Petition to Save Back Office Radio

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 06:43 PM

Going around on Twitter:

http://www.change.org/petitions/howa...share_petition

**Obi Drunkenobe** · 03-20-2013, 06:47 PM

Dont think it will do any good but I signed anyway

**Gusbuss** · 03-20-2013, 06:48 PM

Me too, I love a good protest.

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Obi Drunkenobe

Dont think it will do any good but I signed anyway

Yeah, me too.

I used a fake name and address. They force you to fill in the form, but you can make shit up.

**johnnynoname** · 03-20-2013, 06:50 PM

if it comes back it will be a neutered version of what it once was

"leave the memories alone"

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 06:50 PM

Okay, which one of you smartasses is "Bob Ostrosky" from Pittsburgh?

**Obi Drunkenobe** · 03-20-2013, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by Lou Cypher

Yeah, me too.

I used a fake name and address. They force you to fill in the form, but you can make shit up.

I used all Star Wars references for my address

**R.P. McMurphy** · 03-20-2013, 06:51 PM

...you guys are going to make howard think hes got subscribers. he doesnt know the petition is signed by everybody listening on s*******t.

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by Obi Drunkenobe

I used all Star Wars references for my address

Creative!

**MyLazyHand** · 03-20-2013, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Lou Cypher

Yeah, me too.

I used a fake name and address. They force you to fill in the form, but you can make shit up.

Fake?!

You mean I'm sitting here with the car running and my binoculars are aimed at the wrong house? Dammit.

**NotMyBro** · 03-20-2013, 06:58 PM

Yeah, that's gonna work.. because petitions have managed to change something.

**Gusbuss** · 03-20-2013, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by NotMyBro

Yeah, that's gonna work.. because petitions have managed to change something.

Didn't Bank of America back off ATM fees after their customers started an online petition? Only successful one I can think of.

**R.P. McMurphy** · 03-20-2013, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Gusbuss

Didn't Bank of America back off ATM fees after their customers started an online petition? Only successful one I can think of.

...yes they did. theyre the antichrist

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by MyLazyHand

Fake?!

You mean I'm sitting here with the car running and my binoculars are aimed at the wrong house? Dammit.

Foiled again, LazyHand!

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by NotMyBro

Yeah, that's gonna work.. because petitions have managed to change something.

I just don't want it to have a total of 12 signatures, whether it does any good or not.

**eliasbboy** · 03-20-2013, 07:10 PM

Signed at retweeted.

I'm from Chicago, so I'll do it again in an hour.

**NotMyBro** · 03-20-2013, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Gusbuss

Didn't Bank of America back off ATM fees after their customers started an online petition? Only successful one I can think of.

No. They dropped fees because several Congressmen talked to them and threatened legislation.

White House has been running petitions for years and nothing was accomplished by them. If you want change, nothing beats calling & voting with your POCKETBOOK.

Want BOR back? Call up Sirius and tell them you're canceling until they bring it back. But how many people here still have Sirius?

And these online petitions are just slacktivism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism

Slacktivism (sometimes slactivism or slackervism) is a portmanteau of the words slacker and activism. The word is usually considered a pejorative term that describes "feel-good" measures, in support of an issue or social cause, that have little or no practical effect other than to make the person doing it feel some amount of satisfaction. The acts tend to require minimal personal effort from the slacktivist. The underlying assumption being promoted by the term is that these low cost efforts substitute for more substantive actions rather than supplementing them, although this assumption has not been borne out by research.^[1]
Slacktivist activities include signing Internet petitions,^[2] joining a community organization without contributing to the organization's efforts, copying and pasting of Social Network statuses or messages or altering one's personal data or avatar on social network services. Research is beginning to explore the connection between the concept and modern activism/advocacy, as groups are increasingly using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action.^[3]
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS describes the term "slacktivist", saying it "posits that people who support a cause by performing simple measures are not truly engaged or devoted to making a change".^[4]

**Lou Cypher** · 03-20-2013, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by eliasbboy

Signed at retweeted.

I'm from Chicago, so I'll do it again in an hour.

Originally Posted by NotMyBro

No. They dropped fees because several Congressmen talked to them and threatened legislation.

White House has been running petitions for years and nothing was accomplished by them. If you want change, nothing beats calling & voting with your POCKETBOOK.

Want BOR back? Call up Sirius and tell them you're canceling until they bring it back. But how many people here still have Sirius?

And these online petitions are just slacktivism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism

Oh absolutely, the petitions are designed to make you feel like you're doing something, but sometimes they have an effect. I remember signing one for a teenager whose picture was banned from his school yearbook because he was waving a rainbow flag in it. He got thousands of signatures and a lot of attention AND he got in the yearbook.

**cah155** · 03-20-2013, 09:27 PM

This is tough ...

I hate Jason and Ted with a passion, so the cancellation was nice in a way. But I did enjoy the show ... Though they had no balls when callers spoke negatively about wiggy