Snake-Pit Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 (edited) I didn't join yelp for me, I joined yelp for you. To yelp. I joined Yelp. http://soyelpmegod.yelp.co.uk/ If you're also on Yelp, feel free to link in this thread. Edited August 28, 2016 by Snake-Pit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 (edited) ''Thornton Heath's 'fancy place'''? Surely a dogging alley at the back of a kebab place? Edited August 28, 2016 by DieselDaisy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Snakes with another useless thread...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyTron Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 "Jerk meat" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 13 hours ago, PappyTron said: "Jerk meat" 'You wanna jerk my sausage?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 On 8/28/2016 at 10:00 AM, Snake-Pit said: I didn't join yelp for me, I joined yelp for you. To yelp. I joined Yelp. http://soyelpmegod.yelp.co.uk/ If you're also on Yelp, feel free to link in this thread. i recently saw this epi of South Park...awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 One problem with places like Yelp is that people give really person specific reviews of their own limited experience. Somebody eats at a restaurant one time and has a non-friendly waitress and their steak was a little undercooked. So they leave a terrible review. But that one review isn't a proper representation of what the restaurant is really like. Maybe the waitress was sick and having a bad day and normally she is one of the best waitresses in the city. And maybe the chef nails 99% of their steaks and the reviewer got the one semi-wrong one out of 100. But people today love to be outraged and because of FB/twitter/snapchat/Instagram/etc everybody thinks that their opinion is important and needs to be heard. That's why there are literally 284 million people in the world who call themselves bloggers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracii Guns Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 5 hours ago, Apollo said: One problem with places like Yelp is that people give really person specific reviews of their own limited experience. Somebody eats at a restaurant one time and has a non-friendly waitress and their steak was a little undercooked. So they leave a terrible review. But that one review isn't a proper representation of what the restaurant is really like. Maybe the waitress was sick and having a bad day and normally she is one of the best waitresses in the city. And maybe the chef nails 99% of their steaks and the reviewer got the one semi-wrong one out of 100. But people today love to be outraged and because of FB/twitter/snapchat/Instagram/etc everybody thinks that their opinion is important and needs to be heard. That's why there are literally 284 million people in the world who call themselves bloggers. Agree with this. I do a little as-and-when job at an escape room. One guy arrived with a really bad attitude to begin with, wouldn't listen to my colleague's instructions and actually told them what we should be doing as he claimed to also run an escape room. He treated everyone awfully and the staff just really stepped back, didn't confront him and showed him the door afterwards. He then wrote a TripAdvisor review full of lies, got his wife or whoever to write a similar one, then wrote complimentary ones about the "rival" escape room in town (who we get along great with). So we now have over 500 4 and 5 star reviews with no more than two 1 star reviews. Several people mentioned how they didn't understand how we could get a bad review. We treat everyone exactly the same, want everyone to have a good time and even the guys who don't solve the rooms still come back. But this bad review really upset my bosses, who had invested so much time and money (and these are people who spent their careers working in supermarkets, but got it together to start their own business in their 50s). While blogging has been democratised by the internet, it has put most people who would be full-time journalists, editors, photographers and designers out of work. I'm feeling the effects of it right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 5 hours ago, Apollo said: One problem with places like Yelp is that people give really person specific reviews of their own limited experience. Somebody eats at a restaurant one time and has a non-friendly waitress and their steak was a little undercooked. So they leave a terrible review. But that one review isn't a proper representation of what the restaurant is really like. Maybe the waitress was sick and having a bad day and normally she is one of the best waitresses in the city. And maybe the chef nails 99% of their steaks and the reviewer got the one semi-wrong one out of 100. But people today love to be outraged and because of FB/twitter/snapchat/Instagram/etc everybody thinks that their opinion is important and needs to be heard. That's why there are literally 284 million people in the world who call themselves bloggers. Also, people love a moan. And standards flip when people are dishing opinion out, they turn into AA Gill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyTron Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 6 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: Also, people love a moan. That's why women have orgasms, you know. They'll do anything for a good moan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 1 minute ago, PappyTron said: That's why women have orgasms, you know. They'll do anything for a good moan. I asked one to whistle instead once, she didn't half moan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyTron Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 4 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: I asked one to whistle instead once, she didn't half moan. "Eee, that's the spot, father. That's right proper grand!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) 27 minutes ago, PappyTron said: "Eee, that's the spot, father. That's right proper grand!" Avoid northern crumpet whenever possible. Its harder to differentiate up there eh? Someone once told me a foolproof method though is 'they're the ones that carry the men home at chucking out time and win a fortune arm wrestling' Edited October 23, 2016 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 6 hours ago, Gracii Guns said: Agree with this. I do a little as-and-when job at an escape room. One guy arrived with a really bad attitude to begin with, wouldn't listen to my colleague's instructions and actually told them what we should be doing as he claimed to also run an escape room. He treated everyone awfully and the staff just really stepped back, didn't confront him and showed him the door afterwards. He then wrote a TripAdvisor review full of lies, got his wife or whoever to write a similar one, then wrote complimentary ones about the "rival" escape room in town (who we get along great with). So we now have over 500 4 and 5 star reviews with no more than two 1 star reviews. Several people mentioned how they didn't understand how we could get a bad review. We treat everyone exactly the same, want everyone to have a good time and even the guys who don't solve the rooms still come back. But this bad review really upset my bosses, who had invested so much time and money (and these are people who spent their careers working in supermarkets, but got it together to start their own business in their 50s). While blogging has been democratised by the internet, it has put most people who would be full-time journalists, editors, photographers and designers out of work. I'm feeling the effects of it right now. You hit the nail on the head with both points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 (edited) Food critiques by the bloke who goes around nicking people's discarded drinks? Edited October 24, 2016 by DR DOOM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 18 hours ago, Apollo said: One problem with places like Yelp is that people give really person specific reviews of their own limited experience. Somebody eats at a restaurant one time and has a non-friendly waitress and their steak was a little undercooked. So they leave a terrible review. But that one review isn't a proper representation of what the restaurant is really like. Maybe the waitress was sick and having a bad day and normally she is one of the best waitresses in the city. And maybe the chef nails 99% of their steaks and the reviewer got the one semi-wrong one out of 100. But people today love to be outraged and because of FB/twitter/snapchat/Instagram/etc everybody thinks that their opinion is important and needs to be heard. That's why there are literally 284 million people in the world who call themselves bloggers. I rarely use Yelp for it's intended purpose. If I'm in a city I'm unfamiliar with, I will sometimes use it to actually find a business I need/want to go to. How I end up using Yelp most of the time is looking up 1 star reviews for anywhere we're going to dinner. Not only are almost all 1 star reviews exactly what you're saying, they're almost always literally with hilarious mis-spellings and things you can tell are blown out of proportion. People can't deal with waiting anymore, so MANY 1 star Yelp reviews are filled with people claiming they had 30 plus minute waits for their food or to even get acknowledged. Horseshit. It was probably more like 5 or even 3 minutes, but their entitled brains can't wrap around the concept that everything shouldn't be handed to them immediately. Another classic is the whole "I've had REAL (fill in meal here) in (fill in country of origin here) and this was nothing like it!". Oh really world traveller? The spaghetti & meatballs that costs $7 at the local franchise isn't the same as what you had in Rome? I speak for all of us when I say we're shocked! It goes the other way with 5 star reviews too though, but it's not as fun. You can just tell when it's the owner, employees or someone associated with the business that's singing it's praises. Like I said, that's fun to read too but not nearly as fun as reading someone blowing something out of proporting in an attempt to get themselves a gift card for their next visit. I have to laugh when employees, owners and what not over-react to 1 star or even 3 star reviews. 3 star reviews are usually the only ones I trust on there because it's usually a level person who's just stating their experience with no motovation either way. I recently posted a 3 star review of a place on social media. I went out of my way to say that I wasn't saying anything bad about the place, I just wasn't blown away. I also mentioned that my review wasn't from one experience. I mentioned that I'd been there several times over the course of a year when I decided on writing a review. I mentioned that everything was fine about the place but nothing stood out to me as "5 star worthy". I was amazed that employees & customers alike came out to hand me my ass by responding to my post. They were all appalled that I would have the nerve to say this was a 3 star business. I restated points from my review; that I wasn't saying anything was bad, I was just saying that nothing was "great", thus, 3 stars. I stopped responding eventually because people just wanted to argue that I must not know what I'm talking about because they'd had amazing experiences there. In any case.... online reviews can be entertaining all the way around. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 On 28-8-2016 at 7:58 PM, Slash787 said: Snakes with another useless thread...... Yeah... It's getting annoying. Not reaching Miser-levels yet. But the brainfarts are getting more frequent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 8 hours ago, username said: Yeah... It's getting annoying. Not reaching Miser-levels yet. But the brainfarts are getting more frequent. This has what to do with Yelp? If you don't have anything to add to the thread, why bother posting here at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just now, Snake-Pit said: This has what to do with Yelp? If you don't have anything to add to the thread, why bother posting here at all? Don't you have another thread to make about how stoned you are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just now, username said: Don't you have another thread to make about how stoned you are? Yes, but first, why do you bother spamming? You could have saved your post count and kept your not topical opinion to yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just now, Snake-Pit said: Yes, but first, why do you bother spamming? You could have saved your post count and kept your not topical opinion to yourself. It's kind of funny when you accuse someone of spamming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just now, username said: It's kind of funny when you accuse someone of spamming. Why? Aren't my threads not valid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracii Guns Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Found my favourite Chinese on TripAdvisor. The only photo added made me lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dazey Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Snake-Pit said: Why? Aren't my threads not valid? In 95% of cases. No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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