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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
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11:20 am - UPDATE on Amy's Baking Company...
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| Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
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11:32 pm - I AM NOT STUPID ALL OF YOU ARE. YOU JUST DO NOT KNOW GOOD FOOD.
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loopywafflehead
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Amy and Samy Bouzgala, of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro in Scottsdale, Arizona, appear on Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares. Aside from the incredibly poor service and food, they lie about baking the cakes they sell, and most of the photos they use on their Facebook belong to other people. Even worse, they verbally abuse customers and staff, and they keep their employees’ tips for themselves. Ramsey gives up on them, saying, “After about 100 Kitchen Nightmares, I met two owners I could not help. It is because they are incapable of listening.”
The owners didn’t listen because they didn’t want help. They only wanted Ramsey's compliments and praise in order to show up the ‘haters’ and ‘bloggers’ on Yelp and Reddit who are obviously out to get them.
Of course, that didn’t happen and the owners had an epic meltdown on their company’s Facebook page.
( I am keeping note of all names here. We will be pursuing action against you legaly, and against reddit and yelp, for this plot you have come together on. )
The drama made it to Buzzfeed, where you can find plenty of screencaps in case their Facebook is taken down.
Amy has also been convicted of fraud for using someone else’s social security number and taking out a loan.
People swarm to their Yelp page after watching the episode but most of those reviews are removed. However, it’s easy to see from reviews left before the programme was aired that the owners have always behaved this way.
A poster on Reddit submits the theory that the whole place is actually a money laundering operation. [ETA: Post has since been deleted. I'll try to get it from my computer's cache but if anyone finds a screencap in the meantime, let me know. Found a copy of the text on another Reddit thread, copied to the comments here.]
The full episode can be found here on YouTube. This post on eater.com contains a summary as well as a couple of clips from the show.
And ONTD speculates on the most important issue: what Gordon Ramsey would be like in bed.
( Previous ETA's now under the cut )
ETAx5: This is the latest post on their Facebook:
Other Side of Amy’s Baking Company Controversy in Scottsdale To Soon Be Told
SCOTTSDALE, AZ. MAY 15, 2013 -- Amy’s Baking Company will host a Grand Re-Opening on Tuesday night, May 21, following unflattering portrayals on national television.
Customers will be able to decide who is correct: a famous celebrity chef or the marketplace that has supported the small, locally-owned business for six years.
When re-opened, a portion of proceeds will benefit a charity organized to bring awareness to cyber bullying.
Seating is limited. Reservations may be made by emailing sjones@rosemoserallynpr.com.
Diners will also have the opportunity to meet, and judge for themselves the character of owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo, who have devoted their lives to and earn their living from their small restaurant. The Bouzaglos have been married for 10 years, after Sammy emigrated from Israel.
The owners will likely be holding a press conference before the Grand Re-Opening and answer falsehoods depicted on a reality television show, including assertions that the restaurant confiscates tips from servers.
In fact, wait staff is paid $8-$14 per hour, two and half to nearly five times the standard hourly wage for servers.
Questions will also be answered about what happened to their Facebook page.
Amy’s Baking Company was recently featured on the hit PBS show “Check Please” and has received A+ reports from CBS 5 for kitchen preparedness.
“We are very upset by what has taken place, apologize about the acrimony that has ensued but now must fight back to save our business. We hope and believe much good can result from what has transpired. We ask the public to keep an open mind as we begin to tell our side of the story,” Samy Bouzaglo said.
For more details, please contact Michael Saucier.
I can't decide whether I want Michael Saucier to be a real person or someone who is just leading them on.
In more pleasant news, Katy Cipriano, the waitress who was fired on the show, has participated in an AMA on Reddit. She does have other employment and is doing quite well.
ETAx6: Press conference is off, grand reopening is still on, and future updates can be found in this post.
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| Thursday, April 11th, 2013
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3:18 pm - Woodsy Owl: A Beautiful and Cosmic Story
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tiye
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Okay, this wank is small, old, and played out over a period of several years, but it's too beautiful (and cosmic!) not to share. It came to my attention when Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon fame posted about it on Facebook.
So Woodsy Owl is a cousin of Smokey Bear. Woodsy is a mascot for the US Forest Service whose original slogan was "Give a hoot -- don't pollute!" (It has since been updated to the not quite so owl-relevant or metrically sound "Lend a hand -- care for the land!") The official story seems to be that Woodsy was created in 1970 by a marketing agent named Harold Bell, who developed the mascot with a couple Forest Service employees.
Cue outrage on Woodsy's Wikipedia Talk page from not one, but several people who are convinced that they personally created Woodsy when they were kids, as part of some kind of national contest. Others claim it was a spouse, a friend, or a relative.
( Her mother was a heiress,her father was a billionaire! )
There's also some bonus wank in there about South Park and some kind of government sanctioned Woodsy costume burning. Plus people have started trolling the talk page (I'm assuming they came from Josh's post on Facebook).
ETA OMG you guys, OMG! Someone has been tampering with the Wiki talk page. Giveahootdonpolute's entries have been bahleeted, as have the more recent trolly entries mentioned above. Also, there's more of this madness here, with yet more people claiming that they, or friends/relatives/acquaintances created Woodsy. This just gets weirder and weirder.
ETA 2 This article from the Forest History Society attempts to explain the bizarre "I created Woodsy" phenomenon (see the grey box on the last page).
current mood: *sporfle!*
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9:39 am - "'Only two people?' I asked"
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| Sunday, March 24th, 2013
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4:11 pm - Common thought, or COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ZOMG? Regardless, it's dumb.
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Don't think this qualifies as fandom, so OTF_ it is.
Blair is the blogger/proprietor of STFU, Parents, a user-generated blog that culls parents oversharing on Facebook. It's been around since February '09. (Featured on this comm last August.)
She posted on Facebook this morning about a slapped-together article on msn.com, "15 Things Moms Overshare on Facebook", with obviously fake statuses. (Statii?) STFUP blurs out last names, but the msn.com examples have no space for last names, and I'd like to see a real baby announcement (#5) with zero likes on it.
While Blair is very upset about this, her readers are extremely mixed. 250+ comments so far, fairly evenly divided between "call a copyright lawyer, down with this sort of thing" and "it might be a coincidence, I missed the part where you are the only one who can do this sort of thing". Blair in the comments as well, getting snotty as time goes by, which is always fun.
"I never said anyone has to agree with me. But I would never tell someone whose page and blog I read for free that they're "whining" over a corporation stealing ideas. That's rude and unsupportive." [cite] (I personally would have thrown in a "buy my book!") "I do not have a monopoly on the concept of mocking parent overshare with biting criticism. I invented the concept. If someone steals my exact ideas, that's stupid. I am allowed to be annoyed about it." [cite] "Does calling me a foolish whiner have a purpose? Or are you just trying to hurt my feelings? Just checking." [cite]
And to hit the Bingo, there's definitely a bit of deleting going on in the comments. (Marshall Lilly who?)
Good times.
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| Thursday, September 6th, 2012
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9:54 pm - A Loki wank
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NOTE: This should go without saying, but it doesn't, so: this is not intended to disparage anyone's spiritual practice. My own is so eccentric that I am hardly in any position to denigrate anyone else's! This is about the wanky squabble amongst certain Heathens who took it upon themselves to offer unsolicited advice to other Heathens about the One True Way [TM] to worship the Norse god Loki.
So on September 4th, a Lokean - a Pagan who reveres the Norse god Loki, not a Tom Hiddleston groupie - called w00lopt posted a photo of a dessert to zir tumblr with the caption:
Afternoon offering to Loki. Sponge cake, fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
necroticdoom, who has unsurprisingly deleted or renamed zir tumblr since this, replied:
um……what? Strawberry shortcake as an offering? to Loki??? WHAT? needless to say that is absolutely ridiculous in a myriad of ways. *bangs head*
Response was swift.
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| Monday, August 27th, 2012
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6:31 pm - It's a ladies pen, for ladies
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Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one!
Bic have released Bic For Her, a line of pens for just ladies. They are your everyday ballpoint pens except that the outer casings are in pink or purple, so that is how you know who can use them.
The first customer review is from Andrea, who is a very clearly a Bic employee:
OK - so I admit it, I have a pink diary, pink laptop and even a pink phone. But now I have a really good quality pink pen!! - It is really comfortable to use, writes smoothly and lets face it, it is great to have a pen that is distinctive. It stops your friends from pinching it as you immediately recognise that it is yours!! (although as it comes with 11 others, I have given my BFF one! Great price for 12 pens of this quality.
She gets called out for being a plant. Reviewers then proceed to have lots and lots of fun in the comments. A small selection of reviews:
( I am a huge fan of the gender binary. Without it, it's very hard to work out who to oppress )
ETA: The people on Metafilter are also having a jolly good laugh over this.
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| Thursday, August 16th, 2012
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12:46 pm - STFU Parents vs. The New York Times
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STFU Parents is a blog about parents who overshare or otherwise wank it up on social media, especially Facebook. It's a snarky but relatively gentle sort of blog, for the most part.
The trouble starts when the NYT posts an article about Unbaby.me, a Chrome app designed to replace pictures of babies on Facebook feeds with pictures of . . . other stuff. The Times article mentions various "anti-baby" sites and blogs. It also quotes the STFU Parents tagline ("You used to be fun. Now you have a baby.") with no citation of any kind. No link to the blog, no mention of the blog's name.
B., the owner of STFU Parents, is not pleased. After posting about it on Twitter and Facebook and writing to The Times (which results in a hilariously wanky exchange of emails between B. and The Times' "Senior Editor for Standards"), she makes a lengthy post summing up the whole debacle on the STFU Parents blog.
The Times' excuse? They couldn't possibly publish or even link to an acronym that includes the word "fuck" in The Times, which is a CLASSY newspaper.
Salon and The Atlantic Wire have weighed in on the issue.
The comments on the STFU Parents post are pretty sane for the most part, but there is some entertaining Internet Lawyering (including a lengthy debate about whether B. needed permission to post the emails from the NYT editor -- kind of a moot issue, since she had his permission) and trolling. My favorite in the latter category: "I personally also think you should just get over it. Who cares, he just said the tagline. Do you own the tagline?" Followed, of course, by a small dogpile of "Yes, yes she does."
current mood: Wiped
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| Monday, June 18th, 2012
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2:05 pm - Oatmeal vs. Funny Junk
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Copy-pasta of the Dear Author article, because it's comprehensive, and Jane gave permission for it.
The Oatmeal is a satiric cartoon site run by Matthew Inman. About a year ago, he noticed that his content was being uploaded without attribution to a site called “The FunnJunk.” The FunnyJunk is a site that contains user generated content. This means that account holders post things that they like from all over the internet. Maybe a pre-Pinterest sort of site. The Oatmeal writes to the FunnyJunk requesting that the information be removed. FunnyJunk took down the comics but proceeded to create a mirror image of The Oatmeal’s website. The Oatmeal responded by asking his readers what to do. ( Read more... )
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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2:26 pm - Author wank, oh boy!
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seiberwing
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(Thank you to a mouse on wank_report for the following post which I am plagiarizing)
Self-published author Michael Robb Matthias make a self-promotional post in the forums of Fantasy Faction. Fantasy Faction is perfectly okay with authors promoting their work, provided they do it in the proper place, but moves said post into the "self-published and small presses" category where it belongs.
Robb duly takes this for the TERRIBLE INSULT that it is.
I am not a small press. I am an author with 18 titles for sale. That is more titles that some big publishing houses. I have advertising currently running in Locus, Publishers Weekly, Fantasy and Sci Fi, and Revolver magazines. I have blog advertising across the entire blog-o-sphere. I am not a small press or even self published. M. R. Mathias' books are PUBLISHED by Michael Robb Mathias Jr. and should be treated no differently that any big named publishers title. WHY? Because I do my job as a publisher too. Please quit sending my posts into the self published/small press thread. My titles are neither. I have 92k twitter followers @DahgMahn and 10 titles in their genre bestselling list. There is nothing self pubbed, or small, about books written by M. R. Mathias.
Thank you,
M.R.Mathias' publisher, Michael Robb Mathias Jr.
Commenters point out that this is... not really the best way to go about things and are accused of e-bullying, being sick, petty, and "jelous".
The mods close things despite the protests of a crowd of gleeful spectators on Twitter who aren't ready for the drama to end yet. Fantasy Faction posts a follow-up the next day, including a summary of the events on the forum, some mildly worrisome self-glorifying tweets, a few reviews indicating these glorious works of fiction are less than glorious, and Mr. Robb's claims of how we're all just jealous.
The fun continues on Twitter, where among other things, Mr. Robb calls Fantasy Faction Nazis and complains of censorship. He has at least four aliases on Twitter: @Michael_Robb @BookReTweeter @MrStubbs @NocturnMP3. But don't worry, they are, he informs people, all "licensed". Are your twitter handles "licensed," peons? I THINK NOT!
https://twitter.com/#!/dahgmahn seems to be where most of the action is -- but at one point, NocturnMP3 (admitted as being another sock) steps into defend...himself:
@fantasyfaction You suck, but only for banning M.R. He did NOTHING WRONG!
This entire conversation is comedy gold, of course.
@Gollancz I wanted to market my books to faction readers not indie authors. Its basic buisness. I dont want to now. Faction is all BULLIES!
Further highlights include this, to author M.D Lachlan:
@mdlachlan Ah you have publishers? 5th draft? You must suck as a writer. My #bestseller was wriiten with a pen in a prison cell. Two drafts.
WITH A PEN IN A PRISON CELL.
For your pleasure, you may also marvel at the spinning skulls and note the name of the main character of his latest book on his website.
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| Sunday, January 15th, 2012
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8:48 pm - wank, glorious wank.
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So, the last few years of fandom lurking have spoilt me for quality drama to the degree that my everyday life is now serene and calm and completely devoid of any kind of wank or fuckery. For 99% of the time, that's great, but occasionally, the fanging for some good old fashioned dramz just gets the better of me.
What I really want, I think to myself once in a while, is a real-life wank that has *everything*: phony deaths, a bit of sympathy-scamming, easily verifiable lies, outright batshittery, and it preferably has to happen in Australia so that I have an 'in' on the context.
And like a beautiful, delicate snowflake falling upon the most virgin of blossoms, that wish was bestowed upon me. Not only in Australia, but in my home town, of all places!
Meet Clint Acworth, a some-time teacher now facing the banhammer with the Department of Education for spectacular falsehoods worthy of inclusion in the Msscribe story some creative life writing. His adventures included:
*Inventing a tragic family car accident that left him caring for three orphaned relatives, and being gifted with money and supplies afterwards by his co-workers to help raise the youngin's!
*Inventing a beautiful cop girlfriend who was shot on duty, and according to the Queensland Police, never existed!
*Falsely and publicly claiming to be a counsellor earning $85k per year on the Kid's Help Line - even though they'd never heard of him!
And plenty more!
Former students and classmates are corroborating the spectacular web of lies on reddit (trigger warning for typical homophobic fuckery as one might come to expect over there). I suspect there will be more to come over the next few weeks.
And the funniest/most depressing part? Not a shred of remorse or self-awareness.
Whats even more interesting is that he posted last night that there was some stuff written about him and that it's not true. And I quote "Sadly though, a former fb friend of mine has decided to stab me in the back when I am already down". This is after he deleted all the posts about his dead girlfriend and removed the pic. I think he will continue the charade for as long as he can. Quite sad really.
*Sniff* I salute you, fallen wanker. I salute you.
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| Friday, January 13th, 2012
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11:08 am - Apostrophes: Serious Business
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| Monday, January 9th, 2012
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9:55 am - His reviews, let him show you them
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| Saturday, January 7th, 2012
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9:56 pm - 'I didn't make it up, beyotch! I had a friend who faked her own kidnapping!'
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loopywafflehead
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Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one.
Julie Halpern is an author of YA books. She discovers the following review of her book, Don’t Stop Now:
I had high hopes for Don’t Stop Now by Julie Halpern. Y’all, it is a road trip book. Enough said. I love road trip books. Several of my favorite YA contemporary roads involve them. Needless to say, I was hoping to add Don’t Stop Now to that list. Unfortunately – it let me down in a big way.
The plot of Don’t Stop Now is totally weird. Lillian finds out that her friend Penny has faked her own kidnapping. She decides to track Penny down because the police and FBI are all over the situation. Lillian is freaked out. Can I just say – uhhh. The entire Penny debacle was kinda ridiculous. A plot line made up so that a road trip could come into play is what I got out of it. Lillian recruits her best friend Josh (and Josh’s car and credit card) to take her to Oregon – and Penny. Totally throwaway.
Anyway, putting all that aside. Lillian isn’t the smartest gal I’ve come across. For reasons other than heading out to find Penny herself instead of just telling the FBI where she is. She is wondering whether or not she and Josh should be more than friends. Well, I can take that one: NO.
To be frank (and slightly mean), Josh is a sorry excuse for a male MC. He is a total jerk. (Take my word for it. I’ve already given my copy of Don’t Stop Now away so I can include specific examples.) Lillian was funny, mostly intelligent (other than in her choice of friends) and incredibly nice. Girl: you can do better. I promise.
So, I don’t really much to say about this one other than the negative. The plot and characters completely let me down. Even if you’re normally a fan of road trip books – I don’t recommend Don’t Stop Now. If you have read and enjoyed it – make sure and let me know what I missed! I love talking to people with different opinions.
Enjoy the author's mature and professional response under the cut!
( Google Trash )
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| Thursday, December 8th, 2011
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1:35 am - Web standards wank!
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SCENE
A small coffee shop in San Francisco, lit by tasteful lamps and the glow of a dozen laptops. At one table sits Jeffrey Zeldman in his trademark blue beanie, musing at an article about adaptive web design. Across the shop sits Paul Irish, reading code commits and updating his blog. People linger around them, slowly absorbing knowledge of how to build a better-designed website and contemplating how to dispose of Internet Explorer 6 forever.
IRISH: We gather here today to launch Move the Web Forward, to advance our community and elevate the web platform.
The crowd oohs.
IRISH: I thank all of you who contributed—especially Dimitri, whose twittered words gave this project life, my co-conspirator Divya, and Mat, who put his blood and tears into this project.
There is a round of appreciative back-slaps and toasts.
IRISH: We're launching on Blue Beanie Day, the day of celebrating web standards. I am sad to say that Jeffrey Zeldman, whose blue beanie we all admire, didn't mention anything about us at all in his eulogy of blue beanie merchandise.
Crowd boos.
ZELDMAN: (gets up) I talked about this project all over the place, despite the ill-written website that lacked information on who was behind it. I cannot believe you would sink to this kind of whiny character assassination. You did the same thing with my magazine when we've reached out to you again and again. I suppose you must have a grudge against me. F— off.
DIVYA MANION: Please stop the drama. Drama is not a part of web standards.
BYSTANDER: We barely survived the browser wars, please don't start a web standards war. Ian Hickson is already about to start web standards war!
IRISH: Actually, you didn't link to Move the Web Forward. At all. Please stop using such negative language.
BYSTANDER 2: I have the internet! And the internet says you only posted this to Facebook! Not to Twitter or Google the Plus!
MANION: The web has been rotting, stagnant for a decade. What has anyone else managed to do? We're going to change that.
ZELDMAN: Paul, I've reached out to you again and again, and you just continue publicly trash-talking me. Whatever. Let's steer clear of each other but don't bring me up in your blog again. Also Divya, I totally like like this project but, seriously, I hate Paul.
A man enters the coffeeshop. Close inspection reveals him to be Jonathan Hoefler, purveyor of fonts.
HOEFLER: (tugs down his scarf) In the screenplay version of this conversation, we'd now answer the knock at the door to find a smiling, hapless fellow distributing religious pamphlets. He'd say something conciliatory and serene, and we'd yell at him to fuck off, slamming the door. Then we'd take stock of the situation, and share a good belly laugh.
Hoefler buys a coffee, and exits the shop.
BYSTANDER 3: Are we internet famous yet?
COFFEESHOP OWNER: We're closed.
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Background: Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project and A List Apart, an online magazine about web development that is now publishing books and hosting conferences. Paul Irish co-created HTML5 Boilerplate, the new web development playground tool; contributes to jQuery, on most reputable websites and many ill-reputable ones; and works for Google. Jonathan Hoefler is responsible for many famous fonts.
Discussion paraphrased from Paul Irish's blog. Twitter has been replete with head-shaking and popcorn gifs.
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| Friday, November 18th, 2011
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10:13 pm - I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR
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6:05 pm - Customer service: You are doing it so, so very wrong.
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seiberwing
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Meet The Extra Reading Company, a "library of unique and amazing educational documents to which users can subscribe for access." Unique would indeed be the word, as Bridget Scanlon recently discovered (note: contains ableist slurs). Her price offer for a subscription to their website was met with ruder and more bizarre responses that probably took far more effort to write than a simple 'no. thank you' would have.
Bridget doesn't take this unprofessional behavior well, and word spreads. A post about the issue is made on Reddit, where it is discovered that the company has also been taking artwork from DeviantArt to use in their content. Joshua Mason, head of the company and increasingly suspected to also be the entirety of its staff, makes a post to the thread in an attempt to justify himself. It...does not so much justify as explain a few things about this company's PR policies.
( Cut for length, more minor use of slurs and misogyny. )
It's very, very hastily deleted. But who is this fearsome hag they call Deborah Markus? She's the editor of the magazine Secular Homestchooling who's been the target of both insults and bizarre paranoia by ERC, to the point that they vandalized her magazine's Wiki page (note bottom paragraph). That saga could be a FW post in itself, but she's summarized the matter nicely. It seems they've got a habit of posing on message boards as enthusiastic teachers who talk up the company.
An anti-ERC facebook page is formed. Further plucky girl detective work turns up at least two more blatant self-promotions by alleged teachers who are most likely Joshua Mason in a flowered dress and sunhat.
The company website itself is down for about 48 hours after the story breaks, but when it returns it reveals even more problems with their idea of customer service. The only content is image files (even of their text, no idea why), but I've helpfully transcribed some of their Q&A section to demonstrate their dedication to customer service.
( No slurs, just rudeness. )
And they'd really like to help you nurture your beautiful young children's developing minds. Charming little business.
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| Saturday, October 15th, 2011
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5:50 pm - New management takes over fashion game, pulls death spiral.
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Some background first: MissBimbo is, to quote the website "a virtual dress-up game for fashion girls". It's been around since 2007, and is a spin-off of a french website. It got some media attention when it first opened, because some of the content was deemed inappropraite for young girls - in order to pass level 12, your bimbo has to get a facelift as well as a boob job. If you google "Miss Bimbo, a lot of articles come up on the first page about it. For the record, even though it seems to be aimed as tween girls, a lot of the active users are older (I don't want to say the majority because I don't have actual data on that, but in my experience it's pretty close).
So, around mid-September, MissBimbo came under new management. Kind of. As far as I can tell, two of the original founding member split off and started their own company and decided to take the website in a new direction. From the September 23rd most post:
Miss Bimbo was always an anti establishment, non politically correct entity.
So we are going to cherish our roots and create a non conformist fun place to hang out for people who think Barbie, Stardoll and Farmville are boring!
Miss Bimbo is seen as anti establishment so we are going to embrace it and stop worrying about political correctness, media opinion and corporate nonsense. Long live the Bimbo
Basically, from the information given in that post and others, this means bumping the registration age up to 13 and a "a gradual shift to a more liberal and adult site and community in terms of themes, language and humour". That's okay, right? The mods promise that there will be new clothes and themes and fun things like that, and everyone's happy.
Until Thursday, when people log in and see this (NSFW - if you don't want to click it is... well, it's a cartoon doll with a giant comical black mess of pubic hair).
( beaver wank thisaway! )
current mood: Obsessed
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| Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
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5:10 pm - The Serious Side of Salad
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Once upon a time, someone in facebook posted a "Why Geeks Make Better Boyfriends" list. Britney St. Patience felt the need to point out its inaccuracies. She prefaces it with "Sure there are geek guys out there who are great partners. But being a geek does not guarantee that a guy will be a great boyfriend."
It's a pretty standard 'Nice Guy' deconstruction.
The main highlights are:
Myth #3: Geeks are low maintenance
Supposedly geek guys make great boyfriends because they can subsist on pizza, Mt Dew, and your affection. Just wait until you meet one who will ONLY eat pizza and maybe 3-4 other foods, like some sort of overgrown five year old. It took me nearly a decade to get my computer programmer ex husband to eat salad. My Star Wars obsessed ex boyfriend could not be taken to nice restaurants because he refused to wear anything except ripped jeans and nerdy tees and would not eat anything he could not pronounce. LOW MAINTENANCE MY ASS.
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Myth #6: Geeks appreciate women
This one is, by far, my favorite geek guy myth. The myth of the guy who spent all of high school playing D&D but secretly wanting someone to love and when he finally gets a girl he imprints on her and covers her in puppy-like devotion. OMG WHERE DO PEOPLE GET THIS SHIT? You know what really happens when guys don't get laid in high school or college and spend all their time reading coming books and filling their spank banks with Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic? They fill their little nerd brains with unrealistic expectations, waiting around for what one of my gamer friends calls a "magical pixie girl". An unattainably hot woman, who will love the nerd boy not in spite of his nerdiness but because of it and somehow his life will be transformed by her love. And he shall get a job. And he shall move out of his parents basement. And he shall cease to be whatever it is he dislikes about himself because the magical lady doth love him. But woe to any girl who does not live up to his fantasy. She will be treated with the same regard as yesterday's Mt Dew cans.
So, a little harsh, but all in all not a matter for anger, right? Wrong!
( And how! Also, an anorexia trigger warning because what starts out as a 'No One's Perfect' rant turns into a very strange argument over salad. )
What follows is an extended debate over whether asking your spouse to eat salad is controlling, an act of deepest love for your dearest one, or something in between. Over salad.
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| Thursday, April 21st, 2011
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7:57 pm - Wanky BNF: RL Version
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Small, but it just goes to show that creator entitlement and pomposity extends far beyond fandom.
Background: Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen is a Mexican restaurant in Houston that gets critically lauded at every turn. Also, the Houston Chronicle runs a newspaper segment where people can air their grievances against a restaurant wherein they had a bad experience. Also also, the owner/operator of Sylvia's can't take criticism.
Hilarity ensues. (WARNING: There's some race!fail in the comments, so read at your own risk.)
( Sylvia's response to the complaint below )
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