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01/28/12--11:49: Re: Actual Police Negotiating With Actual Man on Ledge in Downtown Portland (chan 1662308)

@1 pretty much, but Number Six expressed it better. Nice stupid "ironic"headline. Pathetic.
Posted by The Showstopper


01/28/12--13:40: Re: Q & A : John Green (chan 1662308)

Heard him on Weekend Edition this morning, what a charming guy, can't wait to read his book and keep the winter depression going strong!
Posted by helevent


01/28/12--13:47: Re: TriMet Looks Into Getting Rid of all Zones and Roundtrip Transfers (chan 1662308)

Some of you are clearly opposed to this idea (aside from those going back and forth at each other with your pseudo intellectual bullshit), as am I but for me i would be really pissed if they discontinue the day ticket (5$...good all day) as that is the best option if you do not have a monthly pass (which you should if you ride regularly)...it's the best deal
Posted by The Showstopper


01/28/12--13:50: Re: Relax, America! Contestants on Fear Factor WILL Drink Donkey Semen (chan 1662308)

@3...nah, just yours. I like how you are being coy on the subject of Donkey semen Humphrey........like you don't know. Pssst. Please.
Posted by The Showstopper


01/28/12--14:27: Re: Actual Police Negotiating With Actual Man on Ledge in Downtown Portland (chan 1662308)

These public jumpers never really want to jump, they want attention. That's why the attention getters always want to jump in a visible space. The people with real intent just do it.
Posted by Andy from Beaverton


01/28/12--15:23: Re: Dear Owner of a Sandwich Restaurant (chan 1662308)


I was playing off the sheer silliness of this entire thread. I've never even heard of this Michaels place.

In all seriousness, if IA's accusations are true, then at the very LEAST he/she should report the place to the BBB. Whining about it HERE won't do any good.
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--15:32: Re: Trafficking Trust (chan 1662308)

"First of all, the kids ( & it IS boys & girls ) see the cops as the enemy, as bad guys, because they ARE! They bust them for petty possession & prostitution. They harass them, they threaten to turn them in as runaways. When most of these kids are on the streets because they are fleeing from abusive homes, how the hell are the cops helping these kids?"




Yeah, thanks alot for bringing this up too. Cops are at the very best WORTHLESS when it comes to aiding such victims! More often, they're just part of the problem. But these pigs (almost all men with authority/insecurity issues) are goddamned cowards - for them it's easy to push around and run in some street kid or prostitute or someone who [other wise] has very little sway in society.
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--15:36: Re: TriMet Looks Into Getting Rid of all Zones and Roundtrip Transfers (chan 1662308)

I think that Trimet is in the horrible situation of just not having the money to do the logical, cheaper-in-the-long-run thing which is to go to a smart card payment system along with restriction of entry to most of the MAX stations.

So this means that Trimet will have to figure in the ongoing fare evasion of the current system into its fare increases. That's because evasion won't cease with new one-way paper transfers and drivers expected to rapidly scan these crumpled little bits of paper as they keep to a tight schedule.

Most of Trimet's fare management solutions of the last decade are based on the idea of, "well, just have the driver check for that too..." You could get away with the unworkability of that approach as long as metro Trimet payroll taxes (75% of operating funds) were always increasing and burying the problem.

Current Trimet GM Neil McFarlane's whole career has been as a contruction project manager. He's not an operations guy and now he has to keep Trimet afloat through the worst time in its history. Wrong guy at the wrong time.
Posted by Le Tissier


01/28/12--15:42: Re: Savage Love (chan 1662308)

I don't think Dan was advising that she "freak the fuck out" on the guy - only that she BE ASSERTIVE and direct and immediate about the situation. I mean, if this guy can't WASH HIS ASS thoroughly - whether he's with someone or not - then someone SHOULD be stern with him. For alot of folks, this is a "running out the door" deal-breaker, so it's amazing she even put up with it for soo long.

I feel that Dan was 100% spot on with THIS one. The whole thing just sounds nauseating.
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--16:06: Re: Gerding Theater at the Armory (chan 1662308)

Re: Cate Darringer
Loved Cate Darringer. Can't wait for more from Sally Sunbear. The writing was witty and fun. I wish I would have brought my daughters. Well done.

Gerding Theater at the Armory
Rating: 5 Stars
Posted by Ayisa


01/28/12--16:17: Re: Chicks with Pics on the Lovelab (chan 1662308)

well, I meant the hear my voice section was fun. There are some interesting intelligent and funny bits in there.

I havent checked it out much, last time I went to check some profiles, was months ago. And just browsed for some 20 minutes.

But I find it very interesting, maybe I should browse there more and more regularly, cuz there are a lot of intelligent and fun profiles.
Posted by Leaky


01/28/12--16:25: Re: Dear Owner of a Sandwich Restaurant (chan 1662308)

Either wont "silliness racism" or anti-semitic posts, ignorant fuck.
Posted by Leaky


01/28/12--16:29: Re: More Driver Rants (chan 1662308)

whatta joke you are mimosa.
Posted by Leaky


01/28/12--16:35: Re: UPDATED: Police Shoot At Man Atop Downtown Parking Garage (chan 1662308)

It seems this is, shoot first ask questions latter?
The man who died needed some love ... not a bullet!
Our community doesn't want this "kind of of protocol" in dealing with these kind of things.
Posted by joeanybody


01/28/12--16:40: Re: Cookie Thief (chan 1662308)

cliffy, if yer so superior in writing, or if your writing is so superior, why dont you write columns for a known blog or paper, for comic books, or for an animated novel, you know, something else which is not writing comments using "high superior grammar" and getting your ass kicked while t it.

Sorry to break your bubble, but everything you brag about your way of writing, has no real value in the real world. Where people get stuff done.
Posted by Leaky


01/28/12--16:45: Re: Actual Police Negotiating With Actual Man on Ledge in Downtown Portland (chan 1662308)

Has it been verified that it was an actual ledge that this actual man was on?
Posted by Totalitariland


01/28/12--16:47: Re: I Like Portland Police (chan 1662308)

GaddafiA you still here? Damn, is someone working halftime dumb wits?
Posted by Leaky


01/28/12--17:17: Re: Your Daily Nicolas Cage Quote for Friday, January 27, 2012 (chan 1662308)

the Wicker Man sequel is here YESTERDAY and this is the first I hear about it? crap.
Posted by xauen


01/28/12--18:02: Re: Cookie Thief (chan 1662308)

Word.
Posted by Geo Liquor


01/28/12--18:36: Re: Cat Show! Cat Show! Cat Show! (chan 1662308)

Stewie isn't here at the show.. he has a cancerous tumor behind his eye and is undergoing chemo. He is doing better though !! Stewie's friend Trouble is at the show. He is the World's Tallest cat !
Posted by svisland


01/28/12--18:47: Re: Cookie Thief (chan 1662308)

Geo, are you a Leaky in some sort of bromantic relationship? I don't care, i'm just asking.
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--18:48: Re: Dear Owner of a Sandwich Restaurant (chan 1662308)

Your point, being?
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--18:50: Re: My, What a Busy Week! (chan 1662308)

Woods in the Throne Room show Monday will be awesomeness!
Posted by DamosA


01/28/12--18:58: Re: My, What a Busy Week! (chan 1662308)

i thought you weren't going, Damos.
Posted by kalikill


01/28/12--18:59: Re: Dear Owner of a Sandwich Restaurant (chan 1662308)

that everything you write is worthless and a waste of cyber space. We should recycle even that. Every time you hit send to that button thousands of 0's and 1's are kicked with electricity over the net. So, you know, just shut up, unless you want to make a bigger ass of yourself.


Posted by Leaky