davis_square mutterings

[prog]

davis_square is normally a great community but there are two patterns that make me sad. One is more interesting (and confusing) than the other.

Q: Something about post formatting policy.
A: If you can't write a Greasemonkey script to format other peoples' posts yourself, like me and all my friends can, go back to AOL, luser. Now if you'll excuse me I shall don my totally badass black trenchcoat and away to the Games Workshop store because I hear they just got a new shipment of Space Orks in. Waugh!
A2: LOL USE LUNIX
Commentary: The Slashdork effect. This is not surprising and there's probably not much to be done about it, but it's still disheartening to see. And I just know exactly when it will appear but I still must read the comments anyway.

Q: Something about local coffee houses.
A: Oh god don't go to the Diesel. Every time I go in there I get spat on by the staff and the clientele bludgeon me with their fashionable laptop accessories. I think it's because I'm so manly. I'm just not sure.
A2: Oh hell yes! Sometimes the Diesel workers call my mom up at home and harass her with their tattoos. It's awful!
Commentary: This, I just do not understand. Seriously, what? I'm just an ordinary slobby guy and I've been going there for years and have never picked up on any attitude. I'm kind of numb but I'm not that numb.

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

The Games Workshop store closed a couple of months ago :-(

[spatch]

I've found that people in Davis Square either love, love, love an establishment or they loathe it with every fiber of their being, and that this loathing stems from one bad experience.

And while this bad experience often seems, to the outside observer, to have been an error in communication or just a simple mistake, it apparently was one which caused An Incredibly Unforgivable Offense.

I don't understand it, either, because while I'd be loath to patronize a restaurant due to One Bad Experience (unless the experience was, say, food poisoning) I know that every place has its good times and bad. The people who vow Never Ever Ever Ever Again to visit the Rosebud because they were told they couldn't bring their outside beverages in (well, hello, they're in the business of selling their own beverages), for example, are the ones who mystify me the most.

The other category are the people who expect every restaurant worker in the area to wait on them hand and food, bowing and scraping and all. When you eat at a "local" establishment, you might often encounter a snarky waitress. That's part of the experience, really, but apparently this causes Much Upsetness to some. Shrug.

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

I spend a lot of time at Diesel and I've never had a bad experience. The staff are always very friendly to me and the customers are usually very polite as well.