How do new people CHOOSE to move here and complain so much?

eberri · July 2007

Not to mention don't embrace the total existing community, are so fearful and at the same time self-entitled? If this doesn't describe you welcome, if it does, I would just love to understand why...

It is so clear by some of the posts that we, ALL OF US, need to open up the lines of communication and talk to others outside of our immediate groups/comfort zone. It may not be easy or what we're used to, but certainly its needed because a number of folks seem to have very "all about me and my issues" concerns and perspectives...

I understand venting, but sheesh...

As a black queer woman if I spent my time and energy complaining about all the things that frustrated, annoyed, inconvenienced, scared or were unfair to me, I would get nothing else in life done...

Anybody out there get me? Or am I somehow seeing things incorrectly?

whyfi · July 2007

"HEY! All of you people that suck - why do you suck so much?"

Great way of opening the lines of communication.

carmen · July 2007

^very true.

queencallipygos · July 2007

Actually, I think anything posted in here should most times be taken with a grain of salt. Here on this series of tubes (tm), we all have a certain degree of anonymity, and a lot of times when you have some anonymity you tend to say things you wouldn't say otherwise. You don't think as much before you speak, you say things slightly nastier than you usually would...and other people misread what you say because you're not there and they can't see the look on your face or hear your tone of voice so they take what you said even more seriously than you meant it on top of that, and...

In other words, what we have in here is Id Unleashed; this is the venting that gets blown out in here and then in the real world people can take a deep breath and get to work working with each other.

anonymous · July 2007

Subject: Re: How do new people CHOOSE to move here and complain so mu

eberri wrote: Not to mention don't embrace the total existing community, are so fearful and at the same time self-entitled? If this doesn't describe you welcome, if it does, I would just love to understand why...

It is so clear by some of the posts that we, ALL OF US, need to open up the lines of communication and talk to others outside of our immediate groups/comfort zone. It may not be easy or what we're used to, but certainly its needed because a number of folks seem to have very "all about me and my issues" concerns and perspectives...

I understand venting, but sheesh...

As a black queer woman if I spent my time and energy complaining about all the things that frustrated, annoyed, inconvenienced, scared or were unfair to me, I would get nothing else in life done...

Anybody out there get me? Or am I somehow seeing things incorrectly?

i agree wiith you.we should be communicating rather then complaining

anonymous · July 2007

eberri takes this board and "newcomers" concerns too personally. If they are not your complaints or concerns, then why get so worked up? Calm down. Sheesh. And who cares if you've been in CH since '97. Big deal. My family has lived in the area since the early 1840s but I'm not bitching about the fact that they area has changed drastically and continues to change, it is what is expected - neighborhoods are dynamic. Deal with it. If people agitate for what they want in terms of services etc., that's their perogative. If you don't like it, too bad. Things change.

solamami · July 2007

"HEY! All of you people that suck - why do you suck so much?"

Great way of opening the lines of communication.

Well said. I particularly enjoyed her welcoming me to the neighborhood by labeling me a racist, especially when I am a woman of color. Was I whining about why there's no Starbucks (don't need it, when Common Grounds rocks), or why Fresh Direct doesn't deliver (no thanks, when there's Superfoodtown) or bitching about dry cleaners that don't take credit cards (who cares?)? No. I was asking how to get the drug dealer out from my doorstep. But I guess that's too much to ask to want to uplift the community in that way.

And btw, queencallipygos? Series of tubes? Nice one.

queencallipygos · July 2007

solamami wrote:
And btw, queencallipygos? Series of tubes? Nice one.

The real credit goes to Senator Ted Stevens, but thanks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

solamami · July 2007

Oh yes, I knew the allusion perfectly. That's what made me LOL. Senator Stevens brings seven different types of crazy to congress. And to think that he's third in line for the presidency? Vurry scurry...

apollonia666 · July 2007

How many separate threads in which people bitch about other people bitching do we need?

whyfi · July 2007

42

solamami · July 2007

Ummm... 18? I dunno... 'tis played out, for sure...

Meanwhile, hey, apollonia, how are you? Was it you that recommended Wong Movers? Wanted to give a shout-out of praise and thx--they are the serious bomb.

boygabriel · July 2007

I'm locking this post because there's already an identical one that berates "new comers" for "whining and complaining".

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36203

Let's try and consolidate anti-gentrification rants as much as possible, thanks.

How do new people CHOOSE to move here and complain so much?

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