Pyat is grumpy

[pyat]

Cracked.com never does any research beyond a single source weblink, usually an old news story. #7 on their List of "WTF" Houses was never finished, never even had windows put on most of it, and was demolished in 2008.

Cracked says - "The house contains a garden, ballroom, five-story bathhouse and numerous rooms where Sutyagin's business colleagues could "entertain" various women."

It never contained any of those things!

Anyway.

Comments

[saomigray.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of cracked.com, and after reading this article I can live quite well pretending I still haven't.

Is it always this poorly researched and written?

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's a humor site. Grumping 'cause they didn't source something correctly is like getting mad that water fails to be less wet.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I certainly acknowledge that I'm being grumpy about a minor point! This sort of thing bugs me.

When something is being presented as a fact, And, what's more, a marvellous fact, an exciting and intriguing thing that we're digging up as an astounding example from the real world to entertain you... well, I'd prefer it was real.

I still read the site most days. I like some of the writers a lot better than the others. A lot of the articles sort of reek of vanilla alpha male nerd (but not smart nerd, the sort of nerd who thinks playing video games makes you a nerd) that just turns me right off.

So, I don't read those ones. :)

[saomigray.livejournal.com]

My problem with it isn't that it's not sourced right, it's that it's poorly written and not very funny.

Taking a bunch of cheap shots at stuff does not make it humorous - it makes it juvenile.

I love satire and humor as much as the next guy, but I expect it to be well done.