Looks like Obamanut has a point...

vidro3 wrote: [quote=yoda] Should the locals lie down and let the ironic fools whitewash the flavor out and put in the mall brand?

I didn't know coffee houses and restaurants could be so offensive.

If the direction of the neighborhood bothers you then do something about it. Write a blog; stage a protest; start a petition; found an organization.

No one is trying to stop you.

But on this blog/message board, the topic of gentrification has been dealt with ad nauseum. Constantly talking about how hipter/yuppie redstate fools are ruining Park Slope doesn't help your cause, it doesn't do anything constructive.

It just rehashes the same distracting, hackneyed, and pointless discussions that have been going on for years.

Enough already.

Now will a Mod please lock this thread?

Again, I just don't get it--you come out of your way here to a thread entitled "Obamanut has a point" (which should suggest to you that this thread is pro-Obamanut) to waste your own time and energy telling us how "boring" we are, and then you start crying for a mod to lock the thread--a thread that you're contributing to just as much as anyone else, and even more than me (the thread's namesake)!!

You remind me of a little girl in grade school who cries to the teacher when a little boy teases her, but yet continues to follow the boy around in the hopes that he does it again. When I don't like something or someone, I usually avoid it or them--how hard is that to do? Really bizarre.. :?

Cool The Kid wrote: I'm still dying to know what it takes to be a 'real person dealing with real life'...

I know people who moved here in the last 2-3 years dealing with deportation, alcoholism, unemployment, etc etc you name it... they aren't people who get handouts from mommy and daddy and deal with real shit on a daily basis. How the fuck is that not "real"???

They are probably the wrong color for him to consider "real"

Subject: Re: Looks like Obamanut has a point...

yoda wrote: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/questioning-the-future-for-the-middle-class/?scp=1&sq=middle class&st=cse

not just sour grapes my friends

I'm actually starting to like Obamanut. Maybe it's the native in me that sympathizes, but he clearly is talking about a legit topic. Maybe he does it a bit prickish and with arrogance but at the same time I think the reason people respond so forecefully to what he writes is because some of his comments have a kernel of truth to them.