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You Know You're in San Francisco When...
SF GATE (San Francisco Chronicle) ^
| 11/24/03
| Adam Sparks
Posted on 11/23/2003 9:06:20 AM PST by sfwarrior
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/11/24/asparks.DTL
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nutcase; ridiculous; sanfrancisco; wacky; wierdos
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To: sfwarrior
You know your in SF when your Grandfathers pig farm smells better than Market Street...
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posted on
11/23/2003 5:48:21 PM PST
by
tubebender
(FReeRepublic...How bad have you got it...)
To: sfwarrior
I was wondering why you didn't post any of this, until I clicked on it and read it. Good call! :-)
San Francisco is beautiful though!
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posted on
11/23/2003 5:53:48 PM PST
by
ladyinred
(Talk about a revolution, look at California!!! We dumped Davis!!!)
To: sfwarrior
San Francisco is a caricature to those who have never been there, or seen only the most infamous parts of it. In reality, it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, even after eight years of King Willie.
It's a real city, where you can walk out of your house, eat lunch at a great restaurant, shop for a hat, buy a book, visit a museum, toss a frisbee in the park, and go to a concert, all in the space of a few blocks. And by the time you trudge back up the hill to your apartment or hotel, you've also gotten all the exercise you need for a week. This is why there are few fat San Franciscans.
In spite of all the perverts, wierdos and lefties, there are many normal people there, who wouldn't think of living anywhere else.
That having been said, everything in the article is absolutely accurate.
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posted on
11/23/2003 6:13:24 PM PST
by
giotto
To: sfwarrior
San Francisco is a wonderful city...if you look past the legions of homeless, the freaks, the peaceniks, greenies, aging hippies, and idiot leaders that call it home. Like giotto said, there are still many normal people living there. I still have family in San Francisco and they are in no ways the hippies or freaks. The restaurants I've been to in San Francisco are wonderful, and the sites are certainly some of the best in the world...past the grim and crap brought on by liberalism of course.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:23:59 PM PST
by
Simmy2.5
To: sfwarrior
Forgot to add...these maybe jokes, but they do have a lot of truth in them.
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posted on
11/23/2003 10:24:33 PM PST
by
Simmy2.5
To: Go Gordon
I was going to give you a GROAN until I realized that the first thing I said after reading your post was..."Oh sh*t!"
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posted on
11/23/2003 11:03:19 PM PST
by
ILBBACH
(All your teams are belong to us! GO CHIEFS!!!)
To: giotto
I visited San Francisco for a day last January and I found it to be a real hellhole. Am I missing something?
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posted on
11/24/2003 1:21:53 AM PST
by
August West
(To each according to his ability, from each according to his need...)
To: Pikamax
Thanks for that - very good.
To: sfwarrior
"City workers can have their genitals cut off and follow-up trangender sex counseling paid for by the medical plan."
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posted on
11/24/2003 1:33:55 AM PST
by
tubavil
To: All
the jokes are funny because they highlight the ridiculousness reality.
Notice all the contradictions? The mark of the Left is embracing contradictions.
Orwell mused about the totalitarians at once acknowledging and failing to acknowledge something. Ayn Rand, I think, called that feat insanity.
To: giotto
Like I always say, the only thing wrong with California is that it's full of Californians.
(My apologies to the "red zone" Californians, I'm aiming this at the "blue zone".)
To: Ichneumon
Like I always say, the only thing wrong with California is that it's full of Californians. Or rather, it's full of all the bizarros that were too weird for the rest of the country. Gradually, the place has become a haven for the dregs of society, who think they have a God-given right to camp out by the crystalline waters of San Francisco Bay and be supported by the people of California, most of whom live their lives in dusty inland valleys, stuck in commuter traffic, working their tails off to pay the taxes which allow the squatters to sit around and bad-mouth them. Most of San Francisco's residents are from somewhere else. And I wish they'd go back there.
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posted on
11/24/2003 3:56:01 AM PST
by
giotto
To: giotto
San Francisco is a caricature to those who have never been there, I lived there for a few months in '81. It was a sick, festering pit of evil and depravity. Difficult for me to believe it's changed that much.
What kind of people name whole sections of their town for the teenage runaway male prostitutes that roam the streets looking for someone who will give them some food in exchange for "gay" sex, as is the case with the "tenderloin district" in San Francisco?
The news reporters, the government, everyone refers to the area around Polk Street by this "cute" euphemism that seems like it would be only appropriate from those who frequent the area and participate in the fun.
Do they still have the Exotic Erotic Ball thingy? A city-funded mass orgy downtown each year?
It was a crazy place, like most large cities, only taken to a hypersexual "gay" extreme. If it doesn't bother you, it's because you're acclimated to it. Live someplace where there isn't a torture chamber in any bar or hotel for miles around, and after a while, maybe the haze will clear, and you'll begin to recognize the profundity and ubiquity of madness that saturates that place. Go someplace where transvestites at least trouble themselves to shave before applying their makeup.
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posted on
11/24/2003 4:13:24 PM PST
by
Yeti
To: sfwarrior
BUMP
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posted on
11/25/2003 9:15:45 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: Yeti
What kind of people name whole sections of their town for the teenage runaway male prostitutes that roam the streets looking for someone who will give them some food in exchange for "gay" sex, as is the case with the "tenderloin district" in San Francisco?
FYI:
It's called the tenderloin because the cops on that beat got paid extra, it being such a tough beat. So they were able to eat...tenderloin. That's the story, and it's been the story for a lot longer then the hookers have been there.
To: Pikamax
He missed one.
You know you're in San Francisco when you shave your head bald, paint your scalp bright blue, walk down the street and people stop and say "Hey, that's a nice shade of blue!"
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posted on
12/15/2003 8:08:17 PM PST
by
Elliott Jackalope
(We send our kids to Iraq to fight for them, and they send our jobs to India. Now THAT'S gratitude!)
To: Yeti
What kind of people name whole sections of their town for the teenage runaway male prostitutes that roam the streets looking for someone who will give them some food in exchange for "gay" sex, as is the case with the "tenderloin district" in San Francisco? This is how some knowledge of history can be helpful. "Tenderloin" districts (there are many in cities all over the U.S.) got their name in New York City back in the 1880s. They were Red Light districts featuring heterosexual prostitution and gambling. Cops assigned to the beat were able to supplement their pay with kickbacks for looking the other way when businesses broke the law -- just as they still do.
"Police Corruption - a Sociological Perspective," edited by Lawrence W. Sherman, says: "In the late 1800's, a police precinct in New York could be rated by the number of establishments featuring gambling and prostitution that could be systematically 'assessed' by the police. When Captain Alexander S. Williams was transferred to the Twenty Ninth Precinct, the city's most fashionable red-light district, he rubbed his hands together and spoke of moving up from 'salt chuck' to 'tenderloin.' Thus the district was christened 'the Tenderloin.'"
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posted on
12/15/2003 9:36:23 PM PST
by
Bernard Marx
("Do what you are afraid to do." Anonymous.)
To: Pikamax
All the misfits of the world go to San Francisco.
To: just_living; Bernard Marx
Odd that the post should have sat around for a month and then you both post replies the same night...
just_living, you seem to have a kinder historical explanation than the one Bernard Marx offers, though you both have the police factor in common. I'll go with Bernard Marx's, since he can cite a source.
And I'll stick with my assessment of the town: it's an insane asylum.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:13:40 PM PST
by
Yeti
To: Simmy2.5
Forgot to add...these maybe jokes, but they do have a lot of truth in them The best humor is always based on truth.
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posted on
12/15/2003 10:20:30 PM PST
by
Dane
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