# Things going on where you live that would make no sense on the Straight dope.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667 "2015-10-14T22:02:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667/41 "2015-10-16T15:57:38Z")
> [@SanVito](#):
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> You don’t live in Bristol, by any chance?
Yup. In that areal.
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### Author:  [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667/42 "2015-10-16T18:53:44Z")
> [@Catamount](#):
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> The owners of a coffee shop in my town were caught making frat-boy comments in an online forum. The local Offenderati immediately got out their posterboard and markers and started protesting the shop, saying it promoted misogyny and rape culture. The owners have been run out of town on a rail and a competitor’s coffee shop is opening a second location where their store was.
A friend in London reports a new coffee shop ‘Fuckoffee’ has opened. 😃
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### Author:  [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667/43 "2015-10-16T19:19:02Z")
Not where I live, but in the well-to-do Midwestern suburb where I grew up and my parents still live.
There’s a large, mainly undeveloped property in the middle of town that was home to an orphanage for decades. It hasn’t been used as such for many years now, and the church who owned it is selling it. It’s been a huge issue now for several years as various developers have tried to get the land rezoned for dense commercial development and neighbors (like my parents, whose house faces the property) and others who are worried about traffic and other concerns have argued for something facilitating much more modest development.
This issue on its own has been a big deal, but it has recently spawned a citizen initiative that would change the city’s rules to allow for a maximum of 60 days (up from the current 20) to allow citizens to protest zoning changes. They got enough signatures to force the issue to the ballot. Most of the current City Council is opposed, claiming it will make businesses look elsewhere instead of coming to their town if they have to worry about zoning problems. The citizens arguing for it say so the hell what, the City is doing fine economically and doesn’t need the traffic and other concerns related to big commercial development.
Apparently things got hugely heated at a public forum a couple nights ago. A City Councilman jumped and basically said “I’m on City Council and I demand to speak right now!,” the moderator told him he was out of order, later the Council guy yelled at the citizen guy “You’re a liar!” etc.
Big doings in a small community.
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-going-on-where-you-live-that-would-make-no-sense-on-the-straight-dope/734667/44 "2015-10-17T03:14:15Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> _[ahem](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/)_ Or try [this one](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/weird-florida/).
Yeah, but we can do it without meth.
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