^ Brighton's new soccerball multiplex in the distance
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
god damn
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 10:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
no suitable image results for "man's suit armpit"
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love the statues ("The Spirit of Progress" on top of the old Montgomery Ward building, and Ceres on top of the Board of Trade) because they are so atavistic.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 May 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― caek, Monday, 14 May 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
My girlfriend shot this, I drive by here most mornings. Bridge is being rebuilt, not supposed to be done for another year-plus.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Apparently part of gr8080's commute is by canoe? Mine is by bicycle, so I suppose it's possible.
Anyway, lots more that I get to see.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
carl agatha can see my old office on her commute
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Which building? I will wave on my way home.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, May 14, 2012 7:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my workplace is in this picture
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
n/a's desk is in Ceres's head.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― gyac, Monday, 14 May 2012 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Opened the thread planning to say that I see examples of poor parenting, since my mass transit journey unfortunately encounters quite a bit. But these are great photos. I don't see nearly as much great architecture, except for this bridge:
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Christchurch is great. Much to my eternal shame, I've never been to St Patrick's.
― gyac, Monday, 14 May 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sometimes there's a houseboat on the canal when I drive to/from work that's called "si prurit scabendum" - Latin for "when it itches, you have to scratch"
― StanM, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha,oops.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
ugh you guys have exciting commutes! mine is p much boring suburbia
Sometimes the drive-in is showing movies and I try to guess what ppl are watching as I whiz by
there's a strip club about halfway to work that backs onto the freeway, and they have p funny signs like 'NAKED PILLOW FIGHTING'..plus the classic sketchy looking RV parked off to one side
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
work, damn you.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Obviously, most of my commute is on a train.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
same train as carl agatha's from the looks of it
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
My commute is a one block walk from my house to my office, so there's not much but a couple weeks ago I encountered a duck family that needed help crossing a wide street. (they were on their way to the LA River/Griffith Park side of the street)
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
did you help them?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes I did. It's kinda fun to block four lanes of traffic.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 those ducks
― navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
drive past what used to be top gun and is now marine corps air station so i see tiltrotor ospreys and black hawks and f-18s and c-130s passing scary close to my head
bit farther north theres a big new sign advertising AMBIENT COMMUNITIES
http://www.ambientcommunities.com/
― the late great, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 xp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
BTW, this wasn't the first time I had duck traffic on the way to work. A couple years back I encountered this family but they didn't need help crossing a busy street.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
aww
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
no pic, but today justine and i saw a car with the license plate "<3CLUBN" (an actual heart, not the symbol <3)
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
elvis you should add something about ducks to your family crest/next album cover
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
(daily bike commute)
― Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
(At least once every two months or so.)
(I walk past this stop and usually beat this packed-to-the-rim [as pictured] trolley to the next light.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
a roundabout!
― Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
in the morning i am often on the same train/get off at the same stop/work in the same building as this woman with long very straight black hair halfway down her back. she is maybe early 30s, olive-y complexion but not obviously of a particular heritage, slightly taller than average but otherwise a regular well-dressed young woman. she walks faster than i do.
but it's like her hair lacks friction or something? she always looks like she just stepped out of a pantene pro-v commercial; her hair is *shimmery* with each strand seemingly separate from its fellows.
i have no particular opinion on this look, but it is notable. she is 'the woman with the hair'.
there are other repeating characters, though mainly on the way home: 'the small woman i think is french for no good reason', 'the guy with the overstuffed backpack who simply must grasp the subway bar with both hands', 'the african preacher with tremendous enunciation' etc.
who are yours
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:33 (3 days ago) Permalink
when I commuted there was a girl who got off at my stop and walked my same route to work every day. I never saw what station she got on at, I never saw exactly where she worked, honestly half the time I never saw her get off the train but just in that moment when I wasn't really thinking about anything, BOOM there she'd be every time, always about half a block ahead of me. always wore blue furry earmuffs, a long black skirt, and one of those rubber backpacks that had spikes on it. she had white blond hair. I saw her up close one time & she had white eyelashes and eyebrows too. I called her my Albino Nemesis.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:38 (3 days ago) Permalink
wau
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:41 (3 days ago) Permalink
There's a guy I see almost every morning from the window of the bus as he walks along the same route who looks like Paul Morley (though he's a lot younger than PM). The first time I saw him in a local shop after seeing him through the bus window every weekday for a year my brain went "click! familiar person" and I was dangerously close to saying "hi Paul"
(Paul being probably not actually his name, and he had probably not noticed me inside the bus every morning)
other favourites include the Hipster Viking Games Programmer (works in the vicinity of a game dev company, wears a different-game-company-logo'ed bag and was talking game geek stuff to a friend one morning - prob not an actual viking but has shoulder-length blond hair and neatly-trimmed beard and looks more like Notch's online avatar than Notch himself does) and The Lady Who Walks A Dalmatian And Did Not Appear To Like Me Pausing Outside Her House To Stroke Her Cat
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
/braggin
― West Egg Girls (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:42 (2 days ago) Permalink
There's a woman who lives two doors down from me who works in the building next to me -- I have a complicated-ish commute with one bus and two trains, and a long walk across Kings X station -- I keep feeling like I'm stalking her. Then we both turn up for the same Waitrose queue at lunch, the same brunch places. It's odd.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:45 (2 days ago) Permalink
Strange buildings at the National Arboretum:
Out-of-work Mercedes dealership and restaurant supply store.
Small park adjacent to the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue and within sight of the IBEW international office. I always feel like this is a bright spot on the commute once I get downtown, for some reason. A lot of that area in DC is just completely ugly.
― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:27 (2 days ago) Permalink
ppl you often see on your commute
some friends who live next door. on the way i don't see too many, it's very busy and hard to recognise people. except there's a woman who feeds pigeons in the park, she seems a bit down and out but is there every morning feeding them. it creates a frenzy of pigeons and is sort of annoying but if it makes her happy i'm okay with it.
when i travel my 40 mins or so to work, i recognise a few people just from habit on the other side. there's one guy who uses a wheelchair and he travels at extreme pace on it, kind of dangerously so and maybe hits into people a bit now and again.
i remember him because about 6/7 months ago he used to always be with a girl, i guess his gf, who was sort of helping him and carrying his bag, and he seemed a lot more tentative. i sort of imagine that maybe that was when he was first in the wheelchair, based on the atmosphere the few times i saw them.
not that i know for sure, obv.
― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 13:04 (2 days ago) Permalink
Behind the Mercedes dealership and restaurant supply store is a field of ruin where a few dozen other vacant buildings have been demolished. I used to enjoy looking at them on my commute.
There was an old abandoned restaurant from the 50s or 60s; it was a one-story white building with dark-red shutters. A taxi repair shop whose yellow sign had big, round lightbulbs like a dressing-room mirror. Some other auto repair shop with a ramp so that people could drive up onto the roof for some reason (I think).
There was a bar (maybe a strip-bar), that I think was actually still functioning when I first started taking this route several years ago. I think it was named after some bird, but I can't remember now. After it was closed, someone ripped out a whole wall on the second floor and from the street you could see an interior door, like you were inside a back-office or something. That was weird.
― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 13:17 (2 days ago) Permalink
Just did a google maps search of the area and I guess I was wrong about there being a ramp at the back of that shop. But the strip club was called the Skylark Lounge, which I think is a rather beautiful name for a strip club.
― how's life, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 13:36 (2 days ago) Permalink
• Older woman who works for investment group down the street. There were about a half-dozen times that we had little conversations about work, where we parked and the blindness of downtown drivers. And then, I don't know if she did this first or if I, we just started ignoring each other. That was years ago.
• Guy with Tourettes who sweeps the sidewalk on the touristy little avenue that leads to the Clinton library. He doesn't cuss or anything, but his A-WHOOO, YUP! sure startles some of the visitors. I do say good morning to him, he's awfully hard to ignore.
• There's this older guy, looks like a mix of Johnny Cash and LBJ, who used to walk with this really bad limp. I don't think he's homeless, but I definitely get the vibe that he lives in the government housing up the street.
So anyway, the limp one day disappears. Now he's in a wheelchair, scooting himself around with the leg he has left. Sometimes I want to offer to push him since we're going in the same direction, but I don't want to be a busy body. So I just walk around him at the intersection and feel like I'm showing off.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 13:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
elderly vaguely homeless-looking man who always stands in the same spot outside a walgreens on a busy sidewalk for hours every morning saying "good morning! god bless you! have a good day!" to the thousands of people that walk by in one of those voices that sounds more feminine and high-pitched than you'd expect coming from a man. he gets very satisfied and says "thaaank you!" whenever anyone says good morning back. i've witnessed a few people address him by name and engage him in conversation as i passed by. never seen him ask for any money or do anything remotely solicitous.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:13 (2 days ago) Permalink
i like that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:50 (2 days ago) Permalink
There is a little guy I see both in the morning and coming home, he works at the problem bar on the corner, doing odd jobs for booze money, I guess. One afternoon, he was on the corner as I was crossing the street at the light, and a woman in a brand new, beige Cadillac with gold trim pulled up to the stop light. She was blond, lots of gold jewelry, sunglasses, talking on her cell phone. He strode out into the street and hollered, "Get out of the car, baby, I want to make LOVE to you!"
The light changed, she drove away.
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:31 (2 days ago) Permalink
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:23 (2 days ago) Permalink
aww patos sydney pic makes me kinda sad. that used to be my commute. now its all interstate, another interstate, but HEY MY WORK HAS A PARKING LOT so...
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:17 (2 days ago) Permalink
pretty much just this everyday.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:23 (2 days ago) Permalink
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:26 (2 days ago) Permalink
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:32 (2 days ago) Permalink