Comments on: Daily FB Comment Thread

By: towski

towski — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:00:17 +0000

Trey,

Go spend a day with a commercial interior designer. Then you can stop arguing from a position of ignorance. Until then, the insistance on pejoratives makes you just look petty and small.

Thanks for the email discussion. I wish you’d been more willing to have an actual conversation about it, but thanks none the less.

Good luck,

towski

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:50:44 +0000

@ Daniel…I’m changing my last name to “Buttflicker.” LMAO.

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:44:09 +0000

Regarding interior designers, my friend Radley Balko had this a while back.

By: towski

towski — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:15:47 +0000

Dear Trey,

In order to protect my sanity and professional reputation, I’ll be responding via email, rather than following you down into the gutter after your last post. I had to post this reply, however, because my ego and sensitivity demand it.

All the best,

towski

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:59:42 +0000

towski, you should lighten up. If the job doesn’t involve structural changes to a building, electrics or safety, then they are decorators aka pillow tossers.

When did you get so sensitive?

By: towski

towski — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:50:41 +0000

Nice edit.

Why bother arguing with a libertarian, so shame on me. There is no reasonable argument that can be made to which you won’t reply “Goverment’s bad, okay?”

By: towski

towski — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:48:15 +0000

If you don’t want people to have this perception of you, Trey, do a better job of conveying your message. Your entire argument regarding Interior Designers is quite obviously made from a position of ignorance and bias, so why blame me for assuming that you are, well, ignorant and biased?

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:44:00 +0000

“Or is it just that any profession dominated by women and gay men clearly can’t be taken seriously?”

Seriously?

You think that’s my problem with anti-competitive licensing that erects barriers to entry?

Really?

I think it’s great what your fiance is learning and doing. I don’t see why we need Big Brother to put his stamp of approval on it. Either it’s a valuable service or it’s not, and either they do it right or they end up a) being sued for breech of contract, b) losing their insurance and bond and c) going out of business. This is one of those many things the free market sorts out quite efficiently.

By: towski

towski — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:29:45 +0000

Trey – would it change your mind at all to know that many schools are changing the titling of their interior design degrees to interior architecture? Does that make it okay? Or is it just that any profession dominated by women and gay men clearly can’t be taken seriously?

My fiance is the senior designer on a 20 person team doing the interior “design” on a 53 story oil HQ in Oklahoma City. She has to be up to spec on code, LEED certification, OSHA, ADA compliance, sound bufferance, etc.

Your attitude with terms like pillow tosser smacks of the old boys “secretarial pool” attitude. Grow up.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:15:51 +0000

I agree that Tim can be very funny — hell, I’ve been reading him since he was Mr. Funny Guy. He can come off as arrogant, which rubs some folks wrong, but a) it doesn’t rub me wrong necessarily, and b) who the hell am I to talk.

That said, he can very occasionally piss me off, as he did by posting Little Muffy Buttflicker’s name. That’s a violation of another person’s privacy, and unethical, in my view. Also, he can be so dismissive of his colleagues at the DMN that I can’t help but think he’s burning professional bridges.

As for Bethany having a morning show — I’ve never heard the lady’s speaking voice, but it’s pretty clear she’d be a natural. Not so sure about Trey — he’d make a better Special Commentator Guy. Actually, you might not be so bad at it yourself, Amanda.

Afternoon drive-time would be the sweet gig. Otherwise, you’d have to wake up so damned early that it’s not really early, it’s late.