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Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:35 pm
by warmonger1981
Please share something cool about where you live. It can be anything.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:40 pm
by BabySasuke
axe throwing

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:45 pm
by TeeGee
AFL Grand Final

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:57 pm
by saxitoxin
My city has a major homeless epidemic that is the result of poor policy decisions by local government.

In my alley, for awhile, some homeless people used to dumpster dive. I don't fundamentally mind that except that it was annoying because they didn't do it neatly but would just scatter the garbage about and leave it there.

Okay, well that was slightly perturbing, but whatever.

However, recently, a new class of homeless people have moved into the alley. On the hierarchy of homeless people they are several rungs below the previous bohemian homeless and have essentially chased those ones out. The previous homeless were relatively well-kept, as clean as could be expected, and were of sound mind. The new homeless are simply operating on a different plane of existence. Their physical bodies occupy our dimension but their minds are not here. They are rail thin, caked from head to foot in dirt, and - literally - wear rags. They sleep in the alley for 12 hours a day. When they're awake they usually don't get up but simply remain in a prone position smoking meth. (Since they don't really move much I have no idea how they even get the meth to smoke.)

This is a problem as my garage entry faces the alley. I've taken to parking on the street if I come back after dark because I'm afraid I'll run over someone if I try to drive down the alley. Occasionally, the police will come through on a clearance operation but that only lasts a day or two before they return. The most the police can do is lecture them to leave but they can't really arrest them for vagrancy because there's not the political will to do it, and these people are probably too physically weak to be taken to jail anyway and too filthy to go to the county hospital. I've walked by when a police officer is telling one of them to leave before and they can't even vocalize replies they're so out of their minds, though they do seem to understand basic spoken commands if accompanied by gestures.

I have a friend who is a feckless bureaucrat in the city's social services department and tells me that homeless shelters won't take this class of people as they are below even their standards.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:10 am
by jonesthecurl
We have a steampunk bar.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:24 am
by Keefie
The most amazing multi-cultural & tolerant city in the world.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:47 am
by saxitoxin
Keefie wrote:The most amazing multi-cultural & tolerant city in the world.


Yeah, I live in one of those, too. See above.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:22 pm
by tkr4lf
there's a big arch here

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:29 pm
by saxitoxin
tkr4lf wrote:there's a big arch here


Image

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 10:34 pm
by HitRed
We fight in our churches

Image

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:18 am
by tkr4lf
saxitoxin wrote:
tkr4lf wrote:there's a big arch here


Image

Well la-tee-da, mr. fancy pants.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:45 am
by KoolBak
jonesthecurl wrote:We have a steampunk bar.


Name / pix? I'd like to see that.

My little town is rated very high for liveability....very low crime, higher than average average income and very pleasant...and we have the Willamette River running through so lots of water play / parks.

Luckily I bought here 30 years ago when I had a real job and didnt sew for a living :lol:

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:02 pm
by notyou2
We hire seamstresses.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 6:55 pm
by Quirk
R.E.M., The B-52's and

Go Dogs!
Image

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:56 am
by KoolBak
notyou2 wrote:We hire seamstresses.


That would be a chick that works on dresses.

I'm an industrial sewer. :lol:

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:30 pm
by notyou2
KoolBak wrote:
notyou2 wrote:We hire seamstresses.


That would be a chick that works on dresses.

I'm an industrial sewer. :lol:


We don't judge in Canada, well, most don't.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:30 am
by DoomYoshi
Slaves escaping on the Underground railroad used to swim across the river and land in my town. One witness reported that the entire family when they arrived were weeping and they were kissing the ground and singing Hallelujah and thanking God for reaching the promised land.

Now a bunch of East European mobsters are fighting over who gets to control the sex slaves that are illegally shipped into our country. We live in a slaver's haven.


Re: Your city

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:41 am
by betiko
saxitoxin wrote:My city has a major homeless epidemic that is the result of poor policy decisions by local government.

In my alley, for awhile, some homeless people used to dumpster dive. I don't fundamentally mind that except that it was annoying because they didn't do it neatly but would just scatter the garbage about and leave it there.

Okay, well that was slightly perturbing, but whatever.

However, recently, a new class of homeless people have moved into the alley. On the hierarchy of homeless people they are several rungs below the previous bohemian homeless and have essentially chased those ones out. The previous homeless were relatively well-kept, as clean as could be expected, and were of sound mind. The new homeless are simply operating on a different plane of existence. Their physical bodies occupy our dimension but their minds are not here. They are rail thin, caked from head to foot in dirt, and - literally - wear rags. They sleep in the alley for 12 hours a day. When they're awake they usually don't get up but simply remain in a prone position smoking meth. (Since they don't really move much I have no idea how they even get the meth to smoke.)

This is a problem as my garage entry faces the alley. I've taken to parking on the street if I come back after dark because I'm afraid I'll run over someone if I try to drive down the alley. Occasionally, the police will come through on a clearance operation but that only lasts a day or two before they return. The most the police can do is lecture them to leave but they can't really arrest them for vagrancy because there's not the political will to do it, and these people are probably too physically weak to be taken to jail anyway and too filthy to go to the county hospital. I've walked by when a police officer is telling one of them to leave before and they can't even vocalize replies they're so out of their minds, though they do seem to understand basic spoken commands if accompanied by gestures.

I have a friend who is a feckless bureaucrat in the city's social services department and tells me that homeless shelters won't take this class of people as they are below even their standards.


Start cooking your own meth in your garage dude. Hand it over for free. If you aren't too good at it, at least you would have solved your problem.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:44 am
by warmonger1981
I actually used to know a guy who was a meth cooker. He was in the basement in the corner and his lab blew up. His body was burned about 80%. I was a real dick and used to call him " KFC". I think he learned his lesson cuz he doesn't do drugs anymore.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:08 am
by xroads
I grew up about 45 miles from the quad cities map, and now luve about 2 hours from it.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:53 am
by karel
live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:07 am
by riskllama
karel wrote:live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh


i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:21 am
by HitRed
riskllama wrote:
karel wrote:live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh


i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???


I took a train from San Antonio Texas to Chicago Illinois. Mile after mile of people's backyards line the tracks. There is no shortage of recyclable junk in America.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:12 pm
by notyou2
karel wrote:live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh


Move to Saudi Arabia where they share your conservatism.

Re: Your city

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:13 pm
by notyou2
HitRed wrote:
riskllama wrote:
karel wrote:live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh


i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???


I took a train from San Antonio Texas to Chicago Illinois. Mile after mile of people's backyards line the tracks. There is no shortage of recyclable junk in America.


The people are hoarding it for the impending war effort.