Post #456302 by woofmutt on Tue, May 26, 2009 11:24 AM

I like most of you...Well, some of you...OK. I like a couple of you, but what's with Marketplace threads getting hijacked by opinions? Aren't there other places for you to rant? Like say, out a back window at your deaf dog?

Shhh-! Shhh-! Calm down kittens, it's not rants I hate. I love a good rant as much as the next drunk...In fact I'm ranting at this very moment!

But when someone legitimately makes a Marketplace post making people aware of products or services or erotic Tiki massages why the hell does the world need to know if I think their artwork sucks, their prices are ridiculous, and their restrooms always smell like pee? That's what parties are for: To stand around and bitch about the crappy overpriced art being sold on Tiki Central by pee smelling swindlers.

If the product being sold is an actual ripoff of another artist or if the seller has a spotty business history or a lot of the ladies working there are undercover cops then a well written informative comment on a thread is warranted.

But what's the point of general "That looks stoopid!" "$500 for a wading pool???" "You shouldn't buy Made In China junk there, you should buy Made In China junk HERE!" posts?

Comments such as those would probably be better appreciated over in Bilge where a few of us constantly type our fingers to the bone trying to keep new content flowing.

And now to elegantly wrap this rant up...

Talking to my folks a couple weeks ago they mentioned some Tiki stuff at Walmart...Would I be interested? Visions of Party City flashing through my head and knowing how my folk's love a good clearance sale I had to make it clear and make it stick. So for about five minutes my comments went something like "Oh, thanks for keeping an eye out, but no, no, please no. No. No. No. No. Again, really, no. No. Walmart. Tiki. No."