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I don't like that the paper has priced itself into luxury-item territory. Thier market research probably revealed that their current readership is wealthy enough to afford it and/or not good with computers.

That cleared things up quite a bit for me. Sometimes it's better to explain your position in detail than to keep it short with some of these concepts.

Almost everybody who works a blue collar production job in Columbus is bitter as hell since we're such a white collar city. You gotta keep that in mind when working them. Use those college-learned PR skills to smooth things over with those cranky South Siders.

And it's easy to game the numbers to make it look like you lost money.

Looks like you guys got you Jack in the Box! errr, well West Chester did, at least. I will understand if you don't patronize it for being way out of the way. Jack in the Box comes to Ohio, but Columbus will have to wait Business First by Dan Eaton, Staff reporter Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 One of the biggest fast-food chains in the nation finally has popped up in Ohio. It just may be a while before it arrives in Columbus. Jack in the Box Inc. opened its first Buckeye State eatery in Cincinnati on Monday, with more to come. It’s also actively recruiting franchisees in Cleveland. The San Diego-based chain, with more than 2,200 restaurants in 20 states, is embarking on a Midwest expansion. MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2012/09/jack-in-the-box-comes-to-ohio-but.html

Gotcha. It's the industrial sprawl drum-beating I don't get, I guess.

I like how one commenter called it a "graven image".

[quote author=E Rocc link=topic=7292.msg641558#msg641558 Any time a company chooses a location, many factors come into play. This is why I've been saying for years that you will inevitably reduce residential sprawl if you reduce industrial sprawl, and to do the latter you really want to mitigate or even eliminate the impact of CERCLA.[/color] Again with this industrial sprawl/CERCLA stuff. Heavy industry located too close to residential/mixed use/commercial areas is not desirable and was one of the main things that destroyed our cities in the first place. Industry can sprawl all it wants. It belongs on the edge with all the warehouses and airports as is done in places with truly functional living arrangements. Here's what I'm getting from this (correct me if I'm wrong). "Nyah, I got a plan that will kill all the progress cities made over the past few years by putting a bunch of heavy industry in urban areas, see? That way people will be forced to go back to sprawling again."

Wonder what Zeus has to say about this.

Do they have a link to a study? I have trouble understanding Tweeter hieroglyphics.

This would be an excuse for people to call you guys a bunch of sissies. Cleveland fans get a lot of respect for their willingness to put up with the weather.

Yeah, watch these fans lose their minds when Tesh plays the NBA on NBC song:

Americans generally have a very poor understanding of disco music besides what went on here from 1977-79.

Everyone's subconscious is affected by aesthetics.

no place to hang bikes 8 feet off the ground with the fencing and scaffolding gone

'60s-style ranches and split levels!

Here's a Dispatch article about hipsters. You can't really say that this was a hipster event (plenty of "normals" were there too), but to me it was strange to open up a paper and see an article treating hipsters so matter-of-fact-ly. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/vibe-is-right-for-hipsters.html

I don't know about this "make men look like high schoolers from the late '90s so that old people like them" thing. NASCAR is like that now. I trust people more when they look their age.

Perhaps if American culture didn't spend 40 years telling kids that only undesirables go into blue-collar jobs then the quality of applicants would increase.

Why, I do declare that there's some interesting photographs in this here thread.

Oh man, those old incandescent lights that ran off the little generator sucked. I got one when I was a kid and immediately said, "That's it?????" when I started using it.

Oh God, if it's your ex-girlfriend doing it that's got to suck.

Well, everybody knows by now about Facebookers getting sarcastic about people sharing too many baby pictures and the unbaby.me site. But now, a new menace also threatens Facebook serendipity: sneaky techniques that make sure newlywed ladies' wedding pictures stay at the top of your feed. Here's how it works: A young lady uploads a ton of wedding pictures after she receives them. Her friends also upload their pictures from the wedding and reception. Then the group of ladies slowly tag each other in the pictures over the course of months or even years. All that tagging moves the pictures back to the top of a user's feed. The analog equivalent would be the young lady bringing by her wedding album daily so that you look at the pictures again and again.

Guess what I thought this song was about before I found out the real title:

Oh, I know it's not made up. I've witnessed it first-hand enough times to know it's real. Sometimes alcohol is involved, but oftentimes not. Problem is, it works sometimes. It's especially bad if the first or second time a guy tries that in his life it ends up working. These predators treat it as a numbers game. They know that it doesn't work 9 times out of 10 and even are willing to put up with the inevitable macings, arrests and ass-kickings to use the "technique". One time, I was working a really crappy manual labor job that had some borderline destitute co-workers (my first job after obtaining a second Master's by the way). I was one of the few people that worked that shift who owned a car, so everybody was always trying to jam into my car at lunch so that they wouldn't be stuck eating frozen TV dinners over and over. Well, we go get some Camp Washington Chili and the guy in the passenger seat says, "Watch this." and starts hitting on the girl working the drive through into the speaker before even seeing what she looks like. We pull up to get our food and he starts yelling "Give me your number. I'm going to f--- you! I'm going to f--- you!" It was REALLY embarrassing. The whole restaurant could hear him. The girl was spellbound; she had stars in her eyes. He got her number, we went back to work and and sure enough, after we got off work, he met her at that No Tell Motel that used to be up on the hill at the corner of MLK and Central Parkway and they had sex. They only stayed in contact for a few weeks after. All these good young guys go to school, get well-paying, high-status jobs and spend money trying to get girls, then see troublemakers like him get lots of action and it screws them up badly. Of course, they don't yet realize yet that those sorts of relationships get old fast for most people -- but the damage to their egos has already been done.