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I remember when the place flooded. Water was cascading down the steps inside and out the front doors.

Up here people thought those crowns meant you were in a gang.

And it will all be obsolete in 5 years but the car will still run. All that proprietary in-car tech costs 10 times as much but still isn't as good as the phone which they all own anyway! Even K.I.T.T. is obsolete now. He's been reduced to just another app.

Think about also what went on in the '70s and '80s too, where guys would drive around looking for girls trying to get them in the sack. That would get you arrested in seconds today. Another thing to think about is that most young people today demand constant visual stimulation. Driving past the same Applebee's 10 times a week isn't good enough, while cities provide the constant visual rewards they seek. And now Cincinnati and Cleveand have these sound walls all over the freeways (we'd have a lot more of 'em in Columbus too if most of our freeways didn't run through industrial parks) removing nearly all visual stimulation. You might as well be in a subway then anyway. Except you gotta pilot your own vehicle through the soundwall "subway tunnel" so they can't use their phone safely. Maybe if driving was actually interesting like it was in the '50s and '60s instead of wretchedly boring kids would still want to do it.

Thank you 1907 MTS.

Ah yea, I know of what you speak. There were/are others such as Totally Radd!!, I Hate You When You're Pregnant and Mr. Pacman. I think some of those bands toured with Gil Mantera. I don't know the name of the genre, either, but I know it's not just "guys with drum machines yelling and barfing".

If you consider Mr. Bungle more progressive than Yes.

What's strange is that Columbus produces practically no one.

That design was always kind of goofy anyway. Not like it really really needed done, but I accidentally wound up at the mall rather than on 275 and vice versa a few times before I moved to town. A lot of my friends from college lived close to Eastgate.

Gee the first 1:15 is an air raid siren. That's original! :roll: Maybe they could have introduced a megaphone also. :roll: Am I the only one that thinks that when they test the air raid sirens on Wednesdays at noon that the speakers should play War Pigs afterward?

Man, I really liked Meijer when they had all those warm colors inside. Now they're just white and scary inside. Plus most of their locations are way, way out there. I can't even think of one close.

How long did it take to get rid of the SUV?

Hmmm, is the oldest example of that when Rick Astley "Rick Rolled" the Thanksgiving parade? By oldest I mean is he the oldest act? Perhaps Tiny Tim or Rip Torn, but they never gave off the "I know I suck" vibe that Astley did.

And that's why I never got into punk or nu-metal. They ain't got the blues! Rock 'n roll isn't itself without it. I let keyboard stuff slide, but nu-metal existed in its own hemisphere ignorant of blues, classical and old country. It came to us from a '90s and 2000s-only land of overfed post-1996 mainstream rap, overly-descriptive nu-country and hippie drum circles (in nu-metal, all the instruments are basically drums). No thanks. Punk had some good songwriting and brought some much-needed attitude back to rock, but its anti-Pink Floyd anti-Clapton stance rubbed me the wrong way. I can tell that most of today's youth don't get metal at all. That wasn't true even seven years ago; in fact, metal made total sense to youth of say 2005. That's why Metallica screwed up so very badly by putting out St. Anger in 2003 and waiting all the way until 2008 to make Death Magnetic until 2008. If they would have put out the real metal DM in 2003 (they had it in them) it would have been the most edgy thing possible to do. But the suits demanded St. Anger because Staind had a really good 1999. By 2008 metal had graduated to Dad Rock status. Was it overdone records such as St. Anger and Chinese Democracy that did it? I think so.

Yes, BUT a lot of them have not become as aware of that yet. So they still get clingy when they find out you played Mario 2 in 1989 just like every single other person between the ages of 4-14 at that time. The alpha nerds know that geeks have become the dominant social archetype and have been for at least five years (these are the ones who find Mario banal), but the other ones still think that they're somehow some kind of underground movement and will blast you with a fast-talking 2-hour one-way conversation if you let them. The alpha nerds hate it too and are wary of these types of conversations, hence the distance. But what nerds can really hate is when you haven't bought into the whole thing of video games plus comic books plus card games plus anime plus tabletop gaming plus online PC RPGs plus sword collecting plus plus. Like if you only do one of those things you're an alien. Alpha nerds know this too becuase it would have been impossible for them to get as good as they are at the STEM stuff while trying keeping track of all those other things.

Somebody will open a carryout.

Did you pahk the cah in hahvahad yahd?

I always feel like a complete dolt doing that, but feel even stupider when I don't.

It's different for everyone I suppose, but the left one was him pushing hard until a crunch, some pull, a grind and a quick sew. The right was just the push and pull.

Well Slitherman, why is it that the past Cincinnati NAACP presidents endorse Qualls even though you're so close with Cranley?

Keeping the BMV offices open. Making the plates. Postage. Not sure why people think a measly $50-70 a year before these expenses is capable of making a dent in feeding these cash-wolfing roads, considering for each 100 gallons of fuel people burn they are taxed $46. People who drive an obese vehicle 500 miles a week are paying that twice a month.

I had two that I needed out, so I just had them done one at a time over the course of a couple months. So I was awake. The actual extractions themselves took only about 45 seconds apiece. It's the anesthesia that takes all the time. Oh yeah, this:

The thing about hipsters though, is that they can go underground disguised as nerds because it's not really much of a stretch. Nobody tries to run off nerds except Ogre and the guy who would go on to play Jefferson on Married With Children.

Or the infamous I-99.