Okay, so how's this one?

The disgustingly pitiful tuning company that has been the subject of other blogs (see my other blogs that have been moved from our PHP MySpace) has done it again!

Both of our companies have relatively new forums; ours went live November 29, and theirs went live two weeks later.  After noticing that they keep lurking around our company's forum as guests, I made an attempt to take the first step -- to extend the hand of well, not really friendship, but of truce-ship! -- and join their forum.  I posted a message with the title CONGRATULATIONS! and word for word, my post was this:

Congratulations on the new forum!  It looks great!  We wish you great success!

Does this look imposing?  Threatening?  Rude?  Condescending?  Unacceptable?  Would you consider this SPAM? That would be no, no, no, no, no, and NO.  If, indeed, they considered this SPAM, would it have been too much to send a quick e-mail saying, "Thank you for your sweet post, but we really want to keep this forum to our potential, current, and new customers.  We appreciate it your peace offering,"?  Obviously not.  They just chose to close down their forum until they can make it "secure."  Seems like, once again, they are threatened by us.  Who knew we had that much power?

What's pissing me off at the moment is that they have perpetuated this myth among the lemmings that follow them around like puppy dogs that they are just so wonderfully kind, and that Billy and I are the bad guys!  And people actually believe this $hit!  Have I blocked them from coming onto OUR website or forum?  No.  It's a public forum, and they should, theoretically, have every right to go on and nose around,  but WE are the a$$holes, right?  I don't think so.

And since they have chosen to make this unkind gesture toward me, I cannot help but dispel a couple more lies that they are perpetuating.  According to them, the tuner in their family simply bought some software, and by God, it was a freakin' miracle because he was suddenly able to tune his own truck!  Now, this is not a little white lie nor a stretching of the truth.  IT IS A LIE.  They were our customers.  Bill tuned his truck.  Then he (as did others) bought OUR DP-Tuner (that is the name under which we sold our tuning software -- DP- Tuner, as the name of our company in NC was Diesel Power!) software and Bill taught him how to tune over the next several years! Of course, there are various stories of How [They] Came to Be in other public places, so you might read a slightly differently, albeit still untruthful, version.

Lie #2: Now, according to them (in response to our blogs ), that's not what their name stands for -- oh no!  Their fairy tale of how it came to be is so stupid, it's not even worth repeating.  Those are the FACTS -- nothing tainted with subjectivity.

Now, I'm not saying that he hasn't turned into a fine tuner, but how about telling the truth?  There's nothing wrong with admitting that someone else taught you how to do something! Quit trying to take credit for things that BILL showed you how to do!  Why do we offer Whisper Mode on our diesel products?  BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONES WHO KNEW HOW TO DO IT AND TOLD YOU WHAT TO DO!

Enough of the BS already.  We've had it. Quit acting like children.

Oh, and by the way, have you ever heard of SpellCheck? Use it sometime.

(And if any of my former students are reading this, YOU know that this is not what I am normally like , so ignore all the cursing. Now do some homework ...and don't forget how much I love and miss you! )