Comments on: Getting your drink on in Vancouver 101 http://www.rambleicious.ca/2009/12/vancouver_transit/ Making order out of chaos Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allison http://www.rambleicious.ca/2009/12/vancouver_transit/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Allison Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:16:39 +0000 http://www.rambleicious.ca/?p=656#comment-577 Poor drunken Ashley! Even if you do invest in UPass, and have all that access to transit, you're still an idiot. Maybe, instead of griping about the transit system and their supposed inability to cater to all the drunks for one extra hour on Halloween; you should have stopped shaking your drunken ass in the clubs a half an hour earlier, and got in line for a bus. You know, those same buses that were full of other drunks, who seemed to plan a little better than you. Even if the transit system had remained open as late as your beloved McD's, you would still be whining. Maybe use your head for three seconds, you are in school so we know your brain works sometimes, and just plan your night accordingly. Poor drunken Ashley! Even if you do invest in UPass, and have all that access to transit, you’re still an idiot. Maybe, instead of griping about the transit system and their supposed inability to cater to all the drunks for one extra hour on Halloween; you should have stopped shaking your drunken ass in the clubs a half an hour earlier, and got in line for a bus. You know, those same buses that were full of other drunks, who seemed to plan a little better than you. Even if the transit system had remained open as late as your beloved McD’s, you would still be whining. Maybe use your head for three seconds, you are in school so we know your brain works sometimes, and just plan your night accordingly.

]]> By: Ashley Fehr http://www.rambleicious.ca/2009/12/vancouver_transit/comment-page-1/#comment-576 Ashley Fehr Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:39:25 +0000 http://www.rambleicious.ca/?p=656#comment-576 Hello, I think you have missed the point. Our point was that TransLink did not account for the time change on Halloween. As an organization looking to get a UPass this kind of discussion is important. I don't want to get into a battle with you over every misguided point in your piece here (of which there are a lot), but I do need to ask if you have ever heard of hyperbole? Thank you for the enjoyable read. <strong>Hi Ashley - thanks for reading! I wanted to address your comment here: I don't believe TransLink made any oversights at all regarding the time change. The time change takes place at 2 a.m. - a full hour after the buses have stopped running. However, if you weren't aware of that, perhaps you ought to have mentioned your perception of Translink's oversight regarding the time change more clearly in the article. As it was, it came across as irresponsible whining about being drunk and unable to plan better for transportation home. I think the points in my article answer yours rather well given how your article sounds. "As an organization looking to get a UPass", perhaps you could have mentioned, or discussed the UPass in your article. People will take this far more seriously if you present it as a serious issue - and not as a poorly planned drunken escapade. Not once do you even mention the UPass issue - so if my response is "misguided" it's only because your article makes no mention of the issue you apparently wanted to address. Also, just a point of interest for you, if you tell someone that their article is "misguided" and then sarcastically ask if the writer has ever heard of hyperbole, it means that you do, very much, wish to "get into a battle".</strong> Hello,
I think you have missed the point. Our point was that TransLink did not account for the time change on Halloween. As an organization looking to get a UPass this kind of discussion is important.
I don’t want to get into a battle with you over every misguided point in your piece here (of which there are a lot), but I do need to ask if you have ever heard of hyperbole?
Thank you for the enjoyable read.

Hi Ashley – thanks for reading!

I wanted to address your comment here:

I don’t believe TransLink made any oversights at all regarding the time change. The time change takes place at 2 a.m. – a full hour after the buses have stopped running. However, if you weren’t aware of that, perhaps you ought to have mentioned your perception of Translink’s oversight regarding the time change more clearly in the article. As it was, it came across as irresponsible whining about being drunk and unable to plan better for transportation home. I think the points in my article answer yours rather well given how your article sounds.

“As an organization looking to get a UPass”, perhaps you could have mentioned, or discussed the UPass in your article. People will take this far more seriously if you present it as a serious issue – and not as a poorly planned drunken escapade. Not once do you even mention the UPass issue – so if my response is “misguided” it’s only because your article makes no mention of the issue you apparently wanted to address.

Also, just a point of interest for you, if you tell someone that their article is “misguided” and then sarcastically ask if the writer has ever heard of hyperbole, it means that you do, very much, wish to “get into a battle”.

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