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Jay Gee Wentworth Call eight six seven cash nowwwwwwwwwww
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Jay WTF is wrong with you, some kind of wannabe American doesnt even know it's eight-seven-seven.
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May 31, 2021 02:14
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"Everything is a scam in America" -F. Scott Fitzgerald, probably
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May 31, 2021 02:16
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wheatpuppy posted:WTF is wrong with you, some kind of wannabe American doesnt even know it's eight-seven-seven. It didn't sound correct as I was typing it, im glad the feeling wasn't unfounded.
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May 31, 2021 02:23
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wheatpuppy posted:WTF is wrong with you, some kind of wannabe American doesnt even know it's eight-seven-seven. They were probably confusing it with the 80s smash from one-hit wonder Tommy Tutone, 867-5309/Jenny, in which the song’s protagonist details the anxiety and eventual jubilation over calling a woman’s number found scrawled in a public bathroom.
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May 31, 2021 02:25
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Lawyers that work for "free" (unless you win) is not necessarily a bad idea. It helps poor people who've legitimately gotten hosed somehow maybe get some compensation that they otherwise might not have been able to afford to get before because lawyers = lots of money. But the problem obviously comes when it gets abused. Now everyone wants to scratch a nail and get a quick pay day.
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May 31, 2021 02:25
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Took the 202 to Astoria, these are just a couple of the many buildings like this along that route          24 total pics Also passed by a cove called "Dismal Nitch" which keeps up with my love of horrible Oregon cast names. Lewis and Clark really got here and said "jesus, this place sucks"
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May 31, 2021 02:31
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Blue Moonlight posted:They were probably confusing it with the 80s smash from one-hit wonder Tommy Tutone, 867-5309/Jenny, in which the song’s protagonist details the anxiety and eventual jubilation over calling a woman’s number found scrawled in a public bathroom. Feeling really dissected by this thread
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May 31, 2021 02:31
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Lol *zip*
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May 31, 2021 02:40
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Bismuth posted:Took the 202 to Astoria, these are just a couple of the many buildings like this along that route My cousin grew up in Astoria. Visiting and hanging out there in the mid 90's was killer.
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May 31, 2021 02:45
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What I love about this one is that you might think it’s in some forgotten seaside town off the beaten trail. Oh no. This is in the middle of the Portland-Beaverton-Hillsboro sprawl, a mile away from Intel’s Aloha campus.
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May 31, 2021 02:48
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Blue Moonlight posted:What I love about this one is that you might think it’s in some forgotten seaside town off the beaten trail. Yep, this fucker is way closer to home than I'm comfortable with
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May 31, 2021 02:51
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Bismuth posted:Took the 202 to Astoria, these are just a couple of the many buildings like this along that route Did you see One Eyed Willie chillin' off the coast?
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May 31, 2021 02:54
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This may have been covered earlier in the thread. If so, I am sorry for re-litigating old material. I am also sorry if this rant comes across as mean. But why is America so scared of public transport? Only a few really big cities have anything resembling a decent train/metro system. And even fewer of the 2nd tier cities have any decent bus lines or coverage. I have lived and worked in 4 different countries, and have always been able to take the train/bus to work. When I went to University, I lived an hour outside of the CBD, and still easily caught Public Transport to school. I was in Jian'ou, (a small town near Nanping in Fujian, China) for 6 months, and Namhae, (an properly rural island just off the south coast of South Korea), for 3 years and both of those places had more buses and better coverage than when I went to visit my then girlfriend in Indianapolis, a big US city. Hell, I even did a a year and a half in Geelong, which is a shithole, and even there I could take bus from my house way out on the outskirts of the city to the train station and be in Melbourne within 2 hours. I know the arguments of 1)Public Transport takes time and money to build the infrastructure, and US governments aren't into that, and 2)the US is bigger than Europe, (great! who teh gently caress mentioned Europe in any of this?), so for some reason city based public transport won't work, also I have heard a 3rd argument something about the way that US suburbs are planned/built, making travel between them awkward(?) But all of these arguments ring hollow to me. It just seems like the US is ideologically opposed to trains, trams and busses because something something public = socialist! so BOO.
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May 31, 2021 11:02
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Not worth arguing nevermind.
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May 31, 2021 11:24
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BrigadierSensible posted:This may have been covered earlier in the thread. If so, I am sorry for re-litigating old material. I am also sorry if this rant comes across as mean. because someone in advertising made the connection that Cars = Freedom = Love America !! and also the tire lobby.
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May 31, 2021 11:34
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seems like the easier solution at this point would be a better car that runs on sustainable electricity, rather than completely changing American infrastructure and culture. it does not make me feel good to post about it on the internet, tho, so it has that going against it
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May 31, 2021 11:48
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BrigadierSensible posted:This may have been covered earlier in the thread. If so, I am sorry for re-litigating old material. I am also sorry if this rant comes across as mean. Theres a few historical reasons that I can think of. The car industry, combined with the oil industry became massively powerful in the early to mid 20th century. They actively worked very successfully to get public transport like trams, trains etc removed from cities. Literally ripped up the tram lines etc. They promoted suburbia that required a car for every family and all that kind of thing. Another overlooked aspect is the cold war. Planners knew they couldn't really defend against an icbm attack, so one way to minimise damage was to spread cities out. So they actively promoted suburban sprawl as the american dream. So you end up with a car based society in sprawled out cities that aren't dense enough to make public transport viable. In the modern era I'd guess a lot of the politics is gently caress the poors why would we spend money giving them busses.
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May 31, 2021 11:57
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hawowanlawow posted:seems like the easier solution at this point would be a better car that runs on sustainable electricity That's impossible. Well, electricity might be sustainable, but the car never will be.
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May 31, 2021 12:24
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ExecuDork posted:I think they count as Americana, yes. Growing up in Canada, huddled up close to the border for warmth, we always had a few US channels on TV. The ads were distinct. Not just for antidepressants, for anything medical. Medical devices, any kind of drug imaginable (with the hilarious long lists of side-effects, spoken very quickly and softly at the end of the commercial), health insurance companies, individual hospitals, you name it they made lovely commercials for it. *in western New York accent* call 444-4444 Hurt in a car? cal William Mattar
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May 31, 2021 12:58
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BrigadierSensible posted:This may have been covered earlier in the thread. If so, I am sorry for re-litigating old material. I am also sorry if this rant comes across as mean. This is the laugh at chintzy Americana thread, not 'what the gently caress is WRONG with america am I RIGHT or WHAT you guys' thread. gently caress off. Same to euro goons who love to barge into every thread possible demanding that Belgium is a workers paradise and always has been or whatever.
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May 31, 2021 13:02
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Big Beef City posted:This is the laugh at chintzy Americana thread, not 'what the gently caress is WRONG with america am I RIGHT or WHAT you guys' thread. Or whatever. America sucks and I wish I could get out
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May 31, 2021 13:29
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stealie72 posted:Yeah, we don't come into your Britannia.jpg thread and make fun of your pale food, pale PM, and royalty fetish. I mean this guy seems to be Chinese or something idk but actually you lot do do that sometimes, usually after something traumatic like the Brexit vote.
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May 31, 2021 13:36
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hawowanlawow posted:seems like the easier solution at this point would be a better car that runs on sustainable electricity, rather than completely changing American infrastructure and culture. it does not make me feel good to post about it on the internet, tho, so it has that going against it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tZKbk27yXo
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May 31, 2021 13:39
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BrigadierSensible posted:But why is America so scared of public transport? https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/824
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May 31, 2021 13:49
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zedprime posted:Black people, OP. No joke, whenever you are like "why is _____ like it is in America" save yourself time and start with racism then work back from there.
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May 31, 2021 14:14
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I ask you: do Canada or Europe have MR. RAY'S HAIR WEAVE? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccy2x-JEoGc
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May 31, 2021 14:54
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Big Beef City posted:This is the laugh at chintzy Americana thread, not 'what the gently caress is WRONG with america am I RIGHT or WHAT you guys' thread. The Napoleon complex just wafts off that post like anxiety sweat it’s kinda great
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May 31, 2021 15:21
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Coolguye posted:The Napoleon complex just wafts off that post like anxiety sweat it’s kinda great I kinda agree with BBC on this one. If people want to complain about the US, they can go to almost any political thread on this forum. This is about the lighter side of things.
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May 31, 2021 15:23
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Honestly I just saw “hey guys I know this is a bad idea” and then like 4 paragraphs of text and went “if you knew this was a bad idea why’d you do it” Just really needed to get that one out I guess, bad look but you do you
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May 31, 2021 15:27
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BrigadierSensible posted:why is America so scared of public transport? We used to but then we stopped and switching back's too much. Iirc, the explanation hits these beats:
Old school dense, walkable, transit-oriented, 2 to 5 story, mixed-used, brick-commercial architecture.  "You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." Seriously, just imagine every US city being like... Twin Cities, 1913  Would be nice!
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May 31, 2021 16:51
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That is crazy talk I was just informed by my contemporary that the hateful shitstain that is the united states actually banned all public transportation because I'm a racist for being born there.
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May 31, 2021 17:00
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BrigadierSensible posted:This may have been covered earlier in the thread. If so, I am sorry for re-litigating old material. I am also sorry if this rant comes across as mean. Finally, someone taking on the real problems in America in the thread where I post candid pictures of fat inbred rednecks.
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May 31, 2021 17:19
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The bus smells like pee pee.
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May 31, 2021 17:19
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i just went to throw some stuff in the garbage and i got honey mustard on my underwear 
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May 31, 2021 17:31
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Oh Don Piano posted:i just went to throw some stuff in the garbage and i got honey mustard on my underwear let not a drop go to waste.
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May 31, 2021 17:32
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i love to take the bus     
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May 31, 2021 17:34
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Cloks posted:i love to take the bus pretty spiffy
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May 31, 2021 17:37
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Cloks posted:i love to take the bus bad rear end. id rather eat a pile of cement flavored grits in a burned out old bus than ride to some European smarm orgy of a restaurant for free And You Can Take That To The Bank
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you, an enlightened European: me, an American that just dreams of Some day Owning a restaurant like this guy:         
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