The Retaliation Raving

2009 is going to be the best year yet! We finally have our first revenge ravings! Before we start let me remind you that one of our rules here is no names. We try our best, but sometimes the rules can be bended slightly.

Our raving starts like this: Sometime ago we were submitted a raving on a person. While we would love to tell you what the raving is about it would divulge the identity of the raver.

*SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER* - DAVID AMBLER

CHOOSING THE RIGHT AMOUNT...

In my opinion there two main ingredients that go into a really good raving – timing and detail. That is, a raving executed at the wrong time will just fall flat and not be funny, likely setting you up to be raved upon. Similarly, choosing the right amount of detail in your wording is equally important.

Some people choose to always go the whole nine yards, spill all the beans and leave the victim completely exposed and wrecked. While this is the goal of some, I prefer to go a different route. I always try to rave in such a way that the person can redeem themselves at that time or another in the future. The person should be able to learn from what they have done that was so stupid. This could be done by telling them gently in private (which may have its place) or by making them feel the idiocy of their actions semi-publicly. Either way, they should get the message that what was done/said is not and should not be done by intelligent people. Indiscriminately ripping into individuals who simply can not help their capacity is border line cruelty and should only be allowed under very special circumstances (if at all).

Despite having said this, it is not uncommon for such individuals to not quite grasp the implications of a softer raving, requiring the raver to turn up the heat a bit. If you find yourself in such a position, turn up the heat gradually until they get the point. A case in point was a certain individual in our office who made the same type of jokes every day. For anonymity’s sake, I won’t mention what the jokes were. This particular guy, let’s call him Jason, was consistently tacitly raved upon, yet he took it as encouragement to continue. It took a very tactful raving by a resident professional (not myself), letting him have it in front of the entire office at a luncheon to shut him up. He has not given those daily jokes since.

So, next time you are going to give a good raving, analyse each case carefully and see if you can’t nip it in the bud for the person with a gentle, yet stern, raving first. If their cerebral cortex resists such gentle nudges to change their behaviour, then begin increasing the dosage.

Regards - David Ambler

Welcome to 2009

Hey guys we are so excited to be back!

Lets hope you all have some excellent ravings with which to share with the pro ravings team. Let's make 2009 the best year yet. Keep reading, keep sending us your blogs and let's keep RAVING!

Be sure to check out our poll for your new years resolution poll.

Festive Greetings from the Pro Ravings Team

Hey everyone,

2008 was a great year for us. The blog was started in August and since then we have had over 800 hits! A big thank you to all our readers.

Our last poll which wanted to know who of you thought the best raver was, ended in a tie. Both Jim Halpert (The Office US version) and Ari Gold (Entourage) both ended up with the same scores. I must say I thought that Ari would have won by a mile, but clearly some of that geeky charm of Jim has rubbed off on some of you.

Its the festive season now and we wanted to wish all of you a merry xmas and a happy new year. We would also just like to remind you that New years is the perfect time to find a raving.

2009 is around the corner, and there will be some big changes on the horizon for pro ravings. Keep reading, keep sending in your ravings and lets get more people in 2009 into the pro raving mindframe!

Adverse advertising

Firstly we all know that some adverts are targeted at specific audiences. Secondly we also know that sometimes a simple English translation sometimes skews the original meaning totally. Some of the funny ones I've heard of are Fu King Chinese Restaurant, Coolpis Juice or the The Good Testes Wine and Dine. I'm sure you can think of many others. I just have to wonder whether the marketing departments of these products or places take into account other possible translations, not only language, of their advertisements.

Our raving starts like this:

Johannesburg is a very diverse and liberal city. So one shouldnt be surprised when one sees transvestites or people of the same sex holding hands. I was walking through a Pick 'n Pay and waiting for Gesh while he was in a queue. I decided to lean on a counter to wait. On the counter there was a fridge with energy drinks. I didn't take notice of the picture on the fridge at first after about 10 minutes I looked at again and was a bit disturbed by what I saw:


Now one has really got to wonder what went through the minds of the marketing team that did this. Are they targeting a niche market ? Did they really intend for a purple man with their products to be standing behind a yellow leper in such an awkward position ? I can honestly say its adverts like these that make me NOT wanna buy the sellers products ! What do guys think ? Am I being too harsh ? Or am I reading into a totally innocent advert and making something out of nothing ? All I 'm saying is that I wanted to stick an R18 sticker on that fridge before I walked out of that store.

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Entourage South Africa

I have come across an inside source which has informed me that Sabc is doing its own production of the popular series Entourage. They are using a local known Superstar and the series will be based on his Hollywood lifestyle. I am struggling to get the Pilot episode, so if you come across it, please mail me. I did however manage to get a poster from Sabc...Have a look..

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So you think you are a professional raver?

This raving was inspired by our most recent poll, where half of you said that you were professional ravers just like us. Its all fine and well thinking that you are a professional like us, after all you need confidence in order to do what we do. But here is an example to show you just how quickly pro ravers can pounce!

Our raving starts like this:

It was a simple gtalk conversation between Todd and one of his friends called "Beaver". Now Beaver got all excited about something as you will see and decided that he was going to try and just be difficult and obnoxious for no reason. Have a look at the picture below and see how quickly Todd destroyed him! (Click on picture to enlarge it)



Do you think you could do what Todd did? Convince someone in a matter of moments that what they so adamantly believed was ridiculous and make them feel silly? Write to us if you think you can, because we would love to hear it!

Peter pan, LOL

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