New York City is for sellouts

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no gabbneb that's all any new yorker i've ever spoken with talks about is either a) Carlos Beltran or b) Famous Ray's.

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/BeastieBoysHelloNasty.jpg

gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link

perhaps wikipedia can answer this important question

The City of New York, most often called New York City, is the most populous city in the United States, in a metropolitan area that ranks among the world's most-populous urban areas. It is a leading global city, exerting a powerful influence over blah blah blah blah

of course, if you're uncomfortable being packed like sardines, it may not be the place for you

― gabbneb, Friday, October 17, 2008 9:55 AM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this argument just reminds me of people who need a gallon of some insane b.s. CODE RED THREE-ALARM hot sauce to enjoy any food they eat

metametadata (n/a), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

dc is def def not a great anything except maybe receptacle for styleless assholes

new orleans is a great city tho - and so is montreal which is technically inside the us state of canada

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

new orleans is very awesome, yes

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

how about fuck carlos beltran

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

dc got some good ethiopian food

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

but let me tell you, good ethiopian food does not a great city make

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

i hav srsly never heard anyone rave abt beltran or rays

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

people do make fun of rays a lot tho

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

guys every new yorker i've spoken with will not shut up about a) something they read in the new yorker and did i read it or b) brett farve

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

i stopped reading the new yorker cause i was not shutting up abt it and annoying myself in the process to be totally honest

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

how about fuck carlos beltran

^lol Melky Cabrera fan

Certainly Manhattan sucks shit, even compared to just 10 years ago.

xp:
a) fuck that mag (i just trashed 'pro rate' subscrip card)
b) fuck football

Dr Morbius, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

i continue to the read the new yorker but i only hang out with people who dont read it so when i repeat things i read there they will think i am a genius

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

sweet deal bro *new york style fist pound*

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

fyi i am a new yorker writer

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

how's that 15,000 word essay on the history of yo-yo's coming along?

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

i read the new yorker cause i have a long commute and it is usually interesting. were i in any other city, i would probably drive and therefore never read and therefore be dumb.

mizzell, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

hilarious que but its actually "yo-yos" with no apostrophe

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

snap!

mizzell, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

wow you new yorkers sure showed me

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/10/20/p465/081020_contest_p465.jpg

i read the new yorker cause i have a long commute and it is usually interesting. were i in any other city, i would probably drive and therefore never read and therefore be dumb.

metametadata (n/a), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

i like how you claimed to stay calm when people diss dc and that nyers are all babies, but you seem to be the only one on this thread that is actually upset about something.

mizzell, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

gas money^^

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

think i could win?

mizzell, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link

i am not really upset about anything, i could give two shits i am just having fun and lols

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

although i gotta say nyc is the septic tank of the usa

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

dc residents are so unserious and i hate them

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I think NYC is kind of awesome to a fault. The sense of ambition and energy and limitlessness of options can be a bit overwhelming, and sometimes I want to live somewhere a bit more low key like Philadelphia (not to mention cheaper). You can't really say there's any *thing* NYC doesn't have, it's just that it has so much of everything.

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

cheap housing

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

nice friendly people who don't yell at you

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

lakes for swimming

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

actually que new yorkers were just rated the friendliest people in the universe in some new study

joe the plumber (ice crӕm), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

published in the new yorker

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

THEY ARE ALL FROM OHIO ANYWAY AMIRITE LOL!

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

let me guess the study was run by. . . new yorkers?????

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

ha ha as tho there are scientists in any other cities

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

srsly

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Praying to god for the answer isn't a "study"

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

LAST TIME I CHECKED

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Que's challenging NYC disses are so skewed and sideways that I don't even have a response to any of them! I dunno. It's, you know, a city. A particularly large and teeming and vigorous one. It is not, in the end, a fundamentally different sort of entity from other cities, including less-large and less-teeming ones that are cheaper and more relaxing. There are differences in character, certainly, but you talk about it long enough and just becomes ... whatever.

Besides, not to get all class-analytical here, but most of us talking here, and (I'm guessing) most of the types of people we associate with in cities, are all post-collegiate cosmopolitans who don't come from that city anyway, am I right? New York, L.A., Chicago, all populated by young people from the same suburban zones. Would things seem different if we discussed cities in terms of their true "native" types? I'm not sure I could decide between NYC's and Chicago's -- might lean toward Chicago's!

nabisco, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link

most of us talking here, and (I'm guessing) most of the types of people we associate with in cities, are all post-collegiate cosmopolitans who don't come from that city anyway, am I right? New York, L.A., Chicago, all populated by young people from the same suburban zones

most of us

gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

nabisco. . . i was just clowning around with everything i said on this thread. just some friday lol clowning, not serious, etc etc

Mr. Que, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

see what happens when u insult nabiscos city

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

he posts multiple paragraphs in a calm and measured tone

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

NYC has an extremely wide range of "native types"

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Also a lot of suburbanites are sons and daughters of native types -- particularly the ones from Jersey.

Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

my dad was born in nyc

max, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

NYC has an extremely wide range of "native types"

That's true: gabbneb, Casuistry, JBR...

jaymc, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link


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