Q: What is the most common pick-up line in a San Francisco gay bar?
A: May I push in your stool?

A San Francisco barstool
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D_Evans45: dericwater: D_Evans45: Ive been told its hipster central. Are there really markedly increased populations of Apple fans up there, SFers?

Macs out number PCs as the go-to laptop for coffeehouse squatting. Like 3-to-1.


Well maybe the hipsters would be too high off that SF pot to suffer acute Apple fanboy syndrome.

/There is always Oakland I guess

Eh, Oakland is getting really hipster too, at least in certain parts like Uptown or near Lake Merrit. SF is kinda like that too, with histerdom in the Mission or SOMA.

beer4breakfast Alured Popple: Heh, didn't realize I was repeating you.

Not a problem... Thomas Coyne really can't be recommended enough. And having been there last weekend to stock up on wine, it was interesting to note that the tasting barns decor was still up.

Alured Popple: beer4breakfast Alured Popple: Heh, didn't realize I was repeating you.

Not a problem... Thomas Coyne really can't be recommended enough. And having been there last weekend to stock up on wine, it was interesting to note that the tasting barns decor was still up.

I noticed that too when I was there at their last Fall open house right after the scandal broke.

alwaysjaded: Can any Bay Area Farkers give some suggestions on what to do around San Francisco? I'm here for work and I'm about to have a few days off and would like to know what to do besides the tourist stuff. Open to any suggestions since I may never be back here again.

If you're into Disc Golf, a car trip to Santa Cruz's DeLaveaga Park (new window) is more or less a pilgrimage. I haven't played it since '99, so I have no idea what condition it's in now, but it was one of my favorite Disc Golf moments. I played 120 holes that day, and yes, my arm fell off and flopped like a fish out of water...

Oh, and Tommy's Joint. Eat there.

universebetween: Le Medeterranee
2936 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

Oh I loved that place.

Molavian: someahole: Molavian: alwaysjaded: Can any Bay Area Farkers give some suggestions on what to do around San Francisco? I'm here for work and I'm about to have a few days off and would like to know what to do besides the tourist stuff. Open to any suggestions since I may never be back here again.

I hear the gay sex scene is booming.

I hear that the strait sex scene is also boomIng. SF likes to fark.

Everybody farks everybody else until we're all the same.

It's the perfect solution!

Worked for lots of places, why not SF?

Some ideas of things to do in SF:

a) Go to ferry building. Take sausalito ferry (30 minutes or so) hang in sausalito a bit. Return. *OR* rent a bike in the marina and bike over GG bridge and then take ferry back from sausalito.
b) Go to california academy of sciences museum and de young museums. Both cool and right next to each other
c) If on a weekend hit the club scene south of market or in the mission
d) Go to a good restaurant (go to sfgate.com food section for ideas)
e) Go to Sordini's on green street in North Beach. Cool italian place
f) Go to top of twin peaks
g) Go to alcatraz, but get reservations well in advance
h) Drive down lombard street
i) Walk on the marina and crissy field if weather nice
j) Hit bars, bars and more bars in mission, north beach, anywhere
k) Go to lands end and ocean beach, if weather nice. There is decent beer and views from the beach chalet restaurant
l) Go to Amoeba music in the haight
m) maybe go find all the filming locations of the original dirty harry movie, heh. (not really serious)

have fun. i love sf. currently live in marin nearby.

beta_plus

Yosemite and Tahoe are to the west,

Technically, both are to the east, about four hour drives from The City. Only a severely flooded engine and sharks lie to the west.

I was out there recently. WTF with the war on the homeless? I was at an outdoor ice skating rink in the financial district with some companions and we were hassled by some lady panhandling for donations to some church thingy and nobody bothered her and then 2 minutes later a homeless dude did the same thing and was just about clobbered by some quasi-cops.

One of the locals was telling me about how the city removed all the public benches a few years back so that the homeless people wouldn't have any place to rest/sit/sleep/whatever.

Liberal? Is that what its called?

KrispyKritter: learned a lot of SF in this thread, very impressive.

yet no one mentioned rice-a-roni, and i'm really puzzled.

You beat me to it.

KrispyKritter: learned a lot of SF in this thread, very impressive.

yet no one mentioned rice-a-roni, and i'm really puzzled.

Personally, I think the IT'S-IT sandwich (new window) is more deserving of the title "San Francisco Treat" than rice-a-roni.

The factory is in Burlingame (a few miles south of San Francisco) and is visible from 101, but I don't know if they offer any sort of tours.

Would have responded to this sooner, but I was out most of the afternoon...

Historyteller: Public transit in Marin and Sonoma is bad, but not horrible. Anything along the 101 corridor is accessible via Golden Gate Transit.

That is true, but most of the time it's painfully slow. When I lived in Sunnyvale, I went on a trip to Petaluma (about 80 miles north), and my car broke down just as I was about to go home that afternoon, and I had to have it towed to a local shop for repairs. I was able to use Golden Gate Transit to get from Petaluma to San Francisco, and then use Caltrain to get from San Francisco to Sunnyvale, but the whole thing took about 5 hours, 3.5 of which were spent on a Golden Gate Transit bus. And then I had to do the whole thing again in reverse a few days later to retrieve my car after it was fixed.

It's a lot faster if you can take the commuter buses, but they only run south during the morning rush hour and north during the evening rush hour--reasonable for most business commuters, but not particularly useful for tourists.

superdude72: dericwater: href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6936909/74921119#c74921119" target="_blank">alwaysjaded: Can any Bay Area Farkers give some suggestions on what to do around San Francisco? I'm here for work and I'm about to have a few days off and would like to know what to do besides the tourist stuff. Open to any suggestions since I may never be back here again.

Let me put a word in for the De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.

Both were completed in the past decade. Both have really striking architecture, and are situated right next to each other in Golden Gate Park, which has plenty to do in its own right. (It's SF's version of NYC's Central Park. Actually, it's a little bit larger than Central Park...) Even if you don't have time for the full art museum tour, it's worth going to the De Young for the view from the observation deck..

Took this today from the DeYoung

KrispyKritter: learned a lot of SF in this thread, very impressive.
yet no one mentioned rice-a-roni, and i'm really puzzled.

I CAN tell you the cable car drivers are no longer allowed to play their bell to the rhythm of the rice-a-roni jingle in nob hill anymore.......

Since alwaysjaded mentioned he or she was in Vallejo, two places close by to go drink: The Warehouse in Port Costa and the Creek Monkey Taphouse in Martinez. The Warehouse has a 13' tall taxidermied polar bear, which is neat, and great food. The Creek Monkey has an excellent selection of local craft beers. Try the East Bay IPA from Ale Industries or the People's Urban Common Lager from Linden Street Brewery.

lakrfool: TV's Vinnie: lakrfool: TV's Vinnie: lakrfool: I will however say, that you are a crash-to-judgement, opinionated idiot. Have you ever even been to Texas?

I've never been to Somalia or North Korea either, but you don't have to actually set foot in those places to know what hideous shiatholes they are. Places like these are self-evident in their ugliness.

Thank you for your honesty & crucial execution of independent thought.

You inspire us all.

Boy, you love to defend Texas much, don't you?

Go be troll-y somewhere else.

You bore me.

You forgot sanctuary city subby

DeYong and the Academy of Science completed in the last decade? What is this I don't even...

Seriously, DeYoung needed a redo, but the current incarnation of Jawa crawler is a but uhh... yeah.

The CALIFORNIAAcademy of Science used to be awesome and have a very diverse collection of stuff from CA and abroad. However now its mostly things you can see better elsewhere. A pox on the imbeciles responsible for what it has become.

I mean how the hell do you have the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and NOT keep the safequake as part of your update?

/Yank Sing is ass

smeegle: universebetween: Le Medeterranee
2936 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

Oh I loved that place.

those are the three places I could still find in time limited. There was an Indian restaurant on Shattuck but since then friends said it turned into a buffet. Then there was a Mexican restaurant in Berkeley called the Aztec or something and it doesnt exist anymore.

I lived right off 52nd on Miles Avenue. I used to walk down telegraph to the Bart station at MacArthur or up to Rockridge depending on if I was going into the city or not.