What is your DMV specific “sin” that would get you a scarlet letter?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate Trump but believe we should limit immigration more (including legal educated people, many whom i work and socialize with) because it's destroyed opportunities in our country for my children. I think the world would be better if Asians stayed in Asia and made their countries better, rather than coming here to change ours. Asian countries would benefit from having these smart people innovate in place. Maybe they would develop clean energy and push it across to the rest of the world (knowing the US would be the last adopters). This would help solve climate change.

We don’t want you in our party.

Democrat and I disagree. We need to limit immigration. You are blind if you do not see what is going on. Major areas of industry are being taken over by people who will not hire anyone but those from their country of origin. They are pushing us into an era of unbridled sexism and racism

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Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

It would be a sin to sneer at calling it the DMV.

You must be a transplant.

WTF are you talking? "DMV "surfaced in the last 5 years. Before that, it was where you registered your car. Dc id DC. I'm born and bred Fairfax and no local would ever use that term. Unless they were black.

Uhm. I'm black and my kids are the 4th gen to be born in DC. I never heard that phrase until DCUM.

I think ppl from pg county call it that.. maybe??? I was born and raised here & didn't start hearing it until the 2000s. and I listened to plenty of wpgc and kiss fm (now that was the real sin, it was for old people )

People were referring to the dmv back in the 1980s. Some of you just don't get out enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I drive a dinged up 20 year old Japanese car.

That's normal in DC.

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and I'm not referring to people in pg. I 've lived in Fairfax forever and it was used by everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pug, Wonderland, Last Call, and all the other "dive bars" in DC are not dives. They're set pieces where privileged kids go to pretend they're working class.

There is only one dive bar in DC and that's the Player's Lounge.

I’d guarantee 99% of posters here wouldn’t even know where PL is without a web search.

Triple bonus points if you know it’s *previous* location, too.

Did not know it had changed locations (though I would argue that Tune Inn and the original Stoney’s also qualify).

I don't even know the set pieces pp listed, but the last dive bars I frequented in DC were ACME (when it was at 18th and M) and Tune Inn to hear Pete Papageorge.

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I live in Maryland and I willingly went to Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't like going to northern Virginia at all. I believe the roads and sprawl bewildering and confusing on purpose. Like this is how the Confederacy chose to make life miserable for Northerners after they lost the War.

Sorry but it would only be a sin if you did like going there.

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Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

Does that bother anyone beyond dcum?

Yes. For those of us who grew up here we cringe every time someone says it.

43 years old, always lived here (in VA, then DC, then MD) and it makes me cringe too. Just screams "I moved here in my 20s and heard them say it on the radio."

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Anonymous wrote:I hate Trump but believe we should limit immigration more (including legal educated people, many whom i work and socialize with) because it's destroyed opportunities in our country for my children. I think the world would be better if Asians stayed in Asia and made their countries better, rather than coming here to change ours. Asian countries would benefit from having these smart people innovate in place. Maybe they would develop clean energy and push it across to the rest of the world (knowing the US would be the last adopters). This would help solve climate change.

We don’t want you in our party.

Democrat and I disagree. We need to limit immigration. You are blind if you do not see what is going on. Major areas of industry are being taken over by people who will not hire anyone but those from their country of origin. They are pushing us into an era of unbridled sexism and racism

NP. I agree there needs to be limits. I just think the current limits are well below where they should be.

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I open carry when I walk my dog.

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If I meet you for the first time, I don't care what your job/career is.

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Anonymous wrote:If I meet you for the first time, I don't care what your job/career is.

Is that second date talk?

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Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

Does that bother anyone beyond dcum?

Yes. For those of us who grew up here we cringe every time someone says it.

43 years old, always lived here (in VA, then DC, then MD) and it makes me cringe too. Just screams "I moved here in my 20s and heard them say it on the radio."

DC Native. And I spent plenty of time in M and the V, too. I have had this conversation multiple times with other locals, 'DMV' was not a thing except for the much maligned Dept of Motor Vehicles.

My other sins:
-I think Marion Barry was trash mayor and people are giving him the hagiographic treatment since he's been out of office and dead long enough.
-I've only been to Ben's Chili Bowl once and it was just alright.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

Does that bother anyone beyond dcum?

Yes. For those of us who grew up here we cringe every time someone says it.

43 years old, always lived here (in VA, then DC, then MD) and it makes me cringe too. Just screams "I moved here in my 20s and heard them say it on the radio."

DC Native. And I spent plenty of time in M and the V, too. I have had this conversation multiple times with other locals, 'DMV' was not a thing except for the much maligned Dept of Motor Vehicles.

My other sins:
-I think Marion Barry was trash mayor and people are giving him the hagiographic treatment since he's been out of office and dead long enough.
-I've only been to Ben's Chili Bowl once and it was just alright.

Sorry, me again. Forgot one. Despite being a DC "native" I hate the Native vs. Transplant trope.