Things That Annoy You

[Yorkshire pud]

Cook, NAILS it!  I never again want to  hear ''I'm a New Yawka'', as if   by the mere coincidence of their GPS location, the Gods have bestowed upon them some mythical quality that entitles them to special treatment.

Get over yourselves and shovel your freakin' walk!

Course you don't pigeon hole do you? All New Yorkers are young, fit and healthy and have no need for anyone to help. Fuckin liberals are always bleating. Even the old, infirm and blind. Let's hope you don't need helping one day eh? And your prospective rescuer tells you to help yourself even though you can't.

[FightTheFuture]

You dare because it gives you that warm, fuzzy, entirely deluded and ludicruously misguided belief that only Christians are kind and altruistic, and none Christians and athiests aren't.

My goodness, you are one spiteful, nasty little man, aren't you? I typically just ignore you as you stalk my every post, but  sometimes even a gnat can become annoying.

Most the time you have no idea what you're talking about, or you make wild leaps of assumption and try to construct some -- any -- counterpoint, regardless of how flimsy or ridiculous it may be.

Give it a rest, already; it's getting to be a little weird. Why don't you try to find a girlfriend, or boyfriend, or whatever the hell you're into?

[Yorkshire pud]

Cook, NAILS it!  I never again want to  hear ''I'm a New Yawka'', as if   by the mere coincidence of their GPS location, the Gods have bestowed upon them some mythical quality that entitles them to special treatment.

Get over yourselves and shovel your freakin' walk!

No, not mean nasty or spiteful! Selfish, generalising, un-charitable perhaps.. Nothing to assume with you, you lay it bare.

[area51drone]

CCCCAAAAATTT FIIIIGGGGGHHHTTT!!!!!!   

[Yorkshire pud]

CCCCAAAAATTT FIIIIGGGGGHHHTTT!!!!!!

In this weather? You have to be joking.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Hey, hey, hey!  No one's allowed to hate on New Yawk until you live here, pay taxes, and walk our unshoveled streets, briskly and with purpose.

[area51drone]

I have been to NYC one time.  I have no desire to go back.  Ever.

[Yorkshire pud]

Hey, hey, hey!  No one's allowed to hate on New Yawk until you live here, pay taxes, and walk our unshoveled streets, briskly and with purpose.

Is having shovel in hand but walking slovenly with no direction, acceptable? The weatherman this morning was showing us why the UK is getting it's wet and windy weather; Yep, it is ALL your fault. The very cold weather coming down from Canada into the east of the US and moving south is colliding with the warm weather coming up from Florida and the gulf area...this causes the unsettled stuff that makes the jet stream come whisking across the pond to us.

[area51drone]

[UnscreenedCaller]

I have been to NYC one time.  I have no desire to go back.  Ever.

More coffee for me.

[area51drone]

More coffee for me.

Starbucks comes from Washington.  (sort of) .... Enjoy.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Is having shovel in hand but walking slovenly with no direction, acceptable? The weatherman this morning was showing us why the UK is getting it's wet and windy weather; Yep, it is ALL your fault. The very cold weather coming down from Canada into the east of the US and moving south is colliding with the warm weather coming up from Florida and the gulf area...this causes the unsettled stuff that makes the jet stream come whisking across the pond to us.

Some of the finest films I've ever seen began with someone walking slovenly in no particular direction, shovel in hand. As long as the shovel is held at a jaunty angle, it's acceptable.

I know, I know, the weather has to go somewhere and why the UK? I don't know. It's all so unfair after we've all been getting along so famously for the past couple of centuries. Try not to hold it against us, yes? It did come from Canada as area51drone said.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Starbucks comes from Washington.  (sort of) .... Enjoy.

Nah, Starbucks is too expensive for this working stiff. I'm talking good old fashioned Greek diner coffee, best in town.

[Yorkshire pud]

Nah, Starbucks is too expensive for this working stiff. I'm talking good old fashioned Greek diner coffee, best in town.

If you get there..no cleared streets because everyone hasn't bought a snow shovel and carried or used it at a jaunty angle.

[onan]

I sometimes ask people why they think their origination in New York is so important? In almost every exchange, somewhere in the defense of how great the city is, comes a variation on this: "And I don't care what you want, in New York, you can get it at anytime of day or night. You can get anything at 3am.

I dunno about you, but 99% of the time, at 3am, I just want sleep.

[SciFiAuthor]

I sometimes ask people why they think their origination in New York is so important? In almost every exchange, somewhere in the defense of how great the city is, comes a variation on this: "And I don't care what you want, in New York, you can get it at anytime of day or night. You can get anything at 3am.

I dunno about you, but 99% of the time, at 3am, I just want sleep.

It's sort of funny, the difference between the Midwest and NYC. Here, you don't just shovel your driveway, you shovel old Mr. and Mrs. Jones' next door because you don't want Mr. Jones to drop dead from a heart attack. There, you can have an entire 30 story apartment complex full of people and no one does shit other than threaten legal action against the super. Eventually, everyone tells each other to fuck off and somehow, after the snow melts, everything ends up fine.

That's not really a criticism, per se. Just an observation. We do some asshole things here in the Midwest too; don't you DARE put that fence half an inch over the property line. But it's interesting in how we regionally manifest our inner asshole. 

[Treading Water]

Nah, Starbucks is too expensive for this working stiff. I'm talking good old fashioned Greek diner coffee, best in town.

Mmm, real coffee.  Not that floofy stuff.    

I dunno about you, but 99% of the time, at 3am, I just want sleep.

My favorite time to have a big breakfast with REAL coffee.  Give me a good 24-hour diner any day over a fancy restaurant.   

(Jack Finney - "The Night People")

[UnscreenedCaller]

It's sort of funny, the difference between the Midwest and NYC. Here, you don't just shovel your driveway, you shovel old Mr. and Mrs. Jones' next door because you don't want Mr. Jones to drop dead from a heart attack. There, you can have an entire 30 story apartment complex full of people and no one does shit other than threaten legal action against the super. Eventually, everyone tells each other to fuck off and somehow, after the snow melts, everything ends up fine.

Believe it or not, we do that here, too. I know, I know, imagine that! One story in an online rag does not a city make. I'm not being defensive about my home state, it has good and bad points, believe me, but NYC covers a lot of territory, not only Manhattan but outlying residential boroughs as well. You wouldn't know this, but on my street the elderly are taken care of as a matter of course by whomever gets there first.

Mmm, real coffee.  Not that floofy stuff.    

Yes! With the thick diner mugs or the carry away containers with the Greek scrolling on the side. I once saw a seagull fly by with a coffee container in its beak. The quintessential commuter bird.

[area51drone]

I dunno about you, but 99% of the time, at 3am, I just want sleep.

Or bellgab.

Seriously though, pretty much anything I want here in the town I live in can be purchased at 3am.   Multiple stores are open 24/7 here, and most fast food joints too.  There are only about 100,000 people in a 15 mile radius of where I live.   Hardly any traffic day or night.  No cars or car alarms honking at 3am except on an extremely rare occasion.   No drunks or druggies parading down my street offering me the latest debauchery.   I liked that shit when I was in my early 20's.  I'm done with it now. 

[bateman]

Believe it or not, we do that here, too. I know, I know, imagine that! One story in an online rag does not a city make. I'm not being defensive about my home state, it has good and bad points, believe me, but NYC covers a lot of territory, not only Manhattan but outlying residential boroughs as well. You wouldn't know this, but on my street the elderly are taken care of as a matter of course by whomever gets there first.

Unscreened Caller gets it.

[area51drone]

Unscreened Caller gets it.

I think people helping people happens all over the world, it is not one city or the size of the city.  There are good, helpful and kind people all over the place.   But I do think that the more "now now now, me me me" attitude minded people tend to flock to metropolitan areas.   It is also just the nature of cramming so many people in one place that you're bound to have  higher stress, greater tension, more filth and recognizable poverty (homelessness) than suburban and rural areas.   NYC is just not for me, as it is not for many others.  For some, they love it and good for them.   Someone has to live there I guess.

[Juan]

At 3AM, I can order whatever I want from Amazon wherever I am.

[bateman]

I think people helping people happens all over the world, it is not one city or the size of the city.  There are good, helpful and kind people all over the place.   But I do think that the more "now now now, me me me" attitude minded people tend to flock to metropolitan areas.   It is also just the nature of cramming so many people in one place that you're bound to have  higher stress, greater tension, more filth and recognizable poverty (homelessness) than suburban and rural areas.   NYC is just not for me, as it is not for many others.  For some, they love it and good for them.   Someone has to live there I guess.

Nothing wrong with that. And I agree with the rest of your post.

[bateman]

To clarify, if I lived in a brownstone, I'd probably be shoveling, but not in a highrise, sorry. Especially considering the maintenance fees. I'm not keeping a shovel in a closet for the day they forget to salt the entrance.

[jazmunda]

I live in the suburbs and my neighbor's a dick who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. There's good and bad eggs wherever you are.

[Yorkshire pud]

I live in the suburbs and my neighbor's a dick who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. There's good and bad eggs wherever you are.

As long as we still love each other Jaz, that's all that matters. Even if you are upside down.

[jazmunda]

As long as we still love each other Jaz, that's all that matters. Even if you are upside down.

All this talk about sweeping footpaths (sidewalks) and no mention about the clean sweep the Aussies are about to inflict on the poor English.

[FightTheFuture]

Mayor De Blasio has implored all residents of New York to ''stay inside. Do not go out. Let the sanitation dept  handle the snow clearing.'' So, the folks up North piss and moan about the snow on their steps and walkways, while they diligently obey the Mayor's instructions to, essentiality, let Big Gov handle it.

Quite the contrast from the NYC Mayor of 1943:

   Mayor LAGUARDIA: We must keep the streets of our city open for the delivery of food supplies, war materials, and readily accessible for our fire department. Therefore, I am appealing to the people of this city to volunteer in assisting us to keep open the sewer basins located at every street intersection and also to keep the crosswalks in as good condition as possible for the pedestrians. And we are also appealing to volunteers, volunteers who will be willing to do a little snow shoveling right in their own


The contrast in the two mayers approach to a winter storm speaks volumes about where we -- not solely NYC, but American society in general --  find ourselves today.

[Juan]

Here in north Florida, we just wait an hour or so and the snow melts.  Then, the next day, it's back to 80F.

[Ben Shockley]

The contrast in the two mayers approach to a winter storm speaks volumes about where we -- not solely NYC, but American society in general --  find ourselves today.

Damn right, FTF.  As you know and have abundantly documented, there are not, were not, and could not have been any other factors determining the respective Mayors' appeals, just the sheer ass-kicking-ness of them folks in '43 versus the sheer decadence of people today.  Nothing else.   It's incontrovertible evidence of moral decay.