Posted on 03/23/2018 10:40:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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For those of us who’ve lived in The City for awhile, it takes a lot to get us to raise an eyebrow: A dude walking down the street wearing nothing but a Giants cap and a cock sock? We call that Tuesday. A lady who’s dyed her dog’s fur pink to match her own? That’s just Lisa. Paying $900 month at age 37 to have three roommates and no living room? That’s called adulthood.
There are oodles of quirky things we take for granted here, but there are also sad ones to which we’ve become all too accustomed: Expecting your car to get broken into if you leave so much as a few visible pennies. Being able to walk by poop and know if it’s human or animal just by the wafting smell. Seeing the sidewalk littered with needles. Having neighbors who sleep in tents each night. Having friends and loved ones evicted and pushed out of The City due to rampant greed. Watching someone rant and scream and thrash at some invisible foe. All of these daily occurrences.
School board president Matt Haney, who’s also running for District 6 supervisor, recently wrote on Facebook about showing members of New Zealand’s parliament around San Francisco and how shocked they were at our city’s “brutal inequality.”
“It crowded out everything else, unavoidable, relentless, omnipresent, but normalized,” Haney wrote.
“Normalized” is the key word; for those of us who live here, none of it is shocking. It’s just our everyday lives.
Think about the last time you were truly stunned by something you saw in San Francisco — something that made you stop what you were doing and say, “Wow …”
Mine was a couple years ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfexaminer.com ...
LOL. Well I can say I’ve never had one of those. LOL.
“Nothing in San Francisco is shocking anymore”.......
Nothing in AMERICA is shocking anymore. This country is LOST!
wise words....like the gay lifestyle...we accepted it nonchanlantly now they overwhelm us on tv, in ads, in movies, etc...
What is a cock sock?
A cock sock is a anatomically tailored piece of apparel that allows one to engage in public nudity while concealing the Kaposi's Sarcoma and festering STD lesions present on one’s private parts.
Sorry to the one who had to inform you on this so close to lunch
and yet so many freepers "are never going to vote republican again"....
remember the feces in the street and the needles scattered all over when you vote...remember the gay mayor and his lover leading the St. Patricks day parade...
remember the girl shot by the muzzie rookie cop thru a window across the chest of his cop partner....
It takes a special kind of stupidity to look at an obvious case of severe mental illness and/or substance abuse and diagnose the problem as economic inequality. SF is so liberal that it is willing to tolerate, normalize and empower sheer insanity, because the powers that be consider any understanding of “normalcy” to be oppressive.
"...Having friends and loved ones evicted and pushed out of The City due to rampant greed..."
Huh? I thought "Rent Control" was a leftist thing, a GOVERNMENT thing intended to "keep the cost down", found in NYC and San Francisco that makes it impossible to get an apartment because the people who have them pass them down to relatives, friends, just keep it as another place because they don't want to give it up, or new property isn't being developed unless it is designated as "luxury" property which is exempt from Rent Control.
Author = Long drop from Golden Gate Bridge
But after witnessing a man, who looked to be homeless and mentally ill, lying on the sidewalk with his pants down around his ankles and who had pissed and defecated all over himself, we immediately left the city.
We were shocked and disgusted that this is what people put up with in the big city. We have not been back since.
I might add, that when I was a kid, my family lived in Europe from 1957-60. When we traveled to Paris, we witnessed the same kind of gross behavior. Men pissing in the streets. A very dirty place compared to what we were used to in the US.
Forever ruined the notion that San Francisco and Paris were places for romantics.
His brain as well.
Banana Hammock is mentioned in the Rifftracks song about Samurai Cop.
The song is very funny. Even better if you endured the movie.
The first time I had heard the term.
Chinese cities can be dirty and run-down, but Chinese people simply find San Francisco-style behavior totally unacceptable.
It’s a shame really. There are some gorgeous parts of the city and the Chinese part of the population is generally industrious and doesn’t cause trouble. I don’t want to nuke it. I’d just like for the vast majority of the rest of the population there to go - preferably far away from the whole country never to return.
This reminds me of an old article in ‘The Onion’...
Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People
https://entertainment.theonion.com/marilyn-manson-now-going-door-to-door-trying-to-shock-p-1819565904
Sure, I’m going to continue to vote for republicans, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to bitch about it.
Rebuild a few enhanced radiation (neutron) bombs to clean the diseased place out without too much damage to the better areas.
There are. Last time I was there, staying out in the avenues in the Richmond or Sunset were pretty nice. Cow Hollow and the Marina and North Beach were visitable. The Wharf is okay for touristy stuff. Ditto places like Telegraph Hill and Lombard St and a ride on the cable cars.
I’d stay out of certain places though. Same as it was last time I lived there back in the Seventies, but the bad places are scrungier than they were then and the cops would go clean house every once in a while.
I lived in the City twice, both times in the Richmond District, Sixties and Seventies. Lived in Marin and Contra Costa for a long time, too. I haven’t been back in a while, though.
What I bitch about are the crypto-liberals who claim they are conservatives but throw away their votes in close elections like PA 18 on 3rd party losers
Yep. Keep in mind that because SF has a friendly attitude to the homeless and that the weather is pretty warm, homeless people flock there by the thousands from all over. It’s another case of leftards incentivizing deviant behavior.
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." - Mark Twain (or perhaps not) ;)
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