Seattle Slobs

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:32 am

I just found this in Seattle Times. (I love this paper.)
We're more likely to wear a wrinkled shirt to work — 23 percent would in Seattle, compared with the national average of 17.8 percent.

Ã¢â‚¬Â¢ Almost all the cities surveyed are doing more ironing, up an average 8.8 percent nationally. Seattle residents showed a 1 percent decrease.

Ã¢â‚¬Â¢ Only 8.9 percent of us think jeans are inappropriate for work, compared with 15.9 percent nationally.

Ã¢â‚¬Â¢ Only 7.4 percent of us think tight or revealing clothing is wrong for work, compared with 12.5 percent nationally.

Ã¢â‚¬Â¢ Just 1.5 percent of us find unkempt/dirty clothing uncool at work, compared with 5.3 percent nationally.

linky here

h. · Post by h. » Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:33 am

shit! I knew there was a reason I moved here!

marky · Post by **marky** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:57 am

Oh no, please don't get me started about just how inane the Seattle Times is. Here we are on the brink of war and it is amazing what they will fill their front page with...plus their writers
make the most embarassing grammatical gaffes and I'm not even an English major or anyone who's a stickler about that sort of thing, but it makes me
tremble to think that teachers might be using that paper to try to teach kids how to write...
And the Seattle P-I is not much better. Would you
believe there was a story in there yesterday that used to term "waked up" in the very first sentence? Past tense of "wake" anyone??? These people call themselves reporters? Journalists?
Editors?

BTW, Sloth do you ever read the UK weekly called the Guardian? I discovered that paper recently and found it a delightful anti-thesis to the Seattle Times.

Post by **Sloth** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:00 pm

I read the Guardian every day. Today they quoted a German politician on the front page who called Bush a modern day Adolf Hitler.

That's pretty bad. I've never even heard a German use the 'H' word before.

The Guardian rocks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,795582,00.html

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:59 pm

Well im not saying i love it for the content, it just seems to me that they are good at making fun of themselves. But i have read the guardian and it is a very goood paper.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:39 pm

the people here in Tempe dress nice and take lots of showers.

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 10:11 pm

well of course they take showers often, you sweat buckets. its insane really.

CortezTheKiller · Post by **CortezTheKiller** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:05 am

I hate this fucking city

Post by **Sloth** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:18 pm

How can you hate Seattle?

Its got bars, mountains, water, tennis courts, rock bands, and mellow people.

It's not Paris, New York, or Florence, but its one of the best American cities.

CortezTheKiller · Post by **CortezTheKiller** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:02 pm

Overcast days 250 a year thats fucking rediculous. Settles got the worst traffic on earth. The cost of living over here makes me ill.

Post by **Sloth** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:51 pm

Hey Cortez, the sun is shining and its hotter than hell.

And I walk to work.

You need to stop bitching and start mixing those frozen run drinks.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:53 pm

sloth can no longer spell.

borgy · Post by **borgy** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:02 am

most of us here can't spell

marky · Post by **marky** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:17 am

Cortez can't spell either, so he fits right in. Seattle is Settle, apparently, though he doesn't want to settle here.

Post by **Sloth** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:28 pm

Spelling is for editers.