[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How does Austin even exist??? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 3/9/2013 6:09:58 AM EDT
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Austin actually looks pretty cool now. a real mixed bag of people and a metric shit ton o' GOOOD eatin'!!!
watching Anthony bourdain in Austin on the travel channel...what a shithole of hippy wannabes and grunge scum. this place looks like berkley-south.
you should have seen this lisping faggot squealing about tasty big chicken balls... 
found some amazing looking bbq though. |
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Quoted: watching Anthony bourdain in Austin on the travel channel...what a shithole of hippy wannabes and grunge scum. this place looks like berkley-south. you should have seen this lisping faggot squealing about tasty big chicken balls... found some amazing looking bbq though. Texas has a surprising amount of Nobel Prize winners, scientists, and educated people who don't preoccupy themselves with how other people live their lives. You might learn something... |
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watching Anthony bourdain in Austin on the travel channel...what a shithole of hippy wannabes and grunge scum. this place looks like berkley-south. you should have seen this lisping faggot squealing about tasty big chicken balls...
found some amazing looking bbq though. Texas has a surprising amount of Nobel Prize winners, scientists, and educated people who don't preoccupy themselves with how other people live their lives. You might learn something... there isn't a fucking thing there i can't from somewhere else. one thing I did learn is that even though they may be mushy libtards, I'm not seeing a whole lot of vegetarians... |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: watching Anthony bourdain in Austin on the travel channel...what a shithole of hippy wannabes and grunge scum. this place looks like berkley-south. you should have seen this lisping faggot squealing about tasty big chicken balls... found some amazing looking bbq though. Texas has a surprising amount of Nobel Prize winners, scientists, and educated people who don't preoccupy themselves with how other people live their lives. You might learn something... there isn't a fucking thing there i can't from somewhere else. one thing I did learn is that even though they may be mushy libtards, I'm not seeing a whole lot of vegetarians... How to use the Shift key would be a refreshing start. |
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watching Anthony bourdain in Austin on the travel channel...what a shithole of hippy wannabes and grunge scum. this place looks like berkley-south. you should have seen this lisping faggot squealing about tasty big chicken balls...
found some amazing looking bbq though. Typical GD stupidity. "I saw it on TV and now know everything I need to know about the place!"
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6th street is the shit!!! Yep, great place to get stabbed.  I went there maybe a dozen times in the 5 years i was stationed at ft hood. Only once was it filled hoodlums. UT had a track meet or something and they must have been playing against atlanta . Cops had points at every intersection. But every other time I was there it was a blast.
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Might to go to Austin with some friends (yes, including a gay but socially conservative couple--neither of whom voted for O). Supposedly it has some big antiques market a couple of times a year.
I've already braced myself for an ambience that is probably a lot more liberal than I'd like. |
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I like Austin. Good food, good music, hot womenz. People have differing viewpoints. As much as I like you guys, I would hate to live in an area that just had Arfcommers. This! I was there for the first time back in November for F1 and loved the place. I’d totally move from Scottsdale provide I had work. |
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I had a blast in Austin first time I was there. Second time not so much, as I learned about Red Cedars (I think that was the name). Fucking tress from hell if you have any kind of pollen/hay fever allergies. Would go back again except during the everything is covered in yellow fucking pollen and I can't stop sneezing season. |
What else could a man ask for?
| I was sad when I heard Leslie Cochran died a couple of years ago. Actually got a picture of him in a UT cheerleader outfits on a film somewhere. Austin is a cool bunch a friendly people, too damn much traffic though. You don't have to be crotchety to support the 2A. |
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Unfortunately, Austin is a great place to live. You learn to be gray when it comes to certain issues at certain places - and life is great. (in this day and age, being gray is a good life skill to learn anyway) Meanwhile, 10 miles in any direction is quite conservative. There are different types of hippies. You have the original hippies (they are probably about 60 or so now). They exist, but you will not see them out and about much unless you really look for them (they screw with politics by backing environmental and drug causes). You have your environmentalists - they look normal, but tend to have an all consuming worship of nature (most likely they are yuppies and don't do much drugs), they screw with local politics a bit. Then there are neo-hippies - drug users that want to be cool like the original hippies were then (they tend to stick to themselves), they might be superficially environmental, but it is not their main cause). They all exist in Austin, and generally make better neighbors than gang bangers. |
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6th street is cool for 21-25 year olds. Honestly it does not get much traffic from 30 somethings. The 30 somethings tend to do more on west 5th (it cost more, better quality of food and drink, and less drunk kids - also more mature music choices). I understand there is an area for cougars as well, but not really what I ever hunted, so don't really care. |
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I like Austin. Good food, good music, hot womenz. People have differing viewpoints. As much as I like you guys, I would hate to live in an area that just had Arfcommers. I dislike and rarely use the word awesome but, sometimes it best describes things. Living in a town that was entirely ARFCOMers would be awesome! Imagine how law abiding it would be. Criminals would not dare even come close. The "Sunday Shoot" gatherings would be amazing. 
Best of all? ZERO FSA to have see running around and using up someone elses oxygen. If there was such a thing as Utopia, that right there may be it. 
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I did Pre-Med at U.T. in Austin. The music is awesome, there are some hot women and running in the mornings along Town Lake is nice. However, the traffic is ridiculous and it is overrun with bums and hippies.
They really should force every citizen of that city to spend a night in an ER there. They'd get a whole new view of the bums and bars there. It's also the only city in the U.S. that I have seen shanty towns of bums. With their tarps strung up between bushes, lawn chairs and ice chests sitting along major road ways as they rotate out bumming off people stopped at lights. |
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Typical distortion in the media. If you came to Austin personally you would have a hell of a time FINDING an hippie. (Unless you think the homeless are hippies) It's a media fantasy. Pay it no mind. Not sure if serious... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Perhaps your problem is that you don't actually know what a hippie is. (Hint. They are all in their 60's) What's running around Austin are mainly dirtbags. |
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Typical distortion in the media. If you came to Austin personally you would have a hell of a time FINDING an hippie. (Unless you think the homeless are hippies) It's a media fantasy. Pay it no mind. Not sure if serious... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Perhaps your problem is that you don't actually know what a hippie is. (Hint. They are all in their 60's) What's running around Austin are mainly dirtbags. Actually, there are still some hippies here, you just have to know where to look. Travis heights still has a bunch that haven't died off, and they make great neighbors. |
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It was certainly an interesting place to live. The hippies were the least of the problems I encountered, number one being the bums, number two being the crime ridden section 8 projects, and number three being the drunk frat boys tearing up the alleys in their Cadillacs and shooting their pistols up in the air whenever the Longhorns won a home game.
I don't know If I'd live there again, but it was never boring. |
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Quoted: I dislike and rarely use the word awesome but, sometimes it best describes things. Living in a town that was entirely ARFCOMers would be awesome! Imagine how law abiding it would be. Criminals would not dare even come close. The "Sunday Shoot" gatherings would be amazing. Best of all? ZERO FSA to have see running around and using up someone elses oxygen. If there was such a thing as Utopia, that right there may be it. We had a wonderful member by the name of Eric_The_Hun who had a section of land in North-Central Texas that twice a year became its own city of Arfcommers. There was plenty of public intoxication, a little open homosexuality, a lot of questionable gunfire safety, often at night. And yes, even some FSA. WHAT you ask, FSA? Yes, even had a guy stealing eggs and bread out of my cooler on Saturday morning. Same guy kept us cabin dwellers awake all Saturday night, slamming the door, dragging his boots while he kept raiding the beer chest. Next morning, he was hung way over. So we made it better with trash, our own banging and lots of fun. Then we threw in a giant salute. I then used a paintball marker to strafe him. He finally got pissed off and chased me with his AR15. So yeah, a city of Arfcommers has been done. And while it was awesome, it wasn't perfect. |
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Quoted: Typical distortion in the media. If you came to Austin personally you would have a hell of a time FINDING an hippie. (Unless you think the homeless are hippies) It's a media fantasy. Pay it no mind. This. Austin wants to have hippies but they are damn hard to find anymore. I live in Cedar Park but work in Austin and I think it is a great city to live just outside of. |
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Quoted: Unfortunately, Austin is a great place to live. You learn to be gray when it comes to certain issues at certain places - and life is great. (in this day and age, being gray is a good life skill to learn anyway) Meanwhile, 10 miles in any direction is quite conservative. There are different types of hippies. You have the original hippies (they are probably about 60 or so now). They exist, but you will not see them out and about much unless you really look for them (they screw with politics by backing environmental and drug causes). You have your environmentalists - they look normal, but tend to have an all consuming worship of nature (most likely they are yuppies and don't do much drugs), they screw with local politics a bit. Then there are neo-hippies - drug users that want to be cool like the original hippies were then (they tend to stick to themselves), they might be superficially environmental, but it is not their main cause). They all exist in Austin, and generally make better neighbors than gang bangers. Enviros, the bane of mine and most business's existence. I was at a watershed protection meeting yesterday at city hall and one of the main one loudly stated that they would never compromise on a point. Way to go bud, let's ensure that nothing actually changes for the good of the city in order to satisfy some esoteric enviro point.  |