Lighten up!
Re: Rants/Raves, Sept. 4
This rant is in response to the two people that wrote in about the pig slicing itself.
Oh my word! Can we lighten up just a tiny bit? And may I also suggest that before you press ‘Send’ on your funky little laptop whilst you sit in some bland coffee house feeling ‘oh-so-superior’ because you’re probably drinking ‘fair-trade’ coffee, that you may actually consider re-reading your trite message, instead of caving in to your sudden elitist indignation.
Quite simply, poor grammar is sloppy (as sloppy as, shall we say, a pig slicing itself?), and it poorly detracts from whatever half-assed message you are vaguely trying to comment on.
And I quote: “...you published a picture of a pig slicing himself (by the way, we don’t know it’s gender) to promote the Vancouver chili and barbecue festival, it was revolting and un-ethical.”
Take out the comma and continue with your thought as a comma suggests a pause in your thinking.
A period after that sentence would’ve been in order. If you were daring, you might have used a semi-colon but I’m guessing that skill is beyond you. Perhaps in your caffeinated hyper-world, you may think that editing, re-reading, grammar, etc... are not needed to get your point across. However, it actually makes you sound very much like an idiot thus detracting considerably from whatever pseudo-important message you were trying to impart.
As for the issue at hand, all grammar aside: Lighten the fuck up. It’s a silly little cartoon and I doubt that actual pigs go about slicing themselves up at random just as I would hazard a very good guess that not many people who are ‘fence-sitting’ on the issue of carnivore vs. herbivore would be really impacted by this image at all! I rarely read the WE anymore but I happened to see this and simply could not help commenting on the utter lack of proper usage of the English-fucking-language.
Please go back to grade school and enjoy a round of baby-back ribs on me while you’re at it! There is a divine smokehouse on W. Broadway – Memphis Blues – and I’m sure they’d love to accommodate you.
Now do excuse me while I tuck into some delicious barbecued pork chops.
–G Pick
Rude people get what they deserve
Re: Rants/Raves, Sept. 4
Besides the rude comments you got, you missed the opportunity to emphatically state that in this day and age it’s totally unacceptable to hold the door for any stranger to your place of work or dwelling, and that if the rude piece of garbage does not have a so-called friend in the building, the police will be called. Nobody should be offended if they are not trying to con their way in to a building to cause more harm to others. Harm reduction can be a useful term in this case which is wrongly used by politicians and bureaucrats.
–Jeff
Still good people out there
Thank you to the thoughtful person who recently left me a note of apology to explain their hungry dog. The dog was tied up to a bike rack at Hillcrest Community Centre (Nat Bailey). The dog chewed on two loaves of bread I had inside my bike bags. This kind person also left me $5.00 to purchase replacement bread. There still are good and considerate people.
–TJL
Get over yourself!
Re: Belle Gelateria eyes global expansion with new shop, Aug. 28
Get over yourself! The Bella Gelateria owner says, “At my level of being a World Champion, everything has to be perfect”. He then goes on to say “I don’t fit in... I stand out”.
Enough said.
–P.Taff
Police need to stop cell drivers
Distracted drivers are causing a lot more accidents as you see them driving with spaces between cars as their attention is on their texting or cell phone
But lets put the blame where it really belongs, on a lack of police enforcement of the traffic laws. When you see a driver on their cell phone and they don’t try to hide the fact that they are using their phone, and with a police office watching but they do nothing you know drivers aren’t afraid of being caught.
It is time to get the police out of the coffee shops, off their fat asses, and do some traffic enforcement. Vancouver Police are paid to do law enforcement, so why aren’t they doing it?
Also the Mayor is the chairman of the Vancouver Police Board and it is his responsibility to see laws are enforced, not to be encouraging citizens to break the law. Why is there no leadership at the top?
If I see at least 30 to 35 drivers a day on their cellphones you would think and entire police force would see one or two.
–John Adamson
