diaspora

I don't know what this piece looks like. Many of the pieces were tagged with graffiti, right? If this piece were left outside couldn't it be damaged by our own local graffiti artists? Personally, i'd be a little pissed if CRUST was on that piece of the wall.

same here...wish i was, but i'm not. Too many mistakes as a child. That's a funny site...and anyone can relate to the stupidity of public comment sessions.

People that say "Please" when they mean "what?" This is something i was completely unprepared for when i moved to Cincinnati. It gets me every time...i mean, it's almost an abbott and costello routine "please" "what?" "please?" "Please what?"

it's astonishing to pull up google earth and get it so you can see basically the same image as above of the West End in Cincy. It's incredible how destructive the freeways are.

Detroit: Tiger Stadium, Olympia, Michigan Central Station (it might as well be gone), the Hudson's building and any number of other places that are now parking lots.

The two albums i've picked up recently have been Dead Weather and Wilco...good discs.

In college we had community bathrooms...i was in a stall one day when a buddy came in and threw something over the door at me. So, i went back to my room with a wad of toilet paper...wiped peanut butter on it and went to his room. He was sitting in there playing video games and freaked out when i tossed the TP/PB combo at him.

I'll write to Mean Jean tonight. Of course, i always feel that i might as well be sending my letters to Kaiser Wilhelm for all the good it does me. (note: Kaiser Wilhelm is used as an example of a dead person that can do me no good)

That's a perfectly legitimate reason...but we were talking about people that work in the city.

I just got into a discussion with a coworker about people wanting to live outside of Hamilton County. My question is basically, what can you find in Butler, Warren or the other adjacent counties that you can't find in Hamilton? (besides Ikea and miles of chain restaurants, of course...)

^i keep an aluminum bottle with me that i always fill up from the tap. it's great and portable. i just hate the plastic bottles that are in the garbage all the time.

MTS and his water thing leads me to another pet peeve...more than a pet peeve, really...but a true hatred. Bottled water. I hate it. wasteful, expensive, stupid, damaging, etc.

Yeah, i know what you guys mean...it's hard for me to find a good pair of 54 waist jeans at Sears that fit me right.

^i don't think there really is a "correct" term...just ones that are preferred in certain areas of the country. Being from Michigan it's always been "pop" to me. and i won't have you socialist emmer effers telling me what i can call it. :wink:

Man, i've got a lot of pet peeves... when people call pop "soda"

A pet peeve that only comes about once a year: McDonald's in Cincinnati doesn't have shamrock shakes in March. This causes me no small amount of aggravation.

certainly, which is why i used the word "should"

i disagree that society isn't going to change. I mean, it already has. When did casual fridays come in? or people wearing slacks and an open shirt with no tie? or women wearing pants? We're trending towards more casual, and that's fine with me. I am perfectly fine in slacks and an open neck shirt, hell, i'll wear a tie if i have to...but stay away from my beard. Of course, i also don't do a lot of work where i am in direct contact with customers. I think people should be able to look however they want. Of course, people also have to recognize that if they get huge plugs in their earlobes and piercings all over their face and tattoos...they're relegated to certain jobs. Right or wrong? doesn't matter, that's how it's going to be.

One time i peed in the fridge. oh, wait...that wasn't a prank...i was just really drunk.

You're sh!tting me, right? How are people like diaspora's coworker employed? my coworker was some sort of business or finance major. Me? liberal arts.

While I agree that "Where is _____ at?" is poor grammar, I have to also say that a pet peeve of mine is hearing that ending a sentence with a preposition is always wrong. This is not true; it is sometimes permissible (and even preferable) to end a sentence with a preposition, notably in the example of "That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put." Now, if we were speaking French or Latin, then yes, one ought never to end a sentence with a preposition. Alas, we are stuck with our mongrelized English. BLAME CHAUCER. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ending-prepositions.aspx http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Prepositions/Prepositions04.html http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=ErrorsThatArent I'd rather you said something like "this is something that i will not tolerate." We've really lost our vocabulary. I see this all the time, today my coworker asked me if the following was a word or a typo: procure.

Nope, Grammar isn't taught anymore. Unfortunately, so many people are so bad with grammar that due to common usage the rules are actually changing. People use prepositions all the time at the end of a sentence. I mean, even people that care typically don't know how to use a semi-colon. Other words or phrases that annoy me: nauseated (not sure why, it just does), Facetious (i think people use it because it sounds better than "sarcastic" but they use it wrong), irregardless, and reverse-racism (because the reverse of racism is acceptance. Racism is racism).

I wonder when Walmart is going to close on Highland in PRidge/Columbia Twp and move to the one on Red Bank. I have only been in Walmart twice in my life. I have never bought anything there that i can recall. The stores i've been in have been so disorganized and filthy as well as some ethical issues with the treatment of suppliers and price cutting that i will never go there again.

Fords, Chryslers, KMarts, Walmarts, things like that. That doesn't bug me nearly as much as "Worshington" or "Acrost"

^you get this a lot in Michigan and i think it started with Ford's because so many people worked at Ford's factory. When asked where they worked they'd just say "Ford's". I know Meijer is a family name, again from Michigan, so maybe the same thing applied. (I've been to the city where it started, Greenville, and they don't really have anything marking it. just a plain, normal, newish Meijer store and i think a small plaque...no, i wasn't going there just for that)