Seattle is famous for ~~insanely wanky public arguments~~ vigorous policy discussions, so it’s hardly surprising that the Seattle lj community is also a ~~fountain of wank~~ place where online debate sometimes gets a bit heated.

Yesterday, there was a school shooting in Tacoma and a short post about it has given rise to a rainbow of wank.

First, there was a brief outbreak of grammar wank, because using the indefininite plural for a singular subject is serious business but that exploration of the limits of language pales when the gomezticator declares Tacoma a ghetto.

melvillian, already wanking away and calling on expertise in the first thread, is a Tacoma native, and the wank takes wings.

It has spread to gomezticator’s LJ where no more sense is made. ETA I don't actually know anything about Tacoma, but I agree with you exchange, possibly the funniest thing in the whole mess.

And because I am a completist at heart, ETA 2:

Gomezticator can't understand why other people won't stop talking about Tacoma.

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	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-04 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Downtown Oly is the most run-down dangerous place in the world? Jesus. I really dunno if the clientele of my upscale furniture shop think that. In other news, I used to work on South Tacoma Way. Now THAT part of Tacoma is legitimately ghetto. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO!

frequentmouse
2007-01-05 12:41 am UTC (link)

People are going ON about boarded up storefronts, of which there are...one? There's a 10-15% retail vacancy rate, which my real estate investor sources say is barely adequate to welcome new businesses. And since every parking lot in our fair sprawl has its member of the sign-holding class, the fact that there's a few smelly guys down-town trying to bum cigarettte money is, like, not a sign of ghettoization.

(But tell that to Jeff Kingsbury)

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Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO!

tez
2007-01-05 12:48 am UTC (link)

There's ONE. The burned-out office supply shop that they're still having property wrangling over. A couple of others could use a facelift, but they're not exactly condemned for crying out loud. There's no business turnover, really. The guys looking for money aren't even that bad! There's a couple homeless guys outside the store and they're totally nice and hell, they offer snacky cakes.

(You tried telling Jeff anything lately? Yeesh. It's like pulling teeth with single-ply thread.)

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	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! frequentmouse 2007-01-05 03:26 am UTC (link)
	(You tried telling Jeff anything lately? Yeesh. It's like pulling teeth with single-ply thread.) Haven't actually seen him since Casey Raiha's final high-school appearance. I'm sort of glad to have stepped back from the theatrical crowd. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-05 06:11 am UTC (link)
	I see him more in the political arena than the theatrical one, personally. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! visp 2007-01-05 06:53 am UTC (link)
	Olympia's full of fucking hippies! There's nothing remotely dangerous about it unless you're allergic to herbs and moonstone. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-05 06:57 am UTC (link)
	I dunno, the LaRouche people are kinda scary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! visp 2007-01-05 07:01 am UTC (link)
	They just make your head hurt with lack of logic - nothing really threatening. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-05 07:04 am UTC (link)
	One of them tried to accost me on my way back from B&B the other day. I think I scared them with my rainbow umbrella. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! visp 2007-01-05 07:53 am UTC (link)
	Accost talk, or accost physically assault? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-05 08:12 am UTC (link)
	Accost talk. You don't fuck with a woman in three-inch heels carrying a gigantic rainbow golf umbrella in one hand and a huge latte' in the other. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! visp 2007-01-06 03:46 am UTC (link)
	Ah, boiling hot latte! The tasty self defense weapon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! tez 2007-01-06 06:19 am UTC (link)
	Scald with latte'. Skewer with umbrella. Stomp on with heels. Argument over. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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