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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Dog Case posted:

gently caress the homeless, let the children do a capitalism

https://www.king5.com/article/news/...84-cca5f58be3b9

Jesus christ this is the most Local News thing I have seen in years

quote:

At her stand, Elsa sells drinks, treats and flowers suitable for a princess... but no princess story would be complete without a villain.

"There was a wicked witch who called the ranger," said Elsa, referring to a neighbor who complained to the city's Parks Department

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One 15-year homeowner who asked not to be identified for his family's safety told KING 5 in a statement, "The area has always been a problem. This past summer has been the worst. I don't feel safe in my backyard. I have called the police 5 or 6 times so far this summer. It seems homeless and criminals are more protected than law abiding folks. If people are happy with lemonade stands getting taken down and tents going up�it's only going to get worse."

"Homeless are more protected than law abiding folks" lmao whoops he said the thing out loud you're not supposed to say out loud but everyone knows you're thinking :allears:

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Jesus christ the entire second half of the article

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In fact, in the middle of KING 5's interview with little Elsa, a completely naked man walked out of the woods and came parading past the park.

Cherie rushed her granddaughter away as she dialed 911. "We have homeless people coming through here all the time," she told the operator, "but this is really bad. He's totally naked."

Everett police responded within a few minutes. The man was later spotted at a homeless camp a few blocks away.

"We've had people coming through here swinging weapons," said Cherie. "Something's very wrong with this picture."

Ironically, Elsa always donates half of her lemonade stand profits to the local homeless shelter. This year it was $61.

"We're trying to help these people and this is what happens? It's unbelievable," said Cherie.

Elsa and her grandmother retreated to their backyard after the encounter with the naked man. Elsa passed out Oreos and drinks in fancy cups. Their attitude: when life gives you lemons...throw a tea party.

"She has handled it really well, which makes me happy," said Cherie, "but we need a better response to the things that are really dangerous. Leave the little kids alone for heaven's sakes. Let them have their lemonade stands!"

First off holy poo poo gently caress you, but second I love that her position is now basically "Look I just want my granddaughter to be allowed to stay in the place where people frequently come through "swinging weapons" and also walk around naked, what is so wrong about that huh parks department??"

# ? Jul 31, 2021 17:32

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

All I want is for the city to come in with a big bulldozer and scoop away all the homeless people like that one scene in Soylent Green and they can't even show a *little* gratitude at the sixty bucks a year we give the homeless shelter they are not living at? God the nerve of some people!

e: It just hit me that she called 911 to report the urgent, threatening emergency of "I saw a penis". Like it doesn't sound like the dude was a flasher or anything, just that he wandered by naked for some reason. This lady needs some kind of NextDoor equivalent of the Nobel Prize

Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 17:45 on Jul 31, 2021

# ? Jul 31, 2021 17:39

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

it's illegal to be homeless under capitalism because you arent paying rent

# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:24

Dog Case: Oct 7, 2003; Heeelp meee... prevent wildfires

Shame Boy posted:

All I want is for the city to come in with a big bulldozer and scoop away all the homeless people like that one scene in Soylent Green and they can't even show a *little* gratitude at the sixty bucks a year we give the homeless shelter they are not living at? God the nerve of some people!

e: It just hit me that she called 911 to report the urgent, threatening emergency of "I saw a penis". Like it doesn't sound like the dude was a flasher or anything, just that he wandered by naked for some reason. This lady needs some kind of NextDoor equivalent of the Nobel Prize

They can bulldoze them right over into the sound

It's right next to the port but it's still rich people nimby poo poo because it's near Seattle, everything is rich people nimby poo poo

# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:31

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

Dog Case posted:

They can bulldoze them right over into the sound

It's right next to the port but it's still rich people nimby poo poo because it's near Seattle, everything is rich people nimby poo poo

Literally next to a place called the Rucker Mansion lmao

# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:54

Reverend Zero: Mar 8, 2006

500 good dogs posted:

https://twitter.com/AnemoneAndMe/status/1420540789734612992

love the implication that you have an hour to drink like a 100 ounces of soda

spiking my blood sugar because the coke freestyle machine gave me fomo

# ? Aug 1, 2021 02:37

Fame Douglas: Nov 20, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Freestyle machines are entirely capitalism.png in their pointlessness.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 05:55

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Fame Douglas posted:

Freestyle machines are entirely capitalism.png in their pointlessness.

They're not only pointless, but the soda tastes significantly worse from them because it all comes from the same spigot, so anything you drink, you're getting a little bit of everything. Plus I'm sure the syrup being in little ink carts instead of the traditional bag in a box deal probably affects the taste too.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 06:09

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

They're not only pointless, but the soda tastes significantly worse from them because it all comes from the same spigot, so anything you drink, you're getting a little bit of everything. Plus I'm sure the syrup being in little ink carts instead of the traditional bag in a box deal probably affects the taste too.

Eh I've always thought the soda tasted much better from freestyle machines. It's actually one of the ~selling points~ used to justify the stupid RFID cartridge system, that it ensures you only get the Genuine Certified Coca Cola Taste because it's sealed in technology rather than dumb old bags or whatever. It's mostly bullshit used to justify jacking up the price 800% of course, but at least personally I have tried all the various Coke flavors at the museum in Atlanta (which I'm pretty sure is as close to a International Standard Reference Coke as you're gonna get) and the freestyle machines do come real close to that pretty much 100% of the time regardless of where I am, whereas a normal soda fountain flavor can be all over the place depending on how much traffic the store gets (so how fresh the syrup is), if they're running the water through a water filter first etc.

It probably varies a ton though based on what particular drink you're getting and I'm pretty much just always getting a coke zero from one if I'm using them at all, so it's entirely possible other flavors are a lot more sensitive to the whole single spigot thing and I just haven't noticed :shrug:

# ? Aug 1, 2021 07:16

Anime Bernie Bro: Feb 4, 2020; FUCK MY ASSHOLE, LOL

Norton posted:

you guys sure have a bunch of strong opinions about an entire field of professionals from like the 4 doctors you've met personally. what are the professions of smart people who are all really nice and good? my personal experience with doctors is some of them are great, some are mediocre and some are awful. wow just like mechanics or teachers or any other job that i can think of.

owing to my line of work in the "real life", i run into many doctors. the women doctors i find to be the sexiest.

edit: it's something about that natural arrogance of a doctor combined with that femininity seeping through their subtle tomboyish affectations.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 07:43

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Reverend Zero posted:

love the implication that you have an hour to drink like a 100 ounces of soda

spiking my blood sugar because the coke freestyle machine gave me fomo

So you buy your soft drink in your RFID cup.

Pour its contents into another container.

Refill.

Note: I've never even seen one of the these machines, so I have no idea if this would even work.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 14:34

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

Stop drinking soda you loving mooks!

# ? Aug 1, 2021 14:36

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

mycomancy posted:

Stop drinking soda you loving mooks!

Ok, nana, let's get you back in your rocking chair

# ? Aug 1, 2021 16:20

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

Dr. pepper is the best soda and all else are but pale imitations

# ? Aug 1, 2021 17:24

Screaming Idiot: Nov 26, 2007; JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Giving myself diabetes to own the capitalists

# ? Aug 1, 2021 18:49

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Look at these health paragons that never indulge in treats

So impressive

We're not worthy

# ? Aug 1, 2021 18:57

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

The Bloop posted:

Look at these health paragons that never indulge in treats

So impressive

We're not worthy

the coke defender

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:12

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Anime Bernie Bro posted:

owing to my line of work in the "real life", i run into many doctors. the women doctors i find to be the sexiest.

edit: it's something about that natural arrogance of a doctor combined with that femininity seeping through their subtle tomboyish affectations.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:17

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Failed Imagineer posted:

the coke defender

coca cola the company can rot in capitalist hell forever but i'm def lol @ goons chiding others for their minor health vices

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:21

Crazycryodude: Aug 15, 2015; Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?

Soda sucks spend your treat budget on drugs and cheeseburgers instead, red meat and heart disease taste better than sugar and beetus imo.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:28

mycomancy: Oct 16, 2016

The Bloop posted:

coca cola the company can rot in capitalist hell forever but i'm def lol @ goons chiding others for their minor health vices

Lol @ "goons" and "minor vices."

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:29

i am harry: Oct 14, 2003

The Bloop posted:

coca cola the company can rot in capitalist hell forever but i'm def lol @ goons chiding others for their minor health vices

do real coke you loving wimps

# ? Aug 1, 2021 21:03

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

i am harry posted:

do real coke you loving wimps

Bring back original recipe coca cola and get the best of both worlds!

# ? Aug 1, 2021 21:10

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; Can't post for 6 hours!

soda does suck but I do enjoy an icee coke like 2x per year. a nice frozen treat

# ? Aug 2, 2021 00:42

Shifty Nipples: Apr 8, 2007

diet dr. pepper

# ? Aug 2, 2021 04:04

Blockade: Oct 22, 2008

https://twitter.com/neighbours_wifi/status/1421629801740349443

# ? Aug 2, 2021 04:09

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Blockade posted:

https://twitter.com/neighbours_wifi/status/1421629801740349443

Lmao they got tents, how about all the people here who had to work through that storm without even getting tents

Like me

# ? Aug 2, 2021 04:27

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Tents seem like a great way to get blown away though?

# ? Aug 2, 2021 05:39

palindrome: Feb 3, 2020

Look you get Sunday as a guaranteed day off, you should feel lucky to stand in a parking lot dealing with chikfila customers in a hurricane for minimum wage. Nobody wants to work.

# ? Aug 2, 2021 07:19