people that YELP are scumbags

alton brown has opinions

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/magazine/alton-brown-has-had-it-with-foodies.html

What a bozo. I used to love Good Eats and now I can't stand the sight of his smug face.

Also commenter nancy in Indiana (probably a yelper in her spare time) has some fascinating things to say:

have not watched food TV in many years. I remember Alton's earlier days and his shopping in Kroger's.

This Saturday Piggly Wiggly will mark its 99th year as the first true self service grocer. Before that customers were not allowed in aisles. You made a shopping list because you had to hand it over to a clerk to be served. Through the years mark the change we have observed in shopping:

Stores have added refrigeration and technology.

Stores have meats, dairy, produce.

Stores have added shopping carts instead of bringing your own shopping basket.

Stores have moved from the downtown areas to the outskirts of town, making downtown areas empty.

Stores started taking credit cards.

Stores have added liquor in some states where allowed. Promotions include buy six and get ten percent.

Stores now have cup holders on the carts for those who have to drink during the dehydrating activity of grocery shopping.

Besides food and chefs and foodies and fast food, look at the actual structure behind food supply. In the college town we have a stratification of Kroger, one being the Kroghetto and the other called the Krogucci, where the store actually has small games in going through the store with various tasks to win gift certificates.

While I cannot complain of availability of products, I agree something bothers me in the pit of my stomach about this, and I do not think it is the actual food.

Oh for the perfect olden days when stores were cash only and didn't refrigerate anything

xp - yeah the alton browns of good eats and cutthroat kitchen are like two different people

so essentially she made a bland list about changes in grocery store procedure and hoped the point would arrive on its own once she finished?

glad today to have learned of the evil ways of Big Grocery

It appears that way. Out of those the only bad one is moving groceries stores away from urban centers and arguably creating food deserts (although she seems to blame grocery stores for urban blight in general) and maybe depending on your personal morals, the booze could be bad but the rest of these things are good and useful and help people.

Maybe her father was a Piggly Wiggly clerk and never recovered from the loss of his job when grocery stores moved to a self service model. Also the thought of handing over a store list to a random stranger bothers me in the pit of my stomach (and I do not thing it is the actual food.)

lol yeah, it wasn't even clear to me that she was saying these developments were *bad* things until I saw the comment about moving the grocery stores away from downtown.

she also curiously seems to think it's a universal truth. In Orlando, we practically have grocery store congestion, they exist wherever people do. Including downtown, which has a gigantic Publix with a free parking garage underneath it.

did alton shop at a krogucci or kroghetto?

xp Yeah there's parts of Chicago where you'd be lucky to pay $3.00 for a mushy apple in a booze-n-snacks store and parts where there are five different grocery shopping options in a three block radius (we used to live in the middle of one of the latter and it was GLORIOUS).

The thing that bothers me most about this is that he had an item on his todo list for 17 years. Granted he had to wait until Yelp was invented, but he could have done this at least 10 years ago. http://www.yelp.com/biz/rezas-restaurant-chicago-3?hrid=rqKgY9-bBcWbqfnr_8jfIQ

Keg of Evanston
36 Reviews
American (Traditional), Dive Bars

Three star average? You're kidding, right? This is the shittiest bar on earth.

Even as a dumb-fuck freshman, I knew that this place was trash based on the stories and the clientele. Thankfully, I only set foot in there three times. The first was as a sophomore, when--I swear to God--I handed the bouncer my REAL ID, which showed me to be 19, and he just handed it back and waved me in. Unbelievable.

The second time I was actually legal, and my friend insisted on coming here on his 21st-birthday pub crawl. This was the place where the bartender gave him--unsolicited--a complimentary shot of Bacardi 151 even though he had clearly had way too much already. Class. My friend didn't make it to the men's room before ralphing up his entire pub crawl.

The third time was shortly after that for "Thirsty Thursdays" when they sell shit beer in a 32-ounce cup for really cheap. Even then I had developed the early stages of beer-snobbishness. I only went because I was trying to romance a girl who I knew would be there. I never did get together with that girl. I sure was a dumb bastard back then. In those days, your only choice was between The Keg and Tommy Nevin's. Now you have mediocre crap such as Prairie Moon and Bar Louie in addition to gems such as The Celtic Knot. There is no excuse EVER to visit this shithole. Don't go to The Keg unless you are under 21. Even then, I advise against it.

I hate The Keg.

If you hate it this much, def go there 3 times tho

The Keg is a bar now?

The Keg is still there?!

a bar where they let in underage kids and dole out free shots does not deserve such a scathing review.

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/quiz/22044_1214589540299_500_212.jpg

Did you on that on yelp there are reviews of LA intersections?

Hollywood & Vine I get...Mulholland drive I get...but there are reviews of "Sepulveda Blvd & Pico Blvd" and everyone is so SERIOUS about it. It is seriously the most LA thing I have ever heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D98BR1DYrkg

What is the point of reviewing an intersection? Nothing will change as a result and it's not like you can decide not to patronize it.

pico and sepulveda video is A+, never heard that song before.

Oh, man, Dr. Demento used to play it all the time, still goes through my head when I'm in that area of L.A.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/

scumbags do YELP on people

wow

how can that possibly not end in multiple lawsuits?

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Where once you may have viewed a date or a teacher conference as a private encounter, Peeple transforms it into a radically public performance: Everything you do can be judged, publicized, recorded.

“That’s feedback for you!” Cordray enthuses. “You can really use it to your advantage.”

“It doesn’t matter how far apart we are in likes or dislikes,” she tells some bro at a bar in episode 10. “All that matters is what people say about us.”

._.

Is it worse to get badly rated or not rated at all?

P sure a big part of the business model there is the hope that people who get hit by a "bad" review will sign up all their friends to write "good" reviews. Creating anxiety is exactly what they want.

Half the male ratings are gonna be "has a really small dick", so yea.

A bubbly, no-holds-barred “trendy lady” with a marketing degree and two recruiting companies, Cordray sees no reason you wouldn’t want to “showcase your character” online.

trendy lady

The insidious thing about this is that you have to join the site to enjoy the inevitable schadenfreude-packed reviews that will be following the founders around until they pull the plug.

join peeple or: go hang with suburban soccer moms for the same basic thing

peepeeple more like

Oh boy

http://www.newsweek.com/yelp-humans-378561

"There's a lot of misunderstandings of the way the app actually works," Cordray says. "We have more integrity features and more accountability features built in than many online ratings systems today. I can appreciate, when people found out the world was actually round and not flat, and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us, there was tons of fear and uproar. We need to keep in mind that with any new concept and any new idea, there's always going to be some fear and some concern."

I was going to make a joke about starting a "rate my elbow" site but thought for a second, googled, and well... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101218072440AApC6JG

"I can appreciate, when people found out the world was actually round and not flat, and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us, there was tons of fear and uproar. We need to keep in mind that with any new concept and any new idea, there's always going to be some fear and some concern."

fuck you and your evil app to the end of time

What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.

The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

thought that was a yelp review for a second, like stfu with yr eloquent flourishes and tell me whether the tacos are any good

the tacos were godhead itself

(that quote from cordray is amazing)

copernican revolution in social media

You didn’t know that people are genuinely good

That quote is mind-boggling.

they are bad people doing bad things and they should feel bad

cameras ready, prepare to flash

incidentally, there is NOTHING new about putting together a list of snarky comments about people and sharing it semi anonymously among everyone they know, that is basically a slam book

^^^ clearly a fearful flat-earther, here

first they came for the freshman and i said nothing

(since when did newsweek have a paywall and since when did i visit newsweek five times this month? and isn't it october 1? fuck you newsweek)