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greatwhitenorthchick 10-02-2009 12:23 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 402204)
We're thinking about heading to Vancouver in February.
I told my friend this morning that if she makes the Olympic team (and it's likely she will), I will go to London to support her. I'm not a huge fan of the Olympics, but I think it would be great to watch someone you know compete.

Plus if she makes the team, I can say that I had my rib broken by an Olympian, so it's almost like I share the glory.

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 12:24 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 402200)
I hope Obama and Oprah and Co. have at least set up a decent shot for a later bid for another city, but we've had four Olympics in the US in the last 25 years, and this year's winter olympics are in our suburbs to the north.

I suspect the vote is overwhelmingly going to Rio, and that the other three are all really squabbling over a handful of votes.
isn't rio really polluted? did that come up at all?

Cletus Miller 10-02-2009 12:24 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 402212)
One of the main reasons I initially wanted the games here was so that they'd upgrade the transit system. I don't recall hearing any proposals to do so.
There weren't, but only b/c they didn't have any way to pay for that, except raising our taxes. They needed to claim that the total cost was $3.6b to keep people from totally freaking. Once we got it, then the add-ons would start, and we'd get stuck with the extra $15b or whatever.

Atticus Grinch 10-02-2009 12:26 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
In Fresno, a father is being prosecuted for felony mayhem for giving his 7-year-old son a gang tattoo. Defense says it's no more painful or disfiguring than circumcision or infant ear piercing.

Atticus Grinch 10-02-2009 12:29 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 402215)
I told my friend this morning that if she makes the Olympic team (and it's likely she will), I will go to London to support her. I'm not a huge fan of the Olympics, but I think it would be great to watch someone you know compete.

Plus if she makes the team, I can say that I had my rib broken by an Olympian, so it's almost like I share the glory.
BTW, about your avatar, it looks to me like the aspect ratio was stretched vertically, giving the illusion of narrower hips and a longer torso without retouching. NTTAWWT.

Replaced_Texan 10-02-2009 12:43 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 402217)
isn't rio really polluted? did that come up at all?
My parents and brother have been there on separate trips in the last five years. Both groups said that Rio is fine, but Sao Paolo is just awful in terms of air quality. There's a lot of dirt and trash and poverty in parts of Rio, but my guess is that those parts of town aren't exactly going to be highlighted.

evenodds 10-02-2009 12:51 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 402221)
My parents and brother have been there on separate trips in the last five years. Both groups said that Rio is fine, but Sao Paolo is just awful in terms of air quality. There's a lot of dirt and trash and poverty in parts of Rio, but my guess is that those parts of town aren't exactly going to be highlighted.
It's Rio. That's amazing.

taxwonk 10-02-2009 12:53 PM
Re: Sorry Guys... Another Wedding Question
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 402163)
One can get fellowship at the local watering hole with way less "spiritual" bullshit.

In other words, kumbaya, motherfucker.
I welcome your negativity as an expression of your currrent place in the Webof Understanding.


Motherfucker.

leagleaze 10-02-2009 01:08 PM
Re: Friend Zone
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 402186)
Last night, I bumped into a man who is a friend of my friends.

It was clear after six months of randomly bumping into him around town and no encouragement on my part and some direct rebuffs, he had placed me firmly into "friend zone."

I am not familiar with this "friend zone," and I do not like men to put me there. I am far more comfortable when they continue to ardently pursue me despite my coldness.

If you play your cards right, I bet you get could him to ardently pursue you again, and then return to your prior coldness. That should make you feel better.

leagleaze 10-02-2009 01:10 PM
Re: Big news!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparklehorse (Post 402171)
stp, s*t*p.
I don't know what that means.

Tyrone Slothrop 10-02-2009 01:24 PM
helpfully,
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by leagleaze (Post 402225)
I don't know what that means.
"stop the presses, *stop* *the* *presses*!"

taxwonk 10-02-2009 01:38 PM
Re: Big news!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paisley (Post 402167)
The note in the Cal Bar newspaper that discussed the suspension* was cryptic, but it sounded like it was based on the sock incident. Who knows though, maybe he has other odd criminal activities in his past.

* I always skim that section to see if I recognize any names. When I am old and bitter, can I expect to skim the obits??
I think you already know the answer to this, don't you?

taxwonk 10-02-2009 01:39 PM
Re: Skirts and Boots
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Manfred (Post 402169)
Someone on the board disapproved of women wearing short skirts and boots.

I submit the following rebuttal evidence.

http://imgsrv.qcountry1037.com/image...high_boots.jpg
Those aren't cowboy boots. It's different.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-02-2009 01:56 PM
The game within the game within the game
 
Ever wonder why someone got plunked completely out of the blue? Pitch tipping. And I really wish we had some commentators who could pick up on this stuff and be as informative as the guy who put up this you tube video of Mauer tipping Verlander's pitches. It's pretty cool.

By the way, pitch tipping ain't cheating in my book.

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/i...ding-cheating/

TM

taxwonk 10-02-2009 01:57 PM
Re: Maybe Hank isn't entirely wrong
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 402210)
This is interesting, but I thought there was a general rule against people posting on something about which they have actual knowledge.

Or is that just for the PB?
Just the PB. And there's an exception for tax policy.

taxwonk 10-02-2009 01:59 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 402221)
My parents and brother have been there on separate trips in the last five years. Both groups said that Rio is fine, but Sao Paolo is just awful in terms of air quality. There's a lot of dirt and trash and poverty in parts of Rio, but my guess is that those parts of town aren't exactly going to be highlighted.
If it's like most Olympic cities, they will ush many of the poor and dirty people out of neighborhoods, tear their shanties down to build new dorms for the athletes, and not let the poor folk use the dorms for shelter when the crowd leaves town.

Sparklehorse 10-02-2009 02:08 PM
Re: Big news!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by leagleaze (Post 402225)
I don't know what that means.
Sorry, it means that I should "scroll then post," especially before I drink a sufficient quantity of coffee.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-02-2009 02:13 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 402229)
Ever wonder why someone got plunked completely out of the blue? Pitch tipping. And I really wish we had some commentators who could pick up on this stuff and be as informative as the guy who put up this you tube video of Mauer tipping Verlander's pitches. It's pretty cool.

By the way, pitch tipping ain't cheating in my book.

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/i...ding-cheating/

TM
Cool story, and interesting (except for the use of a videotape to capture the TV).

But you missed the more important link on that site.

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/i...-girls-photos/

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 02:16 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 402231)
If it's like most Olympic cities, they will ush many of the poor and dirty people out of neighborhoods, tear their shanties down to build new dorms for the athletes, and not let the poor folk use the dorms for shelter when the crowd leaves town.
beijing did. did atlanta or athens? is london doing that?

beijing residents at first were pretty pleased because the subway system was finally expanded to get ready for the games- then they got unhappy when the neighborhoods started to be torn down, or at least hidden- then a few million people were ordered to leave the city.

LessinSF 10-02-2009 02:16 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 402221)
My parents and brother have been there on separate trips in the last five years. Both groups said that Rio is fine, but Sao Paolo is just awful in terms of air quality. There's a lot of dirt and trash and poverty in parts of Rio, but my guess is that those parts of town aren't exactly going to be highlighted.
I can only speak for when I was there, but that was in the month of August so I consider myself an expert - air pollution was not bad, probably because it is right on the ocean. However, there is a lot of human detritus.

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 02:18 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 402229)

By the way, pitch tipping ain't cheating in my book.

TM
2. get your signals together to avoid the chance.

Adder 10-02-2009 02:31 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 402229)
Ever wonder why someone got plunked completely out of the blue? Pitch tipping. And I really wish we had some commentators who could pick up on this stuff and be as informative as the guy who put up this you tube video of Mauer tipping Verlander's pitches. It's pretty cool.

By the way, pitch tipping ain't cheating in my book.

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/i...ding-cheating/

TM
If you can't figure out a way to protect your signs, then too bad for you.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-02-2009 02:40 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 402240)
If you can't figure out a way to protect your signs, then too bad for you.

Seriously. I know these guys aint geniuses, but if you are aware of someone tipping, you can actually take advantage of it. If you change things up, they'll be tipping the wrong pitches.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-02-2009 02:42 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 402239)
2. get your signals together to avoid the chance.
And if they know the pitches are being tipped, they're just being lazy not getting snookered.

Tyrone Slothrop 10-02-2009 02:42 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 402240)
If you can't figure out a way to protect your signs, then too bad for you.
Besides plunking someone?

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-02-2009 02:47 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 402243)
Besides plunking someone?
That, and by making "1" a curve-ball and "2" a fastball (but hopefully much more complex).

Adder 10-02-2009 02:48 PM
Re: The game within the game within the game
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 402243)
Besides plunking someone?
That's one option, but changing your signs might work better.

I'm kind of hoping that Joe calls up his predecessor, A.J., today to chat.

leagleaze 10-02-2009 03:17 PM
Re: Big news!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparklehorse (Post 402234)
Sorry, it means that I should "scroll then post," especially before I drink a sufficient quantity of coffee.

Oh, ok. Sorry, I guess I just have been away too long.

taxwonk 10-02-2009 03:17 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 402237)
beijing did. did atlanta or athens? is london doing that?

beijing residents at first were pretty pleased because the subway system was finally expanded to get ready for the games- then they got unhappy when the neighborhoods started to be torn down, or at least hidden- then a few million people were ordered to leave the city.
I was thinking of LA and Atlanta, where I am given to understand it has occurred. It sounds like you're saying it happens outside the US as well, at least in Beijing?

Jack Manfred 10-02-2009 03:25 PM
Re: I hope the French love their children too.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 402176)
Mr. Polanski said that he would bury you.
I don't subscribe to his point of view.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-02-2009 03:33 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 402247)
It sounds like you're saying it happens outside the US as well, at least in Beijing?
I have no doubt it happened in Beijing, but it doesn't happen there only because of the Olympics.

LessinSF 10-02-2009 03:53 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 402247)
I was thinking of LA and Atlanta, where I am given to understand it has occurred. It sounds like you're saying it happens outside the US as well, at least in Beijing?
Rio will do something about its favelas (shantytown slums), but it will have to be a monumental effort, given that up to 1 million people live there in 500 different slums. http://www.macalester.edu/courses/ge...d/thefavel.htm

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 04:16 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 402250)
Rio will do something about its favelas (shantytown slums), but it will have to be a monumental effort, given that up to 1 million people live there in 500 different slums. http://www.macalester.edu/courses/ge...d/thefavel.htm
beijing got rid of many hutongs, and i think 1,000,000 people easily were in them. What was worse is that they built walls along the major highways to hide the existence of many others.

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 04:23 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 402250)
Rio will do something about its favelas (shantytown slums), but it will have to be a monumental effort, given that up to 1 million people live there in 500 different slums. http://www.macalester.edu/courses/ge...d/thefavel.htm
but hutongs were simply traditional neighborhoods. they weren't "slums" at least in context of the rest of the city.

Cletus Miller 10-02-2009 04:35 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 402251)
beijing got rid of many hutongs, and i think 1,000,000 people easily were in them. What was worse is that they built walls along the major highways to hide the existence of many others.
I don't see walls b/t "major highways" and residential areas as necessarily objectionable; they're quite common around the US. But I had thought that they built walls b/t ordinary city streets--with sidewalks, bike lanes, etc--and the residential areas. You're talking about the latter, right?

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 04:41 PM
Re: Wow
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cletus Miller (Post 402254)
I don't see walls b/t "major highways" and residential areas as necessarily objectionable; they're quite common around the US. But I had thought that they built walls b/t ordinary city streets--with sidewalks, bike lanes, etc--and the residential areas. You're talking about the latter, right?
the commercial highways that would have visitors travelling on them- not the expressways.

these are neighborhoods full of tight streets and alleys, and include shops and homes. shop owners near touristy places were looking forward to some increased business and suddenly, a wall separated them from where people might be.

if one walked (and I did) there were doors back into the hutongs. the restaurants there were the only places they kept the "normal" menus ARF! ARF!

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-02-2009 04:56 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Did I miss the discussion this morning, or was Letterman's reveal about the extortion and sexing of his staff pretty surreal? The clips made it sound like the audience thought it was a gag until close to the end, and then they applauded like it was the best joke ever. If you're in the audience, how can you react with applause for anyone involved?

Adder 10-02-2009 05:02 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 402256)
Did I miss the discussion this morning, or was Letterman's reveal about the extortion and sexing of his staff pretty surreal? The clips made it sound like the audience thought it was a gag until close to the end, and then they applauded like it was the best joke ever. If you're in the audience, how can you react with applause for anyone involved?
You missed the discussion. It was weird.

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 05:06 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 402257)
You missed the discussion. It was weird.
it was nervous laughter

Hank Chinaski 10-02-2009 05:06 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 402258)
it was nervous laughter
you have to get that, don't you


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