Slog - Comments on Just for the Record... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record I have never: 1. Had a latte in my life 2. Driven a Prius 3. Worn Birkenstocks 4. Had a trust fund... Copyright 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:16:47 -0800 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:51:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Judah 1. Had a latte in my life

I call bullshit. You've at least finished one for someone else.

]]> Judah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951760 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951760 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:19:07 -0800 Comment by Liz Pendens And the point is?

]]> Liz Pendens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951767 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951767 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:26:54 -0800 Comment by violet_dagrinder How unfortunate for you!

]]> violet_dagrinder http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951768 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951768 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:27:08 -0800 Comment by Charity I just had a #1 this morning, and it was delicious! 2 through 4, never.

]]> Charity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951774 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:29:38 -0800 Comment by DJSauvage I've had Birkenstocks and worn a latte.

]]> DJSauvage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951790 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:35:16 -0800 Comment by konstantConsumer well, i've never driven a prius...

]]> konstantConsumer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951796 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:38:18 -0800 Comment by Lotty Birkenlover So does that mean you're not a Seattle native (1, 3) or a California transplant (2, 4)?

]]> Lotty Birkenlover http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951799 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:40:25 -0800 Comment by Levislade @4 - you drank pee this morning? Woah, non sequitur!!!

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951800 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:41:12 -0800 Comment by Identity politics I've never either. But if you do, you fit the profile of an Obama supporter according to the Clinton campaign.

]]> Identity politics http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951803 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:42:50 -0800 Comment by alex Sadly I have had a latte

]]> alex http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951806 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951806 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:44:55 -0800 Comment by orangekrush So is this a math equation? equals nw trustafarian?

]]> orangekrush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951809 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:47:44 -0800 Comment by apres_moi I've never either. I'm also black and have been a supporter of Obama since 2006. So the Clinton campaigners would hate to talk to me for those reasons. Btw, the black community has taken away Bill's honorary "black" card, especially after the crap he was doing and saying against Obama in Nevada and SC.

]]> apres_moi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951810 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951810 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:48:07 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER Driving a Prius is weird... there's that whole push button start thing, and there's no park on the gear shifter.

Then I'm pretty sure "Pria" my trusty navigator got pissed that I decided to change my route mid-trip; she wouldn't shut up about it, even going so far as to nag me to turn around and drive 20 miles out of my way just so I'd take the freeway... And I'm pretty sure I heard her call me cheap for filling her with unleaded!

Needless to say, I'm still bitter.

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951813 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:50:05 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable I REJECT and DENOUNCE all four points!

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951815 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:52:02 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Oh, yeah?!!

Well I've worn Birkenstocks--with socks!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951824 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951824 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:55:18 -0800 Comment by me 1. I'm drinking a latte right now.

2. I drove a Prius when I worked for the City of Seattle. (Review: Quiet; too difficult to start; too difficult to see out the back, boring interior.)

3. Have never worn or even tried on Birkenstocks.

4. Never had a trust fund.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951836 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:07:18 -0800 Comment by brandon i just had my first latte ever a couple weeks ago. i'm not sure what all the fuss is about.

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951845 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951845 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:15:51 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Lattes are gross. All that milk! You should drink macchiatos if you don't want just straight espresso, Josh.

Priuses are a fad.

Birkenstocks are forever.

Trust funds are for sharing.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951851 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951851 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:20:01 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist I'm wearing Birkenstocks right now and I'm drinking a latte.

Side story: I've recently moved to Palm Springs, and whenever I see someone wearing socks and sandals I ask them if they are from Seattle then laugh like a maniac. Oh, the fun I have!

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951854 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:22:42 -0800 Comment by Mike Are we talking about Stuff White People Like again? I basically fit all but four too.

]]> Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951858 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:23:32 -0800 Comment by Tlazolteotl Is that supposed to impress us somehow?

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951868 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:27:00 -0800 Comment by max solomon 1, 2, & 3, but not 4.

i can only hope for a mega millions miracle.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951873 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951873 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:28:26 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Do you want people to think you're a douchebag?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951878 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:30:36 -0800 Comment by Trevor But didn't you once work for Nader or something?

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951882 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951882 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:31:39 -0800 Comment by Greg What are you, new? I've definitely had a latte (from Starbucks, blow me) and driven a Prius (my mom's). I haven't worn Birkenstocks, but I've definitely rocked the socks-and-sandals combo. And I've never had a trust fund per se, but my parents did pay for my college with the GET program and my grandma gave me a bunch of money when I graduated.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951884 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951884 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:31:40 -0800 Comment by max solomon and josh, didn't the clinton campaing disavow the machinist union president's comments? or am i confusing that with mccain's disavowal of the "hussein" reptetition by douchebag bill cunningham of cincinnati's shame, WLW?

have i mentioned how i NEVER miss ohio?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951885 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:32:01 -0800 Comment by max solomon and if a prius is too "diffucult" to start, you must have a tough time tying your shoes. step on the brake pedal & press the start button. that's it. jesus.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951888 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:33:41 -0800 Comment by Steve I have a Prius but none of that other stuff. I'm a conservative that likes having a hatchback that gets 40-60 MPG (depending on how you drive it).

And I can't for the life of me figure out why that doesn't make sense to other conservatives. (Or a balanced budget, or a galaxy of other neocon idiocies.)

]]> Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951889 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951889 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:33:56 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit @24,

or something.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951900 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:38:03 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens I have never:

1. Eaten lutefisk

2. Driven down Market St. going 3 MPH with my seatbelt dangling out the car door

3. Shot smack while listening to a Jesus Lizard record

4. Laughed out loud at one of John Keister's jokes

Therefore, I am not a true Seattle native and have no business staying here any longer, and am hereby initiating a Back to Scandinavia movement. Copenhagen, here I come!

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951913 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:23 -0800 Comment by biggie J Are you about to write for line out?
Or did someone assumed something about you?

]]> biggie J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951921 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:49:22 -0800 Comment by Biggie J Oh the bad grammar above. Sorry.

]]> Biggie J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951928 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:52:02 -0800 Comment by Y.F. I've had a latte.

I've never driven a prius, but my car gets the same gas millage.

]]> Y.F. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951930 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951930 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:52:43 -0800 Comment by mintygreen @ 30. I'm so jealous of people lacking swedish childhood christmas dinners. You literally made me shudder with that

]]> mintygreen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951932 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:54:00 -0800 Comment by w7ngman This "slur" goes back further than the machinist union douchebag. It was a popular meme during the 90s conservative revolution and also was used to dismiss Gore supporters in 2000 and Dean supporters in 2004. Maybe goes back even further.

It's an appeal to middle state voters atried to frame a "Blue state" vs. "Red state" culture war. It portrays Democratic voters as elitist libruls out of touch with the taste and sensibilities of "real" Americans.

They can drink a soy latte, but can they harvest a soy field?

"The Gore-voting people of the Blue states, meanwhile, were dismissed with what we will call the latte libel: the suggestion that liberals are identifiable by their tastes and consumer preferences and that these tastes and preferences reveal the essential arrogance and foreignness of liberalism."

http://www.wesjones.com/frank1.htm

His book is good too.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951937 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951937 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:56:05 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER @27 I didn't say "difficult", I said "weird".

Stop being so sensitive- stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951947 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:59:20 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Steve @ 28,

Because Gawd wants us to use all that Jesus Juice; it's why he put it in the ground in the first place.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951948 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:59:46 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray That quote was, I believe, made by some union dipshit back east. I am a union member myself, and I support labor wholeheartedly, but that sort of stupid unionspeak is a tired throwback to the 30's that sounds like something out of a grade-Z Frank Capra ripoff.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that many union tradespeople make a very good living - enough to buy all the Birkenstocks and Lattes they want - and many of them do.


]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951954 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c951954 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:04:16 -0800 Comment by annie The only car I've ever driven on a road (I have driven a Volvo and a Honda in a parking lot) was a Prius--with a regular key ignition, by the way. And though I've never worn Birkenstocks, my little brother was once told to wear them for medical reasons. I was always a shoe-in.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952011 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952011 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:37:29 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle This is like my sis who used to bum cigs off my other sister and brother, but said she didn't smoke cause she never "bought" them.

And mocha cappachinos count as lattes in the grand scheme of things ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952028 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952028 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:44:18 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton I've had a (more than one actually) latte, and driven a Prius (but it was a rental so does it really count? Or is it half a credit or something?) But never the other 2.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952030 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:45:04 -0800 Comment by matthew e This is what the OP refers to, for those who missed it, or who just want to relive the beautiful moment of hope and Democratic unity.

]]> matthew e http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952044 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:58:50 -0800 Comment by Abby You must kick ass at Never Have I Ever. Everyone would be drinking with the latte statement!

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952068 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952068 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:10:31 -0800 Comment by Madashell Myself, yes to 1 & 2, no to 3 & 4. And a Hillary supporter.
Love my Prius, I fill the tank only once a month. And it puts out only 10% of the emissions of an average car. AND it's easy to drive.

]]> Madashell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952261 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952261 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:40:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Take a spin out in one of the exurban counties and you will quickly realize that latte-drinking is about as urban-liberal a pastime as driving a truck with a gun rack in it.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/just_for_the_record#c952284 2008 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:51:35 -0800