A unique fixture on Ballard Ave has gone missing: someone has stolen the barber pole and fake roasted pig that was mounted on the side of Bitterroot BBQ.
Bitterroot general manager Hannah Jo Carter wrote about the theft in the My Ballard Group:
“Dear Jerky McJerkface,” Carter writes. “It was super lame that you smashed our historic barber pole to steal our perfectly roasted pig (there is a great story behind the pig as he was my mom’s).”
“Lovely Ballardites,” she adds, “If you happen to see the Bitterroot BBQ pig out in the wild, we would love to have him back.”
Good. A barber poll is a symbol of the patriarchy.
I thought that was the stripper pole.
Can it you nit!
The look of the barber pole is linked to bloodletting, with red representing blood and white representing the bandages used to stem the bleeding. The pole itself is said to symbolize the stick that a patient squeezed to make the veins in his arm stand out more prominently for the procedure. In Europe, barber poles traditionally are red and white, while in America, the poles are red, white and blue. One theory holds that blue is symbolic of the veins cut during bloodletting, while another interpretation suggests blue was added to the pole as a show of patriotism and a nod to the nation’s flag.
Did not comment on it’s origins, but rather it’s current meaning.
It’s a “women need not enter” symbol.
I know several women who go to barbershops as well as women who are barbers. Perhaps it is just you who are not welcome.
Not sure why you like to play this character on the internet, but it is a sad hobby.
WTF is wrong with you? Everything and anything offends YOU. The only thing worse than any insensitivity is you HYPER-sensitivity. You’re what’s wrong today in our country. This story is NOT about you.
I liked elenchos2 better when he was a conservative troll.
Freja disapproves! Everybody you’ve been warned!
get a life
Freja using the word ‘bloodletting’ troubles me. It may trigger dreams of flaxen-haired shield maidens chasing me with wicked edged weapons😆😘
No you are thinking of the Washington Monument but don’t be fooled, some obelisks were raised by Queens.
I don’t read much Dan Brown
… and you understand even less.
I do think it’s interesting that you feel the need to be part of all conversations regardless who is speaking. It’s a sign of complete narcissism.
I was discussing obelisks and their appearance in Dan Brown when you felt the “obligation” to chime in. All you do is hurl insults and contribute nothing to the conversation.
Your current “personality” has jumped the shark. Please acquire a new one.
Please stop harassing me. You’ve gone over the line.
Maybe you can find a man-free safe space.
“I guess in the old days that was called the real world. Now people are to (sic) lazy to talk to their neighbors and need safe spaces online to talk.” elenchos2 12/28/18
So you think cyberbullying is something to be ridiculed?
I ridicule you because you cyberbully children.
Pointing out that young adults (not children, don’t be ridiculous) have so much advantages over other people in the world is not bullying, but rather very “woke”.
If you were pointing out a disparity if opportunities comparing local children with children in other regions I could agree to disagree with you and your comments. What you are doing is not “woke” it is asinine, hurtful, and hate filled. The mother of an immigrant child at BHS got the pleasure of sharing a “good job” article only to find you spewing stupid, off base and cruel comments.
So woke! you are so woke! You can barely string together a coherent sentence but you have to jump into every thread with some moronic and irrelevant comment about toxic masculinity or whatever other buzz word you don’t understand. If anyone took you seriously you would be doing damage to progressive culture but you are such an obvious troll that no one takes you seriously.
Trolls get trolled, deal with it.
you and bucky seem to get really hung up on certain vocabulary. maybe take a break.
Do you have an everything is free sign in your front yard? Are there any more laws you don’t like? What are you, like 11 or 12? You weren’t born this stupid, so how the hell did you get so woke? Oh yeah, living in Bizerkly North. N. Korea is nice this time of the year. Enjoy your vacation.
I love Bitterroot. That sucks.
I blame Vegan Biker. He is a non christian meat hating terrorist, and is just the sort of immigrant who would do something like this. Steals pig poles from BBQs – NOT WITH TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Impeach Vegan Biker, and Make Ballard Great Again
!!!!MAGA!!!!
Edog – I remember you! And I missed you too! I miss the “good old days” on the MyBallard Forum.
Where have you been?
However, I believe you own me an apology for what you posted about me, if the “Vegan Biker” you refer to is in fact directed at me.
I would never steal a plastic pig! Just real ones from factory farms!
MBGA!
The pig is a symbol of male chauvinists. We should be happy that it’s gone.
Agreed
No, the pig is a symbol is Dummycrats and the money they take (read steal) from hard working folks, to give to schlubs and heroin addicts.
Maybe the folks who owned the Stamp Store before this came back for revenge?
Everyone who commented on this is an idiot- congratulations
Including you?
What a crummy thing to do. Their three sauces are quite tasty, and I’m sorry this happened. I hope they recover the fixture.
Ah, of course.
Our Tweaker Hobo friends have decided to steal another cool piece of art, but the My Ballard Woke Brigade immediately starts with Maga jokes and arguments about patriarchy, with Freja pretending not to understand that all-male spaces were (and still in places like Slavic and Muslim countries) necessary to keep men sane so they could complain about their shrew wives or bratty kids without fear of some busybody gossiping it all and ruining him.
Now, of course, all spaces must be coed – well except for the numerous women-only spaces – so that men must be subjected to listening to Game of Thrones nonsense or watching some spinster make out with her dog babies while taking selfies for Facebook. These new coed spaces are hotbeds of vital issues such as: tv shows, awful pop culture trends everyone “hates” but conforms to, consumer products, and talking about awful exes and “dead white men” who spent too much money on them or built their identities around building civilization (how many women you see on construction sites in Seattle?) and protecting women from themselves. You go, Grrrl. Yass Queeen, Slay!
I don’t see what use a homeless person would have with a roast-pig barber pole. I’m thinking it was more some drunken douche-bro that comes into Ballard on Friday or Saturday to ‘get lit’ and hit on some ladies. He probably did it to look cool and ‘edgy’.
We don’t have many edgy douche bros anymore. The techie betas are only interested in Star Wars and coding.
CH – I see that you don’t get out at night a lot!
No evidence or even mention of “tweaker hobos” as a suspect. Nobody in the comment section has joked anything about MAGA.
Your mental illness has progressed to the point where you are making things up to play the self-imposed victim.
It’s also clear that you have no luck meeting or dating women. Let me guess, you’re a prominent member of the perpetually single “Men’s Rights Movements” club?
Yes, Truth, I’m mentally ill. Why then are you so lacking in that quintessential progressive empathy and understanding?
Can you spare a dollar, or maybe a free apartment on the taxpayer dime, and make excuses for my awful behavior in public?
I think he is calling you “mentally ill” as an insult. Which is pretty offensive if you ask me.
If you’re hitting on me, I’m flattered, but not interested. Sorry Bucky :(
you mean when you go around screaming at women because they won’t respond to you when you say hello to them?
you need to try taking a few days away from your nasty meth habit