The Anti-Rating (Rating) Plot

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Rating the Ratings Communities
   As a quiz I posted a year ago yesterday so astutely pointed out, stupid people piss me off. And few places can one find higher concentrations of stupid people than ratings communities - along, of course, with vanity, pettiness and wholly unwarranted elitism (not that warranted elitism is a good thing, but unwarranted elitism is elitism coupled with stupidity to create really offensive stupidity). Its like someone is spawning an army of roxymartinis; and there simply can be no more odious undertaking than that.
   But this is not an essay on why I don't like ratings communities. As far as I'm concerned, if you don't already see them for the foolishness that they are, you're not worth converting. This is an essay on my new and brilliant plan for vengeance upon them.
   Now this in itself creates a minor philosophical problem because normally I don't condone spitefulness; but I think a case can be made that it would do their miserable wretched souls a little good to have the point driven home that their "approved" or "stamped" elite status is only lauded by their ignorant confederates, while the rest of the world regards them with utter contempt and derision.

   So I set about plotting a brilliant plan for vengeance upon these nefarious communities. I brooded, and I evilticulated my fingers as Mr Burns does, I wiffled through the tulgey would (and burbled as I did), and stood there on christmas eve hating the whos ratists. And then I got a brilliant idea, a wonderful brilliant awful idea.

   And it is this: create a "community rating" community, with a lenghty application to be filled out on behalf of communities for them to be approved as rightious chosen communities worthy of elitism. And then we mention this to numerous ratings communities.. and you see.. they're all big on promotion, positively oozing with greed for plugs, so they'll rush off to fill out our officious application. And then.. well then of course we soundly reject them all and tell them what for!!¹
   Is this not brilliant? Is the revolution not at hand? The only hitch is that I think I may loathe rating communities too much to even participate in rating them. But if there are others out there who think this is a glorious idea I think I could be compelled to participate in it.. for a spiteful saucy plot I think it actually seems quite do-able.

   ¹And I suppose to give it some credence of legitimacy of something one can aspire to get approved by, I think we should approve truly enlightened communities, like jerryisahero or say 211.


In Other News
   I burnt a CD yesterday, because I didn't bring my speakers back home with me so I wanted to be able to play my music on my primitive radio rather than my neanderthal laptop speakers. I titled the CD Music You Can Blog To. Kristy then announced that I am a "bignerd." I think I'll post the discography in a comment to this entry so as not to take up space in the entry itself with a long list, but its pretty awesome if I do say so myself. Next I think I'm going to burn an emo CD titled "Emo Trogdor" and one with lots of Tiger Army and Flogging Molly titled "Music You Can Maraud To."


Pictures of the Day - Village in Decline




   All © Kris Fricke 2004. Oakbrook Village is the humble location of the yarn store in which I find employment as an indentured ogre in the back room. Going from left to right and left to right again, (1) occasionally they have "concerts" on the grass, here as seen from inside the yarn store. Also note that the place is rife with old people, due to close proximity to the walled town of Laguna Woods (former "Leisure World); (2) the dedication plague for this long derelict nursery reads "The Growing Grounds; February 13, 1980, 'Dedicated to the guests we serve'" FOR DINNER! err. (3, 4) one of the large anchor locations is also empty.
   But the place DOES have that mecca of shopping locations, a Trader Joes however! (and a good chinese restaurant from which succulent aromas do sometimes waft towards me temptingly)


Related
   Year Ago Friday: Memories of My First Steel Reserve
   Year Ago Satuday: Complaining about certain lifeguards
   Year Ago Today: "A really effed up double rescue" - and verious other things
   Everyone's favourite Sharon Zimmerman (ooorabiesooo) gets invited to apply for a ratings community.
      ...And her twin sister Amy applies! (as a joke) - actually there were more, I think Sharon might have applies, at least their other sister did, but both of them got deleted and banned from the community. Other entries are friends-only. But the best part of the entry is the comments.