Comments on: Radio host interviews ‘Knotty Bodies’ barista

By: Matt M

Matt M — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:55:00 +0000

Not in an ideal location. I’m no longer able to fuel up here wkly due to the fact that my wife is offended by this and these women dont look nice. Get a job at local stripclub? Not an appropriate location. Ive seen one girl flaunt her stuff right in front of my kids this is not mature or cool with me. This gas station must be losing customers in droves.

By: fuck u

fuck u — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:33:00 +0000

god damn that girl needs a fuckin education! wow she obviously has no idea what shes doing and why shes doing it or that whats shes doing is a form of business..god shes so fucking stupid!

By: Coffee of the Month Club

Coffee of the Month Club — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:18:28 +0000

Using your body as a selling point will have a great impact on a business.

By: markaboy

markaboy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:33:42 +0000

Well I'm quit sure the church across the street would a) complain alot less about attire in Dec. & b) probably get a few larges to get thru the cold days. Funny how charity should start at home… bad/bad/ church !!!

By: jason

jason — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:12:03 +0000

So it's ok to take children to the beach and be surrounded by women in bikini's but its not ok for someone to serve you coffee in a bikini? It's a little different context, but please people don't make the kid argument.

By: theo

theo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:26:57 +0000

Sex sell's so what let them sell it, this is a free country last time I checked. They can sell it you don't have to buy it. Rock on Girl's the only one's hating r the one's that don't have the bodie's to sell it!
Quit yer bitching people live n let live.Pretty uptight for such an open minded city ballard resident.
judging christian's go figure!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:00:43 +0000

i love amber.

By: radiant_lustre

radiant_lustre — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:20:22 +0000

Someone in Ballard can do this… VIKING LANES

That is a great name. Some Ballard Beaver alumni, some local, lived in
Ballard their whole life, business owner… maybe someone like Kathy Casey,
dish d'dlish… or Tom Douglas or Dale Chihuly.

Ballard and surrounding hoods need a 24 hour – VIKING LANES – bowling, food,
coffee, drink, something for everyone. Our community needs this.

By: HeardOnthe44

HeardOnthe44 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:37:57 +0000

If I could only win the lotto or mega…..this would be an absolute blast ! I was just feeling sad yesterday again that the Sunset Bowl was gone. The community to support Viking Lanes is here and ready to bowl ! There actually was a Viking Lanes back in the mid-west where I am from. It's long gone at this point….

By: radiant_lustre

radiant_lustre — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:53:50 +0000

As long as you are willing and able…

By: radiant_lustre

radiant_lustre — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:49:27 +0000

Right on. Get your Viking going on in Ballard – why not coffee, Bowling,
and beer… Vikings unite and let's start a community
Bowl/coffee/beer/another skate bowl in Ballard. I am able-bodied but lack
the financing… but maybe something could happen, like field of dreams,
think it, then build it, and they will come. The soon-to-close QFC in
Crownhill would be a perfect building to transform into a Viking
Bowl/coffee/cafe/beer/skate pit/hang out. We need it – open 24 hours.
Anybody out there who could do this?

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:59:05 +0000

I'm 'L33t, baby!

By: Trish4

Trish4 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:30:36 +0000

Well I for one am glad to know you can still be classy without knowing how to spell

By: peterNorth

peterNorth — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:51:02 +0000

The Church wants to judge you?? I think we all know what kind of people go to church and point fingers…….We also know what goes on behind closed doors in churches and these finger pointers homes, it's in the news everyday and THAT is truely disgusting.

I'll be making the 25 minute trip outta my way to give you business.

By: Jules2

Jules2 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:13:58 +0000

Actually, we used to refer to Ballard as The Scandinavian Ghetto, using the word “ghetto” in the original sense of the word.

By: Ballardite

Ballardite — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:29:18 +0000

Yeah, because Old Ballard is really, really ghetto.

By: SPG

SPG — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:22:41 +0000

Sorry, didn't have my joke indicator light turned on.
I don't really have a problem with either the coffee shack. which without this blog I'd never even know about, or goodwill.

By: SPG

SPG — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:18:02 +0000

I'm impressed you can code an entire web page that quick just for a punchline!
Damn, you're good.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:38:52 +0000

Snark away, Silver!

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:37:29 +0000

Nothing, ethel. Ignore them. Goodwill rocks!

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:28:49 +0000

Should point out the church is on record as being fine with the bikini barista stand. Doubt the note was from a church leader, more likely a random zealot.

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:02:59 +0000

Oh, good. You're fun when you're snarky. Bring it. :-)

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:19:33 +0000

Sexuality is the gimmick in so many things that are sold – from gym memberships (lose weight = being sexy) to car ads to perfume ads to jewelry ads, etc. I think bikini bars are the least of our problems. Have you seen the skanky clothes they make for 6 year olds now? What about the Slutz dolls … erm, I mean bratz dolls. With all the negative commercials and merchandise geared towards sexualizing our young girls, I think a bikini bar is totally harmless. Don't even get me started on the huge scandal of Catholic churches covering up priests who molested children that finally came out in the open a couple years ago. I don't think the Catholics as a collected group really have a moral high ground to throw stones from.

By: ethel

ethel — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:49:36 +0000

Oi! What's wrong with the Goodwill? I'm always happy to have more secondhand options (and as far as *looking* seedy, Thriftko was worse, though I got some wonderful bargains there over the years).

Not all crime tracks one-to-one with seediness. Property offenses often go up in more middle-class areas, for instance, as people have more stuff around that's worth stealing, but aren't in the bracket where they automatically all have burglar alarms.

By: hisdivineshadow

hisdivineshadow — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:41:39 +0000

I've been there several times and have never been called “sweetie” or any of those other terms. The barista has behaved just like any other barista I've ever met. I've never seen her in anything that wouldn't be acceptable on a beach. Frankly, I've seen joggers wearing less.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:21:54 +0000

If it's 104 degrees in Ballard again I imagine no one would think twice if you were walking around naked.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:20:41 +0000

Yeah, I look at the bikini and think “that's cute on her …” I'm not quite comfortable in bikinis anymore now that I'm a middle-aged mom. When my daughter is older it'd probably look cute on her though. I just prefer if she worked in a bikini coffee stand that she wear an apron so I not worry about her scalding her tummy when steaming the milk.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:16:23 +0000

A bikini bar feels wrong but the Sands strip club doesn't? That has been here what – 30 years? I guess people have gotten tired of boycotting it after many decades. And nobody is up in arms anymore about the plasma center next door to the liquor store where the homeless folks go to sell plasma to buy booze. This neighborhood has had sleazy stuff mixed in with the nice blue-collar families for decades but that's easily forgotten if there is a new target for scape-goating.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:53 +0000

Do they really serve Cafe Ladro coffee? If so, I'll buy coffee from them. My only complaint so far at bikini coffee bars is that they make a horrible cup of coffee and often get my order wrong because coffee isn't their main business. But I will buy coffee anywhere if the baristas are friendly and professional and most of all if the coffee is good – the baristas can be totally naked or wearing a bear-encounter suit for all I care. I'll let my husband go alone though. Last time we stopped at one of those bikini stands he started giggling and I thought I'd die of embarrassment.

By: Silver

Silver — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:51:23 +0000

Perhaps it's intended as irony.

Perhaps a "sweetrose" is a pleasantly scented but poisonous variety?

Oh wait - here's a clue! http://www.rosesweet.com/about.htm

(Sorry everyone - woke up on the snarky side of the bed this morning.)