Portlandia is Right

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I've been trying to realize my sheep all morning in accordance with your edict, but nothing's happening. I must be doing it wrong.

on January 24, 2012 at 9:52 AM

2/10

Lonely At The Movies on January 24, 2012 at 10:20 AM

Dear Portlandia: we've found your target audience. It writes like a fourteen year old and is mad about really pointless shit. Congratulations.

on January 24, 2012 at 10:36 AM

The vegan part is funny/true.

buddy on January 24, 2012 at 11:04 AM

The main difference between Portland and Portlandia is that in Portland, people occasionally say or do things that are funny.

dimitrir on January 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM

Poorly written, but a straight sick burn on vegans.

ThatOneBitch on January 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM

Rolling Cigarettes has been done before??? Damn, only if I knew...

Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 24, 2012 at 11:43 AM

Pretty sure a bot wrote this one.

lithell on January 24, 2012 at 11:46 AM

apparently so by the part of the fryer amongst others, thats the easiest way for a moron to oblive the facts and just be an ashole about it.

Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Horse_ebooks? Is that you?

MrFabulous on January 24, 2012 at 11:56 AM

I don't give a shit what my vegan food touches. I'm not purchasing milk/meat/eggs and supporting that industry. So, I'm glad you all have a big, intellectually deficient laugh about something I really couldn't care less about.

PS move back to California.

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on January 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Also, obligatory comment about the humor in someone calling others "idiots" while displaying a clear lack of ability to differentiate between "they're" and "there," along with "your" and "you're."

Fucking moron.

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on January 24, 2012 at 12:28 PM

So it seems like this IA is pretty miserable living and working here. So, if other people's personal choices which DON'T effect him are that much of a bother, then why doesn't he quit his job (in this state/economy, if he'd dare) and move some place else?

Maybe b/c he'd encounter the SAME things? B/c maybe Portland isn't quite as unique as the hype would have one believe?

DamosA on January 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM

Funny how this type of IA draws out those of you who pretty much are exactly what Anon describes. Very funny. And by the way "personal choices" do not prevent you from being a tool. I can pretty much picture some of you clowns being just what anon describes. Losers. Nice reference that anon is from California...that makes zero sense. Sensitive hipsters?

on January 24, 2012 at 1:37 PM

Damn-OSA.

choices which DON'T effect him

choices which DON'T AFFECT him

Corrected.

buddy on January 24, 2012 at 1:45 PM

wuts a hipster?

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on January 24, 2012 at 2:30 PM

Tailgating, passing someone on Burnside, red jeans, being vegan, voting, wearing leather. Q: What's the common thread between these things? A: None whatsoever.
This shit does not exist. Shut the fuck up about so-called "hipsters." Go live in another city where no one tailgates and no one is vegan, no one talks about sustainability, and everyone wears average-to-wide pleated pants. Oh, right, no city like that exists, so just go die, mmkay?

geyser on January 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM

Hey, I think I'll grow a beard or sideburns and then spent the next ten years moaning about people with no facial hair. "Grow some fucking facial hair, all you pathetic people out there. Clean-shaven is so predictable, it's been done before, wah, wah, wah, I hate Portland; it's so full of clean-cut meat-eaters who want their food just so. I see them every day in their fucking clothes that fit into a vague, made-up category! It's so predictable and annoying." See? It's a two-way street. STFU.

geyser on January 24, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Geyser, have I ever told you that I like the cut of your jib? I don't even know what a jib is really. But I like yours.

And DamosA is right on here. What people do with their own bodies is their own god damn business. If it offends you what people do so much: you are the one with the problem.

Fruit Cup on January 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM

creativity: 2/10
gramar: -1 million
entertainment: 5/10
over-reaction from residents: 8/10

on January 24, 2012 at 4:22 PM

"realize your sheep" was an actual skillshare seminar I was offering at an Anarchist Bookfair.
I think I'm being made fun of.

rich23 on January 24, 2012 at 6:06 PM

no no, were laughing with you in that bit.

Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 24, 2012 at 6:13 PM

You know the IA is kinda stupid and you try so hard to believe that you aren't just like everyone else. But deep down you're a little insecure and you just want to fit in with the cool alternative kids. That's why you do all the dumb hipster shit in the first place. So you just have to respond and pretend to be over it and insult the grammar just so you can feel better about yourself. It's really, really sad. You just can't help yourself because you're really empty inside and you know we know.

on January 24, 2012 at 7:42 PM

@23

And here you are, the only true exception.

buddy on January 24, 2012 at 8:04 PM

damnit, FruitCup made me re-read Damosa and agree with it, damn it all to hell

also the show isn't hateful, Senor IA the Errant Dickhole

Spoolo on January 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM

BUT screw sanctimonious vegans
(Sidenote- I definitely like milk products: so much that in 6th grade I mimicked 2 live crew with "HEEEEEYYY, WE WANT SOME PUUU-DDIING" to which a kid across from me said "WHAT KIND OF PUDDING YOU WANT, WHITEBOY, VANILLA OR CHOCOLATE??!)
YO!

Spoolo on January 24, 2012 at 8:12 PM

You wanna rant about food politics, anon? The show doesn't just make fun of vegan/vegetarian people, dumpster divers etc. It also makes fun of wealthy idiots who think that if they sometimes "ask about" the source of their meat, then no animals will suffer and they'll be absolved of all blame. So if vegan/vegetarian people are ridiculous and so are the affluent kind of people I just described, then what's left that's not being knowingly laughed at by the show? Being a poorer person with a bad diet who doesn't know anything about where their food comes from or what it does or doesn't do for them? Awesome! But I guess all the mass of people like that here don't represent Portland to someone like anon who complain about the city being "uniformed" as a place of "hipster idiots."

geyser on January 24, 2012 at 8:38 PM

@23: You're saying the commenters here are empty inside and we know that others know we're empty?!? What is this, a damned Ingmar Bergman film? Oops, I guess I just outed myself as a "hipster" with that reference because only THEY ever talk about things like Ingmar Bergman, right?

geyser on January 24, 2012 at 8:53 PM

"And by the way "personal choices" do not prevent you from being a tool."

-------------------------------------

You're right. Noone here ever say that it did.

However, bitching and whining and writing IA's about OTHER people's personal choices DOES make you a total Nazi-douche bag.

DamosA on January 24, 2012 at 11:08 PM

Ohhh. Showstopper's getting called the fuck out! Fight fight fight...

buddy on January 25, 2012 at 5:36 AM

MimosA, what the hell is Noone? who the hell uses that word?

Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 25, 2012 at 5:40 AM

Dear Comment # 11: Actually, you ARE inadvertently supporting the protein industry by eating at our restaurants, because...as the ball rolls....you are supporting us by buying our food...us being, they who purchase the bulk meat, eggs, etc. to serve to our less fickle patrons. Every time you purchase something from an establishment that accomodates non-vegans by serving proteins from animals, you support the industry of it by a percentage...tiny though it may be, but you still ARE. You insult actual vegans by taking the selfish route. Think beyond your bubble. YOU go back to CA. lmfao....I'mma keep cooking your veggie sausage in bacon grease.

on January 25, 2012 at 8:27 AM

@32/anon:
1. There's no such thing as a "protein industry."
2. I don't think "fickle" means what you think it means.
3. If you offer plant-based faux-sausage on your menu, it's absurd for you to get furious on the Internet after people order it.
4. So the "actual vegans" you refer to would be those who refuse to eat in restaurants with nonvegans, or demand to have all the cookware scrubbed out before their meal is prepared? Yeah, I'm sure that kind of purist behavior would earn vegans a _lot_ more respect and admiration in the eyes of society in general and the rantin' 'bout hipsters people like yourself.
5. Pro tip: being vegan is not correlated to being a Pabst-swilling scenester or any other things you're ranting about. Most vegans don't fall into that vague set of "hipster" categories, and few in said categories are vegan. You're just being an ass, and you probably know it which is why you came to an anonymous blog with this BS in the first place.

geyser on January 25, 2012 at 8:53 AM

And in general: "hipster" really means "someone with tastes other than my own who seems to be having more fun than I am," usually.

on January 25, 2012 at 9:42 AM

It's funny because it's true. If you don't think it's funny.....it's you.

BokChoy on January 25, 2012 at 10:28 AM

the concept is funny.
unfortunately, the sketches aren't.

on January 25, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Oh and hi, Fruit Cup. Back at you: your jib is also swell.

geyser on January 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM

@34..no. At 35...yes.@33...true, but you sure get up in arms about this( oh wait, I am the one who supposedly whines and bitches). At 34...no. Anyone that immature and childish enough to use that word would get destroyed by me

on January 25, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Mimosa Shutted Down. NOONE spoke.

Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 25, 2012 at 3:07 PM

Yes, "no one" should have a space in it. Let's move on.

Showstopper: I'm not really up-in-arms, just trying to amuse myself while pushing back against some tiresome dead-horse-beating.

geyser on January 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM

@32: I always love the "actual vegans" line. Like you're making me feel bad because I give a shit what some proto-orthodoxy thinks about how I eat.

@geyser: I'm willing to bet this person isn't calling the shots on what goes on the menu.

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on January 25, 2012 at 5:06 PM

Also, I'm now pretty sure I lived with this guy in college for a while.

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on January 25, 2012 at 5:09 PM

@geyser..fair enough, I need to get off that dead horse myself.

on January 27, 2012 at 10:57 AM

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