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Horus said:Suits said:Goldhawkstar said:
WB.
Are you sure? Judging by experience, this looks like a girl with poor vaginal hygiene. I can't say that I'm basing my findings on statistically meaningful numbers, but the times I've banged girls that dress like hippies, I've had to wash the smell of clam chowder off my dick.
If you're seriously curious, PM forum member Laner and ask him how far I'm stoop to get a bang.
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Maybe I'm from too rural an area. I had to look at names to figure out whether a great deal of these were men or women, and even then I was mystified a few times.
I live in The Mission, where most of the photos on SF-Looks were taken, so I can break things down a bit.
This quote pretty much nails it:
This one, not so much:
SF is the home of Wilkes Bashford, Cable Car Clothiers, and The Hound. For streetwear, there are places like Self Edge, the mecca for raw denim, and Unionmade. There are still plenty of neighborhoods where you can find well-dressed people. Places like The FiDi, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, The Marina, The Fillmore, St. Francis Wood, etc. This guy, for example, is one of the most well-known local celebrities. You can't say you live in SF until you have at least a couple Willie Brown stories!
The Mission is a big neighborhood, and a world famous one at that. For about the past fifteen years, it's been known as one of the hipster capitals of planet Earth, and people come from all over the place to see and be seen there. I guarantee that most of the people on SF-Looks don't even live in The Mission. Back when it started to acquire its reputation as a hipster haven, The Mission had some of the cheapest rents in the city. Nowadays, it's one of the most expensive.
Unless they have a trust fund, very few hipsters can actually afford to live there now. Most of the folks moving in there these days are people like Mark Zuckerberg, who has a big house near Dolores Park. Back in the early 1970s, my dad lived in a Victorian a block away from where Zuckerberg lives now. My dad's rent was 200 bucks a month. How much would his old place rent for now? Who knows, probably at least four or five grand per unit.
This photo, for example, was taken in Dolores Park. If you go there on a sunny day, you are just as likely to meet someone from Japan, Germany, or Brazil as you are to meet someone from SF.
Another funny thing is that, aside from hipsters and tourists, The Mission is known for having a lot of gangs and crime. Mission Street runs through the center of the neighborhood. One side, the Valencia/Guerrero/Dolores corridor, is where you'll find all the tourists, hipsters, etc. Part of that area also borders the Castro. This is where all the photos on SF-Looks were taken. On the other side, the South Van Ness/Folsom/Harrison side, is where you'll find all the immigrant families, gangs, junkies, hookers, homeless, etc. Not exactly the prime demographic for SF-Looks!
Upscale culture and gang violence share a small space
In San Francisco's Mission District, gang violence is layered atop the flourishing restaurant and club scene that has grown up in recent years.
Reporting from San Francisco -- The first in a spate of casualties in this city's hipster haven was a quiet 22-year-old who held two jobs and sent money home to his mother in Mexico's Yucatan region. Gaspar Puch-tzek was grabbing a cigarette outside the swank Mission District restaurant where he worked on Aug. 30 when he was mistaken for a gang member and shot in the face.
Killed less than 12 hours later was 29-year-old Edson Lacayo — a member, police said, of the Sureño gang, which for decades has battled the Norteños in the Mission. Sept. 5 brought another fatal shooting near a strip of popular nightspots; two days later, a 19-year-old man was shot in the hip outside the bustling 24th and Mission transit station, sending bystanders scrambling. And at dusk Monday, a man who had opened fire near Guerrero and 15th streets was shot in the stomach before driving erratically across the Mission and crashing.
San Francisco's compact neighborhoods have for decades been a laboratory for change, undergoing identity-shifting transformations. But nowhere have the economic contrasts been as pronounced as in the Mission.
Here, the cluster of shootings has laid bare a reality many cafe denizens and bar-hoppers in this gentrifying landscape tend to tune out: About half of the neighborhood is gang territory.
This happened right across the street from where I was living at the time:
Hells Angels leader in S.F. shot dead in fight
The president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was shot and killed Tuesday night on a Mission District street, police said Wednesday.
TL; DR: Do the people on SF-Looks represent San Francisco and The Mission? Yes... and no. If you want to see the people from SF-Looks, head on over to Dolores Park. Just don't be disappointed when they tell you that they're visiting from somewhere else!
This quote pretty much nails it:
draketton said:
This one, not so much:
draketton said:
SF is the home of Wilkes Bashford, Cable Car Clothiers, and The Hound. For streetwear, there are places like Self Edge, the mecca for raw denim, and Unionmade. There are still plenty of neighborhoods where you can find well-dressed people. Places like The FiDi, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, The Marina, The Fillmore, St. Francis Wood, etc. This guy, for example, is one of the most well-known local celebrities. You can't say you live in SF until you have at least a couple Willie Brown stories!
The Mission is a big neighborhood, and a world famous one at that. For about the past fifteen years, it's been known as one of the hipster capitals of planet Earth, and people come from all over the place to see and be seen there. I guarantee that most of the people on SF-Looks don't even live in The Mission. Back when it started to acquire its reputation as a hipster haven, The Mission had some of the cheapest rents in the city. Nowadays, it's one of the most expensive.
Unless they have a trust fund, very few hipsters can actually afford to live there now. Most of the folks moving in there these days are people like Mark Zuckerberg, who has a big house near Dolores Park. Back in the early 1970s, my dad lived in a Victorian a block away from where Zuckerberg lives now. My dad's rent was 200 bucks a month. How much would his old place rent for now? Who knows, probably at least four or five grand per unit.
This photo, for example, was taken in Dolores Park. If you go there on a sunny day, you are just as likely to meet someone from Japan, Germany, or Brazil as you are to meet someone from SF.
Another funny thing is that, aside from hipsters and tourists, The Mission is known for having a lot of gangs and crime. Mission Street runs through the center of the neighborhood. One side, the Valencia/Guerrero/Dolores corridor, is where you'll find all the tourists, hipsters, etc. Part of that area also borders the Castro. This is where all the photos on SF-Looks were taken. On the other side, the South Van Ness/Folsom/Harrison side, is where you'll find all the immigrant families, gangs, junkies, hookers, homeless, etc. Not exactly the prime demographic for SF-Looks!
Upscale culture and gang violence share a small space
In San Francisco's Mission District, gang violence is layered atop the flourishing restaurant and club scene that has grown up in recent years.
Reporting from San Francisco -- The first in a spate of casualties in this city's hipster haven was a quiet 22-year-old who held two jobs and sent money home to his mother in Mexico's Yucatan region. Gaspar Puch-tzek was grabbing a cigarette outside the swank Mission District restaurant where he worked on Aug. 30 when he was mistaken for a gang member and shot in the face.
Killed less than 12 hours later was 29-year-old Edson Lacayo — a member, police said, of the Sureño gang, which for decades has battled the Norteños in the Mission. Sept. 5 brought another fatal shooting near a strip of popular nightspots; two days later, a 19-year-old man was shot in the hip outside the bustling 24th and Mission transit station, sending bystanders scrambling. And at dusk Monday, a man who had opened fire near Guerrero and 15th streets was shot in the stomach before driving erratically across the Mission and crashing.
San Francisco's compact neighborhoods have for decades been a laboratory for change, undergoing identity-shifting transformations. But nowhere have the economic contrasts been as pronounced as in the Mission.
Here, the cluster of shootings has laid bare a reality many cafe denizens and bar-hoppers in this gentrifying landscape tend to tune out: About half of the neighborhood is gang territory.
This happened right across the street from where I was living at the time:
Hells Angels leader in S.F. shot dead in fight
The president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was shot and killed Tuesday night on a Mission District street, police said Wednesday.
TL; DR: Do the people on SF-Looks represent San Francisco and The Mission? Yes... and no. If you want to see the people from SF-Looks, head on over to Dolores Park. Just don't be disappointed when they tell you that they're visiting from somewhere else!
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