For the price of a stop, the wall was lost

My favourite Riot Act threads:

“This one time, I saw a car crash.”

“This one time, I had to cross the road.”

“This one time, I saw a white van with orange lights.”

“This one time, I saw police in Civic.”

“This one time, I was charged $5 too much for pizza.”

Now I can add:

“This one time, I saw a hole in a wall.”

Ant – last time at Edgars I thought it was over priced for both food and drinks, and the service was a bit hit & miss. I reckon Debarcle is a better bet – and they have Zierholz too!

You don’t take a dump

You leave it

exactly, toad! or ‘take a p!ss’… another of those americanisms that really grates me. like ‘off of’.

shouldn’t JB report said hole in lavatory wall to edgar’s management? or did he…?

actually i (duh) filled in the contact form.

jb,

could you please contact me? I might have an idea for you.

For advertisers, yes.

There are competitors to RA???

@ Snarky,

We won’t be discussing our business plans here, simply because our competitors read the site.

Suffice to say we believe we have sufficient capital to make this work and that enough advertisers will want to access our audience to make it work into the long term.

Welcome back JB 🙂

I’m curious as to why you’ve returned – you cited a bit of a financial crisis brought on by a lack of advertising income from the site when you left, and that doesn’t appear to have changed much, judging from the ad content since then.

When I first tuned a few years ago in the aim of RiotACT was to be a good souce of news, views and opinion from the ACT and surrounds – a credible alternative to the mainstream media with a bit of spark and personality too, and you were hoping to build both RiotACT and the broader Concatenate into a couple of financially self supporting concerns. It didn’t work (or perhaps just didn’t work fast enough) with the existing story/subject recipe. While readership has apparently risen rapidly, advertisers just don’t seem willing to follow.

Is this post about the back of a toilet door indicative of the subject and language level you’ll be taking in the future? Are you really hoping to spin this sort of stuff into an income?

Please don’t get me wrong – I’m nothing more than an occasional commenter, although I drop by generally every day. I’ve never contributed a story. I’ve tried advertising, but for me it didn’t pan out (that’s as much my problem as yours). In short, I have absolutely no credibility at all to be commenting on the site direction. And I know that this is YOUR site and you’re totally free to do what you want with it. But it seems pretty obvious that with stories like this as FPPs RiotACT is always going to be little more than a labour of love, not the immediate response to “where can I get REAL news about what’s happeing in Canberra” for either readers or advertisers.

Where are you going with RiotACT?

what i miss is the interesting anecdotal graffiti on the back of toilet doors, the hole would have attracted some amusing comments which would have been worth reading whilst waiting for nature to take its course….