Re: another candidate for douchebag of the year...
normally when i see crap like that, i go out of my way to reply in a professional manner explaining how its ignorant.
with this though:
this guys an a$$ clown /endofstory.
who cares what one bitter ass ignorant throwback from the 70's has to say. he doesnt make policy, he just (poorly) write Op Eds on a lousy campus newspaper. im sure he's gonna get more than his fair share of BS from the student body that skateboards.
if i went there, the next time i saw him, i would jump off my skate, bow before him and loudly apologize for getting in his way, and then continue to beg him not to make me eat gravy, hopefully making quite a scene in the process.
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
University Chronicle
Joe Froemming
Years ago, I wrote in this paper about the rudeness of bicyclists on campus and made veiled threats as to how I was to deal with them.
Well, now a new beats has emerged that destroys sidewalk etiquette. They ride on four wheels which support a plank of wood longer than half the average student height.
Yes, people. Banana boards are back, and their riders are more smug than Kanye West being told he was God.
They skate right through large groups of people, assuming they have more right to be on the sidewalk than the rest of us.
I cannot stress this enough: they are called “sidewalks,” not “sideskates.”
This is not a hard concept to grasp. If you are forcing people off the sidewalk while riding something, you should not be on the sidewalk. These skateboarders are, after hipsters, hippies and terrorists, the bane of my existence. Look, if students can’t walk the three or four blocks to school who don’t suffer from a debilitating handicap, then they are just lazy. There is no need to skateboard around campus. It angers people like me and it is infuriating to have to move because some lazy student needs to wheel by on a skateboard that was popular in the 1970s.
Banana boards were popular then, but seeing them today being used by kids dressing like they came right out the movie “Dog Town and Z-Boys” is as depressing as listening to an Elliot Smith album without taking the anti-depressants.
Look, taking items from the past and making them cool again is not innovative; it is the defining moment of this generation that proves how lazy we are.
Why can’t we come up with a skateboard that hovers, like in “Back to the Future 2?”
I am tempted to bring a bag of marbles to campus and accidently spill them when some skateboarder or bicycle terrorist come my way.
Perhaps SCSU’s respect and responsibility workshop could include proper skateboarding and bicycling manners on and around campus. One would think this would be common sense, but apparently it is not.
I used to agree that “skateboarding is not a crime.” This past year, my attitude has changed. Skateboarding rudely on campus should not only be illegal, but punishable by expulsion or forced to eat Garvy every day.
That may seem harsh, but I don’t care. If people can learn to skate on campus in a way that does not force me into the grass, then I may change my stance. Until then, something needs to change.
This thread is now the 5th result in google when searching for Joseph Froemming... good old interwebs.
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Re: another candidate for douchebag of the year...
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This thread is now the 5th result in google when searching for Joseph Froemming... good old interwebs.
I wonder when the next time he googles himself will be.
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Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The article about banning skateboards/longboards on your campus by Joseph Froemming was absolutely ridiculous.
I think it was a mistake to have published this because it was a completely one-sided opinion about someone’s dislike of a purely recreational method of transportation.
Joseph defaced the longboarding community as a whole.
While I do agree that some skaters do cause trouble and are not respectful of others on sidewalks or paths, he should not be allowed to lump everyone in that bad group.
His article did not even gather other peoples’ opinions on the matter. Therefore, I am lead to believe this is just a rant by a disgruntled pedestrian who is using and abusing a tool at his expense to further his idea that longboards or skateboards are a hazard.
I think it is extremely unethical to use a newspaper (whether a school paper or national paper) to complain about a small group just because he does not like them.
I do not expect an apology or retraction of the article, just be mindful of what you are publishing.
Singling out a minority, and not even getting their story, is wrong and just rude.
Had Joseph taken the time to gather opinions other than his own I would not be writing this as it would have been the opinion of the population.
Re: another candidate for douchebag of the year...
if longboarding gets banned before i go to college i'm going to be pissed! try it before you bash it, someone give this dick a skateboard...
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Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The article about banning skateboards/longboards on your campus by Joseph Froemming was absolutely ridiculous.
I think it was a mistake to have published this because it was a completely one-sided opinion about someone’s dislike of a purely recreational method of transportation.
Joseph defaced the longboarding community as a whole.
While I do agree that some skaters do cause trouble and are not respectful of others on sidewalks or paths, he should not be allowed to lump everyone in that bad group.
His article did not even gather other peoples’ opinions on the matter. Therefore, I am lead to believe this is just a rant by a disgruntled pedestrian who is using and abusing a tool at his expense to further his idea that longboards or skateboards are a hazard.
I think it is extremely unethical to use a newspaper (whether a school paper or national paper) to complain about a small group just because he does not like them.
I do not expect an apology or retraction of the article, just be mindful of what you are publishing.
Singling out a minority, and not even getting their story, is wrong and just rude.
Had Joseph taken the time to gather opinions other than his own I would not be writing this as it would have been the opinion of the population.
haha where did you find this? Thats Me haha. not the greatest argument of my life, but i was half paying attention to writing this and law & order.
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Re: another candidate for douchebag of the year...
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Um who??? Also do you have the autority to decide this. I would think it would be blix since he is the ultimate decider of douchbags
only one problem, the ones he sees arent here anymore
i vote JBoy
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In the past 2 weeks I've: sent some poor kid the wrong board, gooned 4-5 boards into seconds... put fabric on the wrong side of a custom order (and had to do it again)... lost the keys to my apartment twice... caught Wells' new board on fire, got a shoelace run over by a back wheel and ate tar, drank a skunked beer, gave someone the wrong paypal address& txt'd my grandmother a dirty joke...
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I totally thought this thread was gonna be about male prostitutes who can't spell.
Re: another candidate for douchebag of the year...
Pathetic.
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