IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 01:09 PM |
Okay so I as many of yoo may know, I am damned once again to Sodom and
Gomorrah (Minneapolis/St.Paul). And I hate it here. For one thing it's
too goddamn cold. To give yoo some idea of just how cold it is, I've been
to friggin NORWAY in the winter and it's colder in the Twin Cities than it
is in Oslo!
It is also a horrible place to live if yoo don't own a huge gas-guzzling
SUV (oi). The people here are very much confined to little boxes of
midwestern fundamentalism. And there is little to speak of worthwhile
going on in any kind of entertainment sense from a strictly rivethead
perspective.
However, the trouble is, I can think of a ZILLION cities I hate more than
this one (I don't give a shit what yoo say, they're one city). For
starters, I hate LA. Now here's a city where there is actually always
something going on no matter what yor into and somehow they manage to screw
it up. The first major problem is that it's so big and traffic is so
shitty that it takes hours to get anywhere from anywhere else. The largest
problem is that it seems to mee that the population of LA might very well
be more superficial than any other city I've ever been too. It doesn't
help that yoo can see the filth yor breathing either. ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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Jesi
Occasional Poster   Posts: 43 Registered: 30/3/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/5/2004 at 12:45 PM |
Oakland, CA
I went to visit the rathole last summer...well, actually I went to visit
Berkeley. How I ended up in Oakland is beyond me.
So I was on a bus going somewhere. I look out of the left window to find
empty, dirty streets. I thought they were completely abandoned until I saw
a pair of elderly women trying to get to their homes before nightfall,
which was soon. Heh..poor women. Looked like they were trying to run.
Street after street it was the same shit. More filthy streets. Trash
doubled as tumbleweeds. Streetlights were out. Hardly any light anywhere.
The window was half way down and I could taste the nastiness of the air. A
different nasty than LA air, but still the same shit. I swore I had seen
some of those streets in a movie before. Then I was able to see clusters of
people hanging out on street corners, eyeing people that walked by.
Reminded me of Compton somehow ( another shitty city). Rival gangs
patrolling the streets, ready to rumble to with any bastard that didn't
strike their fancy. Fuck, I wouldnt wanna be roaming Oakland at night.
During the day it was the same thing anyway, only I could see the dirty air
I was breathing in a little bit better.
Others who have visited Oakland said it wasn't that bad. HA! They don't
know...
Oh..and the cops there are ASSHOLES.
[Edited on 2/5/2004 by Jesi] ____________________
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/5/2004 at 09:58 AM |
I don't know what it is about the Missippi river but every city along it is
a complete shithole.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion here but I'm sorry, I'm not a big
fan of New Orleans. I don't believe I have ever been to a filthier city in
my life. The streets look as though someone just painted yellow stipes
over the garbage. And it stinks! No, I mean it, it smells really really
bad!
Mark Twain described it as "decadent." I strongly disagree with his choice
of this wrd as it's far too poetic for the "Big Easy" (for which it's
probably dubbed because of all the morbidly-obese whores that roam the
streets). Ur is decadent. Delphi is decadent. Abydos is decadent. New
Orleans is rotten!
I must admit I am slightly biased. Being a sober vegetarian in a city
where every activity involves liquor and even the "beans and rice" has
bacon in it (I'm not kidding, the only resteraunt I could eat at was a
Chinese place) does leave little fo mee to enjoy but come the fuck on here,
people, diversify at least enough for the designated drivers.
And my god, why is everyone there so fat? And what's up with all the white
people throwing the N word in every other sentance? I've met frendlier
people in Paris!
Of course it's not entirely the fault of the NewOrelans populace. At least
70% of the filth is from visiting frat boys or washed downstream from Sodom
and Gomorrah or Memphis or St.Louis.
Did I say St.Louis? How could I foget St.Louis, Misery. I have a personal
problem with this place as I lived there for ten years. An old co-worker
summed the whole city up with this one statement: "I have never seen so
many mullets in one urban area in my life." The whole place is stuck in
the 80s. I'm not talking about the cool, Synthpop, 80s. I'm talking about
the shitty Reagan-era 80s where the guys all seem to resemble Don Johnson
in a stained wifebeater and the women all have the big teased-out hair.
It's like every hillbilly in the Ozarks pushed their trailers together
until it was a major metropolitan area.
And that's a friggen Garden of Eden compared to EAST St.Louis!
[Edited on 5/2/2004 by IamSquid] ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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callei
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/5/2004 at 07:32 AM |
how about Holister, earth quake capital of the world (or maybe just the
americas, i cant remember). it has a movie theatre that has one screen. and
seats about 70 people. no really. and it has a highschool, the one
highschool for the whole county. it is surrounded by garlic farms (mmmm
toxic waste). there are some 10 buildings that count as "downtown" and even
truckers dont stop there.
The best thing about it is that it is close to tres pennos (i think i
spelled the right, three pine trees?) national forrest. not that you can
get there from holister, but you can see it from holister, at least when
the manure isnt causing smog. ____________________
Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
away.
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 2/5/2004 at 04:17 AM |
Oh yeah, I hate Dublin. I HATE Dublin. For everyone planning on visiting
Ireland, I strongly reccomend spending as little time in Dublin as possible
(the rest of the country is beautiful). My first complaint is the fact
that everyone burns bricks of peat in their fireplaces (nowhere in the city
is there decent heat or insulation) making the ENTIRE CITY smell like that
rotten bog filth!
I am generally quite intolerant when it comes to drunks in my presence and
everywhere yoo go in Dublin people are staggering! Why is alcoholism so
widespread there? Well there's really nothing else to do there. It's hang
out at church or the pub (given the choice, even I would chose the pub).
Oh yes, and lets not forget the fact that among every single pub in the
city, there are a grand total of TEN Irish songs that get played. Some
poeple like Irish music. I am not one of those people. But if I did I can
only assume inebriation is the only way I'd be immune to the monotony of
the same ten fucking songs EVERYWHERE!
Oh, and I completely forgot what I hate more than anything else there:
Everything is grey. GREY! The whole city is grey along with anything
within city limits! Something about the fog/smog combination makes it so
that even day-glow hunter orange looks like a murky ash sort of hue.
[Edited on 5/2/2004 by IamSquid] ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else
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die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2004 at 11:20 AM |
| Rayce: You are making me realize that my town doesn't suck as much as it
does (though I still fucking hate it to all hell). We are bigger than we
were when I was younger, but the minds are pretty much still the same. We
have the little punk and mall goth kids at school, but they all suck.
Drive five minutes here and you'll find a church. I live out of the city
limits even, I live in the county. I live on a dirt road that everyone
hates with a passion across from a pasture of skinny cows. There are
rumors of lesbians at my school, but I've only met one. There are a few bi
girls, but they're all closeted or not interested. I am finding difficulty
in explaining how horrible this town is because it is one of those "You
have to see it to understand" how horrible it is, kind of towns. Like
Seattle, I didn't know how yick it really was until I went there. Criminy,
big city, small minds. Yucky shmenged all over feeling once you set foot
out in it. ____________________
"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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Zero
Fanatic   Posts: 459 Registered: 15/2/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2004 at 09:28 AM |
Rayce: here in the great city of Winston-Salem i don't think we even have a
goth scene...i mean i occassionally see the Hippy-goths and/or Mall rat
goths at Hot Topic but that's about it.
reading about all your cities kind of makes Winston not sound so
bad....it's boring (the only thing to do, all the time, is get high) but we
get good weather...and when it snows, no matter how much or how little it
snows school will be out. It's never been really freezing down here and in
the summer it's hot, but not nearly as hot as LA. but, like i said it's
boring there's nothing to do at all and nothing ever happens here.
this is what happens on a good friday night: "dude lets go hang out at a
Wal-mart parking lot" or you can subtitute Wal-mart for Taco Bell ____________________
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." ~
The Sandman, Dream Country
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2004 at 05:57 AM |
Jesi: I would have to say Los Angeles, myself. I'll give props to
Hollywood, but going through LA is so tedious. You have traffic up the
ass, crime is high in certain neighborhoods, and it always gives you the
vibes when you are there. If people demand me to take them to LA, they can
forget it. If they're lucky, I'll print them directions from yahoo.com or
something. 
Another icky city would have to be Fajardo, Puerto Rico. The inhabitants
obviously have little to no care about how they take care of their stuff.
I understand using up resources, but not littering everywhere *ugh*. Even
I don't litter. I would say the same for San Juan if it didn't have such a
nice mall.
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Kittyn
Coward   Posts: 8 Registered: 28/3/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2004 at 04:20 AM |
| *lurker speaks again on what ahould be a safe topic* Albany, OH. Not a
city, mind you, but one of those tiny tiny places you see on the highway
with one street, a crappy pizza place, 2 liquor stores, a hardware store, a
dairy queen and a gas station. Little midwestern tiwn you PROMISE yourself
you'll never live in...*winces* yeah, well, i live there. No culture, small
minds, and 2 streets of nice little houses home to nice little families and
further out tons of farms *shudders* Not a city, but the lack of one, with
nowhere to go, nothing to do, and you wouldnt want to even if there was
anything. thank god for athens 12 miles down the highway ^.^ ____________________
I have a signature. Am I special now?
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2004 at 01:30 AM |
Next on my list: Phoenix.
I really truly love the desert but, goddamn, Pheonix is one major shithole.
First let mee get out of the way, I like it that every street either runs
north and south or east and west (unlike many cities that look like someone
scribbled over the map in part or in full) but for fuck's sake how
difficult is it really to fill-in that space with something besides
ghetto?
Every guy I met there who wasn't a drag-queen (as we did go to a gay club
one night, and it looked very much as though this was the only place in
town a guy could be in drag without getting shot) was a gun-crazed
alcoholic! ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else
to
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die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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EyeCandyRayce
Fanatic  Posts: 247 Registered: 19/1/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 11:51 PM |
Sometimes I agree with Devin about Seattle sucking but honestly most times
I don't. The dating scene here sucks. The poly scene here sucks and the
bondage scene here is ok if your into just getting wacked on a lot (which I
am so it is ok but I know others don't like it).
But to me, Seattle is a pot of gold. Devin has never been forced to live
years 1 1/2 hours of a drive from Oklahoma City in a small town that you
miss if you blink. It was made up of a water tower, a hotel, a truck stop
and a gas station. The school was K through 12 and the graduating class was
10 people at most. I went to the gas station one day wearing all black and
was asked if I was going to a custom party. And I wasn't even dressed
freaky!! Their idea of being modern was converting a small church after
building a larger one into a tanning parler that nobody really went to. It
is fucking OKLAHOMA. It is 104 and humid out! Why the fuck would you want
to go to a tanning bed??
I helped my mother raise money by planting a HUGE garden on a piece of her
40 acres and selling tomatoes on the side of the road.
No clubs, no photography, no people. IT SUCKED.
Even if you went to OKC the only gothic club was at a rave club on thursday
nights located in the gay district. A great night out was poetry night at a
coffee house followed by dancing at the all age club on goth night. The
only thing worth it all was going to the gay bars and watching men in their
titie whities wiggle their asses on tiny stages by the bar and enjoying the
fantastic drag show on weekends at the rave club which is the most amazing
drag show with the best turn out I have EVER seen in any other city or
state.
So yeah. Seattle has it's suck moments but it sure the hell beats where I
came from! ____________________
Suicide Hotline - Please Hold
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Starlight
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 618 Registered: 27/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 10:07 PM |
| I almost lived in St. Cloud, MN...very similar to the twin cities of frozen
hell you speak of Squid. It was June and night was as cold as winter in
other parts of the country. I went so far as to apply for jobs, and get
hired, but decided to head out of there after all before I actually took
the job and stayed there. I viewed it as a long vacation, and a good
decision to not live there. ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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Jesi
Occasional Poster Posts: 43 Registered: 30/3/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 08:52 PM |
| As soon as I get the chance, I'm leaving LA. Screw the polluted water and
air, the damned people and traffic. Oh, the TRAFFIC. Let's drive down the
405 freeway on a friday afternoon...fun fun. Notice the scores of cars that
slow down to look at some poor bastard in a car accident. Bastards. Then
there's the heat. It's too damn hot all year round. What the hell? 100
degrees? 102 degrees? How about some rain for a change?! Plant life is
dying! And boy oh boy, isn't it fun to live in a city (Whittier) that lays
on a fault line. Disrupts my sleep all the fucking time. Ack. ____________________
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Devin
Administrator  Posts: 317 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Online
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 07:56 PM |
http://seattle.shmeng.com
I think that's all I need to say ____________________
So Sayeth Me
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic  Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/4/2004 at 02:35 PM |
| Porterville. I spent a week there once. Dolo and I ended up driving to
Bakersfield to have fun. What does that tell you? It's ungodly hot and dry,
so much so that I lost count of the nosebleeds I had. And the people are
ugly. Really. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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