Hard to believe this is America

I don't care what you and other consenting adult men do in the bathroom. I just wish you wouldn't do it in public parks. Volunteer Park is in a high rent neighborhood and otherwise a lovely part of the city.

People on r/Portland are whining that the Fred Meyer by the stadium may be closing down. Same assholes who demanded the Thurman Street Food Front co-op I used to shop at while living in Slab Town be shut down during Covid, which ended up killing the market and further limiting options other than the Freddie’s.

A downtown area full of absolute retards who can knot piece together how their reactionary policies have damaging long-term consequences.

So glad I moved. I’d probably be getting into fights by now mocking the TrAntifa shitstains who would wander aimlessly around the neighborhood looking for drugs.

Seattle PS in late 90s/early 00s was a lot of fun for college kids/early post grads. Steep downhill over the last 15yrs obviously.

Same with 1st ave/Burnside area of Portland.

Both were a little rough on the edges back then but when you’re 22 you DGAF. Now they’re just places for H/Fent addicts to panhandle and die in the streets.

I also worked at couple places in Pioneer Square as a bar back while in hs and as an undergraduate at UW. Definitely rough around the edges even in the late 70s. My jr/sr year I waited tables and was one of the bartenders at Celebrites if anyone remembers that club between the Fire Station and the Penix. The tips were so great I continued to work Friday/Saturday and Sunday evening early in my professional career until my daughter was 4. I witnessed some wild shit in that club and it was a heaven for Sonics/Ms and hawks and Sunday nights were insane once the manager and DJ started to attract the early rap crowd, one brother was shot and killed inside near the end of my time there. Rick James era

Nope. Killed by Covid.

^^ Yep. For anyone wondering, that actually happens. Actual pooping outdoors. And then the guy, who is invariably blown out of his mind, shuffles around aimlessly with his pants down at his ankles (just how Bill likes it) trying to find a way to wipe his ass. It's quite nice.

And, yet, there is never a shortage of these fucking tours that people go on around PS. I'm always like, what the fuck are you people doing here on vacation? Go the mountains or something. But PS? Really? There are old buildings everywhere. Nothing unique about those in PS. If anything, they're rundown.

A rare time we agree. Always preferred the co-ops to the big stores. Fred Meyer Stadium has been a trainwreck for the last 20 years and Kroger’s a shit company.

Great comeback.

Always.