Entries Tagged as 'more aggressive than passive'

shittiest secret admirer ever?

April 10th, 2008 · 147 Comments

“my roommate thinks I took her dry erase board when I was 40 miles away the week it was taken,” says an anonymous college student in tampa, florida. “she has been leaving me notes like this ALL YEAR.”
god help our poor submitter, but i’m nominating this crazy rainbow of a note for the passive-aggressive hall […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · crazypants · ellipses-crazed · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · oh the irony · rainbow-colored · roommates · seriously WTF? · stealing · whiteboard

think ya used enough dynamite there, butch?

January 23rd, 2008 · 69 Comments

but…but…it’s cold out and you’re so close to all the really good gifting suites! perhaps a swarovski-crystal-encrusted-organic-sea-kelp loofah would change your mind?

(thanks to dan m. in park city, utah for snapping the photo.)
related: but He took the wheel

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Tags: more aggressive than passive · park city · parking · utah

i’ve got my eye on you

November 27th, 2007 · 135 Comments

laura spotted this punchline of a note (”you know it’s time to move out when…”) at her apartment building in downtown brooklyn. or rather, her former apartment building.

it’s unclear whether the note-leaver was motivated by recent research suggesting that pictures of eyes may deter crime. meanwhile, kim documented a convenience store in worcester, massachusetts taking […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · massachusetts · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · stealing · underlining · worcester

apology denied

November 23rd, 2007 · 106 Comments

our anonymous submitter in california was having some issues with her roommates not washing their dishes. “it got so bad that i picked up what i thought was a black bowl only to find it was white and covered in ants,” she says. when asked to clean up after themselves, the roommates responded with a […]

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Tags: actions speak louder · california · dishes · get over it · more aggressive than passive · piss · roommates · underlining · whiteboard

no bread and circuses! but maybe an ice cream social?

November 15th, 2007 · 161 Comments

“our CA (community advisor) posted this friendly note on our bathroom door,” says our submitter, a college student in milwaukee.
the dorm residents — apparently a libertarian-minded bunch — were pissed about frequent CAD (common area damage) charges for putting recyclables in the trash instead of the mandatory recycling bin. they took a break from ranking […]

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Tags: awk abbrev · group bitchfest · itemized list · money · more aggressive than passive · raging against the machine · university · wisconsin