My day in Seattle... (homes, homeless, rated)

[Steve40th]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

If you've been to Seattle many times, why did you post about this one trip? And I still don't know how to interpret your OP. Does it mean you had a bad time, and don't like Seattle? What are you getting at, here?

Oh lord. I just posted a day trip. Is there a conspiracy here, NO.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by Steve40th

Revolution books sucked. Owner was arrogant, full of vague facts and no real solution to any problem he brought up.
Revolution Books Seattle

Sounds like someone came up from the South and got into a political argument with a local book store owner.

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

If you've been to Seattle many times, why did you post about this one trip? And I still don't know how to interpret your OP. Does it mean you had a bad time, and don't like Seattle? What are you getting at, here?

I think he wants to diss Seattle, which is fine, hopefully he goes back and tells all his friends. We're getting crowded up here.

[Steve40th]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Sounds like someone came up from the South and got into a political argument with a local book store owner.



I think he wants to diss Seattle, which is fine, hopefully he goes back and tells all his friends. We're getting crowded up here.

Diss Seattle. Really.. get a clue buddy.
And coming from the south and got a political arguement. Yep, flew out here for three months to work and had this on my radar.
I wss going to Emerald guitars. Wasnt open, went in there to get items for our local socialist and the guy in the store started hi0s rhetoric.
Been coming here since 90's. I like Seattle. Most of it.
Oh well, typical CD Crowd. Going to ignore ya..

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Steve40th

Oh lord. I just posted a day trip. Is there a conspiracy here, NO.

Well, usually on C-D, OP's contain a question for the readership, and yours didn't, so I'm trying to understand the motive for your post. May we help you in some way? Or is this a vent? Some of us don't know what to make of it. Help us out, here.

[DutchessCottonPuff]

Originally Posted by thedonwind

I don't like the hipsters either. They are more snobby and violent than they are peaceful and harmonic like they claim to be.

Originally Posted by green_mariner

I disagree. I've met hipsters and I have never seen any violence from hipsters. I have, however, been subjected to violence from "rednecks " and "ghetto" thugs.

I disagree too , I was raised in Texas and as a alternative person was bullied sometimes brutalized off and on since childhood by rednecks - especially around the horses . I am very hippy gypsy and not conservative at all- very colorful and eccentric sometimes, but I have to say I have fared way better almost anywhere I have lived besides Tx. Ghetto Thugs leave me alone. I think they just dont know what to make of me

Originally Posted by Seacove

Sounds like someone came up from the South and got into a political argument with a local book store owner.
I think he wants to diss Seattle, which is fine, hopefully he goes back and tells all his friends. We're getting crowded up here.

^^ Yep again as someone who gladly left Tx , I agree

..and yes we all know about the Space Needle .

Do you have to come here on business or something because it sounds like you really don't like it here and I don't think it's going to change ....

I have a girlfriend who is a nurse here who I very coincidentally went to high school with back home and her in laws came to visit ONCE . She nearly wilted with the WAY out of place derogatory comments her FIL was making out loud. Both random and directed at people he didn't like ( which was just about everyone downtown ) . She had to tell him to can it finally.

[cmswazey]

Gee, I thought it was an anecdotal thing about a guy's trip to Seattle. I guess people are gunshy because of a succession of certain posts from a couple people here who don't seem to like Seattle and Seattleites. But this thread doesn't strike me like those.

[Steve40th]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Well, usually on C-D, OP's contain a question for the readership, and yours didn't, so I'm trying to understand the motive for your post. May we help you in some way? Or is this a vent? Some of us don't know what to make of it. Help us out, here.

Some people think there is something to read between the lines. I was just talking about a day in Seattle.
I could talk of the time I went to Kurt Cobains house, or Ivars, or when I saw whales while pulling into Bremerton on the Ferry.
Nope, I was just talking about a day in Seattle.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by thedonwind

I don't like the rednecks or ghetto thugs either. The hipsters in Capitol Hill specifically are trash. They are unfriendly and act like their little itty bitty hangout spots are some kind of godly sacred territory or something and if you go near it, they will tell you to **** off, as if their little loser unproductive club is something to be so proud of.

Those people are extremely unproductive members to society. Most likely they can't do math or even use a computer or have the willpower to work any real job, so they just combat their laziness and lack of production by doing drugs and claiming little "hangout" spots, getting a million tattoos with their parents' money, shove little metal discs in their earlobes, just to make them feel better about themselves. And on top of that, they "claim" to have titles just to place some kind of value on themselves like "I'm a liberal" or "I'm an activist", using it as a substitute for a real job such as "I'm a pilot, I'm an engineer, I'm an accountant, I'm a nurse, or whatever." Instead, they don't do anything. Reading a couple of hipster blogs and watching the news once a week doesn't make you an "activist". It makes you full of crap.

I've never seen that from hipsters. Most hipsters I've seen work for a living. Actually, I've been treated much better by hipsters than by "rednecks" or "ghetto thugs". And I'm not a hipster.

[tickyul]

Originally Posted by franklin42

What's a hipster?

Basically a Trendster, but with a lot more body-odor and freakiness!

[mkarch]

Originally Posted by tickyul

Basically a Trendster, but with a lot more body-odor and freakiness!

Now that you mention it, 5 years ago it was somewhat difficult to tell the hipsters from homeless people.

Now, the homeless are so far gone - sick, addicted, mentally ill, there's no mistaking them for hipsters. Odd how quickly our homeless population deteriorated to that point.