Good God Dallas

Yes, I had seen that, but thanks for bringing this full circle. I am staying with some friends on Pershing St. (Knox-Henderson area) right now and they are reading it and laughing about how dead on balls accurate that article is. I sure hope this doesn't ruffle anymore untucked shirts. It's important to keep them out to block the view of those square toed shoes.
 
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i find the dallas douche bag crowd as easy to avoid as the frat boy douche bag crowd in austin. it's about the same ratio. unless you go somewhere in addison. but that would be like going to cain and abel's.
 
drycreek and jive nailed it.

you never see the douche at the M street house party because most people who can afford to live there know that you don't become successful by spending $100/month on a platinum tan membership, $200 jeans, $100/month in hair products and a leased sportscar.

I've never been to Phoenix and have limited exposure to the LA but the Dallas douche is such an interesting breed. I just can't keep from people watching that scene.
 
Dallas women reinforce this behavior by sleeping with these ultra lounge jackasses. You know until they discover that they are swimming in debt.
 
Those Tags go just right with a pair of Dolce Gabana(sp?/who gives a ****?) jeans and some of those Ichabod Crane square toed shoes.
 
I spent about 1 hour in the fenced off area and the rest of the time at parties on M Streets and the crowd was night and day.

Lots of horns watching the TX-OU game in the garage at the party I was at. Good times.
 
Dallas hasn't been the same since Pepe of the Loco Gringos died. It helps keep one grounded when the band is cranking out songs like "Let's Talk About Beer", "Mescal Breakfast", "Hug a Jug", "Ain't No Corndogs", "Nurture My Pig" and the rest.
 
I grew up in Sachse/Garland in the late 80's and early 90's and we always started our weekend on Greenville and then headed for Deep Ellum (gel in hair & with our sleeves and pants rolled...tight!!). It wasn't til after my first year of college that I realized the douche factor was increasing exponentially in Dallas and that I had been part of the problem. Thankfully today I am cured...but I do still have some fond memories...

I still remember Raphaels next to Million Dollar Saloon, scamming beer at the Grenada (when it was ComedySportz, cartoons and old movies), trying to pick "SMU chicks" who turned out to be Cictertian chicks @ Snuffers, $1 buckets of crawfish @ Awe Shucks!...memories...

Anyhow, I've noticed that my friends who stayed in Dallas (the majority from HS) have never outgrown it. I never talk with them or even have anything to talk about (I don't care about the new 5 series SUV or their marble countertops) and they're even "married and well adjusted". But my friends who got out and live in SA, Austin and Houston are all more grounded and normal and I can actually talk with them...maybe it's in the water up there...

Sorry for the rambling...

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if by hottest you mean mentally vacant faux blonde fake tittied sluts that i want to grudge ****, then yes, i agree with you.

those dallas chics deserve the lonestar guidos, or maybe it's the other way around. in either case, both their credit card spending habits and soulless lives are a match made in heaven and will spend this country out of a recession. more power to them.
 
the level of douchebaggery at the ghostland observatory concert was minimal. seems to me you are at the wrong places. i mean ****, if you go to Kinky, it is likely you are also a douchebag. seriously. there are plenty of places on greenville where you can be free of such things.
 
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that reminds me. there are way too many sooners in dallas. i think we can all agree on that. i doubt the sooners are the d-bags, different breeds of roaches are still unwanted pests.

i, like obama, would prefer to bring us together by focusnessing on what we agree on instead of arguing about differences.
 
Just to clear something up, I was without a vehicle and was staying with friends who live in a house on Pershing. The reason I ednded up on Greenville was because I was bored and it was within walking distance. Nuclear Bear, if wearing your $200 jeans is part of works for you then bop till you drop brother.
 
Jersey.
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Hell on Earth. I just don't get how any of those dudes can look in the mirror and think, "yeah, cool, lookin' good"
 
Nuclear Bear, I'm down with all that. I once heard a very spiritual guy say that compassion isn't always about the other guy. Sometimes it's a loving acceptance of that part of ourselves which will always be broken. Seems to apply here.
 
I've lived in Dallas for 14 years. Definitely a douchebag factor and 30k millionaire (probably more like 50k millionaire but point stands).

My take:
1) It's incrementally worse here than other cities (have spent substantial time in Austin, Denver, Phoenix, Houston, Nashville, Atlanta), but like most stereotypes, the difference is more in the reputation than in the reality. Plenty of douchebag spots in all those cities. Just have to know where to find/avoid it.
2) I embrace it/laugh at it as part of our personality. It's similar to LA. Just laugh, roll the eyes, and enjoy.
3) Cities that make fun of Dallas rarely have braggin rights over it. They have their own strengths and weaknesses but aren’t better places to live than Dallas: NOLA, Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Denver, no. People will argue with me about Denver, but I lived there for a year and that city had a bug up its *** so bad about how great it was, and how people from Texas and California were ruining their precious city and I have to say **** them. Austin does have braggin’ rights over Dallas, but those are fast dwindling with the explosive growth of that city. Cities that have legit braggin’ rights over Dallas (besides Austin): Chicago, NY, Boston, DC, San Fran, San Diego (notice cost of living in those places, btw)
4) Dallas is a great city in which to do business.

Full disclosure: I drive a BMW 3 series (ouch!), but it’s bought not leased, my credit’s good, I wear a $50 Fossil watch, and all my jeans are <$30 Levi’s.
 
Looking at it from well outside the generation, and taking as stipulation that Dallas tops many places in d-baggery, I still see huge numbers of guys fitting the above descriptions all over mid town Houston, and, heaven forbid, downtown Austin, on any evening excursion.

Not to put down my beloved two cities. But, this phenomenum looks like an f'n epidemic. Sad, but good for a laugh.

And to the sure to follow boomer STFU post, yea, that's you.
 
I lived in Dallas for a long time, and now live in Austin. I hated that part of Dallas. I go back on occasion, and remember why I left.
That said, I've had dinner at two high-end restaurants in Dallas in the last 3 months. The crowds there weren't any different than what I'm seeing at similar places in Austin. Austin "attitude" is far from Dallas, but it's gaining
 
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