GRM unfair!

It was brought up in a prior thread that GRM pleases the squeaky wheels. I've been waiting to get a GRM grease job for years, are you squeaky wheel selective. This is unfair treatment, I demand a lube job!

Bend over. Here it comes.

Wow Ehosdapro got Mikes passwords?

Meh, get used to the unfairnability of our boards--apparently it's rampant and I'm responsible. (Why do they always spell my name wrong when they call me out for my imagined transgressions?)

Sadly, I missed the last excitement until it was all over, though that does remind me: Must learn how to collapse posts and lock threads. Might come in useful, and at any rate I think I'm supposed to know that already.

The whole thing reminds me of that old t-shirt slogan: I must hurry and catch up with the rest, for I am their leader.

Margie

Posts are collapsed when enough people report them as spam or abusive (that's the little ! icon). In other words, if your post got collapsed, it's not because Obama told us to collapse it, it's because your peers on the board thought you were being an shiny happy person.

consider yourself lubed

Tim Baxter wrote: Posts are collapsed when enough people report them as spam or abusive (that's the little ! icon). In other words, if your post got collapsed, it's not because Obama told us to collapse it, it's because your peers on the board thought you were being an shiny happy person.

What I can't understand about Mr pro is his approach to getting more attention paid to club racing. Being abusive, publishing libelous statements across the 'net and engaging in crazed-homeless-person-style political gobbledygook won't get the job done. I'm sure his sanctioning body is very pleased with the attention they receive from his behavior.

If I want to publicize underrepresented segments of amateur auto racing, I sit down and write a spec story myself and submit it. Or ask someone else present to write a spec article and submit it for me if good clear writing is beyond my ability.

Most publications cannot resist a relevant, well-written story that entertains. Having said that, most publications can resist angry loose cannons with no self control quite easily. That type of behavior results in restraining orders, not articles in magazines.

Dangit. I was hoping for a big leftist conspiracy and that's all I get?

There are a few people in real life that need a '!' button I could push to make them collapse &/or go away. It is unfair that GRM has not provided me with this useful service.

I don't know if Mr. Pro realizes this - but every time I see Mike Akard's name, I'm going to think of him and his maturity level. Hopefully for Akard, sponsors will not think the same.

Keith wrote: I don't know if Mr. Pro realizes this - but every time I see Mike Akard's name, I'm going to think of him and his maturity level. Hopefully for Akard, sponsors will not think the same.

Yep.

Keith wrote: I don't know if Mr. Pro realizes this - but every time I see Mike Akard's name, I'm going to think of him and his maturity level. Hopefully for Akard, sponsors will not think the same.

Couldn't agree more. In fact, I wonder if Mr. Akard knows all the E36 M3 his brother-in-law has stirred up in a strange attempt to publicize Mr. Akard's driving abilities. I'd be mortified if someone was doing so on my behalf.

EastCoastMojo wrote: There are a few people in real life that need a '!' button I could push to make them collapse &/or go away.....

Oh snap. Does coffee stain a laptop?

Ok, I missed that thread, off in search I go, need some entertainment after the 2 hour meeting that I got to speak for 3 minutes in.

EastCoastMojo wrote: There are a few people in real life that need a '!' button I could push to make them collapse &/or go away. It is unfair that GRM has not provided me with this useful service.

Trust me. When I can figure out how to make such a thing, I will.

Ugh.

Personally, I find the club results section of The Mag to be the most boring, useless part of the whole thing. In this day of Teh 1ntr4w3b, yo, do we really need so many pages devoted to what place some shiney happy person in a BMW took at some track I'll never see? I'd much rather have another two pages with a picture of the car, mods needed to race it in the series, set up at that track, background story, etc. Even 2 pages of advertising would be better. I'd go so far as to say that 2 pages of Herbal Viagra ads featuring dorky looking guys and a MILF would be more interesting than BMW club results.

And it's always nice to see someone perpetuating the BMW/Porcupine thing.

EastCoastMojo wrote: There are a few people in real life that need a '!' button I could push to make them collapse &/or go away. It is unfair that GRM has not provided me with this useful service.

I have been trying to figure out how to make that apply to real life for a very long time. When you work customer service for 8 years you really wish you could "collapse" a few people.

Club results are always going to be of interest to a small subset of the readership - but for that subset, they're gold. They should stay.

Yes, I hardly read that section either, but if I were in that section I'd frame it.

fastclown wrote: It was brought up in a prior thread that GRM pleases the squeaky wheels....

That's "squeaky wheel" not "squeaky nose"!

I tend to agree with the H. I really don't care about the race results, and I have never read them. The only people who do, already know them. If you needed to make a cut, that would be my choice.

Dr. Hess wrote: And it's always nice to see someone perpetuating the BMW/Porcupine thing.

Hey, I resemble that remark.....

fastclown wrote: It was brought up in a prior thread that GRM pleases the squeaky wheels. I've been waiting to get a GRM grease job for years, are you squeaky wheel selective. This is unfair treatment, I demand a lube job!

We've missed ya Guido. With you going all high end on us, you aren't talking as much $2k smack. I'm glad you came to put some clown perspective on this.

I didn't understand that whole joe thing either. I'm a member of BMW CCA, only for the autocrosses, they are mostly a good group of guys who are fun to be around.

But with the membership, you get a subscription to Roundel, not to mention that every chapter has its own newsletter (I still never figured out what chapter joe was from). Its about the same month to month, but at least it has the club results and write ups. I don't want to see that stuff in GRM other than the results (maybe). I want to see more cheap cars, and i want to see the write-ups for National events. Not BMW or Porsche or Corvette or Miata clubs of America.

Dr. Hess wrote: Personally, I find the club results section of The Mag to be the most boring, useless part of the whole thing.

Yeah but publicizing these efforts brings potential sponsor money to the participants. The sport feeds on money and good will, even at the club level. Besides, every person getting their name in the mag has a family buying multiple copies for bragging to their friends.

One thing we can all agree on; the coverage would be improved by adding MILFS.