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• Commented on Haight-Ashbury Recycling Center Won't Go Without A Fight, Or Bolt-Cutters
  Uhm... I use that center all the time. I'm paying for CRV for cans and bottles and I don't see why I should just toss them into curbside bins and lose my refund. At present it has become ludicrously difficult...
• Commented on Effort Underway To Chase Chase Bank From Divisadero
  I used to use Chase until, well, Monday (they got rid of their free checking) and seriously, this is idiotic. Banks are not "retail" in any traditional sense. I go there because I want to deposit or withdraw money not...
• Commented on Haight Street Whole Foods Reportedly Open For Shopping Now, Grand Opening Still Wednesday
  I live in the neighborhood, but I can't afford it so I still won't be shopping there. It would have been nice if Trader Joe's opened or perhaps a large local market that might have had a chance at affordable...
• Commented on God is Everywhere, Even for God-Dodging Progressives
  Ignoring the nonsense of this forced in element of religious propaganda it's just plain creepy to begin with. I mean, a loyalty oath? Isn't that just a little bit messed up? That we think nothing of having children recite it...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: The Sundance Kabuki Theater
  All of these "Things San Franciscans Like" columns read like annoying Yelp reviews. I guess it's the Appeal's show that they can compete with the Chronicle in the cutthroat business of unpleasant puff pieces and misinformed editorials....
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: Can Stores Charge You To Use A Credit Card?
  I would love it if my local corner store turned into a 7-11. Finally the hours would be better than the astoundingly inconvenient 8-10 and I'd be able to get slurpees and fountain sodas. Being a locally-owned store in this...
• Commented on Bay Area Clipper Card Use Shoots Up 43%
  Well, one of the steps to getting it accepted, at least from my own experiences, is to offer high-value tickets on BART when using commuter checks. That's the reason why my girlfriend continues to get the old, flimsy, antiquated tickets....
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Their Phones
  I wouldn't say it's anywhere close enough to say that iPhones predominate to the point of being considered default. Android-based phones are pretty widespread from what I see and given the large number of tech workers and Googlers who were...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: SF Parking Tips for Tourists
  Yes, you read it wrong. It's 8 AM - 6 PM. I could be mistaken, but I believe that all residential parking permit areas are during daytime hours only....
• Commented on Things That Are Common In San Francisco, But That San Franciscans Still Can't Seem To Wrap Their Heads Around And Also That They Hate Very Much: Cash Only
  Unless I'm mistaken it's also a violation for businesses to offer a different price for paying in cash, but just about every gas station in town seems to have moved that way. To me the bigger problem is larger businesses...
• Commented on Throw That Ticket Away; Muni Can't Make Fare Cheats Pay
  That is an absolutely insane salary to pay these people. Especially to perform such a simple task and with doing, what is generally agreed to be, a poor job of it. My girlfriend only makes 2/3rd as much as they...
• Commented on SF's Smoking Ban Extended, But Not Far Enough For Some
  Why such a paranoid, pro-smoking slant behind this piece? I'm incredibly glad to hear this news. For far too long people have seemed to believe that outdoor seating at cafes was put there just for them to smoke. If anything...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Knowing How To Ride The Bus
  It's not an issue of it being intuitive or learned from birth, it's simply a matter of having spent the modicum of effort required to actually read the signs. The hate in my voice when you fail to get off...
• Commented on SF MTA's New Budget Cut Plan: Almost All Buses Will Show Up Less Often, If At All
  "I don't see an embed option for either of your suggestions, which is key for us. " Actually, thanks a lot for embedding it. Because of that it was able to overload the memory and crash my browser. If you'd...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Putting Their Nasty Junk On The Sidewalk*
  Apparently, yes. I live on Cole only a few blocks away from Goodwill and over the past weekend, despite all the rain, a wide variety of ugly crap showed up in front of my building. At first just a broken...
• Commented on Muni Employees Not Taking Closure Of Montgomery Ticket Booth Lying Down
  While I support Translink (well, a functional Translink, unlike the one where the readers are turned off a third of the time) and use it for all of my transit it's still problematic with Commuter Checks. Everything else is fine...
• Commented on What's Shaking Down SF Venues? Call The Mayor Day, That's What
  Yeah, I'd love to go to more shows, but like a lot of people I'm out of work. C'mon venues, try and meet us halfway on this and stop trying to rip us off. I'm not even talking about drink...
• Commented on Leno Introduces Legislation Affirming Right Of Churches To Be Bigoted
  "is introducing legislation that would affirm that there is such requirement of clergy" Uhm... shouldn't there be a "not" in the middle of this sentence from the second paragraph?...
• Commented on Guerrilla Graffiti Temporarily Reveals Secret Bike Box
  Speaking of unfamiliar traffic markings what's with those little yellow circles with a line sticking out of them? They seem to come in pairs of two and I mainly see them around bus stops (once again, an area where every...
• Commented on Gate Blogger Asks If Kids Should Have BB Guns, Ignores That In SF That Can Get Them Arrested
  Eh... when I was 10 I was given a child-size .22 rifle with a scope. It was always kept in my father's gun safe though unless I was at the range with him. That's the thing about this, it has...
• Commented on Updated: Happy (Belated) Muni TransLink Beta Anniversary! Your Present: A New Name!
  At $70,000 plus benefits starting salary I certainly wouldn't call the police underpaid. Massively overpaid is much more like it. I use TransLink more or less exclusively for riding Muni and I have to agree that service has just kept...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: SF
  "But the truth is, the weather is totally beautiful eight days out of the year." Fixed that for you. Now I need to get back to looking for a good coat for next summer....
• Commented on Chronicle's Panties Wadded Over Prospect Of Sex Tents, What About Yours?
  I would say that they ought to just allow it publicly within the area of the street fair, but if a compromise is necessary this seems reasonable enough. I can sympathize with residents who have issues with the fair, but...
• Commented on Appealing TV: V
  Well, the original was initially intended to be an adaptation of "It Can't Happen Here", the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel about, well, the rise of a Hitler-analogue in the US. Apparently there were issues when it was done as a...
• Commented on The End Of An Era: Brightly Colored FastPass To Be Replaced By TransLink
  While it's nice to know that now we'll only be about ten years behind the rest of the world in this respect (isn't it always fun how despite being at the center of the world for technology we're almost always...