Is there a place you have a strong dislike of? [NOT 7/4/21]

7/4/21 brightersideoflife 19
man throwing paperwork in the air and quote "looks like it's fuck this shit o'clock"

Hi, friends! Where do you hate going? Where do you go out of your way to not go to?

We had a small lunch to day to meet with a client (in person!) and it was in St. Charles County. I fucking hate St. Charles County. I do everything possible not to leave St. Louis County or St. Louis City.

I would love to go the rest of my life without going to St. Chuck. St. Charles is separated from St. Louis County by the Missouri River.

Here’s a not comprehensive list of why it can go fuck itself.

  • loves Trump
  • really, really loves Trump
  • Trump held a rally there in 2019 or early 2020 because they love him so much
  • has been strongly anti-democratic for as long as I know
  • is almost 92% white so I bet it’s awesome living there if you’re not white
  • when Missouri has statewide ballots for anything that is good for unions, fucking St. Charles is this giant sea of douchey red voters saying no
  • thinks they’re somewhere nice to live because the land was cheap
  • is where the North County white people fled to during their white flight decades which has been a main loss of population and revenue in North County and North City
  • act like they don’t have crime problems unlike the city
  • threw tax benefits to get businesses to leave St. Louis City to go to fucking St. Charles County, contributing to the economic struggles of the City
  • benefit from all the nice things in St. Louis but refuse to pay into the ZMD cultural tax district to support it
  • people get really fucking pissy if you introduce them as “from St. Louis” if you’re talking to people who have no info about regional stuff and therefore don’t care that it’s not St Louis city or county. Get over it. Someone from a different state doesn’t care.
  • there’s an EPA superfund site where there’s a fuckton of radioactive waste as well as weapons production waste (who knows what happens when things like uranium, asbestos, and arsenic all get into the local well water!) and a fuckton of cancer clusters and elevated miscarriage and infant mortality rates around that area, but don’t worry! Now it’s a fun spot for school field trips and hiking! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/weldon-spring-disposal-site
  • OF COURSE they never had a county mask mandate for covid
  • OF COURSE they never stopped indoor dining for covid

Anyways, today at lunch the wait staff had masks on that literally gapped away from their faces and when I stopped at the gas station after, half the employees and customers didn’t even have masks on and I’m like you fuckers are dicks.

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19 Comments

  1. California is awful and even the mountains that should be beautiful look like piles of dog shit with random ACME shit-boulders sprinkled on top like bad colourless Smarties Dairy Queen tasteless blizzards that aren’t actually blizzards because blizzards require actual moisture.

    Gardner, MA should be gerrymandered into NJ for the fact that it is a rundown shithole that has zero business having anything resembling “gardens” in its handle.

    • New Jersey is the Garden State so definitely sounds like this Gardner place should be annexed. 

    • California has many awful places but San Francisco, Lake Tahoe & Mt Shasta are amazing.  It’s like saying Canada sucks because of Calgary.

    • What in the world ever brought you to Gardner, MA? Did you make it over to nearby Fitchburg? That is a pretty hellish place. 

      • Check out the ice storm of 2008, the burg is like a sociological experiment in what muricans will do when faced with a shutdown in services/utilities. [point fingers, whine, rant, point fingers some more]

  2. The block around the corner from me. It’s two way but due to parked cars is really only one lane, it curves and goes downhill. Some people drive much too fast and don’t yield the way they should. I’ve seen people try to swing around cars that have correctly pulled over to the right to let oncoming traffic through, and then gummed up everything because they’re impatient and have no idea how to think through the scenario.
     
    It probably needs some kind of complex system of gates and lights and rumble strips, but something tells me the neighbors wouldn’t go for it.

  3. does “outside of my apartment” count, or is that too vague?

    • I was going to say “anywhere that there are people present” but decided that was too anti-social.  So, thank you.

  4. Houston & Katy Texas are awful places I hope to never go again.  Texas in general is bad but I never had to spend much time in the rest of state.  

    • You’re not missing anything.  The panhandle is one, giant, shit-filled, stockyard.

    • I would vote to build a wall around Texas, to keep them shut in and away from the rest of us.

  5. nope… im at worst ambivalent to most places
    its the getting there i hate now i dont have a car
    plains trains buses and airports can all go die in a fire
    boats are nice tho…least the over night ferry to england is…but i suspect if you put me on one for more than week you will lose a few passengers to assisted trips over the side

  6. I think that just about the only place I can deal with over there (and this is pre-pandemic, mind you) is Main Street St. Charles – and even then only during daytime hours, when it’s relatively calm and quiet. But, yeah – all those sprawly bits that seem like they were just thrown together and then had big box stores and fast-food chains sprinkled on top of ’em? Fuck them. Long ago, I spent about 500 days working at a call center out in Wentzville (the majority of which were utterly fucking miserable), and in a few ways, just about everything I’ve done since has been about getting as far away from there as possible, literally and figuratively.
     
    We should really never meet up there sometime.

    • Everyone that’s like “ohh the suburbs there are so nice!” assholes I am old enough to remember when it was shacks and rundown trailer parks everywhere.

      Also, naming streets after businesses is so grosssss. Like Bass Pro Sports Drive??? HAVE SOME GODDAMN PERSONALITY BESIDES CAPITALISM. 

      Also 100% concur. We should definitely meet up never there. 

  7. Malls, especially large malls, or Outlet Malls, on a holiday or weekend… see also big box stores, craft stores, and grocery stores on those same dates…
    Anywhere ridiculously flat, treeless, lake/riverless, and full of solely corn/soybeans/CAFO’s. The landscape is BORING when it’s that kind of flat, and those three things are terrible for the environment…
    KFC & any other primarily red-based interior-designed restaurants.
     
    Red is a “danger” color… it’s the color of emergency vehicles, AND the color of blood. Stoplights & stop signs are red.
     
    Red is the color of warnings (red-flag/”no burning” warnings on dry, windy days; hurricane warnings; traffic jams, etc)…
     
    It is NOT a color which ought to be in heavy rotation when you design/decorate a restaurant…. it’s TOO damn agitating, and can raise one’s fight/flight/freeze reaction…
    It definitely shouldn’t be all over, when one is trying to sit down, relax, and enjoy a meal/buffet (in the before-times!😉).
     

    • I’ve been told by many American graphic designers that orange is the most polarizing color on the spectrum for many of the reasons you mentioned: it is the color of road signs warning of dangerous conditions, life vests, etc. They’re orange, though, because it’s eye-catching, so it’s used, but sparingly. In Europe it’s more common. The easyJet empire is orange-branded. France Télécom was privatized (at least partially, I don’t know the particulars) and rebranded as Orange. That is the name of the company.

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