autismspeaks has ruined starbucks

[McGiver]

only a nobody walks in L.A.

[Natalia Evans]

only a nobody walks in L.A.

Of course. It's too hot to walk. I can't stand hot air, I'm sure other LAers feel the same way and are effected by it too.

[Gluey]

Well I write an Autism magazine about what it's like for me having autism and it bashes Autism speaks and why to ditch those curbies i think I will go to every Starbucks and randomly put my magazines in there without their pemission. I'll just stick some on the public wasroom counter.
The magazine includes my e-mail adress....this will be interesting....wait! Do'h I live in Canada! maby this is just American...oh well.....

[Calandale]

...it would take an hour to walk to the grocers. 

Takes me 45 mins. Pain in the ass.
And the buses (there are some) don't work too
well for my shopping.

[Calandale]

only a nobody walks in L.A.

Look ahead as we pass, try and focus on it
I won't be fooled by a cheap cinematic trick
It must have been just a cardboard cut out of a man
Top-forty cast off from a record stand

Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.

I don't know could've been a lame jogger maybe
Or someone just about to do the freeway strangler baby
Shopping cart pusher or maybe someone groovie
One thing's for sure, he isn't starring in the movies.
'Cause he's walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., only a nobody walks in L.A.

Walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

You won't see a cop walkin' on the beat
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

You only see 'em drivin' cars out on the street
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

You won't see a kid walkin' home from school
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

Their mothers pick 'em up in a car pool
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.

Could it be that the smog's playing tricks on my eyes
or is it a rollerskater in some kind of headphone disguise
Maybe somebody who just ran out of gas,
Making his way back to the pumps the best way he can.

Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., nobody walks in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A.
Walkin' in L.A., only a nobody walks in L.A.

Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'
Nobody's walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

Nobody walks in L.A

[Alex179]

They build them DIRECTLY across the street
from one another. Seriously. For people too
lazy to cross the street.

that is terrifying.

is it true that there are places in america where you literally HAVE to use a car, cos there's no way of getting anywhere by foot?

Yep depends on where you live and how spread out it is.   Jacksonville is spread out like LA in some ways as it has the most square miles of any city in the nation.    I can walk to a local convenience store, but I would prefer to ride my bike the 3/4 mile I need for the actual grocery store.  What is funnier is that I used to ride my bike upwards of 10+ miles to go places before I could drive.   Most of what I need is close by, the Mall and movie theaters are about 5 miles away (which obviously are not needed).   We have 3 Blockbuster videos and a 2 video game stores within a 5 mile radius of my neigborhood.   I drive way too much and the highway system here is not so hot imo.   The autobahn system in Germany made it look like total shit. 

[Lucifer]

nightmare.  i'd die - i walk everywhere.  i can't even begin to say how bad it is that people drive a matter of yards - pollution, obesity, tarmac and car parks everywhere, the utter horror of shopping malls...

i think i may well end up giving up the fight, becoming a hermit and ignoring the world - it's too vile to live in.   

[Natalia Evans]

Another guy I had met in downtown, we met up at Starbucks. We met online and then decided to meet up.

[SovaNu]

i walk too, i've never wanted or needed a car of my own. i'm a lazy mofo but the day i can't be assed to walk to the store that's 5 minutes away, feel free to slap me hard. it's amazing some people drive to go a nearby grocery store.

and someone told me that where they live (in the 'burbs) they don't have sidewalks at all so people have to drive everywhere. and she said that she has to drive to go for a walk. that's insane.

[renaeden]

I try and walk or catch the bus as much as I can. I have my own car but it costs a lot with petrol prices and all.

I feel fortunate that I live in the part of town that has a small shopping centre and a bus route close by.

[Eclair]

Can I ask what is so bad about mentioning autism on a coffee cup?

[Peter]

Can I ask what is so bad about mentioning autism on a coffee cup?

Nothing, when it's for the purpose of helping autistic people.  Unfortunately, Autism Speaks doesn't speak for autistic people; it speaks for the families of autistic people, so that they can publicly and loudly whine about how awful they are, and what a hell their lives are for being burdened by an autistic person, and how the world would be so much better without autistic people in it.

[The_P]

Can I ask what is so bad about mentioning autism on a coffee cup?

Because it pisses off the non-curbies who are fed up with the "Cure Autism now!" rhetoric.

There is no valid scientific evidence to suggest that autism is what they say it is. Read about Laurent Mottron and Michelle Dawson for more info.

[El]

There's a starbucks in the basement of my college's library.   

Dunkin Donuts still pwns the campus, though.  We have two right on campus, and in this area of Massachusetts you can't spit without hitting a DD's; there's at least one DD's within a three minute's walk of one of the campus parking lots.

[Tesla]

only a nobody walks in L.A.

People don't even walk from a parking space in LA, that's why they have valet parking everywhere you go there.

I've known people who drive to the end of their driveway to get the mail.