Fogarty was from the East Bay so he’s the perfect guy to be sledging SF too. Love it.
CCR has to be the band most unexpectedly from where they are from.
I always assumed that CCR was from like…Louisiana or something. Never would have guessed that they were from the bay area. Wild.
So I listen to CCR and Wikipedia says they were formed in El Cerrito, California (so in the san-fran bay area). I don’t know much about the regional tones of bands from that era, but what makes their region of origin unexpected?
Half their songs are about being from Louisiana.
CCR sounds bluesy, gritty and blue-collar/southern, definitely not folksy, ‘hippie’ sounding compared to a band like the Mamas and the Papas
Ah gotcha! I don’t really get too much into music categorisation so grouping them by geography is off my level. Thanks!
Every time I stop staring at the ground for more than two seconds I step in shit. Me and my gf have a system where I look down and she looks up. I stop us from walking into feces, she stops us from walking into people. The city is amazing though and does a lot to help people out of poverty and I think it’s sad it doesn’t get much recognition for that
Why not just use the poop map?
I actually don’t carry a smart phone on me anymore and I live in the ghettos anyways so I assume it would be hard to keep up with it. They power wash my street twice a day and it’s still covered in shit
I’m glad you like your city, but I’ll be over here, not living somewhere I need a dedicated two person system to avoid walking through human feces.
It’s kind of amazing just how much that simply isn’t a problem in so very much of the world, and how adaptable people are to bad situations.
That’s fair, the poop is a problem. I’ve been in some really bad places and was blown away how quickly people adapt and find some sense of normalcy.
At least it’s not some piss sponge like the Moscow metro.
Not to get political, but Moscow piss sponge is what the Russians call Trump.
Tf? The Moscow Metro is rather clean.
Seriously. There’s a lot that can be rightfully shit on about Russia, but the Moscow metro system is sparkling clean compared to similar systems, and many of the stations are gorgeous (especially the older ones with mosaics and statues).
Clearly you’ve never been to Columbus, Ohio
I’ve never seen human shit on the street there. The homeless can’t afford to live there anymore and live in Lancaster these days
I’ve spent vastly more time in SF than Columbus, yet I’ve seen more homeless ass and street shit in the latter.
Listen I’ve never been to California, I don’t really believe all the stories of people shitting in the street there, but I’ve spent years in Columbus and I really don’t believe stories of people shitting in the street there
A lot of these stories are about a few dense blocks in the core of downtown areas that either have homeless services nearby or are tourist areas where you can panhandle succesfully. This leads to a concentration of desperate people, who do desperate things.
No city has hundreds of streets and thousands of blocks just full of human shit. It happens in high traffic/high visibiilty areas due to poverty, the lack of accesable public bathrooms and drug use in the US, and even then, is minimal. Social media and right wing hysteria pump up minimal issues into quipy mania.
I was watching people undress and relieve themselves on the sidewalk in August over on State Street.
Some municipalities actually started DNA-testing dog shit, AFAIK it deals with the issue of dog owners leaving dog shit in the street quite well. Of course, that method won’t do anything when the culprit is someone homeless or a stray.
I’m confused. What are they gonna do, securing search warrants for Larry the Labradoodle and no-knock the front door off the hinges and buccal swab the cocksucker there and then?
Otherwise, the only way this makes sense if every dog is registered and must provide a sample preemptively. Maybe I’m missing something.
Otherwise, the only way this makes sense if every dog is registered and must provide a sample preemptively
That’s exactly what’s happening. I have a friend whose apartment complex has that as a requirement for dog owners to move in. If you leave shit in the grass, they test it, fine you and make you pay for the lab needed to prove it was you. It works pretty well, as she and I went outside one night in the dark with flashlights because I forgot a poop bag and couldn’t find it when I came back with the bag to make sure she wouldn’t catch the fine.
Yes, registering every dog’s DNA is exactly how they’re doing it - and if they find a match, they’ll send a fine. It’s quite a bit of effort, which is probably why this isn’t more widespread. Sidewalks full of dogshit fucking suck, though, and dogs already have to be registered for tax purposes so it’s not like this is a completely new level of bureaucracy, either.
god I wish I lived somewhere civilized. The general level of societal function this implies sounds amazing.
