People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/last-years-poverty-increase-blame-oil-prices/2011/09/27/gIQAJh7u1K_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

FUCK THE SUBURBS AND CAR CULTURE BULLSHIT SUBURBAN ANTI PEDESTIAN FUCK WADS

otm

way overpriced, crappy independent grocer

Overpriced compared to what, though

Due to some new bullshit construction to accommodate MORE LANES FOR CARS my walk from the train platform to work just went from 5 mins to 45 minutes FUCK YOU BASTARDS

where do you live?

work and live in nj. use the bus+train everywhere i go.

been wondering if living in a city is worth dying at 52 due to toxic inhalation

the air in the burbs isn't always great either. every summer now i get so angry every time there's an air quality index warning in the maryland burbs saying i shouldn't take my son outside to play.

some dude, Maryland has been subject to those air quality index warnings ever since they came into existence. At least for as long as I can remember.

In many, many cases suburban air is worse than the nearby cities. I'll be moving out to Cumberland or something. Peace.

the air in portland or sf is cleaner than where you live jord

(nyc, la, chicago notsomuch)

oh i know, rif. i just didn't pay attention to them or get actively bummed out about them until i had a kid.

heh, jord doesnt live where u think he lives iatee

haha yeah I checked fb and didn't realize he was in miami atm

which is the only place that apparently beats sf and portland

xxp: yeah, that makes sense. it really isn't as hard to breathe until you have a government man telling you it's hard to breathe.

regardless, air pollution is just another problem that can be easily fixed by making private automobile ownership illegal

but we just saved the us auto industry LOL

It's cool, J0rdan just moved to Chicago, where the air smells like rotting onions.

wait did he?

Yahhh.

oh cool

been wondering if living in a city is worth dying at 52 due to toxic inhalation

― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

even the air in american cities is so so so so so so so much more cleaner than many parts of the world

yeah but generally worse than euro

Side query: how well-traveled are you, iatee?

not super, lived in and seen a good part of europe but never been to east asia/africa/south america. mostly just cause I've never had a lot of money to burn, feel like travel is the best thing you can do if you it.

if you have it*

and you complain about OUR carbon footprints

LOL

Maybe he sailed across the Atlantic.

no I agree plane travel is indefensible and should be taxed to hell

I think you're on a roll but you need to tone it back a little to make it less obvious

way overpriced, crappy independent grocer

Overpriced compared to what, though

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Well, compared to regular bigger supermarkets and Trader Joe's, certainly, but also compared to other independent grocers like the produce or meat markets in various ethnic neighborhoods (they're small supermarkets, but they specialize in produce or meat).

A factor in their higher prices is probably their disadvantage in buying and distribution - though they are member of a regional wholesale network - but I wonder if the bigger reason might be related to their being on really expensive property.

Anyway, $6.50 for a box of cereal is about the norm there, and that considerably more than you would pay at any other grocery store in town.

$6.50 for a box of cereal is about the norm there

o_O

By mail order with shipping and handling included?

A gallon of milk ($4.50)
Cereal and a blow-job ($6.50)
Plastic bowl and spork ($1.50)

Smug superiority: Priceless

Who is being smug?

I'm not saying that $6.50 is the mean price there, but that's what chocolate Cheerios cost the other day when I didn't buy them, and comparable cereals cost about the same.

Cereal and a blow-job ($6.50)

The free toys have gotten way better since when I was a kid.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iI2eqAZ0q6I7ym72GvpK1rz773cQ?docId=CNG.947744aa7f2a9543ab7c4b0e24b9136c.81

The small bubble-shaped Bluecars were designed by legendary Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina

SIGN ME UP.

what else has pininfarina designed beside bubblecars and ferraris?

http://www.passportmagazine.com/blog/uploads/843526-0-20111003035854.jpeg

Porches, Jaguars, Alfa Romeos. They also had a lot of influence on some early Volkswagons, Kharmann Ghias...I'm not sure if it was a former designer or someone moonlighting or what, may not have been the official design house, but the lines are def there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pininfarina#Notable_car_designs

?

the pininfarina collective

I get confused because there's a design house but also a person to whom a lot of the iconic designs are attributed to

tbh design houses are kind of a "head guy tells people broad strokes, accepts or vetoes their work, stuff goes out the door with his name on it" sort of thing

same with big time music producers, really

design farm

iirc Peter Saville, on the graphic design end of things, can't use Photoshop