re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres

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Without a translator to translate drunkese, how would we know what he is saying?

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drunk teasip piece of shite

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Austin is also the most segregated city I've ever seen. Just wander from Westlake to downtown and out to east Austin and see if you notice any differences.

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Ummm... that's the attraction of it for a lot of people. IMO "diversity" is the most over-rated thing there is.

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The liberals in Austin are posers for the most part. Try-hards.

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Total poseurs. The "liberal-ness" of Austin is greatly exaggerated. In reality it's a conservative city with a liberal veneer. I like to say that it's full of white collar office people who "bought their liberalness at Whole Foods." Basically, people here cop to claiming to hold trendy liberal viewpoints and drive Prii, but when it comes down to it, at the end of the day, it's a city that intentionally hasn't constructed a highway system because the belief on the city council and in county government has for decades been that if there isn't a way to get around people will stop moving here and invading the city. There's nothing more conservative than that. That they have used things like "endangered blind cave nematodes" and setting up nature preserves in the path of common sense future highway corridors in order to accomplish the mission of keeping out growth-inspiring highways is an example of that "veneer" of liberalism I identified earlier. Even in the '60s and '70s there weren't really many real hippies in Austin. What you had instead were laid-back Texans who liked music and having a toke, but who, being Texans, also drove old trucks with gun racks. We're not talking about people living in tepees on communes or chaining themselves to trees here. It was not the same scene as what was going down in the Bay Area.

It's funny that Toyota actually officially decided that that's the plural form.

But on the real, the only times I've ever seen those utter failures, the Chevy Volt, on the streets in real life has been in Austin.

On the flip side, there are more Teslas per capita here than in Houston or Dallas, and Teslas actually are pretty badass. But Dallas and Houston both annihilate Austin in terms of the Ferrari and Lamborghini per capita ratio because people have real "frick you money" in those cities, which isn't present in Austin to nearly that extent. This past December in Houston, I saw a man outside Home Depot on 610 north strapping a Christmas tree to the roof of a Maserati Quattroporte, without even bothering to lay a barrier between the tree and the roof to prevent scratches, by just throwing it up there and tying it through the open windows with twine that had to have been abrading the headliner.

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drive Prii

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I was behind an AMG with custom Aggie plates at the Cane's drive through on Westheimer a couple weekends ago. Was probably the most Aggy thing I've ever seen. Driving a super expensive car with A&M plates that said something like 94Ag getting fried chicken in a drive through on a Saturday afternoon. I almost went and shook the man's hand

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Driving a super expensive car with A&M plates that said something like 94Ag getting fried chicken in a drive through on a Saturday afternoon

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Back on the topic of pointing and laughing at "our friends in Austin" (:dollarbillbyrne:), I ran across this fun article:

SBNation: Longhorn Schadenfreude

Thanks.

My link was probably a mix of the proper address and a recently visited site, like MidgetPornAssBusters.com or some such.