tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post117517680726114738..comments2023-10-30T11:47:53.134-04:00Comments on why.i.hate.dc: I Can Not Let This StandDave Strouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12284013068083846700noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-91760907476057517632008-02-25T10:28:00.000-05:002008-02-25T10:28:00.000-05:00Sorry I am about a year late to the table on this ...Sorry I am about a year late to the table on this discussion, but it “breaks my heart” to hear people slobber about how “beautiful” those effing cherry blossoms are. I had the unfortunate experience of working around the Tidal Basin, or as I prefer to call it, the Not-So-Tidy-Bowl, for over a year and got to know the lay of the land pretty well (an unfortunate experience in and of itself). If you cast your gaze down from those lovely blossoms for just a second you will see the Tidal Basin is America’s Great Cesspool where junkies, perverts and sex offenders abound (but what a great nod to diversity, I suppose). I used to take walks abound the NSTB at lunch and apparently I should have mixed up my schedule a bit because this one twisted sicko used to wait for me in his van (yes, a perv in a van down by the river…doesn’t get any more clichéd than that!) every day so he could watch me walk by. How do I know? Well, because he told me. And then offered to take me to lunch. In his van. But he didn’t have any candy, so I had to decline. In the spring the area becomes a gas chamber with exhaust from all the tourist busses, and have you every actually examined one of those cherry trees up close? They look pretty scraggly and diseased to me. Besides…most of them are not even the original ones given by Japan. But if you still insist upon going, watch your step…wouldn’t want to trip on any of the dead rotting carp, used syringes or condoms dotting the pedestrian path. Sniff…I think I’m tearing up…TX Homesick Blueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489025594680093513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1176575646150947842007-04-14T14:34:00.000-04:002007-04-14T14:34:00.000-04:00Connecticut isn't the place to see cool architectu...Connecticut isn't the place to see cool architecture -- 16th Street is. I literally live in a building called "The Majestic." It's so art deco it makes me want to puke -- with pleasure!<BR/><BR/>The burrito cart man on 15th and K isn't making some sort of radical argument with his meatless burritos -- I think he just didn't want to fuck with the bureaucracy of getting a license to sell meat. Please, don't mistake him for a vegan and eat him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1176493944351825982007-04-13T15:52:00.000-04:002007-04-13T15:52:00.000-04:00I don’t live in DC so I don’t have a dog in this r...I don’t live in DC so I don’t have a dog in this race. Sounds like you have some good solid points though and I would probably tend to agree more with you. I just wanted to point out that I’m sure you did not mean to hurt Jen’s feelings, just disagree with her strongly but your collection of comments really gave her a beating. I don’t know how she found the post, maybe just through her sitemeter but it would be hard to click over there with a vision of someone sweetly linking to your post and finding what she found. No need to be mean even if you’d love to eat a vegan. Being mean does not prove your intelligence it just makes you look like a dickhead. Dickhead away if you most but you don’t have to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1176214461397291382007-04-10T10:14:00.000-04:002007-04-10T10:14:00.000-04:00Any city is what you make it. You people must be h...Any city is what you make it. You people must be huge losers to complain so fucking much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175805623169320692007-04-05T16:40:00.000-04:002007-04-05T16:40:00.000-04:00you are one huge downer.you are one huge downer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175628655901834262007-04-03T15:30:00.000-04:002007-04-03T15:30:00.000-04:00MMMMMMMM VEGAN MEAT!MMMMMMMM VEGAN MEAT!JTWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13129191500483285673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175374865571767852007-03-31T18:01:00.000-04:002007-03-31T18:01:00.000-04:00The Old Executive Building is only awesome in its ...<I>The Old Executive Building is only awesome in its tackiness.</I><BR/><BR/>You know, I would go for more "tacky" wedding-cake style buildings if we could get rid of all the concrete-block monstrosities in judiciary square and ugly sprawling apartment buildings on Connecticut Avenue.<BR/><BR/>The is the nation's capital-- we're <I>supposed</I> to have overwrought, gaudily-decorated baroque buildings. Just look at Vienna. Modernist "I hate humanity" architecture is for "I wish I were a world-class destination" second-tier cities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175289530085804442007-03-30T18:18:00.000-04:002007-03-30T18:18:00.000-04:00I am so glad I moved away from D.C. and all its sm...I am so glad I moved away from D.C. and all its smug, jackass liberals. Now that I live in one of the great cities around, I have found that no one really thinks of D.C. as one of the great cities to live in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175284475697262362007-03-30T16:54:00.000-04:002007-03-30T16:54:00.000-04:00I'm with the guy who lived in Boston. I grew up i...I'm with the guy who lived in Boston. I grew up in Kentucky and, even with all the problems, DC is wonderful compared to that backward shithole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175283186336644042007-03-30T16:33:00.000-04:002007-03-30T16:33:00.000-04:00if i lived in new york or san francisco, do you th...<I>if i lived in new york or san francisco, do you think i’d be able to live in a single family house with a yard within a 35 minute commute from downtown?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, actually, thousands of people do just that here in the San Francisco area. What sort of vegan hippie are you for not even trying to live in San Francisco?<BR/><BR/>Everyone raved about the great international cuisine we'd find in DC, but we were disappointed.<BR/><BR/>To the people who say just leave DC if you hate it: If my husband has to live in DC for his job, but I hate DC... my only option is to not live with my husband? Yeah, it's not that easy. And I'm not being theoritical. He spends several months a year working in DC and I don't go with him. Eventually we'll have to live there full-time unfortunately.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06475477442377719233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175278692324470272007-03-30T15:18:00.000-04:002007-03-30T15:18:00.000-04:00I never said you should be complacent, and I don't...I never said you should be complacent, and I don't equate non-hatred to complacency. You do, for some reason.<BR/><BR/>And yeah, by hating DC on a blog you definitely make this a better place to live. Honestly, if everyone was an anti-DC blogger the city would be paradise.<BR/><BR/>But anyone who says he's "forced to stay here" is a total pussy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175276710670546982007-03-30T14:45:00.000-04:002007-03-30T14:45:00.000-04:00The haters shouldnt leave DC, its the people who c...The haters shouldnt leave DC, its the people who complain about the haters who are thhe ones that should leave. DC wouldn't be such a shithole if all these complacent retards here were adios.<BR/><BR/>To argue that we haters should just up and leave our jobs and homes because we refuse to be complacent about a horrbily run city is ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175268222667158322007-03-30T12:23:00.000-04:002007-03-30T12:23:00.000-04:00Surely we disagree with her without calling her a ...Surely we disagree with her without calling her a bitch. We don't know her personally so that's a bit uncalled for.<BR/><BR/>~RustyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175267874864468832007-03-30T12:17:00.000-04:002007-03-30T12:17:00.000-04:00What is so fucking great about a city where almost...What is so fucking great about a city where almost 75% of it is completely unsafe? Northeast, Southest, sorry I dont wanna go there! Southwest is no picnic either. So that only leaves 25% of the city left for one to safely explore. That fucking sucks.<BR/><BR/>Fuck that takoma park bitch!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175265745623897142007-03-30T11:42:00.001-04:002007-03-30T11:42:00.001-04:00Yeah your're right, I mean all the splendor of the...Yeah your're right, I mean all the splendor of the rat infestation, or the quaint urine smell that all the metro elevators have, or the beauty of all the homeless who sleep in Adams Morgan… Your right DC is a place of splendor and sense arousal…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175265736379844012007-03-30T11:42:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:42:00.000-04:00The Old Executive Building is only awesome in its ...The Old Executive Building is only awesome in its tackiness. If God happened at one point in time to trip and drop the biggest, ugliest wedding cake in the universe, I'm guessing he dropped it on 17th street. <BR/> <BR/>I will agree that everything on Connecticut starting at Woodley Park is an architectural waste, but I suspect the writer was talking about the buildings on the Dupont side of Kalorama. Basically, the two or three blocks south of the Taft bridge. Have a look - Some of those buildings are pretty cool. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, at one point in time, DC had a pretty rich architectural landscape -- lots of victorians, lots of art deco -- but most of those building have been gone for thirty years or more. I have no idea why. Just about every office building from Foggy Bottom to Union Station is just awful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175264283979830492007-03-30T11:18:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:18:00.000-04:00KILL EM' ALLLET GOD SORT EM' OUTKILL EM' ALL<BR/><BR/>LET GOD SORT EM' OUTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175263299561159122007-03-30T11:01:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:01:00.000-04:00Ok, I hate DC as much as the rest of you, but I ha...Ok, I hate DC as much as the rest of you, but I have to come down on all the whiners who "have to live here."<BR/><BR/>Please.<BR/><BR/>First of all, no one is forcing you to work at the job you have. If you like the job so much you're willing to live here, then shut the hell up and deal with it.<BR/><BR/>As far as "how much it costs" to move, give me a fucking break.<BR/><BR/>Here's how tough it is: sell all your shit on craigslist and get in your car. I know, it's agony.<BR/><BR/>Or you can keep your tacky coach from crate & barrel and rent a moving truck. It'll cost a few hundred dollars. If you can't be bothered to save that much, put it on your credit card and pay it off over time. Don't tell me you already maxed out your credit cards buying ironic t-shirts and brunch at wonderland.<BR/><BR/>I live here because I'm from here, and my job is great so I can deal with it. Admittedly not great reasons, but that's ok. I'll never say "ooooh, I'm forced to live here and it's SO HARD to move."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175261884952391292007-03-30T10:38:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:38:00.000-04:00Does jen work for the Whtie House? Her argument t...Does jen work for the Whtie House? Her argument that "DC is awesome" sounds an awful lot like, "Everything in Iraq is just peachy! People need to stop complaining."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175261137830544812007-03-30T10:25:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:25:00.000-04:00Anon said:"For all you people who say you hate it ...Anon said:<BR/><BR/>"For all you people who say you hate it here but can't leave because of work or whatever, please grow a sack. Nobody's stopping you. This is America. You can do whatever the fuck you want if you actually show initiative."<BR/><BR/>Oh ok. So I guess I'll just go work for the United States Senate in Bermuda. Dumbass. For those of us that decided to work in government, or public policy, or non-profits, you kinda HAVE to live in DC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175260515851454082007-03-30T10:15:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:15:00.000-04:00"...and as for the "wonderful" ethnic food here, w..."...and as for the "wonderful" ethnic food here, where can you find real Eastern- or Southern-European groceries? Oh you can't?! You have to go to Baltimore or Philly to find them!?! Hmm--how odd! "<BR/><BR/>THANK YOU! I have been complaining about this for ages. Doesn't anyone here know WTF a pierogi is?<BR/><BR/>BTW, Jen, if you see this, I was one of the readers who submitted a comment -- which you didn't post on the grounds that is was "insulting." It was not an insulting comment, IMHO. I said "If you have to put 'vegan restaurants' on your list, it seems like you're scraping the bottom of the barrel" or something like that. That is hardly a personal insult. If you're going to have a public blog, you'd better be ready to take the positive and the negative. Rusty's blog is a great example of that.<BR/><BR/>I didn't bother responding to your email, because I have other douchey things to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175228067539353782007-03-30T01:14:00.000-04:002007-03-30T01:14:00.000-04:00"dc has most of the benefits of living in a small ..."dc has most of the benefits of living in a small town"?? Laughable. The only clear benefit of living in a small town is lower-cost living. Which DC clearly does not offer. Any other "benefit" of life in a small town is only a benefit if you are a small-minded, fearful dullard. Yeah, self-congratulatory provincialism is such a rewarding and inspiring lifestyle. So glad DC is able to provide that small-town feel for us city-dwellers.<BR/>"ease of getting around"?? the Metro forces all travel through the city epicenter therebye imposing additional fare costs and shuts down at night. The bus system sucks, and neither allows for easy access to or from the more interesting neighborhoods during the most necessary times (like late night bar activity necessitating driving alternatives) What an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175227134686393582007-03-30T00:58:00.000-04:002007-03-30T00:58:00.000-04:00Thank You!Thank You!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175225742014585122007-03-30T00:35:00.000-04:002007-03-30T00:35:00.000-04:00Count me in with "Cowardly Douchebag." Don't forg...Count me in with "Cowardly Douchebag." <BR/><BR/>Don't forget how policies made in this cesspool ran the economies of most industrialized U.S. cities into the ground. I love driving up 270N on Friday afternoons watching everyone go home to Cleveland, Buffalo and Pittsburgh--where career opportunities are few, 25 years after the heavy industries were flushed away.<BR/><BR/>...and as for the "wonderful" ethnic food here, where can you find real Eastern- or Southern-European groceries? Oh you can't?! You have to go to Baltimore or Philly to find them!?! Hmm--how odd!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-1175223133457658582007-03-29T23:52:00.000-04:002007-03-29T23:52:00.000-04:00To "Just Leave": I am, bitch. Four years in the ...To "Just Leave": I am, bitch. Four years in the hole was enough for me. It's nice that DC folks can be so complacent about the ups and downs of the national economy given that everyone working here is subsidized by the entire nation's taxes. I'd have loved to have gotten a job that paid enough to pay off my college loan in my home city, but unfortunately it does not have the recession proof economy we all leech off of here. <BR/>My conscience can't stand it any more, and my bank account can stand the strain of moving and setting up again, so screw you guys, I'm going home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com