Entries Tagged as 'garbage'

Gee, that’ll show ’em

November 17th, 2009 · 94 Comments

Exhibit a) The “urban” example, from the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A…

Exhibit b) The equally ineffectual suburban cousin of exhibit a, from “a quiet, small community in San Diego where the residents are basically all over 50.”

related: bleak house

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Tags: california · garbage · graffiti · los angeles · questionable logic · san diego

sounds like you two deserve each other

September 21st, 2009 · 88 Comments

Danielle in Tampa, Florida found this note in the hallway of her apartment building. Writes Danielle: “I don’t know what the official story is, but I can assume that it is the same as every other ‘my roommate is a slob’ story. I’m a little confused about why this girl thought that leaving her garbage [...]

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Tags: garbage · group bitchfest · neighbors · roommates · tampa · university

xoxo, your landlord

May 20th, 2009 · 210 Comments

Writes our submitter in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: “A local candidate for county commissioner claimed that he was going to run the county like he runs his businesses.” (You know: straight talk, no bullshit, that kind of thing.)
So, if you were a Jefferson County voter, what would be your take on the guy based on [...]

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Tags: fuck fuckity fuck fuck · garbage · landlord · west virginia

Southern Comfort

January 18th, 2009 · 121 Comments

Though the issue might not be top of mind for sophisticated and urbane readership of this website, let this serve as your warning: Should you find yourself in, say, Fayetteville, Arkansas (like Melissa, a California expat currently attending the U of A) you’ll soon realize how important it is to lay down the law with [...]

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · arkansas · baltimore · garbage · southern charm · spelling and grammar police · spitting · your/you're

to flush or not to flush

January 8th, 2009 · 141 Comments

this first note was posted in the bathroom of the gay pride center in new brunswick, new jersey; the second, in the bathroom of the rhode island department of health in providence.
i’d probably recommend steering clear of the kitchen sinks at both facilities.

related: a filthy hap pit

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · all clogged up · bathroom · garbage · jersey · providence · toilet · wtf?

tilt your head upwards.

January 4th, 2009 · 78 Comments

josh from annapolis, maryland says the first and last note in this exchange were apparently written by stephen, a college student at a school “known for it’s obtusely intellectual, chronically spacey student body.”
the notes were gone within a few days, but josh says the situation hasn’t exactly improved. in the meantime, he says, “i’m kinda [...]

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Tags: garbage · neighbors · note wars · recycling · you call that punctuation?

ceci n’est pas une poubelle

December 2nd, 2008 · 99 Comments

i hereby declare the writer of the second note in this exchange (from a college art studio in texas) the winner of the season’s official “oh, snap!” award.
(sure, the original note-writer might have a case — but just like those pesky BCS rankings, style points count, baby!)

related: i before e except after c ftw

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Tags: art · austin · garbage · oh snap · texas · university

and all the pieces matter

October 28th, 2008 · 88 Comments

“If it wasn’t for the handwriting,” says Lauren in California, “I would have guessed my mom wrote it.”

Meanwhile, Carson in Valencia found this note (crudely laminated with packing tape) attached to a tree while walking his dog in the park. “Maybe next time Maggie will think twice about leaving her ceramic cats unattended,” he says.

And [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · california · comma diarrhea · emdash overboard · garbage · neighbors · rhetorical question · seattle · you call that punctuation? · you know who you are

the identity property of flatmates

October 26th, 2008 · 93 Comments

sarah in new zealand says all three of these notes went up before 10 a.m. on monday (trash day). adds sarah: “we can only assume that oliver keeps some kind of detailed diary about everything that happens in our flat, but only refers to it when things haven’t been done.”

related: 10 people, one kitchen

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Tags: garbage · new zealand · note wars · roommates

The return of Thx Sandra

October 20th, 2008 · 148 Comments

Casey in Human Resources may have moved on, but not to worry — Thx Sandra is here to solve our global climate crysis!

related: It takes a “genius”

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · clip art catastrophe · energy usage · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · recycling · san diego · spelling and grammar police · temperature · the earth · thx

dear assholes,

October 3rd, 2008 · 104 Comments

i think we’ve received some of your mail by mistake. just wanted to pass these along! xoxo, PAN

related: arrivederci, asshole

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Tags: "customer service" · anthropomorphism · beer · garbage · god · parking · stealing

passive-aggressive mad libs

July 30th, 2008 · 132 Comments

this note from a “friendly neighbor” was put through the mailslot of dan’s apartment in the heart of south philly. says dan: “i wanted to put ‘thanks for the advice!’ on the door in response, but thought better of it.”

as infuriating as the note was, “i do love how they phoned in the underlining on [...]

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Tags: excessive underlining · garbage · gloriously redundant · neighbors · philadelphia

so many questions

July 10th, 2008 · 185 Comments

what kind of objectionable trash do you suppose is being disposed of in these bins? (half-eaten curries? yesterday’s times?) how many hours of company time did the sign’s designer spend on this full-color laminated masterpiece? what is that comma doing there? and how, exactly, how are these bins to be monitored?

related: servicing over a half-billion [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · clip art catastrophe · garbage · ireland · now that's management · office

News you can use

May 25th, 2008 · 62 Comments

The word “newsflash,” like the phrase “no offense,” is an early indicator that what follows is probably going to be something pretty bitchy. Unless, of course, you’re watching TV news, in which case the word “newsflash” more likely heralds the announcement of a hard-hitting segment about the household product in your kitchen that could be [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · a little patronizing · facebook · garbage · ice · moms & dads · office · roommates · sarcasm · thanks (but not really) · whiteboard

Two birds with one snowman

February 20th, 2008 · 57 Comments

While other passive-aggressives plow through post-its with wild abandon, the caretaker of Kale’s building in Winnipeg has a more economical style.

P.S. Vetta, I think the only thing that would make me love this note more is if your postscript began with “I wish…”
related: And what’s your christmas wish?

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Tags: garbage · holiday spirit · landlord · p.s. · winnipeg

This is why your postal worker is disgruntled

January 14th, 2008 · 75 Comments

Amanda spotted this on the door of the post office in Milford, Pennsylvania. (Confidential to the fecal matter general: Dude, I know recycling can be a hassle sometimes, but this seems like a little much.)

Perhaps the Brooklynites who issued this poetical preemptive warning knew what they were doing all along…

related: this is why your server [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · garbage · going postal · more like crazy · pennsylvania · shit

eats, shoots and leaves

November 18th, 2007 · 167 Comments

joey in pittsburgh spotted this one on the campus of carnegie-mellon university. now that’s the thanksgiving spirit!

meanwhile, a different version of this photo floating around shows what appears to be a copy-edited version. ain’t punctuation grand?

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Tags: garbage · pittsburgh · you call that punctuation? · you're like so going to hell

Be informed, Homeland Security will be

November 6th, 2007 · 199 Comments

PES picked this note out of an apartment building in Newark, New Jersey in 2004 because he loved the third paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. Add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

related: Your to lazy
extra credit: For more deliciousness, be sure to check out [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking · vandalism

it’s not, like, rocket science

October 25th, 2007 · 124 Comments

aarwenn from seattle found this note in her office’s cafeteria, which she says is a hot spot for bad writers with passive-aggressive issues. “of course,” she says, “here at Large Aerospace Company, a lot of us have ‘issues.’”

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Tags: fun with euphemism · garbage · just wondering · office · seattle · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"

Your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 178 Comments

Those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter (a GM at a property management firm in Springfield, Missouri) for today’s masterpiece. “One of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “I got halfway [...]

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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism · your/you're

no reading required, kids

September 22nd, 2007 · 221 Comments

“this isn’t quite a note,” writes andrea in california. “actually, it’s not a note at all.” but passive-aggressive? yessir. she explains, “my dad’s job is to take out the trash. it’s probably his only chore. but for some reason, it never seems to get taken care of.” so, andrea’s mom took action. sort of.

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Tags: actions speak louder · california · garbage · moms & dads

This aggression will not stand, man

September 22nd, 2007 · 163 Comments

As a little weekend bonus, I bring you this screed from the Smith Daily Jolt’s alumnae forum. Yes, it’s long.

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Tags: TLDR · bathroom · e-mail · garbage · just an asshole · martyr complex · money · not wrong · posted online · rebuttals · roommates · sig o · smoking · that's a fire hazard · university

Two points for chutzpah, but zero for originality

September 11th, 2007 · 100 Comments

Writes our anonymous submitter in Corte Madera, California: “We have a lot of passive-aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. You can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we came [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guilt trip · kitchen · moms & dads · office · oh snap · opening/closing · recycling · spelling and grammar police · the earth · visual aids · your mother doesn't...

upon further reflection, screw you

September 1st, 2007 · 52 Comments

while jessica was a college student in boston, she lived in a five-person apartment with one friend and three strangers. jess says apartment issues were rarely (if ever– there was only one “meeting”) talked about directly (there was but one “meeting), but were instead handled through a series of “love notes” from anne, like this [...]

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Tags: boston · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guests · not-so-veiled threats · vermin · water · your mother doesn't...

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

August 8th, 2007 · 50 Comments

in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”

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Tags: austin · dishes · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · internet citation · lOWERCASE l · obnoxious definition · shit · texas