Comments on: They might be kindergarten teachers

By: El Dedo

El Dedo — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:57:34 +0000

Go back and re-read Mr. Troll. I didn’t say ALL of them, I said “all the people I know…”

reading comprehension. GET SOME!

now go back under your bridge.

By: troll

troll — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:51:17 +0000

How impressive that you’ve met every single one of them and know all of their habits and doings.

By: Dr. Nobody

Dr. Nobody — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:19:07 +0000

I used to ride the shuttle that ran between UCSF campuses. It was nice! But they did hit and kill a pedestrian once. Imagine if Google did that?

By: Oyster Boy

Oyster Boy — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:16:51 +0000

They Might Be Giants.

By: El Dedo

El Dedo — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:27:13 +0000

The thing that makes me giggle most is that all of the people I know who’ve got their hate flag waving against the gentrifishuttlehighrent cause, NONE of them volunteer, NONE of them contribute in any tangible way to their neighborhood, NONE of them support the arts (aside from saying they like music and art)

MOST DO hang out at El Rio (if they don’t have to pay the cover) or Bender’s and get drunk and bitch about the techies though. Daily.

/giggle

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:43:15 +0000

Truth. Both San Jose and Mtn. View are cultural wastelands. Suburban hellholes.

By: one

one — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:28:10 +0000

Sorry, kindergarten teachers live in neither Specific Whites or Hayes Vy – wherever that is.

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:56:36 +0000

What’s up with this try to be nice to probable dorks stuff? 20 something dudes in SF don’t teach kindergarten. Perhaps looking to make a buck and/or be cool, but that’s so far down the river they’ll never get a chance.

By: anadromy

anadromy — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:32:55 +0000

You seem like a very nice person but, I’m sorry, those shuttles you ride are really, really awful. I have no problem with anyone riding shuttles to work in the south bay. If you want to live that far from your job and your company is willing to pay to schlep you back and forth in style, good on you. But the way they just started stopping in MUNI stops, blocking buses and forcing MUNI passengers to walk around them, was infuriating and, IMHO, completely indefensible. More infuriating still was the way the city let them get away with it for years before crafting a bullshit legal excuse for it. The whole thing is sleazy and lame and it smacks of major league entitlement and privilege. In short, it sucks.

By all means, please continue your good works and your charitable giving and your support of local music. But if your stupid shuttle blocks MUNI stops or makes MUNI buses late or blocks traffic or bike lanes (and I guarantee you it does every single one of these things each morning and evening at some point or another), I’m definitely gonna think you and everybody else on it is an asshole.

By: arse

arse — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:27:24 +0000

get over it

By: Leary

Leary — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:23:50 +0000

I tutor kids in reading on the weekends, send some cash to organizations for local homeless youth, and hang out at local music shows. You’d probably be nice to me if you met me.

But guess what? I TAKE ONE OF THOSE SHUTTLES. And I write software for a living.

So next time you see a guy doing any of that, be sure to go out of your way and be an asshole to him. After all, he might be me.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:16:06 +0000

>Mountain View? Good lord that place is terrible.

Yes barely habitable. And yet millions of people choose to live south of Mission and Geneva; do they know how benighted their existence is? I suppose you could call Daly City “the outer outer Mission” and San Jose the way-outer Mission and then those people will feel better about themselves.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:49:09 +0000

I have no idea where in Silicon Valley you could be talking about. Honestly I actually don’t. The entire region is connected by the 101 or el camino real, both highly congested methods. The only public transportation is Caltrain which shuts down early, and a light rail that is on a single track? And is just a terrible thing to use in general.

As for places that are interesting? I guess if push came to shove I could live in San Mateo, maybe Redwood City.

Mountain View? Good lord that place is terrible.
San Jose? I’m only aware of downtown, and it’s even worse.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:29:12 +0000

“Fucked up suburb an hour away”? He really needs to get out more.

I know its hard to imagine San Francisco isn’t the absolute pinnacle of urban living, but there are places in the Bay Area that aren’t SF and Rockridge that aren’t suburban hellholes.

And one advantage of those place over both SF and Oakland: you don’t have to wait in line for an hour on the freeway to get back home when you go somewhere even more interesting, either.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:42:42 +0000

Life’s not easy constantly questioning the hipster credibility of everyone around you.