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suicide?
Dec 26, 2008citizen - Downtown
On Christmas eve 2008 in broad daylight a man shoots himself in the chest and dies. Only fox reports this with just a paragraph and every other Indy media brushes it under the table, If they disregarded this then what else aren't they telling us?
false friends
Jan 7, 2009raving lunatic - northside
We all have them- false friends. These are the 'friends' that only call you when they want/need something. They are self-absorbed and selfish in life and expect you to jump when they call...but they act really nice and sweet to get you to do whatever it is they want at the time. They are hard to see at first because you get blinded by their sweetness/niceness in the beginning of the friendship. Case in point, I 'had' a friend who was this way, but I over-looked her 'bad' traits because her kids and mine played together a lot. Even though there were things that she did I didn't agree with or things in her past I didn't condone I still became friends with her, actually great friends. Of course one of the things she would do is dump her kids on me to watch whenever something came up that she wanted to do without the kids. I didn't judge her for these traits. I accepted her for who she was. So one night we watched a movie together, kids and all, and a few days later I go over to her house and she acts like I've done something bad to her. She finally decides to tell me that the other night when we were over at her house watching the movie she said her daughter told her that my son told her a dirty word and that her daughter went on the internet and was looking it up and got caught looking up the dirty word. While she is telling me this her OWN son is standing there and says, "it was in the movie we were watching that said the bad word." She immediately cuts him off and says that's not what happened. Her son's story sounds more plausible than my son just going up to her daughter, who by the way is 2 years older than my son, and telling her a bad word. So I decide to check out her son's story and I re-rented the movie and sure enough in the movie the main character yells out this 'dirty' word. And to top off the story the main character's name in the movie is the exact same name as my son's name. So I tell my 'friend' about the movie and the character saying it and his name and my 'friend' says she doesn't want to get into the he said/she said of the matter and that we are better off going our separate ways as friends. I wasted 4 years of babysitting her kids and helping her clean her house and helping her with her work and this is what she ends our friendship over? Lesson to learn from this rant? If you know of a friend like this where they never call you to just see how you are doing or when they call the call always seems to come back to them and what they need- don't be fooled by these people! Don't be swayed by their 'sneaky ways'. Just don't bother with them because they will always be self-absorbed and won't ever change.
Ahh! Raptors!
Feb 3, 2009Rusty - indianapolis
Holy Crap! I couldn't be more proud of our local nerds taking it on themselves to continue the national trend of hacking these roadsigns. I wanted to do it sooo bad! (but it's been so damn cold and snowy or mushy, and leaving the house requires putting pants on). But come on, why are the comments from motorists so f'in stupid? RTV reports:
"I'm totally confused, I'm kind of expecting... dinosaurs to run down the road, or something." and "Which raptors?"
I blame the reporters. Sure it's cold and you just wanna get the story and get back to the studio, but can't you find anybody with anything better to say? Come on, there are frickin RAPTORS loose in Carmel! This happens way too often on the news, (poor interviews, not raptors) and is one of the major reasons I can't stand local newscasts. They just have a knack for finding the absolute stupidest person in the vicinity for an interview...
On the plus side, at least we don't have any Nazi zombies loose in our fair city... good luck Austin, TX, those bastards are tough.
RTV Channel 6 article: Here
NUVO pwns DPW... or not?
Feb 5, 2009Rusty - Fountain Square
So, I didn't exactly understand the three-part "Department of Public Jerks" write-up in NUVO this week in their "Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down" section. The second two didn't seem to have anything to do with DPW at all. Water... maybe, but still, that's on Indianapolis Water, not DPW. And what exactly did the republicans' standpoint on transporting prisoners to the Terre Haute facility have to do with our local DPW? Whatever... I do have to agree with the first "thumbs down" though - quoting the head of DPW, "Get some shovels and snowplows. There's a lot of people who just need to do it themselves." Hmm. Ok... Oh, btw, I've decided to put my tax dollars toward community theatre this year instead of government. Also, I won't be plowing my own street. Just saying.
Piss right the F*ck Off, radio now 100.9
Feb 24, 2009Jon and Cherie - eastside
Me and my girlfriend were driving tonight and this is the promo I heard come on 100.9: "As we continue our boycott against Chris Brown's music, support our 'No Excuse for Abuse' campaign." And then they started playing a pre-recorded tape of someone telling their "tale" of domestic abuse. My gf quickly changed the station before we had to listen any further. Thank god.
First off, this rant has nothing to do with Chris Brown's actions, no matter how you take it. So you can piss off too, everyone who thinks we're defending him here. This has every thing to do with media over-stepping their bounds and pushing morality on the general public.
Radio Now is a commercial business. You ARE NOT a church. Furthermore, you're not even a commercial program disguised as a morality program (see "Delilah" or "Nancy Grace"). You're a pop music station for fuck's sake! I tune to your station (if ever) for terrible pop garbage escapism..... not a fucking sermon!
If I want morality tales and judgment by appointed leaders, I'll go to church. If I want judgment by some dickhead journalism/broadcast flunkie, I'll read US Weekly. The fact is, I don't... want to or do either. And now there's another thing I won't do - listen to your radio station.
You're just getting yourself off by exploiting this tabloid hay-day of an incident. Masturbate in private, 100.9, not on the public airwaves.
Extreme Home Makeover
April 12, 2009Mad at the World - Naptown
The national televised show came to Indy, did their thing and bounced out. Awesome right? Well yeah but I learned something. That the show is so much more political than the goodwill that the show represents. The crews are not in it to help the people out of the kindness of their heart. They are doing it for the national spotlight. To be the top dogs in Indy. To put down on their resumes. Get this giving back to the community shit out of my face and tell me the real reason your business wants anything to do with a nationally televised show. To make money off other peoples sob stories.
Extreme Ghetto Makeover
April 13, 2009chris - noblesville
Did anyone else see this idiot who got the free house? He is complaining about the yard not being what his family wants. I saw his yard (if that's what you want to call it before) It was full of junk and stuff. So I guess he needs to ghetto up this gift as well.
Why Are You Whining?!
April 14, 2009rusty - downtown
I've heard some pretty awful local commercials on the radio, and I've always had a distaste for PSAs, but what I just heard on 92.3 almost made me pull over and vomit.
Smokefreeindy.org made one of the most godawful commercials I've ever heard. Whatever the organization is doing, I don't really care, I'm pissed off that they wasted money and airtime on such an annoying piece of schlock. It starts with a grown man WHINING at his presumed date (yeah, it's his tone, not just his words) "looook at how much smoke is in heeere..." "yeah I can seeee it, it's blue..." "I thought eeevery place would be smoke freee by nooow..." "me toooo, they shoooould be..."
Then the two go into the usual scare-stats inherent to this type of propaganda, of course while still standing in the place complaining they should leave. Ya know what? Yeah, you should leave! Or better yet, you shouldn't have come there in the first place... IT'S A BAR! The only places in Indy that allow smoking are 21 and older... freaking BARS! Do you go to the same places and bitch about why people are drinking?! IT'S A BAR! Don't go if you don't like the atmosphere. I don't go to strip clubs because I don't care for the atmosphere... I don't go to one and then whine about naked skanks grinding me for dollars! Do you go to the butcher shop and bitch about them not having vegan options? Get the fuck out of my bar and off my radio.
I'm not even a smoker. But I know what I get when I go to a goddamn bar.
What's Up Chuck
April 14, 2009Meaty D - East Side
Chuck Lofton is not a meteorologist he is just a TV personality, who has reported the weather for 20 years. It is because of this that his weather reports are always wrong. If you listen to him talk in between his belches on air you will discover two things.
One. He knows that his report will be wrong. He will say check back in at noon to see what Jude will say about the day.
Two. He forgets himself that he isn't a meteorologist. He says he is but one sure fire way to know that he isn't is the introduction. Chris Wright and Jude Redfield have an introduction that states their certificates, Chuck and Nicole Misensik are just winging it.
How can the #1 station in Indiana be giving Indianapolis a weather report that any shulb can give. Does this have indication of how their news is compiled?
Good News? Of course not.
April 22, 2009Rusty - downtown
Indianapolis Woman impaled while breaking up white trash sword fight between brother-in-law and grandson. FWAAA? I guess I haven't been watching the local news, so I have to assume this was all over it. I actually had to look it up after seeing it on national news. The winner of the duel (as far as I understand the way these things work) was Chris Rondeau, whose Uncle died a few days later from stab wounds. However, since we no longer live in the good ol' days when an honorable man can stab a family member to death in an epic battle of the steel... well, he's getting charged with murder and such.
I know this is a tragic thing and all, but let me just point out the incredible irony of a man named Adolph killed by a WWII sword... in Indiana... in 2009. I'm gonna buy some lottery tickets tonight!
Here's the WTHR article, but I think I pretty much summed it up for ya. Plus, I'm no English major, but the author actually says, "Franziska Stegbauer, 77, ended up dead trying to break up a fight..." And while that's not exactly incorrect grammar... it's bad enough to make me wanna stab someone.
America the great!
Oct 28, 2009Exodus
Wow, I heard this morning on the news that NASA is spending 400 Million dollars to put a rocket in the air for 2 minutes, now I am no rocket scientist, but I would like to think that I could be a slight humanist, Does it make sense to waste tax payers dollars to put another fucking rocket in the air, at that cost? They need to shut NASA down, its a hole in the bucket, and another way for the gov to put its family members in pointless high paying jobs, under the idealogy of a possible alien attack. WTF. How about taking that 400 Million and feeding some hungry people, or impliment programs that help the children of stupid parents.
Sigh.
