Ummmm… while straightforward and factual and commendable, perhaps the good folks at Good Earth Tea should reconsider renaming their upcoming charity benefit. Right now it’s called the Tea Bag Drive.
From their press release:
Did you know that your brewed tea bags have more uses than just making a steaming cup of tea? They can actually help the artists and employees of Original T-Bag Designs—a collective of artists who live in an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa, and who use brewed tea bags to create artwork, support their families and grow their community.
By participating in the Tea Bag Drive, tea drinkers in the Portland area will have an opportunity to contribute to the work being done by Original T-Bag Designs, by donating their used, brewed tea bags.
When: Sunday, March 22 and Monday, March 23 from 11 am to 2 pm
Where: Whole Foods Market, 3535 NE 15th
A CAT/NOT A CAT IS RETIRING FROM BLOGTOWN.
Remember when blogtown was fun? I do. This was a frivolous place where we could have fairly intelligent discussions about the issue of the day while simultaneously celebrating cat friday/caturday and trolling Matt into various nervous breakdowns while he was changing his medications and calling everyone racist. It was fun!
Alas, the whole fucking Sam debacle brought in some sort of ideologue brigade that wanted nothing but SRS BSNS, but unfortunately had the debate skills of lesser apes. Sam-gate sort of wrapped up, but these dipshits just found new things to have completely incompetent show-downs about. It’s fucking boring, and I’m fucking bored.
I know that Rom and jake and all the other half-wits will count this as a win, to which I say “good on you”. You’ve made blogtown insufferably stupid, well done. I’m out.
Kiala, graham, Alison, other decent people: It’s been fun, and I’ll miss you guys.
Mercury arts interns: by and large you all suck. Up your game.
Matt: You’re a talentless hack, but you knew that. Good luck with the mental health issues.
KTHXBAI.
My #1 problem with you is that you post the exact same comments on multiple posts. I’m not so much anti-you as anti-that. I thought you sort of liked me 🙁 (note: I’ve been making comments for years! and sam shmam. and you can kiss my butt.)
NOT A CAT you cannot decry the lack of discourse on here – because anytime someone disagrees with you your go to comeback is: HEY FUCK YOU!!
You fucked yourself by posting that incredibly NSFW link a few weeks ago. You’ll find another forum for your passive- aggressive behavior or just re-post here under a different name.
Using a bot to fill every post is the utmost in trollery!
Sorry for the threadjack Courtney.
(ROM, i do like you. I just seem to recall you joining up with the “ban the troll!” brigade in the last few weeks. I could be mistaken. I know you’ve been here forever just like most of my favorite posters, so I guess I’ll grandfather you in to the perma-awesome category. Everyone here that registered in june 08 is ok by me, would that work? Matt obviously excepted.)
Abusive, if you look back through the post from my banned account (A CAT), you’ll see that when I’m in serious debate mode I expect high level of discourse. Sometimes it may have come of as adversarial ( http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto… , for example), but I expected people to actually address issues in a logical manner and defend themselves.
As I said after that NSFW incident, I’m sorry. I guess there’s no chance of my apology being accepted. Anyway, after today I’m out. If you think blogtown is better off for this, that’s your prerogative. I wish you all the best.
Well I seem to remember being buzzed and browsing the Friday posts, and every time I clicked to view comments all I saw was your bot post over and over (after I’d done what I could to contribute to Caturday… even though my personal Friday cause is Pizza Friday, not Caturday…), and it chapped my hide because I wanted to read unique content. So I freaked. I think it’s cool that you’re part-robot and all, and while I’d rather read the same spammy comment about cats than, say, will radik’s inane, “wow, crazy!” comments, I just can’t get past how it keeps tricking me into reading it over and over. But this is neither here, nor is it there, since you’re all but gone.
Dammit, now I’ve got Bobby Brown stuck in my head.
Awesome headline 🙂
This one is too easy.
It’s always easy for Will Radik. They don’t call him King of the Easy One-Liner for nuthing.
Court, your thread totally got jacked.
So, ummm, this got me to thinkin’ that I should come up with some wacky “art” project that would attract the attention and more importantly, donations, from across the globe. Instead of tea bags, my project requires those really heavy bars of gold. Bullion to be specific. I’d even be willing to live in some sort of informal settlement if that’s what it takes.
Fantastic News! I am gushing with excitement that NOT A CAT is retiring. Please don’t come back tomorrow as NOT A DOG you pathetic moron. You ruined this blog for me. They should have banned or disemvoweled you months ago. Also want to mention I hate Jacomus, D, Blabby, Satirist, and Horseshit dumbfuck. Cheers to the Merc staff, Kiala, Graham, Will, and others who don’t troll…
NOT A CAT, when you inevitably return to commenting here can you try to be a little less obnoxious?
@ NOT A CAT: I still owe you one free punch; lucky for you, I don’t hit cats. But good luck with the NOT shooting down lame comments here on Blogtown. Some of your commentary will be missed.
I’ve been into the office since I made that offer, Joneser. Matt knows who I am, just ask him.
I don’t work for that rag. But really, it’s okay.
Oh, I always assumed you were one of theirs. Weird.
Don’t they know that “Tea Bag” and all its associates already has been appropriated by those wacky Top Conservatives On Twitter people?