JohnBarleyCorn2

JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_j2skyu5 wrote

Reply to comment by succotash_witch in Remote workers: what’s your favorite place to get work done in the city outside of your home? by kgrace78

garbage everywhere, stains and spills all over the floor, carts everywhere, crappy music playing, out of service bathrooms.

Although...now that I think about it, i might be thinking about the Wegmans in Reisterstown, not Towson Whole foods.

In fact, after looking it up - that's definitely what I'm talking about. Edited original comment

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iy99rs6 wrote

Reply to comment by kyleg5 in Another stellar ad from VisitBaltimore. Just a reminder that the CEO makes $400K a year. by Cepia

there is a hotel near the inner harbor - can't remember the name, but my friends and I used to go in there and go swimming all the time and nobody said anything to us. That was back in the mid-90's though. One of my friends pissed on the hot rocks in the sauna once...smelled up the whole area.

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iwe0qgr wrote

Reply to comment by Junglepass in Making Baltimore look good on the Internet by perceptron-addict

> mostly red county folks or ppl that wished the lived in red county. More than likely trash ppl anyways and best to avoid their toxic personality.

This whole sentence is gross. Baltimore is dangerous...to say otherwise is disingenuous, regardless of what your politics are.

Yeesh.

You can talk about the good parts of Baltimore and still mention the parts to keep an eye out for without being "trash ppl".

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iwdk3to wrote

Reply to Making Baltimore look good on the Internet by perceptron-addict

Baltimore is my home town - Detroit is my wife's home town.

You are absolutely correct - Baltimore is a great town going through a hard time.

Would things be different if the news showed the great things in Baltimore? Like Camden Yards or Washington Monument and the Walters or Fells Point or the Katyn Monument or the Aquarium or all the great places to eat? I think so.

That said it would be doing a disservice to anyone wanting to visit or move without also adding that Baltimore does have its issues.

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iw826p6 wrote

Reply to comment by aliyoh in I was robbed by a group of children :/ by ElFello93

No. Just stop. You don't have to put up with sexual harassment from anybody. Its not ok. If someone is harassing you, then they need to be stopped.

> A Good Thing Actually for white people

to be able to walk down the street without being made to feel violated and unsafe.

You are wrong and I hope you gain the confidence to love yourself enough to not let ANYone do this to you, regardless of what color they are.

As the father of young daughters, it makes me so..so sad to see that young women would rather suffer harassment than report a crime. I hope I'm able to instill enough self-confidence and self-respect in my daughters that they would never take this fatalistic, nihilistic view of themselves.

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iw80ieq wrote

Reply to comment by huckleberryrose in I was robbed by a group of children :/ by ElFello93

Indeed...there was a pretty intense sense of violation, for some reason. As a guy, being made to feel powerless is not a fun experience.

That said, it would never happen to me again - mainly because I know and respect the city now. Respect in a "knowing its dangerous" and "where a white dude shouldn't travel" sort of way.

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iw7y7ph wrote

Reply to comment by huckleberryrose in I was robbed by a group of children :/ by ElFello93

yeah it was honestly stupid for me to have my window open there and not a good place for me to be, but I wasn't very familiar with Baltimore yet and I was young. That said, it wasn't my fault, but I wouldn't go there or be in that situation again. Farthest I go into Bmore these days is Northern Pkwy exit off of 81.

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JohnBarleyCorn2 t1_iw7vmm9 wrote

Reply to comment by lgmringo in I was robbed by a group of children :/ by ElFello93

> An adult white woman calling the cops on or chastising a group of Black boys? That's not a great idea... so you just end up letting them say whatever.

Jesus christ...they've really done a number on you. Why would you think this way? You are a human, not a sub-human lower caste. Your melanin content is irrelevant. You don't EVER have to put up with that shit. The fact people are upvoting you...what have we been reduced to? Good lord.

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