"the institutions, however flawed, that existed to help people are being destroyed so that a few billionaires can get even richer and one senile narcissist asshole can throw himself an authoritarian birthday party; the suffering of ordinary people grows every single day. The Aristocrats!"
It was terrible. We had to wait for our girlfriends to take us to parties where people were having and good time so we could walk around, stand uncomfortably just outside of a conversation, and then say, "well actually." Then we'd find the host and tell them everything wrong in the kitchen.
In the 90s I had a friend who was the GM for a D-list porn mag; his gf at the time wrote all the letters to the editor because the real ones were so awful (and she was able to forward a sex-positive agenda). For one month I got to write the centerfold’s “bio” for like $50.
The owner of this D-list empire also owned a drive-in one town over from me that showed x-rated movies and abutted a golf course, as well as a strip club in flint that was next to a gay bar, the parking lot of which saw a fair amount of action when the strip club closed for the night
Letters to the editor are still a powerful political tool towards reaching the ears of elected officials along with building political will. @cclusa.org https://citizensclimatelobby.org/published-media/
I admit if I hadn't been posting since I was 12 I'd totally be the guy showing up to the union/socialism meeting and saying this is less a question than a comment.
It wasn't easy before social media.
Every word had to be in BLOCK CAPS, and each word underlined three times.
More is better, so sometimes we could ramble on for six pages, maybe more. No character limit in those days.
Oh, and the opinion had to be written in green ink. Always.
Those were the days!
I would buy a box of 500 blank matchbooks and write my strange poetry/shitty thoughts on them then leave them on the bar where I was drinking, sometimes with cover graphics.
I used to log on to a forum for a card game where rules were applied by induction from specific examples to the game in general, and then make arguments to force the rules team to apply their dumb decisions across the board
I kept score of how many times they had to change the game because of me
oh wow, I just shot off a letter to the editor to my local paper and unfortunately they always have space so they printed it . . .put your morning rants in a box and set them on fire, always
You know those old advice columns where they have a photo comic of a situation? We all wrote those and, considering the content of them even if unrelated to the problem asked about, presumably beat our wives.
there was a car that had an alarm that warning beeped every five minutes. so i stalked it in my pajamas, waiting for the beeps till i confirmed it was the white camero in front of the sorority. and i wrote "BEEP" on the hood with shaving cream. which I guess etches the paint. ah well.
In the 80s, there was a number you could call where everyone could hear each other between the busy signal beeps. So you'd yell with each beep-gap to try to be heard, word by word. Ended up meeting someone at the mall that way
Go to the arcade and when someone is playing DigDug or Mr Do really bad, you're all over their shoulder going "nah, you gotta pump until the pooka *almost* bursts and then get the rock"
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detracting from an otherwise PERFECTLY CRAFTED reply
I bet there was always some asshole yelling back pointless "corrections".
Probably the same one. Every day.
or call into radio stations and get dunked on, immediately, while the broadcast was heard by thousands in real time and then played back every hour.
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/published-media/
Before that I had a newsletter for people I met on AOL in Jr high.
I'm f@#$in' CONSISTENT
I was recently diagnosed as a reply guy so I am hoping I'm a union one ^^'
Every word had to be in BLOCK CAPS, and each word underlined three times.
More is better, so sometimes we could ramble on for six pages, maybe more. No character limit in those days.
Oh, and the opinion had to be written in green ink. Always.
Those were the days!
I kept score of how many times they had to change the game because of me
did you never read the letters to the editor section of the paper??
reply guys are old as timeee
I apologize for my sins
All of thems