jehovahs witness protection: Subby should have found a way to fit the midget part into the headline.

Yeah, sure, that's great.

"We don't need the sarcasm; we don't need the snottiness; and frankly, we're really tired of it. It is inhibiting to everyone's good will, and you people need to get over it,"

You'll get over it.

recall petitions in 3....2.....1

farkin' midgets
How DO they work?

cynicism is the new sarcasm...

I wonder if the Orchard Park council is run by the same people who run the Buffalo News' comments section, as this whole "we don't need the blah blah blah" stuff is the same thing *they've* been saying publicly, and why the Buffalo News' new comments section is so goofball...

Oh teh nose, people on the internets and in real life are not always nice! Oh nose!

The money for the stipend was transferred from a contingency sewer account and was justified by the town accountant because "the supervisor spends a significant amount of time and driving supporting the town sewer and water operations," according to Stadelmaier.

But of course. Nobody else will fit into the pipes.

would really like a chance to speak

Also Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo^.

I love watching the city council meetings on my local tv station. Cream of the crop, right there.

Currently I think your allowed to deduct .50 cents a mile. So this gives her 7200 miles a year of driving. She does less taxpayers screwed, she does more they make out.

"It is inhibiting to everyone's good will, and you people need to get over it,"

Hmmmm, I don't know subby. Something tells me they may have plenty of experience with on-line message boards.

what's sarcasm?

Onos!

i'm so happy for them

I think my city council does a wonderful job.

Also,

relevant to this thread

FTA: "We don't need the sarcasm; we don't need the snottiness; and frankly, we're really tired of it. It is inhibiting to everyone's good will, and you people need to get over it," Councilwoman Nan Ackerman said.

Bridge, Troll feed .... GET OFF MY LAWN


/etc

What fools!

Dear City Council:



This.

-Your Constituents

/hotlinked

WOw, sarcasm, THAT'S original.

This just in: puttering old people with nothing better to do with their time complain about nothing at public meetings.

They also spend inordinate amounts of time writing angry letters to local paper on topics they don't understand and yelling at clouds.

pussies

Yea it always sucks when the town council has to hear what the little people have to say. Can't these town folk just do what the King and Queens command them to and not question it!?!

Approves.

/hotlink

If the Council would refrain from placing on the agenda such items as Lolcats, maybe the trolling would subside.

res_nihil: I'd like to sponsor one of them for TF status for a month or two. That'll learn 'em.

I doubt they have computers.
Some secretary probably prints out the comments for them.

The Wizard of Frobozz: The money for the stipend was transferred from a contingency sewer account and was justified by the town accountant because "the supervisor spends a significant amount of time and driving supporting the town sewer and water operations," according to Stadelmaier.

But of course. Nobody else will fit into the pipes.

Came for this. Thanks. Now I can get back to work.

I'm sure the local Shriners club could have donated a car for her to use.

Porsche914: cynicism is the new sarcasm...

The power of accurate observation is called "cynicism" by those who do not possess it.

I know this may sound crazy to you farkers, but its possible to make complaints and offer criticism without being sarcastic assholes.

A little email I ran across in my outbox to the town board and all of its supervisors.


"Dear Town Board,

I just wanted to let you know I am just as outraged as you guys at the people of the town expressing their disrespect towards the way the town is run by its board members. How dare someone come into your meeting and chastise you when you are doing your best? To criticize proposed budgets and expenditures does nothing for the town but get in the way of real business and those trying to conduct it like YOU. These people should mind their own. I think the next time someone comes in there with a hint of sarcasm, snottiness, you should have the town's police arrest them, lock them up until they learn to shut mouths. This way, your business can be conducted without the interference of ignorant, sardonic, disrespectful nobodies. You guys can make whatever decisions you need to make without worrying about some sarcastic jerk causing a fuss and making a scene. You have my full support with whatever you do.


Poe Zlaw"

Feel free to express your outrage as well. remember-- no sarcasm will be tolerated.

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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."
~Oscar Levant

One would have thought that if the "journalist" who wrote this piece were going to quote a line about sarcasm and the destruction of good will, he or she would attempt to find examples. The questions and observations that were referenced seem reasonable, considering the circumstances. Maybe the no-brainer comment was over the top, but even that seemed pretty tame.

Look, this is simple. In any situation in which a small board makes decisions on behalf of a larger body, especially when those decisions have to do with pooled finances or other resources, you are going to see a small number of wonks who are bound and determined to get a twist in their nickers over even the perception of any minuscule impropriety. If you didn't know that, you probably aren't experienced enough to do a good job as a board member. If you did, well, how stupid are you to think that their behavior would change just because a few faces behind the board table changed?

Easiest way to dispense with the constant nitpicking over stuff like this? Make it excruciatingly public. Don't "hide" new expenditures in a catch-all agenda item shoved way at the end of the meeting. If you're going to spend the townspeople's money, tell them! Tell them loud, tell them long, and tell them often. They'll still probably find something to complain about, but at least you will have satisfaction of knowing that you did everything you could reasonably have done.

Well he's right. Sarcasm is a poor method of communication.

URAPNIS: I think my city council does a wonderful job.

What.....are you farkin'....wait (taps sarcasm meter)

Sorry, never mind. Carry on.

(you made me LOL with that

I'm The Foot Farking Master: "Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."
~Oscar Levant

*snerk*

Leighton: A little email I ran across in my outbox to the town board and all of its supervisors.

"Dear Town Board...

Good Gawd, man! You could hurt someone with that! Exceptionally well-played.

"have a new hobby of talking disrespectfully."

Hey. We are now in the time of Hope and Change. Disrespectful talking is the change part as demostrated by Obama when he talks about people clinging to guns and Bibles. It isn't that much of a stretch when "the common people" want to also talk in those tones.

Hey, congress built a multimillion dollar visitor center so they wouldn't have to smell the tourists, so I guess they are just following their leaders.

Remember the constitution says citizens may redress grievances with the government in polite government approved written statements.

/Anyone who wants to be elected to office shouldn't be.

Still no picture of the sarcasm detector?