by Sean Orr | If the Bungalow is rocking, don’t come-a-knocking: Raucous sex club parties rock B.C. neighbours. “You have to prove they are running a business for profit. It’s pretty difficult to prove unless you infiltrate the club”. Yeah right, like the cops haven’t already “infiltrated the club”. And if not, are you saying there aren’t any police bros willing to do the job? And just remember, this is not borne from poverty but from affluence (the hypocrisy abounds). The same bored housewives that hermetically seal themselves in their SUVs as they scoff at the “moral depravity” of the DTES are the same ones that would attend a swinger party with their douchey, Tapout-wearing, townhouse-dwelling boyfriends in North Delta.
Don’t forget, the richest place in Vancouver is in Surrey.
More ink on Rypien: battling those inner demons. I really don’t want to be insensitive, even if it is my wont, but am I the only one that sees a huge double standard here? These are professionals with access to the best treatment, yet those who self-medicate on the streets are called “crackheads” and “junkies”, and the people who attempt to care for them are labeled Poverty Pimps. What does this say about our society?
And if we are in pain, suffering terribly, we still don’t have the right to die. It’s like a moral black hole where all reason disappears and fear takes over. Or maybe I just watched Logan’s Run when I was way too young.
There is no housing bubble (quick! buy my house!): Political power broker puts mansion on Vancouver market. “The home of the man behind Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark’s rise to the premiership is for sale for $7.28 million”. Holy shit! No wonder the Liberals fucking hate the poor. Don’t get me wrong, if I was selling “four levels of ultimate luxury” I’d probably hate us too.
Stating the obvious in a creepy sort of sign-of-things-to-come way: Texting no emotional match for mom’s soothing voice. I can safely say that I have never texted my mom, ever. I don’t phone her either, but I don’t text her also.
Oilsands pipeline protests outside White House lead to arrest of Torontonian. Meanwhile, inside, the shale gas lobbyists were quietly smiling.
Bonus: Petition to expand Robson Square and keep the 800-block of Robson Street vehicle-free.
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I watched Logan’s Run when I was little… I’m pretty sure it got burned into my psyche too.
“The same bored housewives that hermetically seal themselves in their SUVs as they scoff at the “moral depravity” of the DTES are the same ones that would attend a swinger party with their douchey, Tapout-wearing, townhouse-dwelling boyfriends in North Delta.”
1) That’s hilarious that you think these swingers’ organizations aren’t frequently attended by Vancouverites. It’s a pretty small community and there aren’t that many options.
2) You’re maligning people you don’t know and have never met, when you have no way of knowing whether your accusations are true.
Nobody reads Scout for your bitter, partisan bullshit. Keep it out of an otherwise-great food and culture magazine, please.
“Nobody reads Scout for your bitter, partisan bullshit. Keep it out of an otherwise-great food and culture magazine, please.”
1) You do
2) I malign all people equally. We are all awful
3) That is precisely the reason I write for Scout. To burst your little comfort bubbles while you’re searching for the next cool place to eat endive.
“To burst your little comfort bubbles”
Oooh, how subversive of you. As if there’s nowhere else that people who live in Vancouver hear lefties without any qualifications rant about the issues of the day.
“without any qualifications rant about the issues of the day”
Everyone has the right to an opinion, and the more engaged each opinion is with another, the better then entire machinery of our society works…at least in theory.
What annoys me is the smugness with which this writer states his opinion, a smugness that is every bit as derogatory and dismissive as other he derides as if to say ‘I know the truth, but you never will, because you’re not as smart as me’. He seems your typical humanist/environmentalist/secularist/agnostic or atheist/pro-choice/pro death/socialist type…who in general have a BA or something, work in the service industry, and aside from bouts of personal misfortune/depression or lack of opportunity (which are serious, make no mistake) he really is just a simple opinion with no tangible worth aside from that.
Aside from cutting and pasting from this comment and matching it with a smug reply, he should either start his own blog and stop piggybacking on a site whose biggest traffic (I’m assuming here) comes from people interested in food and wine.
“lefties without qualifications” indeed.
as if living the life, A life, does not somehow qualify someone.
keep busting my comfort bubbles please.