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there is this tee - Baltimore, Actually I Like It - you need it fam. Been here for 31 years, working in IT now, raising a family and all that. Balto is cool.

there is this tee - Baltimore, Actually I Like It - you need it fam. Been here for 31 years, working in IT now, raising a family and all that. Balto is cool. https://atomicbooks.com/products/baltimore-actually-shirt https://atomicbooks.com/products/baltimore-actually-shirt

f6v 5y ago
Is The Wire real?
- saghm 5y ago
  No, it's a fictional TV show
  - f6v 5y ago
    I'm glad I didn't ask about Santa then.
- falcor84 5y ago
  I think it's as real as is possible for a piece of fiction to be
  - cdstyh 5y ago
    Yes. Worse things happen everyday in every hood in America.
- ruined 5y ago
  no, the real omar was unfortunately heterosexual.
- throwanem 5y ago
  I can't speak to the general case, but I have to give the show that the grain elevator did get turned into condos [1]. [1] http://www.silopoint.com/ http://www.silopoint.com/
- dkn775 5y ago
  The part about the police culture is Pretty spot on
doom2 5y ago
I've seen this t-shirt around. As a Baltimore native, it sort of irritates me even though it's tongue in cheek! It assumes that Baltimore is a bad/unlikable place that people need to learn to love (or need to convince others that it's worth living in). In fact, I think there's a lot to like about the city right off the bat and that many people are drawn to it without feeling like they're being forced to live there. I don't know, maybe we can start with the positive image of the city rather than having a base assumption that it's some kind of hellscape. Doesn't mean we should ignore the negatives, just that the negatives don't need to precede the rest. I don't hear NYC residents say "New York...it isn't all rats and homeless people!"
- germinalphrase 5y ago
  Certainly, there is a media component to it. I live in Minneapolis. If you ask my relatives in wisconsin, they’d say that ‘Murder’apolis has been, and continues to be, a flaming hellhole of constant arson and carjackings ever since George Floyd was murdered. They watch local television news (with a sprinkling of Facebook garbage newsfeed) and don’t know enough to realize their entire mental model of the place is wildly skewed. Likewise, I’ve never stepped foot into Baltimore, but I’ve watched The Wire so…
  - noduerme 5y ago
    Portland, Oregon here. For a few years now if I'm out in the suburbs or conservative exurbs and tell people I live in the city, I hear, "sorry for you. Portland's a shithole." That view went national over the summer of 2020, with a lot of help from Fox news. (The president declaring our city an anarchy zone and sending in unmarked humvees with DC plates to black bag protesters didn't help). And yet it's an incredibly livable, fun, interesting town. Outside perception rarely matches the reality.
    - couchridr 5y ago
      New idea for a t-shirt. “Baltimore: Trump hates it.”

f6v 5y ago

Is The Wire real?

saghm 5y ago
No, it's a fictional TV show
- f6v 5y ago
  I'm glad I didn't ask about Santa then.
falcor84 5y ago
I think it's as real as is possible for a piece of fiction to be
- cdstyh 5y ago
  Yes. Worse things happen everyday in every hood in America.
ruined 5y ago
no, the real omar was unfortunately heterosexual.
throwanem 5y ago
I can't speak to the general case, but I have to give the show that the grain elevator did get turned into condos [1]. [1] http://www.silopoint.com/ http://www.silopoint.com/
dkn775 5y ago
The part about the police culture is Pretty spot on

doom2 5y ago

I've seen this t-shirt around. As a Baltimore native, it sort of irritates me even though it's tongue in cheek! It assumes that Baltimore is a bad/unlikable place that people need to learn to love (or need to convince others that it's worth living in). In fact, I think there's a lot to like about the city right off the bat and that many people are drawn to it without feeling like they're being forced to live there. I don't know, maybe we can start with the positive image of the city rather than having a base assumption that it's some kind of hellscape. Doesn't mean we should ignore the negatives, just that the negatives don't need to precede the rest. I don't hear NYC residents say "New York...it isn't all rats and homeless people!"

germinalphrase 5y ago
Certainly, there is a media component to it. I live in Minneapolis. If you ask my relatives in wisconsin, they’d say that ‘Murder’apolis has been, and continues to be, a flaming hellhole of constant arson and carjackings ever since George Floyd was murdered. They watch local television news (with a sprinkling of Facebook garbage newsfeed) and don’t know enough to realize their entire mental model of the place is wildly skewed. Likewise, I’ve never stepped foot into Baltimore, but I’ve watched The Wire so…
- noduerme 5y ago
  Portland, Oregon here. For a few years now if I'm out in the suburbs or conservative exurbs and tell people I live in the city, I hear, "sorry for you. Portland's a shithole." That view went national over the summer of 2020, with a lot of help from Fox news. (The president declaring our city an anarchy zone and sending in unmarked humvees with DC plates to black bag protesters didn't help). And yet it's an incredibly livable, fun, interesting town. Outside perception rarely matches the reality.
  - couchridr 5y ago
    New idea for a t-shirt. “Baltimore: Trump hates it.”