(via @JimDuncan)
You might know you are in Charlottesville when you read a craigslist ad that required that you only eat vegetarian food. We know that because we did a post on it and it was actually advertised on the Charlottesville Craigslist.
We can now add “Voted for Obama” to the list of Charlottesville Craigslist Elite (CCE). For real, check out this Craigslist ad titled “Must Be Awesome:”
Hi!
My roommates and I are looking for a 4th to share a house in Fry Springs (JPA).
We are looking for someone who shares our values:
*Respectful
*Artistic
*Only one of us is vegetarian but we all eat like it.
*Positive
*Voted for Obama
*nonjudgmental. unless you didn’t vote for Obama.
*our DVD collection is full of romantic comedies. But you don’t have to watch them.We are 2 women and 1 man. 2 of us are UVa employees (1 professor and 1 office drone) and the 3rd is a bank employee. We occasionally have people over but always ask each other first. We’re not partiers, but we are social.
So now it’s cool to discriminate against people who don’t think share your political beliefs? I guess the hardest part really is sharing artistic values. Oh the irony of being nonjudgemental unless you didn’t vote for Obama irks me! This is worse than discriminating against vegetarians, but I guess you probably would really want to live in that house if you were a staunch XXXXXXX supporter, since, you know, they are so nonjudgemental, positive and respectful.
Maybe we can put together a cVillain craigslist housing ad which would include:
- must like tartar only prepared in the french fashion
- must hate Norwegian water
- must have a sweet screen name and avatar
- must enjoy blacking out at least once per week
- what else ?
[pic from dbking/flickr]
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“a staunch XXXXXXX supporter”? While I have never seen porn rated that high I’m guessing that would qualify you for any frat house on grounds
that ad is not as bad as this one:
“No smoking, excessive drinking, or overnight male guests” woohoo! a nunnery!
if your a shorter lesbian who has caged animals then that sounds like a dream
yeah i saw that one when i was looking for a place lately…yikes!
Oh, thor37. The failure. It burns. And alas I cannot resist shredding it.
This is discrimination, but not the illegal kind. These folks are looking for a roommate, you know, someone to LIVE with. They are not renting out a unit for someone to occupy solomente uno. If you were going to live with someone and share a kitchen and a living room and the like with someone, are you really prepared to aver that you would not “discriminate” in your selection? Yeah? Thought so.
Politics, like religion, is something that folks are passionate about. Why in the world would one invite the kind of household discord that would no doubt result from having someone that you passionately disagree with? Although I personally find the ad rather stupid, as I personally love discussions with those with whom I disagree, you have to admit, it serves its intended purpose. Your typical pointy head is probably not going to apply, no? The sycophants who placed the ad will get a fourth sycophant with whom they can play “preach to the wholistically obtained choir” in harmonia perpetua. Everyone wins.
Further, the perceived persecution of you and yours on the right is getting rather tedious. Your talking point cries of “elitism”, which have disintegrated into being about mustard and teleprompters, are so shamefully shallow and misplaced. You have become the LaGrapes of the opposite pole, tilting at windmills as you shake your tiny impotent fists at the sky. Personally, it saddens me, as I think that this country needs a sane opposition party, no matter who is running the show. Unfortunately, you boys have cried wolf twenty too many times, and this whole elitism/socialism/teabag/mustard/teleprompter/acorn business has become a whisper in a windstorm and unfortunately morphed into a theater of the absurd.
No dittos for you thor and jim, mega or otherwise.
tilting at windmills
Sounds like you had sum of that fancy book-learnin’. You are a elite, isn’t you?
dude chill out i’m bilateral or whatever you call it. you also have no idea who i voted for and that’s strict secret, so please leave me the fuck alone and stop making untrue allegations about my political beliefs
all politicians appeal to the lowest common denominator. it’s marketing and you sir have drank the koolaid.
whoa. thor said fuck.
ps i’m done playing admin for a few days because your accusation has nothing to do with the post it has everything to do with your nonsensical belief that this site has some sort fo subliminal political promotion. do you really think that we are anti-political to silence some political ideology? that’s nonsense.
this would have been posted regardless of the political belief and shen is right to add the no overnight male guest posts to this discussion. there is a lot of irony in saying that you are nonjudgmental when you are around people who think like you and that’s exactly the issue.
if you want to debate an “acceptable and appropriately politicized topic,” use this fake advertisement:
Awesome Roommate = Voted for McCain
Hi!
My roommates and I are looking for a 4th to share a house in Fry Springs (JPA).
We are looking for someone who shares our values:
*Respectful
*Artistic
*Only one of us is vegetarian but we all eat like it.
*Positive
*Voted for McCain
*nonjudgmental. unless you didn’t vote for McCain.
*our DVD collection is full of romantic comedies. But you don’t have to watch them.
We are 2 women and 1 man. 2 of us are UVa employees (1 professor and 1 office drone) and the 3rd is a bank employee. We occasionally have people over but always ask each other first. We’re not partiers, but we are social.
It makes no difference. Over and out.
wow. i once said i would rip off your head and shit in your neck and you didn’t care. b yo says you’re antipolitical and mcquitty quit quit.
hahahaha
I apologize if I’ve offended you. It was indeed a rash assumption to assume your political alliance, if any. My opinions stand, but I am sorry to have included you in them.
That said, I believe my comment had everything to do with the topic. I could have perhaps left off the last paragraph, but making a distinction between between kinds of discrimination i think is relevant. Further, we agree that the ad is stupid, particularly the irony of the “non-judgemental” part. It is stupid, but not offensive or illegal and that is my point.
<i.it has everything to do with your nonsensical belief that this site has some sort fo subliminal political promotion. do you really think that we are anti-political to silence some political ideologyM
Where in the world this comes from, I have no idea. Since when are *you* “this site”. I thought it was all of us, from the Grapes to the Ethans. At least thats what I thought you yourself said. Perhaps I was wrong. And why in the world would you, who is anonymous, care what I thought of you or your politics? What difference could it possibly make? Im nobody. And while I have sme strong opinions, I absolutely respect that others have theirs as well. I dont get it.
May I offer a suggestion? If your skin is so thin that you cannot tolerate a little civil political back-and-forth, or you want to avoid flame wars on this site, then perhaps topics like these should either not be here, or at least not be couched in such vernacular. I know you just wanted to have a nice little topic where people made funnies about what villain housing requirements should be. Ha ha. But it didnt work that way, as sometimes happens. No biggie, really. In my opinion, you should either lighten up, or be more careful how you say things. But my opinion matters very little.
Once again, I meant no personal antipathy or judgement. Just calling it like I see it, just like everyone else here.
*HUG*
I just don’t want there to be the belief that we publish/not-publish things because of political intent.
Hugs? BOOOOO!
Just when things were starting to get interesting.
Sup Thor I herd byo said you doesn’t like the jews and that you litter FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Oh I don’t think you have an political agenda here, far from it. We can all appreciate the difficulty running a site like this must pose but before you get all “shaken the baby” on us perhaps you can vent your anger by going to B-Yo’s next gig and requesting TI or some other nuanced artist.
Thor take a break and light up that joint you’ve been saving for after work.
stop the fucking hugging or i will rip your head off and shit in your neck cavity
Well since floozy isn’t here perhaps two others could jump into the fray and keep the action going. Any one wanna call shenanigans (who seems to hate girls scouts) a name?
I am here.
speak of the devil
You told me she was more of a succubus
I just don’t want there to be the belief that we publish/not-publish things because of political intent.
Actually, I found your reaction to be more over the top and personal than just that. I hit some nerve somewhere. I will refrain from presuming which, however, lest you take your ball and go home.
Actually all politicians don’t appeal to the lowest common denominator. Obama and Deeds both took principled stance as underdogs and where able to beat more craven pols.
you must be kidding…
For the record, I didn’t mention or allude to discrimination, just made a moderately sarcastic remark about being open-minded.
Personally, I appreciate and welcome differing points of view – it’s how I learn and evolve my own thinking and opinions.
So far as I know, political viewpoints are not (yet) protected classes. I think I’d be more concerned with their having purchased an entire DVD collection of romantic comedies.
Further adding to the record, I’m independent with a strong libertarian bent – neither right, left nor center.
I’d live in a house with a Palin supporter before I lived in a house with a copy of You’ve Got Mail.
I kid. Or maybe I don’t.
What about When Harry met Sally?
or Le Divorce?
Or anything with Sandra fucking Bullock in.
Or Hugh Grant. Jaysus I can’t stand his stupid floppy hair.
/cue otter with mandatory H Minor comment
wow, so Two Weeks Notice must be like the seventh level of hell for you!
Translated: In this down economy and depressed real estate market, I dont dare take a stand anywhere lest I offend a potential customer.
I understand, boo, by all means make yo’ paper… But “neither right, left nor center.“? C’mon now… where does that leave you? Floating in space?
as much as I hate to say it, b-yo is right. although you said in 500 words what I’ll say in 24.
I don’t think it’s discrimination if you are looking for a roommate. it’s only discrimination if you are a landlord.
And why, pray tell, do you hate to say it?
/sincerely curious.
I see.
race, national origin, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, mental retardation, alienage, legitimacy.
it’s not discrimination re politics even if you’re a landlord.
thor, your fake ad is ridiculous. how many artistic, nonjudgmental vegetarian republicans do you know? hippies are democrats.
then again Hitler, not by any means a republican, was a vegetarian and forced many party-members to become so. He was also a mediocre painter and pseudo-architect, he also had exotic facial hair (not really a goatee or soul-patch, but still)…
don’t all equal-housing laws go out the window when it comes to roommate-choice? isn’t it just landlords who are bound by that stuff; the choice of a roommate is almost by nature discriminatory against any number of protected catgories?
hitler died over sixty years ago.
far too long ago to have voted for Obama, so utterly irrelevent in discussion of the ad. my mistake!!!!!!
i meant, long enough for such signifiers & labels to change.
e.g., back in the day (i.e., reconstruction), democrats were the rich racists.
like David Duke was (rich democrat and preacher of genocide) before 1988 !!!
this stuff is way over my head orchid—i was just screwing around.
the thors got mad and typed in all-no-caps! which is my thing! oh, happy day.
Most shifts key are coated in trans-dermal lithium, which explains a lot.
let’s talk about craziest roommates evar. i live with a girl who stuck some of her baby green salad in a pot of dirt. expecting them to grow into something.
Once lived in a house where one of the roommates was very quiet and bookish, and very very odd. He ate raw meat, and only raw meat. He always wore slacks and a dress shirt, except when he went to bed, when he would change into jeans and a t-shirt. His bed was a bare matress. He owned almost nothing. He would get books from the library and sit and read. We could have a full scale raging college party going on, and he would be right in the thick of it, sitting quietly, in ‘his’ chair, reading. He never went to class.
One night, we asked him, jokingly, “Whattya gonna do tonight?” Har har , because he never went anywhere but the library or the store.
He looked up from his book and said calmly “Tonight at midnight I am going to kill myself. I have razor blades stashed all over the house, you cannot possibly find them all. Its nothing personal, but if you leave the house or try to stop me, I will kill you too”.
Took a while to sink in, you know, but eventually we got that he meant it. Eventually one of us snuck out and called the cops (pre cell phone days), and they came and took him down with a slight struggle, and off he went in restraints. Never saw or heard from him again. Crazy enough? Its not even in my top five.
whoa you didn’t tell OD used to live with you
THE CODE Shenanigan, you have no respect for THE CODE!
things got better i guess. now they’re worse i suspect. but i’ve known BYo for 15 years at least, and he was right to do it. these last fifteen years have been… ummm.. so FUCKING worthwhile. so FUCKING worthwhile. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
i once had a roommate who went halfway across the country to get her child from her husband, bring back here, and proceed to live somewhere else with one of her friends who already had a child … and stopped paying rent.
that’s nothing. my friend lisa said her friend’s roomie always left this sock in the shower. one day she confroented her and the girl said, “oh, that’s just my butt sock”. she used it to clean her butthole after anal sex with her bf.
That is grim indeed. I had one that drained her pasta into the sink, even if it was full of rancid smeggy dishes, and would then scoop up the pasta in her hand and put it on the plate. Never did accept her dinner party invites. Then there was the bitch that used to play Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ on perpetual repeat and MAX VOLUME when she was having sex.
/I think Realtors plant these people in the community to make people want to buy their own crib. Seriously.
all of these roommates totally out-crazy my experience.
yikes.
Topless Gandi? MaHOTma indeed!
I can feel his presence as it permeates this thread
I once had a roomate clean me out of prescription vicodin. He left a note in the bottle that said “I O U painkillers” Other than that, a good guy
my roommate has a drawer of medicine. one night i asked her for something to make me drowsy and she started rustling through her stash. “sorry, i don’t have anything except these roofies…” she told me and walked away.
lawls
What is wrong with you people? Aren’t ANY of you normal?
I’d tell you Doc but unfortunately you’re not covered by my current insurance plan and your avatar does not imbue me with confidence. Is your HIPAA training current?
Why was my reply deleted to the “spam” file? Because it said “pills”?
i had a roommate who went to one of the bonnaroos, and “discovered” acid. he kept himself dosed for 5 days, then bought and brought home enough to keep his head cooking pretty much indefinitely. it went on for about 10 more days before i decided to move in with my girlfriend. when i finally heard that it was safe to come home it was like a real-life fear & loathing in blacksburg.
fucking ketchup, cigarettes, road cones, natty light, tree branches, wall drawings, aborted art projects… horrendous.
fucking ketchup, cigarettes, road cones, natty light, tree branches, wall drawings, aborted art projects… horrendous.
Or as I like to call it, Tuesday.
…you forgot a Jim Morrison poster.