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Letters of Annoyance
Aug. 20th, 2012 10:18 amDear National Public Radio member stations,
Please stop pretending during your pledge drives that you know anything about how the BBC license fee works, because you clearly don't. Also, while I'm sure it's very affirming to have British expats call in and leave messages about how NPR mitigates their sorrow for loss of the BBC, that does not mean the two are equatable. Listen to Radio 4 for a week and show me any slate of NPR programming that approaches its breadth, depth, and intellectual prowess (and that's not even considering the brilliant comedy).
I will forgive you for not phoning back your expats and informing them that they can access the radio iPlayer from overseas, because that's contrary to your interests, and because you don't know how the license fee works you probably don't know they can.
Concerned,
Tealin
Dear National Weather Service,
There has been a pattern established: on Monday morning you forecast that Monday will be 97º, Tuesday 91º, and Wednesday 88º; by Tuesday morning Monday's high was 101º, Tuesday's forecast is bumped up to 97º, Wednesday 91º, Thursday 88º; Tuesday turns out to have been 101º, etc. I understand that weather is a chaotic system and all forecasts contain an inherent amount of uncertainty, but after two weeks of this pattern, I have become better at predicting the weather than all your fancy math and equipment. At what point do you say "Hmm, we have been consistently wrong in exactly the same way; maybe there is a problem with our formulae"?
Until then I will continue adding 4º to the day's forecast high and assuming it will be roughly the same until further notice.
Irritated by the heat and incessant glare of the cruel daystar,
Tealin
Dear Angelenos,
Seriously, does anyone ever do anything in this town? Getting anyone to go anywhere besides work and home is like pulling teeth, and the majority of the time plans have been made, half the people flake out, and the other half don't want to go if the first half aren't going. I feel like I get out more than most of my friends and I am a homebody who doesn't have a car. I am increasingly coming to believe the only thing I can depend on is that I can't depend on anyone. FINE. I don't mind doing things by myself and it's your loss. I hope your television enriches your life as much as actual real-life experiences, but I have seen television, and I am extremely doubtful.
Cheesed-off,
Tealin
Please stop pretending during your pledge drives that you know anything about how the BBC license fee works, because you clearly don't. Also, while I'm sure it's very affirming to have British expats call in and leave messages about how NPR mitigates their sorrow for loss of the BBC, that does not mean the two are equatable. Listen to Radio 4 for a week and show me any slate of NPR programming that approaches its breadth, depth, and intellectual prowess (and that's not even considering the brilliant comedy).
I will forgive you for not phoning back your expats and informing them that they can access the radio iPlayer from overseas, because that's contrary to your interests, and because you don't know how the license fee works you probably don't know they can.
Tealin
Dear National Weather Service,
There has been a pattern established: on Monday morning you forecast that Monday will be 97º, Tuesday 91º, and Wednesday 88º; by Tuesday morning Monday's high was 101º, Tuesday's forecast is bumped up to 97º, Wednesday 91º, Thursday 88º; Tuesday turns out to have been 101º, etc. I understand that weather is a chaotic system and all forecasts contain an inherent amount of uncertainty, but after two weeks of this pattern, I have become better at predicting the weather than all your fancy math and equipment. At what point do you say "Hmm, we have been consistently wrong in exactly the same way; maybe there is a problem with our formulae"?
Until then I will continue adding 4º to the day's forecast high and assuming it will be roughly the same until further notice.
Irritated by the heat and incessant glare of the cruel daystar,
Dear Angelenos,
Seriously, does anyone ever do anything in this town? Getting anyone to go anywhere besides work and home is like pulling teeth, and the majority of the time plans have been made, half the people flake out, and the other half don't want to go if the first half aren't going. I feel like I get out more than most of my friends and I am a homebody who doesn't have a car. I am increasingly coming to believe the only thing I can depend on is that I can't depend on anyone. FINE. I don't mind doing things by myself and it's your loss. I hope your television enriches your life as much as actual real-life experiences, but I have seen television, and I am extremely doubtful.
Tealin
