Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

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.

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.

http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_512x512/0/76a/angry-old-man-76a051.jpg

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.

yeah, reading boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest is another example of Bloomie's expertise.

xxp

Alfred, shouldnt you be picking up teens at the video arcade?

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

"shall we play a game of donkey dong?"

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.

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?!?

i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class

"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"

The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.

Perrin lives in Michigan, dilly

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

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

FIX THAT, BLOOMBERG

what about if you have a window big enough for a cow to be blown through what then

I don't think anyone on ilx lives in staten island

this thread's revival is Exhibit A as to why politicians don't (and shouldn't) try to court the chronic malcontent vote.

I was generally happy with the Democratic Party in 1974-75, fyi

2 years out of a 200+ year run isn't exactly a strong refutation of a charge of chronic malcontentism.

Progressive Era was nice too

so now I'm 200+ yo?

lol i wasn't gonna say

haha yeah

as someone who tends to agree with/defend you, morbs, it's necessary to know precisely what it is you're upset about

4llyz4y is "furious" too, btw, so count yr blessings!

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.

it's possible to get pissed at the general "the sky is falling!" alarmism in the media and the government about the hurricane and the moronic behavior of some NY-area residents (all of that is pissing me off, too) and to also get pissed off when someone is getting his nose all bent out of shape over being asked to avoid being next to windows.

what is Bloomberg supposed to say? "i think it's advisable that you stay away from windows ... but hey, if you wanna get cut to ribbons by shards of flying glass or impaled by a telephone poll that's your call"?!?

howbout "For those of you who have windows everywhere..."

your studio sounds pretty nice

if you live in a place with bad hurricane conditions you go stay somewhere else fuckin duh

"avoid basements BUT I LIVE IN A BASEMENT WHAT THE HELL"

PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'Brien
Our town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene
58 minutes ago

"family room, no windows please"

#hurricanechic

Disney World is awesome during a hurricane, I'm told.

mickey maelstrom

i was gonna stay with a friend's family but they're west of me and more in the direct path according to the latest models. i may drive into campus, bring a blanket, some food and water, and stuff to read, park my car in one of the parking garages and ride it out in my pharmacy building, which has fridges, microwaves, lots of places to hide, etc. could be kinda fuckin awesome actually

that sounds insane

you should invite other people and make it a party

whoops meant that for the hurricane thread - anyway yeah we do shit like this sometimes when we have exams and stuff and are in there studying, i know how to work the projectors in the lecture halls so we put basketball or football games on the jumbo screen, order pizza, and study in there

at least you'll have lots of cool drugs to try

back on topic:

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rikers-island-prisoners-irene

just belatedly wanna dip in to say:

The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.

that i always thought ian j0hns0n would be the kinda guy who had a room bong

PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'Brien
Our town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene
58 minutes ago

Damn that is one righteous display name

kinda curious what the financial cost of shutting everything down is.

walking around carroll gardens a couple hours ago almost nothing was open, but the one or two restaurants/bodegas that were were busy. bodega was still pretty stocked, too.

on that measure, we're fairly lucky that it's happening over a weekend

Went out just now to give the dogs a chance to pee. Heard from someone that power to Greenpoint has been cut off.

greenpoint is pretty much all zone b at best it seems