Slog - Comments on Drying Out

Comment by keenan

keenan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:58:39 -0800

so fucking tired of these second-hand stories. josh, document your neighborhood's global warming stories, would ya? or better yet, let's hear a homerecipe for eco-conscious detergent.

Comment by Josh Feit

Josh Feit — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:07:20 -0800

Keenan,

Go down just two post for some original local stories.

Comment by ivory wayans

ivory wayans — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:10:15 -0800

I love trolling Slog for opportunities to bitch at the posters. Keeps me busy in the head.

Comment by keenan

keenan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:34:06 -0800

those stories aren't about global warming. fixies are a fashion. i'd love to hear a count of all the clotheslines in capitol hill, and of course your own, josh. if you spent more time helping the community instead of watching street basketball, going to genius parties, chatting in city hall and relying on the web for your humanitarian ideas, you might give us a clue.

@3yeah, i'm busy in the head, i'm contemplating what I was just listening to on KBCS - see Lineout 2nd post to the top. eh, maybe transgenderism is a stupid thing to think about. you might be right.

Comment by konstantConsumer

konstantConsumer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:56:43 -0800

eww. clothes lines? the environment isn't worth that.

Comment by Gitai

Gitai — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:16:07 -0800

This is why I would never be part of an HOA. That, and my total inability to keep my yard looking nice.

Comment by isabelita

isabelita — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:41:05 -0800

Fuck all those rich bastards. May they BE clotheslined!

Comment by eustaceia

eustaceia — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:19:11 -0800

@5: i can't believe a clothesline grosses you out that much!

Comment by tsm

tsm — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:30:45 -0800

I'm not allowed to hang clothes outside on the deck of my building, for the same silly reason - "OMG CLOTHESLINES R TRASHY!!!!oneone". Very annoying.

Comment by duh

duh — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:43:35 -0800

they sell drying racks at target for like 10 bucks. works just as well.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:00:17 -0800

Clotheslines? Target? I agree with konstantConsumer. The environment is not worth that.

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:00:23 -0800

From the linked article:

"This bombards the senses," interior designer Joan Grundeman says of her neighbor's clothesline. "It can't possibly increase property values and make people think this is a nice neighborhood."

What a snooty bitch. If she was my neighbor, my next step would be buying the most fucked up car I could find, removing the wheels, and putting it on blocks in my driveway.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:01:44 -0800

Okay. Mahtli69 is officially the funniest slogger.

Comment by June Bee

June Bee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:02:36 -0800

@10-
That's too simple, and it significantly defeats the bloated verbiage that Josh likes to toss out on Slog. The ideal method is to get confused by all of the crap he posts, argue amongst ourselves then sit around click-clacking away until someone like yourself, "duh", to just say 'in essence, you are dumbshits.'
i am so pumped to hear Feit do his self-hyped slog on slog speech at that blog affecting newsmedia thing (it didn't happen already, did it?). man, talk about mumblecore, the guy is going to rattle off like....ugh, can't wait.

Comment by June Bee

June Bee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:06:27 -0800

actually i'm not interested in it all. after hearing him "blast-off country style" at Liberty bar the night I talked to Dan Savage, i really have no desire to be in the immediate environment of such an obnoxious twit.

Comment by me

me — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:36:26 -0800

I use a $10 drying rack. I think I got it at Fred Meyer.

Comment by tsm

tsm — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:49:05 -0800

Yes, yes, I have a drying rack, too. The point is that I have all this space outside that would be a natural place to dry clothes, rather than taking up space inside.

And Mahtli69 is right - only an idiot looks at clothes on a line and says "ewww - trashy!"

Comment by Joan Grundeman

Joan Grundeman — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:00:07 -0800

It is trashy. It's fucking poverty.

Comment by Michael

Michael — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:05:15 -0800

So what?

Comment by Kristin Bell

Kristin Bell — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:41:18 -0800

And you know that all of those HOA people are just dying to go to some small village in Italy where they can photograph the quaint village with its clotheslines strung between the buildings! Bunch of snobs!

Comment by Kristin Bell

Kristin Bell — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:43:09 -0800

And, OMG, it is a fucking way to dry things people!!! Man, I go on vacation and I missed all the slogs! How am I going to catch up???

Comment by Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:44:05 -0800

I admire this woman and wish that my commitment to the environment also extended to bickering with my private community-- while waiting for a sunny day to do laundry.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:53:44 -0800

White Trash Poverty is the New Global Environmental Awareness.

Comment by little bird!

little bird! — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:57:16 -0800

what is wrong with you people? clotheslines are fantastic. clothes that are air dried by the wind are much more comfortable and crisp and lovely to wear. and laundry hanging outside is nice to look at, in my book. you can make up all sorts of imaginative assumptions about the people who own the clothes, and about their lives and living situations. clearly, you naysayers have never walked through narrow european streets strung with lines and lines of clothes and sheets blowing in the breeze and have never seen how beautiful such a thing can be.

Comment by I changed my name, too.

I changed my name, too. — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:33:19 -0800

That's rich coming from you, June Bee. Didn't you used to have a different handle? I'm surprised you were able to post something here without adding some dumb band references and nonsense lyrics example and some dumb reference to some band you drove to Portland to see because they're so awesome. I care. Thanks!

Comment by Dr_Awesome

Dr_Awesome — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:31:56 -0800

When cute sorority girls hang their panties on clothes lines I will start to care.

Comment by Jude Fawley

Jude Fawley — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:01:11 -0800

Underwear with spots very suspicious
Underwear with bulges very shocking
Underwear on clothesline a great flag of freedom
Someone has escaped his Underwear
May be naked somewhere
Help!

"Underwear," Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Comment by JessB

JessB — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:31:09 -0800

I love how some posters refer to poverty as if they're describing some scabies & herpes infested, naked, dirty, old homeless guy plodding along the street. Newsflash: Poverty does not always = dirty. I can almost hear them wrinkling their noses and saying to some poor sop unfortunate enough to cross their path: "You're POOR". People like that deserve to be shot in the face.

Comment by Sweetie

Sweetie — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:23:42 -0800

Josh do you even know where Awbrey Butte is located? I do. Awbrey Butte is located in Bend, OR and the average house price in that area of Bend is well over $600K with many of the houses reaching the $1M mark. CCRs are put in place for a reason and if people buy in to an area that have them then it is their responsibility to abide by them. Any drive through any older shit hole subdivision that was built without CCRs tells the story.

Comment by konstantConsumer

konstantConsumer — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:56:09 -0800

so because i don't like poor people, i should be shot in the face?!? that's not very nice.

Comment by monkey

monkey — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:32:05 -0800

Sometimes poverty = cleaner than most because they can't afford disposable things so they have to make what they buy last so they end up taking better care of it.

Yes, I grew up poor-ish. Yes, we line dried clothes. We also lived out in the country and everyone else did too. Say what you will but line dried sheets are wonderful.

Comment by Cat in Chicago

Cat in Chicago — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:41:28 -0800

This is so white folks shit

Comment by old timer

old timer — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:13:58 -0800

My Mom used to dry our laundry in the back yard.
Never since have I had such sweet smelling sheets to slip between at night.

Of course, those were much simpler times, in another place.

Comment by asdf`

asdf` — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:11:07 -0800

@29,

Not only is Awbrey Butte in Bend, it's a fairly new development (~10-15 years), and well known as the rich neighborhood in Bend. Say, like Laurelhurst, but new money (there's no old money in Bend).

Comment by laterite

laterite — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:02 -0800

Jesus, the fucking entitlement complex some of you people have...

Comment by wench

wench — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:31:50 -0800

Frankly, I don't get Bend. It's in the middle of bloody nowhere. What on earth is the attraction? Besides, if you go an hour in any direction, houses and land are cheap as anything.

Comment by WinnyTheHorse

WinnyTheHorse — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:37:45 -0800

Fucking suburbs!!! Thank God I made it out...