Huh. Maybe it’s just me and they keep getting terrorist threats or whatever every time I come to town.
Though I don’t know why anyone would want to use bathrooms at the BART station. Yuck.
I liked San Francisco AND New York.
I don’t feel the need to go back to Houston, Dallas, or Los Angeles, though.
Seriously?! He was so deliciously charming and eloquent when he was pushing the first gay marriages through – was that last year? Two years ago? And then I found out that he did musical theater in college, and apparently played Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls.
Pardonnez-moi: fans self
I think you got the story bass-ackwards. The big flap a few years ago was about then-mayor Willie Brown ordering that shopping carts be confiscated from the homeless.
As a longtime Bay Area resident, the closest story I can think of that sounds even remotely like your story was this: Back when Frank Jordan was Mayor he had a real asswipe in the Chief of Police spot (I’m sure someone will come along and supply the name). Anyway Jordan had ran on cleaning up the streets and left the details to the Police Chief. He decided to agressively reclaim shopping carts by confiscating the carts and throwing away the belongings contained therein. That, the disposal of private property, caused a big stink that make the local then national news.
Exactly my point. (I need to work on my subtlety-meter). My guess is she was probably sniffed at by a local while wandering around in shorts, waving her hand in front of her face like it was stinky, pointing at bums and not walking fast enough, and she concluded that it had nothing to do with her being an annoying tourist.
Yeah, after some googling I came up with the same thing. :smack: Apparently I’m factually dyslexic. Forget that post entirely, move along folks, nothing to see here.
Link for you.
Also, he’s very dedicated to correcting the homeless problems. It’s one of his pet projects. Along with cleaning up the city and fighting our state’s archaic gay marriage laws.
I’m not the OP, but I’ll say that the average tourist – in any city --doesn’t get a chance to venture outside of the inner city. I’m sure there’s lovely areas around SF, but most visitors are going to stick with the impression they get from where they stay, visit, drink and eat.
As for clubs, sorry, I don’t remember names. I spent a few fairly fruitless weeks in and around Soma and the Castro. My boyfriend lived in SF for six months and he has a similar negative attitude towards the scene.
What does you mean? Unless every (any?) city in the world is trouble-free, we can’t pick out SF’s faults? Which makes it trolling? That doesn’t make sense. First, the imperfection of other cities doesn’t mean we can’t bitch about certain negative aspects of SF; and second, the in-your-face homeless problem in SF is truly exceptional. (And I’m speaking as a man who’s been through perhaps 20 countries in the last 12 months. San Francisco – at least the parts visitors see – is unusally grotty.)
But to balance the negativity, a few nice things about SF: Alcatraz is a fantastic tourist attraction; there’s some good food to be had in the Mission; and there’s some great locally brewed beer (Speakeasy?).
Well, then, this average tourist should maybe keep their word-holes shut when they’re so demonstrably ignorant. Y’know, maybe instead of saying that San Francisco is “the asshole of humanity,” say, “my highly limited experience of San Francisco was the shit of humanity.”
I find it very trollish because its very clear the OP made no effort whatsoever to experience the city he (sorry about the gender confusion earlier, the “ms” threw me off) would so harshly judge. That the OP thinks his little trip deems him so goddamn omniscient about San Francisco, despite clearly making no effort to experience a damn thing here smacks of someone who just wants to rile up those who know their shit.
I don’t deny that we do have a few nasty problems, as does any city, but that “all I could see” was these problems illustrates to anyone who knows what’s up that the OP had his head up his ass the entire time, and refused to take it out no matter what.
Ah, and Speakeasy is the brewery god gets drunk at. 
Heh.
I’m drinking a Prohibition Ale right now.
A bum gave it to me.
Yeah, the sidewalk is the preferred venue 
Did he open it with his buttcheeks?
(God I want a Big Daddy right now.)
You hate liberals, you visited San Francisco, and you were disappointed.
Gee, that’s a shocker.:rolleyes:
In other news:
If you hate sand, don’t visit Egypt.
If you hate snow, don’t visit Alaska.
If you hate spaghetti, don’t visit Italy.
I’m slowly beginning to realize I’m out of my depth on this message board. I hate things like splinters in my pinkie, running out of Mayfield Turtle Tracks ice cream, and bad haircuts. Aristocratic pretension that pretends it is populist is, like, fourteenth on my list.
It was already open. Funny, I don’t remember Prohibition Ale smelling like asparagus…
I was a teen when I visited San Francisco in 1991. I did see a whole lot of bums, dope fiends (at least what I thought was dope fiends), some prostitutes, and some men dressed up like women. These were pretty unusual sights for someone who spent most of his life on military bases or suburbs.
I don’t recall anyone in our party being harassed while in SF. Granted, we didn’t get to stay the entire day and we didn’t actually do a whole lot. Still, I was left with a positive impression of the city and I look forward to going back for a visit.
Marc
They shut down the bathrooms when the security alert level goes to orange. At other times, they’re open. Other stations may have the bathrooms shut down any time for some other reason.
I’m just curious. What is BART? I’m thinking something like Bay Area Rapid Transport. Is that right?