Happy Boxing Day from Passive-Aggressive Notes!

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Happy Boxing Day from Passive-Aggressive Notes!

December 26th, 2009 · 44 comments

Now, if you wouldn’t mind taking a moment out of your busy schedule of sport and/or shopping to bestow a bit of charity on those you live with?

(Cheers to our submitter Victoria, her mates at Oxford, and their disgusting flatties.)

FILED UNDER: meta · roommates · that's disgusting · U.K.

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#1 Wade

A self-identified passive-aggressive note is disgusting and should not be attached to the backsplash.

That’s what the trash can is for.

Dec 26, 2009 at 2:07 pm rating: 24

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#2 MAMARILLA2

What, no mention of the food particles in the bathtub?

Dec 26, 2009 at 2:30 pm rating: 3

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- #2.1 Mo®
  
  I like to eat in the shower….
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:24 pm rating: 2
- #2.2 MAMARILLA2
  
  Who mi amore?
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:50 pm rating: 2
- #2.3 Canthz_B
  
  Mama, he’s probably awash in partners.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 10:05 pm rating: 2
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#3 Gemma

I like the addition of an apple sticker. The note never banned graffiti did it?

Dec 26, 2009 at 2:34 pm rating: 2

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#4 aaa

Saying that the note is passive-aggressive is like laughing at your own jokes. My relatives do that. It’s annoying. They’re also racist and classist. :c

I’m gonna go eat my Christmas cheese.

P.S.

Is a kitchen buddy anything like a fuck buddy? ‘Cuz if that’s the case, I want one. Or three.

Dec 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm rating: 13

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#5 AuntyBron

Well I applaud the note-writer’s self-awareness. He’s aware that the note is PA and that his kitchen buddy will take a pic and send it to PAN.

Dec 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm rating: 2

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#6 G.Pat

Saying it’s passive aggressive makes it passive in my opinion.

Dec 26, 2009 at 5:47 pm rating: 1

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#7 TippingCows

Calling your note out as passive aggressive almost cancels out the passive aggression, kind of like when you eat a box of Devil Dogs and drink a Diet Coke – puts you back on equal ground, you know?

Dec 26, 2009 at 5:54 pm rating: 7

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#8 Michelle

So if I slander someone, and while doing so mention I know it’s slander but I don’t care, can I not get sued? Awesome!

Dec 26, 2009 at 6:55 pm rating: 4

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- #8.1 Palomon
  
  No, you can’t be sued.
  You have to write or speak something untrue and malicious and know it to be untrue and intend for others to take the statment as true. Even without announcing that you’re speaking or writing an untruth, if the statement is so outrageous that the average reasonable person would not take it as true, then you’re still not liable for libel.
  If the text calls itself libelous or the speaker announces he is slandering, then the text or speech cannot be taken as true by the reader or listener and therefore fails to meet the definition of libel or slander.
  It is kinda awesome.
  Might as well go for a soda!
  
  Dec 26, 2009 at 8:45 pm rating: 5
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#9 Palomon

Oh, no! They’re on to us!

Dec 26, 2009 at 8:24 pm rating: 3

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- #9.1 anglophile
  
  And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for us meddling kids.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 8:10 am rating: 6
- #9.2 Canthz_B
  
  ‘Glo, you’ll always be my hot little Velma! ♥
  
  *always had a thing for smart girls*
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 4:56 pm rating: 4
- #9.3 MAMARILLA2
  
  Rooby dooby do….
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:29 pm rating: 1
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#10 Canthz_B

The footballer is supposed to send the subliminal message that someone is ready to kick someone else in the ballocks if things don’t soon change.

Dec 26, 2009 at 8:26 pm rating: 3

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- #10.1 Becky
  
  Actually it’s a rugby player but seeing as rugby is a type of football I suppose you are not incorrect…God I bore myself sometimes.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 1:46 pm rating: 2
- #10.2 Canthz_B
  
  Thanks, but I knew that already.
  
  I Wiki’ed the term before posting.
  
  You can’t be too careful around here, because there’s always someone ready to correct you…whether you need it or not (see #10.3 for another example).
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 1:57 pm rating: 1
- #10.3 Enchilada
  
  Did you also know that it’s ‘bollocks’ and not ‘ballocks’ beforehand?
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm rating: 2
- #10.4 park rose
  
  Knowing CB, I’m pretty sure that he did.
  - Did you realise that the rugby is played with a ball?
  - Did you realise that rugby is called ‘football‘ in some quarters of the world? (yaaay Kiwis and Aussies from NSW and QLD, where are you?).
  - Did you realise that Boxing Day is all about Cassius Clay (before the Parkinson’s got him)?
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:08 pm rating: 4
- #10.5 Canthz_B
  
  Did you know that I Wiki’ed that first too?
  
  Etymology
  
  From Old English beallucas.
  [edit] Noun
  
  ballocks pl.
  
  1. (plurale tantum, vulgar) The testicles of a man or beast; also a vulgar nickname for a parson.
  
  From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, bollocks or ballocks was allegedly used as a slang term
  
  Why can’t people do their homework before they post here? Ballocks just fit the imagery of the joke better than bollocks. Given a choice of legitimate spellings, I opted for the less common, but more fitting version.
  We call that “Creativity”.
  
  I won’t say what we call people who try to correct other people but happen to be wrong, but we call those who “thumb” them “idiots”.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 8:51 pm rating: 2
- #10.6 Geek Goddess
  
  Did somebody mention correction?
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 11:32 pm rating: 1
- #10.7 Canthz_B
  
  No. Somebody mentioned being right when you correct someone.
  
  Learned my lesson a few days ago, so I checked before posting this time.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 11:45 pm rating: 1
- #10.8 park rose
  
  GG’s just into the discipline aspect, that’s all!
  
  Dec 28, 2009 at 12:17 am rating: 2
- #10.9 Canthz_B
  
  Oh.
  If I look at it that way then I am SO WRONG and require immediate and intensive correction!
  
  *sends the defensive team to the sidelines*
  
  Dec 28, 2009 at 12:20 am rating: 2
- #10.10 Geek Goddess
  
  It’s okay, you missed last week’s lessons. I will be lenient with you. This time.
  
  Dec 28, 2009 at 5:05 am rating: 1
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#11 Canthz_B

This is what happens when you’re stuck with a crumby kitchen buddy.

I’d save it all up and present to him for his birthday a “scrap book”!

Dec 26, 2009 at 8:34 pm rating: 1

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#12 Havingfitz

And thus Colin learned a harsh lesson about inviting Bob Mess to room with him.

Dec 26, 2009 at 11:32 pm rating: 2

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#13 claw71

Sweet merciful crap! I return from my hiatus only to discover that PAN has reached a that point where it is referred to in its own submissions? Say it ain’t so!

Dec 27, 2009 at 10:44 am rating: 6

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- #13.1 Palomon
  
  See #9.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 12:06 pm rating: 0
- #13.2 claw71
  
  I saw #9 and thought it was lame. I was also expressing a personal sentiment, not offering a witty response to the post which isn’t worthy of a witty response since they clearly aspired to be featured here. I don’t like to reward these antics.
  
  What I don’t understand is why you feel your comment at #9 is worth the redirect. Are you proud of your work? Did it take you a while to come up with it? I guess I could see how it would hurt. I waddle in after months of being offline, still reeling from the severe head trauma I suffered when the rednecks beat me with tire irons, only to steal your thunder with a ‘Simpsons’ quote and perhaps the following I still have with some of the regulars who enjoyed my previous work on this site.
  
  I don’t know you, but I’m inclined not to like you. This is not an enviable position to be in. I’m going to take the high road and reserve judgment but you’re on thin ice with me. I would advise taking some time to consider your position carefully. Review your post, and then read mine again. Put yourself in my shoes. Think about how you would express yourself if you were in my position: a beloved regular who endured a savage attack, was left for dead and spent the last six months in extensive rehabilitation…told by his doctors that he would never type again, let alone recover his wit, comedic timing and sense of irony. Reconsider your instruction at #13.1 and let’s see if we can move on without rancor.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 1:26 pm rating: 10
- #13.3 Canthz_B
  
  Welcome home, claw!
  
  They can’t keep a good man down!
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 1:44 pm rating: 3
- #13.4 bowloftoast
  
  Any pal of Claw is a Palomon.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm rating: 10
- #13.5 cheese with that whine?
  
  *yawn* Having dished out truckloads of venom in his contributions on this site, claw71 receives the very slightest of slights and overreacts, calls on the PAN’s Usual Suspects for backup. What else is new…
  (I wonder whether he’ll totally lose it–in a PA way, of course–and whether his pals will circle the wagons?????)
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:06 pm rating: 3
- #13.6 park rose
  
  You forgot the ‘u’ in ‘rancour’, Claw
  
  BOT, any Pal of your’s is a Palomon, too.
  I like Palomon.
  I like comic sans and
  I like the submitter of this note.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 6:18 pm rating: 2
- #13.7 anglophile
  
  Hey, cheese with that whine, you want cheese with that whine?
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 8:45 pm rating: 4
- #13.8 park rose
  
  How about corn? (Where’s mama when you really need her?).
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 9:05 pm rating: 2
- #13.9 Canthz_B
  
  Well, people whining about “regulars” and “cliques” isn’t new, that’s for sure.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 9:06 pm rating: 1
- #13.10 Palomon
  
  I like miss Park Rose.
  I like the comic sans.
  I like the football.
  I like this post on PAN.
  I like the whole site
  With all its starving trolls.
  Boomdiadda, boomdiadda, boomdiadda, boomdiadda.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 9:21 pm rating: 3
- #13.11 Wordtinker doesnt smith
  
  Per your request, Claw –
  
  It ain’t so.
  
  Glad you’re back, and front, too. Perhaps I shall lurk more frequently now.
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 9:34 pm rating: 2
- #13.12 Geek Goddess
  
  *feels queasy after too much holiday cheer and too many mentions of comic sans*
  
  Dec 27, 2009 at 11:35 pm rating: 2
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#14 oi

he knows it’s PAN. Then by simple arithmetic you can say that he knows it’s futility too.
so what’s the point again?
I mean other note writers have at least an illusion that they are taking measurements againist whatever.

Dec 27, 2009 at 5:14 pm rating: 1

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#15 park rose

Actually, I want to know, why the trash talk? Where is the meta-passive aggressive notewriter originally from?

Dec 27, 2009 at 6:19 pm rating: 1

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