what pct live in apts with a windowless room? don't answer.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
it may be annoying (i have a 1-bedroom but the living room and kitchen have windows) but it's sensible advice. the mayor of Hoboken recommended the same thing FWIW.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, this is a silly thing to get pissed off with Bloomberg about!
it shows the automatic-pilot elitism, typical of all high-level pols but rather pronounced in him.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
this is insane
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
that we don't have windowless rooms?
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kZNjoJePr7A/Th3ja2Q0vbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/EMBry6OaBls/s1600/Housing_by_city.JPG
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, but I, for example, am in a tenement 2Br and we have windows in every room.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
right but there's still a decision you can make w/r/t which room seems safer
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
which was basically all bloomberg was saying...
yeah fyi every single government official and broadcaster on the eastern seaboard has said this exact thing in the past 2 days, angrily reviving a thread about one of them because of your political opposition to them is just well it's just almost too morbz
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
also it's not like there's gonna be some correlation between 'people w/ a room w/ no windows' and 'rich people' - lots of the 'worst' rooms in the city are gonna have no windows and lots of rich people are living in glass-y window-lovin skyscrapers.
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
OMG Morbs, the "stay in a room with no windows" is also advice they give you in a tornado here in the Midwest, this isn't like something new Bloomberg pulled out of his ass just to piss you off.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_512x512/0/76a/angry-old-man-76a051.jpg
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
if you're so worried about debris flying through your window, then go to a shelter.
really, this is just pissing and moaning for the sake of pissing and moaning.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, reading boilerplate 'Prompter shit from the fuckin' Midwest is another example of Bloomie's expertise.
xxp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred, shouldnt you be picking up teens at the video arcade?
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
hey let's find an example of an office-holding politician you admire and agree with who has issued this completely standard and logical warning -- oh right n/m
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"shall we play a game of donkey dong?"
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
iatee already said it, but there are plenty of the new yuppie/hedge-funder condos that have tons of windows. this is just basic safety, not another sally in the Class War for Christ's sake.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
then again, maybe Dennis Perrin lives in a studio walk-up and can write a suitably angry opinion piece about all of the "clueless" politicos. won't do shit, but hey you gotta keep occupied during the storm amirite?!?
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
The only windowless room I remember being in, in Brooklyn, was ian j0hns0n's! we smoked some shit.
Perrin lives in Michigan, dilly
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
also not all rooms w/ windows are the same thing - an older tenement w/ a window to a central shaft area / small courtyard would presumably be less dangerous than a window facing a large open on-the-grid-avenue
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not really worried about the windows, but there are two skylights for which the covers don't seem to be very well attached. and the ceiling has leaked before
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
FIX THAT, BLOOMBERG
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
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