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Started by The Johnny, December 15, 2009, 10:30:38 PM

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The Johnny

December 15, 2009, 10:30:38 PM

Guys, from my foreing POV it seems Oregon-Portland has a lot of things going on, and i dont mean just the references to it that you all make, seems to me i see it mentioned in the news, that some really old aquaintances from 10 years ago and news i run into seem to emanate/go to portland. I know im not making a detailed or huge case for it, but its because i dont seem to know how to express it and i dont think i could pinpoint specific examples because i havent been keeping track of them.

What is it about that city? Or is it just my personal coincidences? Or is it just that its one of the bigger cities of the USA? (done no research about it yet)
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

The Good Reverend Roger

#1
December 15, 2009, 10:39:12 PM
This video tells you everything you need to know. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuC_l3ymXhM

Portland is the land of too much booze and wildly inappropriate relationships.

And dead women who keep singing, long after they mummify.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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Jasper

#2
December 15, 2009, 10:42:49 PM
I was born there, but I've never lived there beyond my first year.

Don't know much about it really.  It's got a hipster scene, and captain planet lives there.

The Good Reverend Roger

#3
December 15, 2009, 10:44:22 PM
Also, there are old tunnels there from the mining days, and feral homeless people and worse live in them.  Nobody is sure how many of these savages are down there, but let's just say that mothers keep their children far from the storm drains.  Sometimes sinkholes open up, and normal folks like you and I are buried alive or, worse, dragged screaming off to their dooms by the filthy clutches of above-mentioned killer hobos.  

The sole exception is The Pipe, which the homeless shun, as the Old Man lives down there, just sitting in his lawn chair.  Nobody is sure why he scares the shit out of the savage folks, only that he does.

Little pipes run through the whole system, sometimes terminating for unexplained reasons in peoples' homes.  The reason for this is unknown, but can't be wholesome.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cramulus

#4
December 15, 2009, 10:49:12 PM


I don't know. I was asking myself that two years ago, when nigel first showed up on the board and told us what a fucking zany place it is.

Since then, I really wanted to visit it. I'm out here on the grayfaced east coast, status quo, business as usual. Portland's unofficial motto is "Keep Portland Weird".

I took a vacation there last year. I met over 20 Discordians that weekend. (most were up for EsoZone, though Nigel, Netatungrot and Telarus are portland natives). When I got off the plane, and nigel came to pick me up in her traffic cone orange car, a guy in a wizard outfit biked by. It gave me goosebumps.

It's a crazy city. There's a lot of stuff to do, and the energy seemed very accepting. They like stuff weird out there, and they're nice, and that's two things it's got on new fucking you in the ass york.

It's also designed really well. You can get anywhere on bike. Public transit is pretty good. Stuff is priced well (relative to new york / ct).

Every single day I feel like I have less stuff anchoring me to the east coast. One day I'm gonna say FUCKET and drive all the way out there and get an apartment and a shitty job.


I think we should all do it. It's fucking gorgeous out there for strange people.


Shibboleet The Annihilator

#5
December 15, 2009, 10:56:30 PM
Every one of my friends who have been to Portland say it's awesome. Now I kind of want to check it out.

The Johnny

#6
December 15, 2009, 10:57:02 PM
Like a mix between Canadians and South Eastern hicks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbLQpc_I2gY&feature=related

<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#7
December 15, 2009, 10:59:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 10:44:22 PM
Also, there are old tunnels there from the mining days, and feral homeless people and worse live in them.  Nobody is sure how many of these savages are down there, but let's just say that mothers keep their children far from the storm drains.  Sometimes sinkholes open up, and normal folks like you and I are buried alive or, worse, dragged screaming off to their dooms by the filthy clutches of above-mentioned killer hobos.  

The sole exception is The Pipe, which the homeless shun, as the Old Man lives down there, just sitting in his lawn chair.  Nobody is sure why he scares the shit out of the savage folks, only that he does.

Little pipes run through the whole system, sometimes terminating for unexplained reasons in peoples' homes.  The reason for this is unknown, but can't be wholesome.

This pleases me exceedingly much.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#8
December 15, 2009, 11:00:17 PM
Portland has been deemed both the "most livable" and the "most depressing" city in the US.

I agree.

Also, I adore it here.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Jasper

#9
December 15, 2009, 11:00:47 PM
Quote from: Felix on December 15, 2009, 10:42:49 PM
I was born there, but I've never lived there beyond my first year.

Don't know much about it really.  It's got a hipster scene, and captain planet lives there.

Disclaimer:  Felix has not been exposed to hipsters overmuch, but has seen LATFH.com and knows it is not good.

The Johnny

#10
December 15, 2009, 11:05:56 PM
Quote from: WikipediaBecause of strong free speech protections of the Oregon Constitution upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court Henry v. Oregon Constitution 1987 which specifically found that full nudity and lap dances in strip clubs are protected speech,[87] Portland is widely considered to have more strip clubs per capita than Las Vegas or San Francisco.[88][89][90]

A judge dismissed charges against a nude bicyclist November 2008 on the grounds that the city's annual World Naked Bike Ride "was a well-established tradition in Portland."[91] The 2009 Naked Bike Ride occurred[92] without significant incident. City police managed traffic intersections.[93] There were an estimated 3000 to 5000 participants.[94][95]

A state law prohibiting publicly insulting a person likely to provoke a violent response was tested in Portland and struck down unanimously by the State Supreme Court as violating protected free speech and being overly broad.[96]
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

The Good Reverend Roger

#11
December 15, 2009, 11:06:46 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 15, 2009, 10:59:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 10:44:22 PM
Also, there are old tunnels there from the mining days, and feral homeless people and worse live in them.  Nobody is sure how many of these savages are down there, but let's just say that mothers keep their children far from the storm drains.  Sometimes sinkholes open up, and normal folks like you and I are buried alive or, worse, dragged screaming off to their dooms by the filthy clutches of above-mentioned killer hobos.  

The sole exception is The Pipe, which the homeless shun, as the Old Man lives down there, just sitting in his lawn chair.  Nobody is sure why he scares the shit out of the savage folks, only that he does.

Little pipes run through the whole system, sometimes terminating for unexplained reasons in peoples' homes.  The reason for this is unknown, but can't be wholesome.

This pleases me exceedingly much.

I should continue telling the horrible truth about that burg.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Shibboleet The Annihilator

#12
December 15, 2009, 11:08:43 PM
Yeah you should, now I really want to check it out.

By the way, what are the concealed carry laws over there?

Also, is bear mace legal?

Jasper

#13
December 15, 2009, 11:12:04 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 11:08:43 PM
Yeah you should, now I really want to check it out.

By the way, what are the concealed carry laws over there?

Also, is bear mace legal?

Fuck me, there's a whole internet forum on that. 

hxxp://oregonconcealedcarry.com/

The Good Reverend Roger

#14
December 15, 2009, 11:12:32 PM
Quote from: Felix on December 15, 2009, 11:12:04 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on December 15, 2009, 11:08:43 PM
Yeah you should, now I really want to check it out.

By the way, what are the concealed carry laws over there?

Also, is bear mace legal?

Fuck me, there's a whole internet forum on that. 

hxxp://oregonconcealedcarry.com/

muhaha
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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