The DIBB Has Jumped The Shark
Book Magoo, Roving Reporter
Well the iconic Facebook stalwart ‘Denman Island Bulletin Board’ has jumped the shark. It’s the end of an era folks. Like the once great ancient Rome, it now lies in ruins and all that remains are scant remnants of its former stateliness. It’s become as palatable as a steaming bowl of raw sewage. The intellectual equivalent to being tied to a chair and kicked down a flight of stairs. The DIBB is akin to the neighborhood bar that used to be a good place to go visit once in a while but then it got taken over by a bunch of unlikeable surly regulars that are there 24/7 and just try to pick fights with anybody that says anything that rubs them the wrong way. It’s an intellectual cul-de-sac littered with laughing emojis and snide remarks from thoroughly unlikable keyboard combatants who constantly feel driven to sate their appetite for shittiness and tell the whole world what they think about everything and anything that comes across their radar. The new and improved DIBB comes complete with public shaming courtesy of would be climate change “activists” who address the need to voice their displeasure every time someone idles their car for more than four seconds after its driver slaps it in park, along with long-winded rambling political screeds that read like one of those computer software licensing agreements where those on board skim the first two sentences then scroll to the bottom and hit “Agree”. And then there’s the “I’m so done with this shit” crowd who defiantly make a post announcing their departure from the whole sordid mess. “Hey, just letting everybody know that I’m leaving Facebook…you can find me over at Bluesky!” then within two weeks they’re back to sneaking in a like here and there and before too long they’ve full on reappeared like a persistent untreatable rectal itch and more unbearable than ever. I think when covid hit a few select people decided to uncork themselves and release their inner asshole loose upon the community. I could see things going in that direction before the “pandemic” but holy shit in a hat 2020 was like a pedal to the floor for some high octane assholery. The Pandora’s Box was open and as Grandma used to say “You can’t put shit back in a donkey”. Was it ever any good to begin with? Or am I just viewing this through a rose colored lens that clouds my perception of reality? Like that old movie you used to love, then you watch it again years later and find that time has been quite unkind to it. But the movie’s no different, it’s the same as it’s always been…
