Bitchers and Lovers:
For the love all that is warm and fuzzy, please DO NOT send submissions that identify the person, business, or organization you are Bitching about.
It doesn’t matter if you feel justified in doing so, or if they are a private citizen that is somewhat known – Halifamous or otherwise – if you ID them (obviously or through subversion of the rules) in the submission it simply will not be posted. When you do submit an non-anonymous bitch sending a second bitch to complain about the fact that your first bitch wasn’t posted isn’t going to get you very far. Nor will a third one.
They are obviously some instances where identifying the object of the bitch IS okay – elected officials, metro transit, government departments or programs, and some public figures – but that doesn’t allow for unfettered vitriol and wild accusations. Nor does it permit identifying supporting characters as though they are collateral damage.
With loves there is a little more leeway, but it’s always best to err on the side of caution if you want your submission to see the light of day.
I would much rather post your bitches than spending the time to craft one of my own, so… How about a little team effort?—Maude/Mod 4.0
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2010.
“always best to air on the side of caution”
is it Monday????
air = err
Miss Maude, have you started into the drinks without me?
You’re very dull. I want the old mods back.
No zZz, I wish! It’s a sickly day. My head feels like it’s been stuffed with cotton balls. I fixed ‘er though. Thanks for the heads up.
Pav: I love you too. But really, whether it’s me or not the rule stays the same, and keeping things anonymous is it.
Sorry you’re sick Maude.
This recipe works for me; large mug of hot apple cider, pinch of nutmeg & cinnamon, 2-3 oz of spiced rum.
Drink before it gets cold, repeat as required until you don’t gaf about being sick;)
Mmmm… cotton balls are nice and soft. Perhaps your head is stuffed with cotton balls dipped in turpentine and then left to become dry and crusty. Blah… must be pungent.
Rockin’ Robyn, tweet…. twee-diddly deet.
Not sure what it is with all the sickness going around.
is it the cold snap we’ve had?
or change in pressure or something?
zZz – school is back in session, one runny nose & everyone gets it.
“And then there’s Maude…”
Why are Elected Officals by name, OK?
Opa, Eastlink and The Red Cross place themselves in the public sphere when they open to the public.
And why “some public officals”?
Can I bitch about the Pope, but not the local BIshop?
Peter Kelly and not Dan English?
Metro Transit and the Halifax Fire Dep….ooh…strike that….
OK, yeah, it was me. Slap me in cuffs… draw ‘n’ quarter me… put me in the electric chair (although I’ve been electrocuted by high voltage more than once and I’m still here so it probably wouldn’t work), lethal inject me (I’d probably enjoy that), put me in the gas chamber (see previous comment in brackets), cover me with honey and strap me to an ant hill (probably finish the honey before the ants), etc., etc. Guess I haven’t been here long enough to have a complete grasp of the rules. When I posted, the second time, the person I referred to was not as clearly identifiable but, in hindsight, I realize the peeps here (with a few exceptions) are intelligent enough to put 2 & 2 together. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad.
My apology everyone. Hope you’re feeling better soon Mod, Maude bo, bod banana fana fo fod, mi my mo Mod… MAUDE!
FUCK… am I showing my age!!!! c-r-O-A-K!
Maybe the rules should be more specific, or revised to be more strict if it’s a real problem. Although if it’s a bitch, you’d think it wouldn’t be. It’s difficult being courteous to the person you’re bitching about.
come on guys, we are all here for a bitch and fun. if we don’t behave ourselves, then the thing will get shut down. now we don’t want that, do we. we would have no place to go wild and say all kinds of silly and inane shit to one another. and of course, let’s not forget the truereason this site exists, for bitches, both in the real world, and in our warped little fucking minds. how’s that maudy, is it cool with you me love.
loverly suckulous…grampa^^
I see anonymity is to be observed as they are the rules…& if we break the rules & you miss it…we’ll have another courtroom drama like the fire whiners have already pulled… got it.
Does that also mean names refered to by nicknames like Rotten ronnies, or The grocery store from Stellarton , timmies are out as well ?
You’d have to admit my initial Bitch, if it had been posted, would have been pretty boring if I said: “Yeah, so I saw this one guy driving this big vehicle and he was talking to this other group of people about this other guy and they were making false accusations about the other guy, who was disabled mind you, and there’s nothing wrong with the other guy ‘cept his disability and there’s nothing wrong with having a disability but these other guys… blah, fucking blah, fucking blah!” ’nuff said?
Stay dry today e-1!
just look at the good we’re doing… if LS can extend his vocabulary to include words like ‘inane’ then it’s win win.
Maybe he meant to say “insane”. I think that’s pretty much within his regular vocabulary range.
notso, nope sweety, meant it to be inane, i’m insane, but some of the shit here is just plain inane and not exciting. but then we have zzz, and montrealman, montrealman, montrealman. there, i said it 3 times, and you will now be cursed with another installment of his/her inane banter. tough luck, suckers.
Damm you LS, you spoke the name that shall not be spoken.
To break the curse, you must now run the perimiter of the encampment naked, chanting Owa -ager-kiam. :>)~+
“vitriol”… why is this word so popular among members of the gay community? *gag*
So timmies, rotten ronnies, that store from Stellarton …are obviously vague enough.
Good to know .
Or because of lack of response I naturally asume it must be so ~8)
Halifamous? Ugh…
lack of removal is not quite the same as confirmation….
but in the chain cases, as long as you don’t specify which of the specific restaurants it is then you should be good… or it should at least slip by.
and speaking of halifamous… I heard there was a writeup of a certain garcon poulet in the dreaded ‘faces’ rag.
I encourage you all to paruse through… just I emplore you, do not stop turning pages until you see it. I wouldn’t want you wasting time actually going through the magazine….
Hey folks, I’d love to be able to give hard and fast rules, but the nature of beast means that I can’t. If you’re bitching about a certain place, you shouldn’t identify it by name or other markers. If you’re bitching about something else and a location is mentioned but it’s not the focus of the bitch there’s potentially a little leeway. It’s a definite no-no to specifically identify any person, business or other unless they fall into the earlier mentioned categories.
The rules are guidelines, and while sometimes black and white, other times context, and it’s many shades of gray, is key.
there ya go… the idea is to get it as grey as possible without it looking black.