Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[Mhurron]

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Snow sucks. I had my first snowless winter and I had a smile on my face the whole damn time.

[Yellow Mage]

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Snow sucks. I had my first snowless winter and I had a smile on my face the whole damn time.

It was a given that you were without a soul.

[WishMaster3K]

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The only reason you despise snow is you take it for granted.

So many things wrong with that statement.

I had my first snowless winter and I had a smile on my face the whole damn time.

Amen.

what part of NE you live in

The Ocean State. Ya know, even though at least 17 other states (more if you don't consider the Gulf of Mexico part of an ocean) can claim the same thing, "We're the size of a postage stamp" just doesn't paint to vivid a picture of a place to live.

I can't wait to blow this popsicle stand and go back to NYC, where the fans don't go bat-shit insane over their sports teams, Public Transportation is actually efficient, the Homeless people don't actively come up to you and beg (and sometimes even threaten) for change, and you can get a decent meal at 4am.

At least Narangansett (sp?) is the best beer I've EVER tasted. But even that is brewed in Up-State NY.

[Feba]

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actually WM on my map most of the states in New England are about a third of a stamp.

[WishMaster3K]

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Spacial-relativity proportions get.. Well, blown out of proportion when one of the main draws of a state is that "End-to-end, you're never more than 45 minutes away from anywhere in the state!"

For a state so small, it's absurd that public transportation, for the most part, stops running at 10pm; 8pm on weekends.

Living off campus without a car is suicide.

But God damnit, I'm from NYC, and getting a car goes against everything I've been brought up to hold dear.

I'll be 21 this summer and I still only have my learner's permit. The same one I got when I was 17. Hell, I only got it so that I could have some form of State ID.

[Mhurron]

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No one drives in NY, there's too much traffic.

[WishMaster3K]

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Traffic might be extinct with it being more than 4 dollars a gallon now.

4 dollars gets me to and from the city, an hour the most each way from even at the edge of Queens (where I live).

And, I don't have to find parking.

Anyone who still drives nowadays in NYC, the home of the most efficient mass-transit system in the USA, is a masochist.

And there is free entertainment all up and down MidTown.









God, I miss that place.

I can't wait to graduate.

[Jarre]

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AC

I know they exist in Britain.

70F would be so very nice right now.

Its expensive to install, electricity is very expensive here to run it and we have to get planning permission to be able to site the condensors.

I live in a house built in the 60's the heat is via a wet radiator system from a boiler, their is no air vents, fans or conditioning units, I can't afford to install them.

We have sun.......blessed blessed sun right now! After days of rain or high humidity and clouds, its finally cleared a bit and now some of the moisture in our basement can evaporate! I asked my mom to put a good word in for me "upstairs" and it freakin worked.......dang old lady has a lot of influence I guess!

I gather the torrential rain forcasted for Friday is what you had earlier this week, joy oh joys, I hope we don;t get flooded again, its a good job I have my 1950's Dennis trailor pump I restored, last year it was handy, stopped my home form being flooded. and I pumped out my neighbours garage with it.

"We're the size of a postage stamp".

Must make everyone living there very small.

[Yellow Mage]

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Traffic might be extinct with it being more than 4 dollars a gallon now.

You underestimate the rest of the country's over-reliance upon the car.

[DakAttack]

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When it snows, the plows just push it all out of the street and up against our cars. Ice wall ftw.

We just throw it back into the street when we dig our cars out.

[Feba]

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YM, the problem isn't that we're overly RELIANT on it. The problem is that people have it ingrained in them from a very young age in this country that cars are cool, people that don't drive/have cars are poor, and that if you're going farther than your mail box (even then, in some cases) you must use a motorized vehicle of some kind.

[Yellow Mage]

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I would still argue that forms a reliance of some kind, even if it is only sociological, as you argue.

[WishMaster3K]

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Didn't 9/11 (and/or Seinfeld) teach you anything? New Yorkers generally don't care about the rest of the country.

But truthfully, it's wierd that we're awfully self-centered... Uncanny. >_>

Hell, the population of NYC is so different from the rest of the state... I remember traveling about an hour and a half northwest and encountering Red Necks that proceeded to profile my God-father.

But all-in-all, I don't forsee out fuel problem dissolving. To put it simply, too much works against us and the foundation that is America.

Highways: Dedicated transit lines that branch outwards from the heart of many high-density commercial populations
Suburbs: Highways brought the possibility of not having to live within a dedicated radius in proximity to one's job.

Essentially, people don't need to live in the city, and more people find cheaper housing further away from the heart of the action.

Convincing someone who drives an hour to work that they would be better off biking is a useless argument. Hell, if it takes 15 minutes to drive there, biking there is still a chore.

I'm somewhat envious of many European communities that utilize the bicycle for their main method of tranportation.

[Feba]

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That's not reliance. That's addiction.

[WishMaster3K]

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YM, the problem isn't that we're overly RELIANT on it. The problem is that people have it ingrained in them from a very young age in this country that cars are cool, people that don't drive/have cars are poor, and that if you're going farther than your mail box (even then, in some cases) you must use a motorized vehicle of some kind.

I can't relate to this at all, and no one I know that was born and raised in NYC will be able to either.

But the sad thing is, this holds true for more than 90% of the country. As diverse as NYC is, it definitely put me out of touch with the way the rest of the country operates.

Everyone I know that was raised north of White Plains NY (which is North of the Bronx, our northernmost borough) finds it odd that I'll be turning 21 and I don't have a license. >_>