I’ll consider it, and I also reported the move the MPSIMS moderators, who are free to move it back. In the meantime, please remember that personal insults aren’t allowed in MPSIMS.
Gfactor
Pit Moderator
I’ll consider it, and I also reported the move the MPSIMS moderators, who are free to move it back. In the meantime, please remember that personal insults aren’t allowed in MPSIMS.
Gfactor
Pit Moderator
You know what I hate? People who think that everything should be about them and their tastes.
Specifically, those fighting over what should be allowed in the Pit.
Someone doesn’t like RO threads? Ban them from the Pit.
Someone doesn’t like political threads? Ban them from the Pit.
Someone doesn’t like parody threads? Ban them from the Pit.
Someone doesn’t like whining threads? Ban them from the Pit.
Geeze. What is wrong with all of you? How hard is it to skim past threads that clearly won’t suit you? Even if you click on a thread that turns out not to be of interest to you, surely you find that out in less than ten seconds reading the OP and hit the back button. Oh, tragedy! You’ve wasted ten seconds of your life! You’ve wasted the energy to click on a browser button – twice! How awful!
And I do not buy for one second the argument that awful/inappropriate threads [read: the ones you don’t like] are ‘crowding out’ the good/appropriate threads [read: the ones you like.] For at least the past month there haven’t been enough threads that fall under whatever the default cut off time span is to force any off the first page. There is ample room for that awesome rant about your neighbor’s dog shitting in your yard. Or the evils of product sales ‘parties.’ Or anything else that really pisses off someone.
The reason that there are few threads like that posted is because few threads like that are posted. Killing off the political/whiny/RO/whatever threads will not cause more ‘awesome rants’ to spontaneously generate for your reading pleasure.
You people whining about ‘that doesn’t belong in the Pit’ and trying to instigate a bunch of exclusionary rules are a bunch of self-centered, intolerant, control freak bastards.
Fuck you all.
StarvingButStrong, “fuck you” isn’t appropriate language for MPSIMS, which is where you knew you were.
Warning issued.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
Okay, sorry.
Okay, now I know you did it on purpose. I know we’ve had our differences but these latest “gaffes” are too much.
Look, layout diva, who acted like our event journal was your own personal performance vehicle, apparently to demonstrate you patently false claim that you are the best layout person evah and your judgment is the only thing that counts despite the fact that I was designated the proofreader.
You are not the best evah or the only judge; people paid good money for ads and they should have gotten what they asked for, especially since initial instructions and my proofreading caught all of the mistakes you still made.
An ad-buyer asked that you reproduce her business card for the ad she bought. Although the orientation had to be changed to portrait, there was no need to add all those funky fonts to an otherwise elegant setup. Oh, that was an ad I brought in. Hmmmm.
Another ad-buyer also wanted her business reproduced except, because of sensitive employer issues, did not want her name to be in the ad, as on the business card. This was written to you twice, yet somehow the name appeared in the ad. Oh, that was an ad I brought in. Hmmmmmmm.
Yet another ad-buyer – a $100 ad at that, which appears very first – sells perfumes and scents that are touted as “hypoallegenic.” How in the fuck did the word come out to be “hyperallergenic,” Best-layout-person-evah? Oh, that was an ad I brought in. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Look, neurotic, five-day-emotional-meltdown-cycle, Emperess-of-the-layout-world-NOT! imperfectionista. I can understand if you have personal issues with me but, not only did you mess with the integrity of our organization by doing this, you just cost us $150 that we desparately need because I’m refunding EVERY SINGLE PENNY to those ad-buyers.
Can I kill my kitchenmates?
Placing wet (and not very well cleaned) dishes with the clean, dry ones was bad.
Placing used (and not cleaned at all) pots with the clean ones was bad.
Now it’s not-cleaned-at-all dishes mixed with the clean ones. Guess I’ll start keeping some dishes in the cupboard I can lock.
Oh, no, that can’t possibly be her motivation! I mean, we have the same gal working for us and my boss swears it’s just because she’s stupid. It can’t *possibly *be passive aggressive bullshit.
Uh-huh…
Thanks for the suggestions, that knife looks very interesting. That’s not the kind of peeler I prefer however, I never hav been able to get on with them, the ones I use look like this.
I have recently invested in an electric hand mixer and a hand held mincer, which I’m using for garlic as I don’t have the power grip neccessary to make garlic presses work.
I’m not going to name names, but I wish to mini-rant about a poster on the Dope who’s contempt for the poor is legendary, who is anti-welfare despite receiving a monthly benefit check of her own, and who has the annoying habit of popping into threads to either declare that we don’t need anymore of these, or that they’re in the wrong place, or in any case SHE doesn’t approve of it. She really cheeses me off. But then, hypocrisy always does.
(shhh! No one mention the name!)
Some of those attributes seem to describe a young lady in California, while others I would swear match up with a young lady from the Midwest.
Wusthof-Trident makes one - I’ve had mine for 20 years and is still doing a great job. Found one online pretty cheap.
Yes, arguably the description could apply to more than one person, which gets around possible accusations I’m engaging in a personal attack. Good of you to point that out.
(Except only one of those two, to my knowledge, receives a monthly check from the government. But I could be wrong. Both of them certainly seem to think I am, most of the time)
I was more than a little surprised to see that mini rants had been moved from it’s customary home. So now I have made my first ever venture into ATMB and started Mini Rants in MPIMS.
Please join me in sounding off with your opinions and I would especially like to hear from anyone that thinks it was a good idea.
What part of “don’t touch the sideburns” is hard to understand?!
She hacked off a good 1/2" from both sides.
Grrr.
Damn. I hope your day got better, Sodalite. I know you shouldn’t take advice from starangers on the internet, but let me second Nava’s suggestion for getting one of those sun lamps. And if it’s possible, try forcing yourself to exercise, or at least walking in the sun on your lunch hour.
Knock yourself out. Use sparingly, however - I used “marketechture” as a joke and our marketer overheard it. Now she uses it all the time.
Attn: Miss Giggles,
Yes, you. Everything you say is not funny, and does not warrant laughter of any kind, not your breathy short ones nor your extended loud ones. I can’t see you over there on the other side of the room (I’m grateful for small favors, since all I ever get from you is the stinkeye) but that desk/room divider thingy does nothing to mute the awfulness that is your open yap.
Oh, yes, and it is the height of inconsiderateness to dial using your speakerphone, even if you pick up as soon as the other party answers. If you are going to use the handset anyway, please spare the rest of us from listing to “dial tone . . . beep boop beep beep baap beep boop beep beep boop . . . ring ring ring . . . hello?”, apparently set at 11. Thenks, awefully.
Yours in this space we are forced to share,
Roddy
Dear Inbox Dollars,
Thirty dollars earned means thirty dollars. Thirty dollars earned does NOT mean thirty dollars minus three bucks. Or a check for said money you say will be mailed sometime in mid-December.
You’re cheap assholes and you can go to hell over it.
Sincerely,
I have better things to do with my time
And laughing, giggling, guffawing, chucking, and otherwise expressing amusement at your own wit does not make it funny.
Man, I hate people who constantly laugh at their own jokes.
Yeah, it’s not even jokes - observations about the weather, or normal conversation (as normal as it can be constantly punctuated by “he he” and “ha ha ha” and suchlike), every farking thing out of her mouth is followed by the devil laugh.
It was so quiet this morning; then *she *came in.
There has been a lot of frustration in our business in recent years, but this might be what puts me over the top and out the door. Or you’ll be reading about me in what’s left of our morning paper.
Roddy