“If it weren’t for Boeing, they wouldn’t even have 9/11.”
Overheard in the Office: NYC vs Seattle Edition
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Ahhhhhhhhahahahahahahahaha
I am a bad person.
Wow, I grew up around Boston and even I think that’s harsh
Oh that’s horrible. And funny.
lindy
Wow, the inferiority complex on display here is kind of sad. You’ve got a very nice little city out there, Seattle. You’ve got a decent enough waterfront, and passable Asian food. Sure, you’re the relative size and importance of a pimple on New York’s ass, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have some nice things going for you. Stop trying to compare yourselves to New York; it just highlights your shortcomings.
I love Slog.
Not because of that comment, which is horrendous at best, but because they have the stones to post it.
It’s a hilarious take on the One-Upmanship that is rampant throughout American society. I blame the 80’s.
A masterpiece. If you won’t go there, you aren’t going anywhere.
Please tell me what constitutes “passable Asian food.” I’m curious.
All’s fair in love and war.
wow
wow
wow
best post on slog in 2010 so far
Holy Galactus, devourer of worlds, that’s a good one.
Pwned.
@11,
It means Asian food that won’t give you food poisoning, which is in short supply in New York.
In all seriousness, I spent a summer during high school in New York. Everyone else staying in my dorm got food poisoning from Chinese food. I was safe since I was a vegetarian at the time.
If it weren’t for Boeing…
Because no other planes would exist?
Wow. I laughed, but it was an uneasy flavor of laughter.
@16, dorm? Maybe that was your problem right there.
NYC’s gotten more Chinese immigrants in the last fifteen minutes* than Seattle has ever, and many of them know how to cook. Hint: don’t look in Chinatown proper.
* statement not evaluated for hyperbole or factual content
It was Charles, wasn’t it? Making up for all the years of pomposity with a single, excellent, crude remark.
That comment made my day. Yes, a masterpiece.
Naw, but it would’ve been Airbuses, which is just embarrassing.
Slog posts and comments are more profane and vulgar yet more intelligent and profound than the average NY Times comment.
Oh, this is good. This was Lindy, wasn’t it?
On this macabre, tasteless note:
Seattle musicians (Hendrix, Cobain, Staley) just numb themselves to death, while New York musicians (Jam Master Jay, Lennon, etc.) have someone else to numb them.
@16: Chinese food isn’t vegetarian?
Right?
@27: Snap and checkmate. May he never travel to 666 Dundas St W. (oh noes! the beast!) in Toronto and dine there.
@16: You are now owned by Gloria. I am joining the Gloria Ownage fan club.
OK, I dont know what happened to day to make us crawl up NYC’s ass, but that was funny as hell.
I also own the “I plane picture NY” tshirt from Tshirt hell, but I am not allowed to wear it outside the house, per the little woman.
I don’t give a shit about 9/11 anymore and I also kinda didn’t when it was actually happening.
That one knocked me off my chair.
@31 Jesus, man…
I bet anything that @8 is a whitey that uses silverware at Chinese restaurants. If Seattle’s Asian food is just passable, what constitutes more than passable, hunny? My mother is Asian, I lived in Asia for over a decade. Please educate me. Without your benevolent Caucasian wisdom re: Asian food, I would be lost in the wilderness.
Best slog post EVER. Seriously.
@27, @29 – I suspect @16 was referring to the fact that you’re a lot less likely to get food-poisoning from vegetarian dishes than from the ones with meat or seafood in them, though keshmeshi should obviously feel free to correct me on this.