{"id":31902,"date":"2012-01-12T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31902"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:46:45","slug":"boner-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31902","title":{"rendered":"Boner conspiracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apparently, the same Boner\u2019s BBQ that I was fascinated with a few months back, is under a ton of fire recently.\u00a0 Mostly, due to the fact that the owner of the company took too personally, a negative review of their business on Yelp.\u00a0 So he did what, well, nobody else has really done, as an actual business owner, and proceeded to go on the company\u2019s Facebook page, post a picture of her (she\u2019s fat, big surprise), tell her to go fuck herself, and to Yelp that, bitch.\u00a0 Pretty much everything has been redacted at this point, and as of my typing this right now, is a whole lot of back-pedaling, damage control, superficial apologies, and naturally because this surfaced on the internet, a whole lot of people trumpeting superficial righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, I think that everyone who is condemning Boners is full of shit.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of fake righteousness and \u201cthat\u2019s now how you run a business\u201d rhetoric being flung around, because other people are watching.\u00a0 Deep down, I have a hard time believing that anyone who has worked in the food-service industry at any point in their lives (which are most, hard-working, had jobs as teenagers), believes for a second that Boners is in the wrong for actually acting on impulse and anger and ripping this heifer a new asshole on the internet.\u00a0 Not tipping is the worst thing a customer can do to an establishment, because someone ends up getting boned in the end (no pun intended), and pretty much everyone who\u2019s ever worked food service has been stiffed somewhere down the line.\u00a0 To these people trumpeting condemnation and wishing for the business to go under, I say you are all either full of shit, or have never worked in the food service industry before and should also go fuck yourselves for being too spoiled to have to.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Secondly, love Boners for doing this, or hate Boners\u00a0 for doing this, the bottom line is that they\u2019re getting a monumental amount of free publicity out of it.\u00a0 The local rag\u00a0at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>\u00a0is covering it, as well as\u00a0snarky self-righteous bloggers<\/a>\u00a0thinking their opinion is really influential, among several other outlets, such as juggernauts like\u00a0Reddit<\/a>.\u00a0 If people didn\u2019t know about the existence of Boners BBQ before, they are learning of it in mass numbers now.\u00a0 Sure, there is some percentage of bad publicity that will stick with the self-righteous, but to a lot of people who know how to mellow out, keep an open mind, and aren\u2019t so uptight about life in general, they now know of a restaurant called Boners, that might be kind of funny, and might be worth a visit in the future.\u00a0 If these people are regular tippers, then they\u2019ll have no worry about this kind of backlash, because they\u2019d be considerate enough to tip in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of all the facts, responses, and the ongoing battle, I have to suspect the possibility of a conspiracy that this is all deliberate.\u00a0 I liked Boners when I went back in October, but the reality is that the place doesn\u2019t have a ton of business.\u00a0 If I had to guess, it\u2019s pretty clear that the place is probably operating in the red, and they\u2019re probably struggling to pay the bills let alone their employees.\u00a0 Their location sucks, and it not being baseball season can\u2019t be much of a help.\u00a0 The conditions dictate that a risk like trying to create a controversy to go viral, might be a risk worth taking, if there\u2019s nothing left to lose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, my suspicion lies in the fact that the broad who blitzed them on Yelp, the negative review of Boners was and is the only review she\u2019s ever written.\u00a0 How many times have we as consumers been jilted, and we\u2019ve felt the impulsive compulsion to sign up for a consumer review, just to slander them?\u00a0 It happens on the internet with regularity, and the fact that in spite of all the other less-than-stellar reviews that already existed, this one-time Yelper was the target of all the ire, is a little skeptical to me.\u00a0 For all anyone knows, the fat chick, if it\u2019s really a fat chick, because any old photograph could have been allegedly claimed to have been this person, could be someone that the owner knew in the first place, to collaborate this forced attempt at going viral.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, regardless of the truth, the fact of the matter is that this incident has indeed gone viral.\u00a0 Personally, I like Boners BBQ, so I\u2019m hoping all the negativity blows over, and that Boners\u2019 business improves in an ironic manner, and they begin to improve, much to the dismay of the bullshit naysayers.\u00a0 If it was deliberate, it was a ballsy move to play on the notion that \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as bad publicity,\u201d but as a fan of the joint, it takes a little bit of something out of it for me, but as long as the place is still standing in the aftermath, I guess I can\u2019t be too disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the same Boner\u2019s BBQ that I was fascinated with a few months back, is under a ton of fire recently.\u00a0 Mostly, due to the fact that the owner of the company took too personally, a negative review of their business on Yelp.\u00a0 So he did what, well, nobody else has really done, as an … Continue reading Boner conspiracy!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,56,15,52,105,156],"class_list":["post-31902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-food","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31903,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31902\/revisions\/31903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}