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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
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5:15a
Communities like ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) bad_service never fail to disappoint, really.
ariel770 got a Canadian penny in her change. She does not like it.
I went to Radioshack this weekend to buy a phone charger for my car. My total was like $21.88. I hand the man $22. He hands me back a dime, a penny and a Canadian penny. I looked at it and said, "This is a Canadian penny." and attempt to give it back to him. He looked at me and said, "So?"
"So?!?!? Asshole I live in freaking Missouri! What good is a Canadian Penny going to do me? It's not legal tender here so basically you just cheated me out of money!"
Of course I didn't say that I was just too stunned I walked away
Because obviously no one in the history of US currency has ever received a Canadian coin or two in their change. The poor dear is financially ruined.
Responses range from making this point many, many times with varying levels of snark and/or profanity to supporting the OP's horror to pointing out that the bad service came not from the OMG FAKE MONEY but from the cashier's attitude.
current mood: *snerk* (196 comments |comment on this)
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9:46a - Internet lawyers, rape and racism, oh noes.
Relatively small, but this wank has it all. Internet law? Check. Rape? Check. Sexism? Check. Blaming the victim? Check. Racism? Check, check and check again.
ebonbird posts a metaquote bashing David Yeagley for his article blaming the black victim of an alleged rape by white Lacrosse players at Duke University, and for a while, there is much word and outrage at Yeagley to be had.
But then madscience shows up to assert that nobody was raped and that the all this discussion of the case is actually character assasination against the accusers.
Naturally, wank happens. Comments are now frozen, so it (probably) won't grow, but I still think there's enough wank for it to go here.
ETA: I know what words I'm looking for! Really, I do!
current mood: Amazed (104 comments |comment on this)
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1:38p - So much for the light of the virgin morning...
So, according to the New York Post, Broadway actor James Barbour (watch out, his links tend to be rather Scientology-related), star of shows such as Urinetown, Jane Eyre, and Beauty and the Beast, has been arrested for sex abuse and sodomy, apparently accused by a now 19 year-old aspiring actress who was 15 at the time of their, er, alleged encounters. That's pretty much all the information that there is at this point.
Unsurprisingly, theatre message boards explode. BroadwayWorld seems to be bogging down in "let's not speculate," although there are such stunners as:
Sodomy
It's between
God and me
And also James!...
and
I'm selling T shirts:
"I slept with James Barbour and all I got was a lousy pamphlet on Silent Birth"
anyone want??
But of course, All That Chat is where the battle begins.
There's all the usual whenever rape comes up, questioning the news source, suggesting the accuser should 'move on', outrage at the term 'move on' and questionable comparisons, suggestions that the accuser is doing it for the attention (of course casting agents will think, "Get me the girl who was sodomized by James Barbour/accused James Barbour of sodomizing her!" any time they are casting), the irresistible urge to mock Scientology, the usual in-fighting, it's all there. And seeing as no one really knows anything but everyone is apparently going to talk about it anyway, I don't see it stopping any time soon.
current mood: *Snarl* (29 comments |comment on this)
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5:03p - Why Doesn't The Bank Have A PlayPlace?!
From bad_service, mamid posts with much ire:
http://community.livejournal.com/bad_service/698023.html
I took my kids with me when I had to go to the bank yesterday. The bank in question had two ways to enter but had locked the other door, so that left a huge area for kids to run around in. Nor are mine the only ones to ever run around in said place. Do note: there are no toys that other banks, or even branches of this same bank, have to occupy kids. Just a dead end.
So, while I was dealing with my transaction, I hear a "whump" then my son crying. I call him to me and keep him at my side for the rest of the time there. He's whimpering. As I go to leave, I realize that my son didn't just hit his head but has a gash by his eye. The hostess was really rude. No offer of first aide was given even though I asked for some. Not even the security guard who was standing by the only entrance.
Last night, I write a letter via their online customer support and tell them what happened. I get a boiler plate reply of "contact customer service here if you have more concerns."
Uh. yah. I have some concerns. Why don't they have an area to keep the kids occupied? Why don't they have a first aide kit on the premises? And why did the hostess have to be so rude? The area around my son's eye is swollen right where the wound is. If it had bled more, I would have been raising more of a fuss. Instead, I'll just watch him for any problems.
Responses are...probably not what she expected:
( Responses... )
mamid fires back: So, my son being hurt in a bank which could open them up to liabilities and lawsuits doesn't matter?
My son is 3, partially deaf, hyperactive and what does the hostess give him as soon as he walks through the door on every other visit? A sucker. Which sends him ballistic and he spends the next hour bouncing off the walls.
What's worse? A kid running around or a kid having a tantrum? And my son doesn't have "normal" tantrums. He has thermonuclear meltdowns when I've told him no.
All the other times we've been in that branch he wasn't hurt. But the time he was hurt, its MY responsibility? I am not superhuman. I can only do two things at once, and when the teller wanted my attention, I had to turn it away from the kids.
We, my DP and I, believe in natural consequences. If he runs around and gets hurt, that's the natural consequence of running around when he wasn't supposed to. Trust me. He won't be running around that bank again.
bad_service continue their replies, still with very little of the sympathy this bereaved mother is undoubtedly hoping for.
ETA: customers_suck has got ahold of it. http://community.livejournal.com/customers_suck/15879073.html
EATA: (Edited Again To Add): Damn, it appears to be bahleeted. Hail to wyn for saving it! First Page
HOWEVER...all is not lost! mamid takes it to her own LJ, and ratches the self-pity up another notch! http://mamid.livejournal.com/37778.html. However, the commenting-ability is friends-only. Awww!
current mood: *sporfle!*
current music: "O, Sgt. Meryll, Is It True"--Yeomen of the Guard (284 comments |comment on this)
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6:11p - ah, religion.
So I was reading about the discovery of the Gospel of Judas today (Jesus/Judas is SO CANON now) and I decided to wander over to LJ's catholicism community to see if anyone was pitching a hissy about it yet.
Instead I found this little piece of joy from crosstherubicon:
...In all honesty, I regard the Islamic faith as a barbarism. Not its members as barbarians but its tenets as barbaric - a subtle difference.
I cannot abide by the notion that I share anything with this group other than a tenuous humanity and an abstract theology.
And furthermore, I believe it is a christian's duty to defend our faith with certainty and not political correctness. Charity but not 'tolerance' (another overused word in our modern culture).
What follows are seventy comments, at least half of which seem to be from the OP about how the person he is replying to is stupid and wrong and also stupid, even when the commenter is asking a question to clarify the OP's opinion.
I'd be much happier being Catholic if it weren't for the other Catholics. Gah. I think I'll go back to the J/J shipping now.
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9:02p - Cute, self-contained little comic artist wannabe wank.
The Pseudome studio projects message boards are an occasionally informative, occasionaly (mildly) wanky place in which "OEL" artists (non-Japanese artists who draw "manga style") gather and discuss the comics industry, give critiques, etc. It's quite a popular board, as several artists currently making books for TokyoPop post there, so it's not unusual for less experienced artists to go there and seek advice, encouragement and what-have-you.
The number of power hitters is presumably what drew Wesley Campbell to the board, though what possessed him to start off his posting career (not to mention his artistic career) with "I am Wesley Campbell, manga artist extraordinaire. I say extraordinaire because my manga work is exceptional. ... I have been drawing mangas for most of my life and it is nothing to me. Manga work comes easy to me as breathing and each day I am only becoming better. I have never officially working in the manga feild before but I have done some freelance manga work for an online "Secret of Mana" MMORPG. This is the start of a new year and I am determined to become a manga artist officially and have children imitate my art work", I'll never know.
Predictably, the other posters immediately question his... extraordinary-ness; in response Wesley complains about their "sassy attitude". The thread got started a couple months ago, then died down until Wesley came back to revive it with his new, improved drawing skills, not to mention more wank, until a mod finally locked the thread a day or so ago.
I just love the smell of hubris in the morning.
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