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- What movie can you recite verbatim?: Billy Liar
- What book have you read the most?: Lolita
- If you could bring one dead person back to life, who would it be?: Paul McCartney
- What piece of art would you steal?: Rover Thomas painting, any
- What song do you never want to hear again?: Yer Blues
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Fnarf commented on Why Shoot?.
Fnarf commented on Why Shoot?.
Wanker. Dangerous my ass. I'm sticking with "privileged" and "sensationalist", thanks. And "uninteresting". But hey, you got your picture in the paper, so good on ya, mate.
2:40 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on I, Anonymous.
Fnarf commented on I, Anonymous.
Also, overseas donations of clothing from the West is destroying poor countries' own clothing businesses. Tom's Shoes is destroying the Global South's footwear industry.
1:59 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on Portland Voters Are Stoopid.
Fnarf commented on Portland Voters Are Stoopid.
@103, no no -- it has "osis" in the name, that's all sciencey-sounding, so it must be really bad! Like cancer! Sterility! Horn growing straight out of your forehead!
Fuckin' hillbillies. These Portland voters are the same kind of people who are against Daylight Savings Time because it fades the curtains.
Fuckin' hillbillies. These Portland voters are the same kind of people who are against Daylight Savings Time because it fades the curtains.
1:53 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on The Republican Battle Over Disaster Relief Is Embarrassing.
Fnarf commented on The Republican Battle Over Disaster Relief Is Embarrassing.
@7, that gets me thinking, where is the safest place from natural disasters? OK's got Tornado Alley, the Gulf and the Eastern Seaboard have hurricanes, the entire West Coast is an earthquake fault, most of the Midwest is a flood plain, Hawaii is a collection of active volcanoes. Much of the rest is uninhabitable desert or mountainous avalanche zones. Even places like Minnesota are buried under a hundred feet of snow every winter. What's left? Kentucky? They have Rand Paul.
1:46 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on "Frenzied Machete Attack" in London.
Fnarf commented on "Frenzied Machete Attack" in London.
@13, ever heard of Sarah Records? Yeah, I didn't think so.
1:34 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on And What Really Makes the Bullitt Center Green?.
Fnarf commented on And What Really Makes the Bullitt Center Green?.
@16, not really possible, no. We will never have the street density of San Francisco or Vancouver or even Portland.
One thing we could do, though, is reclaim the alleyways downtown, and turn them into something like the laneways of Melbourne. It would inconvenience bums who want to piss there, but trash collection in such a small area can be taken care of easily (maybe some smaller trucks?), and the visual aspect is perfect for shopping and dining. Look at Post Alley, for chrissakes. All those cobblestones would be considered a gold mine by any forward-thinking city.
But Seattle's going the other direction, putting more and more increasingly gigantic trucks on city streets and paving over huge areas of the central city for the sixteen-lane-wide tunnel approaches. And the area where the viaduct now stands is going to be filled with...nothing, idiotic "parkland" that's going to rot away in the first winter and just become a homeless encampment. While the city asks itself, "why are there so many homeless anyways? We tore down all those buildings they used to live in." And continues to fight their endless war against signs of any kind. And celebrates more and more gee-whiz tech-bang "solutions" to "being green" like this technological wonder in the picture, a mile away from the (eventual) train.
@17, I wouldn't say "any" -- Western US urban spaces going back to the arrival of the white man have always been ultra-wide and ultra-sparse. Before the car there was the wagon, and the wagon train. Look at any Old West town and you'll see incredibly wide Main Streets. Typically, they had to be wide enough for wagon trains to turn around. There are a few places that are exceptions, but not many. Even downtown Seattle long predates the automobile, and yet those streets are forever wide.
I'll have to read Tachieva's book, thanks. The only idea anyone ever has around here is to widen the sidewalks, which solves nothing.
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One thing we could do, though, is reclaim the alleyways downtown, and turn them into something like the laneways of Melbourne. It would inconvenience bums who want to piss there, but trash collection in such a small area can be taken care of easily (maybe some smaller trucks?), and the visual aspect is perfect for shopping and dining. Look at Post Alley, for chrissakes. All those cobblestones would be considered a gold mine by any forward-thinking city.
But Seattle's going the other direction, putting more and more increasingly gigantic trucks on city streets and paving over huge areas of the central city for the sixteen-lane-wide tunnel approaches. And the area where the viaduct now stands is going to be filled with...nothing, idiotic "parkland" that's going to rot away in the first winter and just become a homeless encampment. While the city asks itself, "why are there so many homeless anyways? We tore down all those buildings they used to live in." And continues to fight their endless war against signs of any kind. And celebrates more and more gee-whiz tech-bang "solutions" to "being green" like this technological wonder in the picture, a mile away from the (eventual) train.
@17, I wouldn't say "any" -- Western US urban spaces going back to the arrival of the white man have always been ultra-wide and ultra-sparse. Before the car there was the wagon, and the wagon train. Look at any Old West town and you'll see incredibly wide Main Streets. Typically, they had to be wide enough for wagon trains to turn around. There are a few places that are exceptions, but not many. Even downtown Seattle long predates the automobile, and yet those streets are forever wide.
I'll have to read Tachieva's book, thanks. The only idea anyone ever has around here is to widen the sidewalks, which solves nothing.
1:00 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on The Republican Battle Over Disaster Relief Is Embarrassing.
Fnarf commented on The Republican Battle Over Disaster Relief Is Embarrassing.
"Offsets" just means siphoning more money out of NY and NJ than they already do. Oklahoma is already a welfare sink where federal money from NJ goes to die. Let me repeat myself: NJ gets back $0.60 for every dollar they pay the feds; OK gets $1.40.
I'd love to see Lautenberg get up and say, "excuse me, Mr. Inhofe, but we've already paid for your disaster relief many times over. When is Oklahoma going to start paying for anything they get from us? That's the offset I'd like to see."
I'd love to see Lautenberg get up and say, "excuse me, Mr. Inhofe, but we've already paid for your disaster relief many times over. When is Oklahoma going to start paying for anything they get from us? That's the offset I'd like to see."
12:53 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on "Frenzied Machete Attack" in London.
Fnarf commented on "Frenzied Machete Attack" in London.
Ugh. I have a friend in Woolwich. He's not a soldier, or a jihadist for that matter, so it's not him, but I still hope he didn't have to witness that.
I fail to see what the word "terror" adds to this story. Does it really matter if these shitheads were motivated by "God" or by methamphetamines?
I fail to see what the word "terror" adds to this story. Does it really matter if these shitheads were motivated by "God" or by methamphetamines?
12:46 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on Breaking News: Pretty Woman Does Something Besides Look Good!.
Fnarf commented on Breaking News: Pretty Woman Does Something Besides Look Good!.
Boy, as long as we're talking about the hotties, what about that Nicole Brodeur herself, huh? I know I'm not the only one who wants to tie THAT up and fist it, amirite? Whoo!
12:25 PM yesterday
Fnarf commented on Nineteen Things About Patty Murray.
Fnarf commented on Nineteen Things About Patty Murray.
@13, god bless you, N.
You have to give @11 credit for starting off bold and then moving into the very difficult bold plus italics maneuver in his second paragraph. I haven't seen rage that solidly executed since I stopped getting those threatening fundraising letters from Sierra Club. I think it's time we honor sgt_doom's contribution by promoting him to lieutenant at least.
ALL HAIL LT_DOOM!!!!!!
You have to give @11 credit for starting off bold and then moving into the very difficult bold plus italics maneuver in his second paragraph. I haven't seen rage that solidly executed since I stopped getting those threatening fundraising letters from Sierra Club. I think it's time we honor sgt_doom's contribution by promoting him to lieutenant at least.
ALL HAIL LT_DOOM!!!!!!
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