Soccer Sunday

I'd hate to call out Ron Suzuki when there are so many other fascistic intolerant yuppies about....
As a long term resident, I find the hipster soccer refreshing.
And I'm not just ogling hipster legs in short nylon shorts.
If you're gonna call the cops on soccer players, then you need to also call on yuppie parents with their tall imports as well.
There is a lot of pissing territory there. Can't we all just get along?!

If I could only find my short shorts!

I'm going to guido fist pump your soccer balls.

Bet Kenny R. really appreciates your "staturism".....LAME!!

Ron does a lot for the kids of the community, or maybe in your self centredness, you don't give a shit. They proably aren't as cool as you either.

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This reminds me of Toronto's hipster kickball league.

"Ron does a lot for the kids of the community, or maybe in your self centredness, you don't give a shit. They proably aren't as cool as you either."

Right, because I wasn't being sarcastic at all. In fact, I don't even know what sarcasm means. There were 6 kids under 6 years old playing on Sunday, while Wee Man was busy telling on the cool kids. "Teacher, they don't have a permit"...

wow, you helped 6 kids. showed 'em how to properly "rock" the headband did you? fffffttttttt!

Are you kidding? We fought half the kids and the other 3 we got drunk.

Hey Sean. I was in the park Sunday but left before this happened? Can you clarify exactly how things went down? Did Ron have a problem with the soccer or the beer? I've seen Ron work here in Stratchona for years and have never known him to play the heavy or be rude. I've also hear that some of the players' reactions were, let's say, "heated"(has it suddenly become cool to attack someone for being short?).I personally like the soccer game and think it brings something to the park every Sunday. I also know how hard it can be to find fields/space to play non-league/pick up sports in Vancouver but I hate to see Ron portrayed as some tool of the man.

Ron wasn't exactly aggressive, more like passive agressive. I just wanted to talk to him and he basically plugged his ears and kept saying things like "I already talked to your organizer". What organizer? We've been meeting here for 7 years at the same time. There is no organizer and we are not an organization. He barely mentioned the beer. He was more concerned about the permit. When the ranger came he just laughed it off.

Where's the irony in a bunch of privileged white kids, getting drunk playing boho and taking over a neighbourhood park..?

well, maybe that is ironic..

But did it ever occur to you of the bearded hipster set that maybe when you descend on the park en masse you are displacing those of us that ACTUALLY LIVE HERE and might also wish to enjoy a sunny summer evening in the park. It's not so much the small dog people as the small park people.. It's a dense neighbourhood with a small fucking park - and you guys take over the grassy section pretty much to the exclusion of all others.

If you really wanted to play at ironic - you'd take that shit to one of the Yaletown parks.

Just for the record this must have happened well after Libby's BBQ ended. I helped @ the BBQ and hung around for at least an hour (yes, drinking beer) afterwards. Didn't see a thing.

Your post implies the BBQ has something to do with this. Don't go bad mouthing Libby.

Besides completely proving my point Jerry, we are not playing soccer to be ironic. We play soccer because its fucking fun.

And there is that attitude! Talk about privilege. Why do you assume none of us live in Strathcona? I think about 95% of the kids that play there also live here, and the people who started it SEVEN fucking years ago most certainly lived here.

Privileged white kids? Last time I checked we weren't all white, but thats because I'm racist and I don't actually 'see' coloured folk.

@notscott:

Libby's BBQ wasn't the issue at all. It was over at 330 and we started at 330, so the timing was perfect. Which is why it was so puzzling to hear Ron's demands...

gee, Sean - I guess I must have mistaken you "ironic t-shirt' pre-requisite along with fixies, headbands and 'cheap but eccentric' booze for a general ironic sentiment. I mistakenly assumed that the location must have just been another part of the ironic caché.

I'm not assuming that 95% of the kids that play don't live in Strathcona.. I'm stating that as fact. YOU don't live here do you? No - I know you don't, just as i know that your soccer scene has long since ceased to be a neighborhood pick-up thing CUZ I ACTUALLY LIVE HERE.. And then you go off bad-mouthing a guy who does a LOT for this community, making cheap shots about his physical characteristics, implying he's a fascist or a Japanese Uncle Tom.. good work on alienating a big chunk of the community.. If you were smart you'd be doing damage control rather than stoking the flames..

Besides, even if you ALL lived here - its still totally fucking selfish. The reality is that you do dominate a small park, in a park-challenged neighborhood, for a good chunk of the weekend, every weekend.

Seven years?? Good one. I guess you figure tacking on a few years will make you more legit. You spoilt hamsters really suck cock.

Why don't you just take your Dove Charney wannabe asses and fuck off to the Strathcona Park SOCCER FIELD instead. Oh wait, I guess it's just not the same without an audience...

God you hipsters are insecure posers.

Frat boy mentality with dirty beards does not make you legit.

"God you hipsters are insecure posers"

Right, because we're the ones who feel threatened.

Frat boy? Come on. Half the people who play are girls, and most of us are spindly legged art fags who got beat up in high school.

HIPSTERS ARE NOT A CRIME

Oh boo fucking hoo. Beat up in high school sounds about right. I think we'll form our own little group and call it Strathcona United, then we'll call the Parks Board and get your spindly legged art fag asses banned for good.
Goof.

This is AWESOME

pass the popcorn

/slashies
//oh, wait- this isn't FARK

This is how the NPA wins civic elections.

Is this the craigslist rants & rave section? Am I in the right place?

Wow. I'm always so confused at the people who comment on subjects such as this and make an even bigger ass of themselves whilst trying to "call out" someone for being the ass. LOOK IN THE MIRROR. And is it REALLY so hard to believe that some local, politically involved, "community" activist treated a group of 20-30 something's poorly? Not really. We've been treated this way for years. No, we don't look like you, or act like you, and hopefully we never will. But this is the whole point in my mind-there was a BBQ to "celebrate" a community. And one of the organizers decided to ALIENATE a group of people who belong to that said community. Seems like a shit load of double standards lurking around there to me. And by the way, just because not everyone lives within the mapped out boundaries of STRATHCONA that you all seem to follow (I must have lost mine playing soccer.....),and maybe live on the other side of Hastings, or the outskirts of China Town, they are still part of your community. Maybe the narrow scope that seems to be shared by Stranthconites opposed to Soccer and hipsters, should be widened. You'd be amazed at what can happen when you try and embody the essence of "community". And humanity for that matter. Maybe this issue is bigger than just soccer and 3 hours lost to those who don't play. Maybe this is the reason why this city continues to fight the same battles and lose, repeatedly. Downtown Eastside anybody? Maybe this should be a lesson learned to all. Maybe when this mindset changes, then the important things can be resolved as well. Maybe.

I'm in total agreement.
When your response to someone asking you to 'share the field' is "suck my dick" and making fun of the guy's appearance, ie bending over and calling him "wee man", Yes, you ARE making an ass out of yourself.Is anyone really suprised?
You alienated yourselves. Might be hard to get any support from the locals now.
You will have to take that shit to Yaletown, yes.

"When your response to someone asking you to 'share the field' is "suck my dick" and making fun of the guy's appearance"

Nobody asked us to share the field. Nobody has ever asked. Ron just called the cops straight away after we said we didn't have a permit. Nobody said "suck my dick". I only made fun of his appearance when in retrospect, after it became apparent that the man had no wish to compromise, just to pull a power trip.

And again, WE ARE THE LOCALS.

If you're "bored by it all", why bother continuing to respond? another bit of irony to add to this thread?
Sharing the field wasn't an issue. Like stated already-the BBQ was over at 3:30, soccer happened after the event was over. And I don't see anyone justifying name calling. Is it so hard to sit along the perimeter of the park like everyone else? Do you need to sit in the middle during the few hours late in the afternoon every Sunday? Really I do want to know. Or are you just proving that your mentality makes YOU the candidate to hang out in Yaletown? They do have some wonderful concrete parks where I'm sure you could sit in the middle of the pavement. And the last time I checked my now lost map of the Strathcona boundaries, the population of YOUR little community is dominated by young, artists, and hipsters alike, so maybe you live in the wrong neighborhood? Perhaps you'd be better suited to somewhere where people as well like to take something positive-let's say playing soccer once a week, and turn it into a negative? There's a thought.

To "Poopy Pants" and the lot of you anti-soccerites and anti-hipsterites. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!!!!
Are you JEALOUS because we hipsters (yes it IS hipsters - NOT HAMSTERS) are just showing you all how it's done. "COMMUNITY" OKAY!! Get IT?? I'm in total agreement with Mishel (hey babe) and can see where this is all going. Like Sean so eloquently stated HIPSTERS ARE NOT A CRIME. WE ARE THE LOCALS and the only thing I can't stand is when I see so many fucking Yaletown Yuppies with their Dogs and snotty nosed Kids acting like they OWN THE PARK! Ron Suzuki is a fucking Facist and so is anyone one else who has a problem with us being there and playing soccer. If the neighbors don't like it, tough shit! It's our neighborhood too, and I don't have to live there to use it!!!
GET A LIFE YOU FACIST HIPPIES!!!

So much for trying to keep it civil. Anyhoo, you might have noticed that your favourite "fascist" wasn't at the park yesterday. I was. I'd suggest that if Ron was the "fascist" you've taken the time to paint him as he'd have been waiting for you a the park. But soccer seemed to go off without a hitch. So what have we accomplished here? Pretty much nothing. A communication breakdown led to some people having fun accusing someone else who pretty much spends all their time making sure kids have opportunities to have fun of being a fascist.Nice.Rather than step back and take a look at the slightly different circles that we all travel in we've chosen to name call and posture. Lovely. Me I'm just confused where I fit in. I mean I like soccer.I like to discreetly drink beer in the park.I used to worry about being a hipster, but now I have a dog and kids, and mostly worry about not being a dick.

Wow, spoken like a priveleged Strathcona-slumming hipster with a sense of entitlement as big as their ironic glasses there, James. And by that, I mean eloquently, with well reasoned arguments. Srsly.

"Like Sean so eloquently stated HIPSTERS ARE NOT A CRIME."

I'm glad SOMOEONE is drawing attention to this gaping hole in the Criminal Code. Time to write some letters.

"the only thing I can't stand is when I see so many fucking Yaletown Yuppies with their Dogs and snotty nosed Kids acting like they OWN THE PARK!"

Oh, you're just upset that you haven't figured out how to ironically appropriate the accoutrements of yuppiedom yet. But maybe you'd be pleasantly surprised how well Lululemon pants pair with neon hoodies and pedophile facial hair.

The funniest part about this whole thing, to me anyway, is how Sean and his pals actually refer to themselves as hipsters. That's piss-releasingly funny as it's tantamount to giving yourself a nickname or referring to you and your friends as "the cool kids" and actually meaning it.

Protip: Saying you're a hipster means that you're not a hipster. Just a gigantic poseur.

The funniest part about this whole thing, to me anyway, is how these flamers keep using the word hipster against me when I was one making fun of hipsters in the first place.

OH! OH! IRONY = HIPSTERISM, NO?

This is great! Let's just keep 'debating' this. It's pretty entertaining. I love that I can come back to this article on a nearly daily basis for some good reads. Who needs intelligent debating when you can read this garbage. Holy hell, commenting on this garbage is for retards.

"OH! OH! IRONY = HIPSTERISM, NO?"
"Holy hell, commenting on this garbage is for retards."

Now you and Sean can settle this on the soccer pitch.

Sean's a diver.

man, sunday soccer has been around for a long time. like ten years... but this kind of venomous bullshit... well, it has no place in building community... we all have to live here, and we really have to protect what is important to everyone... making a safe and welcoming place for all! and that includes junkies and working girls AND soccer players. come one man... we gotta live. peace, James.

WHAT??? incredible. i read this and it is remarkably simliar to the soccer sunday which i attend every sunday in a little park in montreal. incredible...you sound like you have as many inside jokes as we do. ours has been going on 5 years and we have had up to 25 people

I've been a happy spectator of the Sunday Soccer for the three years I've lived in Strathcona, and I've never seen the players be anything but welcoming and fun. Though... maybe they were just being nice because they liked my bike!! And my skinny jeans!! Shit!! Naive little me, I thought they were just, you know, being good neighbours.

Maybe we could petition Libby to pass a bill ordering all residents of East Van to be branded with a bar coded that once scanned will provided: length of residence, exactly where in East Van you currently reside (Collingwood, Fraserview, Mount Pleasain't, Hastings-Sunrise, etc), and the contact numbers of at least 5 Born-Here East Van residents who can vouch for your East Van keepin' it realness.

Run-on Sentences FTW!

Stop this Libby Davies hating. She has done so much to advocate for the community. In regards to homelessness, low income families, immigrants, and working poor. She is far from being anywhere near a fascist. All the community ask is just to share the park. She probably (if not other concerned members of the community) called because maybe you guys seemed to take over the entire park and drank beers in the open public. Its a shared park and there are often kids who play there, so respect that.