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[Sneakeater]

This Daily News piece decrying the local opposition to the opening of a Hooters in Park Slope really pisses me off.

You oppose the opening of a basketball arena in your neighborhood because you fear it will lead to the opening of a bunch of dickheaded neighborhood-changing businesses there. You get shouted down as being paranoid: the arena will be all gain.

You then oppose the dickheaded neighborhood-changing businesses that the arena ends up actually attracting, and you get shouted down because you lost the fight against the arena.

If you want to go to a Hooters, go in your own fucking neighborhood, dickforbrains.

[Wilfrid]

Those shiny tights are horrible.

I wonder if the Munchkin remembers saying she wanted to be a Hooters waitress when she grew up?

[Sneakeater]

I can put in a good word for her in the Brooklyn one if it ever opens.

[hollywood]

Those shiny tights are horrible.

I wonder if the Munchkin remembers saying she wanted to be a Hooters waitress when she grew up?

I'm thinking the tights were just for the photo, not for everyday.

[SLBunge]

I'm thinking the tights were just for the photo, not for everyday.

Wrong.

They are awful but I think the photo makes them look even more awful because they reflect the flash weirdly.

[Wilfrid]

Standard Hooters uniform.

[splinky]

Those shiny tights are horrible.

I wonder if the Munchkin remembers saying she wanted to be a Hooters waitress when she grew up?

I'm thinking the tights were just for the photo, not for everyday.

Don't you wear yours everyday?

[hollywood]

Those shiny tights are horrible.

I wonder if the Munchkin remembers saying she wanted to be a Hooters waitress when she grew up?

I'm thinking the tights were just for the photo, not for everyday.

Don't you wear yours everyday?

Only for you, darling.

[Rail Paul]

Hooters waitstaff can make excellent wages, at least in northern NJ. One of our neighbors is working her way through college, and keeping up with car payments, etc on their dimes. In the pecking order of jobs, it's pretty high up.

I suspect a lot of the Park Slope issue is the neighbors don't want the slippery slope that leads directly from Hooters to Port 41 or the Meat Locker in just a few steps. Steps from their brownstones.

[Sneakeater]

No, I think it's pure cultural horror. One of the reason you move into neighborhoods like Park Slope, or mine next door (or Brownstone Brooklyn as a whole*) (or towns like Montclair, for that matter), is the assumption that businesses like that could never open there. The liberal consensus is too strong. We may be closed-minded, but there we are.

I don't buy the "good wages"/putting people through college excuse. I'm sure the same is true of many strip clubs. And if a restaurant chain paid minorities good wages to dress up as liveried house slaves, I think many would still have a problem with it.

(If anyone thinks this is getting too political, let me know and I'll delete the thread.)
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* This is one of the reasons I think people (who don't live there) are wrong when they say that Brooklyn doesn't have a culture. It does -- "new" Brownstone and Hipster Brooklyn, anyway. And Hooters just isn't it.

[hollywood]

No, I think it's pure cultural horror. One of the reason you move into neighborhoods like Park Slope, or mine next door (or Brownstone Brooklyn as a whole*) (or towns like Montclair, for that matter), is the assumption that businesses like that could never open there. The liberal consensus is too strong. We may be closed-minded, but there we are.

I don't buy the "good wages"/putting people through college excuse. I'm sure the same is true of many strip clubs. And if a restaurant chain paid minorities good wages to dress up as liveried house slaves, I think many would still have a problem with it.

(If anyone thinks this is getting too political, let me know and I'll delete the thread.)
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* This is one of the reasons I think people (who don't live there) are wrong when they say that Brooklyn doesn't have a culture. It does -- "new" Brownstone and Hipster Brooklyn, anyway. And Hooters just isn't it.

So who patronizes the Hooters if it's not of the culture? Tourists? Maybe it won't succeed.

[Sneakeater]

It's opening for the new basketball arena (if they can find someone who'll rent to them).

(Which is one of the reasons just about everyone in the surrounding neighborhoods opposed the arena.)

[splinky]

No, I think it's pure cultural horror. One of the reason you move into neighborhoods like Park Slope, or mine next door (or Brownstone Brooklyn as a whole*) (or towns like Montclair, for that matter), is the assumption that businesses like that could never open there. The liberal consensus is too strong. We may be closed-minded, but there we are.

I don't buy the "good wages"/putting people through college excuse. I'm sure the same is true of many strip clubs. And if a restaurant chain paid minorities good wages to dress up as liveried house slaves, I think many would still have a problem with it.

(If anyone thinks this is getting too political, let me know and I'll delete the thread.)
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* This is one of the reasons I think people (who don't live there) are wrong when they say that Brooklyn doesn't have a culture. It does -- "new" Brownstone and Hipster Brooklyn, anyway. And Hooters just isn't it.

Also it brings extra women to the neighborhood for husbands to cheat with. Isn't it bad enough that you have to be wary of the babysitter and local coffee house wenches with your stay at home husband

[Sneakeater]

You don't have to worry about the wenches at Leaf & Bean at least.

[splinky]

You don't have to worry about the wenches at Leaf & Bean at least.

Small comfort, that