So I visited here on the hunt for an 80s style formal dress for a halloween costume. This store was certainly the 80s dress jackpot. Especially if you were, say, a 26-28" waist. Which I am not. But they had 20 dresses in varying sizes and designs. I found that most of the dresses were measured in waist sizes, although a few of them were still item/brand sized. The measurements weren't entirely accurate, but I suppose they gave a ballpark estimate of whether a patron would or would not be able to wear it.
The prices were a little higher than some of the other shops that I visited (Blacklist, Rewind) but lower than others as well (Lulas, B-squad, Vias, ... and that other one on Selby, the name escapes me). I mean, thats ok, I'd still be purchasing a dress for fairly cheap. I can deal with that. But what really sort of ruined the experience for me was the staff. Ok, and maybe the ghetto-rigged fitting rooms. But mainly the staff (3.5 star review minus one for hipster workers). They completely ignored me even after I gushed a bit about our costume idea. The two or three of them were so busy talking to some guy that walked in, I ended up putting my own items back and getting new dresses myself. Struggling through the store with six dresses made of titanic sized portions of tulle, sequins, and taffeta. Then I got booted out of my fitting room that I had popped out of to renew my selection. That was pretty super too.
'Mkay, sorry that I wasn't cool enough to be all in on your conversation. But really, isn't the point of working at a store kind of to help the patron buy shit? Not to glare at them and whisper behind their back? I did not make a purchase here. They probably whispered even more after that. "OMG whos that mess with the LL Bean fleece? Thats so lame, my mother wears those." Sorry, I forgot my vintage whateverthefuckIshouldhavebeenwearing. I'll bring it next time. Maybe then I'll get some help.
― goole, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
thinking about this place makes me drool.
LIKES: Chicken and fries... whats there not to like?DISLIKES: Parking maybe? Ghetto neighborhood?
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
I would give this place 3.5 stars. I think if it weren't so ghetto I would give it 4 stars. Yeah, that's right, I said it, ghetto.
There's a difference between hole in the wall and straight up ghetto. The difference is the safety of your life. Haha. I was a bit scared eating at Dinos. Even with my boyfriend, I was still a bit scared. And I'm not THAT big of a scare-dy cat!?
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dinos on Pico? Place is great, but it is kinda dicey tbh
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
The boy is drawn to hipster-douche vegans.
I hate this way of referring to a s/o but think the rest of this paragraph is great.
― boxall, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
see also: ghettofied
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i understand how a dining experience can be bad but, like, a level-1-adult skill is to be able to not throw a tantrum about trivial shit.
well if you count "posting about it on the internet" as the equivilent to "throwing a tantrum" then let me point out that this thread has nearly 9,000 posts
Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
the ralph's on glendale blvd near fletcher in silver lake is apparently "ghetto", according to some.
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
ilxing about shit is kinda like ranting to your bros, yelping about it is like filing an official complaint.
people who yelp are scumbags
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
people that* yelp
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
chaki took it to the next level by suggesting that they are objects
literally bags of scum
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
thread title has been irritating me, thought maybe if i corrected it in thread id feel better, but no some fn hipster has to roll up in his skinny jeans and harsh on me
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
this thread used to be cool, but ever since they changed the thread title it's just a hipster hangout, I'm taking my business to the other yelp thread where people don't ooze 'tudes of cool
― tracy mcgr8080 (dayo), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
my friend and i opted for the 16-course tasting with drinks pairing which turned out to be one drink for every course plates and since i'm asian, i'll do the math for you...that's 4 drinks.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
totally disagree with this thread title change
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah you can't fuck w/ classic thread titles, it's weird
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT THE FUCK WHO DID THIS
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
cmon mods
― max, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
the usage mistake was what made it good for chrissakes
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
bad idea IMO
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
mods that change thread titles are scumbags
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
bring back the scumbags!
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I had assumed this was some sort of daft parody thread and avoided opening it for a couple days.
― put a boner at the top of the site (beachville), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
the mods campaign to erase chaki from the ilx history books continues.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
This thread is ghetto, but I do know the chef.
― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
BOO
― j., Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
DON'T TREAD ON ME
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
2. The Crowed was O.K very diverse, a few chinos , whities, chicanos(no cholos) and a hand full of well behaved brothers(obama blacks).
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
ALSO WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THREAD TITLE
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
forks strikes again
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 February 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
still really mad about this
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 February 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
changeback plz
― toandos, Friday, 17 February 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
I thought this got changed back during the forks girl problems fight
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
we're friends, i'll ask him to change it
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
bump
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
hooray, scumbags
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
can you change it to 'people who yelp are scumbags' now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
noooo this thread title was a hallowed tradition
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, I got confused trying to restore it to its original glory. fuk a grammar imo
― stet, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
otm all hail *bows*
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
hey stet thank you!
is there a reason title changes dont carry over to bookmarks though?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the bookmark title is just a copy of the thread name, not linked. It makes things faster, but means it doesn't keep up with title changes
― stet, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/in-praise-of-yelp-the-newest-billion-dollar-web-company/253911/
seems pretty off-base (any sensible piece on yelp would be more savage to yelpers) but this bit is on:
But that engenders, as a result, a related sentiment: indignation. It's not just that we can create things on the Internet; it's that we expect to be included in their creation. And so we are miffed when things are done without our feedback. "'Why wasn't I consulted,'" Ford wrote, "is the fundamental question of the Web."
― j., Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
This place worst restaurant i have ever been too... i wanted to eat certain things they didn't have it.. they had a few things then they didn't have a few things in the menu..i have never heard of that before.. i went with my husband and i ate the mussell almarfi and it was okay not great musells weren't in their shells which ive never seen before and spicy too spicy for my taste... my husband had the lasagna and they even got that wrong how can you get lasagna wrong and the chef supposedly was a chef in italy or cooked out there for 12yrs.. the lasagna was overcooked you can tap it and it was hard as a rock it came with carrots and brocolli i mean thats not italian cuisine..no wonder there was noone there as soon as we got there.. and for dessert the cake was a chocolate cake with some sort of mouse the cake was old because it wasn't moist and spongy like its suppose to be.. I'm never going back to this restuarant again...People stay away from this place food is bad!!!!
― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
they had a few things then they didn't have a few things in the menu
tbf that sounds pretty confusing. plus the percussive lasagna.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
and for dessert the cake was a chocolate cake with some sort of mouse
― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
That reads like it was written by a Facebook friend of mine (we went to high school together).
Here are a few of her recent posts:
Teacher told a funny story.he said he went to a daycare and ask do you guys have pets here. The reply was No. so they took him on a tour. He sees a ginny pig in one room. then he sees a turtle in the next room. then in the next room he sees a parot. He says Im sorry but I thought you said you had no pets here. they then replied.....wait for it....oh their not pets their MASCOTS! Lol!
here is a debating question.....Is Poison Ivy, if someone caught it. Is it contagious? If that person is treated for it, can you catch it too?
What crazy person passes on crawfish!
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Saturday, 31 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link