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Maybe it's because I live in the burbs, but that picture of an area implies a lot of available (and free) parking, which is a huge plus and attractor compared to an alternative that will probably require me to pay for parking. I'd prolly go into the city (Chicago, for me) if they had stuff like that. They tend not to, so I don't.
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MisterBibs posted:Maybe it's because I live in the burbs, but that picture of an area implies a lot of available (and free) parking, which is a huge plus and attractor compared to an alternative that will probably require me to pay for parking. This is a completely baffling attitude to me. I'd much rather pay 30 dollars to park for the evening* and walk around to the literal thousands of things to do in downtown Chicago than save the 30 bucks and go to a chain restaurant in a suburban asphalt sea. I've lived in small towns, big cities, spread-out sprawl and dense urban cores, and that picture -- and environment -- depresses me the most. *or, you know, take the train in and pay 5 bucks, but some people are super opposed to riding the train like a poor for some reason.
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I judge a place by how safe it is to be near black out drunk and still get home. 1. Rural - pretty safe. No one around so even if you decide to drive home like an rear end in a top hat you'll probably only kill yourself. Though, most of the time when you're binge drinking in the boondocks you're already at the place you're gonna stay at. 2. City - pretty safe. There's always a cab or public transit to at least get you to your door. 3. Suburbs - a nightmare hellscape. Every sip of alcohol you take in the burbs is coin flip with the grim reaper. Nothing but police, people, cars, and poorly laid out streets. Usually no public transit to get you home. Calling a cab may be an option, but it'll probably take an hour to get there. Driving will net you a DUI or kill everyone but you. And nosey neighbors that will judge you for passing out on your own damned porch.
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Jan 21, 2018 01:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFBFHtfg1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwHwfFAFDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7suQSwxeI
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Jan 21, 2018 01:17
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MisterBibs posted:Maybe it's because I live in the burbs, but that picture of an area implies a lot of available (and free) parking, which is a huge plus and attractor compared to an alternative that will probably require me to pay for parking. jesus loving christ
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Jan 21, 2018 01:18
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I know it's just the car slowing down but it looks like dropping those bags made the bus speed up.
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Sagebrush posted:This is a completely baffling attitude to me. I'd much rather pay 30 dollars to park for the evening* and walk around to the literal thousands of things to do in downtown Chicago than save the 30 bucks and go to a chain restaurant in a suburban asphalt sea. I've lived in small towns, big cities, spread-out sprawl and dense urban cores, and that picture -- and environment -- depresses me the most. I should've been a bit more clear: I have gone into the city for the major things that are only there (the museums come to mind, and the occasional play), but most of those "literal thousands of things to do in the city" are generally things I can do a lot closer to home without having to pay for parking or doubling my commute time on the train. To say nothing of the constant nature of everything costing more than it should in the city because it's, you know, the city.
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Jan 21, 2018 01:43
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A Threnody For England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XEINagmaU
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MisterBibs posted:I should've been a bit more clear: I have gone into the city for the major things that are only there (the museums come to mind, and the occasional play), but most of those "literal thousands of things to do in the city" are generally things I can do a lot closer to home without having to pay for parking or doubling my commute time on the train. To say nothing of the constant nature of everything costing more than it should in the city because it's, you know, the city. I agree completely. Have you seen what some of those Wolf Gang Puck type places charge for a hamburger? You can make a just as good a burger in your own kitchen, using fresh ingredients, for a fraction of the money. Then you can wash it down with a beer from a six pack that cost as much as a single glass in a bar.
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Jan 21, 2018 02:26
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MisterBibs posted:I should've been a bit more clear: I have gone into the city for the major things that are only there (the museums come to mind, and the occasional play), but most of those "literal thousands of things to do in the city" are generally things I can do a lot closer to home without having to pay for parking or doubling my commute time on the train. To say nothing of the constant nature of everything costing more than it should in the city because it's, you know, the city. i lived all my life in the suburbs and moved to an apartment in the city just a couple of years ago and you're so incredibly wrong. there is nothing to do in the suburbs except get drunk and smoke cones
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Jan 21, 2018 02:35
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that goes double if youre gay, holy poo poo what a miserable place the suburbs are
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Ive lived in rural america, american suburbia, urban america and urban mexico. By far suburbia is the absolute worst for basically everything. Like rural america has its faults too and i wouldn't choose to live there again, but the fact I could just gently caress off into the woods whenever i wanted was cool, plus there were more places for me to walk and bike too without getting run over.
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Jan 21, 2018 02:42
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live where you would like to live, and dont kinkshame peeps who live where you dont like to live.
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Slugnoid posted:i lived all my life in the suburbs and moved to an apartment in the city just a couple of years ago and you're so incredibly wrong. I'm glad you're happier in the city than you were in the burbs, but I'm somewhat at a loss for why you'd say I'm wrong about something I've told you is the way of things for me. I'm not avoiding the city because I want to spite the grand name of the city of Chicago, I avoid it because the "can I get {thing} without going to the city?" is generally yes. I'll schelp there if there's something special or unique, no problem, but there's nothing you could say that removes the whole "everything is nearby" thing. To reframe this to keep on-topic, attempts by city-dwelling people to claim its better than what I have here in the burbs is always low-level schadenfreude. Like, it's not enough that they like it, they need me to like it too. e: vvv You have me confused with someone else; I like a lot of movies that haven't done very well. Sure, most of the movies I like are the ones that have done well (and most movies I don't, don't), but that's just good taste more than anything. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 03:04 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Jan 21, 2018 02:58
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Kind of like how you can't enjoy a movie unless you know lots of other people also paid money to see it?
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lets get back on track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-7g-fl3g8
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MisterBibs posted:Maybe it's because I live in the burbs, but that picture of an area implies a lot of available (and free) parking, which is a huge plus and attractor compared to an alternative that will probably require me to pay for parking. yeah. the main reason people aren't willing to challenge their assumptions about whether or not it's good to base the built environment around the assumption of car ownership is that it is very convenient, and humans are essentially lazy (not saying you specifically) you look at that and see convenience, i look at it and see about fifty or so housing units that won't be built because that space must remain empty 98% of the time on the off chance that someone may park there again next christmas in my mind, it's the same as scott adams keeping a fully decorated christmas tree in a closet year round so he can save the time and effort of putting up and decorating a tree every year Slugnoid posted:i lived all my life in the suburbs and moved to an apartment in the city just a couple of years ago and you're so incredibly wrong. there is nothing to do in the suburbs except get drunk and smoke cones everyone has their own preferences. personally i think the suburbs are an utter cultural wasteland with nothing interesting to do. but i have to admit that it's entirely valid for people who enjoy homeownership, owning land, taking care of a property, as well as all the space suburban living can bring to folks who have space intensive hobbies like car restoration, working in a workshop, or just collecting a shitload of funko pops it's a value judgement about whether the environment in which your residence exists is more important than the properties of your residence itself and there's nothing wrong with valuing one over the other funmanguy posted:live where you would like to live, and dont kinkshame peeps who live where you dont like to live. agreed 100% i would rather jump in front of a train than live in the suburbs again but the people who choose to live there aren't inherently bad people. they just have a different set of values is all boner confessor has a new favorite as of 03:13 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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boner confessor posted:you look at that and see convenience, i look at it and see about fifty or so housing units that won't be built because that space must remain empty 98% of the time on the off chance that someone may park there again next christmas lmbo scott adams is the weirdest freak, everything he says is wrong anyway i second your call for more housing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4SKDFnY0I "scott adams advice"
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Slugnoid posted:there is nothing to do in the suburbs except get drunk and smoke cones I think you'll find an ever growing number of people for whom this is their literal only activity outside of work hours.
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muscles like this! posted:I know it's just the car slowing down but it looks like dropping those bags made the bus speed up. You say dropping bags, I say dumping ballast. Also, I can't believe how neatly the bags fell out. I would have expected tumbling and breaking apart, but they all went nicely to the edge of the highway. Even Japanese luggage is fastidiously tidy. Given how much seed flies out of that thing, I gotta say, it looks like a win for the squirrel.
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Jan 21, 2018 03:52
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Gorilla Salad posted:Given how much seed flies out of that thing, I gotta say, it looks like a win for the squirrel. yeah, squirrels are smart little bastards, the real schad here is on whoever thinks this is more than a minor inconvenience to the squirrel
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Hell, that could be the sqirrels tactic at his point. He knows it's going to spin, so he just jumps on, gets a fun ride for a few seconds, and the feeder will spill out some food. Collect it all, go home and spit it out, and then head back for another round on the tilt-a-whirl.
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Jan 21, 2018 05:07
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Codependent Poster posted:Someone constantly falling for something reminds me of this classic. Lots of stuff gets posted in PYF that I don't get at all. And that's cool and fine and just part of posting on a forum with a whole bunch of people with different experiences and interests. But this is just so confusing that I need someone to patiently explain it to me.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Lots of stuff gets posted in PYF that I don't get at all. And that's cool and fine and just part of posting on a forum with a whole bunch of people with different experiences and interests. But this is just so confusing that I need someone to patiently explain it to me. These moments are actually weeks apart and aren't really cut in a way that's noticeable. Basically, he downloaded a bunch of songs and one of them had a clip of him saying "Chris Benoit killed his family" back when the incident happened. He and his co-host keep forgetting the title and intro of the song (partly because they do a fuckton of shows) and every week or two he got sent the song again and accidentally played it.
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Jan 21, 2018 05:22
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it sounds like its casey kasem
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MisterBibs posted:I should've been a bit more clear: I have gone into the city for the major things that are only there (the museums come to mind, and the occasional play), but most of those "literal thousands of things to do in the city" are generally things I can do a lot closer to home without having to pay for parking or doubling my commute time on the train. To say nothing of the constant nature of everything costing more than it should in the city because it's, you know, the city. thousands of people pay for parking every day, so it must be great
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boner confessor posted:in my experience americans treat the possibility of not having to drive everywhere the same as they treat single payer healthcare. despite every other nation figuring out how to do it it just can't work here
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Alaois posted:thousands of people pay for parking every day, so it must be great No man he's figured it out. Why go to a Panera in the city when you can just go to a Panera down the street and not even have to pay for parking? And the appletinis at the T.G.I. Friday's at Navy Pier cost like twice what they do out in Schaumberg!
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boner confessor posted:in my experience americans treat the possibility of not having to drive everywhere the same as they treat single payer healthcare. despite every other nation figuring out how to do it it just can't work here America is the 3rd or 4th largest (depending on measurement method) country in the world and unlike the countries that are largest (Russia, Canada, China), almost all of the US is already developed or easily can be so the population is incredibly spread out. There's a valid argument that it probably isn't a great thing that the country developed the way it did, but public transportation just isn't feasible in a good portion of America, even if there was political and financial will to do it.
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Everyone loves a good car crash, but the ocean has such fails to show you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6TTeL-wNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3ALOmIXSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkVIe8ZGzwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sve2o486PE
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Pook Good Mook posted:America is the 3rd or 4th largest (depending on measurement method) country in the world and unlike the countries that are largest (Russia, Canada, China), almost all of the US is already developed or easily can be so the population is incredibly spread out. There's a valid argument that it probably isn't a great thing that the country developed the way it did, but public transportation just isn't feasible in a good portion of America, even if there was political and financial will to do it. If Eisenhower had even an inkling to integrate light commuter rail with the interstate highway system. Hindsight is 20/20.
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Jan 21, 2018 07:29
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All hail this new world order!
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Alaois posted:thousands of people pay for parking every day, so it must be great Thousands of people park every day but you put one bus stop in the middle of a city and it makes people crazy. You can smell the fear.
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Krankenstyle posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4SKDFnY0I The schadenfreude is the guy in the video, right? A retarded douche trying to appear cool or relatable or something by regurgitating the well known consensus on an obvious piece of poo poo, but framing it in some sort of contrived sthd.txt so it would seem like he came up with that, all the while cramming the word "like" into his sentences as much as he can. The 100 views really makes it.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Given how much seed flies out of that thing, I gotta say, it looks like a win for the squirrel.
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Meatgrinder posted:The schadenfreude is the guy in the video, right? A retarded douche trying to appear cool or relatable or something by regurgitating the well known consensus on an obvious piece of poo poo, but framing it in some sort of contrived sthd.txt so it would seem like he came up with that, all the while cramming the word "like" into his sentences as much as he can. To be honest I just put horrible keywords into youtube. I'm sure it's a lovely video lol
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Gorilla Salad posted:
https://twitter.com/rmj_equals_hero/status/887328459105722368
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