Originally Posted By DAR >>>Not San Francisco which is what I'm referring to.<< Have you ever been there?>> I make frequent trips to Madison Wisconsin, same difference. Not saying San Fran isn't a great city just making a little levity. But I guess I won't joke anymore because I didn't know San Fran was off limits.
Originally Posted By DAR But I guess it's okay for people from the coasts to make fun of midwestern cities and states, that's perfectly fine.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan You should visit San Francisco some time. You might enjoy it. But not during Fleet Week, when the Blue Angels are here. Gets pretty crowded along the waterfront.
Originally Posted By DAR I'm sure I would enjoy the city. I'd like to see a Giants game, Pac Bell looks awesome. I was just unaware that I couldn't make a little joke about the city.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "23 NEW! DAR Thu 10/28/2010 1:23p But I guess it's okay for people from the coasts to make fun of midwestern cities and states, that's perfectly fine." DID anyone here do that? Once again you're responding to something no one said in a strange sort of attempt of justifying your own statements. I get it was a joke. But A) if someone actually did slam Milwaukee you'd be all over it, so don't blame proud SF'ers for doing the same; and b) the subtext of the joke was clearly that liberals aren't as patriotic as conservatives, so you can't blame people for objecting to that either.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I make frequent trips to Madison Wisconsin, same difference. Not saying San Fran isn't a great city just making a little levity. But I guess I won't joke anymore because I didn't know San Fran was off limits." Holy crap DAR, are you trying to compare Madison to San Francisco? Seriously? San Francisco is the most sophisticated, cosmopolitan city in the country, includ the Big Three, NYC, LA and Chicago. And I'm from Chicago and would defend it 24/7. Madison is NOTHING like it, so if you're using it as a frame of reference, don't. As Dabob said, despite the emoticon, the underlying premise of your "joke" was that liberals were unpatriotic, as in your mind SF is a liberal town. If you haven't been there, if you haven't been in any place, yes, questioning a city's patriotism is off limits. It betrays an already well known ignorance on your part. You reallllllly need to get out more.
Originally Posted By mawnck I thought DAR's joke was funny. I filed it under "good-natured ribbing" and moved on with my day. I don't know why it got such a reaction.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I thought DAR's joke was funny. I filed it under "good-natured ribbing" and moved on with my day. I don't know why it got such a reaction." Of course you did.
Originally Posted By Mr X I pretty much agree with MAW. I also find it interesting that so many people get so defensive about this or that city and how patriotic (or not) it might be, as if it really matters. Any big city full of liberals could be the most patriotic place ever and cons will still condemn it as "un-American"...at least DAR occasionally has a sense of humor about it.
Originally Posted By dshyates You know, that's not really fog in all those pictures of S.F. It's pot smoke. The place is chocked full of hippies and gays. And gay hippies. And everybody knows hippies and gays and gay hippies all hate America. And American soldiers. And American companies. But you know what they love? They love little frogs. Oh and field mice. And the French.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Holy crap DAR, are you trying to compare Madison to San Francisco? Seriously? >> Politically yes.
Originally Posted By DAR <<DID anyone here do that? Once again you're responding to something no one said in a strange sort of attempt of justifying your own statements>> But the Bill Mahers and Keith Olbermann's of the world look down on people from the midwest.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "But the Bill Mahers and Keith Olbermann's of the world look down on people from the midwest." This is relevant how? "<<Holy crap DAR, are you trying to compare Madison to San Francisco? Seriously? >> Politically yes." Yet, you have no real frame of knowledge to do so.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "But the Bill Mahers and Keith Olbermann's of the world look down on people from the midwest." Perhaps if they posted here your initial comment on the matter would have made sense.
Originally Posted By dshyates "But the Bill Mahers and Keith Olbermann's of the world look down on people from the midwest." Another crock of equine waste about the "social elitist" conceived and perpetuated by the right wing talking heads to anger middle Americans. It was the right wing that coined the phrase "flyover states".
