What?!?!? Tulsans Want Change? Nooooooo
The PLANiTULSA panel released its findings about what Tulsans want and found out we want change … (Pause. Wait for it. Wait for it.)
… well DUH!
Why else would PLANiTULSA have been formed?
What’s next? You’re going to find out that Tulsans want fewer potholes and knife stabbings hurt? Thanks for the info.
I appreciate the process and citizen input, but you’ve spent thousands of dollars to find out the obvious. There’s a cheap alternative to these studies, it’s called answer the f****** phone. Listen to your people, politicians.
You don’t need study after study after study. Listen first. Not everything has to be tied down to a report, except for the Kinsey report because it helped me understand sex as a preteen.
There’s also a new amazing invention called the Internet. Email can be cheap.
Yes, we want change and I’m going to give you a start: here’s a dollar to buy a clue, but first spends thousands and form a committee.
How else will you know how to spend my dollar?
Wow, I read the Irritated Tulsa RSS all the time and…. this is pretty much a terrible article. The study did actually include some level of detailed information, which was apparently too difficult for the author to delve into, I guess? And guess what? I filled out the PLANiTULSA survey RIGHT HERE on this “new amazing invention called the Internet”!
No, you don’t need a study to tell you people want change. This study, however, was conducted to find out in what direction the citizens of Tulsa want the change to go– in other words, where the citizens want spending and improvements to be focused.
I’m guessing the author of this article, despite his plea for politicians to “listen to [their] people,” didn’t bother to participate in the survey, and doesn’t really understand what kind of information was being gathered therein.
Listen, I’m not some kind of crazy defender of the PLANiTULSA people. I don’t even know if this survey will have any affect on Tulsa’s future. But this “article” is just lazy, ignorant ramblings of someone who obviously didn’t bother to get any real information before “ranting”. Fail.
My point was that you make it sound as if the only finding of this survey was “Tulsans want change” in an attempt to be funny. I’m defending neither the validity nor the necessity of this survey, just pointing out that you reduced the information to a mere speck of what they actually supposedly “discovered” (whether that be academically, fraudulently, at ridiculous expense, or otherwise) in order to make it appear humorous. At it wasn’t funny to me that way, because I know that wasn’t what they were claiming to have found. Hence the “fail”.
I’m not saying that this study wasn’t extravagant and/or stupid. (Though I do wonder, if you think so, why you bothered to participate and attend meetings?) Regardless, they do PURPORT to have made some sort of discovery, so you could at least attempt to make fun of their supposed “findings” (Brute’s comment is a good starting point, and that PDF “presentation” is a long-running joke on its own).
Anyway, whatever, I did sound like a big bitch in my comment (sorry) and I usually like what you write (I really do read your posts all the time). I’m just young and optimistic/naive and I get excited when something like this comes along that might make Tulsa a better place to live, and then the soul-crushing reality comes along and I’m not entirely prepared for it, I guess.
Amanda: You didn’t sound like a bitch at all. I love comments, happy or angry. It let’s me know what clicks and what doesn’t. This article clicked with a few, but wasn’t outstanding. I’ll be forgotten. Let’s just kiss and make up. Shall we?
How about this? You choose a topic and angle, and I’ll write a post on it next week.
I am with so with you on this stuff.
In the words of Richard Dawson,”Survey sez…”. I took the survey and I loved the slant on it. It basically said if you don’t vote the midtown vote, you don’t count. It rated right up there with Facebook surveys that some 16 year old in Breezewood PA generates because he can’t get a job at the truckstop.
Now you are telling me they actually spent money on it? In the famous words of Mr.Herbert Garrison; “Go to hell! Go to hell and die!!”
Anyone else surprised to find out the, far and away, winner of this polling has selected the very plan administrators have been operating on for the last six years?
Sounds good to me.
Hmm, topics…
What percentage of the worst ass-hat morning drivers are, in fact, on their way to Victory Christian? (I work near 71st and Lewis and MY hunch is approximately 85%).
I liked the “How to spot Wal-Mart security” post, what about “How to spot people who won’t be able to properly operate self-checkouts at Wal-Mart so you don’t get in line behind them and waste an entire afternoon watching them try to find the barcode on a banana”?
Or you could attend the grand opening of Toby Keith’s Jackass Lounge at the Hard Rock (this weekend, I think?) and scream “TOBY KEITH FARTS OUT HIS MOUTH” at the top of your lungs during the dinner rush and then document the events that follow.
Good, we’ve made up. I already have a post written about I Love This Bar and Grill for The Lost Ogle. It would’ve been posted Tuesday, but they had an interview with Brad Henry instead, so I pushed that post to next week.
I’ll go with “How to spot people who won’t be able to properly operate self-checkouts at Wal-Mart so you don’t get in line behind them and waste an entire afternoon watching them try to find the barcode on a banana”? I might shorten the title, if that’s ok.