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
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"?!?
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
howbout "For those of you who have windows everywhere..."
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
your studio sounds pretty nice
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
if you live in a place with bad hurricane conditions you go stay somewhere else fuckin duh
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
"avoid basements BUT I LIVE IN A BASEMENT WHAT THE HELL"
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
PeanutFreeMom Debra Jones-O'BrienOur town has opened up several emergency shelters for the storm, but I just got us reservations at the Hyatt instead. #Irene58 minutes ago
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
"family room, no windows please"
― Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
#hurricanechic
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Disney World is awesome during a hurricane, I'm told.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
mickey maelstrom
― Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds insane
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
you should invite other people and make it a party
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
at least you'll have lots of cool drugs to try
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
back on topic:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rikers-island-prisoners-irene
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Damn that is one righteous display name
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 August 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
on that measure, we're fairly lucky that it's happening over a weekend
― iatee, Sunday, 28 August 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Went out just now to give the dogs a chance to pee. Heard from someone that power to Greenpoint has been cut off.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 28 August 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
greenpoint is pretty much all zone b at best it seems
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 August 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/in-private-bloomberg-backs-christine-quinn-as-successor.html
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
morbs siren
http://wonkette.com/454037/mayor-bloomberg-on-wall-street-protests-we-need-to-help-the-banks
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT THE FUCK, GUY?
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/11/3971362/bloomberg-plain-and-simple-congress-caused-mortgage-crisis-not-banks
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Taibbi parses that crap, and how Bloomsmug has thrived:
Bloomberg’s main attraction as a politician has been his ability to stick closely to a holy trinity of basic PR principles: bang heavily on black crime, embrace social issues dear to white progressives, and in the remaining working hours give your pals on Wall Street (who can raise any money you need, if you run out of your own) whatever they want.
He understands that as long as you keep muggers and pimps out of the shopping areas in the Upper West Side, and make sure to sound the right notes on abortion, stem-cell research, global warming, and the like, you can believably play the role of the wisecracking, good-guy-billionaire Belle of the Ball for the same crowd that twenty years ago would have been feting Ed Koch.
...the condescension levels here are unbelievable, his air of aristocratic superiority almost breathtaking to behold. Listen to Bloomberg paternally conceding in one breath that it is certainly nice that some struggling people now have homes ("I'm not saying I'm sure that was terrible policy, because a lot of those people who got homes still have them and they wouldn't have gotten them without that"), just before chiding us with the next that there are sometimes negative consequences to doing something that sounds like goodness, like giving people a place of their own to live....
Well, you know what, Mike Bloomberg? FUCK YOU. People are not protesting for their own entertainment, you asshole. They’re protesting because millions of people were robbed, by your best friends incidentally, and they want their money back. And you’re not everybody’s Dad, so stop acting like you are.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 November 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I hate this guy so much.
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 November 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
4 morbs
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/26/mayor_bloombergs_should_never_start.php
― iatee, Thursday, 26 January 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
I can sense 4llyz4y fuming, in every sense of the word
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5728546/bloomberg-not-trying-end-smoking-he-says
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
mad with nanny power
http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/political_news/162170/mayor-bloomberg-seeks-ban-on-large-sugary-drinks-in-city-eateries
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 May 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
what do we think about this? i'm kind of OK with it tbh
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
re-elect bloomberg
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
in Chicago
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
we already have one
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm ok with calling people pigs for ordering 20 oz sodas but not making their sale illegal.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
The people or the sodas?
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Lady Bracknell: Well, both, if necessary, I presume!
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
John Cole's response
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link