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Sections of NOLA are becoming Hipster breeding nests. The Marigny and the Bywater have become so over-run with double decker bikes and Sony Walkmans that even the criminals want to move to nicer neighborhoods. FEMA needs to come back and finish saving the 9th ward.

so true

My band played live for the first time evar last night. Well, the first time ever in a real venue. We won first round of this national competition thing, yay. :o Exciting times.

Also on equal excitement level MY HOUSEHOLD FINALLY HAS INTERNET CONNETION. OH GOD IT FEELS SO GOOD. TORRENT @#%^ING EVERYTHING YESSSSSSSS

brb catching up on the internets for past 2 months.

I thought US retail shops were full of the most two faced people. Because of that "service with a smile" bullshit etc.

A depressingly large number of students in London unis (and probably unis in other parts of the UK, but I'm talking about London here) seem to gravitate towards hipsterism either because they piss their money up the wall (usually on Smirnoff or WKD, though I've seen them swarm over Jack Daniel's as well), thereby being dirt poor, or because they know someone who does piss their money up the wall (thereby being dirt poor) and think "hey, that guy seems alright"

Their lazy, self-centred attitude just gets so ridiculous to the point where a total twatface I used to know started bitching once about how unfair it was that he had to be in uni for six hours of lectures across the whole week while half-arsing his job hunting. "Oh, but I've got this one pissy little assignment I have to do, I can't come out to this illegal rave in Battersea next goddamn week"

At the time he came out with that sh*t, I remember having twice as many contact hours as him, on what I considered to be a light timetable, and I had time for everything else. And I had a @#%^ing two-hour commute each way. Only reason I didn't just lamp the bastard is 'cos I still had to put up with him sitting near me in lectures.

Bottom line: hipsters are @#%^ing retarded lightweights.

Edited, Aug 16th 2012 1:36pm by Lucinus

First post I responded to in this conversation had the phrase "Or Cali," and the follow up also pretty specifically mentioned California. You're the one that jumped to the conclusion that Cali equals West Coast.

sh*tty place to be, but the beer is great. also, you can occasionally find hot red heads there....

who you shouldn't trust! when you finally get burned by the One True Way (the evil of the redhead) you will understand the folly of this thread's rules.

This isn't exclusive to London Unis. I had 18 contact hours last year, plus another ten for out of class stuff. Wasn't uncommon to see me seething with rage at people flaunting their four hours of seminars a week with their lectures being optional.

I can understand. Being cool is a full time endevor.

i can't complain about cali, really. i hated the bay area while i was there, but i live out in the sticks in the central valley now. yosemite is an hour and a half north, sequoia is an hour southeast. sh*t is great.

but yeah will have to concur w/ GA, cali has some of the sh*ttiest people (as a whole) i've dealt with since my time in new jersey.

this is of course excluding afghanland.

if you got with the redhead that ruined my life, i would have to kill you.

edit: if you're asking for redheads on the east coast, try prisons and drug dens!

Edited, Aug 21st 2012 2:10am by milich

Alan Rickman: Honorary DRK.



Edited, Aug 21st 2012 2:42pm by Raelix

I kind of thought his induction would have been after he killed Dumbledore. Everything else is just frosting.

Nothing in that godawful series qualifies, nothing.

I always thought you would be Asian for some reason.

Has Asian wife, that counts, right?

That's cool, I've got a shovel.

Who hurt you Turin?

who hurt you...

So i work for Equity Office Prop MGMT, I think we were the largest commercial Prop Mgmt company in the US at the time but a few years back we were purchased by The Blackstone Group. Blackstone is basically the House of Harkkonen or the Sith. They are this group of anonymous Billionaires who pool their cash together and use a small team of very smart venture capitalists to buy up companies, trim the fat, merge them together, play puppet master for a few years and then either offer up an IPO or split and sell. Apparently someone leaked to the Wall Street Journal that they've heard from two different sources within the organization that BSG is looking to dump all of EOP in a short period of time. They Purchased us for 39 Billion (including a fat assed amount of debt) and now stand to make back their cash + a nice 21 Billion bonus. The nature of this bussiness is that you're always for sale. Companies don't own their buildings anymore, they rent from middle men like us and at any point the name on the front door can change as these groups use property like poker chips. I'm not sure why I'm spitting this sh*t on here but it just sort of woke me up to the fact that I am not really a person; I am a product and service that can and probably will be traded twice in less than a decade. Can't bitch about it on Facebook because I'm friends with co-workers and I would rather not appear as though I'm worried, which I am. The last time we were sold was benificial. But we were sold to some very wealthy people, with massive budgets and great policies. There's literally no where to go but down hill from here. Working in Louisiana isn't a bad thing. Working in Louisiana by a company OWNED by Louisianaians IS a bad thing. We're about to get nickle and dimed into insanity... I need to crack open a bottle and polish up the old resume in case this does not go well.

Edited, Aug 24th 2012 12:56pm by Busaman

They actually bought us and elevated the brand. They purchased over 500 properties and trimmed us down to 105. The trimmed fat consisted of failing markets and over valued properties. I think seventeen of the companies who bought the sold locations were crippled fanantialy when they got too excited and bought lemons. I feel like I should be hating the game and not the player but mother @#%^ these guys are so so SO good at what they do and now that I'm about to be on the wrong end of the blow job I see why so many folks downright hate them.

Per topic, to Neil:

And Man would rise on a column of fire.
Through the heavens and further on.
To stand on new ground all his own.
Only then to look back and down.
Through the nothing through which he came.
Back on tenacities, tragedy, and strife.
And know that nothing brought him here.
But Man himself, alone in the cosmos.

. . . Me?

Googling the first line reveals only this thread, so I'm inclined to believe Relax.

This time.

I posted it to my facebook first... everyone I know ignored it.

Not something I tap into often. I always get funny looks when somebody asks what my favorite form of poetry is and I say 'square'.

Edited, Aug 28th 2012 2:22am by Raelix

Facebook is only good for stalking people.

Islands are more important for timeline time warps.

Love me some undead decks, wish I still had my cards. Now, I'm limited to the Magic games through Steam.

Edited, Aug 28th 2012 10:35pm by xypin