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Tyrone Slothrop 04-18-2013 02:50 PM
Re: Phones
 
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Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 478512)
For the record, I used it in 2012 to buy a cup of coffee at Peet's, and it was pretty cool. Shortly thereafter, Verizon blocked it. Thanks Verizon!
If you're going to pay for stuff with your phones, Verizon wants a piece of that action. They're going to provide the same excellent customer service that you expect from your cable company (I bought a bundle from AT&T, which means that the intermittent outages we're experiencing right now cripple our TV, internet and home phone all at the same time).

Gattigap 04-18-2013 03:36 PM
Re: Phones
 
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Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 478512)
For the record, I used it in 2012 to buy a cup of coffee at Peet's, and it was pretty cool. Shortly thereafter, Verizon blocked it. Thanks Verizon!
Verizon just wants to migrate you to the next big platform.

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ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 03:50 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 478441)
I won't go to a chiropractor who does the whole spine snapping thing. I did that once and wound up worse because of it.
For the right problem, chiropractors can't be beat. If you are out of alignment, you can have back pain, leg pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, and even foot pain. At one point, I was so out of alignment that my pelvis was tilted and one leg was effectively shorter than the other. If you don't get put back into alignment, your muscles start to conform and pull in directions they shouldn't. I walked in to the chiropractor back in my 20s not being able to bend more than 6 inches and left with full range of motion and no pain at all.

But the people who think adjustments fix everything are fucking nuts.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 03:56 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 478469)
New Yorker, please. There's no judgment in calling someone woo-woo. We're California Episcopalian -- that's the crunchiest denomination that's still trinitarian. We make your yoga studio look like snake handlers. We're like the fucking Woo Tang Clan.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 478470)
I am woo-woo friends with some of you but by no means all. Some of you are too woo woo for me, and some of you I just wouldn't woo for.
I'm not sure if this is because I'm from NYC or black (or both), but what the fuck in god's good name are you guys talking about?

TM

Tyrone Slothrop 04-18-2013 03:58 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 478516)
I'm not sure if this is because I'm from NYC or black (or both)...
No, no and no.

Hank Chinaski 04-18-2013 04:00 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 478517)
No, no and no.
I took "woo-woo" to be like a SF alternative med/religion granola crunching nut job reference. Trust me, I speak Atticus.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 04-18-2013 04:05 PM
Re: Phones
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 478513)
If you're going to pay for stuff with your phones, Verizon wants a piece of that action. They're going to provide the same excellent customer service that you expect from your cable company (I bought a bundle from AT&T, which means that the intermittent outages we're experiencing right now cripple our TV, internet and home phone all at the same time).
That's not entirely fair. They're all pretty good at sending bills.

ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 04:06 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 478508)
I quite enjoyed the food in Shanghai. What did you find to be wrong with it? Disclaimer: I ate mostly fancy while there, but I did go for soup dumplings (which I could have gotten in LA)...
God, I love soup dumplings.

TM

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 04-18-2013 04:07 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 478510)

We had the same experience with soup dumplings. Expected heaven and the several times we had them they didn't equal the Shanghai whatever place on Mulberry in NYC.
On the other hand, I suspect one dumpling in NYC costs about the same as the whole meal in Shanghai.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 04-18-2013 04:07 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 478517)
No, no and no.
I'm betting the universe of black NYC woo woos is small. Really sort of a SF thing, with a small colony here in Cambridge.

Replaced_Texan 04-18-2013 04:10 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 478510)
We had amazing food there too. The fancy (for us hotel food) is like fancy here, and quite safe. 2 of us got food poisoning though at a restaurant that seemed more a nice little neighborhood place, and a few other places we walked in were quite dicey. I think the restaurants the people eat in are not places we would find safe to eat at.

We had the same experience with soup dumplings. Expected heaven and the several times we had them they didn't equal the Shanghai whatever place on Mulberry in NYC.
If you happen to be in Houston and crave soup dumplings, Fufu Cafe in Chinatown is outstanding.

Thanks to you guys, I'm going tonight. Jesus those things are good.

ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 04:18 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 478510)
We had the same experience with soup dumplings. Expected heaven and the several times we had them they didn't equal the Shanghai whatever place on Mulberry in NYC.
Joe's Shanghai sucks. Din Tai Fung (which is a chain) is where I had them in Hong Kong and they are fantastic. We discovered they have locations in California as well and if they are anywhere near as good as the Kowloon location, I am extremely jealous of anyone within 20 miles of that location.

And they have all different types of flavors, including a fancy truffle type, which was very good, but not as good as the traditional variety.

TM

Hank Chinaski 04-18-2013 04:23 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 478524)
Joe's Shanghai sucks. Din Tai Fung (which is a chain) is where I had them in Hong Kong and they are fantastic. We discovered they have locations in California as well and if they are anywhere near as good as the Kowloon location, I am extremely jealous of anyone within 20 miles of that location.

And they have all different types of flavors, including a fancy truffle type, which was very good, but not as good as the traditional variety.

TM
If you had a meal in Hong Kong that was anything other than those crispy pork rice flour bread sandwiches (that I have never seen anywhere else), you have no taste buds.



Did you like Jumbo?

ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 05:58 PM
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ThurgreedMarshall 04-18-2013 05:59 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 478525)
If you had a meal in Hong Kong that was anything other than those crispy pork rice flour bread sandwiches (that I have never seen anywhere else), you have no taste buds.
I had quite a few meals in HK. Can't say that was one of them.

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 478525)
Did you like Jumbo?
I don't know. Can you be less cryptic?

TM


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