Early Festivus - Airing of Grievances!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have gone through a hard time, and we are all (presumably) sober by now. Not much news, and even less to talk about. There is little positive to say about the situation, so I say we lean into the negativity.
We've had the airing of grievances in the past, usually about the end of the season. It's a useful time to get our stupid pet peeves out, and to Not Think About Sad Games. So the rules are:
1.) Try not to be a dick. Should all be in good fun.
2.) Try not to be a wuss. Don't take things (too) personally.
November 26th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
An Airing of Grievances in November? Awful.
November 26th, 2018 at 8:41 PM ^
I got a lot of problems with you people!
November 26th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
My grievances:
1.) Grammar Fools. I am a Grammar Nazi, so buffoons who type "could of", "would of", or generally type as if they graduated OSU crayon-class annoy me
2.) Peeps hatin' on major posters. Peeps who heckle Wolverine Devotee, MGrowOld, UMBig11, etc. (I give Tim and Bando a pass tho. That's just been going on too long to stop :-)
3.) MgrowOld commenting about how his Cassandra predictions are correct all the time :-P
4.) Soothsayers predicting doom. . . DOOOM! after one game. Because that is totally sane.
5.) Drunk posters after games making drunk Statements of Absolute and Profound Truth. Ok bro.
Also, anyone who debates with me and makes me look stupid. That includes Space Coyote, Seth, and Magnus.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:04 PM ^
Your/you're, then/than, & their/there/they're all want some of this.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:16 PM ^
No joke, there's a guy downstream with "are montra". Like, are these people just trying to troll me, or do they really not know??!?!?
*And yes, I assume all errors are intentional trolls or ignorance. Typos, mistakes, and fails are not allowed in my grammar universe.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:59 PM ^
But you can usually suss out a typo vs just plain ignorance. Sometimes I sincerely regret that I allow myself internet access, because I can't just not read the stuff.
November 27th, 2018 at 12:05 AM ^
Hear, hear! (See what I did there?)
November 26th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
Don't forget the agonizing "loose/lose"
November 26th, 2018 at 8:23 PM ^
Feels like an entire generation missed that day in spelling. It’s the new “irregardless” and I’m afraid it will also change the dictionary.
November 26th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
That drives me insane. I am a Lions fan and know very well how to spell "lose".
November 26th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
If the screw is loose, you lose.
November 26th, 2018 at 9:39 PM ^
Or "Sorry about your lost."
November 26th, 2018 at 7:06 PM ^
Total Upvotes AND Total Downvotes displayed.
100 downvotes plus 102 upvotes = 2
and 2 downvotes plus 4 upvotes = 2
Two totally different categories represeted identically.
Seriously, who tf programmed this website??? (This kind of mistake would neither happen in the engineering school NOR EVEN "LS&Play"--totally unacceptable!)
November 26th, 2018 at 7:19 PM ^
My grievances;
1(/ people date use propser gramar... "This one could of been better"
2(!/ Perpetrators of not hatin them bras
3)( mgrowold being super successful in life and never being wrong. ;Aactually love this;
4? soothsayer's not carin' about a Oxford comma!
5$. Drunk peeps not yelling at the bartender to stay open past 2.30!
6; so I pretty much agree with you on everything::::::::: !
November 26th, 2018 at 7:31 PM ^
Love it! I'd upvote you if I had 500 points and a voting button.
November 26th, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
1) Grammar Fools. People that type out the word 'cause' when they're trying to type the short form slang of 'because'. (Lookin at you, MGrowOld!) 'Cause' is its own word, and when you try to use it as a short form of 'because' you look like an inbred version of an MSU fan. If nothing else, you sure as hell don't look like a University of Michigan educated citizen.
November 27th, 2018 at 4:41 AM ^
My grievance: Redundancy.
Example: " ... you look like an inbred version of an MSU fan."
My comment: Is there another version of an MSU fan?
(Kidding aside, I agree with your complaint on "'Cause." It saves all of two letters. Big whoop.)
November 28th, 2018 at 1:39 AM ^
I'm intrigued in your thoughts on contractions.
November 26th, 2018 at 10:09 PM ^
So you basically like three people on the board.
November 27th, 2018 at 5:10 AM ^
My Grammar Nazi complaint is when people use the redundancy "revert back" (as if you can revert forward.)
Think of yourself in a car. You can go in reverse, or you can go backward. You don't go reverse backward.
(Thanks to my 10th grade English teacher for that lesson that I never forgot.)
November 27th, 2018 at 8:35 AM ^
You look stupid.
November 26th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
This toxic fanbase gives me way more bad times than the annual OSU loss.
November 27th, 2018 at 6:51 AM ^
I seriously fail to understand where all the "Michigan arrogance" nonsense comes from. We are the most self-loathing fanbase in the country and it's not even close.
November 26th, 2018 at 6:31 PM ^
I wish our offense had an “airing of passes” instead of 2 yard dives up the middle.
November 26th, 2018 at 6:55 PM ^
I read that as "Airing of Asses" and needed to look again. On the other hand, something really smells bad in my office right now.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
Asses were aired - Michigan got pantsed by OSU.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:40 PM ^
For real, it’s like giving yourself two chances for a 1st down instead of three
November 26th, 2018 at 6:38 PM ^
My son tells me your defense stinks!
November 26th, 2018 at 6:45 PM ^
I got a lot of problems with you people.....
November 26th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
And now you’re gonna hear about!
One of his best lines in that show. Man I loved that actor lol
November 26th, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
I cringe when Michigan players go into games like last week and say stuff like “it’s a business trip for us. Business as usual”. Maybe we need to re-think our mindset when we head into these type of big games not at home .
Also, I think Jim Costas from 96.1 is a good host but it gets old quickly with Big Drew always trying to be slap-stock funny and interruptting him to try and say something funny . The worse is when they do their picks on the Friday show
November 26th, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
The only show worse than theirs is the Huge Show.
The Huge show is the equivalent of Michigan's defense on Saturday.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:05 PM ^
Bill sucks. I admit I’m kind of a sucker for wanting to hear him yell about the lions and Stafford though .
i actually think big drew has okay sports knowledge when he sticks to talking about the toooc but he focuses too much on trying to be funny .
November 26th, 2018 at 9:48 PM ^
Huge is fucking awful. I can't believe he has a national show; even though it is on late on Saturday nights.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
I cringe when fans try to parse the subtle meanings and psychological nuances of an entire team from coach-speak and canned remarks.
"It's a business trip" means "Quit asking me that stupid question, we're all doing our best to win this game what else do you want me to say?"
November 26th, 2018 at 6:51 PM ^
Too many male underwear ads on this damn site. I don't even buy my own underwear.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
That’s another grievance . Mgoblog 3.0 still freaking sucks in many ways .
November 26th, 2018 at 7:14 PM ^
I'm not going to buy a raw steak hoodie! Ever!
You hear me?!?
November 26th, 2018 at 10:17 PM ^
Now I know what to get you for Christmas!
November 26th, 2018 at 8:09 PM ^
I don't even wear underwear!
November 27th, 2018 at 12:48 AM ^
Now I know what not to get you for Christmas!
November 27th, 2018 at 12:04 AM ^
I hate those hairy fat guy hoodies that are shown on the sidebar. Now they have a six pack guy hoodie and they have to pixelate his nipples, LOL!
November 27th, 2018 at 5:49 AM ^
Glad someone else has been getting that ad. I thought my browsing habits made me a particularly good candidate for it.
November 27th, 2018 at 8:29 AM ^
Ad block = no pixelated nipple ads.
November 27th, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
When he was in high school, my son asked if he could buy some underwear on the internet. I assumed Amazon. He used my credit card. I get the bill at the end of the month. He spent $400 on socks and underwear on some crazy elite website where MLB players apparently shop (or so he claimed). $400. Seriously.
November 26th, 2018 at 6:53 PM ^
That people can't admit on here that Brown is good, not great.
November 26th, 2018 at 7:11 PM ^
You mean average?
November 26th, 2018 at 7:20 PM ^
He averages what. . . the #2 defense in the nation while he's here?
Oh, you mean average, like "median"? Ok, so, name the 60-some defensive coordinators better than him. Or name 20. Heck, name 10.
It boggles the mind how people can say "he's average" after one poor game. Fine, 2, 3, whatever. Say it's 4 bad games. Over 3 years. Name -- seriously, name them -- 3 coordinators who HAVEN'T HAD bad games. Like, in the history of the sport. Go. Do it.
GARSH DARN YA'LL IS STOOPID AND I R MAD @ U!!!! ARGH!