"stay in a room with no windows in your apartment" is just something a guy w/ a panic room and several bunkers says
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
do you have a bathroom
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
we have a 2br but there's nowhere away from a window. I guess the "worst" windows are ones facing S or SW? Or does it not work like that?
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Morbs, shut the fuck up and get in the bathroom with your Joel McCrea stickers collection.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol morbs this one is a bit of a stretch
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not gonna sleep in the bathroom, iatee, but i recommend you do
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
that's like... standard hurricane SOP
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
IN FLORIDA WHERE PPL HAVE HOUSES, YOU HICK
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
i have to imagine that in the vast jungle of nyc someone, somewhere, has an apartment with two rooms
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
what are you even complaining about at this point? do you think bloomberg is in some way responsible for the hurricane? do you think he could be doing things he isn't doing right now, if so, what exactly?
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
an overwhelming majority of residents of new york city do not live in studios, I remember looking at the breakdown somewhere.
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
what pct live in apts with a windowless room? don't answer.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
it may be annoying (i have a 1-bedroom but the living room and kitchen have windows) but it's sensible advice. the mayor of Hoboken recommended the same thing FWIW.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, this is a silly thing to get pissed off with Bloomberg about!
it shows the automatic-pilot elitism, typical of all high-level pols but rather pronounced in him.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
this is insane
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
that we don't have windowless rooms?
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kZNjoJePr7A/Th3ja2Q0vbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/EMBry6OaBls/s1600/Housing_by_city.JPG
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, but I, for example, am in a tenement 2Br and we have windows in every room.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
right but there's still a decision you can make w/r/t which room seems safer
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
which was basically all bloomberg was saying...
yeah fyi every single government official and broadcaster on the eastern seaboard has said this exact thing in the past 2 days, angrily reviving a thread about one of them because of your political opposition to them is just well it's just almost too morbz
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
also it's not like there's gonna be some correlation between 'people w/ a room w/ no windows' and 'rich people' - lots of the 'worst' rooms in the city are gonna have no windows and lots of rich people are living in glass-y window-lovin skyscrapers.
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
OMG Morbs, the "stay in a room with no windows" is also advice they give you in a tornado here in the Midwest, this isn't like something new Bloomberg pulled out of his ass just to piss you off.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_512x512/0/76a/angry-old-man-76a051.jpg
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
if you're so worried about debris flying through your window, then go to a shelter.
really, this is just pissing and moaning for the sake of pissing and moaning.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, reading boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest is another example of Bloomie's expertise.
xxp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred, shouldnt you be picking up teens at the video arcade?
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
hey let's find an example of an office-holding politician you admire and agree with who has issued this completely standard and logical warning -- oh right n/m
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"shall we play a game of donkey dong?"
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
iatee already said it, but there are plenty of the new yuppie/hedge-funder condos that have tons of windows. this is just basic safety, not another sally in the Class War for Christ's sake.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
then again, maybe Dennis Perrin lives in a studio walk-up and can write a suitably angry opinion piece about all of the "clueless" politicos. won't do shit, but hey you gotta keep occupied during the storm amirite?!?
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.
Perrin lives in Michigan, dilly
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
also not all rooms w/ windows are the same thing - an older tenement w/ a window to a central shaft area / small courtyard would presumably be less dangerous than a window facing a large open on-the-grid-avenue
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not really worried about the windows, but there are two skylights for which the covers don't seem to be very well attached. and the ceiling has leaked before
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
FIX THAT, BLOOMBERG
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
what about if you have a window big enough for a cow to be blown through what then
― Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think anyone on ilx lives in staten island
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
this thread's revival is Exhibit A as to why politicians don't (and shouldn't) try to court the chronic malcontent vote.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I was generally happy with the Democratic Party in 1974-75, fyi
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
2 years out of a 200+ year run isn't exactly a strong refutation of a charge of chronic malcontentism.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Progressive Era was nice too
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
so now I'm 200+ yo?
lol i wasn't gonna say
― Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
as someone who tends to agree with/defend you, morbs, it's necessary to know precisely what it is you're upset about
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
4llyz4y is "furious" too, btw, so count yr blessings!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest
I know the midwest has a bad rap but don't they know a thing or two about severe wind storms.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link