply #32
58. Or a train wreck.
Can't....stop....looking.

Must....stop.

Can't......
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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:41 PM
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38. I'm not leaving!!!!
Oops, yes I am.

Off to buy ice cream and CD's - and wood blinds for the dining room.

Bleah on the blinds part - good on the rest.
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #38
42. OOH - Ice cream - yum
I'll have an Original Klondike Bar please.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:44 PM
Response to Reply #38
44. I'll take one of those ice cream sandwichy things. Thanks. n/t
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:42 PM
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40. That is it...
I'm staying!!
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:44 PM
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45. Well, best wishes on the road out then n/t
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Siyahamba Donating Member (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:45 PM
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46. The funny thing is they stick around to reply in the thread.
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Seansky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #46
57. you see, freedom of speech becomes an addiction
so how could they really leave it?
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 02:51 PM
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48. I personally could care less
It's a message board. You can't change the world here. It's a good place to commute and get involved online and whatnot.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 03:22 PM
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52. It's a good place for self flaggelation.
If you really are consumed with self loathing, come here and post about killing a kitty while wearing fatigues.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 04:29 PM
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59. Locking
I think we all have had enough today about farewell posts.

Thank you.
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