Jun 4
ortolan commented on Lindy West Reads Aloud Some of the Revolting Rape Threats She's Received.
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May 31
ortolan commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
Precisely or ballpark?
Wingers have it so good. I wish I was a winger.
I once hated Savage for his support for the Iraq war and I thought his getting Gary Bauer sick thing was the stupidest shit I ever read in my life.
Nevertheless, fuck you wingers. You got the guns. Good for you and your stupid screen names that mean something because you support winger causes. That's on you. Come up with something like RAVEN5 or some shit. Not some feeble ass:
"clean your own fucking house before you condemn others"
Seriously, bro?
Wingers have it so good. I wish I was a winger.
I once hated Savage for his support for the Iraq war and I thought his getting Gary Bauer sick thing was the stupidest shit I ever read in my life.
Nevertheless, fuck you wingers. You got the guns. Good for you and your stupid screen names that mean something because you support winger causes. That's on you. Come up with something like RAVEN5 or some shit. Not some feeble ass:
"clean your own fucking house before you condemn others"
Seriously, bro?
May 31
ortolan commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
No it's not sustainable. Quit your game of averages and look at the variables. Who has time for court and who wants to fucking 'go to court? Some people would just prefer to live. Happiness outside of The Stranger's predilections of sex shit I skip over. As we all will once we reach an age where sex shit becomes stupid to talk about and we near the age where sex shit is more novelty than exploratory.
This isn't a dig on Dan, but have read not one Savage Love article in the last bit. Going on, at least 7 years.
Point being is that The Stranger is obliquely supporting people, but it is also dysfunctional. Time for EVEN MORE journalism! I know you kids do what you do and thank you for it. But it is time to turn the chapter, I think, and become a powerhouse. It's right there in front of you, Stranger Staff. You can possibly become the "only newspaper" in Seattle very soon. I'm sure you've thought of this.
You guys got a Pulitzer for the most gut wrenching combination of words I have ever read. Fuck that was awful. But the publication was great. You could own ST if you wanted, journalistically. Fuck, I'd even help you for free.
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This isn't a dig on Dan, but have read not one Savage Love article in the last bit. Going on, at least 7 years.
Point being is that The Stranger is obliquely supporting people, but it is also dysfunctional. Time for EVEN MORE journalism! I know you kids do what you do and thank you for it. But it is time to turn the chapter, I think, and become a powerhouse. It's right there in front of you, Stranger Staff. You can possibly become the "only newspaper" in Seattle very soon. I'm sure you've thought of this.
You guys got a Pulitzer for the most gut wrenching combination of words I have ever read. Fuck that was awful. But the publication was great. You could own ST if you wanted, journalistically. Fuck, I'd even help you for free.
May 31
ortolan commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
I think I misread your comment @7 with haste. I apologize. Still, that's still my point.
May 31
ortolan commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
@7
"But why would a manager hire a 16 y.o. w/ no car and no experience, rather than a 26 y.o. with a diploma, maybe some college, and a real incentive to work their ass off? And with the pent up demand, with piles of young kids who are perfectly capable of doing these jobs and who will happily work for less than minimum wage, wages aren't going anywhere. "
You tell us, chief. Probably most here in their 30s or so remember snagging a job just because their dad told them to get a job if they wanted to snag a new skateboard they broke. Things were different and us 15-16 year olds were hired all the fucking time in the early 90s. All you had to do was walk in the door and the job was yours. Then you went home and told your dad you got a job at Taco Bell just now and can we go to the skate shop now?
"But why would a manager hire a 16 y.o. w/ no car and no experience, rather than a 26 y.o. with a diploma, maybe some college, and a real incentive to work their ass off? And with the pent up demand, with piles of young kids who are perfectly capable of doing these jobs and who will happily work for less than minimum wage, wages aren't going anywhere. "
You tell us, chief. Probably most here in their 30s or so remember snagging a job just because their dad told them to get a job if they wanted to snag a new skateboard they broke. Things were different and us 15-16 year olds were hired all the fucking time in the early 90s. All you had to do was walk in the door and the job was yours. Then you went home and told your dad you got a job at Taco Bell just now and can we go to the skate shop now?
May 20
ortolan commented on No Wonder So Many Drivers Resent Seeing Their Tax Dollars Spent to Subsidize Transit.
@25
"Conservative"=stupid
Note, I always put "conservative" in quotes. Reason why is because I know sensible people who think and refer to themselves as conservative. It's the lunatics, the haters and deeply myopic having no reference within history or reality that I just say are stupid. Because, they are. There is precisely no reason for a metro area to underfund its public transit options.
"Conservative"=stupid
Note, I always put "conservative" in quotes. Reason why is because I know sensible people who think and refer to themselves as conservative. It's the lunatics, the haters and deeply myopic having no reference within history or reality that I just say are stupid. Because, they are. There is precisely no reason for a metro area to underfund its public transit options.
May 20
ortolan commented on No Wonder So Many Drivers Resent Seeing Their Tax Dollars Spent to Subsidize Transit.
Every city ever has subsidized mass transit in order for the car drivers to live so far away from what they call their work. The reason it is subsidized is because it is good for the economy, it is good for the general mood and it provides an affordable alternative for your fellow citizens and neighbors you so hate. Subsidizing Metro has zero effect on these "conservative" champions of being assholes. They just reap the benefits from what was once thought of as commonsense and still is -- travelling from point A to point B within a city. They don't get it because they all live lives of being entitled middlemen and profiting off of their mark-ups. Imagine the amount of pocket change you would have if we upgraded and enhanced public transit and you got with the program.
I never drove too far back when I drove, but I estimate that I save around $600 a month easily by walking or bussing it. Time, they say, is money. Yes, it does take more time. And that indeed is, money. It is money we all spend on modest taxes that pay for public transit.
I'll never get why "conservatives" do not get this easy to understand tradeoff.
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I never drove too far back when I drove, but I estimate that I save around $600 a month easily by walking or bussing it. Time, they say, is money. Yes, it does take more time. And that indeed is, money. It is money we all spend on modest taxes that pay for public transit.
I'll never get why "conservatives" do not get this easy to understand tradeoff.
May 18
ortolan commented on SL Letter of the Day: Gonna Boil My Laptop After Answering This One.
Fake and you should just pull the post, Dan.
May 10
ortolan commented on President Obama Murdered Ambassador Stevens Just Like He Murdered Vince Foster.
@52 -- "raindrop".
Dude, you've been called out and now you're going to go after the argument that you're a reasonable bipartisan when the whole issue at hand is how idiotic the repubs are? This isn't "groupthink" dude. It's called commonsense and common decency.
The SLOG's hive mind is TELLING you that republicans do nothing but scam, are never above board and there are always apologists such as yourself to make issues out of the ether as though we should all be up in arms about, again, what we're telling you is at heart, bullshit by republican trademark. You've been told, called out, whatever, that you know this. And yet, you persist.
If there's anything a liberal knows about you people, is that the right wing can never in any society known on Earth ever be trusted to do the "right thing" or ask the "right questions" or even agree to disagree. Your kind are serious lunatics. Sorry. I just call it as it lays.
Dude, you've been called out and now you're going to go after the argument that you're a reasonable bipartisan when the whole issue at hand is how idiotic the repubs are? This isn't "groupthink" dude. It's called commonsense and common decency.
The SLOG's hive mind is TELLING you that republicans do nothing but scam, are never above board and there are always apologists such as yourself to make issues out of the ether as though we should all be up in arms about, again, what we're telling you is at heart, bullshit by republican trademark. You've been told, called out, whatever, that you know this. And yet, you persist.
If there's anything a liberal knows about you people, is that the right wing can never in any society known on Earth ever be trusted to do the "right thing" or ask the "right questions" or even agree to disagree. Your kind are serious lunatics. Sorry. I just call it as it lays.
May 3
ortolan commented on Name This Building.
I also believe it was the building in which the office of the 1994 film Disclosure was set which starred Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Many years ago (1999) when I moved here, I was walking around and saw it too and was like "where have I seen that building before?" Then it dawned on me soon thereafter.
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As the story goes, I once got a phone call from a frantic friend while I was out to dinner with my dad and she was tells me she was raped by one of her boyfriend's friends. Boyfriend was out of the country for about a year in Australia. She had nowhere to turn I suppose but me, as I was out of the "system" or culture and she trusted me. I comforted her and told her to contact the police. She refused, as it would be a big deal or something.
Here's the zinger though. Her and her sisters soon thereafter had a Halloween party and I was invited. So I went. We're all hanging out and in comes the dude and get this! Dressed a DROOG!!!! Him and his posse of frat douches were dressed as droogs. She said, oh my god, that's him. I'm like who? The dude that raped her of course.
He comes over to her and says "I owe you an apology". It took all of my energy to not get into a nasty fight with 10-15 fratboys dressed as droogs as there was only one me with a bunch of female friends I happened to work with.
None of the girls had even the slightest idea of Clockwork Orange and all I can say is I was so livid that it still shakes me to this day. There was nothing I could do after the fact.
But yes, good job, Lindy. Many men are with you.