I love the new taxi logos! The shitty xerox quality is a huge part of their appeal.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
the MOMfuku milkf bar
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/why-do-i-still-live-in-new-york-city-a-roundtable-1707169606
My question is where else to move to in the US if you want dense living (SF is not an answer)
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
I know I troll these threads a lot but lol @
"Your Mexican food is so bad it borders on racism."
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
What are some ways people have found success finding roommates? I've had a few friends of friends type leads but it's all come up short - I'm finding I'm pretty picky. Sadly.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
i will jump off my roof before i ever have a roomie again
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
get a better job, or an apartment in a less convenient location, and live by yourself. i have had exactly 1 good roommate in the last 12 years.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
wait make that 2.
I could do that... But the studios and 1 bedrooms seem like such a ripoff compared to the type of place I could live with a roommate.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
Also in Philly I lived in a studio and it was honestly really lonely much of the time.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/nyregion/half-of-new-yorkers-say-they-are-barely-or-not-getting-by-poll-shows.html
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
of 1961 NYC residents polled earlier this month, 52% of black respondents, 44% of Bronx residents, 42% of hispanic respondents and 36% of Brooklyn residents claimed that the chance that a family member will be incarcerated is very likely or almost certain. Compare to 15% of white respondents and 27% of Manhattan residents.
xpost to "why not class warfare"
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
https://hyperallergic.com/415553/cardboard-yayoi-kusamas-infinity-room
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
I spent the last week in NY it was kind of fun but mostly sad
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Also every restaurant I ate at was worse than the average restaurant in Denver
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
sleepingbag: a dipshit at life, not just at posting
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
shoulda asked for resto tippos
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
with so many restaurants in the city it's not too hard to end up in a crappy one but also just as easy to end up somewhere really good. xxp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
that box looks lame
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
pvm in screenname character but yeah of course i agree
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
NYC on the whole has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced restaurants. I agree Denver is more the kind of place where you can just walk into an average affordable restaurant and get a good meal, whereas NYC you really have to know where to go and often be prepared to spend.
NYC makes me sad too fwiw, at least Manhattan does. I enjoy not working there anymore.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Denver is a great food city tbh!
To be fair, the music + comedy we saw was leagues better than what's typically on offer locally. And for my buddy I went with, visiting Harlem gave him an experience probably akin to what I'd get if I went to Israel (guessing here). But overall the city seemed a lot less impressive then the last time I was there (around 10 years ago) for reasons both objective + subjective.
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
NYC has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced tourists
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
People who wear boating shoes or flip flops: what the fuck are you thinking
― calstars, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
I love flips flops. I can walk miles in them. But in the city you kind of want to be able to run away.
― Yerac, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
more like a psychological torture chamber than a city, really
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
Gotta find the city within the city
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
blehhhhhhh
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
there are many people here who i love. there are many places here that are great. but honestly, so much about this place wears on me.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
i renewed my lease though
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
omg, i totally forgot about that Beware the Boys song. I just started playing it and we are dying laughing.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
This is what happens when I just skim these threads. I should maybe re-read it at some point.
treeship, what happened?
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
NA you ought to be glad you're rid of such shallow people.― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:03 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeeowch
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
i'm just whining. the proximate cause of my problem is some transit nightmare and then a horrible cab driver who drove in circles for a half hour before finding the williamsburg bridge. but in general, i've felt worn down by the work culture at my job and also i find that when i'm in the city--especially manhattan--i feel this kind of constant, low level anxiety and i'm sick of it
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
xp
yeah treesh I wish you'd expound. I started a "is NYC dead?" thread a few months ago and I remember you being a bit critical of city life then, too. Genuinely curious which aspects get to you the most.xp
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
what's the root of the anxiety?
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
Manhattan has too many tourists, too many people. I used to get anxiety having to tell a cab driver to take me to wburg so I always preferred to take the train. I like NYC but I never miss it when I am away. (except for the food and being able to pet lots of dogs).
xpost I think this thread started (by NA) right after that big FAP in NYC over the fourth of July. I wonder what happened.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
xp i think i just wasn't made to be in that close proximity to that many strangers every day. which is a shitty thing to say, but i think it's true.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
obviously weekends in williamsburg, greenpoint and fort greene (my haunts) are great. but even then, i sometimes wish i just lived somewhere more anonymous.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
if i could work in brooklyn i think i would be happier. something about subway commuting just feels like i am descending into hell every morning.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
You should move to Queens. I felt a lot more relaxed after a decade in williamsburg, even though I was living in a really lowkey area anyway. Some Canadian who had just moved to williamsburg once told me that he loved the L Train because it was like a cocktail party. The trains are terrible.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
I worked in Brooklyn a couple of times. For 2-3 years I could walk to work easily. It was soooo amazingly great to never have real need to go into the city.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
that's a good tip. yeah, maybe i should just prioritize "working in brooklyn" when i look for new jobs. it seems strange but it might make a huge difference. it truly is manhattan that i dislike--it feels like a giant mall, but like one where they locked the doors at night on black friday so everyone is trapped inside.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
I don't even know what you do but quitting jobs is one of my passions.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
yerac someday i would like to see a list of all the places you've lived
definitely feeling the nyc tiresomeness lately
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
Technically my place of residence has been in nyc since the early 2000s.
― Yerac, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
nyc is for BUYERS
I am outta time here
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
treesh otm new york sucks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
and a lot of my recurring anxieties here are commuting on the subway-related too
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link