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Flavor Truck
Nov 5, 2007

My Love for You is like a Truck
I live in a town of roughly 75,000 people. It's not a huge city, but it's not tiny either. It's been years since I've been inside of a library outside of a school or university. I had a reason to go to the public library today. There were homeless people arguing loudly, sleeping on the furniture, and rolling cigarettes all over the place. On top of that, the building stank like piss and cigarettes. Are all public libraries in larger cities like this?

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roymorrison
Jul 26, 2005
Library in huntington beach ca is legit af

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 289 days!)

Helmholz posted:

Are all public libraries in cities like this?

Nobody uses them but the homeless. Welcome to the digital age.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

i went to the public library in seattle and it was really nice

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007
Boise's main branch is pretty chill and it says "LIBRARY!" on the front

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy
homeless people use them to browse internet porn and jerk off

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Idiot Kicker posted:

Boise's main branch is pretty chill and it says "LIBRARY!" on the front

haha you werent kidding

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
My librarian friend doesn't complain about the homeless though I'm sure there are some. He claimed like 80% of the withdrawls in their district are DVDs now tho. The last time I set foot my library (different city) there was a lot more open space because of a lot less books, it looked like more of a place to hang out oddly

maybe it's time to shutter libraries or replace them with some other way for poor people to access computers instead

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Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy

West SAAB Story posted:

Nobody uses them but the homeless. Welcome to the digital age.

or poors who might as well be homeless. wear rubber gloves if you need to use a library's computer

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Horniest Manticore posted:

or poors who might as well be homeless. wear rubber gloves if you need to use a library's computer
Also borrow a blacklight to see how much dried semen is on the keyboard.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
thread title just reminds that us the literacy of are children are appalling

Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!
I've lived in multiple cities with a population of over a million. The libraries have all been clean and smelled nice.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

gary oldmans diary posted:

thread title just reminds that us the literacy of are children are appalling

is our goons reading

Not_Rainbow_Horse
Nov 11, 2013

roymorrison posted:

Library in huntington beach ca is legit af

whats up! HB REPRESENT! :lol:

STOP LITTERING
Sep 11, 2005

TEAYCHES posted:

i went to the public library in seattle and it was really nice

Lots of bums there but the architecture is so cool you hardly notice.

Razorwired
Dec 7, 2008

It's about to start!
Aesop Rock did a show at my local library. I got to check out books and listen to some raps for free. Also it didn't smell like pee.

FormaldehydeSon
Oct 1, 2011

libraries in toronto are clean and nice and full of hot college chicks and also old people

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

Secks Cauldron posted:

I've lived in multiple cities with a population of over a million. The libraries have all been clean and smelled nice.

A lot of those huge cities have the resources to keep them that way. The real poo poo ones are probably in those 50-100k towns

Hot Dog Day #82
Jul 5, 2003

Soiled Meat
Libraries are indeed terrible, but there is another layer to the story! Almost everyone working in a library is being paid sightly above minimum wage (think 12 dollars an hour with no benefits), and most of them have masters degrees in library science or are going to school for said degree. There is tremendous competition for these jobs since schools with library degrees are basically diploma mills that churn students out at the same rate as law schools.

Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!

Idiot Kicker posted:

A lot of those huge cities have the resources to keep them that way. The real poo poo ones are probably in those 50-100k towns
This is why the OP should move to a real city.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

I've been told that some of the bigger libraries around here are giant restrooms for the homeless. Pretty much anywhere inside is game for pissing and making GBS threads, not just the restrooms. Restrooms on upper floors are for gay buttsecks.

OMG BYZANTIUM
Dec 30, 2008
The libraries in northern Virginia are nice (Arlington/Alexandria), but the main branch in downtown DC is well known for being a hobo toilet. I got accosted by a guy talking about his penis within 10 mins of going in.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
Kansas City's Library looks like books (probably also does not smell like pee)

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
Public libraries are a nice quiet place for hobos to jackoff in

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 289 days!)

Crow_Rodeo posted:

Kansas City's Library looks like books (probably also does not smell like pee)



I'd assume that the bad 90s dating (for popularity, not release, spurg) would be problematic, but who is going to complain? Visitors who just happen to pass by? :haw:

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
If you're entire city can fit inside of a football stadium, it is not a large city.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Hobohemian posted:

If you're entire city can fit inside of a football stadium, it is not a large city.

lol

Fuck da Mods
Jun 27, 2013

fina get poz'd? :cabot: :gizz: :baby:
harold washington public library

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

TEAYCHES posted:

i went to the public library in seattle and it was really nice

Bullshit. It's the smelliest loving building in the city. They oughta install lysol misters in the doorways.

CuddlyZombie
Nov 6, 2005

I wuv your brains.

gently caress da Mods posted:

harold washington public library

i live in chicago but haven't been there yet, how is it

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe
The problem is the more mentally-ill homeless people tend to congregate at the places with the least policy enforcement. Hence why they roll up on librarian territory. 10 years ago, when I was tutoring in libraries in towns with 50-100k people, I would regularly have to bounce angry, rambling, pis-smelling people from the study materials upon which I was focusing.) Honestly, it really wasn't even a thing, I just scream at some dudes for a minute, and they roll out. Once or twice I pick some passed-out dude from the reference stacks and shove him towards the exits. It's cuz nobody goes into library sciences because they think "gee I'd like to tangle with mentally deranged people for a living," so I don't blame the staff.

Growing up in California, you just get used to homeless-wrangling

Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Apr 18, 2015

a dog from hell
Oct 18, 2009

by zen death robot
Was anyone in there watching pornography?

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

gently caress da Mods posted:

harold washington public library

Truth. People have fancy receptions in the atrium at the top.

ghost host
Apr 17, 2010

ain't got no cash
ain't go no style
you will get bedbugs from libraries.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Homeless people in libraries (and in general) wouldn't be nearly so big a problem if only homeless shelters operated on the same principle as animal shelters: living there is mandatory and if no one comes to adopt you within two weeks you're put down.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
East Coast and the South yes, rest of the country no.

naem
May 29, 2011

The best is when some well intentioned money people decide to refurbish public libraries into multi media centers and safe zone for children and the elderly and put a lot of effort into landscaping and architecture and in the end the hobos use it all for poop-humping

naem
May 29, 2011

My favorite hobos are the ones that look normal, like the well dressed older man with a briefcase who buys a coffee at the snack shop and finds a table in the wifi center, who then unpacks his seven dead field mice and lampshade and most of a pigeon, and you realize his socks are drawn on with grease pencil, and he has a furious conversation with "Kevin" that can only be resolved by arranging a series of paper Dixie cups in an intricate pattern

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Helmholz posted:

I live in a town of roughly 75,000 people. It's not a huge city, but it's not tiny either. It's been years since I've been inside of a library outside of a school or university. I had a reason to go to the public library today. There were homeless people arguing loudly, sleeping on the furniture, and rolling cigarettes all over the place. On top of that, the building stank like piss and cigarettes. Are all public libraries in larger cities like this?

UGH, go be homeless someplace else. This is a place of learning! (checks out DVDs of the GI Joe movies)

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5-HT
Oct 17, 2012

Crow_Rodeo posted:

Kansas City's Library looks like books (probably also does not smell like pee)



that's just the parking lot to the library. the library itself is actually p nice.

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