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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Right-click the hyperlink, and open in whatever your browser calls "private" browsing mode. WaPo, like most other media paywalls, is fixed IP based, and isn't smart enough to capture your identity in that mode yet. So, that solves the problem for now.

Of course, you could stop being a farking commie and pay for a subscription. ;) :D
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I've heard that while the site is loading (during the "ads" part) you hit the "stop loading" button before the ads fully load, and voila. Could be a snopes thing or whatever.
 
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As a nostalgic and happy 5-year resident of the Rose City, I am proud to present... Peak Portland.

The above is a sign recently placed in the window of the Portland trans bookstore "In Other Words," portrayed in this episode of Portlandia. I miss thee, Bridgetown.
 
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Kepler said:
As a nostalgic and happy 5-year resident of the Rose City, I am proud to present... Peak Portland.

The above is a sign recently placed in the window of the Portland trans bookstore "In Other Words," portrayed in this episode of Portlandia. I miss thee, Bridgetown.
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PDX SUX.

(Did I mention I can't stand Portland? :D )
 
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Jimjamesak said:
PDX SUX.

(Did I mention I can't stand Portland? :D )
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Do you really?

I loved Portland. When They recognize my genius and bring me my MacArthur Grant, I will live in Portland from June to September.
 
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Kepler said:
Do you really?

I loved Portland. When They recognize my genius and bring me my MacArthur Grant, I will live in Portland from June to September.
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He's a Seattle sports fan, presumably including the Sounders. Sounders/Timbers is probably the biggest rivalry in MLS. Or at least, the only significant rivalry in MLS that I'm aware of as a distant observer.

Plus, ever since Seattle went mainstream 25 years ago, Seattleites have tended to view Portland as their annoying kid brother who won't grow up and get a real job. ;)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Plus, ever since Seattle went mainstream 25 years ago, Seattleites have tended to view Portland as their annoying kid brother who won't grow up and get a real job. ;)
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Give it another 10 years. Portland's already well on its way.
Not sure where all these poor native Oregonians will flee to, but they will inevitably blame the Californians for ruining Orygun...
"That's so Portland" a thing to do
 
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Portland sucks. It's gotten to the point that people try so hard to out-cool, out-hipster and out-dirtbag each other that it's out of control. What's the homeless rate there? Has the unemployment rate risen from the toilet? How about the never-ending drizzle for 9 months straight? The drivers suck, the traffic sucks, Forest Park is the only decent recreational site that doesn't require a long drive and it sh*ts on anyone with a bicycle. Now if the all of that has suddenly been completely transformed in the last several years I'm ready to stand corrected, but from a few friends and cousin that live there I don't think so.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
He's a Seattle sports fan, presumably including the Sounders. Sounders/Timbers is probably the biggest rivalry in MLS. Or at least, the only significant rivalry in MLS that I'm aware of as a distant observer.

Plus, ever since Seattle went mainstream 25 years ago, Seattleites have tended to view Portland as their annoying kid brother who won't grow up and get a real job. ;)
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This.

Slap Shot said:
Portland sucks. It's gotten to the point that people try so hard to out-cool, out-hipster and out-dirtbag each other that it's out of control. What's the homeless rate there? Has the unemployment rate risen from the toilet? How about the never-ending drizzle for 9 months straight? The drivers suck, the traffic sucks, Forest Park is the only decent recreational site that doesn't require a long drive and it sh*ts on anyone with a bicycle. Now if the all of that has suddenly been completely transformed in the last several years I'm ready to stand corrected, but from a few friends and cousin that live there I don't think so.
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But mostly this.

There's a lot of out hipstering as well as an undercurrent of rich, yuppie trash. The other is a very, very checkered past on race that is still visible (although this an "Oregon as a whole" problem).

And the traffic sucks. Seattle has express lanes on I-5, Portland has narrow bridges.
 
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goldy_331 said:
Well, with all that it's no wonder Kepler likes it. ;-)
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If you don't live downtown you never see Those People. Portland is a great city to be over 40 in. Younger and you'd eventually turn into a serial killer.
 
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That's an issue with the entire Pacific NW, not just Portland. ;)
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Seattle is the opposite though. It's fine being young and downtown, it's the "over 40, living in a suburb, commuting to work everyday, stuck in traffic contemplating mass murder" that's the trouble.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Seattle is the opposite though. It's fine being young and downtown, it's the "over 40, living in a suburb, commuting to work everyday, stuck in traffic contemplating mass murder" that's the trouble.
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That's cuz the pork pie hat a-holes moved into Seattle in 1995 and now they're over 40.

Seattle is Brooklyn 2036.
 
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