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06/23/2008
Restaurants
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Restaurant Patrons!
Just a few things to keep in mind next time you eat out...
First, please remember that someone has to clean up the huge a** mess you leave behind. If you really need to leave the food you don't eat on the TABLE instead of on your plate, at least leave more than a TWO DOLLAR tip.
Second, if you want to come in five minutes before we close, that is fine with me. I am grateful for that extra money. But seriously--don't sit there for an hour and a half after you've finished eating.
First, please remember that someone has to clean up the huge a** mess you leave behind. If you really need to leave the food you don't eat on the TABLE instead of on your plate, at least leave more than a TWO DOLLAR tip.
Second, if you want to come in five minutes before we close, that is fine with me. I am grateful for that extra money. But seriously--don't sit there for an hour and a half after you've finished eating.
06/28/2008 - from one server to another, i agree!! if you have kids, clean up your crap. if you don't want to clean up your own disaster area, then at least PAY us to do it for you when you leave! is that too much to ask?06/17/2008
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Dear Mr. Deputy Sheriff
After receiving a phone call from my underage buddy at 3:14am on Sat asking to come bail him out of jail, I promptly called the ACC Jail and spoke with a deputy sheriff about posting bail. After explicitly telling me the bail bond amount of $500 and the procedure for posting bail (as if scripted), I went to the nearest ATM and extracted $500 to use in my friend's aid. When finally arriving at the jail with the proper bond amount, the deputy sheriff (the same one I spoke with earlier) muttered with a smirk that he "forgot to mention the $13 deputy sheriff's fee". Of course after taking out $500, I didn't have additional cash on hand. So to you Mr. deputy Sheriff, I'm sorry your life sucks and you have to deal with stupid drunk college kids at ungodly hours in the morning, but is it really necessary for you to make others' lives as s***ty as yours, if only temporarily, or are you just suffering from early onset Alzheimer's? Douche Bag.
06/17/2008 - That smirk is why he got in the business in the first place. That's what happens when you get stepped on your whole like and you want to feel POWER over other people... you become a dickhead cop. He loved doing that to you - that's why he got in this business.06/19/2008 - Does "deputy sheriff's fee" = bribe? 'Cause that sounds like he asked you for a bribe.06/01/2008
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Hold the elevator!
So the other day I was walking up to an when the doors start to close, but I'm only like 10 feet away. I start to run to catch it, hoping someone will hit the "door open" button, since it will only take like 10 seconds extra! But no, the 3 f***ing idiots on the elevator just stare at me like they're hoping I don't catch the elevator. Seriously, it doesn't even take 10 seconds for the door to open again! It won't make you late, a**holes!
06/02/2008 - Sorry...typo... I was walking up to an elevator... if you didn't figure that out... LOL06/01/2008
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Please, learn how to use a sidewalk!
I hate when you\'re walking on the sidewalk and there\'s a group of people in front of you walking ridiculously slowly who choose to take up the entire sidewalk. There\'s a road on one side and bushes on the other - how the f*** am I supposed to get around you?
And for the group of people walking side-by-side coming the opposite way as me, PLEASE one of you just get behind the others to make room for me. When there are roads and bushes on either side of me, I CAN\'T GO ANYWHERE TO LET YOU PASS BY! So please, don\'t be an a**hole and make room for other people on the sidewalk!
And for the group of people walking side-by-side coming the opposite way as me, PLEASE one of you just get behind the others to make room for me. When there are roads and bushes on either side of me, I CAN\'T GO ANYWHERE TO LET YOU PASS BY! So please, don\'t be an a**hole and make room for other people on the sidewalk!
06/06/2008 - I hate that too. My strategy:
For the group in front of you - say, "Excuse me" and then if they don't let you by just force your way through the group. It may seem rude but they were equally rude in ignoring your request. It's been my experience that someone in the group will notice you once you're physically trying to get by and they'll tell the others to move out the way.
For the group coming toward you - just don't move. In most cases if you just keep walking they'll have to go around you when they reach you. For the most stubborn you might actually have to stop walking completely. I've yet to meet the person who will walk straight into somebody who's just standing still on purpose.
(Unfortunately, a few people have walked straight into me because they weren't paying attention.)
05/27/2008
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booze
Thank you loud, obnoxious, drunkard for sharing with the entire apartment complex your pressing desire to urinate on your roommate's vehicle AT 4AM on a WEDNESDAY MORNING- who needs an alarm anyways?
05/27/2008 - Haha, it's actually Tuesday.05/21/2008
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Athen's man named Street Person of the Year
Athen's barhound and cultural fixture Gabe Newman has been named 2008's Street Person of the Year.
He was pick from a field of panhandlers, hustlers, and bums for his special vision of using his living in his car status to launch a Presidential campaign. Visit www.street-people.com to learn more
He was pick from a field of panhandlers, hustlers, and bums for his special vision of using his living in his car status to launch a Presidential campaign. Visit www.street-people.com to learn more
05/21/2008 - I smell Spam05/21/2008 - I was thinking the same thing. Please delete this post so this guy won't get any traffic from his lame-a$$ post.05/15/2008
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Charter Communications
Sending your customers ads based on their browsing history is NOT an "enhancement".
Requiring people who don't want this to submit personal information in an insecure form every time they delete their cookies is not convenient.
Requiring people who don't want this to submit personal information in an insecure form every time they delete their cookies is not convenient.
05/27/2008 - hooray for unregulated monopolies!05/15/2008
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Athens Transit
When you're driving your bus and your top ticker panel isn't on, is it a sin to ask what number bus this is? You wasted more energy scowling at me than you would have had you simply muttered the word "twelve". Thank you for reminding me why I'm in college in the first place: to not end up with your miserable life.
05/15/2008 - What bugs me is when they refuse to pull all the way up at a bus stop. It was raining this afternoon and the few of us who were waiting at the Main Library were all under the shelter. There were no buses parked at the bus stop so you would think that the Route 5 bus would have pulled all the way up.
But no, the driver decided it made more sense for us to walk down to the bus.
Even when it's not raining it's always slower when the bus driver makes everyone walk halfway down the bus shelter. There's always someone who's older, injured, or disabled and therefore moves slowly.
I just don't see what the drivers get out of stopping halfway when the bus shelter is empty.
05/20/2008 - I think my bus driver hates me... he's a scowler all right.05/06/2008
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Overheard in Athens RSS
Ever since Overheard redesigned, there are no actual quotes in the RSS feed. Just the title and the location.
Why bother having the feed?
Why bother having the feed?
05/06/2008 - Actually, it's just the week the quotes have stopped showing up. I e-mailed them, but no response. Lame.05/05/2008
Individuals
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The vents on 05/04/08
Please, do not ever post on here again! the last thing we need is for someone to set a precedent of typing as follows:
"OMG! Did u guys see that ther is sum website named athensvent? plp go on ther and tlk abt thngs they h8!"
Please refrain from any more ridiculous and naive postings on this, or any other website. Stick to collegehumor.com or something else in that strata.
Thank you,
The Athens Populace
(this includes "Townies," Fratties, slow drivers, 'sexist bar proprietors,' athensoorguys, sorostitutes, dog owners, landlords, Kanye West, et. al. ;)
"OMG! Did u guys see that ther is sum website named athensvent? plp go on ther and tlk abt thngs they h8!"
Please refrain from any more ridiculous and naive postings on this, or any other website. Stick to collegehumor.com or something else in that strata.
Thank you,
The Athens Populace
(this includes "Townies," Fratties, slow drivers, 'sexist bar proprietors,' athensoorguys, sorostitutes, dog owners, landlords, Kanye West, et. al. ;)
05/06/2008 - "The Athens Populace" description is hilarious...05/07/2008 - Actually dumba**, we can post whatever we want on this site. That's the point. If you look at the top of the website it says: "AthensVent.net is a place where Athens can come to freely express opinions, heap praise on those who deserve it and expose local stupidity."
It doesn't say: "Post whatever you want - as long as it's cool with everyone."
Obviously you're offended because someone called you (Kanye?) or your type ('Sexist Bar Proprietor'?) out on this site ... and now you're mad and you're not going to take it anymore right?
Well screw you.
05/07/2008 - Townies are elitist snobs.
Fratties are racist a-holes.
Slow drivers suck when you\'re late.
People should boycott sexist bar proprietors.
Athens Doors Guys bitch too much.
Sorrostitutes are dumb and hot and loud.
Dog owners ought to clean up after themselves.
Your landlord sucks.
Kanye is a self-obsessed idiot.
There. I said it.
05/07/2008 - @ 5/7s: I think the Original Poster meant that The Athens Populace, even the "Townies," Fratties, slow drivers, etc., would like for whoever it was that posted the vents on 05/04/08 to stay far, far away from here.
Even if we can post whatever we want here you have to admit the vents on 5/4 were entirely made up of fail.
05/07/2008 - I was the original poster, and yes, "last 5/7" is correct. I put the 'athens populace' on here as a joke. The second 5/7 post had it right as well (there I said it).
As for the first 5/7 post,
This is athens vent, and I can 'vent' about other things on here can I not? Why would someone complain in such an inept way about something so...'commonplace,? that's like complaining about West Athens-
"Have you seen that big building out near best buy? it's tan and really old. they call it the mall! it's really Gay!"
I can't exactly put words to it, but A vent like that (and 5/4) is slightly ridiculous, as it is a complaint against a 'socio-geographical feature,' and not funny or interesting, just dumb. In addition, I wouldn't consider myself any one of the categories I listed as "the Athens Populace" except for 'et al.'
I vent that 5/4 was a sad day for Athens; bored Athenian forum readers got a little dumber for reading the posts on athensvent that day.
05/10/2008 - yeah, but since this is a free website, anyone with internet access can vent on here... and about whatever they want... sorry that not everyone is as wonderful as you want them to be05/10/2008 - In reference to 5/7/08 #2... Not all townies are elitist snobs... Townie <i>Hipsters</i> are elitist snobs. I qualify for Townie status, but alas am not cool enough to be 'elitist'! Perhaps that makes me only a pseudo-townie. But yeah, you nailed the rest. And they are all what make up the Athens Populace. Isn't diversity great?05/10/2008 - All sorority girls aren't dumb either. I'm in a sorority and my GPA is probably higher than yours. I think everyone should realize that those are all generalizations, so it's rather pointless to repeat them constantly on here.05/12/2008 - HA HA. Do you know how easy it is to get A's in fashion merchandising and broadcast journalism?05/12/2008 - have you ever taken a fashion merchandising class? you have to take chemistry, marketing, and accounting. but my point was that sorority girls aren't all stupid sluts who go downtown every night05/12/2008 - No, but if the Jimmy Choo fits...05/15/2008 - Breathe, laugh, repeat.06/11/2008 - I agree. That person was a bitch a** loser.
