people that YELP are scumbags

I keep looking at "mushroooom" and thinking "A SNAAAAAAAAAAKE, SNAAAAAAAKE, SNAAAAAAAAKE"

2.0 star rating
3/5/2012 1 Check-in Here

Not as good as the other dongs in Arcadia and Diamond Bar.

good to know

wait that's a review of a chinese restaurant in madison! the one posted above! and i've been there!

do they scoop the rice

i feel like i'm not in on some joke here.

i even got a free sprite for checking in!

Like what kind of person gets this excited about getting a free small soda that they feel compelled to mention it in a review?

see thread title

would scoop rice at young dong

I swear some of these ppl expect to be hand-fed like babbies when they go out to eat from what they complain about.

wait that's a review of a chinese restaurant in madison! the one posted above! and i've been there!

probably the best chinese restaurant in madison right now, no less!

i think it's hilarious that despite every evidence that she is at a chinese restaurant, the reviewer persists in believing she is at a japanese restaurant and rates accordingly.

totally. it's almost a work of art.

somewhere an Australian is yelping furiously from an Outback Steakhouse

especially great to order Sichuan beef and keep complaining that the place isn't Japanese!

Said reviewer has given 3 negative reviews to Japanese places and no positive ones, and two 5* reviews to Chinese places and no other negatives. If this place didn't have a Japanese name they'd probably have got a great review.

(What is not Japanese about chopsticks? We don't have many Japanese restaurants here but they all have chopsticks - admittedly usually the wooden pull-apart chopsticks rather than the ones you get in Chinese restaurants, so maybe that's what the reviewer was complaining about, who knows)

i think it's hilarious that despite every evidence that she is at a chinese restaurant, the reviewer persists in believing she is at a japanese restaurant and rates accordingly.

Right, like it's two-thirds of the way through the meal and she's leaning over to her husband saying "Something's just not right here -- I'm starting to suspect that this place isn't actually Japanese!"

Wow, her other reviews are a goldmine!

"I didnt care for the sushi at all, didnt taste fresh to me. I also tried I think it was teriyaki steak,anyways,I had to stop eatting in the middle of it was making feel sick to my stomache. It looked like it could be a nice place for a date,I guess"

Apparently when I was single my idea of a "date restaurant" was totally wrong.

chinese restaurant with a japanese name seems like a detail from a michael chabon novel

thing is, were Yelp reviews always so awful? b/c i remember looking at the site a couple of years or so before this thread was started, and iirc the reviews were fairly informative and generally not too harsh unless there was something truly egregious about the service at a place or whatever

but looking at reviews lately, it seems like the bulk of them are unbelievably complainy and petty and only helpful or informative insofar as they let you know that the reviewer would be a terrible person to eat dinner with or to have to wait on

someone should start yelp reviews reviews and all the reviews should be 'this person would be horrible to dine with'

Mine would be "Her name made me think she was Chinese but after we had dinner together I realized she totally wasn't, what a scam"

i've been meaning to suggest same for a while! yelper.com

or maybe whine.com

or just a tumblr of good'uns. that seems to do the trick these days.

The thing is, the site does perform a public service, in that if you meet somebody and find out they use yelp, you can find out within like a minute or so if they have sane and useful opinions or are a horrible pain in the ass. Presumably you could also find this out by talking to them, but smartphones are so much faster anymore.

your use of "anymore" fascinates me

Google "positive anymore", marvel at its alien weirdness

yeah, i started noticing that usage a few years back and it really threw me for a loop

i'm thinking i'm on the verge of starting to use it tho

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

whoops rong thread

haha, i'm not sure where i picked it up cause it's something that used to bug me too! Is it a Midwestern thing? It's definitely not like hip new slang, it's an old-school regular-workin-people thing.

it doesn't make any sense!

i think it makes a certain amount of sense. divorces "anymore" from the mechanics of its original construction in order to apply its function to other contexts.

Anymore, you take sense where you can find it.

I live in the Midwest and have never heard this

http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/positive-anymore

Hey, cool, it has a name! Good to know.

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=txCfYYYzxoIbMTfpz2Tn_w

this guy

that dude is REALLY unhappy in life

omg this guy

Yelp

Categories: Local Flavor, Mass Media
Neighborhood: SOMA
1.0 star rating
9/26/2011

Aah Yelp. You have lost your way. Alas, so has the country so why should you be any different? What I thought Yelp was or is, and what Yelp believes it is are two entirely different entities. To me, Yelp was an online community of people who would venture out to restaurants, bars any business really, and evaluate them fairly and honestly for others to read. No one makes one read my review, and certainly no one has to take what I saw as the truth. To one person, I may be funny and dead on, to the next person, I am just a mean a-hole. It doesn't matter, its just my opinion.

The point is, if I am reviewing something, someplace or someone, and I tell you how awful they were, it is because they were. What that business now does is whine to Yelp. They either create a fake profile, or someone who works for them has a profile, or someone contacts Yelp and cries. The business should be ashamed of themselves. Instead of offering up good service, they cry about a review someone writes. It is my opinion Yelp. You don't have to like it, the business doesn't have to like it, but it is my opinion. Do you think by deleting it from Yelp I change my mind about the establishment. No. I am more determined to tell people how bad the experience was.

I have had reviews removed about three or four times. I always get the same BS email from someone at Yelp who is such a coward, they write from an email address, that can't be replied to. The most recent occasion occurred today.

Someone decided that my review of Rufus DuMonde Dog grooming in Madison, Wisconsin was not to their liking, so they contacted Yelp and Yelp, being a shill for business, removed it. Why? The place is horrible. If you remove my review does that change the quality of their service? Why is Rufus DuMonde such a coward that they don't contact me? It would be far better for them to contact me and offer another opportunity to show me I am wrong. Instead, they whine to Yelp. You can cover up shit in a patina, but the shit is still there, and it still stinks. It doesn't matter how many businesses make Yelp remove bad reviews. If the business or service is getting a bad review, having Yelp remove it, doesn't mean the service improved. On the contrary.

For every review you remove of mine, I will find a way to get the word out much louder. Rufus DuMonde, and all the other horrible establishments I have frequented, you can continue to hide behind the skirt of Yelp, but it won't help you.

"rufus dumonde dog grooming" in madison cannot POSSIBLY be real

(xp from unhappy guy above)

I walked into this dirt hole, holding my breath and tongue, and willing to order something in the hope that I could find some good Mexican food (good Mexican food is actually an oxymoron)

It would be far better for them to contact me and offer another opportunity to show me I am wrong. Instead, they whine to Yelp.

oh the irony

this dude is my new favorite person, it's just pages and pages of misdirected bitching

http://www.rufusdumonde.com/

by the way.

nice FAKE website

Location
Beverly Hills, CA

The City of Los Angeles
Category: Public Services & Government
11/21/2009
It gets one star because I have to give it at least one star, not because it deserves any stars. In fact, it owes me stars. It is the worst city in the world. A hole. A shit hole, and just when you think that hole stinks and couldn't get any worse, you discover that LA actually has a part that is worse then itself, the valley.

Having never been to LA or California before, and relocating from New York three years ago, I discovered it was the biggest mistake of my life. I yearn every day to leave. I don't think I can take it anymore, I hate LA. Randy Newman is an idiot.

There is nothing really remarkable about this city. Who cares about the beaches or the f'**in palm trees. Beaches? Just fill my bathtub up with water and throw sand around the outside of it. A beach is born. When you walk down a street in New York you feel alive. The energy from the people that pass you, the steam arising from the subway grates, the sounds of cars, horns, sirens, the smell of the carts roasting chestnuts - is there anything better. As you get close to major venues, your heart beats just a bit quicker, walk past Madison Square Garden and you realize that you are walking past sporting history.

Walk in LA. You pass some taco truck or some woman selling what appears to be fruit? No energy. Nothing. This city is dead. It looks dead, it smells dead. It is dead. God, or the heavens or mother earth or whomever controls these things hates LA. Earthquakes, fires, mudslides, how much more do you need? The people here are so freaking dumb they don't get it, those are signs to get the hell out, but they stay and marvel at what? The Hollywood sign? The Grove? A man made neighborhood because LA doesn't really have any.

There is traffic because no one, I will repeat NO ONE knows how to drive. They may have once been educated in the art, but when they moved from Ohio with dreams of becoming an actress, they quickly assimilated to so-Cal and completely dumbed down. The traffic doesn't move. Its not congestion like in NY, it just doesn't move. No one drives, they cruise, apparently everyone has all the time in the world, no one has to get anywhere on time.

Look, its that amazing skyline. What skyline? If you see the Los Angeles skyline in a movie, you wouldn't even know it.

I think I will take the bus today. There is a Metro system right? Yes, it just doesn't run anywhere you need to go, it might require seven buses to get there and none of them will run ON TIME!

The food is disgusting. Not a decent restaurant anywhere. Not one restaurant in Los Angeles could compare to anything in New York. Don't get me started on pizza or bagels. Some fool by the name of David Sax just wrote a book declaring LA has the best delis. Sax is Canadian, he doesn't know a deli if it smacked him in the head. He grew up in Toronto knowing Shopsy's and Switzers. He thinks Kosher is Chicago 58 and Pearls. His first Croissant came from Health Bread or Open Window. Take your book David Sax and stick it you know where. Don't tell me about the amazing Mexican restaurants, or the fact that New York doesn't have good Mexican food. Thank goodness. Mexican food is not good food. No great chef masters Mexican cooking. New York, Rome or Paris don't suffer from the lack of a taco.

I would love to offer some words of niceness to this city, but I can't. There is no city in the world that is more disgusting than Los Angeles. From Alvarado Street and Western to Ventura Boulevard, there is nothing memorable or redeeming about this place. The atmosphere, the people, it is an all encompassing hole of deviance and immorality.

Nobody ever sang if you can make it in LA you can make it anywhere. Los Angeles, and California is like the United State's penal colony. It was to the US what Australia was to England. The west was for people that didn't have the ability to truly make it in the east and they tread westward because they didn't want to have to compete. They wanted to create their own rules, live on their terms, and it certainly shows in the manners, the lack of civility and class that embodies the majority of Los Angeles. Yes, there is the Getty, but there is also Encino, Tarzana and Woodland Hills. My point proved.

I know there will be those who will attack me. They will want to tell me about the weather (it never changes), or something else, but really think about it. You don't have to admit it, but think about when was the last time you got really great customer service in Los Angeles. You didn't. If you start with shit, you can only attract flies and maggots.

When I leave, and it will be soon, I will NEVER come back. You can keep this shit hole and everything and everyone it contains.

http://twentyfourframes.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/travis-bickle-goes-to-the-movies.jpg

Wait, I thought I was crossposting but the Rufus Du Mode guy is the same guy who hates Mexican food!

I'm obsessed with the fact that he capitalizes "Croissant"