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SundayStyle's avatar

What! Standing in line at U-Haul -- people standing in line in NYC!!! When has THAT ever happened before?

Yeah, I suppose we could point out that the end of July and end of August have always been the peak moving-to-new-apartments periods in the city, but why bother? The only thing they didn’t add is This Is Joe Biden’s America, skipping over the part where he’s not, you know, actually the President.

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Reading above about Greg Kelly and the people who want to believe (instead of dealing with facts and stuff), this is how it happened in Germany with the Nazis? All that slippery slope stuff of believing lies and letting the bad act go till the next bad act then rinse/repeat.

As for all the fine people of the heartland, well, it's not just commuters clogging Grand Central but the despicable tourists.

Speaking of which, shortly after my back thing got fixed by two rounds of acupuncture and I was off the cane, I'm in GCT taking the child to their shrink. We see all the tourists and I say to the child that next time my back goes bad, instead of a cane, I'm going to use a baseball so I can use it on the tourists there. To which the child replied: "That's the smartest thing you ever said".

As for Fun City, born in Queens, moved to Manhattan in 77, when side streets weren't so safe after dark. (Speaking of 77: Was staying in the West 80s at the time of the blackout. Broadway in that area was super desolate, no riots and looting in the area. FWIW.) Yes, dangerous and fun, a goddam great place to be young.

Moved to a northern burb when pushing forty, continued to work in New York right up till the pandemic. Still consider myself a New Yorker because a) living there isn't per se a requirement and b) once a New Yorker always a New Yorker. Which is to say the conservatives that have beaten up on the city since eternity can go fuck themselves.

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