My wife mentioned to me that the wi-fi password of a Chinese restaurant in Napoleon is rumored to be "fuck americans".
I confirmed that the story ran in the Northwest Signal, but couldn't get the article because I didn't want to pay the $3 access fee to sign up for a week. Here's a link to a photo of the article, which was generated by NWS Staff and appeared yesterday, 2/9.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/561498_480154902046295_508753130_n.jpg
So, my question is: would any company be so stupid as to do that? It certainly couldn't have been that way for long, could it? Even a tolerant person like me might get upset the third or fourth time I had to type "f*** americans" into my computer to get online.
Frankly, I can't believe the story is for real. Maybe a couple of jokers set a phone or other device to serve as a hotspot and set up this scam password to pull a joke on these out-of-towners.
I can't believe they would print the article without going there themselves and trying the PW.
the kind of $#!t that passes as news.
The article called it "racist" more than once.
Is "American" a race now?
Note to self: Change internet password. There may be some Pacific Islanders that are offended.
slowsol posted at 07:15:07 AM on Feb 11, 2013:Note to self: Change internet password. There may be some Pacific Islanders that are offended.
If anyone knows your password, and you don't want them to, both you and they are doing it wrong.
Note to self: Change SSID for my router to be "FBI Van #2549" this week and "BATF TASK FORCE" next week.
Sensor, I just pulled up the entire article (I have an onlibe subscription to that paper) and reporters DID go there and tried the password. It worked. They tried again later in the afternoon and by then it had been changed.
They spoke to the owner who claimed that he was a businessman and wouldn't do anything like that.
While some here are slamming the small-town newspaper, I think they have done a pretty nice job by following up and actually investigating before publishing the article.
It's news and it's in their community. Should they cover it up? I give them credit for doing their jobs.
Is it any less newsworthy than The Blade having a hissy fit in their headlines because some writers in England don't acknowledge the Toledo Museum of Art in reviews of an exhibit in London?
*onlibe should read as "online"
How is anti-americanism "racism?"
Is it any less newsworthy than The Blade having a hissy fit in their headlines because some writers in England don't acknowledge the Toledo Museum of Art in reviews of an exhibit in London?
That's setting the bar pretty low.
As a side note, that article in the Blade about England snubbing the Toledo connection to the Manet exhibit was pretty bad. I suspected before I even looked it up, but the major sponsors of the exhibit were BP and, wait for it, Block Communications.
I wish I had a newspaper to settle personal and business disputes. Although I doubt Fleet Street is quaking in their boots about incurring the wrath of the Brothers Block.
shamrock44 posted at 08:40:26 AM on Feb 11, 2013:Sensor, I just pulled up the entire article (I have an onlibe subscription to that paper) and reporters DID go there and tried the password. It worked. They tried again later in the afternoon and by then it had been changed.
They spoke to the owner who claimed that he was a businessman and wouldn't do anything like that.
While some here are slamming the small-town newspaper, I think they have done a pretty nice job by following up and actually investigating before publishing the article.
It's news and it's in their community. Should they cover it up? I give them credit for doing their jobs.
Is it any less newsworthy than The Blade having a hissy fit in their headlines because some writers in England don't acknowledge the Toledo Museum of Art in reviews of an exhibit in London?
Thanks Shamrock44.
I think the paper did a good job with the article. As for racist, sure it's a racist comment. How is it not racist?
I guess I wasn't thinking of american as a race.
I kind of like the idea of thinking of "American" as a race.
After all, black, white and all shades between, we are all in this together.
People invent so many worthless fucking problems because their lives are devoid of anything else.
Lucky for us, now we have media that amplify triviality over substantive issues. Making the population even more shrill and stupid on issues small and large.
This is pointless sensationalism over an issue that affects absolutely nobody other than busybodies who are getting the vapors. Grow up.
I guess I wasn't thinking of american as a race.
It's usually not unless hyphenated with an identifying word (Anglo-American, African-American, Chinese-American, etc.).
But in today's America, what the hell...let's make the one word that should pull us together tear us apart too.
Ace_Face posted at 09:31:42 AM on Feb 11, 2013:As a side note, that article in the Blade about England snubbing the Toledo connection to the Manet exhibit was pretty bad. I suspected before I even looked it up, but the major sponsors of the exhibit were BP and, wait for it, Block Communications.
I wish I had a newspaper to settle personal and business disputes. Although I doubt Fleet Street is quaking in their boots about incurring the wrath of the Brothers Block.
I was laughing so hard at the hypocrisy of the Blade accusing someone else of poor journalism that I didn't even think there might be a personal connection to the exhibit. Honestly, who cares who the curator is in the general press? Only industry people will find that info noteworthy.
This whole thing doesn't make sense. There is no way the public wi-fi password is "fuck americans." So either this is actually a different network (like a neighboring store) or a private password likely put in an idiot nephew who is probably 15 and bragged to his friends about it.
justread posted at 09:51:28 AM on Feb 11, 2013:I guess I wasn't thinking of american as a race.
Sure for native americans.
If I ate at $4.99 buffets, I would totally boycott them.
justread posted at 01:24:09 PM on Feb 11, 2013:If I ate at $4.99 buffets, I would totally boycott them.
This is where these threads should intersect:
http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/142408/11Feb2013/Sunday_Brunch_Buffet
Has anyone brought up the fact you can use many smartphones to set up wifi hotspots? Maybe someone in or near the restaurant set it up and someone else overheard them casually mentioning the password?
Would be a cruel thing to do but entirely possible.
Lots of possibilities here, toledolen: perhaps it was an idiot employee goofing around with the password, or perhaps someone in an adjoining business who is irritated at the restaurant set this up as a prank.
The only way to "prove" this is with having access to IP information, or if someone on camera walked into the restaurant and asked "what's your Wi-Fi password?" and was told "why it is F**k Americans, of course."
I believe the new password is "F*¢k your Yankee blue jeans" The More You're Told.
