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    Patrick GeorgeTom Scocca
    7/08/13 5:02pm

    What showy cars? Everyone in DC drives boring, anonymous sedans and SUVs.

    He's right about the food though. Generally, it's mediocre and overpriced.

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      Tom ScoccaPatrick George
      7/08/13 5:09pm

      A D.C. source tells me that the cars seem to have gotten flashier lately—but he then described a few, and it sounded like a typical afternoon on Lafayette Street.

      D.C. has plenty of good places to eat. It also has plenty of mediocre ones, like most cities. I think its reputation suffers because rubes come in from everywhere else and immediately complain about how their particular local specialty is better back home. You call this a cheesesteak / five-way chili / roast squirrel?

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      Bryant TurnagePatrick George
      7/08/13 5:48pm

      If they even own cars, of course, and a lot of people in the District (and not a few in the surrounding cities/suburbs) go car-free. As much as we complain about Metro, that along with the city's improvement of bicycle infrastructure, the prevalence of car sharing services, Uber, and other improvements make it very easy to get around without owning a car at all.

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    BorkowskowitzTom Scocca
    7/08/13 4:55pm

    There are so many bad pizza places in NYC that it boggles the mind. If you were to go into a NYC pizza place at random and grab a slice, chances are it would suck just as much as anywhere else.

    Same with bagels. There's great food here, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the country, including DC, has caught up on the whole crust, sauce, cheese paradigm.

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      Tom ScoccaBorkowskowitz
      7/08/13 5:02pm

      Having lived both places, I've had much better luck walking into random NYC pizza places. Like my kid wanted to see where the 1 train ended, so we rode up to Van Cortlandt Park, at which point he was hungry, so we went in the first place we saw, and it was great. Of course, that was the Bronx.

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      LadyManifestoTom Scocca
      7/08/13 5:10pm

      I'm gonna just come out and say this and be the bad guy (possibly start a war) but I've walked into better places in San Francisco and scored the best slices anywhere in the country.

      I still fold it and dab it though.

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    stuckonrewindTom Scocca
    7/08/13 5:09pm

    Phony is the absolute perfect word to describe D.C. Just last night I was going through my FB feed and was bombarded with horrifically forced party pics of my D.C. friends supposedly enjoying a night out. First of all, it was Sunday. Second, you shouldn't have to work that hard at having fun. I mentioned to another friend that the entire night read like the devolution of an adult psyche. Sad, really.

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      Esaustuckonrewind
      7/08/13 5:54pm

      this seems more like an anecdote about your loser friends than an indictment of a city's nightlife - i mean, they are your friends.

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      stuckonrewindEsau
      7/08/13 6:14pm

      No, they are FB friends - that's a totally different thing than real friends.

      And could be only an indictment of them, but it's that they choose to live in D.C. and claim it to be the world's best place and I have met others from D.C. just like them. After a while, the evidence compiles.

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    Crash CometTom Scocca
    7/08/13 5:43pm

    OK, these defenses of the city might be legitimate, but FUCK D.C. I hate, hate, hate that town for one simple reason.

    When you ride the Metro, you pay according to the length of your trip. Nothing wrong with that. There's a sticker on the ticket machine to help you determining how far you'll be riding. You figure out how much your trip costs, put in your money, and if you paid correctly, you get your ticket.

    Why in the name of all that is good am I doing the math for a fucking computer? The only thing this machine is capable of is telling how much any particular trip through the system costs, and this is the one piece of information it will not give you- you're supposed to consult a chart. A physical chart. Affixed to the very machine which can automatically give you the information you need with minimally greater effort on the part of the manufacturer and none on the part of the rider. FUCK THAT. Burn in hell forever, D.C.

    TL;DR: Visit the Smithsonian Postal Museum! Many patrons are surprised to find that more than just displaying stamps, it also is very close to the train station.

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      CleverUsernameCrash Comet
      7/08/13 9:59pm

      We purposefully set up the Metro that way to keep people with poor math skills from staying too long.

      Also, get a Smartrip card. You get a discount on each trip and you can save the brain cells wasted on adding up two-place decimals.

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    CleverUsernameTom Scocca
    7/08/13 9:50pm

    If I complain about trash in the New York subway, do I get to call NYC a shithole? No, I don't. Mark Leibovich is a moron.

    I've lived in DC for half a decade now and I love it. There is a depth of culture and history that cannot be ignored. Also, you won't find a city in the US that appreciates intelligence and academia more than DC.

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      IntensiveBearTom Scocca
      7/08/13 5:07pm

      What a dumbass.

      1. Good slice of D.O.C. pizza? 2AMYS in Cleveland Park. (EDIT: Way ahead of me on this one.)

      2. Amazing italian sub with oil, not mayonnaise? A Litteri in that weird warehouse district where New York Ave and Rhode Island Ave intersect.

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        epicfuriousIntensiveBear
        7/08/13 5:45pm

        Don't forget Mangialardo and Sons, as well as Stachowksi's. There are plenty of good subs in "this town".

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      jtaimelafolieTom Scocca
      7/08/13 4:55pm

      THANK YOU FOR LINKING TO 2AMYS

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        Not A Snortjtaimelafolie
        7/08/13 5:07pm

        Your screen name is an anagram of "eat amy" so please forgive me if I find your comment adorably suspicious.

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      ForthwithtoGloryTom Scocca
      7/12/13 10:53pm

      Come on!!! We got Vace. Most of you people don't even know about Vace because it's way the hell out up in Cleveland Park. Vace is the best white pizza w/ onions I've ever had, and I've had pizza in NY. We got Pizza Paradiso. We got 2 Amys (which is overrated but still good). We got Petes. You want a deli? We got Loebs. You want Korean? Try anywhere in Northern Virginia, or maybe Adams in Mt Pleasant. You want mac and cheese? Try Ooohs and Aaaahs, Fla Ave Grill or Capmac. You want ribs? Try Sugar. You're spot on, Tom, he's just selling some load of crap he overheard somewhere.

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        Freddie DeBoerTom Scocca
        7/08/13 5:27pm

        There are so many legitimate reasons to hate DC, too. Stupid to resort to meaningless cultural cliches.

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          way2goFreddie DeBoer
          8/19/14 11:06am

          I live in the Maryland burbs and I do hate D.C., but I have trouble putting my finger on exactly why. It just seems like, for the massive size, recognition, population, importance and wealth of this place it is just incredibly dull and poorly operated, you know, like a bureaucracy... Nightlife? All you can really do is go to uninteresting over-crowded and overpriced bars. It takes forever to get anywhere on the metro, and it closes pretty early, so it's not like you could stay out late even if there was a good reason to. There's good food, but there isn't any true D.C. original cuisine, which is just boring. It's all too expensive for how good it is anyways because they charge you an extra 20% since it's technically a city and another extra 20% because they put the chef's name on the back of the menu and that somehow makes it taste better. It's one of the biggest (in various ways) cities in the country, and yet the music scene is decent at best. There's hardly any art outside of the Kennedy Center, and the museums and monuments get old after the third time you see them. My girlfriend and I have started to LEAVE the city area to have fun. Hiking, going to wineries and festivals in northern virginia, and traveling to the coast are INFINITELY more interesting than the same stupid scheister happy hours day after day. Do we really even need to bring up the fact that federal politicians and lobbyists are a bunch of narcissistic pyschopaths masturbating all over each other while our once-great nation declines in order to discuss how shitty D.C. is?

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        muypeligrosoTom Scocca
        7/12/13 4:37pm

        I'm not typically in the business of defending DC against spurious attacks on its character, but a) you can get pretty damned good pizza here - check out Alberto's, Angelico's, and Pete's - and b) showy cars? If you consider a late model BMW M series to be showy, then, yes, sure.

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