OT: The Official Thread For The Airing Of Grievances And Feats Of Strength
Based on a very good suggestion in the thread below, we should probably have a separate thread for these most important and therapeutic Festivus traditions.
I shall begin with a couple -
*turns to next door neighbor* The recent weather was difficult for all of us, and I appreciate that you don't want to spend a couple hours in the cold fixing your now completely oblitterated drain line from your sump pump to the street, but damnit, I am not going to suffer the glacier now forming around your foundation once Christmas is over.
*turns to city DPW* I get the whole plowing thing, but I am getting a little tired of having to shovel the end of the driveway multiple times each snowstorm. A few more such instances and I am afraid that I am going have to insist that you correct the situation yourself - I will stand in the way of the plow and refuse to move until your department has shoveled me out.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:07 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:16 AM ^
I have a grievence with that. Mostly because we made it to the final four and almost won the 'ship. 2013 has sucked since then however.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:56 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
I'm one of four people in the office today. Someone is playing an obnoxious joke version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on their low quality phone speaker full blast.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:45 AM ^
I have been forced to suffer Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus no less than twice already today. I feel your pain brother.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
*turns to racist relatives* Your time has passed and you should be ashamed. Just...stop it and sit quietly in the corner.
This one has been weighing on me for a few days.
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
I fucking hate my racist ass relatives.
My self and both of my brothers are teachers. All we hear from certain relatives is 'I don't know how you can work with those colored kids' or far worse shit. I used to call them asshats and argue back but it would ruin all of the family get togethers...
lately I've begun to come up with reasons to show up early or leave late.
And the homophobes who live downriver! God. is Trenton where intelligence died and left behind a population of ignorant white people?
Why do I live downriver?
why god, why?
that is my grievance for this year...
I hear you, and I feel you brother... I always tell my students that the only way to really fight racism is to not be racist ourselves and always seek to comfort the other people in the room... so I try to take my own advice...
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
I'm an educator as well. To come home to ignorance, arrogance, and hatred after working happily and productively with people from every race, creed, and background under the sun in my classrooms is just deadening.
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:29 PM ^
Same problems with my foreign family. I can't imagine the uproar if they found out about the ethnicity of the person I was dating. I just go, shut up, eat by myself, say fine and it's all good, "I'd prefer not to talk about XYZ when I finally have some time off, it's pretty good though, how about those Lions/Red Wings/Wolverines/Spartans?" and leave early citing my yearly stomach ache.
2 more years and I never have to go again though so that's nice.
December 23rd, 2013 at 1:09 PM ^
in a very respectful manner. i think the next step to reducing racism is to realize that it is inherently natural for us to be racist and dislike things that are different than us. There are too many times when people associate all forms of racism as a character flaw or something bad when instead they should recognize that it is natural and they should try to minimize it.
Instead we shut down these feelings as bad, and because I'm a good person I couldn't possibly be racist and they linger deep down until they have an appropriate avenue to leave.
There's a facebook meme with a black baby and white baby holding hands saying racism isn't born with, and I think that attitude is bad to have. Any study of small children like 3 or 4 years old shows very clearly that these kids are very very aware of race and very racist. I don't believe that tendency leaves us, rather we start to shut it down in guilt or denial.
Thanks for teaching, especially downriver where there are a lot of kids that need good teachers.....
December 23rd, 2013 at 3:48 PM ^
The kids that are very aware of race are the children of people that make them very aware of race. I am a black man, and if i get mad a white person i don't say " fuck that white person" i say "fuck that person". There is a reason those feelings have been shut down and considered bad, they are! I prefer to learn about things that are outside of my norm. Doing that helps you to understand why some things are the way that they are. Understanding is the way to beat racism. Not coming down on you, but that is a peave of mine.
December 23rd, 2013 at 6:38 PM ^
you'd be very hard pressed to find a single person that is not aware of race. Most won't admit it, but people all react very differently based on gender, age and race. I'm sure my answer to you will have changed based on the fact that you said you're black and that your example involved black people and white people.
Are your friends representative of the racial demographics of the US? If not, then you probably are more likely to make friends based on some races more than others.
I also don't understand the end of your comment, what is your pet peeve? Being aware of race or not experiencing race?
December 23rd, 2013 at 7:41 PM ^
Is a refreshingly honest response. I wish we could actualy speak honestly all the time about this topic in particular, because there is so much that people just don't say...
December 23rd, 2013 at 7:45 PM ^
I swear I just tried to edit it to make me sound less like a dick....oh well....
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:08 PM ^
his pet peeve has something to do with you claiming racism is not a character flaw. Being aware of race is one thing, hating someone because of it is another. Of course kids are aware..but kids don't automatically hate kids of other races. If they do, they earned it somewhere usually.
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:40 PM ^
It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other. There is much grey area in between.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:13 AM ^
I know half of you half as well as I should like; and I dislike less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-Bilbo (modified slightly for Festivus)December 23rd, 2013 at 10:30 AM ^
What about block-headed Bracegirdles from Harbottle? How do you like them?
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:11 AM ^
I have a LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE...
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:11 AM ^
I wish some of my favorite posters hadnt gotten themselves sideways with management. I miss their contributions to the board - even those that seemed to live for my posts so they could point out all the holes in my so-called logic.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:12 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:19 AM ^
*Turns to Nikola Tesla* MY HOUSE IS VERY COLD AND THIS IS INDIRECTLY YOUR FAULT
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:36 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:56 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:19 AM ^
When it came to The State Of Our Open Threads, it seemed like went right to running the inside "fuck" and discounted the possibility of more creative word-calling. A smattering of "shit" worked for us, but we quickly abandoned it for for "fuck" too often, it seemed. Damn, was it maddening when we kept going to "fuck" and didn't even broach the potential for more "ass". We need to step up the profanity game in 2014, guys.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:28 AM ^
I think "ass" on its own is an underutilized pejorative on the internet.
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:14 PM ^
I can't speak for all, but I personally go right to "fuck" when I feel the worst thing possible is happeneing. When it comes to swear words, is fuck not the worst of them all? That's the reason it was my goto, worst thing ever kept happening...I must use the worst word ever (subconciously)
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:21 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:25 AM ^
Grievances: Borges, Funk, Brandon
Feats of Strength: Trey Burke vs. World, Gardner vs. OSU, Gallon vs. Indiana
EDIT: Bonus grievance-- Bryan Cranston not winning Emmy for best actor. Jeff Daniels is excellent in Newsroom, but Jesus, man, Walter MF White.
December 23rd, 2013 at 6:08 PM ^
Cranston did win it the three years prior, IIRC, so... yeah he probably still deserved it, but still.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:24 AM ^
*To the Internet* I'm sick of hearing the endless praise given to Beyonce for her album. She's an attractive, average for her profession singer who can dance and had a team of 50 people write, compose and produce her latest album. Which means she isn't some iconic genius, but instead, exactly like every other pop star in existence today.
*To Michigan Fans* More than anything, I really wish Michigan fans would stop making excuses for our football program that make us sound like a MAC team, as if every other Big Ten school (and D1 school in general) doesn't have personnel/injury issues throughout a season.
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:12 AM ^
I agree with the Michigan sentiment... but that Beyonce album is amazing... I have grown a huge respect for her as a mother and one of the few positive roll models out there...
jdon
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
I've heard a couple songs from it and it doesn't strike me as anything different that what has already been out there. Maybe for people who like that kind of pop, it really is better/different, but I don't even think that's my main issue.
What I dislike is the idea that it's "Beyonce's" album. Go look at the credits on that thing (or any top 40 pop/R&B/Hip-hop album for that matter). She's got like 40-50 people outside of herself on there!
Take even a truly shitty rock band like Nickelback...at least the lame music they put out there is created by the band. Beyonce is just another pre-packaged pop star with a carefully controlled image who should be classified as an "entertainer" rather than a musician.
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:57 PM ^
Not even close to 40-50 people with writing credits and she directed a few of the videos. At what point does it cease being her album, given that she's the only one who has a writing credit for every song?
December 23rd, 2013 at 1:41 PM ^
For Beyonce's album, there are 27 other writers credited and at least 13 producers. Unlike a lot of albums that have to include the acts they sample in the credits, this doesn't appear to be the case. She's an entertainer and nothing more, she's not some evolution of the pop star, she's just the pop star whose been perfected best by her team for this generation.
And come on. Its really easy to just put her name on anything, even if she had nothing to do with it, similar to how a lot of famous people put their names on books that they didn't really author.
December 23rd, 2013 at 4:38 PM ^
much like Jay-z who always works with a lot of people, but most specifically the best people, Beyonce worked with many different people and chose songs she wanted to sing...
We are talking about pop music here and most pop stars all do the same thing. Look at all the country stars or old rock n roll stars who 'played other people's songs'. I mean this is pop music and this is the history of pop music, so in that context I was impressed.
What I really think set the album above all others is the set of videos she shot. I dig the concept...
If you wanted to compare her to other artists who create all of their own music organically then obviously she doesn't compare. In that I understand what you are saying... but for me I like the collaborative idea and I was impressed by the album...
jdon
December 24th, 2013 at 1:33 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:28 AM ^
Last year my grievance would have been Vincent Smith ISOs on 3rd and 1.
This year my grievance is Fitz Toussaint stretch plays on 2nd and 14.
Feat of strength: Bitching enough to get Dave Brandon to remove that ridiculous noodle from the stadium.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:28 AM ^
To combine airing of the grievances and feats of strength is sacrilege. For shame, LSA, for shame.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:32 AM ^
Too many to list. You all know what you did. It's disgusting and you should be ashamed.
...
Apology rejected. I will now rain blows upon each of you.
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:01 PM ^
You're right. I am ashamed. But I will not apologize. And I'll likely do it again.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:33 AM ^
This board has gotten too wrapped up into itself. You idiots regurgitate the same 4 jokes ad nauseum. At some point, the caricature of MGoBlog that is now MGoBlog will swallow up any good insight and conversation and become a self destructive tendency that will cause people to turn away. And that some time was 2 years ago, you sorry pack of posters. Welcome to the circle jerk. Come for the free tacos, stay for the affirmation of worth, so long as you parrot the collective views of the board. If I had a stick long enough to swing at you all through the internet, your faces would all match the ugly pulp of the faces you call your significant others. I would preemptively hit your children, as they will clearly follow your sorry trajectories. I hate you guys. The only reason I still come here is that deep down I hate myself, and subject myself to the same stale attempts at humor. I hope your holidays suck.
December 23rd, 2013 at 10:41 AM ^
If you intended to include /s at the end of that, I'm sorry for what I'm about to say.
Awfully ironic for you to complain about something like you did in the first 1/3 of your post to conclude it with that last few lines like you did.
Critique is one thing, name calling is another. You actually had me for a while with that rant, but sheesh...wishing our holidays suck? Thanks, Richard Cranium. You're a real prize.
Edit: I think you really were being sarcastic, so ... I'll say again, sorry if you were playing a joke. I think I've had a real "woosh" moment...
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
And I love people who complain about complaints in a complaint thread. Sack up, Nate.
December 23rd, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^
I love people who... I can't keep this going. :(
December 23rd, 2013 at 3:41 PM ^
I love people who start off their posts with the words, "I love people..."
December 23rd, 2013 at 3:49 PM ^
This guy gets it.
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
Tacos? Where the fuck are the tacos? How did I miss that?