We have no problem when reviews are bad, as long as the reviews are constructive criticism.

Reviews such as these are ridiculous and only confirm that websites such as Yelp are unreliable because you have no idea about the person who is writing the review. People this clueless should never be allowed to review anything because, to be blunt, they are absolutely clueless and not to intelligent.

We will be adding reviews that we feel are pointless or by people who have no clue. 

 

 

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Mr. Fishbits X.
San Francisco, CA

 
Updated - 7/1/2010

Why did I even try to go back. Dead weekday, full of marina frat boys.

Just because you are eating dinner closeby, and accidently mention the bar and your previous experience doesn't mean you should allow your friends to check it out.

What a waste of time and space.

Our Response
This is my favorite Yelper. He has never been to the bar, yet feels that he should still review it since we hurt the feelings of one of his friends.

He thinks he's intelligent yet does not know how to spell accidentally. If the bar was dead, then how was it full of Marina frat boys? Full means that the bar had many people in it.

If it's such a waste of time and space, why do you waste your precious time writing a review? Instead of writing reviews why don't you open a bar and show us how it's done?

The reason is simple. You don't have the guts or knowledge to do so. You know nothing about the business because if you did, you would get in the game instead of sitting on the sidelines.

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Umesh T.
In the privacy of my world of one, I refuse to grow up --- hop, skip, step,
Novato, CA

3/25/2010

I had been here a while ago. They mostly had some canned beer that none in my party liked; I can't say for sure since I am not a beer person myself. They had no cocktails when I asked so it wasn't the right place for me.

The decor is cheesy but I am guessing that was the intention. The oft-mentioned stripper's pole is over hyped. It's so close to the wall that only a petite waif would be able to do anything with it. Everyone else will get stuck.

The toilets, as mentioned by many others, were not the prettiest sight. It was tiny -- one stall and maybe one (or two) urinals with no partition; please, spare me the sight of the guy peeing next to me!

Am I coming back? No thanks!

Our Response
This person is either blind or just an idiot.

We have beers in both cans and bottles and hard liquor. How could you not notice the numerous bottles of liquor behind the bar? Have you ever been to the bar?

Perhaps the bathrooms should be the entire bar. The bar is only 1500 square feet and if you knew anything about owning a business, you would know the permit nightmare if you made any changes to the existing structure.

I assume you have never been to a public bathroom because many do not have partitions between the urinals and since there is only one, there's no use for a partition.

You should go to a baseball game where many people are peeing next to you. 
Welcome to reality.

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Fallopian Swim Team D.
Stupid crankin, hella thick on the strip, off purple, pills, and drank,…
San Francisco, CA

2/7/2010

The patrons are not from the neighborhood
The owner(s) is not from the neighborhood
The beer sucks
The atmosphere is funny, but in a bad way
Tip: These Marina people really need to stick to the Marina

Our Response
What a useful review! The patrons are from the neighborhhood.
Who dio you think makes up our weekday business?
You don't even know if there's one owner or multiple owners so how do you know where they live?
There's only one owner who lives in the Western Addition and is a native San Franciscan.
Where are you from? Hercules?
If the beer sucks, what beer should we carry? I'm sorry that you think Anchor Steam, Fat Tire and PBR suck but how about some suggestions? I'm surprised you think Anchor sucks since you are all about locals.
Tip: You are a complete jackass who should check their facts before writing a review.
So is it a requirement that every person who owns a business must live in the same neighborhood?
What neighborhood do you live in and when did you move to San Francisco?
You are too cool for school but too stupid for the real world.

 
Bhumika K.
Washington D.C.
1/25/2010

WTF.

I felt like I was in a pinball machine at this place.  So crowded and so small and so terribly laid out.

And WTF was up with all the naked women pics on the ground.  Gross, some of them needed to get a serious brazilian wax.

Our Response

Is it a requirement that you are completely oblivious to realty in order to become a Yelp Elite? We didn't build the building from the ground up. We can't start knocking walls down because the space is not perfect. We do not own the building. We are limited to what is there. Think about it.

Did you not read any other reviews by others on Yelp? Every reviews mentions the pictures yet somehow you missed that.

Those are Playboy Centerfold's from the 1970's. Did you notice that none of the models had fake breasts? No fake breasts and pubic hair equals pre 1980's. The Playboy Centerfolds tie into the theme. Did you not notice any sort of theme in the bar? We did not think that a person who is over 21 years old would have such a difficult time figuring it out but we were wrong. Instead of living in a limited world, do a little research. There was a time before Yelp, home computers and cell phones. You are an idiot and why someone with your limited scope and knowledge is allowed to review anything is beyond understanding.

Jamie Z.
San Francisco, CA
2/2/2010

Would give it 0 stars if I could.

Chris Rock performed a skit called "Progress Report"  tracking the social progress of African-Americans through triumphs and blunders. For example, "General Colin Powell speaking at the Republican Convention marched us twelve steps ahead." But we can't celebrate just yet because, "Mike Tyson speaking in public set us twenty-four steps back!"

Kozy Kar is like twenty-four steps back for women.  Women going to and promoting Kozy Kar is like fifty steps back.

Our Response
Did you not know about the Playboy Centerfolds before you came to the bar? Every review mentions them and every person talks about them so why bother even going to the bar if you knew that the pictures would upset you?

Never quote Chris Rock when you are trying to prove a point. Only uneducated people like yourself consider him a great thinker. He's a comedian, not a historian. The Playboy Centerfolds are there to represent a time in American culture. A time of freedom and sexual liberation. Are you now getting the tie in to the van theme? Do a little research. I have done some for you so that you can understand the significance of Playboy to our culture.

So since you do not believe in women's liberation, you must still want to see all women barefoot and pregnant. People like yourself set women back fifty steps, not Playboy or the Kozy Kar.

The historian Elizabeth Fraterrigo asks us to accept a somewhat unlikely premise, which is this: A titty magazine that has been culturally irrelevant since the late 1970s was at the forefront of many of this nation’s most important social upheavals and reconfigurations. It is to her book’s credit—and, it must be said, to Playboy’s—that one closes her book largely convinced that she is right.

It was Hefner’s great insight that girly pictures divorced from any kind of human individuality could not be anything except dirty. And so his Playmates had names, jobs, personalities, and fact sheets, however illusory these often were. In some crucial way, then, Playboy gave what was previously considered pornography a kind of dignity. It was a deeply limiting, dingbat dignity, to be sure, but to allow the mid-century American woman any identity beyond that of mother, virgin, or whore increased her available social options by 25 percent. Women would naturally revolt against this, and no one could blame them, but the fact remains that Playboy helped liberate female sexuality from a Bastille of iniquitous morality, in the long run surely doing more to help women than harm them.- Tom Bissell's review of Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

''Playboy legitimized looking at naked women,'' said another of its contributors, Bruce Feirstein, the humorist. ''It set the stage for everything that followed, all the things you could start talking about - like sex.''

And last night Dr. Ruth, the party-loving sex therapist, gave Playboy her stamp of approval. ''I have not only been reading it but suggesting it to my clients,'' she said.

Back in an era when sociologists were proclaiming the death of the Puritan ethic but television still portrayed married couples in twin beds, Playboy championed sexual liberation and the pursuit of pleasure. Time magazine put Mr. Hefner on its cover in 1967, anointing him ''a prophet of pop hedonism.'' Trump and Playmate -Sara Rimer New York Times