It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never, ever seen a G train at Roosevelt, I think it is only supposed to be there at some weird hour.
On nights and weekends (I think), the G is supposed to run all the way to 71st/Continental. It hasn't done so regularly for a long time (though it was last weekend), they just post a new service advisory at the begining of every month.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to ride the bus next to l.a.'s famous thai elvis. he always smelled, somewhat incongruously, of kimchee.
once i was tripping really hard and couldn't get him to stop vibrating
-- remy bean, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 2:02 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
excuse me, but THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
in london they had signs on the train saying "please do not eat stinky food on the train, it is rude!" or something. and i ate burger king on the train just because it seemed stuck up and i am a rude american.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ian: I'm walking past kebab sellers, plus kebabs smell OK.
I don't think people should eat ANYTHING at a movie less than 2-1/2 hrs long (I miss the old Film Forum -- it sold no food), and I often want to put the popcorn-crunchers and plastic-bag rustlers in a headlock.
Don't think the 'Neb was suggesting you can't carry food.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? ...
-- Laurel
you get your dinner at home
-- gabbneb
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I may have been trying too hard to look for downtime to his douchiness
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i just hate people who live in a huge city and think only about their own needs for personal space and comfort. that is not what city living is about, move to the goddamn suburbs if those are your priorities.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL, I am thinking about the needs of everyone on the fucking train!
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you would get it if you didn't grow up in the burbs!
do you also hate homeless people on the train in the winter? sometimes they smell funky, so do you stop thinking about their needs?
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to sneak into your apartment building and hide fried chicken in the vents.
don't get any on your shirt! :D
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
lay a deuce in his oven
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
priorities plz
eating on train >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumping your gum on the platform
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
All I like on a train is a minimum of personal space and comfort. And the other passengers occasionally don't reach this benchmark.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION YOU ARROGANT FUCKING YUPPIE. DO YOU HATE THE HOMELESS? DO YOU HATE FAT PEOPLE? DO YOU HATE SCREAMING BABIES? ALL OF THESE AND MORE MAY INCONVENIENCE YOU WHILE YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THE NEEDS OF "EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING TRAIN."
xpppxpxpxpxppx
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
eating on the train is rude. hands down. If you were raised in a crowded urban area you'd see how annoying it can be. Who cares if people are from the suburbs, but eating on the train has its closest equivalent to guzzling down Big Macs in your SVU
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.tvsquad.com/images/2005/12/SVU.jpg "fuckin' yuppies!"
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
As far as I can tell all people in Crown Heights who were RAISED in an URBAN AREA are the first people to bring fried chicken on the C train. Keep trying, though.
xp haha
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
LOOK let's just agree to fight the real enemy, dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats
or alternately, dudes who press their junk against you just because the train is a teeny bit crowded
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I will fight that guy for you, labs.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i will knife him. with MY dick. it's razor sharp.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing is, the train is so crowded that if you say "get your dick off me, creep!" he'll just be like, "whoa, it's a crowded train, it wasn't intentional!" and you'll be the one that looks like a jerk.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
you know, so many people these days just don't measure up to my standards of what is presentable appearance when it comes to public transportation. i mean, i'm FORCED to see these people. it's just so wrong.
"hey, i don't know how it wound up on your shoulder, honest!"
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
wear a rat-trap on your ass (xp)
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, just because you saw some black people from Crown Heights eat chicken on a train doesn't give you a free pass to eat god knows what on the train, too( also, "urban" does not always mean "black"). It's the same principle behind people who stand in front of the door in the subway - it's rude, and p yuppies from the suburbs are the people who not only do it, but defend it.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
hey BURT, you're the one to bring skin color into this.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really - Crown Heights is where that huge riot took place between the black dudes and Chasids (remember that?). When people say Crown Heights they usually mean the black folk. That is, if you're actually from here
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
t-minus 10
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
me and laurel both live on the cusp of crown heights. actually, she just moved, so perhaps you ought to settle down mr. i know all about urban living. xp
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Moving there in 2007 and living around here in 1991 are completely different things.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
so which racist troll is "burt_stanton" again?
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
burt tell us what it's like to be from here. i guess you're a pretty hard guy huh
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ITT privileged upper middle class kids invading NYC play the "you racist scum!" card whenever you mention skin color or neighborhoods known for certain ethnicities.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha privileged upper middle class kids YEAH RIGHT.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
born in Midwood, then moved to some shithole in NJ (the place where Lean on Me t was set)
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
watch it with the ad hominems, bud
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
you sound like a motherfucker with some dark secrets
xp
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I moved to Crown Heights in 2002 but don't let that stop you!
xp wow, he's on a roll.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't call you racist scum, just a racist troll. meaning that you come to this website under different names and try to rile everyone up by taking unpopular opinions.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Loosen up, baby [unwanted shoulder rub]
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
-- burt_stanton, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM (Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM) Bookmark Link
yeah dudes, if you were really cool you'd be living a decade and a half in the past like turd_scranton or whoever.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
burt stanton: racist, chauvinist, prick.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god that's creepy
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i meanm, i doubt you'r really a racist (at least in any active way), but it sure is fun to attack people!
i wouldn't admit to living in paterson, either.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
burt, are you sure you don't live in astoria, queens?
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think it's spock....but he seems familiar
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Also re "urban": I can't think of anyone more urban than someone who's grown up without the benefit of being able to escape the city whenever they wanted to via travel or other opportunities. And in Crown Heights, that means Black West Indians, really, many of whom are still living on the same blocks where they were born & grew up, and a fair number of those people have seen that neighborhood right through the '80s and '90s without going to summer camp in the country or family vacations to the Grand Canyon or much of anything, really. And since I've lived there and witnessed whole families being served dinner on the C train, that's the experience I drew on to comment.
If you paid attention to ILX much you'd know that I'm highly likely to go on screeds about public transit behavior, but do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it? Good thing he apparently has every kind of cuisine he might want available within walking distance of his apartment.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, Williamsburg.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link