Real Goddamned Mail. On and Off Topic, A Potpourri.
- I've been reading this page since the beginning, and while the quirkier and better RYS had tons of pop culture stuff that really didn't fit the collegiate crowd, this page normally focuses on COLLEGE MISERY. But too many of the regulars (those favored few) treat it as their own personal blog. Southern Bubba's gruesome horse racing article posted yesterday is especially inappropriate, but you've got a few folks who think of this place as their personal diary. Invariably, those items bore me, but they absolutely will tell new readers that this is not a place worth visiting.
- Would you please take down Bubba's horse racing article. That's got nothing to do with us.
- I'd like you to take down the horse racing post. Seriously, can't Bubba just write it in his fucking diary?
- Some "community members" forget that this is a shared space. You've got to do a better job of keeping off-topic postings down. It ruins the page.
- Ever since Fab flaked (again) this place has been run like shit. Who's to blame for that?
- Cal and Leslie, why are you ruining the blog again? I've written more than 20 posts for CM and I never get asked to take over. I would fix this place in a nanosecond.
- Why did Fab leave again? Did his panties get in a twist over something?
- Fuck Fab. He always treated this page like it was his personal property.
- Oh good, Leslie "I'm a Mom! I'm a Mom!" is back in charge. That means no more fun for the summer. But seriously, she has a decided bias against male members of the College Misery family, and she often favors women over men. I think it's really unfair. If you're reading this Leslie, it's not personal. You're just not very good at doing the moderating.
- Oh good, a nice picture of a dead horse after a click on Bubba's misleading post title. Ridiculous.
- This may be off topic, but shouldn't you call the cops at whatever school Richard Tingle teaches at. While I'm sure he doesn't have a body in his car, anybody who makes that kind of joke is seriously capable of the act. Deeds, words, actions, it all lines up. I know you can track his IP, and I'm honestly concerned for him and others around him.
- Uh, has someone hijacked Dick Tingle's login? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on the site.
- Could you please take down the Richard Tingle post today. It's stupid and he clearly thinks we've all gathered here to hear his sick brand of humor.
- I'm disgusted by the casual use of "bitches" by your writers. That sort of language is not what I'd expect from a bunch of professionals. And I've seen "retards" used before, but bitches is far worse.
- Why have any rules if you let the favorites break them?
- I've been trying to get you to reply to my fucking emails for a week now. Why are you deleting my fucking comments, you Nazi-fuckers? Cunt!
- My last day as a professor was today. I'm mostly glad that I can stop coming to this stupid blog and hearing you all bitch and complain about what a horrible profession it is. It's not. I'm going to miss it. My students threw me a party on my last days, as did my colleagues. I think it's despicable how a small handful of miscontents use this space to bad mouth and bad name the profession of professor. Heaven help all of you.
- Have you stopped posting Yaro? Could you put a few new ones up.
Holy shit.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to ask "Humanity Holly's" question: WTF is in the water?
What boggles my mind is that these people not only read the posts, they have the stones to complain. In print. Why not just shrug and move on?
You have my sincere empathy. I wouldn't take the RGM job on a dare.
Oh, yeah? Well I double-dog dare ya!
DeleteIsn't that the one where I'd end up with my tongue frozen to a flagpole? LOL.
DeleteNot until triple dog dare.
DeleteSeriously--someone WANTS to moderate? My take on that is anyone who WANTS to shouldn't be moderating...
ReplyDeleteYou all do a fabulous job and I applaud your efforts of corralling the masses.
On another note: why read a blog one doesn't agree with? Isn't that just a serious waste of time? I mean I don't troll the internet for blogs on foot fetishes or anything and then tell them how horrible they are... weird.
@Leslie: Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI thought the horse story was a metaphor for the treatment of students (the horses) and faculty (jockeys) at various levels of colleges by the education administrators. Shit, if I can figure out the metaphor, everybody can.
DeleteAs an aside, I once heard a student complain about a comment her English prof madem. She had apparently said something was a metaphor when it was a simile. I told her that a simile used "like" or "as" and a metaphor didn't. She replied, "But I said it was like a metaphor." That's why I'm glad I teach chemistry.
As an adult, I decided I didn't want to read an article about horses, so I skipped the post. Go figure!
DeleteAs an aside, maybe Bubba should have written THAT post. The one you mention, where Bubba makes the metaphoric parallel between the 2 groups. Instead of doing an interesting title and providing naught but a link-dump that makes everyone do the intellectual work themselves.
Just sayin'.
In other news, why do people feel the need to write complaint letters about dumb shit?
Dear The_Myth,
DeletePlease stop ruining this blog by acting like an adult.
Signed,
The Rest of the Crybabies
You are all, seriously, a bunch of cunt Nazi-fuckers. Or Nazi cunt-fuckers. Or fuckers of Nazi cunts.
ReplyDeleteI like the first one best. So go fuck those Nazi cunts you Nazi cunt-fuckers!
I meant I like the third one best. It's the end of the semester, and it's getting hard to tell the Nazi cunt-fuckers from the cunt Nazi-fuckers, etc.
DeleteJust as long you don't call us bitches.
Delete...or silverbacks.
Deleteor late to dinner.
DeleteSometimes, I think I'm a cunt. Being a cunt is fun. It causes others to be cunts.
Deleteor Shirley.
Deleteor a dead horse?
DeleteNamaste, bitches.
ReplyDeleteOr in the words of Key&Peele's "Luther" (President Obama's "anger translator"): "86 your shit, bitches, or I'm'a come over there and do it for y'all."
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qv7k2_lc0M
If this blog runs like a diary, then we are all mentally deranged. But if you like, we could start treating it like a diary:
ReplyDeleteGot up, had coffee. Worked on book. Graded. Graded while eating. Graded while commuting. Prepped lecture. Lectured. Graded. Prepared review session. Held Review Session. More coffee. Graded. Began tweaking fellowship application. Graded more. Called a friend, thought about someone who died recently, felt sad, went for a run, felt much better. Ate dinner. Checked College Misery. Then graded some more.
Never mind. That's a pretty terrible day. No one needs that. I want more of these Nazi cunt-fuckers.
What do you mean? This IS my diary. It's all about ME. Totally about ME. :o)
DeleteWhile we're going on about language... the c-word is both deeply sexist and offensive to a British reader. Why is part of the female anatomy a valid description of a student who often doesn't even HAVE that anatomical element? Other related terms (dickhead etc.) are also offensive, but the c-word which I can't bring myself to type retains real ability to shock in my backwards corner of the world. Part of being a community is accepting that other members use different language, find different things relevant or interesting etc., so unless someone uses the term as an attack on me I'll let it pass and not nag at the mods.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, I am perfectly capable of reading something else on the internet. Apparently that isn't on the syllabus of the higher degrees taken by some other proffies??
Are you accusing me of being an insensitive cunt?
DeleteBecause that's totally a fair cop.
Wait, I thought it was the British who used the c-word all the time, of their best friends, and that it was North Americans who get their knickers in a twist over it? I mean, I even saw it in "Sean of the Dead". I thought it was totally okay in the UK.
DeleteAround here, well, I won't type it out either.
Gotta agree with MA there, I've found the c-word to be thrown about WAY more in the UK than in North America. Also, the word "brilliant"; totally cheapens the word, if you ask me.
DeleteThen of course, there's "F**king Bruges"
DeleteAhem.. NSFW.
I'm in the North, and in a respectable part of it. C-word = BAD. F-word = not good. It's quite daring to say bloody!
Deleteas I read somewhere, "You can't call him a c**t. He lacks the warmth and depth."
ReplyDeleteAnd to that end, why do we say a strong person "has balls"? Balls are weak and vulnerable. A woman's vagina: that's strong. Beat that into a pulp and it comes roaring back.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me a comedian has made half a hour out of that.
Something to that effect is oft attributed to Betty White.
DeleteI think the originator is tracked down here:
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=76366
Appears to be from comedian Sheng Wang.
It's time to come clean: Yaro was just a name for YARO, the Yarn-spinning And Raconteurish Operating system, which was an attempt on the part of a doctoral thesis student to mash together scripts from The Chronicle, the Land's End catalog, and the Pepperidge Farm website. Over the years, it gradually became self-aware. Efforts to keep it going by upgrading the processor and adding more RAM have been met with delicate refusals.
ReplyDeleteP.O.W. dude.
DeleteAnyone hatin' on Richard Tingle's poem clearly is a neophyte to comedy and satire of the sort offered by Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, Richard Pryor etc etc.
ReplyDeleteDon't these people have papers to grade? If not, they're welcome to some of mine. It sounds like BurntChrome wouldn't mind some help, either.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for all you put up with, RGM(s).
And congratulations on your retirement to Yaro, wherever you are. I hope you had a good last year.
I just want to give my profound thanks to Leslie and Compound Cal. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, and that bias in favour of women? I've never noticed it, but please do carry on.
ReplyDeleteEveryone who complained deserves a good-old-fashioned-Soviet-style-beat-down....the site keeps people sane.
ReplyDeleteWell, slightly closer to sane that would otherwise be the case!
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