The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Dak]

It's the alignment that is running that so high. I never bothered with alignments because as soon as you hit a bump it knocks it off anyway.

 

[genocide roach]

yeah, its about 100. i kinda need it though. it pulls to the left and vibrates a bit when i break. but unfortunately i am forced to drive on a not flat dirt road atleast once a week.

im thinking everything else can be checked at jiffy lube for cheaper.
~gR~

 

[arg]

last.fm is gonna start charging a fee. fuck it!

 

[The Ozzman]

last.fm is gonna start charging a fee. fuck it!

Link?

EDIT: It's only for the radio service: http://blog.last.fm/category/Announcements/ and that's only outside of US, UK and Germany

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

Link?

EDIT: It's only for the radio service: http://blog.last.fm/category/Announcements/

Isn't that just for the radio feature?

 

[The Ozzman]

Isn't that just for the radio feature?

Yes, as I pointed out in my post

 

[False Joe]

CUNT.

That radio service was badass.

Wait, does that include the whole "play my library" as well?

 

[SentinelSlain]

Joe, it's still going to be free in the UK. So unless Wales declares independence...

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

A hilarious campus announcement was issued last night from the university president of SUNY Oswego.

Yesterday we received a report from University Police that on Saturday a
rope tied into a noose and draped in a tree was discovered on the lake
shoreline near the boundary between our campus and the city. The noose
was reported as being generally out of sight, but the fact that it was
near or on college property is reason for me to share my concern and to
emphatically state that acts of bias will not be tolerated on this campus.

University Police is continuing its investigation of this incident, and
I am meeting with student leadership to discuss it.

As you know, I have written to our community on several occasions to
emphasize that we must not be indifferent to acts of hatred or ignorance
whether they occur as racist graffiti or nooses, anti-Semitic language,
or homophobic words. In fact, we must express our concern and outrage
when any member of our community needs our support. Doing so brings us
together to reject acts that contradict our values. Our community, on
this campus and off, in all our many communities, is only as well, only
as whole, only as powerful as we together make it.

I remind all members of our campus that it is the duty of faculty, staff
and students to report behaviors intended to disrupt the lives of any
members of our community. Reports can go to University Police, Residence
Life, Judicial Affairs and/or Human Resources, depending on the nature
of the incident. Please feel free to contact those offices if you have
any information to share.

Deborah F. Stanley
President

I thought it was pretty stupid that she had such a severe over-reaction, so I typed up a comically self-righteous reply. I'm not going to send it back to her, but I may submit it to the campus news paper for shits and giggles.

Hello,

While it is illegal to display a noose "with the intent to
intimidate," I can see no inherent bias affiliated with merely the
presence of a noose in a neutral environment and I find your
reaction to be both presumptuous and alarming. Also, because no
estimation was given about roughly how long the noose had been
there, or the condition of the rope used to tie it, it's entirely
possible that a scarecrow or skeleton was lynched from it around
Halloween and that the noose, once installed, was simply too
difficult to recover.

Additionally, when I was active in the Boy Scouts of America, I had
peers who enjoyed tying nooses recreationally, because it's a
challenging knot and requires a degree of artistic flair in order
to produce one that meets a certain aesthetic standard. Furthermore,
it is entirely possible and even likely that the creator of this
noose simply enjoys knot-tying as a hobby, had no ulterior motive
and (as in the example above) was unable to recover the rope and
later forgot about it.

The fact that one might assume racial bias in such a neutral context
concerns me, because it is an offensive and aggressive act of
prejudice that stigmatizes and incriminates members of our community
and incites others to unfairly alienate them based upon an
arbitrary recreational preference.

Thank you for your understanding,

Matthew F. Tabor

Suggestions?

 

[False Joe]

Joe, it's still going to be free in the UK. So unless Wales declares independence...

Ah right. I read it wrong, "It's only gonna be outside US, that means UK and germany" instead of what it said

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Link?

EDIT: It's only for the radio service: http://blog.last.fm/category/Announcements/ and that's only outside of US, UK and Germany

I was about to ask if they'd really just suddenly decided to wipe out their user base.

 

[The Ozzman]

A hilarious campus announcement was issued last night from the university president of SUNY Oswego.

I thought it was pretty stupid that she had such a severe over-reaction, so I typed up a comically self-righteous reply. I'm not going to send it back to her, but I may submit it to the campus news paper for shits and giggles.

Suggestions?

The point about BSA and knot tying is excellent

 

[SentinelSlain]

Is it possible it was tyre swing and someone decided the tyre had more tread left on it than their spare?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

^ Nice.

BMWG, the beginning of your letter is too serious, so I'd suggest scrapping it. If you really want to make fun of her, I'd say just make it a giant litany of stupid possibilities like the above.

 

[The Ozzman]

Is it possible it was tyre swing and someone decided the tyre had more tread left on it than their spare?

???

 

[zabu of nΩd]

You didn't know Brits spell tire as "tyre"?

It's stupid, I know, but that's just the way they are.

 

[The Ozzman]

It's stupid, I know, but that's just the way they are.

Stupid?

 

[SentinelSlain]

Nobody worth talking to actually, seriously thinks American English is better. Anyway I'm basically anti-American and I think it's time I made that clearer.

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Is it possible it was tyre swing and someone decided the tyre had more tread left on it than their spare?

BMWG, the beginning of your letter is too serious, so I'd suggest scrapping it. If you really want to make fun of her, I'd say just make it a giant litany of stupid possibilities like the above.

Thanks, but I don't want to make it too over-the-top, because then she'll just think I'm being a sarcastic ass and disregard my point completely.

 

[The Ozzman]

It's better from an aesthetic standpoint